skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They chased chess since they thought if they could solve chess then AGI would be close. They were wrong, so then they moved the goalpost to something more complicated thinking that new thing would lead to AGI. Repeat forever.

> we decided it didn't count for some reason

Optimists did move their goals once you realized that solving chess actually didn't lead anywhere, and then they blamed the pessimists for moving even though pessimists mostly stayed still throughout these AI hype waves. It is funny that optimists constantly are wrong and have to move their goal like that, yes, but people tend to point the finger at the wrong people here.

The AI winter came from AI optimists constantly moving the goalposts like that, constantly saying "we are almost there, the goal is just that next thing and we are basically done!". AI pessimists doesn't do that, all that came from the optimists that tried to get more funding.

And we see that exact same thing play out today, a lot of AI optimists clamoring for massive amounts of money because they are close to AGI, just like what we have seen in the past. Maybe they are right this time, but this time just like back then it is those optimists that are setting and moving the goal posts.
If you weld 2 sticks of metal together end to end, then bash them on the ground, they're likely to break at the weld. Insert additional physical examples here.

Likewise DNA is likely to break (and fail to be corrected) at particular points. Some of those points cause cancer, but there's only a finite set of those points since DNA is largely identical across all humans. Additionally, even if the failure is slightly to one side of the expected break, it usually shows the same symptom.
> It's probably better than the idea of drivers with bad credit paying more for insurance.

There must be some correlation between bad credit and likelihood to be in a collision.
Is challenge 3 broken? dmesg shows errors and the endpoint doesnt appear accessible.
What do you consider a budget phone needs to cost? Flagship phones cost $1200 these days, and mid range phones are $600-800…
> Local elections have notoriously low voter turnout

The flaw in democracy, manifest.

You simply can't say "We literally do not need anyone. Things are fine. If there's an emergency we can convene something, but outside of that, I don't actually want a body convened with the responsibility of changing things randomly. I'm busy and I don't have the time to keep an eye on these goofs."

It should be that if voter turnout is less than 25%, the election is canceled and either held again, or the seat just left vacant until the next election. Or you are elected, but without power until an emergency is declared, then you have the standard powers but only for that temporary period.
> but I can think of countless other places I'd rather exist at any compensation level

Bye, Felicia.

I hope many others follow your lead.
Shared spaces and parks are not a replacement for your own land. I’ve done that while I lived in Manhattan and never enjoyed it.
> Once in, you’re doing literally the same job

ok, but you don't tho (i'm sure there are exceptions). if you do, you will have issues with promo (ask me how i know) so if you don't care about that then sure. also if you're se, you had to interview to transfer out of sre to a pure swe role. i personally didn't have this particular problem but saw a few folks that did.
I'll trade you my 40s house for a todayhouse any day of the week.

Sure, there are bad builders and if you're having something custom built you need to educate yourself (or hire someone trustworthy to monitor), but there are so many things much better than a 50 year old house, at least if you're in a climate that has lots of degree days.

Maybe in San Diego it doesn't matter as much.

Of course, the shittiest 50 year old houses have mostly been knocked down, so the remaining stock gets better and better ...
I believe you might be thinking of Black's equation? [1]. It's one equation which attempts to model the failure rate due to electron migration. It isn't a physical model but it seems to, with the right constants, fit reasonably well. The 10C=>halving life time is going to depend on the constants though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black's_equation
Why I would need an app when most of the time I could just make it in Excel?
Don't know if they ever agreed to sell. IIRC they did partner with Oracle to host their infrastructure, as a way of showing that they were trying to allay US concerns.
With SDR, you can paint an image into the receiver waterfall with OFDM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saac0ZtTeX4 (be sure to switch to 1080p)

https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-paint
Anyone asking AI for election information is not seeking for accuracy, it is seeking to solicit errors, for a laugh or creating outrage.

I am not going to change my opinion on this matter.

If you need AI for election guidance, check your priority first.
Absolutely, well said. Never meant to impinge the reputation of the amazing scientists that have brought us our many awe-inspiring technologies, as they continue to excel in spite of financial concerns. I’m just saying that AFAIK the pay disparity has always been around in the 20th century US. Godspeed to y’all in staying away from our mistakes!
I forget if it's Austin or Houston or whichever it was. But the metro representative body, handling the local budget, was basically like this:

Main city in the metro area, let's say 2 million people: 2 representatives.

Every other settlement in the metro area, let's say 3 million people: 20 representatives.

Guess why they kept building highways which cut through city neighborhoods?

Edit: found it:

https://www.fairforhouston.com/

Gerrymandering, starting to be undone 60+ decades later.
You can't design a justice system around making it easy for you to escape responsibility for complying with laws you disagree with.

I'm not expressing an opinion on whether throwing someone in jail for torrenting movies is the right moral outcome. What I am saying is that a system which officially says "Yes, lying in court is legally permissible as long as you're lying about something related to a bullshit law" is not exactly sustainable.

