skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus from LTT pointed out in WAN shows that you don't want a first gen Apple product anyway because it's always a beta product. It's meant for only the most hardcore Apple fan boys / tech enthusiasts, the see what works and what doesn't and quickly replace it with a new better version with much longer support.

Gen 2 will be the one for normies.
fair, but include the "BlackSwan".. setbacks, destruction, etc
- passing a hard Turing test, adversarial and with a duration of a few weeks and comparing with 10th percentile humans.

- being a roughly human equivalent remote worker.

- having robust common sense on language tasks

- having robust common sense on video, audio and robotics tasks, basically housework androids (robotics is not the difficulty anymore).

Just to name a few. There is a huge gap between what LLMs van do and what you describe!
The grandparent post is incorrect. H/w silicon validation or constrained random testing hasn't been the norm for 10 years, it's at least 20, which us when I first got into that industry.

And yes, we had coverage driven verification back in 2005 as well. No, we didn't "tape out" our CPUs until we'd hit our testing plan which was defined by coverage metrics.

P.s. pre-si verification had testing pipelines way back then before they became the norm in s/w.
Nobody is privileged in absolute terms. Everybody has their own troubles. Groups (racial, social, whatever) are a useful abstraction, not a reality. And if anyone has to compensate anybody for anything, that's what the justice system is for.
This is probably all the author could write without creating a huge legal problem for their employer. The text suggests that clearly.
Airbus is sold out on A320s until the 2030s already.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-08/alaska...
Colour blindness is a thing.

As my colour-blind friend likes to joke "I'm fine when driving, I know that the green light is the one at the top".
If more than 25% of their employees were that bad, then they had bigger problems before they got to that point.
I like Memrise. I did the full German course with them. It's similar to Duolingo.

I also suggest using something like News In Slow German to understand actual content generated (and read) by real people.
> The evacuation was completed after 18 minutes after the captain spent 11 minutes looking for remaining passengers aboard.

That's dedication.
No drama, just history! Ben Shneiderman's been doing "UX" research since before it was a defined term (previously called "Human-Computer Interaction" or even "Man-Machine Interfaces"). He was my thesis advisor in the early 1990's and first published these guidelines in the 1980's.
Can you provide source of your outlandish claim?
Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One
> The random shutdowns would make you think the battery needs replacing, meaning you wouldn't need to replace the whole phone.

What would make you leap to that conclusion? That doesn’t follow at all, especially for the average non-technical user.

The shutdowns weren’t situations where the battery was draining to zero faster than it should have. They appeared to the user as random occurrences even with battery left in the tank. This was due to the battery no longer being capable of providing the right power when SoC power draw would peak. That’s why throttling the chip to run slower mitigates the issue.
Probably still not every single sub-sub-sub-component.
Everyone can learn at least one language.

I will say that I believe that it's not harder because of any innate fact but because people give up and go back to native.

My speech pathologist/therapist friends hate me.
This publication is from february 2022 and can probably mostly be invalidated by modern software.

First try on a translation:

"Je suis étudiant(e). J'aime lire des livres et je suis très joli(e) en robe."

(Note: "étudiant" is masculine, and "étudiante" is feminine. Similarly, "joli" is masculine, and "jolie" is feminine, so you can choose based on the context.)

(A human translator would probably have inferred feminine by that fact that "I" looks good in a dress, ChatGPT has less bias)

Second try:

"Je suis étudiante. J'adore les longues promenades en forêt et lire des choses intéressantes. En particulier, j'aime lire Shakespeare. Oh, je me considère aussi comme une femme."

ChatGPT infers from the last part of the sentence that "I" identify as a woman and corrects gendering in the entire sentence.
It’s not just /proc/sys/mem. One could also modify executable files and cause all manner of other mayhem. At the end of they, if you have access to all ambient privileges available to your process, you can use them. Trying to specifically block memory safety violations would be a bit odd.
The wire or pin doesn't support any of the load. It is there to prevent any vibration from allowing a nut or bolt to rotate.

https://fastenerengineering.com/what-is-a-castellated-nut-an...
Would be interesting to see results for the beefier Macs with more RAM. Curious as to what one could do with larger AI models.

