skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>ChatGPT already has more knowledge than any individual human.

It has access to the same amount of knowledge that any individual human (with internet) has.

>So, are we sure 'AGI' is even a thing.

I'm a cognitive neuroscientist and I'm going to say no... there's no plausible path towards creating an AGI that is a true facsimile of human intelligence BUT I'd recommend looking into P-Zombies, as there will most definitely be models that approach a believable bar, people are quick to anthropomorphizise anything.

>That AI can be 'self aware' rather than just high IQ and knowledgeable?

I question your references to AI having a high IQ. The IQ test is, among many things, a biased and imperfect tool. Further, it's not possible for an AI to complete the full test as one component is recall. Using IQ tests to measure AI is like comparing a car's acceleration to Olympic sprinting records.

My view is that AI tools are exactly that, tools. ChatGPT is mish-mash of a thesaurus and Google. It bears remembering that ChatGPT was trained on data produced by humans, volumes of text, novels, scientific articles, blogs and reddit posts. To ascribe it intelligence for its ability to algorithmically reassemble it's training data is to do a disservice to all the authors of that original work.
Release announcement: Restate 0.8 has arrived
The 0.8 release of Restate ships many new API improvements such as deterministic promise combinators, operation timeouts, better state management, and much more. Restate now supports patching service state in case you need to repair a service's state. Last but not least, you can deploy Restate on Kubernetes very quickly using the new Helm chart or Restate's Kubernetes operator.
This was a silly comment…
It think it was your point, but to be clear since there seem to be some confusion among some, any trial is also unnessecary, since there is no crime commited.
Signs that a Startup is Going Bad (2023)
> Because of this, the CVE assignment team is overly cautious and assign CVE numbers to any bugfix that they identify

Shouldn't this strategy lead to the opposite? By being overly cautious they should only assign CVEs for real demonstrable security issues.
Thank you. Rye author here (I posted this link on lobste.rs and it got here).

It seems we have very similar paths. I was also or still am in a way a Rebol developer, although it's more or less abandoned. For few years I was in Factor world and loved it, but eventually returned to Rebol. I was also waiting and hoping for R3, and later Red to take Rebol's place. Red is moving forward constantly and I congratulate them on their work, but the parts I needed the most were moving the least (IO for example).

I used Python for many projects in between, especially where I couldn't Rebol, but it always seemed too imperative to me and I like the rebol/factor/lisp approach where things like lines and whitespace doesn't matter.

Thanks and thanks to the OP!
I’ve had my disagreements with Meta’s leadership (I quit after all) but they do try hard to comply with the law on privacy. It’s a hard, hard problem that they spend a lot of money on.

The results have been mixed: they should probably spend even more.

In general these are some of the “least evil” people in the valley. I have personal disputes with some of them, some mutually pretty unpleasant. But that increases, not decreases my responsibility to be fair.

Bosworth in particular is about as close to a good guy as you can be in a job like that.

I don’t think very highly about how I’ve been treated personally, but that’s irrelevant to the broader point: Meta’s team is playing at the “least rough” end of the field. They’re great on open models and research, their lobbying is at the low, low end of shady (by the dismal standards of the day), employees have historically been treated well, it’s less bad.

If you want to get on them about something, the availability of Reels to minors needs to change.
> Setting aside the fact that these are numbers provided by Hamas

The UN and Lancet [0] believe the numbers are credible. Let's not forget there are likely 10k+ civilians still burried under rubble too.

> Hamas has miles of tunnels to provide cover for their rapists

Come on, you are not commenting in good faith. There is zero credible evidence that any rape took place, Hamas have staunchly denied it, and from what returning hostages have said it seems incredibly unlikely. There is however an abundance of evidence that Israel is trying to use rape as attrocity propaganda.

> it’s tragic that Hamas is killing its own people this way

This is absolutely absurd - it's like telling a domestic violence victim it's their own fault.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I don't think so. This law is about using nazi in counterargument to something not just barely mentioning them.
Good question! It uses a web app. NFC reading is open on iOS, so when you tap our labels it opens up the page for the label.
I didn't know about the "free of charge" clause. Apple's Core Technology Fee will be absolutely destroyed.
Isn’t this just regular corporate espionage? Why the big indictments?
How the "Frontier" Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
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Do you mean DALLE? Every time I try it it looks nothing like I want, probably due to bad prompts. Do you have resources for me to learn your skills?
A 4 hour lecture/seminar (it's not going to be a real meeting, is it) is just not ever a useful thing. Even if the information conveyed is somehow important and somehow can't be supplied as a document, everybody will be snoozing by hour 2 - not to mention resentful from minute 1.

