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So the idea is, we don't have any conception of where we are heading with AGI or consciousness, no idea of what the goal end state should look like, so we can't get there?

I disagree. We do have ideas. I don't know what AGI is or what it will look like, I can just guess, but it's low confidence, it could be totally alien. But I do know what consciousness is, I have that and I can investigate that. I get if you don't feel you have that, or that ability to investigate that.

Or is the idea we don't have any conception of the engineering of how to get there, the pathways or 'constituent parts' if there are even such things, so we can't possibly hope to get there?

Again I disagree. We can figure it out. As long as we know where we're going, we'll work it out.

So I disagree on both interpretations (did you have another one?), but I think there's also a truth to what you're saying that's no so clear.

I agree with you about the humor of it, I think it's all funny. All frontier science and discovery is inherently ridiculous.

Humans are groping around in the dark. The default state is failure. It's fucking hilarious. Hahahaha! :) All the time, all we're doing is failing, and then maybe we succeed randomly somehow, and we call it genius. And we tell ourselves -- we back propagate -- our justifications for how we got there and we call ourselves insightful. Hahaha! :)

Sometimes we do have an insight, or an intuition, or an understanding, that is faithful to reality, and we understand and we use that to get there. But in another sense I think a lot of that is just models and models are wrong, but useful. So the default state is lack of understanding, that's like the default state of human experience. Hahaha! :)

So it's possible to see our striving as ridiculous human arrogance or cope. We have no fucking idea what we're doing, but we're trying. And I like that. Personally, I do. I get if you don't. But I do.

But I agree that's funny. It's hilarious. But I don't think it's unique to AGI or consciousness.

Like you say, it's similar to the alchemists. But that analogy is transitively equivalent with a helluva lot of human situations.

Even when we create it, we're not going to understand all of it, but it'll work. And that's the point. It may seem a paradox, but that's not so surprising. I think it's the nature of reality: understanding is optional. We give birth to new humans, we are literally creating new life and new consciousness with nothing more than ourselves and some grass and water. We don't understand how any of that works, really, but it works and we do it anyway.

So, fucking checkmate, any problem that we face. I think we can fuckin' do it. Hahaha! :)

But...maybe I missed your point. Maybe there was another joke in there somewhere. If so, let me know what it is! I think it's important to focus on the funny and have a great laugh about it. Hahahahaha! :)
Obesity should be scrutinized more closely though. The causes of the "obesity epidemic" that has occurred across the world aren't proven and could very well be linked to agricultural chemicals, processing, packaging, or something else entirely. Too many people reflexively write off obesity as something caused by poor diet and lacking exercise, but that hasn't been proven at all.
And by “impossible or unpalatable choices”, I’m not referring anything to do with cars.
it didn’t originate here. i remember it being used on IRC #perl and years before this. here is an example from 23 years ago: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.perl.misc/c/rCCGCpipjH...
I wonder how much of a difference there is in the quality and reliability of Japan's machines and countries where is not common. I've worked at the Madrid airport in Spain and every single day we have a problem with this things and that would destroy the concept of "passive income".
On the other hand, it's not that easy to find a good user interface, or at least to me.
Yeah the “by state” comparisons are not helpful for many many things, especially as the states get geographically larger so the difference between in a city in the state vs the most remote you can be in the state also changes.

I remember when I was buy my house and my down payment alone was more than many houses list price in the CA Central Valley cost :-/
We absolutely do not have to allow our geopolitical enemies to do it on our soil to our citizens.
Online polling was broken by 4chan like 15 years ago (that’s how we got Schooly Mc Schoolface and other hilarious things).

Much more sophisticated activity than anonymous polling, like “political temperature” on social media, has also been broken for probably a decade, if not more.

If you’re building a public facing product today, you most certainly have to account for incentives of malicious (or just rational self-interested) actors. A bit of rudimentary game theory and adversarial thinking goes a long way.
> look at this great tool, it’s open source, sign up for a free account and send me your prompt engineering results!

no, i don’t think i will.

the client for the service is open source, while the service is for pay save for a free tier that still involves sending all your results to a third party.

utility of the service notwithstanding - isn’t it a little bit of a stretch to call it open source prompt management analytics when it’s an open source app client for a closed source prompt management analytics service?

the plans are community, starter, and enterprise. no self-host option. or am i missing something?
RoBERTa models were presented at least 18 months ago at NASA.. it seems that "reading and tagging your own manuals" is such a daunting task that these tools got fast-tracked..
Your account has been using HN primarily for political battle and flamewar. You've also been breaking the site guidelines regularly in other ways.

