skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shane Legg gave a really neat talk in 2010 about devising a good measure of “machine intelligence”: https://youtu.be/0ghzG14dT-w?si=OPvVqre0WqsnSUum

Of course, he is well-known for his paper with Marcus Hutter on providing a mathematical definition of universal general intelligence. I’m not sure if we’ve made a lot of progress since then at turning this highly theoretical notion into some sort of practical “AI IQ” though.

Personally, I would argue the already widely used cross-entropy loss for sequence prediction applied to datasets containing highly diverse types of data generated or collected by humans is a pretty darn good approximation. Much better than attempting to use IQ tests.

The only problem with this approach is that AI can converge on higher intelligence in a lopsided fashion depending on how much weight is given to the different problem domains represented in the dataset; suppose our sequence predictor performs well on subsets of the training data that relate to photographs but not mathematical proofs.

For an optimal machine intelligence, the weights don’t really matter (it will perform as well as possible across all problem domains), but from the perspective of how we want to steer improvements to the sequence predictor, we need to specify these weights manually, otherwise they will be determined implicitly based on the number of samples in the dataset representing each problem domain.

I suppose the selection of these weights is an optimization problem in its own right, where if the eventual goal is minimizing total loss across all problem domains relevant to humans (i.e., not a random sample of distinct problem instances of a formal language), then the optimal selection of weights corresponds to that which leads to the fastest improvement in our development of sequence predictors. Highly weighting human language seems to be having outsized returns at the moment, but I imagine that more highly weighting problems that relate to abstract mathematics will lead to better returns in the future.
When was the last time you have read a scientific report? I for one have very rarely looked into them, shame on me. But I can testify that my entire family, while concerned with the climate change, never reads any scientific reports, so submitting yet another one will change absolutely zero on what they think. Exactly this is the problem those extremists try to address: to bring and keep the topic in people's minds, by any means. Do we like their means? No. Are they effective? Yes, as argued before already.
This is the correct response. Either of them could be lying.

A leak needs to happen to cut through the BS and nonsense.
NASA is the piper, not the paymaster who calls the tune.

Try a Google search for "Senate Launch System", or "Space Policy Directive 1".
Takeaways and Things I’ve learned from Dmytro:

- Embrace Building in Public: Dmytro's transparency in sharing his development process and challenges has not only helped him solve problems but also attracted a community of supporters and customers. This approach can be a powerful tool for growth and engagement.

- Leverage Your Strengths: Dmytro capitalized on his expertise in API engineering, recognizing that his skills were better suited to backend development rather than UI/UX. Understanding and playing to your strengths can lead to more successful and manageable projects.

- Simple Tools Can Be Effective: Despite the vast array of sophisticated tools available, Dmytro uses a straightforward set of tools like Google Sheets and Pirsch Analytics. This simplicity allows him to focus on what truly matters—building and improving his product.

- The Importance of SEO and Product Positioning: Focusing on SEO and refining the product's positioning were crucial in attracting the right customers and scaling the business. These strategies can significantly impact a startup's visibility and growth.

- Customer Satisfaction Over Complexity: Ensuring that your service or product meets customer needs is more important than the complexity or breadth of the tools you use. Customer satisfaction is key to retention and word-of-mouth referrals.

- Focus Is Key: Dmytro advises focusing on one product, one ideal customer profile, and one marketing channel, especially in the early stages. Spreading yourself too thin can dilute your efforts and hinder growth.

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- Plan for Growth: Dmytro's goal to reach $10K MRR by the end of 2024, by focusing on SEO and reducing churn, shows the importance of setting clear targets and planning for the future.
A lot of people are wondering why MOOCs as a whole industry failed. I learned a lot from MOOCs, and can attribute much of my professional success to MOOCs. I can think of these reasons-

1. There are so much great content available for free, it almost doesn't make sense to pay for stuff.

2. Lots of universities, including MIT, NYU release their content for free along with handouts, assignments, problem sets, etc. And many great professors from other unis also release a lot of courses for free.

3. Much of the focus was on certificates, and honestly employers don't value them a lot, and higher education institutes don't value them at all.

