skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on the definition.

"Better than the average human at most profitable tasks" is a much lower bar than most people on HN might think.

I have vendors who instead of filling out a web form which remembers their inputs and eventually even fills everything out for them instead print it out and fax it back in.

We're probably only about 2-3 years away from transformers being self-optimizing enough in prompts and evaluations to outpace the average worker in most tasks in most roles. (It won't necessarily be that much cheaper after the multiple passes and context windows required, and crucially probably won't be better at all tasks in most roles.)

If you define AGI as "better than any human at profitable tasks" or "better than average at all tasks" then yes, we're a long ways off and transformers alone probably won't get us there.
> Cheap direct air capture of CO2.

What is wrong with trees or algaes? Seems to me it doesn't get much cheaper than that.
Wow, that was awesome
Harvard Tramples the Truth
Ok but given enough cores even python code will run into memory bandwidth problems rather than be bottlenecked by memory latency.
Suicide by 3 shotguns blasts to the back of the head[1]. Many such cases with key witnesses.

[1] not actually what happened, but might as well have been.
The main difference is that you're trying to solve the problem of turning an interview into a way to choose between candidates, while the secretary problem assumes you already figured that out and is trying to solve something different entirely!
Nice work - thanks for your efforts!

Yeah, the compute complexity for Reed Solomon is generally O(size_of_input * number_of_recovery_blocks)

If you don't specify the number of blocks, par2cmdline defaults to 2000, so at 25%, it's generating 500 parity blocks, which is obviously much slower than what you're generating with the other tools.

Having said that, PAR2 is generally aimed at use cases with hundreds/thousands of parity blocks, so it's going to be at a disadvantage if you're generating less than 10 - which your benchmark shows.
It's far easier to find things above ground then it is below it in the ocean. Radar etc just doesn't penetrate liquid.

I think we have a better map of the moon than the ocean floor.
I started losing fat rapidly (and gaining muscle rapidly) as soon as I increased my carb intake dramatically. Turns out carbs and fat aren’t interchangeable for muscle recovery (for me at least) and so much of my weightlifting efforts had been going to waste with my low carb diet.
Pipe with zstd (or similar)!
Meta sues former executive over alleged AI theft
"All models are wrong; some models are useful."
This is great! If you add lottie export, I could see this tool become popular among web and mobile app devs.
Your example proves me right. Your drive should be capable of 1000 MB/s but O_DIRECT reduces performance to 400 MB/s.

This matters in the specific use case of "netcat | gunzip | dd" as the compressed data rate on GigE will indeed be around 120 MB/s but when gunzip is decompressing unused parts of the filesystem (which compress very well), it will attempt to write 1+ GB/s or more to the pipe to dd and it would not be able to keep up with O_DIRECT.

Another thing you are doing wrong: benchmarking with /dev/zero. Many NVMe do transparent compression so writing zeroes is faster than writing random data and thus not a realistic benchmark.

PS: to clarify I am very well aware that not using O_DIRECT gives the impression initial writes are faster as they just fill the buffer cache. I am taking about sustained I/O performance over minutes as measured with, for example, iostat. You are talking to someone who has been doing Linux sysadmin and perf optimizations for 25 years :)

PPS: verifying data integrity is easy with the dd solution. I usually run "sha1sum /dev/nvme0nX" on both source and destination.

PPPS: I don't think Clonezilla is even capable of doing something similar (copying a remote disk to local disk without storing an intermediate disk image).
> "Better than the average human at most profitable tasks"

This is not the definition of AGI. You can't just make up a random definition to fit your argument, lol.
Here is a free software animator: https://www.synfig.org/

Development is kinda slow, but this also means that it still works just as well as when I made a little short movie 15 years ago.
I'm in the same boat. I always wondered whether the thing they are teaching next is really the way things are supposed to be or if it's once again simplified mumbo-jumbo..
Tailwind (from behind) is easier to sail in, than headwind (from the front).

"Ahead" means the wind will blow from behind somewhere in front of you, where you are going.
Slightly off topic: What are the tools for making animations in the webpage, in html/canvas format not embedded videos? Sometimes I see some sites with nifty animations that animate while scrolling too and I wonder how it’s done.
You can also try Feem (https://feem.io).

It transfers folders without Internet, and has an Android app like you requested.

