skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do we act like people all have an approximately uniform intelligence that will be surpassed by AI intelligence by orders of magnitude in all dimensions?

I at least don't consider people to be uniform. If I act like I do, that's illusory.

For orders of magnitude higher performance by AI: all have a massive intrinsic speed advantage already (which is currently balanced by an almost but not quite equally massive training set required disadvantage — they can read the entire internet, but they need to too), and the go and chess AI have already vastly exceeded human capacity.

I think this kind of thing is also part of why AGI means different things to different people.

By my standards, ChatGPT is already an AGI, it's able to operate on text-based tasks in general (the G in AGI) at a level higher than some humans and lower than others — if I'm right, a lot of people are already no longer capable of being economically viable, and their only hope in the current economic system is that the market for their labour doesn't act with perfect information. I may also just be wildly over-estimating the capabilities of ChatGPT.
It’s pretty simple to turn all that off. It’s bloat, for sure, but can be made invisible.

If they could just fix the back-button on Brave iOS so it doesn’t occasionally pick a completely different tab, I’ll be happy.
Third to last paragraph: if I sell software, a third party bug bounty type guy finds an exploit, notifies me, I patch the vuln, and release the patch as a hot fix: you figure all of that is SRE, probably?

(Disclaimer: not seeking tax advice or legal advice, we’re just two dudes casually discussing section 174 like normal people do all the time).

That notice was a helpful read. I think what I may have been missing was section 5 of Rev. Proc. 2000-50, whereunder non-SRE software dev was also afforded some similar protection. I’ll read that after work but I’d still love you to answer the foregoing.
Sure, C and machine code can be simple (or simplistic) but in a world in which 70% of severe security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues, I'll generally prefer languages that are safe against them, even if I can't then use text macros to get from a child pointer to a parent pointer. But that's off-topic, really.

In the message I originally replied to, I guess it's only the "since you can't ..." part that I really object to, as it's never going to be clearer to use &(par->child) and CONTAINER_OF(ch, some_type, child) than to use par.child and ch.parent.
I've also had this thought, but found that inspecting the type shows its by default a dictionary, and that it only is interpreted as a set if you treat it as such (eg add comma-seperated elements when instantiating)

assert type({}) == type(dict()))
assert type({1,2,3} == type(set())
Your not the only one, my son says he get's all his info from yt, Mr Beast never got a click from me.
> Most Americans can’t walk from their door to train station to the airport.

I'm not denying that. What I'm trying to point out is that most Americans live someplace where a viable mass transit system can be designed to facilitate that. In other words, in the places where Americans actually live, the US isn't all that much less dense than the corresponding places in Europe. If Nice can have a viable tram system, there's no reason that, say, Nashville couldn't.
There’s also a fair amount of talk that those numbers were juiced in a way that no-one else can expect.
> Somehow both the MVNOs and the national carriers make money.

The history of MVNOs seems to indicate otherwise. Not a lot of them survive as independent entities; I think because there's not a lot of profit to be had, and most MVNOs are setup where the business is captive to a given operator. You'd need to reissue SIM cards to each customer in order to switch to a new operator, and that's expensive; not to mention some customers have operator locked phones that wouldn't be able to switch, so you've got to develop a plan for them as well.
That's switching goalposts.

You said only scammy businesses have cookie banners... no, all websites have cookie banners now in EU, and it's majorly annoying, unless you use extensions that click it for you.

(The most popular one is owned by Avast. Which is a horrible company that sells users data. So... yay?)
In my experience, at least, the "gyms are impossible to cancel" meme is overstated. LA Fitness required me to mail in a letter to cancel; I can see how someone would object since I could easily sign up online, but printing and mailing the letter took maybe 10 minutes tops, and the cancellation was processed within a week.

To me, that was good enough.
It's just a matter of closing the loopholes then? I see law/regulation as a lot like releasing software, you need to iterate towards an ideal. Expecting an MVP to be perfect right out of the gate seems counterintuitive.
I didn't make any statements about the left, but in what way?

And anything the left does that is viewed as science denial doesn't change anything about the right. If what you are saying is true, that means that both parties can orbit around their willful ignorance.
It's not that bad, plenty of people spend their spare time in their cars too.
>Does you monocular depth model get fooled by a billboard that's just a photo?

This is actually a pretty clever example, I tried a few billboards on the demo online and, as these models are regressive so they output the mean of the possible outputs, sometimes the model is perplexed and doesn't seem to know if to output something completely flat or that actually has a depth, and by being perplexed it outputs something in between.
Also, don't forget the trillions in real estate $ that are tied to increasingly less valuable assets as people don't RTO.
So it's something you do infrequently then.