We ban accounts that do this. It's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for. I don't want to ban you because your account has been around a long time, but we need this to stop.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: this has been a problem for a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35777673 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23752945 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331270 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19350549 (March 2019)
I used to use diff as an interview question. Implementing a simple algorithm that produces reasonable (not necessarily minimal) diffs is fairly straightforward. If you're on track for an ok-to-good score in implementing diff, it leaves just the right amount of time to have a rich discussion about optimizing and other approaches.

I feel like this makes the interview a balanced test for programming capability, problem solving and communication. I tested it quite a bit on folks I knew and it had some of the lowest rates of false positives. The "candidates" enjoyed it and felt they solved something much more interesting to them, leaving a memory they carry through their software engineering lives. The ones I tested it on have actually mentioned it in future conversations.

Interviews today are too focused on maximum time spent coding. Instead verifying ability to code is quick and we focus more on improving it and use conversation to test more high order bits.
You've gotta choose your battles. In all the ways I might want to express myself with a computer, the exact formatting of my code is almost never one of them.
IMO it's a bit more like asking the python community to standardize all the tools listed in this stackoverflow question, which they only sort of succeeded in.

"What is the difference between venv, pyvenv, pyenv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, pipenv, etc?"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41573587/what-is-the-dif...
They’re expensive and ruin our bottom lines.
I don't think TASbot is a real tool, it's an avatar for any tool assisted speed run using a variety of tools unique to a specific system or game. See https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page
I'd say this is firmly a less useful formulation than XY. With wise troubleshooting practices and a good back and forth between the learner and the instructor, most of the time when the instructor is worried about a possible XY, they end up being correct in their intuition.
Graphics programmer here. Many times drawing a square isn't a great option in games; particularly when there are many. The usual approach is blitting them squares from raster/image data which is a mere copy of texture data into frame buffer. If you're experimenting with Bresenham's line drawing or writing a game is the right probing question here.
That's because in order to turn your "design" into an ASIC or an FPGA, you need to go from whatever high-level language (insert new-HDL-du-jour) into a netlist compatible with your physical part.

The only scalable/vendor/device-neutral way to do that is to back-end your "new" HDL with Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, especially if you want to simulate your design.

A long time ago people used to design chips and CPLDs/FPGAs in schematic-capture (which actually does have its place) which is basically one-step removed from being a netlist.

Among other challenges if you wanted to change to a new device (say a bigger part) or a part from a different vendor, there wasn't really "neutral" way to do this until HDLs came around.

To really change the status quo, you'd have to own EVERYTHING from the point of design entry to the physical device and all steps between.

Even with both "major" FPGA vendors now with their own synthesis and sometimes simulation capability they can barely and/or reliably make that minimum bar work.
I agree with you, but the majority of problems so far are thought to stem from the QC/QA processes and from efforts to speed production past the point of sane inspection practices.
ah this is actually quite valuable because it utilizes CV

I'm kinda surprised why you chose to open source this instead of slapping AGPLv3 like all the YC funded github projects are doing
I just added this "autocomplete" in my app, and customers emailed to say they actually love it: https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/ask-ai-new
Reps all of a sudden jumped on the bandwagon because one of their largest donors (AIPAC) doesn't like how the realities are broadcast to youth unfiltered and uncontrolled.
Ask HN: What's the State of Ageism?
At what age should one start worrying about ageism and being hireable?

*Assuming a technical career path is chosen and there is progressive career and skill development.
All of this isn't a problem any more. Claude/ChatGPT is far more helpful than any human. Except, for some reason, in matters of kernel code where there is no substitute for some god-damned message list somewhere in nowhere.
second opinion - BERT family are transformer-based, and that is a big threshold right there.. secondly I am not sure that two one-minute comments could capture what exactly went on with fine tuning or graph-based methods of constraint or whatnot.. with respect to the fitness of the production tools for intended purposes.
Even in a forum that's mostly beginners, you can still construct responses that are appropriate for both beginners and experienced users. There's no need to assume.
> I feel like a lot of the problems with web UX come from browsers never natively implementing even basic functionality needed for many web apps, like comboboxes, menus, tab panels, etc.

This is completely backwards IMO. The problems come from browsers natively implementing all of these things, in ways that are almost, but not quite, good enough for those web apps. The browser has the Python standard library problem of being "where modules go to die", but even worse since browsers can never deprecate anything; as a result we have all these 80% implementations that don't quite solve the problem but are enough to suck all the oxygen away from any good solutions. And then we just pile hacks on hacks to improve these things without ever fixing the underlying stuff. I mean FFS, Chrome will save and sync passwords that I enter in some web form flow based on heuristics, but it won't save actual username/passwords that I enter via the built-in username/password functionality that the browser has; how screwed up is that?