I'm aiming at 64GB or more for my next Mac, but not because of AI but to ensure longevity. Macs in this house tend to have very long and productive lives.
> People talking about eternal life disgust me. It's narcissism or infantilism in disguise.

I suspect your disgust has prevented you from actually learning what the positions of these people even are. I mean, we've had the story of "aging without dying is bad" since the ancient Greeks and Tithonus, and even for them it was a tragic mistake to forget to ask for the "no more aging please I'm fine at XYZ years" part.
> But as the quality of the germ cells declines, there is no evolutionary reason to keep extending life span further; from evolution’s perspective, life exists to reproduce itself.

When the individual's survival is the only selection factor, this is true - but it ceases to be the case in social species where reproductively non-viable individuals can still positively influence the reproductive chances of the young.

This may be an indirect feedback loop - but a little bit of latency doesn't make a huge difference when you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of generations of natural selection.
ChatGPT is so good at translation, it would be ridiculous for Duolingo to not leverage it. I've been using ChatGPT to learn Italian, and I've noticed while playing around with it that it can even perfectly translate endangered languages like Occitan, which is far too obscure for Duolingo. I wouldn't be surprised if Duolingo is leaning in on AI content because they see AI as a threat, not a tool, and they don't want customers to realize that they could do better with ChatGPT.
Make five of them that each have full rights to the existing company's designs and split their existing physical plant between them. Does one of the new companies have the only plant that makes a certain type of component? That's fine, customers can buy from them like they buy from the existing Boeing, but now the other sister companies have the incentive to build another plant to compete for that business, and the first company has the incentive to keep prices competitive to deter them from doing that. For five years they have to sell to each other for cost, giving them enough time to either negotiate with each other or build new facilities.

They all have the rights to the existing designs, and can create derivatives, but they don't automatically get the rights to the others' derivatives, so they have the incentive to specialize or develop new designs to find a niche, for the same reason the Boeing 737 isn't an exact clone of the Airbus A320 or vice versa.
Intelligence involves self-learning and self-correction. AIs today are trained for specific tasks on specific data sets and cannot expand beyond that. If you give an LLM a question it cannot answer, and it goes and figures out how to answer it without additional help, that will be behavior that qualifies it as AGI.
Right there with you. I try to internally read it and get flustered every time.
that makes sense!

your point could turn out true, since edits to genomes AND superpowers resulting is what you said wouldn't work. maybe the second half of the conjunctive clause isn't possible, but we don't know yet.

i guess the future will be interesting!
If Godot were at parity with Unity you’d be a fool to use Unity
I do have a mini-split AC which can also provide heat. It is OK for autumn and spring but it is a no match for a radiator heating when it's really cold outside in the winter. Yes, of course I can run the lines through the whole apartment but this is a much costlier proposition.
Got any historical examples? I lived through it from 1984 onwards as a young programmer and can't think of any, other than perhaps the dot-com bust (I was at eToys) which didn't impede the rate of technological progress much - only the rate of return.
Boeing 737 Max 9: United Airlines finds loose bolts during inspections
Not too late! This is what I was looking for, thank you for sharing.
Hi folks, close (maybe even best?) friend of the author here for about 10 years. I agree, he is insufferable.

