skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're trying to get it to do hierarchical planning. People (like Yann LeCun) have complained that nobody knows how to do that in AI, only when they say "AI" they mean "neural nets" and ignore planning -as in Automated Planning and Scheduling, the discipline that has its own conference and journal, and international competition and thousands of people working at it, and dozens of systems, some commercial, some free, and all; but I guess that actually works so it's not AI.

Less sarcastically, automated planners need domain knowledge to break up a task into sub-tasks, and the neural net folks don't like that because they are taught at ML 101 that everything shall be a) end-to-end differentiable and b) have no human in the loop. LLMs seem to encode some kind of domain knowledge, the "common sense" that the article's title mentions, and so there's various teams trying to get robots to follow instructions with LLM-in-the-loop. A year ago I think it was LLMs generating PDDL, now it's natural language labels that obviously need a translation.

This won't work though a) because it's trained by imitation learning and nobody cares about a robot that can scoop marbles from bowl to bowl but would need re-training to do the same thing with e.g. strawberries and b) the LLM itself isn't grounded anywhere and has no way to self-correct its self-correction, once it falls into error. This, too, shall pass.

Btw, are those people mad? Marbles? Couldn't they find something less painful? What happens when your robot overturns the bowl and there's marbles all over the floor of your lab?
Tesla's $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old Assembly Line
This doesn't seem to work so great in practice. Same story for demotions and pay reductions. Not that they can't happen. It's just not the norm for understandable reasons.
802.11ah, not 802.11ac.
https://archive.ph/wekz9
>> Here's a simple question: If your product doesn't cause cancer, why did you stop selling it.

I think you need to understand how plaintiff's attorneys work. They don't need any hard evidence they just need enough fuzzy science to cause a little doubt on product liability. Then it's gold mine time. They find the Court districts with the most reliably anti-corporate jury pools and start filing cases all across the country. Pick a horrible disease like cancer and some lousy epidemiological studies and you can finance your house in the Hamptons.
Meanwhile they've just petrified every customer of your product. No wins required but eventually you will get one.
In terms of spending decisions, it's useful to think of AGI as meaning human-level AGI, which is anyways what many/most people use it to mean.

The difference between AGI+ or sub-AGI level capability is therefore as you suggest - whether you can replace a human worker or not, such as all the excitement over Devin-like "AI programmers". Of course human-level AGI would also give you AI middle managers, AI accountants, AI lawyers, etc, etc.

Certainly there are also uses for sub-human level AI for various automation-type jobs, as people are currently discovering and exploring, but there are limits to that. It seems the real/huge economic value is unlocked when AI becomes more than just an automation tool, and can indeed start to replace human labor for cognitive-type jobs - i.e. when human-level AGI is achieved.
Companies have to still require them because they are a valuable signal and it’s free to them. Kids have to go because companies require them.

This is what a peacock spiral looks like. Government is fundamentally for breaking these kind of incentive failures. Not supercharging them through blank check forgivable loans.
Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car
MSG is still in a huge amount of processed and restaurant food, and it’s available in a couple different forms at my local grocery store. Maybe not the best example?
For a 14C differential you don't need insulation, you just need to seal leaks.
https://archive.ph/SLkte
And yet, many people in Ukraine did not believe it until after the invasion began, because they had had numerous false alarms in the years after the Crimea seizure.
> On the other hand, a buyback should lower the market cap of a stock

You got it backwards. If a stock is priced fairly, a buyback is value-neutral. Reduction of the cash on hand is offset by the increase of future cash flow per share. It's dividends that reduce the market cap.
The Case of Encrochat – A Real-World Law-Enforcement Hack [pdf]
> The simulations I have seen to get to 100% for Europe and North America without long term storage have used a 200% (aka 3X) overbuild.

You don't need simulations. Right now solar+wind in Germany is at capacity that is 2x Germany's consumption.

Almost every day (and definitely every night) they burn coal and import electricity from other countries because, you know, night happens, cloudy days happen, quiet days with little to no wind happen.
Ironically more production does not always lead to growth. A thought experiment: if you have everyone a machine to produce miniature bombs, would there be economic growth? There would be a huge increase in the number of bombs produced (creating GDP growth) but then a huge loss of productivity due to destruction and extra steps to protect things from the copious amount of bombs used. Overall, this would lead to a loss of wealth and productivity.
I could see this happening with AI as well, but where there fewer moral barriers to using it than a bomb.
400k in Manhattan with ~50% total tax, 2 kids in private school and a 2BR condo mortgage. I bet a lot of those families care about an extra 15/day. They can pay it yeah.
You can surround your custom port by a couple of ports on which a simple server listens for connection attempts. Any connection attempt is considered hostile and the ip will then be blacklisted in iptables. This prevents portscans from reaching your port.
I don't defend J&J overall, but I want to point out:

The "dodgy shell games" don't offload legal liability, and is not an uncommon practice to isolate different parts of a business. The shell company is still owned and operated by J&J.