It also supports resumable file/folder transfers, which majority of other tools mentioned in this thread don't support.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator.
Cryptocurrencies are dominated by whales and big miners. It sounds more like 'under the control of an authority that cannot be held accountable'.
You can always use optimistic optimization strategies where you profile the fast path and optimize that. When someone does something slow, you tell them to stop doing it if they want better performance.
Probably accidental?

Redshifts can be way higher than 1 that in your scaling is a magic value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_distant_astro...
Are there any resources on using knowledge graphs and ontologies for RAG?
I have spent the majority of my life programming in Python, starting from the very first program I wrote. However, recently I've begun learning Go, and in many respects, it feels more Zen-like compared to Python. In Python, it seems there are a million ways to accomplish a single task, whereas Go often presents a singular, correct approach. As projects grow in size, the expressiveness of Python and the weak type safety eventually become a liability.
The lies upbringing a new soul in civilized society… parents, educators, gurus. It’s hard.
Another way to create pdfs would be a better title imho.
And companys would never bring the full instruments to force on a single person. PIs etc, psycho-terror and so on and so forth..
Very very nice idea!
Right, if you use them you just have to believe they'll cure baldness and cancer.
Orca fashion is also a thing, with salmon hats and the likes.
You skipped Web 3.11 for Discord groups
Now you’re being dishonest and posting actual bs.

There is no such line. Everything is foss software, you can change any policy.

You can still do everything you want.
The good/great line is something you can stumble over and and then fall back from because it's a relative measure that has a zigzag to it, exactly the same as how artists perceive their work vs others. At first you know with some confidence that you're bad, and then you pick up a few tricks and get a swollen head for a while, until one day you notice some great feat that you knew nothing about. Then you are back to being an imposter knowing nothing again.

That repeats over and over, it just becomes more nuanced and specific in some ways and more general in others. You have "good days" and bad ones, and you're often exposed to the really different ideas simply by being "in the room" to engage with them properly on a project instead of skimming over someone's half-assed summary.

The two interesting areas of programming, to me, are at the very bottom of the stack near the hardware, and the very top where there's intensive abstraction and algorithm design. The parts in the middle are quicksand; it's pragmatically useful and productive for a job to know some little corner of C++ or a certain Unix tool or a longstanding bug in a Javascript framework. But that's not "programming" in the broad sense either. Shuffling around stacks of dependencies that have been vendored out for your consumption isn't the good part, and ultimately leads towards becoming what James Hague calls the "recovering programmer":

https://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html

Part of the bitterness he speaks of comes from the feeling of perpetual consumption: if you're always learning a next "new thing" you never feel like you've built much of your own. So you have to decide for yourself a cut-off line where you will start to DIY more of it, where you won't do things the "standard" way or aim to have a large, publicly visible project or other such demons in your head. At that point you can just program.
Wording matters. To use LLM terminology, "attack" here may mean something neutral, but it's helluva closer to "fear" and "malice" and "evil" in the latent space than terms like "probing", "studying", "examining", or "reverse engineering".

FWIW, cryptography and infosec as fields get a good mileage out of exploiting fear.
There is project bringing Fortran to the browser, though (_using WebAssembly_)

https://dev.lfortran.org/
Show HN: I made a tool to create animated typing GIFs and videos
There are several javascript libraries for creating animated text on web pages, but I thought a tool for less technical users could be useful. Also it seemed like it would be fun to make, and I wanted to exercise my React skills a bit.

I've kept the number of features relatively small to keep it simple and actually get it released early. So I'm hoping for feedback on how well it works and what it needs in order to be useful for anything!
Everyone is crying the sky is falling because AI is going to degrade the quality of online discourse.

Meanwhile I'm sitting back waiting to finally see intelligent debates again about nuances in the articles between LLMs that are the only ones who will bother to read the actual article and cite it.

I have a feeling that in around 2-3 years I'll want a site like Reddit or HN but where it's the humans who aren't allowed to comment and bring down the quality of discourse.
I just throw the blade in the dishwasher and it has come out clean every time.

You're right that it isn't as fast as some other blenders, but I think it makes up for it with the simple and durable design. I can live with having to run it for a bit longer.
This is hard, but typically, it happens when their interest doesn’t lead to the same decision as “the right thing.” This might not be inherently wrong: if you have a family who depends on you, keeping your job and making money is a morally valid choice.

What you want is for people to frequently see “doing the right thing” as the same as acting is what they see as their own interest: if being kind and polite gets you allies at work, and that’s how you get heard, respected promoted, or find a job, then people will be kind.