4. Quality diminished in MOOCs. The early MOOCs from 2010s are of greater quality than the stuff that are released recently.

5. To make it in life, you are far better off with a university degree rather than without. And, people can't solely rely on online education.

6. MOOCs are expensive. Udacity nanodegrees were $1,000. My entire Master’s degree in CS was ~$1500 (in India).

7. They started focusing more on online degrees which almost no one value. And they are obscenely expensive. And platforms focus more and more on them. Think of Sedgewick's Algorithms course on Coursera. I don't see any new course of similar quality there. Focus is entirely on the online "degrees".

8. Good people left to do something cooler to them. The people who created Coursera, Udacity, etc. now do something else. Most provably some AI startup. People not similar to them are running the show now.

9. Coursera, edX, Udacity all have horrible, slow UIs. After a 2-8 minutes lecture (played in 1.5x) makes you wait a slow full 2 seconds to load the next page. And this is breaking, IMO. I would take a 2.5 hours university class lecture over this any day.

10. Unis use their own platform and abandoned joint ventures (?) because, maybe, lack of control. MIT has MITx, and some truly great new courses. I don't think they upload in edX anymore.

11. As per their behaviour, they focused on company-wide training, upskilling, etc. But I think most corporates don't look to upskill employees in a holistic way. They just want some tool specific training for their employees, that are too the point, practical in a negative way, and solely focuses on the tool at hand. Not every company is Texas Instruments, Facebool AIR, DeepMind, etc.

12. Despite all these, MOOCs are still successful, now often riding on particular people. They have their own websites with their own pricings, and own UI design. Think Jeremy Howard with fast.ai.

I think these are causes for the decline of MOOCA hype wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c seems to be said talk.

https://gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk/
> { ⊃ ⍵ ⊇⍨ ↑⍒≢¨ ⍵ /⍨ 2≥ (⊂"aeiou") (+/∊⍨)¨ ⍵ } io:read "dict.txt"

> At this point, comments suggesting the code is “unreadable” are bound to be thrown around, but once you learn a handful of symbols, this is in fact significantly more readable than the kinds of formulas I see on a regular basis in Excel.

To your point: what would this look like using English words as identifiers rather than unicode soup whose names I have likely never heard of? It isn't like those characters are easy to find on my keyboard.
Not true, look at this graph comparing Hubbard's lifts at the World Masters to male and female competitors: https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/JrzQoA6fWKtYdm8auCMj6RKil0Y...

He sits squarely within the male range and is a huge outlier from the women competitors.
Well it does matter, because I would say that chiclet keyboards are good, but clearly that doesn't answer the question because we have different definitions of "good", hence digging deeper on what is actually good.
By that analogy any company that uses prefix has to be open source?

OpenDoor?
For the uninitiated: TikTok is known to send and receive telemetry packages through headers in other requests (IIRC), and employs the use of a virtual machine(!) to execute encrypted client code.
That's interesting how this appears right after much severe "I'll refrain from providing code that involve concepts as you're under 18" Gemini response[1]. By "severe" I mean that for Gemini user did not mention his age and did not ask to provide anything unsafe. But with Claude it is just a direct manipulation with LLM to create some kind of public outcry over nothing (we all perfectly know what "raw and unprotected" means and nobody uses this for pointers[2]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583473

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22raw+and+unprotected+point...
I have a vague recollection of a Netscape Navigator README file on Linux that said this:

"Remember, it's spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E but it's pronounced: Mozilla, the Mosaic Killer Godzilla".

some sources:
http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/

> it was internally named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla) by Jamie Zawinski

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

> Mozilla Foundation – from the name of the web browser that preceded Netscape Navigator. When Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace the Mosaic browser, it was internally named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla) by Jamie Zawinski.[110]
I will always find that name "Claude" very funny for some reason. Can't wait for Jean-Christophe 2, and Patrick 7
Wrong. It’s the rule, and has been thus for at least 270 years. Breaking it attracts a $500 fine and a gentle slap in the face with a pair of leather driving gloves.
Putting all eggs in one basket? That's not very smart, giving one player all the balls in the game. Otherwise it's called monopoly, in a market some like to think as "free" and "competitional". How about we look at Artemis/anythingelse and try to make it efficient instead?
Download more RAM
OpenAI by Microsoft?
Between this and the right to encryption, EU courts are killing it today!
AI worm infects users via AI-enabled email clients: Morris II generative AI worm
Niquests – Python Requests replacement with HTTP/2, HTTP/3, multiplex requests
National Security is the new Raison d'État
Given the probabilistic nature of LLMs, you likely need to run an experiment several times to see the various different results it can produce.
Do you also own a Tesla?
Not to give Oracle a pass, but there was plenty of blame for the state as well.

