skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree we don't know enough to know if I'm right! I tried to use a lot of hedgy-words. But it's not a presupposition, merely a line of argument why it's not a complete absurdity to think LLMs might be a step towards AGI.

I do think consciousness is beside the point, as we have no way to test whether LLMs are conscious, just like we can't test anything else. We don't know what consciousness is, nor what it isn't.

I don't think Dijkstra's argument applies here. Whether submarines "swim" is a good point about our vague mental boundaries of the word "swim". But submarine propellers are absolutely a convergent structure for underwater propulsion: it's the same hydrodynamic-lift-generating motion of a fin, just continuous instead of reciprocating. That's very much more structurally similar than I expect LLMs are to any hardware we have in our heads. It's true that the solution space for AI is in some ways less constrained than for biological intelligence, but just like submarines and whales operate under the same Navier-Stokes equations, humans and AI must learn and reason under the same equations of probability. Working solutions will probably have some mathematical structure in common.

I think more relevant is Von Neumann: "If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!" Whether a submarine swims is a matter of semantics, but if there's a manuever that a whale can execute that a submarine cannot, then at least we can all agree about the non-generality of its swimming. For AGI, I can't say whether it's conscious or really thinks, but for the sake of concrete argument, it's dangerous enough to be concerned if:

- it can form and maintain an objective; it can identify plausible steps to achieve that objective; it can accurately predict human responses to its actions; it can decently model the environment, as we can; it can hide its objectives from interrogators, and convince them that its actions are in their interests; it can deliver enough value to be capable of earning money through its actions; it can propose ideas that can convince investors to part with $100 billion; it can design a chemical plant that appears at a cursory inspection to manufacture high-profit fluorochemicals, but which also actually manufactures and stores CFCs in sufficient quantity to threaten the viability of terrestrial agriculture.
Ask HN: How to Stop Chatsplaining?
I'm so tired of ChatGPT adding introductions, prefaces, summaries, warnings, and all other kinds of crap around what are essentially code debugging 4 liners (my main use case).

This thing seems to ignore all flavours of custom instructions and previous pleas to be concise and straightforward.

It reminds me of this one overly chatty coworker in 2018 who insisted on telling everyone and everytime, in sequence and in detail, how their unremarkable weekend went during a grueling 60 hour client site work week.

Seriously, how do you deal with this? How to turn this off? I just want code. *weep*
Parsing protocols with eBPF (specifically BGP)
Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
I placed an order for 4 coupons :D
Things have changed, just not the paradigm that vim operates on.
I'm American, but i have a serious preference for self-checkout because I can avoid tje annoyances of regular check out. Waiting on the person who forgot their wallet. That person who wants to argue about one dollar on a one hundred dollar purchase. The person who realized they bought to much and now needs to figure what they want to put back. And more.

Cashiers are nice, I guess. But stores are not a social call for me. I want to buy my stuff and not deal with ridiculous people in front of me.

Also self-checkouts just move faster. This probably wouldn't be true if stores had the same number of cashiers they used to, but it really reminds me of mu youth where you could be in and out of a store without a significant wait to check out.

I lived in France for a bit and the stores were completely different. Speedy and plentiful lines, so that's probably the difference between Spain and the UK
Being open source, it shouldn't be too hard to modify to use gpt4all locally, which presents the same API as openai.
Ironic to see, that after all the litigations were settled, OP was toast.
this is fantastic! they're the first sophon benchmark results i've seen, and they're far more comprehensive than most benchmark results of any kind

have you run into any toolchain difficulties due to the 0.7.1 nature of the rvv?
I find it unhelpful that several different ideas are covered under the blanket term of AI safety.

- There is AI safety in terms of producing "safe", politically correct outputs, no porn, etc.

- There is AI safety in terms of mass society/election manipulation.

- There is AI safety in terms of strong AI that kills us all a la Eliezer Yudkowsky.

I feel like these three have very little in common and it makes all debates less efficient.
An Ant War Broke Out After Adding Water Beasts into My Giant Rainforest Vivarium [video]
They declare that - but I could also declare I'm trying to build a nuclear bomb (n.b. I'm not). Whether people are likely to try and stop me, or try and apply some legal non-proliferation framework, is partly influenced by whether they believe what I'm claiming is realistic (it's not - I have a workshop, but no fissile material).

Nobody gets too worried about me doing something which would be awful, but the general consensus is that I won't achieve. Until a company gives some credible evidence they're close to AGI... (And companies have millions/billions of reasons to claim they are when they're not, so scepticism is warranted).
I think it is normal. I have tried to find other creators or content source, but the topics I care about (mostly engineering and education) are under-represented on Bluesky.

It is probably due to how Bluesky was populated - a specific demographic of twitter were the first movers to bluesky, and it has attracted more of the same. I guess there is a market for this.