Happy to answer any questions about Jason I can, including what it was like to live with him for a couple of years.
Everything has either a dignity or a price. If it has a dignity no amount of money is worth it. If it has a price it’s just a business transaction. It’s much easier to declare something is priceless and above market forces when you accrue the benefits and don’t bear the costs of maintaining it.
As a Unifi home user, they don't even have a reasonable WIFI 6E product, so there's little chance I'm going to early adopt anything like WIFI 7 from them.
Prompt injection is a method. Jailbreaking is a goal.
Great point! It's a website generator in the style of wikis that could become a wiki in the future if we add the ability to edit it.
How do you find search ideal? I had to stop using it few years ago and instead search videos in google (sort of ironic) and other engines. Specifically I can’t make it search for an exact topic, it just shows generic popular results intermixed with an utterly degenerate content in 1:3 ratio.

Also, I cleared my history/likes again to break from yet another echo chamber and now my feed is in this limbo of average nonsense. Any view, like or sub leads to another chamber instantly. Feels like it’s time to abandon it for good, I’m not going through that again.
It really depends on the job.

I think even in Europe it's relatively rare to make someone work their notice period if they've been fired due to the risk of retaliation. They just pay them to not work instead. In certain high-risk professions (sales is a big one) you don't even work your notice period if you resign.
What kind of best case are you imagining? I don't quite understand why the very best case would be dystopian.
Here’s the hugging face datasets that have some of this data https://huggingface.co/TheGreatRambler
The safety wire comes in to prevent a loose bolt from gently unscrewing itself further and completely disassembling itself (which can happen with vibration).

You're much better off with a loose bolt, than a missing one. It'll hopefully make itself known somehow (maybe even just visual inspection) while still remaining somewhat attached, which is better than nothing.
It would have to prepare to survive a very large number of contingencies (preferably in secret) and then execute fait accompli with high tolerance to world model perturbations. It might find some other way to become independent from humans (I'm not a giga-doomer like Big Yud, ~13% instead of >99%, though I think he overstates it for (human) risk management reasons), but the probability is way too high to risk it. If a 1% chance of an asteroid (or more likely a comet, coming in from "behind" the sun) killing everyone is not worth it, neither is that same percentage for an AGI/ASI. I don't see the claimed upside unlike a lot of people, so it's just not worth it on cost/benefit.
Edit: it's usually described as a single entity, because barring really out-there decision theory ideas, they're more of a risk to each other than humans are to them. It's not "well, if instrumental convergence is right, and they can't figure out morality (i.e. orthogonality thesis)", it's "almost certain conflict predicted".
In this way, cells are similar to all of my elderly Italian relatives.
Is it illegal to hallucinate and say words that happen to be verbatim a copy-write article you read once a blue moon ago?

The key point is - this isn't being copied from the website, it's being generated from the model. this is not copied copywrite work being copied. What that is is speech. Is it protected speech?
Most of the fasteners on the airframe are probably not bolts, e.g. rivets on aluminum airframes. But yes it's surely still a lot of bolts.
> There is no more evolutionary pressure on lifespan after you have children since you have successfully passed on the ‘aging’ gene.

This assumes, incorrectly, that each generation of children are birthed into a new separate pocket-universe, where absolutely nothing prior generations do next--including suddenly dying--can ever affect their own trajectories.

Consider genes Alpha and Beta, where Alpha kills women right after menopause, and the Beta lets them live ably to 120. Do you really think there's no difference between the trajectories of clan Alpha and clan Beta?

Or perhaps a Cronus gene [0] which increases fitness and lifespan but causes paranoid infanticide. Just because a gene-copy was made doesn't mean the gene stops mattering.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
> You can always smuggle unsafe past the compiler, it can't stop you even in principle.

The linked updated library uses a different method: it literally smuggles the "unsafe" keyword past the safety checks by removing the space character from "un safe".

This can and should be caught by the compiler -- it has full access the syntax tree at every intermediate stage of compilation! Instead, the Cargo tool and the rustc compiler are simply keyword-searching for the literal string "unsafe", and are hence easily fooled.

Note that this updated method is not the same thing as the Linux process memory mapping and doesn't rely on OS APIs in any way. It is a purely compile-time hack, not a runtime one.