Airdrop is something I use 10x a week.
A lot of viral content out there is exploitative or trashy. (Sex, violence, rage-bait, etc.) None of MrBeast content is that.
Tbf, the remark was kinda funny, absurdity in line with original.

Plus, taking things literally when that's obviously not the intention is the majority of software developer humor
> simple to turn all that off

Technically, in the browser, yes. Culturally, at the organization level, no.
Yeah I'm not sure I follow the logic here. The only reason I have anything to work on at all is because we've talked to customers.

I think maybe the implication is that if your backlog is big, it's a "smell" that you're over-planning. I don't think that's true, but I guess the sentiment is good.
The Blendtec is a beast; I'm just sad I'll probably never have a real excuse to move to the quiet https://www.blendtec.com/products/professional-800 because my existing one will never die.
This is a fair point. AST SpaceMobile is shipping drastically more complicated satellite tech than Starlink and that could prove to be a competitive advantage.

I'm not sure I agree with the strategy, though. It seems really challenging and dangerous to put such huge satellites into LEO. They'll require constant maneuvering. NASA seems to think it'll require 4 maneuvers per day, https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/49981/why-do-ast-s...

I will put my money on cheaper, more disposable satellites because they enable rapid iteration cycles with less risk.
Just curious: what was the first attempt/guess?
> "Good news today," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) wrote on X, formerly Twitter, late Saturday.

I heard this line in my mind with Professor Fansworth's voice.
"In the screenshot shared by MrBeast, he reported $263,655 in revenue from nearly 156.7 million "impressions" or about $1.68 per 1,000 impressions."
The CPM number is not back for X, but if you compare it with other platforms, you know why X is struggling.
CPM trend tracking:
https://www.guptamedia.com/social-media-ads-cost
If I used a VPN to place myself in Europe, could I unlink my accounts?
Your argument is centered on a lack of understanding.

How could anyone possibly argue that God and Heaven are fiction? No one can prove they don't exist! I prefer to approach such assertions with skepticism. There is no reason for me to believe the attestation is true, so I may as well believe it to be false.

People remix expressions all the time. Any good training corpus will contain countless examples. If a statistical model can recognize the general semantic patterns that are present in human-remixed expressions, then it should be able to repeat them. So that's a thing that both humans and LLMs can do. Does that mean that LLMs are interesting and useful? Yes! Does it mean we are equivalent? I don't think so.

If I could point out specifically what an LLM can't do, then I would be 99% of the way toward building something that can.
No, I'm wondering why you think that when you can't explain why. This is the exact template of a paid PR article, but all your comments are just claims that it isn't paid with no explanation or though process.
This is ahistorical. While it may have been true for you, it was not the argument put forth at the time. I knew this projection would happen, and that is why I linked to a contemporaneous article.

Teen pregnancy was the most vocal reason at the time.
Sorry, I'm not saying __you__ are saying my claim is laughable, I'm saying "people" are[0]. The fact of the matter is 2/3 responses I got were certain I'm wrong with providing no evidence (@Georgelemental's link is not backed by data, only shows one plot related to belief in god, and is really just a socialist propaganda article that is shoehorning economic discussion into cultural that creates a premise that would validate my claim but contradicts their own (if socialism solves the issues, then it isn't about age... Though I'll agree that economic factors are important for estimating rate of cultural change)).

I agree with your point, but to be clear, it is not contrary to what I claimed. My claim is about how ethical values change faster than people age. See the reply in [0] or the linked comment there. The claim shouldn't be controversial because it is ridiculous to believe that your beliefs become fixed at some certain age. The fallacy is that people will think "well I update my beliefs but others don't" (i.e. I'm Bayesian, but others are immutable). You're not that unique.

Certainly this change can go in any direction. It is also a common fallacy to believe younger = liberal while older = conservative. While there is correlation, there is not much to suggest causation. Especially considering there are young people that are Republicans and many old people that are Democrats. We can argue nuance, but that's a different claim. I don't think most people have a good understanding of the demographics of voters[1] and instead focus on what data they want to see. Some of that complexity may be illustrated in looking at Figure 3 (education) closely. The most apparent differential is graduate level education. If you look at the top part carefully you'll see that there's a subtle distinction between completion of a college education vs not and the main difference is in graduate education, which is a much smaller number of people. The graph can be hard to read because the size of each bin is directly proportional to the education level (largest bin is H.S. (~80% of Americans) or less and postgrad is smallest (~5% of Americans if counting professional degrees)). Also take specific note at the differentials in the bottom plot as there is inferential race based data.

Basically, I'm saying it's a bit complex and people are trying to overly simplify the problem. I even think your claim of coast vs central is a point, but I'm not sure it really discredits the claim which is independent of party affiliation or if someone is rural or urban (which is highly correlated with cost vs central).