Things like cost-cutting to the point where there are legitimate risks to life are hard to find; therefore, people see others cost-cutting and getting promoted because they “stayed within budget” but (within their limited direct observation) never sanctioned. Engineers see project leaders getting away with it, but there are not good reputation mechanisms individualized enough: it’s “project managers always push for the cheapest…” Therefore, any PM who tries to go against the grain faces both prejudice and sanctions for not cutting costs.

You can implement reviews, promotions and reputation mechanisms that encourage behaviors that align short-term personal interest with the long-term benefit of the larger organization and stakeholders, but it’s really hard and non-trivial. Large organizations are far less efficient than they could be because of all the self-interested rent-seeking behavior, but the economies of scale are so strong that it doesn’t matter.
This does not make sense. These are not lies, but simplifications. The only lie seems to be the title itself.

I would have expected Santa Claus, storks delivering babies, and perhaps even God, to show up under this heading. Count me disappointed.
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> Microsoft had an even tighter OS monopoly than anyone does today.

But Microsoft has a much tighter grip of the software market today than they ever had. They are in almost every vertical and they are number 1 or 2 in each. That's probably worse than a near monopoly in only one of the verticals.
I'm not sure if it's the most modern setup there is, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtG_38Oq8o gives exceptionally friendly explanation.
> ...and one of these moving parts is image integrity and write integrity verification, allowing byte-by-byte integrity during imaging and after write.

dd followed by sha1sum on each end is still very few moving parts and should still be quite fast.
Wouldn't they just buy over the internet?
Parking meters already have power run out to them
Seems awesome. Can you please tell us how to use gzip or lz4 to do the imaging?
No that's the economically dominating definition. The philosophical one will happen much later or may never happen, but human society may change beyond recognition with the first one alone.
> For example, it used to be about impossible to get into Amsterdam, because of rent control and renting regulations; no supply of places to let. Then AirBnB came along, and everyone and their dog let places on AirBnB. You could get in, and at a good price. Then AirBnB was essentially banned, and now you can't get into Amsterdam.

Slightly off topic, and not aimed at you in particular but at tourists in general: For the love of god visit other cities than Amsterdam. Amsterdam is expensive and overcrowded. There's a whole country worth of interesting places to visit instead.
I'm actually all in on people making up new definitions for vague terms at the start of an argument as long as they're explicit about it.

And I particularly like this one, which is much more clearly measurable. If you feel AGI is taken, maybe we should coin this one as APGI or something like that
Just cat the blockdev to a bash socket
In vitro fertilization too!
I don't think the main intention was to define AGI but to zoom in on an interpretation of AGI that would provide enough value to be revolutionary.
There is no single definition of AGI. Performing most intellectual tasks human perform today is both general and a form of intelligence, so I too agree with it.
New study unpacks why society reacts negatively to male-favoring research
need a free drawing tool instead of pen/line
This is exactly that I usually do, it works like a charm
From Wikipedia:
The first recorded use of the word paprika in English is from 1831.[13] The word derives from the Hungarian word paprika,[14] which derives from the Serbo-Croatian word paprika, which is a diminutive of papar,[citation needed] which in turn was derived from the Latin piper or modern Greek piperi, ultimately from Sanskrit pippalī.[15] Paprika and similar words, including peperke, piperke, and paparka, are used in various languages for bell peppers.[6]: 5, 73
It would be better to think how to appropriately simplify the state-of-the-art knowledge instead of going through consecutive confusingly wrong historical theories as often happens now.
This is a ridiculously complex application dude. I’m sure they’ll get to keyboard shortcuts when they get to it
They are just banking on their putative status as influencers to grab more influence.
DirectX 12 Work Graphs now stable
The Frame-by-Frame
No, he's saying that there's an army of lobbyists that see Boeing's financial health as necessary for their (clients') own. The lobbyists don't work for Boeing.

Imagine you had a highly lucrative SMB selling Microsoft services to some government/institutional customers, and some big court case threatened to cause MS serious harm, affecting your ability to sell those MS services. If you're a sociopath, you might want to shoot the star witness.
I was taught that computer science is the study of abstractions. In my opinion, an abstraction is a kind of story, and storytelling is the most powerful tool that human beings have had at their disposal.
Jail time for open source AI models
I am somewhat like that myself. I do formulate a plan and break down tasks in advance, but I give myself an absolute right to change and modify it at will whenever new ideas come to light or just because I'm feeling like it.
I work on my startups alone. Hosting isn't the hardest thing for me.
But managing costs, and keeping them low needs time and research.
Like AWS has high price and Hetzner is cheap. So, migrating to cheap platforms, is that hard?
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
I am planning to start a service to manage startup hosting.
I think that would help people a lot!
I don't think that this statement is correct (the quote on Wikipedia, not your conclusion).

