skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You know those signs on the highway that say things like, “Drive safely! Over 20 people have died on this highway so far this year!”? They maybe cause more people to crash and die.

Ah yeah, those signs that completely remove the human tragedy of those who lost their lives driving. Instead you see something like "99 people died on this highway" and for a moment I can't always help but think, "so close to 100!" before remembering these are dead people, not just a number.

What always reminds me to drive more carefully and not be so complacent is reading about some family has been torn apart by some little driving mistake that I could have easily made as well. It's tragic and depressing, but that's what reminds me to think about my own family when I'm driving.

With regards to smoking, what convinced me to never take up smoking was seeing what 50 year old smokers looked like. Yikes. Should some lifelong smokers be fortunate enough to live to 80, taking a look at them will typically put to rest any remaining desire to smoke.
AI is already developing enzymes that can break down plastics. Put them on bacteria, and that plastic may stop being a problem quickly.
None of the movies and stories you mentioned were about the "rise of AGI". The closest you can get might be The Matrix via Animatrix? You can go look up what the authors meant by their pieces, there's plenty of analysis of each of those stories. In addition I would love a citation on "the rise of AGI" being a fear in sci-fi for a long time, I've enjoyed quite a bit of science fiction literature and I can only think of a handful that even touched on the idea.
Yes?

Welcome to "the world at large". Your frontend is not the only frontend that will consume your services. Other people have a tendency to make use of things in ways you don't expect.

Nevermind the whole "reluctance to upgrade part".

Once it's out there. That's it. It's out. You can't take it back without adversely impacting somebody.
it's mostly just hypocritical.

If everyone acted like Oracle; there would be no mysql users. Which is the point being made.
LLM Models Performance
Limited liability has nothing to do with this. Individuals can go to jail for crimes, to the extent they individually have committed them, but because corporations are aggregates and not individuals, it is possible for them to be guilty of crime when no individual would. On the facts alleged in the 737 Max charges, if any individuals would be guilty at all, they wouldn’t be the executives or shareholders you seem to be lusting for, but two test pilots (and its not clear they would be, only that they personally had the knowledge whose imputation to Boeing combined with corporate representations to the federal government made Boeing guilty.)
Are the diagrams interactive?
For Linux, there is Gnome Boxes, which is a quite good VM for all the stuff I need one for. It may not be as complete as VMware, but has most of the important stuff.
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Ipi request in Linux, riscv/mips64
has anyone ever had this problem:
riscv msip/ssip only bit0 is valid, if a large number of ipi send requests are piled up, how to deal with ipi to ensure that no interruption is lost?
The native ports have additional features, which are easy to implement starting from the native compilation. For example, the native port of Zelda has gyro aiming and automatic autosave options.
The nuance of Ben-Gvir presumably ...
Tech critic McCourt mounts TikTok bid
That's probably a good thing
Sam Altman superalinged them right out the door...
Southwest and Ryanair, two of the biggest airlines in the world, are exclusively 737. It allows them to keep maintenance and flight crew costs low, and they were the primary forces insisting on Boeing improving a design which is beyond its limits. They'll kick the can down the road for as long as they can.
OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving
https://archive.ph/is57b
This is not the AGI folks are after!
This is like that email where Bill Gates was lambasting his subordinates for the insanity that is Microsoft site: https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-mov...
I assume they mean convince enough people to implement the proposed policies that they can fix things through normal, legal means. "Forcing people to do your bidding" normally consists of winning elections and then implementing and enforcing legislation. This is how we force people who want to shoplift, cheat on their taxes, or murder to do our bidding. It doesn't work perfectly, but it only has to work well enough.
While this is clearly a problem and a challenge to address, the thing that never gets mentioned with this line of criticism is the obvious: a large number of real-life teachers make mistakes ALL the time. They harbor wrong / out-dated opinions, or they're just flat-out wrong about things.
AWS plans to invest €7.8B into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
So, in your mind, China's industry is really the West's? Also, China is poor? Just a poor passive obedient victim of the West's desires?
now do magical flying unicorn ponies, which I understand there is also considerable demand for
Teaching CS During Take-Off
This is not about early detection in general, but rather a specific test of dubious utility, specifically full-body MRI, which often leads to tons of follow-on tests and invasive procedures that may have zero benefit.

For a test with high enough specificity and sensitivity for early detection, it's likely that it would be quickly adopted, and then studied to show that it actually improves outcomes without undue cost (not merely dollar cost but also health cost) to people in terms of treatment and its side effects.
I'm curious what resources led you to calculate a 2MB context window, I'd like to learn more.
When I visited NYC last month I was amazed at how the city had been transformed by e-Bikes and delivery services. If same-day delivery is going to be a thing in NYC you really need that kind of vehicle.
Minor correction: Jesper Ejsing
> they would do well to address the issues that prevent young adults from feeling financially secure in this way.

