skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just launched their entire storage of missiles

If they launched their entire stockpile, it’s no longer an issue. The question was using one launch to take out a couple missiles, maybe a launcher and those operating it. Done repeatedly, this will degrade a static force. (Additional levers would need to be pulled on resupply.)
This is sadly unsurprising. I have a foreign language degree and a bit over a decade ago, I spent some time trying to get a translation side-job off the ground.

Even then it was clear that , except for a select few languages, it was a race to the bottom with machine translation software as the driving force. I gave up on that career idea quickly.

Now I use ChatGPT and is does a great job. My experience with DuoLingo is it’s barely better than flash cards for language learning, and it’s no wonder they’re having a hard time making any money offering a product thats competition is cheaper and better.
The question is not about bolts, but more about what else is hidden there, what else is mechanically neglected that's waiting in there to take lives
Yemeni rebels don't pay for these, though. It's free 'aid' from Iran. So arguing costs doesn't make much sense. Similarly mujahedeen in Afghanistan got free Stingers MANPADs
Funnily, i thought about using CGI with emulating embedded

https://blog.pwkf.org/2023/08/18/lambda-mcu-working-vm.html
With actual attacks on US warships. we’re actually past the point that usually occurs.
Curious, when you went back to that woman and checked an answer with her, did she ever say "No that's definitely the wrong way to say it" or anything like that?

I'm not arguing in any way I'm legitimately curious, as someone who has dabbled in language learning, as well as trying to use ChatGPT as a tutor, how its track record has been. Hallucinations was definitely one of my concerns when asking it about language stuff.
Airbus must be having a fantastic week.
Agreed on your second point. Well put.
They're spending more than you are.
To be fair, I read recently that another issue with MAX 7 was discovered through flight testing. The issue is that now Boeing wants to exempt plane from safety rules…
Yep I last used them for a single unit prototype made up of 20 unique CNCed aluminum parts.
> Ironically, [...] You then use the exact same wording in your final sentence

Thanks for explaining to me what I did ;-).

> You simply said "Android does that sandboxing by default", without a single supporting statement or example

Are you questioning the fact that Android apps are sandboxed? If yes, you may need to do some reading on your own. I am not here to teach you how Android works.

> No one is "sending a full web browser with every app you make".

All the webapps that try to look like Desktop apps have to ship a browser with them. You mentioned VScode, right?

> What in the world is "the internet permission"? I've never had an operating system ask me if I'd like to grant an app "the internet permission". Have you operated a computer before?

Oh come on... you just don't have the slightest idea how native apps work, do you? It's literally called "android.permission.INTERNET". Have you ever tried something not web?

> Are you writing an OS in your free time when you're not writing about the mysterious "internet permission"?

As a matter of fact, not an OS but embedded distributions. That... wait for it... use sandboxing. Do I need to get back on the "mysterious" internet permission? Wait, here's a link to help you: https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/network-o....

> as a web app developer I don't have to do anything special.

Not even Google "Internet permission" before dismissing someone's point. I love that kind of webapp developers.

> because web apps threaten the mobile operating system duopoly.

They threaten every platform by making everything a ChromeOS system (no, not literally ChromeOS, but something based more and more around Chromium, which is owned by Google).
I do not care if AI art eventually becomes both objectively and subjectively better than human art.

Chess engines have been better than humans for over 20 years. I will never watch two computers play chess and I will never like AI art.
DuoLingo is so annoying with the gamification. It just won't shut up. I found that if I limit my use, it stops reminding me what league I'm in, probably because it realized I don't care.

I just hope I'm not learning wrong things from the new AI-powered checker. It's bad enough that I can't always find an explanation why I got something wrong. (I've actually used ChatGPT 3.0 to explain some of my mistakes, and then was able to verify its explanation because of the keywords it used, and then googling those.)
I agree with your first point, that makes sense.
Keeping a known-to-be-terminated employee is a huge risk for the employer. People are usually not happy when they lose their jobs which sometimes leads to irrational behaviors (like intentionally sabotaging the no-longer-employer).

I've personally been involved on the employer side of such a situation with an irrational person and it's a pretty scary deal when you're in a small team where each dev has a lot of power.
> can fire at the launch spot all you want, there's going to be no one and nothing of value there

This is blind counter-battery. You use the shot to place loiters. That then trains your fire.
Why they cannot add the fancy touch bar ABOVE the F-key row? Why does it have to replace the f keys? It's what apple did and pissed off everyone.
Eh, I don't think that's accurate since there's no "monogamy" equivalent to language. It takes a long time to learn a language deeply, and if that were made easier, many people would just want to learn more of them. The nature of (the vast majority of) relationships is that when you find one you're done looking for more, that is not the nature of any type of knowledge.
I think you are absolutely right that there appears to be some low hanging fruit for tech companies to pick by looking to "second tier metros". But I inertia and (lack of) critical mass play a big role.