A barely related anecdote to illustrate why some people mistrust management. Not entirely necessary but having typed it I might as well press the button:

The only time I've ever been pulled into a 4-hour all-hands meeting it turned out to be a covert way to fire a bunch of employees without giving them the chance to say goodbye to their colleagues.

One by one, people got summoned out of the room ("hey, there's a phone call for you", etc) and never returned. The rest sat listening to the "leaders" (including one fairly well known public figure) droning on about nothing. By the end many of us had figured out what was happening, and when we all returned to the office to find ~30% of the desks empty there was universal outrage.

Lots of other people left in the aftermath, and the exodus apparently continued after I went.
> How does one become a "former Palestinian"

I guess by obtaining a different citizenship and renouncing the original one, but tbh I expect parent poster meant folks who were born in another country from Palestinian parents.
Reddit will now use an AI model to fight harassment (APK teardown)
Perhaps. But if not us then who?

Maybe it's not a matter of who we are, but who we should be?

Easier said than done? Oh yeah, we're soft and lazy from a life diet high on - literally - coconvenience.

Put another way, when we collectively decide "we can't talk about X or Y" the control of that topic gets outsourced: outsourced to "leaders" who evidently are less capable.

In short, yes there is risk. But the alternatives consistently qualify as insanity.
It's more just the commercial version of "ideas guy". Anyone can be an ideas guy. Once you go pro, you're a thought leader.
Yeah it could even lead the EU to mandate that no business relation to Apple is required to operate your store and Apple has no saying whatsoever over you and may not charge you for installs, updates etc. Also, no penalties or changes may be applied to Apps choosing to use other stores. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

This might lead to a complete opening-up of the iPhone as a result for the EU market.
If Apple's security model really is that weak, it sure sounds like they should pull their products off the market until they fix it.
They do not need, they want and they don't want to pay Apple.
That's why I wrote "naively". I know it's more complicated than I made it sound. It's the same with companies using mainframes, after a while you are so deeply invested (both financially and technically) that migrating might be more expensive than just feeding the corporate machine.

Still, depending on a vendor that treats their customers as rudely as Oracle does must be really annoying.
My personal point of view is that men are on average innately better in programming and in general in logic involving tasks.

A parallel can be drawn to the much higher prevalence of autism in males, which some studies attribute to a less sensitive mirror neuron system.

In contrast, women are much more empathetic and able to acknowledge, process and understand emotions both in others and themselves.
GaLore: Memory-Efficient LLM Training by Gradient Low-Rank Projection
They did both... They control everything that goes in and out of gaza:

I quote from MSNBC "Despite pleas from the United Nations and human rights groups, Israel has maintained a land, air and sea blockade on Gaza since 2007 that has had a devastating effect on Palestinian civilians."

How do you rule if you control nothing? all the utilities are controlled by Israel. Travel, nope, controlled by Israel. Exports, nope, controlled by Israel. What are they ruling?

Israel created Hamas to weaken the Palestinian Authority - which itself is severely corrupt and complacent. People are seeking a better life. How else do you think Trump got elected? was he the better candidate? (and yes, I did just conflate Trump and Hamas)
For some reason, FreeType broke proper grid-fitting and now requires environment variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 to activate it.
People in Turkey definitely don't use X-ray, they use Röntgen. Same for Azerbaijan.
Everyone has competing ideas. There's no unanimous agreement on what "good" is. We don't all have enough knowledge to judge each idea purely on merit - a lot of the time our only way to judge is to see if the proposer really believes in it. So ideas have to be sold.

I think this is the cause of lots of problems in the world - we cannot all be scientists, laywers, doctors, engineers etc and we have to make judgements about who to put our faith in.
And we need to take into account that scientists in the world will are/will jump in AI from other areas. From the scientific point of view a new iteration could happen anywhere.

I recently discovered that the first book I bought in the 90s about neural networks was "Beyral Networks" by Simon Haykin [1] he is from Canada and I don't think that just by chance that Hinton is also Canadian. It seems that they created an ecosystem outside USA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Haykin
Tachyum plans to sample server platforms early next year
The authors argument that SQL's english-like syntax is a "well-intentioned error" overlooks the accessibility it provides. SQL, inspired by relational algebra, enables set-based operations, distinct from procedural programming's linear approach.

This is why SQL has endured for so long.

That mathematical base allows for efficient data manipulation across vast datasets.

To his point that no other languages strive to be spoken like, languages like ruby (and python to a degree )have successfully adopted a natural, english-like syntax, enhancing readability and developer productivity.

Emphasizing procedural over declarative concepts misinterprets SQL's core advantage: expressing complex data relationships and manipulations succinctly. Such perspectives miss the broader utility of making programming languages approachable and efficient for diverse tasks and user backgrounds.