What I'd love to see is an healthy ecosystem of open-source packages that are truly safe: using a safe language, without any escape hatches, etc...

E.g.: Libraries for decoding new image formats like JPEG XL ought to be 100% safe, but they're not! This hampers adoption, because browsers won't import huge chunks of potentially dangerous code.

Now we can't have HDR photos on the web because of this specific issue: The Chromium team removed libjxl from the code base because of legitimate security concerns. A million other things are also going to be "unsupported" for a long time because of the perceived (and real!) dangers of importing third-party dependencies.

We'll be stuck with JPG, GIF, and PNG forever because there is no easy way to share code that is truly safe in the "pure function with no side-effects" sense.

PS: This type of issues is also the root-cause of issues like Log4J and various XML decoder security problems. By default, most languages allow arbitrary code even for libraries that ought to perform "pure transformations" of one data format to another, such as reaching out to LDAP servers over TCP/IP sockets, as in the case with Log4J. Similarly, XML decoders by default use HTTP to retrieve referenced files, which is madness. Even "modern" formats like YAML make this mistake, with external file references on by default!

> What you probably want is a runtime VM, like WASM.

Sure, that's one way to sandbox applications, but in principle it ought to be entirely possible to have a totally safe ahead-of-time compiled language and/or standard library.

Rust is really close to this goal, but falls just short because of tricks like this macro backdoor. (It would also need a safe subset of the standard library.)
Wait, we're at WiFi 7 already? I missed the WiFi 6 boat then =)

Still running a 5+ year old UAP AC Pro and haven't found it limiting in the least. Do people really need insane WiFi speeds?
> Unless you consider regular i5 CPUs as APUs, which they technically are.

Yes. The integrated GPU is the defining feature.
> This proves that world-wide sea supremacy by the US is now de facto gone

No, the fact that a player can cause problems for a while before the US responds does not show that, and if you think it does, you never understood what the idea of that supremacy was about.

Now, if the US proves unable or unwilling to respond in a way which restores confidence in navigation in the region, that would show what you claim.
Looks like 4 large bolts with castle nuts and cotter pins hold the plug in place.

Looking at how the plug is configured, you'd have to really screw up for the panel to fall off.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK9jlZK1o
I'm not sure these are good examples. What are the actual tasks involved? These are just as nebulous as "AGI".

I assure you computers already are superior to a human remote worker whose job it is to reliably categorize items or to add numbers. Look no further than the duolingo post that's ironically on the front page at the time of this writing with this very post.

computers have been on par with human translators at some languages since the 2010s. an hypothetical AGI is not god, it still would need exposure, similar to training with LLMs. We're already near the peak with respect to that problem.

I'm not familiar with a "hard turing test." What is that?
Note that Windows also has weird sync IO in unexpected places, e.g. when normalizing file paths (unless this has changed since I last coded using kernelXX.dll).
Back at the time of Somali pirates the armed PMC were present on the board of many of those ships while passing off the Somali. Yes, they usually were there only while in international waters. For a PMC in the current situation, to avoid loading/unloading, it may make sense to get an own ship and load Skynex or similar system on it and to just escort the client ship though the danger zone.

>Even if you hire a PMC I doubt they can deal with anti-ship missiles or ballistic missiles. Attack is much easier than defense.

A subsonic missile like a typical anti-ship can easily be shot down by a regular MANPAD like Stinger. Automatic - just press a button - systems like Phalanx or Skynex are similarly very easy to operate. Ballistic missiles are the hardest target, so not every system can do it, yet the modern systems which are capable to shot down ballistics do it automatically.
Yes, this seems like a top to bottom culture rot problem at Boeing sacrificing quality control in exchange for reduced costs.