In the past decade (i.e., when the money was plentiful) when a startup is young, the TC of its engineers rarely makes or breaks the startup. Being able to get an MVP out and iterate quickly is more important, so it was a rational choice to stay in the Bay Area even if it means 30% inflated TC. And after that moving is expensive in both time and money and risky (e.g., a key engineer might not want to go).

And having a critical mass of tech companies helps attract talent: if a company goes under or has large layoffs it is perceived to be easier to find a new job in the center of the tech hub.

I think covid helped nudge along the process of moving tech development out of SV, but it is a slow process. My 2c.
Very interesting write up and analysis of a significant paper. The blog's author has herself made fascinating contributions in AI (especially on abstraction). I find it very helpful to read these kinds of in depth reviews.
The seat was unoccupied. The guy in the middle seat had his shirt torn off. Also cellphones got sucked out, and one iPhone survived in mint condition.

Wear. Your Seatbelts.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/alaska-airlines-flig...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/iphone-survives-1600...
If we consider OpenAI itself, a hybrid corporation/AI system, it's constraints are obvious.

It needs vast resources to operate. As the competition in AI heats up, it will continually have to create new levels of value to survive.

Not making any predictions about OpenAI, except that as its machines get smarter, they will also get more explicitly focused on its survival.

(As apposed to the implicit contribution of AI to its creation of value today. The AI is in a passive role for the time being.)
I got this survey; for the record I didn't respond.

I don't think their results are meaningful at all.

Asking random AI researchers about automating a field they have no idea about means nothing. What do I know about the job of a surgeon? My opinion on how current models can automate a job I don't understand is worthless.

Asking random AI researchers about automation outside of their area of expertise is also worthless. A computer vision expert has no idea what the state of the art in grasping is. So what does their opinion on installing wiring in a house count for? Nothing.

Even abstract tasks like translation. If you aren't an NLP researcher who has dealt with translation you have no idea how you even measure how good a translated document is, so why are you being asked when translation will be "fluent"? You're asking a clueless person a question they literally cannot even understand.

This is a survey of AI hype, not any indication of what the future holds.

Their results are also highly biased. Most senior researchers aren't going to waste their time filling this out (90% of people did not fill it out). They almost certainly got very junior people and those with an axe to grind. Many of the respondents also have a conflict of interest, they run AI startups. Of course they want as much hype as possible.

This is not a survey of what the average AI researcher thinks.
> I define AGI as the ability for an intelligence that is not human to do anything any human has ever done or will do with technology that does not include itself* (AGI).

That bar is insane. By that logic, humans aren't intelligent.
The castle nut design requires the use of a cotter or other locking pin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellated_nut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_locking_device
Does anyone know potential causal chains that bring about the extinction of mankind through AI? Obviously aware of terminator, but what other chains would be possible?
Damn. I was hoping there was a charitable explanation! This is a pattern I've seen several times and while it's not ideal I don't think it's as bad as what you described.
Google Translate and DeepL are pretty bad at this, that's true. As far as I can tell they translate a sentence at a time.

Using an LLM and giving more context, it can infer gender from signals earlier in the text. This based on testing we did at the last place I worked.

What kind of cases do you have gender failing, with which tools?
My experience is that GPT-4 is quite good at most languages, including hard ones like Chinese - especially when paired with a “verification” step, where you copy something it wrote and start a new session and ask, “Is this sentence well-written <language>?”

It has a surprisingly deep understanding of nuance and context. You can copy some Chinese text that Google Translate completely fails to translate, paste it into GPT-4 and ask “Please explain this text including any nuanced meaning that a foreigner would miss“ and get a detailed, coherent explanation.
I installed it on a PC, and access it from my tablet's browser. I do not know how much battery draw it has.
Hi, I'm the author of this post. I'm curious to hear about your experiences with link fraud and interest tracking, and opinions on how the issues surrounding these techniques should be addressed by the adtech industry.
They generally don't disassemble the entire plane every time they get inspected...
_____-flavored entertainment pretty much describes everything our culture consumes over TCP/IP.
It's because they think "that" is "meeting Dave from my previous job on holiday in Turin!" but it's actually "meeting one of the hundreds of acquaintances you've picked up over your life at any point when you're away from home at any time".
They keep trying to do that. This mess of a plane is care of Southwest and Ryanair who wanted a re-engined 737, period.
> Archaeologists Find 3k-Year-Old Sword Well Preserved

Next they need to find cluster munition well preserved. And a nuclear ICBM. /s
> Trained Humans are surprisingly good at these problems

Are we? I don’t think we would even start working on problems with big enough `n` where the complexity actually ramps up.