Side rant: I just wish SQL was more composable.
> long overdue regulation around AI

May I ask what regulation you think is long overdue? Especially given that you believe we're in a hype bubble...
Cloudflare Acquires Nefeli, Enters Multicloud Networking Market
It's not just drug trials, it's a huge proportion of biology and psychology research at least. Additionally, most research in biology is expensive to get off the ground, and in order to get funding it absolutely is important to project confidence - there's an entire game surrounding grant writing that sounds a lot more like "group 2" than "group 1". Group 1 is just a theoretical ideal, not the reality of academic science. While that may be somewhat field dependent it's definitely not restricted to a small niche either.
There is a huge amount of context in an early whistleblower report [1]. This reported before the FAA did the likelihood that the bolts were not reinstalled and the problems with the documentation.

Per that whistleblower account, the door plug removal was not documented in the official records system ("CMES") but the required work was discussed in an unofficial system ("SAT") including whether or not an official record should be made. Boeing concluded the work could be done without an official record in CMES. Per the discussion on SAT, the official "removal" record was not needed if the operation was treated as an "opening" instead, despite the safety-critical bolts being removed in either case.

The FAA obviously will have problems with the entire system that lets factory workers do safety-critical work without official documentation, standards, or oversight. So they will want to talk to enough people to understand how that system is understood in practice on the factory floor and how it came to be.

Boeing it seems has tried to limit them to talking to people directly involved with the Alaska Air incident work. Hence the current heated pushback feom the FAA.

It may also be that Boeing is playing coy about the relevant discussion in SAT, or about the existence or nonexistence of policy distinguishing between door plug "opening" and "removal". In any case the FAA wants everything and Boeing has been trying to get away with less.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...
> If you can't reason about your codebase to a sufficient extent to actually determine that then something is very wrong.

The environment where we write critical code the way we do now is very wrong. It's actually not that easy to figure out if something is exploitable or not. What if you add heap grooming? What if you enable another specific feature? What if an application fights for the same lock? What if measuring the time it takes to fail allows you to defeat aslr? People use exploit chains rather than independent ones these days and there are examples of clever cases of single-byte overflows turning into RCE.

Sure, there are going to be cases where you're really really sure something can't be used, because for example the bug only produces a null dereference and an oops. Then someone else comes along and proves you wrong https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/01/exploiting-nu...
Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube
Hi HN,

I recently released a new browser extension for YouTube, which in addition to the table stakes of hiding the existence of Shorts, hiding promoted content, automatically skipping ads, hiding useless/unused UI elements, hiding unwanted channels YouTube keeps recommending to you, letting you hide algorithmic suggestions etc. etc., makes other changes I've always wanted as a user, in the same vein as one of my other extensions, Control Panel for Twitter.

The most significant of those is attempting to make your Subscriptions page more like an Inbox, by hiding videos you've already watched (with a configurable watch %), videos you're never going to watch (like live streams and multi-hour stream VODs - if you follow any gaming channels which started co-streaming to YouTube after a recent Twitch policy change), videos you literally can't watch (Upcoming), and improving the handling of videos hidden using YouTube's built-in Hide functionality, then finally filling in the gaps created by all those hidden videos, so unwatched content you're interested in (since you didn't Hide it yet!) floats to the top of your Subscriptions.

Desktop and mobile versions of YouTube are both supported, with some version-specific features, e.g. it significantly improves the Subscriptions and Search page layout when doing some comfy-mode browsing of the mobile version on an iPad or other tablet in portrait mode (unfortunately the iOS version is still stuck in App Review limbo, despite the macOS version - which contains the exact same web extension code - being approved on initial submission almost 2 weeks ago).

Part of the reason for finally making this (I've been meaning to improve the Subscriptions page for ages) was YouTube starting to go after uBlock Origin, which I can now disable on YouTube if it becomes necessary, without seeing any promoted content or ads.

Website: https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-youtube

Source: https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube
What? It’s free. Perhaps you should read the history around Red as a patent troll, how they price gouge their media, etc.
Itchy is maybe exaggerating, but as far as I know, lower class clothes were very coarse compared to modern ones.

A lot of natural fibers need a lot of strength to be spun into finer threads and we didn't really have that on a large scale until the 1800s.

Plus distribution was much harder so in many remote parts were stuck with whatever they made locally, which was most likely subpar even for their times.

Cotton tech in the 1800s really revolutionized clothing.
Ah I see, the common whataboutism combined with a little bit of antisemitism accusations. Good one.
I mean, they’re considered so essential that city / municipal governments will give them to poor people either for free or at extremely subsidized prices. Classes are given to tech illiterate or less able people to learn to access governmental services. That pretty much hits the threshold of a legal definition.