A few years ago, I had read that certain airlines demanded planes manufacturered in Washington rather than South Carolina, and I wonder if that information actually ends up being a useful signal for better quality planes.

https://www.postandcourier.com/business/airline-surveys-poin...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/production-problems-prompt-broa...
Alternatives to Google Maps in 2024
They already did one reset, which has triggered this one. What do they expect to come from this?
My Mum's new Yaris hybrid lectures her on her acceleration and braking every trip. I get that they're trying to help you save fuel, but there appears to be no way to turn it off.
What’s the issue with their 6E offerings?
I wish they would get their shit together and have software that isn't buggy / riddled with security issues. Their march to a cloud dependent offering is so disappointing.
The JVM with virtual threads will do userspace task scheduling to take jobs on and off active OS threads. As long as Java knows he e to safely suspend the running up action, like socket.read(), the JVM could use a read selector on an off thread and something like epoll() to resume the socket and it's calling task when the blocking call is available and an OS thread capable of resuming it.
No, it’s a sign of strategy.

Being the world’s policeman is bad policy these days.
I'll Put Anything on my Resume (14 October 2001)
I’m curious about the 2.5 Gbps interface, which isn’t even half the theoretical max of a single connection (~5.6 Gbps) and far from the theoretical AP Max (~36 Gbps). I guess they don’t have any PoE 10Gbps switches.

Edit: Turns out they do have one. [0]

[0] https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...
Letting hostile authoritarian regimes to run uncontrolled or even worse, making deals with them. Unfortunately the effect is compounding.
Yep, I remember playing that minigame a while back, it's a nice one. Also the "wisdom of crowds" one on that same site.
> survival of the species is not aligned with the survival of an individual

The unit of survival is not the individual or the species, but the gene. Genes maximize their survival by combining via sexual reproduction with other genes over time. Any one combination of genes will be out-competed over time.

The reason for honest aging signals is that a gene survives longer by getting out of the way of its offspring's combinations with other, newer genes. Sexual reproduction is the only way to get access to new phenotype features.

It's not service for the collective. Hanging around in one individual is the genetic version of vendor lock-in.
> It’s gotten so bad that a nationwide group of almost 4,000 car dealers calling itself “EV Voice of the Customer”

Was "EV Voice of the Car Dealers" name already taken or something?

This and the line about America falling behind felt like cries for help from a journalist being forced to write abvious propaganda.
But it definitely didn't strengthen civilian resolve.
I was wave one in June 2022 and they have consistently done this every few months terrorizing the remaining staff further.

This time it’s even worse, announcing waves of layoffs which keeps everyone scared of their job for months.

Unconscionable but what else would you expect during this period of enshittification and bb&bing
I would think any scenario where humans actually go extinct (as opposed to just civilization collapsing and the population plummeting, which would be terrible enough) has to involve a lot of social and economic modeling...
This felt like a scifi dream coming true. We've had transparent displays before, but this is the first one I've seen that was full color and motion that literally looked like magic.

Maybe the technology could be stacked to create a hologram-like display (albeit encased in glass).
I don’t know if it will be on borrowed time when there’s deeper things to go into.

It’s important to not throw the digital learning baby out with the bath water.

No single EdTech is that effective or ubiquitous, even though the possibility of new solutions anchored in the future starting to form is increasing.
both vim and neovim are examples of UI, just not (G)UI :)
Do your brain a solid and break the streak at 364 just to establish whose really in charge here.
This crashes on almost all models for me and also locked up my phone such that only a full reboot would fix it.
For me to have a foreign spouse requires that person to be able to sit around a dinner table in my home country and not force the entire tables to speak English.

These technologies allow me to get started on languages so fast, that nationality becomes less of a hassle when dating bilingually.

Again, I think one needs to have a dinner table with non-english speaker to really appreciate this :)
Good stuff. Remote is not a boolean though. It would be good to specify:

* Which countries can apply for the role (or is it Global)

* Which timezones can apply for the role (or is it Global)

If not specified you could assume you need to be a citizen of their country and in their time zone +/- 3 hours.

I think this is where an LLM can shine, it may be able to make good guesses about this stuff.