Like, optimally scheduling even just a couple of things will have a shitton of combinations, and I really doubt we would be good at it.

Good at iteratively decreasing a cost function? Yeah, I guess with a good interface we could move around tasks to be scheduled on a timeline and optimize it. Finding the optimum? No chance.
I've asked OpenAI chatbot about building a complicated commercial system that processes copyrighted data in a way that attribution is lost and authors are not compensated.

The chatbot told me it doesn't mean copyright laws are lifted and the authors should be compensated and attributed.

Their own system is against them on this one
Reflections on trusting trust vibes.
Report on the Horizon IT System Scandle in the UK [pdf]
While I don’t disagree with you that it is possible, it isn’t a very “engineering” approach to declare that is the case without doing a root cause analysis. Stating it as fact is as bad as the MBAs…
Is the aircraft industry also adopting the "move fast, break things" now?
Precisely... everyone other "expert" on HN is asking the wrong questions
Ask HN: It Was Better with Www
We all act like writing www. is lame and for dads/grandparents, but the truth is:

1. you never know when you need to write https://

2. it looks a lot uglier

3. literally means "hypertext transfer protocol (secure)" (I had to look it up, and i am a hacker news user.)

4. just happened to me: in a youtube description you cant just put ycombinator.com, you have to write https://ycombinator.com. This is not a problem if We Write World Wide Web When We Want to link to a Website
If anyone is looking for a great guide on mainlining a device of their own, I can greatly recommend

https://mainlining.dev/
Pour one out for the buggy whip manufacturers . . .
In my opinion, watching movies is ineffective until you can read the subtitles in the target language. This is at the B1/B2 level. Before that you're just focusing on the native language.

Once you hit the B levels, things get easier. But it's uphill until then and tutors or courses are your best bet to get there.
> this move is making the Houthis immensely popular: they are winning the PR war internally right now

As I mentioned elsewhere [1], this is fine. A stable, adversarial Yemen is better than the clusterfuck it currently is. A big part of the problem with the current situation is there is nobody to negotiate with who can credibly claim to control these armed factions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917581
How does DuoLingo compare with Rosetta Stone? Is the latter better because it is expensive, or did Duolingo beat Rosetta by offering the same thing at a lower price? If Rosetta Stone is still better because it uses humans, I'd consider switching over, but it is like 3x the price of DL.
> Being able to differentiate on interests such as ‘holidays’ and ‘cars’ as compared to ‘fast food’ enables advertisers to weaponize link fraud and provide a similar product or service at different prices to different socioeconomic groups.

Meaning, at cheaper prices to poorer people? Seems good.
Perhaps not canary in the coal mine so much as it's reflective of many startups being overvalued with overhyped revenue projections at the Series A/B stage a couple years back.

Add to that weird regulatory stuff dampening acquisition prospects, high interest rate environment, and the ability to cheaply accomplish more and more with AI, and I think we'll see meaningful changes to the nature of venture funding and expectations over the next couple years. Will also mean down rounds and cutbacks for companies that don't weather this stuff well.
Yep. Lenovo did this with the Thinkpad Carbon X1 and abandoned it veeeery early on. I liked the design philosophy of the XPS Plus last year, but I'd wager their capacitive function row is headed for the exit.
I once took over a decommissioning project of a DMZ set up for a connection to a third party no longer used. Everything documented showed that all connections were no longer active.

Step 1 was to do the ‘scream test’. Some how the enterprise routed the most random traffic through there as we took offline random servers and people’s desktops. Turns out the screaming that happens is at you for making things break instead of a pat on the back for discovering bad networking.
I'd be really interested in an example. Preferably a link to the actual conversation with GPT4 on ChatGPT or equivalent on another service, but even just typing out the sentence here with the translation you think is correct vs the translation you expect to receive would be helpful.
What do you mean? By that same logic humans definitionally already have done everything they can or will do with technology.

I believe AGI must be definitionally superior. Anything else and you could argue it’s existed for a while, e.g. computers have been superior at adding numbers basically their entire existence. Even with reasoning, computers have been better for a while. Language models have allowed for that reasoning to be specified in English, but you could’ve easily written a formally verified program in the 90s that exhibits better reasoning in the form of correctness for discrete tasks.

Even with game playing Go, and Chess, games that require moderate to high planning skills are all but solves with computers, but I don’t consider them AGI.

I would not consider N entities that can each beat humanity in the Y tasks humans are capable of to be AGI, unless some system X is capable of picking N for Y as necessary without explicit prompting. It would need to be a single system. That being said I could see one disagreeing haha.

I am curious if anyone has different definition of AGI that cannot already be met now.
Yep, that’s where we all end up!
As someone who is a gamer but also wants to dabble in ML, it kind of hurts tbh that this is probably true.