To be fair, that does appear to be happening, if slowly. The largest financial drain on young people, college, has shown decline over the past several years. There is still a lot of social entrenchment to overcome, though; like trying to convince marriage hopefuls that they don't need to buy an expensive diamond.
Honestly, I miss all-day _actually on-site_ on sites. Getting on site and meeting people definitely took the edge off of what were otherwise very hard interview rounds.
"Coq" is also the first letters of the creator's name (Coquand).
What circumstantial evidence is there besides motive?
Smoking Is Awesome, by Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell, touched on how smokers eventually need cigarettes just to feel normal.

https://youtu.be/_rBPwu2uS-w?si=hR0J-eqBBUOjVtvd
One thing I learned in the Mojave is that both crows and coyotes will learn the range of your rifle and stay just outside of it and wait for you to fall asleep. If you have a blind they will also count how many of you go into and and come out of it, and not approach the rations depot until the blind has zero people in it.
So this is a learning opportunity for the differences between "idealism" and "materialism".

"Idealism", which unfortunately underpins all mainstream political discourse, is simply that certain actors (people, states, etc) are good because they're good or they're bad because they're bad. It's really the Marvel view of the world. There are good guys and bad guys. Idealism is a completely inadequate way to view the world because it simply reflects the propaganda that's effectively sold the idea of who the good guys and bad guys are.

"Materialism" is a broadd term that originates in the philosophy that people affect the material world and the material world affects people. More specifically to this point, it's the idea that people do things for a reason. That doesn't mean the reason is justified or sound or good. But there is a world view that underpins any actions by any actor.

So when it comes to wars, the idealist will say one side are the good guys and the other side are the bad guys and never go any deeper than that. The materialist will derive that all wars come down to the desire for resources and land. Not religion. Not ethnicity. Those are simply pretexts to motivate the citizenry and foot soldiers.

So Putin dons the Duganist [1] hat, just like European kings in the Crusades wrapped themselves in Christianity. Putin may even be a true believer but that's not why he's doing what he's doing. He's securing a land bridge to Crimea, a warm water port on the Black Sea and control of territorial waters in the Black Sea and the resources contained therein.

He probably figures the West will eventually lose interest (which is already happening) and in the mean time he can keep selling oil and gas to China and India so the sanctions are inconvenient but can be weathered.

There's nothing crazy about it.

But even if he was crazy, to launch a nuclear attack, someone would have to carry out those orders. Bomb loaders, generals, submarine commanders, pilots, missile silo operators, etc. Look up the history of Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov.

[1]: https://ens0.medium.com/what-is-duginism-71f44a652658
25 years ago, I did a back-of-the envelope calculation during a party and came up with roughly 2040. I didn't know that Kurzweil had already predicted 2029. Once I heard about it, I felt Kurzweil was over-optimistic, and stuck to 2040. Recently, though, it has started to seem that AGI before 2029 is more likely than 2040 or after.
California's $12B Medicaid experiment stretches the definition of health
I did a code review style interview at a startup a few years ago (loved them; got an offer, but my then-current employer countered surprisingly well). I really enjoyed it.
I challenge you to imagine an imaginary game or computer language, explain the rules to the LLM. It will learn and play the game (or write programs in your invented language), although you imagined it. There was no resource to train on. Nobody knows of that game or language. LLM learns on the spot with your instructions and plays the game.

I cannot understand grad school level mathematics even if you give me all the books and papers in the world. I was not formally trained in mathematics, does that make me not intelligent?
I'm in agreement with the author: without more detail or pushback from the Google Cloud leaders, this is a really bad look for future customers.

Will this well-publicized event materially alter cloud spend (e.g., cross-cloud replication or backups)?

This seems like an amazing time for AWS and Azure to come out with statements how they prevent accidents like this and why single staff members aren't capable of nuking a large company's cloud account.
Depends on what you are listening to and the band's decisions. Not quite 80s, but Metallica released an album with nearly all the bass guitar ducked. On the other hand, something like Duran Duran or The Police wrote their music not to thump, but to have the bass guitar actually carry part of the melody. Modern music uses bass quite differently than older music, and what many people think of when they think about "bass" is usually the really rattly sub-bass that only subwoofers can really produce.

80s music was intended to be played on a boombox radio with no sub-woofers and still represent all the sounds the band recorded. In the end, it's just one of the ways music has changed over the years.
On the other hand, they clearly they weren’t concerned enough about the issue to continue working on it.
Absolute insanity. Commendable.
An explicitly cited reason DoJ approved the deferred prosecution agreement was that, on the basis of the facts available, management was not collectively, even, much less individually aware of the facts imputed to Boeing based on the knowledge of lower-level employees which were necessay to be guilty of the crime.
My first thought was that the derogatory name for Russian invaders has somehow become mainstream...
They specifically talk about using the fully body MRI for the purpose of detecting cancers. I'm not sure how you missed that. You literally had to watch 10 seconds of the clip.