And as for why they might stop selling it, lots of companies stop selling things when the public gets a bad opinion of it, even with no evidence that it's bad.
It was used a lot less for a while when people were more scared of it.
On the plus side, people make up the organization and when they eventually grow fed up with the dystopia, they leave with their acquired knowledge and make their own thing. So dystopias aren't stable in the long term.
> It's quite strange to write off fully half the population of Israel

I am not trying to, the decline towards right wing politics has been slow but never ending since the early 2000s. But its important to note that 20% of the Israeli population is arab israeli and their voices also matter. The 50% is usually the 50% of Israeli jews not of all Israelis.

> including an assassination coup

If you meant the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, I did mention it in my comment

> directly funding Hamas asa weapon again Fatah/ the West Bank

I would not give intentions to actions taken by political actors in Israel. I was just pointing out that the narrative of "if Palestine does not fight back they get settlements" is the same as "if the IDF is not strong then Palestine will vote for hamas and more oct 7th's".

The blockade of money going to gaza was criticised as well before the money was allowed to reach Hamas. Building a narrative against Israel is fairly easy regardless of which actions they take, so I understand why the "they arm hamas to destabilise Fatah" took hold, but the main source for it is an unsourced quote that netanyahu was claimed to have said at a private Likuud meeting. It is entirely possible he did say it, and it would fit with some of the intentions of some of the more aggresive members of his cabinet. But there is no proof this was not just them caving to the international pressure they suffered post 2011 blockade which Obama heavily criticised as well as europe as being excessive etc.

> as being not responsible for their own actions.

I am pointing out narratives, nothing else. In the same way pointing out West Bank settlements is not justifying oct 7th, pointing out the fact that the removal of them in Gaza was met with the voting in of Hamas does not justify any of the aggresive policies in the west bank and east jerusalem.

Since 1947 both countries have created 2 narratives, now both are so divorced from each other that most of the time they talk past each other. In most conflicts there is 1 narrative, in some there is 2 for a bit and then a winner gets to write their side. In this conflict for the past 70 years the two stories have grown in a myriad of complicated ways
More physical ML force fields is a super interesting topic that I feel like blurs the line between ML and actually just doing physics. My favorite topic lately is parametrizing tight binding models with neural nets, which hopefully would lead to more transferable potentials, but also let you predict electronic properties directly since you’re explicitly modeling the valence electrons

Context for the non-mat-sci crowd - numerically solving Schrodinger essentially means constructing a large matrix that describes all the electron interactions and computing its eigenvalues (iterated to convergence because the electron interactions are interdependent on the solutions). Density functional theory (for solids) uses a Fourier expansion for each electron (these are the one-electron wave functions), so the complexity of each eigensolve is cubic in the number of valence electrons times the number of Fourier components

The tight binding approximation is cool because it uses a small spherical harmonic basis set to represent the wavefunctions in real space - you still have the cubic complexity of the eigensolve, and you can model detailed electronic behavior, but the interaction matrix you’re building is much smaller.

Back to the ML variant: it’s a hard problem because ultimately you’re trying to predict a matrix that has the same eigenvalues as your training data, but there are tons of degeneracies that lead to loads of unphysical local minima (in my experience anyway, this is where I got stuck with it). The papers I’ve seen deal with it by basically only modeling deviations from an existing tight binding model, which in my opinion only kind of moves to problem upstream
I'm not advocating or endorsing China invading Taiwan here but would that mean chips stop coming? Or is the fear they get backdoored?

Would $8B be better used for a startup instead of IBM? Or is $8B far too low for a new company.
That conclusion assumes no long term storage. Including hydrogen drastically reduces the overbuilding required. Put another way: if you overbuilt that much, you can make hydrogen for basically the cost of the electrolysers, since the input power is often free.
Why are you attempting to downplay the killing of so many people? You could just not do that and keep moving
Debian's Continuous Integration for ROCm
Tents are sturdier.
The real danger isn't that "too smart" unaligned AI might execute some kind of deliberate plan for taking over the world, it's that there are massive numbers of people so stupid that they will blindly follow the instructions of stochastic parrot bullshit generators.

And it is very clear that the AI companies do want you to be scared of the former, because it makes their tech seem more impressive and distracts from its very real flaws.

Stupidity has of course always existed and you can't regulate it away, but modern tech and the business interests behind it seem to me to be making it worse and potentially more destructive.