https://upperedge.com/erp-program-management/7-decisions-tha...
It depends on what those LOC are. Is it HTML? Is it JS? It it a compiled language? How much of it is generated?

Aside: I don't understand the obsession people have with throwing out LOC. It's a completely meaningless number unless you're familiar with the codebase, in which case you don't need to be told the stats.
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What does copyright have to do with this?
Is distrust of government a founding principle of the EU?
Read beyond the first paragraph. This wasn’t a one off and they didn’t stop.
What’s broken with current office 365? It’s a good product and service.
Good point. It's just weird that monetisation is still based on this 'stickiness'.

If I see an article in the NYT here for example I can't open it, and they want me to sign up for a subscription. Getting a monthly sub might make sense if I'd lived in NY and read it every day, but really for the 2-3 articles per month linked from elsewhere it really does not. It's a bit disingenious.

Meanwhile it's not just the NYT I see links from but also the WaPo, atlantic, medium etc etc. I can't subscribe to them all obviously. Yet they all want to. It feels like they are stuck in their old business model without considering how to move forward.
> I only reach for SVG when I need to do something that other formats cannot.

Like rendering actual text?
I go back and forth on how to interpret people like Chris (and likewise, myself).

I've been in this situation, and it's psychologically disorienting: I seem to be right, but am I? Are the people around me really as incompetent as they seem, as totally disinterested in learning from their colleagues, etc. etc.

Then a few years after leaving, you look back and: oh, all those people have been fired or left; they still cannot do X as an org; the agility and competence of teams I then joined really does exist etc.

So, on the one hand, it's true that there's a sort of arrogance, political incompetence, and inability to cope with environments with a pathological practice culture --- but, on the other hand, maybe that's the right reaction?

Maybe the institution is undergoing a pathological cultural period, and maybe talented, considered, passionate people should be driven mad by it. Maybe the people who arent driven mad by it are either irrelevant to productivity/growth, or worse, net deadweights.

Who knows? That's what makes being in this environment such a psychodrama -- is the situation really this bad, or am I over-reacting? "Everyone tells me...."
The meme likely comes from a time when monads (and therefore IO) were not invented yet.
It scares me how many people don't realize this. A language is only as good as the things it allows you to build. Swift can be a great language from a PLT perspective, but it is pretty much only good at making apple UI's. Anything else and you are making some important compromises you might not be aware of.
Congrats on launching! Its interesting to see that ChatGPT is able to build something I've been working on (https://logdy.dev) for last two months. I guess new era is around the corner then.
Not to say that I agree with the transparent, but: Trademarks only apply where there might be confusion. If I made a very large radioactive ape called Gozilla, it would most certainly infringe on a (hypothetical?) Godzilla trademark.

But as long as there is low risk of confusion it is not infringement. I could probably start a lepidopterist consulting firm named Amazon.
The point is that encoding was not a problem just for ivory tower practicians back then. Python is an exemple of definitely-not-an-ivory-tower language that struggled with the same issues.

Also the practical joke is largely independant from haskell. It's pretty much an example of shuhari principles applied.
At least they acknowledged it in passing

Googles equivalent announcement was all flowery bullshit making it seem like a voluntary action
Out if curiosity, what's your take on the name?

I'm okay with it, despite preferring names that help frame the product's purpose in my mind, but I can see the kid appeal in a name like Sugar Lab. Maybe I am missing some negative association, though.
If avalanche of generative content would tip the scales towards (blind) trust of human writers, these "journalists" pushing out propaganda and outright fake news will have increased incentive to do so, not lowered.
The effect of sucking up to someone who previously said this about you might be even worse:

"When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it's electric cars that don't drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican..."
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In his own biography the author mentions how Elon did the hostile takeover of Tesla.