It's interesting because they explicitly talk about follow up testing (@2:10) which is to say that multiple methods are used if the MRI indicates a problem. So yes, the initial MRI may produce a misdiagnosis and that is a defect of the test. But the commentary in the video obviously suggests that additional testing for early detection is done. That's partly a problem as you pointed out, but then it clearly also indicates the scope of the conversation is more broad.
We had the county sheriff come to an assembly, show us pictures of a local "drug den" they had busted, bring out a body bag and tell us "it breaks my heart when I pick up a body bag and the weight shifts to one end, because that means there's a kid in it", and conclude with "If you ever touch drugs you'll end up living here until I drag you out in a bag".
Because CDs ushered in an era of crystalline highs that were never captured well before. Vinyl and tape are good at capturing lows, not so good at capturing highs. After decades of muddy sound, they were thrilled to capture the highs. They overreacted and focused almost exclusively on the highs to the detriment of everything else. That's probably what setup the mega-bass trend in the 90s.

Along with that, they went crazy with hall effect reverb on a lot of recordings. Everything sounds like it's being performed in a big, echoey concert hall. I'm really glad that fad faded!
Funny, because policeman and analyst are the first two uses of any AI in the last two decades.

Either way I hope you get what you want, it rarely ends well for the slave master regardless of how reductive they get to justify their actions.
Lots of great points, although a sexual harassment quiz for adults seems fairly different than a multiweek program for kids.

And the article seems to argue that interventions are unlikely to change people while also accepting that the drug study did change the kids in the wrong way. To me that doesn't indicate that it's necessarily wrong to try to intervene with short-ish programs in schools, it indicates the content of those programs might be really bad.

Maybe that program didn't actually harm kids, beyond wasting their time, and was a statistical outlier. I don't have much opinion that. But I can understand why interventions can backfire if they're inauthentic. When I figure out you've been lying to me, I want to throw everything you said out the window. If you also made me make some videotaped promise saying something YOU want me to believe then you can bet I'm gonna feel betrayed too.
They resigned together on the same day - people are just announcing this like it's some type of "drip drip" of people leaving to build suspense.

While Jan's (very pithy) tweet was later in the evening, I was reading other posts yesterday at the time of Ilya's announcement saying that Jan was also leaving.
Mike Krieger Joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
Raspberry Pi did a lot to revolutionize the micro board/pc market, they truly had an amazing influence on the industry that I’m grateful for. Now a days they feel overpriced and underpowered, and their influence spurred a new market that has produced much better alternatives. This IPO just confirms this perspective for me. Thank you raspberry pi for what you did. But I doubt I’ll ever want to buy one again.
There are a number of people commenting about how Beethoven could hear music in his head, being deaf, and thus compose entire symphonies.

But at that time the musical instruments of the day were incredibly "standardized".

Basically it was all orchestral instruments such as violins, percuasion, and all the usual fair -- and by the time Beethoven went deaf he was intimately familiar with these such that he could IMAGINE it all in his head.

Even if you went deaf tomorrow, in 20 years time you would still be able to imagine a violin -- it is a very distinctive instrument.

So I think this feat -- while wonderful-- is pretty explainable.
I would LOVE someone to roast my code in real-time!
I am running a hypervisor (https://blogs.vmware.com/arm/2023/12/15/esxi-arm-fling-1-15-...) on my Raspberry Pi 4. Rock solid.

Currently running virtual machines:
* Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/) - with USB passthrough of USB stick to read out my digital electricity/gas meters, Zigbee and Z-Wave
* Homebridge (to allow my Eufy video doorbell to work with Homekit)
* Pihole

All are running from iSCSI storage served by my Synology NAS.

I am running an older Pi (3) on demand in my garden as a client for my media server to play music on garden speakers.
I have a love/hate relationship with smoking. I quit smoking 5+ years ago when my child was born. But I always loved a smoke with a beer. But I also quit drinking.

As a carpenter and electrician, I smoked many cigarettes during my career and they calmed me and allowed me to focus a bit better.

However, I finally realized that few things say "hey look at me I'm am absolute idiot" quite like smoking.

That's actually what I told myself over and over again to shame myself into quitting. I associated smoking with a few trashy individuals that I knew. I told myself that I didn't want to be like those people so I tricked my mind into quitting.
I think you're underestimating how radical (I would say nihilisic) the viewpoint that has become common among those who claim LLMs are AGI or at least show "sparks" of it is. Many of them claim that there isn't anything to emerge that hasn't already emerged. Their claim is often that there is no "intelligence" or "sentience" or "understanding" or "consciousness" distinct from the behaviours already displayed by existing statistical models. They claim that these things are illusions, that many of the philosophical questions relating to them are simply ill-posed and that the only differences between existing computational systems and human minds are ones of degree and of implementation specifics.