I'm not talking about just the latest hype here, it has been a trend for more than a decade now: "don't think for yourself, just consult the magic oracle in your pocket that surely knows best and isn't purposely designed to manipulate you into buying more crap and subscribing to the worldview of a small elite"

But like with the AI apocalypse, or any conspiracy theory, the really scary thing is that there doesn't have to be some kind of intelligent plan behind it, something that you could understand or fight against, or maybe join in because you think they have the right goals. Rather, it's just mindless forces of the market and social dynamics.

I really think it's all going to collapse within another 15 years or so, and can only hope that civilization will recover and perhaps learn from the mistakes made.
> On the other hand, a buyback should lower the market cap of a stock [...]

Uhh...what?

Buybacks are a return of value. Share prices adjust accordingly to the updated proportion of outstanding stock.

Might want to select a new username, friend.
> What do you think that companies are supposed to do with their profits?

With hindsight it's clear that it would have been better for shareholders if Otellini had reinvested more profit into R&D rather than returning it to shareholders. Intel has now lost their process node advantage to TSMC. Their CPUs are not competitive on power efficiency with AMD and Apple. This is leading to smaller profits and ultimately a worse outcome for shareholders.
Exactly!

(Until the lens cups your whole eye socket and delivers your natural FOV.)
You know, nearly every generation that proceeded you made some form of the “preserve the earth and society for when we are your age” argument. Your generation seems to be the only one that I can think of that wants to make it happen via authoritarian means.

Once upon a time, us liberals argued against that sort of thing. Probably because we saw first hand what it does to a society. Good luck, like you said, you will need to live under the fist in that world you create, I’ll be thankfully gone.
Poland's progress is impressive. We'll soon be seeing British plumbers in Krakow.
The case for building client-first software (2020)
Spent some time in Oz in the 90s- trying to sleep at night in my 2nd floor apartment as the heat rolling off the desert met the Brisbane coast without air conditioning remains some of my most unpleasant memories to this day.

Despite a fan pointed right at me I’d awake every morning with a sweat soaked mattresses…
Qualifiers tell me all I need to know, 'sufficient resources'. Playing others and not the field
It looks like advances in software asymptotically approximate intelligent seeming behavior, and I think we have come as close as at infinity as the human economy can provide energy for.
This is a horrible idea, the city does not care about paying damages. The taxpayers pay it, not the city agencies.

NYC pays out BILLIONS every year in real and garbage claims.
Thanks a lot. You can try it out. It's on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-busser

Here is a simple DEMO to get started with React-Busser: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/react-busser-simple-demo-37...
Please talk to a bicycle rider in any major city. The problem isn't density; it's the danger imposed by cars combined with poorly implemented (if at all) bike infrastructure.
Trading stock isn't investing. There's no reason for companies to give money to shareholders that simply bought their shares on the stock market. The company doesn't profit from that.
> just make transit more attractive, not make driving less attractive

If ppl drive more than use transit, they won't support improvements to transit. This is the first step to improving transit. Make driving less attractive, more ppl use transit, complain about its shortcomings, and then fixes get implemented.

I also don't see why we shouldn't make driving less attractive. As the grandparent comment said, drivers should be the ones paying for the problems caused by drivers, not residents.
Perhaps it is? There are many people who have been exposed and cancers with no known cause are common.
So the article seems complete, but literally doesn't even mention continuous dilution due to employee compensation or related issues. It only mentions "issuing stock" like it's a single event instead of a continuous process.
Anyone directly familiar with the IDF knows that there is a deep hubris engrained in the organization.
I can't speak to anyone in Ukraine as I don't know what was being reported there, but from the basic media reports I saw in western Europe it was clear.

Russia had built up a similar sized ground force in the border in past years, either as drills or threats. Those never included major naval movements though, and definitely didn't include blood supply on the front lines.

As soon as the blood showed up a week before the Olympics everyone should have known it was game on, even if naval actions alone could be written of as not a sure sign.
Well, the answer lies in the answers to these questions: what happens if you do not pay the fee for BBC, a service you do not use? What happens if it is private?

Do not, in the former, you risk getting caged? Whereas if it is a private company, you do not risk your freedom?

I do not like the idea of being thrown into jail for not paying for a service I do not use. I do not use Netflix, and that is fine, it has no dire consequences. What are the consequences of not paying for BBC? Genuinely curious, because I am not sure.
EpiPen For Heart Attacks? Idorsia Launches Phase III Study Of Selatogrel (2021)
I actually was looking recently at memory (and processor) usage of my browsers.

I often have multiple tabs open since I revisit some sites.

Biggest culprits of memory bloat seem to be discord, linkedin and a specialist page that shows some maps.

Gmail (!) feels incredibly bloated now as well - it has random jumps in processor usage, especially when loading.

At the same time: firefox simply is uncompatibile with youtube - random freezes and lags. There are multiple therds about it on the intetnet. Some say that youtube is intentionally slowing down firefox.