Oversimplification won't give you an approximate answer, but often will lead you in the wrong direction.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082963

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/demographic-...
>This is a ton of money for a video platform.

The CPM was $1.68. If he got that CPM on YouTube, I'm sure he would have far more choice words. A $1.68 CPM would be terrible for a creator of Mr. Beast's size, especially when by his own admission, the video was juiced due to the increased attention it got.

Sure the revenue share is higher, but the pie is almost 15x smaller.
> Google doesn't like fingerprinting. That may be because they already have all your identities and don't want competition

Google sells ads. Of course they don't want you rolling your own fingerprinting. That's their job. I'd need to see a statement signed under oath to believe Google, itself, doesn't fingerprint.
I would love to see a more "private" version of internet where I can simply get results and such from a specific set of whitelisted providers.

I have a feeling the news industry might actually be doing better now than in past.
Musk was specifically trying to get Mr. Beast to post videos on X after Mr. Beast was saying it didn't generate enough revenue to be worth the effort the last time he tried.

Because of this, it seems like there was a lot of incentive for Musk to try to do everything in his power to ensure this video in particular got promoted so that Mr. Beast would advertise the fact that he made a significant amount of money from it in order to send the message that X is a viable platform for creators, but for this reason, I would be dubious about drawing any conclusions about X as a video platform in general.

Even if Musk didn't somehow special case this video, there may not be that much monetized video content on X right now, so it's possible that if the X algorithm is attempting to promote monetized video content, that had the effect of mainly promoting this Mr. Beast video when he posted it, in which case the results might be very different once there are a larger number of people posting video content.
If anything we need more settings, and more warning popups to go along with them that list or link to information on some of the breakage users can expect. Inform the user and let them decide.
this is just not true.
Your rhetorical stance is too obtuse for me.

If someone can't follow the scientific method, it isn't on the person who can to validate the opposing parties broken worldview. Discussion should be science vs science, let the truth win. Not feelings, emotions and ungrounded theories vs science.

Your style might be better suited to a lesswrong forum.
This is really cool - based on the project page it uses off the shelf models like Yolo and Tesseract plus a ton of synthetic data (which is also freely available). Also solves a real industrial use case!
> millions got sick and died

Estimated deaths Spanish flu - 25 to 50 million

Estimated deaths covid - 18 to 33 million

Not a huge difference, considering covid is known to be less lethal.
We have companies like Google and Microsoft who have the ability to build or create power generation for things like this. I just think it's interesting that Microsoft could be energy self sufficient by building generation next to a datacenter.
Only at night. Build 3 data centra and you can provide full solar power to at least one of them at any time, just shift the workload to the resource with the power

Or base your DC in a location with lots of other renewable energy
I saw a graphene food cooker concept at CES
Whenever I hear references to Lexus I cannot but think of "Lexus man" which is an Alan Partridge witticism, played by Steve Coogan. The epitome of faux luxury, the kind which ordinary people can buy, and so definitionally its not very luxe.
Do you have any source for this? It does not match my experience at all.
Huge delays between keypresses is what vi (and vim ofc) was designed for.
He used to have multiple YouTube channels in different languages for the same content.
Hence, using OpenAI/perplexity everyday, as I am afraid they might start increasing subscriptions after the VC funds dry out.
I've noticed this too. I always assumed it was meant to make price comparison more difficult for consumers.

A recent FTC lawsuit [1] made me realize it could also be meant to prevent the seller's platform from doing price comparison ("if Amazon discovers that a seller is offering lower-priced goods elsewhere, Amazon can bury discounting sellers so far down in Amazon’s search results that they become effectively invisible")
>> I‘m rather at the beginning of my career, but feel like personal growth, enjoyment and satisfaction with the work is much higher when I go to the office and when my colleagues do the same

I had a fast-growing career trajectory and it was definitely due to the magic of working in close quarters with my co-workers and especially bosses and mentors.

That was 20+yrs ago. I do wonder how that would work now -- I go into the office and i'm on Zoom calls for 6hrs of the 8 or 9hrs. The Zoom calls are with overseas team members.

Even the folks in the office on the same call are on Zoom, each of us in separate rooms to prevent microphone reverb. It feels nothing like the magic of 20yrs ago when we were all elbow-to-elbow in war rooms.

I think RTO makes sense, but we need a lot of breakout conference rooms. We also need to be opinionated about scheduling meetings so there is actual facetime IRL rather than just facetime via Zoom while in office.
There actually was some graphene news recently.
> the build process [...] It's not strictly required by the definition of open source, but....

But it is required by Free Software licenses. GPLv2 §3[0]:

> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.

GPLv3 §1[1]:

> The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Bill 96 as the title implies.
"You can just go install" is what I read a lot, but installing Go can be quite a pain. It's also not exactly clear that you need to run "go install" from a source code dump, which many Go projects seem to come with.