It is this view that I am acknowledging cannot currently be disproved just as one cannot currently disprove the idea that these things are real, distinct phenomena that statistical models do not manifest.

Again, I personally fall very firmly on the latter side of this debate. I'm just acknowledging what can and cannot currently be proved, and there is a genuine symmetry there. This debate is not new, and the existence of LLMs does not settle it one way or another.

Edit: And re burden of proof - this isn't a court case. It's about what you can hope for in a discussion with someone you disagree with. If you can't absolutely prove someone is wrong then it's pointless to try and do so. You need to accept that you are trying to persuade, not prove/disprove. If you are both arguing positions that are currently unfalsifiable you both need to accept that or the debate will go nowhere. Or, if you think you have a proof one way or another, present that and its validity can be debated. And if so, you need to be honest about what constitutes proof and cannot reasonably be disputed. Neither "my LLM emitted this series of responses to this series of prompts" nor "I can directly perceive qualia and therefore know that consciousness is real" counts.
I am extremely skeptical about the idea that 10% of the population has a phobia of serpents severe enough to avoid learning a programming language named after a kind of snake.
>Jamulator did this for NES way back in 2013 but nobody really seemed to care...

At least Mr WiseGuy seems to care. From the N64Recom Github repo[0]:
"This is not the first project that uses static recompilation on game console binaries. A well known example is jamulator, which targets NES binaries."

[0]: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp
He's a cabover in the original comic and animated show, the first movie's twenty-something years later.
Why can't openai just be a competent drama-free org?

Is it impossible to build really cool tech without the upheaval?
In high school, I had to "raise" a bag of flour for a week with a girl that I was dating as part of an assignment. One night on the phone, I asked if she had any fantasies, and she immediately told me about how often she thought about being pregnant and doing everyday things- going to school, cleaning, going shopping, going to the doctor, etc.

It wasn't the type of fantasy I was expecting at the time, but I did eventually figure out the message a year or two after we broke up.
You missed a step:

The average programmer in china makes less than half what their US counterpart makes. Cost of living far less than half of the us, pay for factory workers is far far less than the dollars to yuan conversion.

It's far morespending power than just 3.5 vs 8
It can do limited battlefield reasoning where a remote pilot has significant latency.

Call these LLMs stupid all you want but on focused tasks they can reason decently enough. And better than any past tech.
It’s pretty jarring to see quite often remarks that developing with ”Gen AI” is a must and a game changer and whatnot.

Usually when I have a SW problem gpt4 can’t help me. Sometimes it can speed up something marginally, but almost never no remarkable gains and sometimes it’s a net negative trying to find help from it without ever succeeding.

As you said, I guess it depends on what kind of work needs to be done - I’m sure the 20 yo students can solve their OOP homework well with LLMs.
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Nonprofits are not really that transparent, and do bend to the will of donors, who themselves try to limit transparency.

That's why Private Foundations are more popular than Public Charities even though both are 501c3 organizations, because they don't need to provide transparency into their operations.
Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
They didn't miss it at all.

You've misunderstood the comment's point, which is "just because prospective full-body MRI is bad doesn't mean all diagnostics are".
EXACTLY.

There's an assumption that there's a system that by default produces correct representations, but has malfunctioned and produced a representation of an absent object.

But isn't the whole process of ML making what would be a malfunction into a procedure? Generating humongous numbers of completely faulty representations until some emerge that look like they're mirroring reality?
Is hallucination in ML not the default state? Its correctness being a judgment of an observing subject, and in all cases, a happy accident that has struck the observer as being real by only looking real.
Aren't language models just playing on how impressionable we are? How easily we're tricked into believing that something is a real thing based only on superficial attributes?
Do not say that out loud 3 times into a mirror.
From what I could see of FRP, it only runs a single server node so isn't suitable for production traffic (which needs to be fault tolerant, scale horizontally, support zero downtime deployments...)

Piko is also designed to be easier to host, so can be hosted behind a HTTP load balancer. That does mean Piko is currently limited to HTTP only, but that seemed a worthwhile tradeoff to make it easier to host
> board members and executives can and should.

If they individually committed crimes and that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, sure.

Of course, by DoJ’s own description of why they approved the deferred prosecution agreeement, that's absolutely not the case with the 737 Max charges.
Hopefully this will give the average consumer the ability to give some direction as to the development of new versions. I'd very much like to see a new PI that doesn't have wifi, bluetooth or any other wireless technology.