As a side note on Thread and Mastodon: the experience there was different. Thread has a larger tech community so there is actually interesting content (for me at least) and Mastodon, it really depends on the instance, but even on the first instance (mastodon.social) you can find good content if you search by hashtag, and you can find some real nice people to follow (and since it's the multiverse, you can follow from any instance anyway) so it's all about building the social graph you want)
Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form
hmm, that's interesting!
Thanks for the discourse. I think my tone changed when I saw the sarcasm with avocado toast because I grow tired too quickly when people just dismiss discussions and ideas so quickly.
My first learning exercise was using the tutorial system of the Turbo Pascal IDE.

It taught me variables, expressions and how the tooling works.

I was 6 years old and that was that.

That was 31 years ago and I still feel like I know only a tiny tiny fraction of my field. It is terrifyingly awesome. I hope I always feel this way.
"...brake cleaner fluid. ...enough phosgene to poison you."

What's the solvent in brake cleaner fluid that breaks down to produce COCl2?
Here they use to sit behind conveyor belts and now they do almost nothing and stand at the self check out.

You can still chat with them, they have time for it now but even if you couldn't, if I had to chose between those 2 jobs I would rather not chat with you. That's putting it politely...

We have 3 systems, the conveyor belt, a hand held device with which you can scan products while shopping or you can scan everything at the check out. They check 3-4 products for one in about 5 customers.

It's a great system. I can do shopping during rush hour without standing in line or having to dump everything on the conveyor and bag it again in some neurotic ritual.
The regulation doesn’t allow you to mmap w^x willy-nilly, the hardening and sandbox are still enforced by the OS.
webxr
Another problem might be that some of these might dress up as the other, so being skeptical by default might be prudent.
I wonder if you could provoke the doubling bug until you got to a ridiculous amount or an overflow that would be just too ridiculous to not be considered a bug.

If a post office owed a billion pounds then that would be impossible to blame on the postmaster.
Would not be the first time the cheaper technology becomes the market leader instead of the "better" one.
Time will tell.
Man in the Hague (In a Good Way) Part 2
PCI DSS 11.6.1-detecting and responding to unauthorised changes on payment pages
Seeking solutions that one could develop inhouse. Wondering if someone has worked on meeting this compliance requirement?
Five cryptologic giants to be inducted into NSA's Cryptologic Hall of Honor
For largely the same reasons why graduating from top schools is given more credit than any old college, even if the level of teaching is similar. Getting in takes determination, intelligence, and discipline. Same with getting good at Leetcode.
> For me Apple standing between sketchy devs like Zuck-co and my phone is a feature not a bug.

They still do since, you know, they make the OS on which those apps would run.
You're suggesting the answer by asking the question, but yes, companies that consistently deliver moderate performance (are less extractive and don't maximize gains) would generally be better for the world as a whole than highly optimized, fragile corporations that deliver maximal returns by chewing up everything in their path.

They'd even, in the longer run, be better for their own shareholders and their descendants.
> [...] For these reasons, I argue that AI ethical principles are useless, failing to mitigate the racial, social, and environmental damages of AI technologies in any meaningful sense. [...]

Um, yes? Anyone even vaguely familiar with the tech realizes that modern "AI" ethics bear no resemblance whatever to old Isaac Asimov "Three Laws of Robotics" SF stories.

But (as the Abstract does hint at) "AI Ethics" can be very useful when dealing with humans - in the same sense as Senator Sell-Out's promises of honesty can be very useful in getting himself re-elected.
haha, this is awesome

yeah, map is good stuff, but not great for electronics

i am not an expert but i think the concern with map on electronics is not so much that the phosphoric acid will eat them (if they're hot enough to unleash the ammonia, as you said, they're toast) but more that it will dissolve in the water from the firehose to form a fairly acidic solution that may still corrode the electronics
Semicode – A no code AI platform for full stack dev
Building this platform to be able to launch new web apps faster. Skip boring initial builds and infra/hosting of apps, and just get started.
With the advances in ML (not just LLMs, but mostly image generation/recognition), getting a cheap EEG machine to read your thoughts and visualize your dreams.
How are they going to get submissions if they dont launch it? I understand your point, but to get submissions, they need to get eyes on the platform.
Cargoogle culting
That is why I believe that this debate is pointless.