If I was somehow king of the web, what I'd be looking to do is: standardise one of the various "web components" proposals that lets people implement custom tags as libraries. Reimplement almost all of the things that are currently implemented as browser builtins as web components instead, move them out of the core rendering engine and into what are effectively polyfills-in-reverse; make the actual "browser" piece only implement div/span/canvas or something. Normalise pages loading components from libraries, where they can be iterated on and improved more quickly.

But for some reason web folks and especially HN seem to hate the few parts of the web technology stack that actually work well (Javascript, NPM) and love implementing as much as possible in the parts that are awful and unfixable (CSS). So I don't see things ever improving.
Movement of pilot's seat a focus of probe into Latam Boeing flight, report says
The only speeding ticket I’ve gotten in the past 20 years was for speeding on the on-ramp to get up to the speed of the highway traffic. Holiday weekend, so it was stop, ticket, and release. Repeat. No warnings given.
It's not just you, and it's not just Safari. I use Firefox for everything, but have to keep Chrome installed for the Google products I'm forced to use for work. I don't know if I can accuse them of intentional sabotage, but they certainly don't do performance testing outside their own browser.
I am 77 years old and I have been programming pretty much continuously since 1974.
Welcome to the future. You might be able to get an enterprise sales contract with human support.
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https://archive.is/ls2fx
"if all you have is a nail, anything can be a hammer."
The next rent-seeking scam to pitch to the incoming generation. I'm surprised Fannie and Freddie aren't offering financing for vending machines too.
The author laments about the relationship being asymmetric when they think it is symmetric. The fact that someone is teaching someone makes this asymmetric, no? Mentor-Mentee relationship is asymmetric. Giver-receiver relationships are asymmetric. Nothing wrong about that as long as both respect each other.
Ask HN: With only one sheet of paper, how would you best describe our world?
1. You still have to squeeze three Zhuyin symbols into one cell for syllables like "chuang", due to the limitation of psfu fonts. And no tones can be added.

2. I'm not a Zhuyin native user, so it's better to be done by someone else.

You're welcome to develop a Zhuyin version if you like.
aka Satoshi Nakamoto V1.0
> better and more privacy-preserving

False and false. No wonder you can't understand?

I will never participate in facial recognition to file my taxes. Never. I'd rather go to jail.

I've filed online in a foreign country and it was a breeze. California as well... breezy enough. Neither required privacy invasion by a malicious third-party.

It's time to ask yourself, what exactly are you rooting for here? Your creepy insults come off as very self-serving.
“We couldn’t even agree on paper sizes”
I looked into doing this in the 2010s and it’s really an enormous pain in the ass to scale. A lot of the turnkey options were pretty much scams too. Machines that vended DVDs were popular back then.

You have to find the hot spots, negotiate for the space, deal with any vandalism, reload the machines, respond to problems. Not what many would consider “passive”
This was already an “entrepreneurship” fad pretty recently. Maybe 15 years ago.
Well shit there's something I haven't thought of in over 35 years...
Knowing when to use a time delay fuse
One of the big problems with RPA is that it's very very specific, and requires less natural tool interactions that we can do with the new models (or will soon be able to do). It should be as simple as having an AI system "look over your shoulder" while you tell them what you're doing once or twice, maybe they ask a question some time in the future, but they can automate it from there like teaching a junior person on your team.

I think one of they pieces to do that is actually being able to explain, not just silently watch your screen, and ask questions,make it a dialogue, even once that you might get pinged on later if they hit a snag or a situation changes and they need confirmation of something.

RPA today is really nothing like that.
Marking the Web's 35th Birthday: An Open Letter from Tim Berners-Lee
Nicolas Bourbaki is the name of a character in twenty one pilots' concept album

"He'll always try to stop me, that Nicolas Bourbaki
He's got no friends close, but those who know him most know
He goes by Nico"

It is indeed inspired by the actual pseudonym, not just a pun.
It wrote a template that passed a playbook linter. Whether any of the tasks were actually correct is highly questionable. I caught the errors because I have lots of experience. Maybe we need an AI to double check the work of the first AI?

/s
Stay away from boring government software jobs unless you like working with VBScript in Internet Explorer pinned to IE7 compatibility mode.
A Resume Writing Guide with Specific Points on Typesetting
I often wonder if something is acting as an appetite booster. Any time I let myself indulge in junk food, I find I’m way hungrier over the next week or so. It could also be something more psychologically complex though, like being raised in abundance by parents who weren’t. Food abundance has got to track pretty close to the amount of processing, refined sugars, pesticide use, etc.
I always use screenshot based fallbacks, so the old SEO tricks won't quite work for that. You want to look at it through human eyes.
> "Westworld was a warning, not an instruction manual!"
> I feel like the web used to work better. Not in the sense of features or flagship sites—web-based email clients and word processors and image editors are all waaay better than they used to be and I would say the high-quality stuff is of higher quality than ever. I’m not pining for the HTML-only version of GMail, I promise. But if I were to estimate some rough median of “how well do websites work” I would also say that there’s an incredible amount of jank out there.