I think the DMCA is a stupid and unfair law. The mafia probably thinks RICO is a stupid and unfair law. Someone who is a habitual drunk driver (but is convinced they can 'handle their liquor' better than the general public) probably thinks drunk driving laws are stupid and unfair. What of it?
TLDR this is their argument. Have to see if any court or congress accepts it.
Not everybody develops PTSD, I think that’s the core point.
So AI = AGI, I see.
In most cases its "by having previous connections" or "pure luck".

If it would be easy - everyone would be doing consunlting coz it pays way better and work-life balance is also better.
Why only for UI libraries? I imagine you can develop & test your UI independently from your app. Say a page has complex form with many states, you test it out in storybook before embedding in your app and connecting to your API backend. The other things is for all your custom components, easier to onboard a new developer, they can just look at storybook to see if a UI component already exists in the project, without having to dig through the code.
How does nix deal with different CPU architectures?

If I have some developers using an ARM based macbook, and some devs on an x86_64 based machine, is it easy to support both without much maintenance?
Why do you think that a Chinese company would follow American privacy laws? What will we do to them if they violate these laws?

Also I think a lot of the concern isn’t around privacy but rather control of broadcasting.
But when LLM answers a logic or math question that no seven-year-old would figure out, would you flip the table and say this is the evidence that the seven-year-old is not intelligent?

Otherwise, it sounds like circular reasoning, where we simply say "Of course a human being is intelligent because they are intelligent, and LLM is not because it isn't."
“You have to be a pirate for the pirate’s code to apply”.

Those protections will apply when the platform is owned by American citizens.
Cerebras CS-3: the fastest and most scalable AI accelerator
This kinda confirms, unfortunately and sadly, that ChatGPT answers are probably just as good as human answers. And the data collection for your phone call went to training, not into a database where you officially opted out.
Remember when .PNG included a gamma correction to try and make a more accurate image -- Appearing as the creator viewed the image...

And then WE ALL REJECTED THIS INSANITY because it made .PNG images a pain in the butt to work with since the gamma corrected image wouldn't match the RGB values of the surrounding document (see: CSS color codes). Then Ye ol' .GIF enjoyed being the pixel perfectionist's choice of image format for the web for quite a while longer. I once was forced to write a script that chopped up a 24bit images into a bunch of 16px by 16px .GIFs (one palette entry per pixel, 256 total).

Digital doesn't usually need to be restored as long as it is replicated often enough (before bit-rot sets in). However, I've got a large number of tools for restoring spinning disks (migration to new hardware isn't easy for the average end-user).

Let's say a modern game came out that had a capability to demand of a GPU more polygons/paritcles than capable today... but in the future those capabilities might exist. Digital media could be improved by adding more/better compute resources (if originally designed to scale, that is). Then there will be curmudgeons (like me) that think things were better before the edge users' hardware became a giant supercompute cluster / distributed storage...
And zero capacity. Groq is coming across a total paper tiger. No billing, unusable rate limits, and most importantly: a request queue that makes it dramatically slower than any other option.

They say they're just waiting on implementing billing, but at this point it reads more like "we wouldn't be able to meet demand of all your request usages".

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Groq is going through all that to offer 500tk/s theoretically, meanwhile I'm seeing Fireworks.ai come in at 300+tk/s in production use.
China is not a "foreigner" it's a hostile foreign government.
It seems that while Schoenberg was highly respected by fellow professionals, he had a somewhat more difficult time with executives.

There's an anecdote that some influential admirers got Schoenberg an audience with Louis B. Mayer, who received him, saying: „I'm a great admirer of your lovely music.“ Schoenberg answered „My music ISN'T lovely“, and stormed out of the meeting.
Oh, that's interesting! Thanks, I'm happy to let someone else have the karma. I think in this case the tweet linked by OP was genuinely a good submission because it got to the point much faster than the blog post and directly linked to the blog post for people interested in the details.
> And we haven't seen any slowing down of AI scaling up for more and more complex world views.

We absolutely have. We have superhuman performance on Go, we have human expect level performance at Starcraft, and now we get human baby level performance at 3d games. The more complex the task/game the worse the AI gets relative humans it seems, I don't see how this shows the AI scaling up, to me this is all moving horizontally.
Swarm of Minecraft Agents Episode 1

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMAlwazdZbM

Our plan is to deploy thousands of agents into minecraft all collaborating to eventually pave the way into real-world deployment!

Next video will feature 50+ agents!

Powered by Swarms

https://github.com/kyegomez/swarms
>you can always easily opt out

No, that should definitely be opt-in, with explicit consent to data collection and process purposes.
There were memory mapped devices from which you could almost certainly squeeze some out so 'any' is maybe slightly overstated.
What is real importance of the OAuth *state* parameter is?
A lot of developers are not sure about the answer.