If AGI is possible, it will be made. There is no feasible way to stop it being developed, because the perceivable gains are so huge.
Even a teleoperated version can command a huge market. Think millions of robo butlers operated by gig workers from low income countries.
https://archive.ph/geUBF
As a serious statistics person, 6-sigma drove me nuts with it's own separate from reality probability tables, and their own separate terminology from the entire history of statistics, and their reasoning methods were simplistic and their role titles were immature nonsense: "black belt"?!?! It really felt to me like a massive fraud. But oh JACK WELCH endorsed it, he's a GAWD! Yeah, I smelt that shitty decay long ago, and I probably got somewhat of a bad reputation for bad mouthing 6-sigma during it's hay days. One of my in-laws was seriously into 6-sigma, had his "black belt", and is a bit of a giant dope, so that did not help...
Think of as the Charlie Sheen principle: You aren't paying them to show up, you're paying them to go away.
Was reading somewhere crime is an intended produce, necessary to maintain a government in place to run the system.

Government: look, without us who would protect you from criminals.

It probably needs more than just criminality. But "foreign" threats would probably not be enough to justify how large government entities are throughout the globe.

Governments consciously or unconsciously need crime so would always make sure it doesn't get entirely eliminated.

Me think governments also like unemployment, since they provide unemployment and other social benefits.

I think they also like narcotics, ensuring not only constant supply of crime but also feed into the pharmaceutical business. Once you are hooked it's rather simple to pick you up and hook you to the official, legit drugs. At least for a while.

Wouldn't go as far as saying they may also benefit from epidemics and pandemics, they do provide the convenience to mandate everyone to stay home right before social protests get too well organised, that would be a stretch. Not an impossibility though.
The main difference between Vim and Helix is that Helix is not hackable at all. Its configuration allows only very basic settings. It is impossible to change almost anything in its behaviour. So it focuses on being good out of the box. Whether it succeeds or not is for everyone to judge for themselves.
Ok, so my take on the Nature article that it painted a rosy picture of today’s dispersed research teams mutually verifying each others results. Is your argument that the bad-old days still taint modern methods?
This feels like a retcon. The real reason is most likely that Google started interviewing people this way and then that's the culture that developed in the industry. Once a culture develops, it's very hard to change.
It was an interesting (to me) footnote to the point that even if you massively overspec your audio stream to the point of physically being unable to record the audio at that quality (the footnote being why it's unfeasible), you can still easily fit many such streams down a single modern-ish digital link.

The point isn't that you shouldn't record audio at 32-bit depth (which you probably shouldn't if you expect it to bring much benefit, but that's by-the-by), it's that even if you did, and you have a 7.1 system with 8 uncompressed streams, you still won't be anywhere near the point where USB 3 cable grades will start to matter.

You're the one who asked for clarification on the footnote specifically.
SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later – and 11,000 km away
Pilot seat
During an economic downturn, businesses often struggle to find areas of growth. As a result, they tend to focus on hiring candidates with very specific skills and at a lower paycheck, with the sole aim of maintaining their current market share.
The widow's pension story was told to me by the guide while visiting the freemason lodge in The Hague.
As a South Aussie, I was quite shocked at the humidity over there in Brisbane. But definitely not on the extreme end of the temps as the lands of ice and snow.
SDTurbo on WebGPU: Stable Diffusion 100% in browser running at ~1s per image
this seems to be airing a frustration that has moved beyond accuracy in the process, companies offering bug bounties may have done the bare minimum at one point in time but every production push they do changes that, and potentially reintroduces simple scannable vulnerabilities.
A washing machine spins at up to 14-16 hundred RPM, while contain weight that shifts and changes based on the water added. I wouldn't necessarily define that as "simple", either.
Rewriting from Python to anything else would make it faster.
I have been contending that if AGI shows up tommrow and wants to kill us, that its going to kill itself in the process. The power goes off in a week without people keeping it together, then no more AGI. There isnt enough automated anything for it to escape so it dies to the entropy of the equipment it's hooked to.

> We assume that someone, somewhere will develop AGI without any sort of “alignment”, plan our lives accordingly, and help other humans plan their lives accordingly.

We should also assume that it is just as likely that someone will figure out how to "align" an AGI to take up the murder suicide pact that kills us all. We should plan our lives accordingly!!!
What a trash article. They have a bunch of quotes from people who have spoken to EV owners, not owners themselves.

Here are some actual owners: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/194yg8x/how_are_yo...

> My partner’s gas car wouldn’t start last night so we took the EV. That’s how it’s going
Fentanyl is not a schedule I substance. That would mean it’s not available for medical purposes or any other purpose. It’s schedule II, like other prescription drugs with a high potential for abuse (as listed in the link you provided). Anyway, the fentanyl that has recently been killing people is not diverted from the medical industry - it’s synthesized by the criminals who traffick it. There’s nothing wrong with fentanyl use in hospitals. The thing that makes it particularly dangerous compared to other narcotic analgesics is its very high potency by weight, which is not a problem in a medical setting where dosages are carefully measured and stock is of known and reliable concentrations.
That's the thing I was struggling with, I can solve many of problems for the avg company – but I don't know how to solve a leetcode problem. I bet there aren't as many companies solving the complex problems on a scale.