I think nobody at firefox uses own browser so they dont know youtube runs bad with an ad blocker. Also probable reason is that they try to kill firefox by conforming to some web standard (just like conforming to .webm - when you save pictures from reddit they arent saved as .png, but as the crappy .webm - I guess someone at mozilla is working very hard to lose the last few users they have. And yes I am aware you can solve this with an addon. An addon that is not checked for viruses / spyware)
PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware
>could maybe get my foot in the door were I ever to decide to change careers and move into hardware design

With a project like this I think you're well past a "foot in the door".
Haha yeah, it's funny. I take a little stimulant and suddenly the insatiable urge to go over 200 km/h is completely gone, I don't scream at anyone, I don't rage at all any more. Now I just wait a little and listen to my music, no problem at all.

The funniest thing is how it all comes back once I'm 2 days off the meds, though.
The Writings of Dominic Cummings
I went years without using a language with sum types and was fine. As soon as I was exposed to them, I was hooked. They just make so much sense in so many places, especially in trees.

It seems that over the past five or so years, they've been adopted more as pattern matching has. If they're not an explicitly feature of the language, then they can be replicated (like with Java sealed classes).

I'm not sure if Go would ever implement them, or add something that we can more easily replicate sum types with, but god damn are they my favorite language feature that so few languages properly support.

I wouldn't have expected Go to implement them, but after generics and range over functions, I feel like anything could be game.
I don't know about Visual Builder, but judging from this screenshot[0] it doesn't look like the Delphi approach, but the "Windows resource editor" approach. Yes, both allow you to place things visually, but one works with live instances of serialized objects in an IDE that also understands the edited source code and can modify the code to -e.g.- introduce a new event handler for the OnClick event when you doubleclick the button (even with the cursor placed just right where you can start writing the actual logic of the event handling code), while the other has you draw the UI, assign some IDs and then expects you to do all the plumbing of loading the UI, associating it with code and handlers by hand.

The difference might sound trivial but in practice it is like trying to dismiss editing text with Emacs by experiencing editing text in Notepad.

[0] https://adkaster.github.io/images/build/VisualBuilder.png
> I was reminded of the small but sophisticated systems of private reservoirs and cisterns that sprang up throughout the late Roman Empire as the aqueducts were turned off.
How do they work in terms of reliability and user experience (including sound quality)? I never tried the kind of infrastructure you have, but my experience with wifi-based calling (we use the Jabber application from Cisco) is largely suboptimal (most calls have sound artifacts, from super-short "holes" as missing packets which are mostly inoffensive, to heavy issues like no sound for 500 ms, or artifacts due to heavy-compressing codecs).
>This meant that every user could have their own unique Jonathan setup, pulling together various software platforms, storage devices, and hardware capabilities into their own personalized system. Imagining what would have been required for all this to work together gives me a headache. In addition to the shared backbone interface, there would need to be software written to make an almost-endless number of configurations work smoothly for the most demanding of users. It was all very ambitions, but perhaps a little too far-fetched.

Sounds an awful lot like the mess which is Windows.
I don’t know much about the underlying tech, but some large retailers (Target sprints to mind) resisted adding contactless payments and push users to use their own app. Some quick searching indicates they may have added support in 2018 or 2019. It sounds like Walmart still doesn’t support them.
Ask HN: How hard is it to find a job after trying to start your own thing
I have always had an entrepreneurial itch but have spent the last 10 years of my career as an employee. I feel like it’s now or never for me to try entrepreneurship but I’m also nervous that I would be doing irreparable damage to my career. I’m curious to hear from others that have had this experience, how hard would it be to go back if things don’t pan out?
Sure but it's just an annoyance to them, not a deterrence. The objective is deterrence. This tax is targeting poor and middle class because it's a regressive tax. Pretty shitty.
Good! I don’t remember old numbers, but we were a minority. Nice to see that people start using adblockers more and more, now that it’s an essential sanitary utility.
If some bits of meaningful (containing essential complexity) code imply other bits with mostly accidental complexity, writing them by hand is a waste of time.

But isn't it also a waste to use data centers full of GPUs to process terabytes of text to accomplish the same thing better programming language design could?
No, because the future cash flow per share is not reflected in the current market cap.

Perhaps you are thinking of share price instead: there it is true that dividends reduce share price, while buybacks are share-price neutral at least theoretically, though it is commonly believed by many people that they do affect price.

(Hence, under that same theoretical model, market cap must decrease if share price remains the same because market cap is total number of outstanding shares * share price. So if the former decreases while the latter stays the same, market cap must have decreased.)
I think it's mostly that overbuild is usually referring to capacity, and they've multiplied the generation.

I'd guess this works out roughly the same if you applied his scaling factors to the current capacity.

His 25% rooftop solar would be around 200% capacity given a 12% capacity factor.