Security researchers from Salt could install malicious ChatGPT plugins, just because of a minor state mistake that ChatGPT made.

If you want to understand OAuth, this post is for you:
https://salt.security/blog/security-flaws-within-chatgpt-extensions-allowed-access-to-accounts-on-third-party-websites-and-sensitive-data
https://archive.md/iGI5A
Is there any way to export the associated nix scripts?
3 hours of gaming alone can be valuable relaxation and entertainment but doing it while voice chatting can be both as well as social engagement. Just because one is more valuable from most perspectives doesn't mean one is a waste and one isn't. You don't need to be in a lobby with friends to enjoy or be good at CS:GO or R6, but I think it makes you more likely to become a better player and cooperate with your teammates if you do, and I think engaging in cooperation in one realm of your life can lead to easier cooperation in other areas. They are both wastes of time from the perspective that you could be building something or doing a creative hobby with an actual output, and they're both effective uses of time from the perspective that recreation and skill are important even if they aren't essential skills. In the end, I think playing MMOs without engaging in the social aspect is a waste and you might as well be playing Cookie Clicker, but that doesn't mean I think MMOs or Cookie Clicker are waste of time in and of themselves.
> As is normal in C++, the defaults are wrong. Developers should "opt in" for unsafe instead of "opt out" of it!

Isn't this exactly what he is saying?
Do you think that everyone commenting here is from the US?

Also naturally negative comments are more likely to be posted
I don’t understand long passwords of dictionary words. Is an 8-word password not just an 8-character password?
I'm assuming you decided doing some sort of happy eyeballs type thing isn't worth the complexity?
>People in this thread need to ask themselves why they're engaging in age-denialism.

Simple: compensation and hiring practices run counter to this notion. If you're most productive in your 20's you should be paid more for that productivity, and years of experience wouldn't be such a mandatory metric.

Neither is true in practice. Older people have more expeirence, and get paid more. Policy makers have a median age in the late 50's. Young people are hired for peanuts and hope to get more money as they get more experience, regardless of if they are treading water or are in fact the most productive member of a company.

Your notions are only really true for top level sports, where gynmasts and professional athletes are in fact hired, compensated, and performed at their peak in the early 20's and tend to burn out (relative to other early 20's athletes) as they approach 30.
I guess... I can see everyone thinks they're company is special and needs 'rock stars' and '10x's but generally 1 senior for every 5-10 juniors is fine for most places.

The salary thing is annoying - for a while it seemed like most jobs were listing salaries because of CA/CO/MA requiring it. But it seems to be going back to the old "D.O.E" thing again :-/
If all of your strengths revolve around your ability to write code - yes, I agree that programmers will be replaced by AI eventually. However, if your job is to engineer - I do not think it will be so easy. Even an AI-driven system will need to be designed and maintained. To me, honestly, in my XOps/SRE/Systems Engineering background, I am not really concerned about myself - in fact I am excited. Code is often an obstacle to getting done what I want to do, the act of it does not bring me any satisfaction or joy. I am not superb at it, but not bad, but if that task could be offloaded to another system and I could actually design and build faster, that to me is way more exciting than tediously editing thousands of lines of boilerplate IAC.

This doesn't even get into the complexity of designing and maintaining massively distributed systems that require scale.

In short, yes, I agree that pure programmers will go away, but people who focus on being engineers will not.
When land is cheap, do what the locals do - out buildings abound!

It can be worth your while to sit down and map out house areas, purposes, and requirements, and change as many of them as you can to avoid mandatory features.
>autonomous driving already proved too hard a task for ML for the foreseeable future

Has it? Seems like Waymo is still making good progress. They became generally available in SF recently IIRC.
That is correct.

I think what people are missing, is that by the time you build a controller interface, and a screen grabber, and have an AI that can interpret the screen grab, understand and play the game, that this is super incredible, and really the humans are probably already being herded into Soylent Green processing centers to feed the remaining humans that are kept around for maintenance tasks.
> Admittedly her name is wildly complicated and totally unknown to the software folks at Apple: Ada

Aye.

I was surprised this morning when it decided I had was talking about a "Mark of chain". 1/3rd of the time it hears "bedroom 100%" as "bedroom off".

When cooking dinner today, I asked for a "ten minute timer", it responded "for how long?" then confirmed my "ten minute minute timer".

Still better than Alexa, which kept telling us it couldn't find «kitchen» on Spotify even though we didn't even have Spotify.

And way better than the voice control on Mac OS Classic; back in the late 90s/early 00s, it interpreted 75% of my attempts to use it as "tell me a joke" (it wasn't even a good joke), and ignored 20%.
> But, there are usually other folks on the team who don't primarily code or fuss with servers for a living - e.g. product managers, designers, writers, researchers, et al. I'd like to empower these folks to help contribute to the development process just as easily as any coder.