But if we look from the perspective of the company – maybe it's just an filter to get someone very dedicated and nerdy about programming. Less churn, less questions.
You really can't, because bandwidth matters as much as compute power - you can only utilize as much power as you can transfer data to/from.

The training methods for current LLMs are parallellizable only by very frequently transferring all the data back and forth, and needing a node to gather and merge all the updates very frequently, and redistribute it to every other node so that they can make any progress. And a GPU that's not connected you with a high-speed link is pretty much useless as you can't make useful progress until you get their part pack, and "their part" is very large (i.e. the update size you need to get back is comparable to all of the model size) and you need to do that very frequently. Training on nVidia many-GPU pods works because of high-speed interconnect (e.g. 600 gigabytes per second for 8 GPUS in A100 pod), and if your internet bidirectional speed is much less than 600gbps, then if you have 100000 free remote RTX 4090s, you simply can do the compute locally faster than you can exchange information with the other GPUs.
making the toaster is the easy part; getting anyone to buy the toaster is the hard part. The demand is gatekept by companies like Google and Amazon and they will extract almost all of your profit
https://archive.is/VuS21
"That's another thing we've learned from your Nation," said Mein Herr, "map-making. But we've carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?"

"About six inches to the mile."

""Only six inches!"exclaimed Mein Herr. "We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!"

"Have you used it much?" I enquired.

"It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."

(From Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1893.)

I wonder whether the above is applicable to modeling the world and its behaviour in other ways; fully understanding everything of the complexity of the world would require the power of the world itself.
Sometimes things are obviously going to be slow even without measurement. For example not reserving a large vector. Or doing unbuffered IO.
Let me put this into perspective as an outsider:

```
I have been looking at starting a business and am a Dentist with lots of experience.

I also love learning about masonry and construction, but have never actually tried building anything.

Lately, I have been interested in buying things that are made locally. One construction item that I would like to invest in is a brick house; I did a lot of searching online, and this seems to be something that has a decent amount of demand.

There does seem to be a market opportunity for high-quality houses made locally.

My question is: as a dentist with zero experience building physical things, should I try building brick houses? I have plenty of space to set up a small operation and a little capital to get started. What are the pitfalls? Has anyone with a dental background moved into constructing physical items like this?
```

Don't expect your former job knowledge to be of much use for this endeavor.

This does not mean "Don't do it!" but rather "Be aware of the scope!".

Good luck!
The VS Code behaviour you're describing is "focus contextual" rather than "modal". Modal behaviour means the behaviour can change modes within the exact same focal context.
I'm also American. I'll jump for the self checkout if there is an open one, but if there is a line for self-checkout, I'm going for a register. The self-checkout lines move so much slower than the regular cashier lines, because people get hung up on things and have to ask for help.
Part of the reason it persistently comes up is that Robert Griesemer got his PhD under Mössenböck and Wirth, and people not paying very close attention would probably also see the Oberon-2 connection as a confirmation via an indirect step rather than as an argument against the claim.
I know you're kidding (are you?) but this can be easily accoplished by using the ChatGPT app with custom prompt and a bluetooth handsfree.

You can also use the same trick to create talking plush toys, just hide the HF inside. ;)
Rapid communication over long distances is flattening regional differences, but that doesn't stop language change. It probably speeds it up instead, because any new trend can reach the entire population much more quickly.

Rapid communication over long distances in time might be able to put a stop to that, e.g. if teens end up interacting more with simulacra of long-dead actors than others of their own age, there could be some weird effects. But I think that's unlikely to happen, since someone is bound to come up with a more popular version that has all the newest slang.
Games and terminals have existed before that

2003 https://perso.univ-lyon1.fr/thierry.excoffier/ZMW/
And that angle is also often visible when socializing with researchers in that field, except they try to hide it.
Don't publish anymore on Medium, people!
Intel makes pretty good toaster chips too.

https://www.overclock.net/threads/worried-about-13900k-tempe...
The opposite of a cynical view is an optimistic one, not a realistic one. Optimism like yours has been as wrong as cynicism throughout history, and its unrealistic to believe otherwise.
Yes, kind of.

But each platform's mechanics encourage certain behaviours over others. The Twitter website (not the culture of it's users), as an advertising-funded platform, is highly geared to optimise for 'engagement', which encourages all of these behaviours.
Fellow hacker here who invented a physical product I brought to market: No.

I sold it first chance I got because no software engineer wants to be in “manufacturing hell”.
The problem is with insufficient QA and processes in place. If a coder delivers code that is insufficiently tested before deployment, the onus is on the product owner. It's the reason "owner" is synonymous with "person who is responsible."
https://archive.is/QUOzt