Nah. I remember that era. It all sucked, except Flash, which was the only way to have interactive sites that weren't awful. The main reason websites work even less well now is that they got rid of Flash so you have to use an informally-specified bug-ridden implementation of half of Flash instead.

> They expect the Back button to work, and they expect that the stuff they filled out on the previous page will be there when they click it. And it would! If you would just let the browser do what it wants to do!

That's a very recent change, and only after a literal decade of people using javascript to do this put enough pressure on browser makers to fix such basic functionality. I'm not sure it's even implemented in all common browsers yet.

> Every broken contact form or booking site is a truly spectacular own-goal. If your calendar was a bunch of progressively enhanced checkboxes and a submit button, you could be riding off into the sunset and counting money instead of taking support calls from frustrated octogenarians.

Nah. If you did that progressive enhancement nonsense it would take 3x as long and would still work less well. Frankly the biggest thing holding back the web is the opposite, people keep trying to use the broken and awful browser widgets and technologies instead of declaring bankruptcy and just rendering their system via one big canvas element like you would if you were writing a program in a real programming language. We've been trying progressive enhancement for 30 years and it still sucks; how bad does it have to get before we start trying something different?
I think the fact that "structure determines behavior" is true is exactly what it is he is lamenting about. The fact that a tool enables you to shoot yourself in the foot is never an excuse to shoot yourself in the foot. Knowing how not to shoot yourself in the foot with a powerful tool is one thing that separates amateurs from professionals, and you get to be a professional by caring.

That is not to say that work shouldn't be done on making tools which require less cognitive load to use professionally, but until that happens I feel there are too many opinions blaming the tools instead of taking on the responsibility required to use them correctly.
Is there a way to download all my data?
That does not seem right.

A hot day in summer might be 35C->20C (95F->68F). Winter is going to be more like -10C->20C (15F->68F) twice the temperature gradient to overcome.
Beware assuming that the bends requires great depth as a causal factor; it is possible to get them as shallow as 10 feet.

There are a lot of factors that come into play.
Combine this with SLAM+VIO + humanoid robot and you got Skynet literally
Haha we are not unique there. We chose AGPL-3 as well -- become some would argue it's like an open source virus -- everything it touches must become open source! How exciting.
One of the reasons I tend to use any of their options through Azure where available. Azure support has a more straight forward (though still sometimes slow) process for account issues.
Hey Tim, come with your real ID.
suchintan are you on X by any chance

how can i contact you
I’ve played a bit with CLI Rust but haven’t yet tried diving into GUI Rust. The language feels like it aught to be great for making really robust and performant GUIs but when I look at lists like this: https://blog.logrocket.com/state-rust-gui-libraries/ I generally feel disappointed… it’s GTK4, FLTK, or embed a web browser? Am I missing something? Is there a great Rust GUI library that is both lightweight and looks good?
Sounds like prompt injection
I've spent way too much time spoonfeeding accessible reality in this thread already. It's very tiring to fail to run into anyone with the intetest to learn things themselves. You have as much ability to read the public record as I do, yes?
Yes. It’s slightly amusing seeing hacker news bringing the magnifying glass trying to look for which JavaScript framework to blame when the boogeyman is standing right in front of them: it was meant to be this way, largely. It’s a pure function of the parameters given to the developers by their employers and clients. JS hell is just collateral damage.

I mean… try to turn off the adblocker for a bit. And don’t look at the address bar. Now this is hard: but pretend you can’t tell ads and clickbait apart from the content. Also, pretend you don’t know that websites are sandboxed and that they can helpfully warn you about “problems with your computer”. Now you’re somewhat close to the experience of an average user. This is the stage at which the dance between providers and consumers take place.
Another problem is a vast majority of people want to / have to live in a very few select places. We could alleviate housing costs by changing that as well; back to supply and demand. I hope that StarLink and WFH are big pieces of the puzzle that will move people away from mega-dense population centers. We certainly have the acreage.
This is my experience too. At scale, I find Nix to be really slow, and the remote building infrastructure over VPN to be very flakey (see what I did there?). But it does solve some tough problems, and also introduces some new ones. Nix is incredibly useful, and extremely frustrating at the same time. Also, disk space...
The plane on that site looks like they took the back off then secured it back on with very large bits of duct tape
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