This is a nice sounding goal until these non-devs feel so empowered that they want to make changes to your automations and ruin the integrity of the project (and blame you while they're at it). They will have more authority as a group than you as an individual yet none of the expertise. Not just yak shaving, but backseat yak shaving. What a nightmare.
We're not talking about software engineers, we're talking about research scientist and engineers lured away from academia to work in the private sector. To your point I agree and don't know of any software engineer aspirant who thinks they need even a 4+1. But again, that's not the demographic we're discussing.

There's a reason SV is hiring out of academia: because they can't hire the same minds out of a 4-year program, and certainly not off the street. In this case it shows the value of those programs that got them there, so for these former academics to report, as OP is suggesting, that it was a waste of time/money seems to hold no logic.
The playing field is already level. If an American company makes a social media app and wants to offer it in the US and in China, and a Chinese company makes a social media app and wants to offer it in the US and China, and those two social media apps are essentially identical they will either both be allowed in China or both be banned/blocked in China. Same in the US: they will both be allowed or both be prohibited.

China requires all social media apps there to implement government directed censorship and to help ID people who post things on forbidden topics. That's not a nice playing field to play on, but it is a level one because it does apply regardless of app origin.
Could you elaborate?
What do you mean by "could install malicious ChatGPT plugins" ?
It would be great if foreign investment laws required reciprocity in the host nation to be legal
> The vast majority of home buyers want single family homes.

The vast majority of home buyers have a quality of life they want to achieve at a given price point, and SFHs as built in America fulfill the requirements (other than costs) better than the MFH that gets built.

Moved out of a townhome into my current house when we had a kid, I actually looked at quite a few condos and townhomes first but multi-family housing in America is, ironically, not built for families.

The townhome community I had live din actually had a lot of families in it, but my particular unit was not conducive to family life.

The complex had 2 yards, one huge field for hosting parties complete with a fireplace, lots of tables and chairs, and bathrooms right off the court yard. Kids are playing together outside all the time! The other smaller grass patch was for people with dogs to take them out.

After moving into a house, my yard is now smaller than what I had before, go figure. Also there are fewer kids running around on my block than at the complex I moved out of.

Unfortunately those nice lifestyle complexes aren't being built anymore, instead what you get is 8 or 12 narrow townhomes scrunched up together with the government required minimum amount of greenery outside.

IMHO the 4 story town homes that are being built all over the place are foolish on many fronts. They aren't good for babies (stairs) they aren't good for anyone over 50 (stairs) and they waste a ton square footage (on all the stairs).

But if I could buy a 3 (+ den) or 4 bedroom flat in a large complex that had huge green spaces and places for activities? Sure! The QoL of living in a well managed complex is better than doing all the home owner stuff myself, and it turns out when services are being ordered for 100 households (window cleaning, pressure washing, deck cleaning, etc) you can get some good group discounts!

The large complexes that I do see being built around my city (Seattle) are all rental units, which has a ton of down sides - bad for the local economy, money doesn't stay in the community, residents don't build value in their house, prices go up dramatically year over year, etc.
What a weak argument. Presumably burglars would rather burglary was legal too.
> prove it

Infrastructure work is supervised and licensed by the goverment. You cant start building a city in the middle of nowhere even if its your own land. You have to follow standards and regulations enforced on you.

Last time I checked it looks similar in every 1st world country. Ppl are slowly losing means of production and being moved to subscription plan to even live.

"You wont own anything and be happy"
Double stairways and building code requirements don't seem terribly onerous to me. However, the parking minimums and traffic flow requirements do. In Dallas, each 500 square feet of a unit is required to have a parking space... A parking space takes up 300 square feet on average. This means your apartments are at LEAST 3/5 parking.

This means you get complexes like this one where it's more parking lot than housing and that land is VERY expensive.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bridgeport+Apartments/@32....
Costco encourages the sample vendors to give out as many as you want.
Some of them are great but then I remember when I was floating around research labs some grad students would cry and tell you not to do what they were doing because its miserable. But then life has many fun horrors does it not?
I'm sure there is definitely some limitation in this demo, but who knows, Google RT-2 exists after all. Enough shapes and object training will save the day, there's still objects me as a human would be new to handling.
Note that the model is based on RoBERTa and has only 125m parameter. It is not competing against any of the new popular models, not even small ones like Phi or GeMMa.
Douyin is TikTok in China. Or perhaps it's more appropriate to say that TikTok is the export version of Douyin.

Reasons for having two apps are rife with speculation. One is that censorship in Douyin is more prevalent than on the export version (that one is pretty obvious). There's also speculation that the export version of Douyin has an algorithm tuned to be more addictive.

But let's be clear, by ByteDance's own statements the two apps have shared management and technology.