Try it out, for the duration of a month only use your smartphone for texting and calls and do not touch any PC. If you balk at that idea, well, there you go.
No, I presume they mean GPT4V which is multi-modal (accepts text and image inputs).
> every iPhone owner bought the product knowing damn well that Apple keeps the OS locked down

No, average owner has no idea. But they will be relentlessly asking why your application is not supporting iOS
This is not being pedantic? Apple is currently fully liable under the DMA. Especially for new initiatives, which what happened yesterday indeed was.
> deliver services that their customers actually want to pay for

Like selling data about which apps people are downloading to Meta.

Look forward to that utopia.
I don't think it necessary is. This is companies prioritizing short-term over the long term.

In a world of cheap junk made by DNURES or some other six capital letter oversea retailer it seems that a strong brand name is more valuable than ever. But so many companies are throwing it away by making the same crap that those effectively no-name companies are. So why would I pay more for the same junk. But if they had a reputation of quality I would be happy to pay the premium.

For Boeing the equation is probably a lot different. But it is clear that there is little consideration for the long-term in the market.
Thanks! Totally get the point of price being relative. After all, if you use gear professionally, as in earning money with it, the calculation of cost is different.

Edit: Nikon is generally doing a decent job on those "pro" aspects if cameras, ergonomics, buttons, reliability and so on. Should be interesting to see how this acquisition plays out.
Unfortunately, saying "contract is serious business" helps nobody. Much as it would be nice to not have to encounter any contracts (or even just not obscenely many) in the modern world, that is just largely not impossible, so people have to deal with it somehow, and it would be nice if that doesn't include random $150000 fines.

I can see an argument for the copyright trolls on it being wilful infringement if there was some attribution but not all of it - clearly the infringer is aware that there must be attribution otherwise there wouldn't be any, but they still ended up infringing; of course a court could still decide either way, but most sane people without millions of disposable money wouldn't risk the $150k if they can pay a couple thousand and be done with it; and either of those can still destroy a person.
I think this is a very common view, and a somewhat mistaken one.

Quantum mechanics is used in very different ways by people in quantum information, condensed matter, many body physics, quantum field theory, nuclear physics and may other (sub)fields.

Of course it will be difficult for a quantum information theorist if they try to apply what they know directly to a hydrogen atom, but (speaking from experience) it will also be quite difficult for someone trained in what you call Hermitian quantum mechanics to directly apply what they know to quantum field theory, or quantum information or any other subfield that uses different language.

I strongly disagree with your summary "if you know Hermitian quantum mechanics then unitary quantum mechanics is conceptually straightforward. If you know unitary quantum mechanics then you will have a lot of new concepts and mathematics to learn before you understand hermitian quantum mechanics".

I challenge anyone trained in Hermitian quantum mechanics to make progress on (for example) proving or disproving the generalised quantum Stein's lemma, or any of the unsolved problems here https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03233 using those methods.
Agreed. And it’s not only that we are supposed to install apps for everything, those apps are also completely contaminated with unnecessary micro transactions. You want to sell me a thing that solves a problem for me? Sure, here you have a buck or two. But nowadays everyone is forcing me to subscribe to a service. I’ve just seen enough of it.
Semantic Diffusion is what this author uses: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html (2006)

> Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined by a person or group, often with a pretty good definition, but then gets spread through the wider community in a way that weakens that definition.
Thank you for your feedback. Due to a patent, it is not permitted to use image recognition algorithms for this case.
The fuzzy is just an artefact of parts of the font not lining up with the monitor's pixel grid. There are ways to deal with this, but they can distort the font in other subtle ways, so no solution is perfect.

In any case, it makes much less difference (almost none practically speaking) on hi-dpi displays.

One of the reasons web designers have issues with text looking different between Windows and MacOS is that Windows' font renderer tries to force things to align with the pixel grid more, reducing a sharper result but slightly distorting some font characteristics. Apple's renderer is more true to the font's design, can can produce a little fuzziness like you see here. It also makes many shapes look a little more bold (at least on standard-ish DPI displays). A couple of old posts on the subject: https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-r..., https://blog.codinghorror.com/font-rendering-respecting-the-.... Differences in sub-pixel rendering also make a difference, so where people have tweaked those options, or just have the colour balances on their screens set a little differently (intentionally or due to design/manufacturing differences) you might see results that differ even further for some users even on the same OS.
Tbf, a lot of those victims were due to dubious strategic choices. They could have probably conceded Stalingrad, for example, and refused to simply because of the propaganda angle. That battle alone was an absolute meat-grinder, and didn't really have to be.

But yes, the overall cost in human lives was higher for the Soviet Union than for any other country or federation.
The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
China Came to Dominate the World in Solar Energy
Where can I read more about this phonecall Ilya had?