Educators do indeed employ lies-to-children with the intention of deception in many cases. It's not the primary intention, but it is still intentional deception.

In some cases, there is no intention to deceive (e.g. when a teacher immediately explains that 'what I'm teaching you is an intentional oversimplification, and is not completely correct'), but in many cases, educators leave this to the teacher who needs to teach the newer, more correct model later. This is especially true at a young age.
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Yes, if humans eventually invent a machine that uses wormholes to look back in time to see historical events.
Also Tesla making/installer/running their chargers for about 25% the cost of their competitors, all while being 100x more reliable
Yeah, the dreamt up scenarios tend to showcase very stupid superintelligences.

"But what if there's something smarter than humans that is tasked with making paperclips until it destroys the Earth?" the people cried, as their corporations continued to produce and produce until it was well past the warned thresholds of destroying the Earth.

"But what if it decides to nuke humanity?" they cry, as increasingly elderly and unhinged dictators elsewhere arm up their nuclear arsenals.

It's like we can't fathom what great intelligence or wisdom will actually look like, so we just project many of the stupidest aspects of ourselves onto an entity simply imagined as more capable of enacting the dumbest aspects of humanity.

I fear a more automated humanity.

I do not fear automation more intelligent and wise than humanity.
Yes, all of those should be legal. And other voters can oppose them. For example, by electing national politicians who can pass laws like the Civil Rights Act or the Fair Housing Act.
Or 5 watts
We have a lot of priors - everything we've ever done has not produced AGI.

Maybe scaling transformers is the best way forward. I'm hopeful. But it's a big assumption that it will produce AGI.
isn't that the "One More Lane, I Promise!" meme
Most people would think "computer" means laptop, or something along those lines, rather than their phone.
Maybe they refer to the practice of simmering pork shoulders for hours in Coke/soda.
Yeah, I agree the name is terrible. The logic that simplifications of complex topics are "lies" essentially makes every part of human knowledge a lie - which makes it a meaningless term.

Ultimately every single thing you think you understand ends at an approximation or a simplification. That's just the nature of the world. It's not a lie - it's just a simpler abstraction of the underlying truth.

The entire field of engineering is based on creating simple models of things and using them to build complex things. Every engineering class is pre-empted with "these equations are simplified approximations of how things work in the real world, but they're good enough for designing things". Those aren't lies - just useful tools.
What is the definition? The definition of AGI is one of the central points of contention in the biggest industry legal battle.
The article says it's all simplified mumbo-jumbo. It's just a question of how simplified it is.
> Some would use laptops, others would opt for tablets or mobile phones. Not all of them could even use the programming language that was the subject of the test: the statistical language R. “We had no control, really, over what devices those students were using,” says Stagg.

Surely the problem here is much bigger than WebAssembly vs native code. What does it even mean to give students a test on using a software package if they aren't even willing to buy a computer? How are you supposed to do professional stats work after university on a mobile phone? They don't even expose a file system.

Learning how to use a full workstation-class computer is a basic pre-requisite of doing science and many other types of professional work; these universities are just hopelessly lost if they're not making that clear to students up front and requiring or provisioning the equipment they need. Degrees awarded on the back of tests like these are worse than useless, they're outright deceptive to future employers. If someone claims they studied scientific computing and then turned out to not understand files, folders, packages, multiple windows and other basics then they'd be completely unable to do the job.
That sounds like he died while in the court room while giving testimony.
It's absolutely useful to tell 4th-graders that x(t) = vt + x₀ (assuming no acceleration) since they're probably not on top of exponents yet.

It's also absolutely useful to tell 8th-graders that x(t) = at² + v₀t + x₀ since now they can handle exponents.

And it's useful to tell 12th-graders how to do the calculus to get x(t) for variable acceleration.

But that's also inaccurate for very large values of v (or a) due to relativistic effects. However, it's a very convenient simplification ("lie") for the vast majority of people in the vast majority of cases. It's probably possible to explain the relativity math to most 4th-graders, but for most of them it's a terrible use of teaching time and the old "rate times time equals distance" that was drilled into my head at a young age is much more practical.