He can't work with CEOs who are smarter than him.
If there was no easy way to exchange large amounts of FIAT for crypto and vice versa (other than peer trading with a person), that would effectively make crypto like any other form of tradeable unofficial currency. Gold bars or diamonds or krugerrand. Insofar as crypto is "just" digital cash, it'd still work just fine, but it would make it trickier to move large sums around for criminal enterprises - much like how you'd need to jump through laundering hoops to translate your suitcase of undocumented diamonds back into FIAT, if you didn't have a reasonable answer for how you came to have them.

It'd also put a dent in crypto as a perennial pump-and-dump investment scheme, which in the long run would probably be quite good for its ability to actually work for daily, legitimate use.
Every time one of these big models comes out it seems to always be some appetizer story/issue easily digestible for the “media” and with a very nice reach potential.

No, Claude3 is not self-aware, that spot was taken by GPT2 years back. Remember when OpenAI said they couldn’t release the weights and not give much details because it was so powerful it could end humanity? Those were the days..
C++23: An Overview of Almost All New and Updated Features [video]
> Yes there is an initial hurdle when you're learning, but the same applies with +-×÷, and any languague with a different alphabet/symbol set!

Thee difference is, with any other new programming language I already know those! IOW, it's not a barrier.

> Once learnt however, the ~50 odd symbols are all the primitive functions, and then have speed and ability like maths to write and play with expressions.

50? You'll forget them if you don't use them. Still a barrier, even when not learning anymore.

Look, I get that there's a speed upgrade, but it's a balance, and 50 is way too much for something that you'll forget easily due to lack of usage.

For example, why bother with 26 elements that compose to all the words in the English language? One can simply memorise the most frequent 30000 words and assign a different rune to each one.

Obviously, we don't do that. The languages that do do that get outcompeted by the ones that don't.

The simple reality is that languages, both human and programming, have to match what the average human is most productive in. It doesn't matter that genius developers are more productive with esoteric runes; their experience is irrelevant because they aren't doing the grunt work that 99.9999% of programming entails.
As long as it is not confuseable it is not trademark infringement. You are free to start a Pharmacy named McDonalds, but not Walmart's Pharma.
https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
This claim is nonsense, as any visit to the Wayback Machine can attest.

In 2016, OpenAI's website said this right up front:

> We're hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We'll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.

I don't know how this quote can possibly be squared with a claim that they "did not imply open-sourcing AGI".
Sugar Daddy?
I find it mind-boggling that he has been doing this for 50+ years.
Aye, Excel tables are good (not great) for solving the "every field in this column must use the same formula" problem, but they don't do anything for "every field in this column must have the same type" problem.
The Freedom of the Press
Strong +1. Also hi Zach!
Communes haven't all failed. There are a number of them that continue to exist to this day. That the rest of us haven't been forced into living in one of them doesn't mean they don't exist. Portland has a bunch of co-living co-housing communities that are thriving.
We can safely assume that almost 100% of their traffic is settlement free peered so obsensibly 'free'. They do however haul the traffic on their own backbone extensively before handing it over (which will be part of the reason for the extremely high level of settlement free). That is extensive and costly ; they lease fibres in subsea cables and in some cases part own them. Similar for terrestrial fibre. This wraps the world, so the fixed cost of that is super high, but the unit costs would be tiny. All in I'd be astonished if the weighted average for say Europe was more than 0.11 cents per GB if they are charging you 2 cents that's ~20x cost, if it's 8 cents...
English is the langua franca of programming. If you want your solution accepted, you have to meet your audience where they are.

In similar fashion, when engines were first invented and were being sold to miners, they didn't expect miners to understand the scientific terms around energy, they invented a term that could be easily understood: horsepower. Every miner could wrap their head around the work that twenty horses could do.

Here, x̄ or μ may mean average, but how do you pronounce either? Most are unfamiliar. Identifiers "avg()" or "average()" are more approachable, and already in use in spreadsheets for similar reasons.