Building Go programs is only easy if you're building Go programs in your everyday life. The same can be said for any language (just cmake/make/cargo/npm/gradle build/install/package!), there's really no "easy" way to build any software unless it's well-documented in a way that will guide you through the build steps on every OS under the sun.

Of course no developers have any kind of obligation to provide build steps or binary releases, but don't think it's easy because you find it easy. I remember trying to build a Go program the first time and needing to figure out how to install Go in a way that didn't mess up my package manager because Google expects you to untar files manually rather than provide some kind of software repository for automatic updates.
We Deeply Regret You Being Mad at Us – Creative Assembly Has Not Had a Good 2023
couldn't you run an absolutely minimal windows install in a virtual machine that boots up in the background and uses limited resources (1 CPU, 1GB RAM) and then use the virtual machine settings to share the OneDrive folder between host and guest?
Ace-K was developed by rational investigation of sucrose derivatives, undermining it as an example of 'serendipity'.

I looked at some of the sources linked on Wikipedia for the other anecdotes.

Ace-K: Newton, D. E. (2007). Food Chemistry (New Chemistry). Available on libgen. Also describes the other serendipitous discovery stories, but with no citation or evidence. For Ace-K, there are conflicting accounts of whether the chemist was licking his fingers to pick up a piece of paper or rubbing out a white spot on his sweater or shirt.

Sucralose: Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes. Available on libgen. Also describes the same anecdotes for other drugs. The only supporting evidence for any of them is is a direct quote from James Schlatter on the discovery of aspartame:

"I was heating the aspartame in a flask with methanol when the mixture
bumped [boiled abruptly] onto the outside of the flask. As a result some of
the powder got onto my fingers. At a slightly later stage, when licking my fingers to pick up a piece of paper, I noticed a very strong, sweet taste. Initially, I thought that I must have had some sugar on my hands from earlier in the day. However, I quickly realised this could not be so, since I had washed my hands in the meantime. I therefore traced the powder on my hands back to the container into which I had placed the crystallised aspartylphenylalanine methyl ester. I felt that this dipeptide ester was not likely to be toxic and I therefore tasted a little of it and found that it was the substance which I had
previously tasted on my finger."

The book chalks up the 'test'/'taste' mixup with Ace-K to a language barrier (Phadnis's first name was Shashikant).

Processed Foods and the Consumer claims that Schlatter licked his finger to 'provide friction before reaching for a thin piece of laboratory equipment.'

The story about the discovery of saccharin is from The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide, which also does not cite a source for the story.

An American Chemical Society Molecule of the Week article also reports the "tasting his hand after dinner" story for the discovery of saccharin, but notes that "in another version of the story" he tasted it on his cigarette, just like in the cyclamate discovery story. Of course, the NY Times obit for Sveda, discoverer of cyclamates, is that "he brushed his lips without having washed his hands and found that his fingers tasted sweet," rather than that he put his cigarette into the chemical.
Disney offers an elegant solution to VR's movement problem
Just run your AGI during the day and suspend it at night?

Also makes it easier to fight when it turns evil
TikTok supports passkeys. Use them.
Did you happen to grab a screenshot? I am curious how it lines up with some malware I saw impacting news sites a few years back.
Krypton panopticon: trapped atoms form one-dimensional gas
Hmm I didn’t expect the CPM rates to be so relatively competitive and trading places so often.
UK Parcel delivery company's AI chatbot abused customer
Yes, as long as you know your phone was taken, and you immediately use someone else's phone to mark your as lost (or wipe it), you can probably beat them to it. But if your phone was stolen while you were at a movie theater, for example, you might not notice until it was too late. At least there's a 1 hour delay + biometric requirement for certain changes.
It seems likely to me that any form of smoking was discovered incidentally by burning stuff that smelled nice, repelled bugs, repelled evil spirits, etc. and happening to inhale some of the smoke.
In September, global web traffic to twitter.com was down -14%, year-over-year. [1]

In July, Mr Musk said ad revenues had dropped by 50%. [2]

Situation today is likely far worse. Also, Fidelity has rated the value of its investment in Twitter/X as -72%.

[1] https://au.pcmag.com/social-media/102174/twitter-traffic-on-...

[2] https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/elon-musk-...
The condenser unit on my Miele heat pump clothes dryer just went out after less than two and a half years. It's a $1500 out of warranty repair on a $2K dryer, and the part will take a month to arrive.

Could be bad luck, though I see a fair number of similar complaints online. I wouldn't buy again.
More reasons to move out I guess. There is a core group of people (politicians, civil servants and whoever voted them) who just want this to happen.
A key Tesla metric is 'under threat.' Wall Street will soon learn more