The xx90 cards (3090, 4090, etc) have always been aimed at the gamer with a lot of cash. But games aren't really designed with that hardware in mind, so you won't see games that will take advantage of that much VRAM, so NVIDIA isn't inclined to increase the memory on them.

I have a 3080 right now, so haven't really been able to play around with training a model, but I'd like to see the 5090 have 32 GB, but I'm having my doubts.
> that are applicable in most interactive systems. These principles, derived from experience and refined over three decades, require validation and tuning for specific design domains. No list such as this can be complete, but even the original list from 1985, has been well received as a useful guide to students and designers.

The author already caveated that they aren't absolutes. That is, they aren't declaring you should follow these rules off a figurative cliff. That would be stupid. The presumption is that people would still exercise judgement.
not plug!
https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/1744202059870831016
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Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917820
I often think about this from a standpoint of curiosity. I am simply curious about how the universe works, how information is distributed across it, how computers use it, and how this all connects through physics. If I'm soon to be greeted by an AI friend who shares my interests then that's a welcome addition to my friend and colleagues circle. I'm not really sure why I wouldn't continue pursuing my interests simply because there's someone better at doing it then me. There are many people that I know better at this than me. Why not add a robot to the mix?
Hi, author here.

This is a pretty hard problem. And I haven't found anyone that's too good at this, but here are some interesting players:

- https://www.phind.com/ is a custom model fine-tuned on code, and pretty damn good
- https://codestory.ai is a VSCode fork with an assistant built in. One of the things it does for you is write code, but imo that's not its biggest strength yet.
- https://sweep.dev have a bot where you create a GitHub comment and it writes the PR to fix it. They have between 30% and 70% success rate. This is pretty bad but they're one of the best today
- https://sourcegraph.com is pivoting and building a copilot application (named Cody). This is pretty good, since sourcegraph is great at understanding your code
This required a full disassembly to be noticed?
A really simple approach we took while I was working on a research team at Microsoft for predicting when AGI would land was simply estimating at what point can we run a full simulation of all of the chemical processes and synapses inside a human brain.

The approach was tremendously simple and totally naive, but it was still interesting. At the time a supercomputer could simulate the full brain of a flatworm. We then simply applied a Moore's law-esque approach of assuming simulation capacity can double every 1.5-2 years (I forget the time period we used), and mapped out different animals that we had the capability to simulate on each date. We showed years for a field mouse, a corvid, a chimp, and eventually a human brain. The date we landed on was 2047.

There are so many things wrong with that approach I can't even count, but I'd be kinda smitten if it ended up being correct.
Another clue: “spearheaded”. ChatGPT throws that word at you most of the time.
What normal VR things can’t you do? Gaming is the obvious one but I think as soon as people start developing games for the vision App Store, that problem is going to resolve itself.
> Then after 200 days, I lost my streak and... breathed a sigh of relief.

I have a 297 day streak right now and I just feel like slave to the owl. I’m going to get to 365 and then purposely break the streak to free myself.
For subdomains:

www.news.ycombinator.com

www just means "website"
Boeing discontinued their widely-panned "Death Plane" after customers learned about a design flaw that causes the plane to crash itself when it encounters atmospheric conditions that Boeing characterizes as "common and entirely predictable." While they promised to fix the problem before the planes were returned to service, company representatives were able to purchase an exemption from several members of congress. The "On-Time, On-Budget, Kinda Safe Plane" took its place in the Boeing lineup last year.
> The A320neo family has had four ground fatalities and one hull loss accident as of November 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320neo_family

A320neo is the direct competitor to the MAX. So yeah, they're doing pretty well.
I’ve used it when visiting countries to pick up some very basics - if I wanted to actually learn a language I would get a tutor.
Bolts are torqued down to spec and if specified will have a retention mechanism, usually a pin, a foldover or a wire.
Fixed, flex and z-index issue on my part, sorry
yes! S3 is available, and postgres is shipping soon as links
"You mean to tell me there's this thing called the world wide web, where anyone can just host anything and all people need to access it is a few words typed into a program that runs on anything? They don't need to buy our proprietary iDevices?! They don't even need to pay us a yearly ransom to put their stuff onto our store?! But what if it's something we don't approve of? This is preposterous and I want it dead."

- Tim Apple, probably

I wonder what kind of preachy "we are so brave" excuse it will be this time now that they're finally forced to allow app sideloading by the EU and Japan.
Slow Scan TV Shaped the Moon
A crazy privilege escalation from Chrome extensions (2023)
I only know of one person who copied Buffett by buying insurance companies and value investing the float and he did well too, if not quite as smoothly as Buffett. https://wealthymatters.com/2012/05/23/prem-watsa-the-canadia...