skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and No.

Many years ago I built an elaborate dashboard/status page that was a front-end for a dozen or so CLI processes that did the heavy lifting for our video->VR->CDN->website->SEO link farm.

I used very simple "error codes" to flag when/where in the process errors would happen. 5 shapes, 5 colours, and 1-5 in numbers
Square, Star, Circle, Triangle, Exclamation mark.
Black, Blue, Grey, Yellow, Red
1,2,3,4,5

Different people/departments would be check on different aspects of deployment. This prevented the glassy eyed blank stares when I would ask: What was the error code.
Me and the other IT folks knew what each stage meant, along with the colour codes and severity number would allow us to pinpoint where in the process this happened. So this was a form of emojii, and it was VERY helpful. I would have preferred error codes/server number/step number but Bob in Marketing would just ignore that. He never could remember 'what it said'. But he always remembered "Red Square and #5"

Symbols that are __EASY__ to identify (especially when attention spans are short) are tremendously helpful. [See Traffic signs as an example]

Esoteric symbols that can change meaning and/or have no meaning in the context are HORRIBLE.
I'm on the spectrum, I can't tell what any "face emojii" mean.
At 4C of heating, you cannot grow food in any reasonable quantity with any reliability, period. 4C is the collapse of modern civilization at the very least (in fact likely earlier due to increased geopolitical instability and tensions due to dwindling resources, combined with the availability of nuclear weapons), with a massive die-off of humans along with it.
He didn't even mention my favorite part: "No learnings found" . No learnings here indeed!
Oof! I was definitely tired! Thank you!
You forgot, stop changing the chargers.

I just upgraded my phone and I have to buy a whole new set of chargers.
I'm 100% certain that I need to do more than just predict the next token to be considered intelligent. Also call me when ChatGPT can manipulate matter.
You aren't dealing with the enterprise site at that point - rather a public frontend that uses some enterprise-y backend.
The real fun begins when you get into the actual enterprise frontends for internal use like SAP Netweaver and Sailpoint, which end up being quite a lot like the broadcom experience in the article.
If you had a VW TDI, you got better real world fuel efficiency than the EPA fuel efficiency. And lower CO2 emissions. And all you had to do was wiggle the steering wheel ever.

Yes, yes, some fraud. Yes, yes, NOx emissions. But the fuel efficiency numbers were better than published.
I dunno. I get plenty of upvotes for articles about people organizing unions.

Oddly the anti-politics stance in HN focuses around “culture war” issues, I don’t get articles flagged on topics like “Was Trotsky Right About the Theory Of Permanent Revolution?”. The axis of economics from Marx to Van Mises is pretty safe but say anything about gender and you are [dead].
Honestly, OpenAI does not look that far ahead of open-source/competitors. Sure they are leading, but for alignment it might be a lost cause.
> They make lots of money

Will they though? Last I heard OpenAI isn't profitable, and I don't know if it's safe to assume they every will be.

People keep saying that LLMs are an existential threat to search, but I'm not so sure. I did a quick search (didn't verify in any way if this is a feasible number) to find that Google on average makes about 30 cents in revenue per query. They make a good profit on that because processing the query costs them almost nothing.

But if processing a query takes multiple seconds on a high-end GPU, is that still a profitable model? How can they increase revenue per query? A subscription model can do that, but I'd argue that a paywalled service immediately means they're not a threat to traditional ad-supported search engines.
Binary Embeddings: All the AI, 3.125% of the Fat
thanks for the recommendation I've started on the jailbreak for my old kindle. I'd like to turn it into an offline wikipedia & public domain books reader.
If you didn't care about efficiency, why not use bubblesort?
We need food carts really. I like the idea of using large kitchens to bulk produce hot food as well, however the density and traffic are very high to justify something like that.

I feel like the concept of food carts is very American. Such a simple, entry level business that anyone can do who is passionate, however there have become so many rules they've become impossible.

American streets no longer feel American or that they embody our brazen and unique American culture, but instead have become this very British, "do you have a license for that?" ordeal. Everything clean and tidy all of the grass cut neat. No raw spirit or passion. It disgusts me. Let some people sell food for heavens sake
What is the "intelligence" behind a word predictor?
This is amusing, but in a "stand-up comedian jokes about bad drivers" kind of way. Good for a half-second chuckle, but flattens out pretty quick since extremely bad websites and software are something I deal with literally every day. And most of them are not even corporate behemoth types like VMWare.

And while I'm here... Thankfully, I am in a new job where I don't have to support vSphere anymore, but I just want to give a big "fuck you" to Broadcom for literally wiping the quite-decent community forums and knowledge base off the map. Sure, the KBs still exist, but on a different domain, and they deleted _all_ the metadata and the old KB links scattered across decades and the web all 404 now.

If Broadcom's goal was to reduce support costs, eliminating the forums and neutering the KB was a pretty bad way to go about it.
Exactly. The advice is correct but unactionable.
I like how the existence of pedals is all it takes to use the bike lane. The rider may only contribute a tiny fraction of what it takes to move the rig, but somehow it's seen as a "bike".
Compile SBCL with the command ./make.sh --with-mark-region-gc and the resulting build will use the mark-region GC. (Picking the GC at start-time instead of build-time would be very nice, but technically hard to pull off unfortunately.)
Got a good laugh out of me, thanks for sharing!
> For one thing, they're not speed-limited, unlike heavy-duty trucks in Europe, which aren't allowed to go faster than 56 mph (90 km/h). "So we had to take that in consideration in the design," explained Stadler.

Seems like we could help things a lot by adding this regulation to trucks in America. Slower == better fuel efficiency and safer too!
In my experience, good ones leave first, followed by those who enjoyed working with them and or ones who are not longer able to get work done.
I don't think most people expect language safety guarantees to extend to other processes. That's a pretty unrealistic expectation you are bringing.
The thing is, this sets up a moral hazard where it’s advantageous not to know, not to keep close tabs, and tight control over your supply chain. If there were potentially harsh penalties for allowing this to happen, regardless of knowledge, I think you’d see much better controls put in place, and the incentive would be to keep safety critical operations kept in-house, where they can be better monitored, rather than spun out to make the return on capital look better to public markets.
China is doing a lot to decarbonise its economy, probably more than anyone, and is still poorer than the US.

Again, you also need to take into account that the US and EU have outsourced emissions to China, which needed that to develop. Still the US emit a huge amount per capita so it's disingenuous so claim that China is a bad emitter, which feels like the US is trying too hard to deflect.
I looked into Scribe and it sounds like they upgraded the hardware to making writing more responsive. that's good news.
So I think what you are saying is that you don't know anything about the people who funded the study. You do not think they picked a good name for their group. If they had gone to a branding and marketing agency to come up with a better name, maybe you would read the study?
Dual class shares are part of the picture here. They are very common in the US, and allow founders to have their cake and eat it. UK regulators have historically frowned upon this, but that stance is beginning to soften.
Number 3 is literally an article of faith. And like all matters of faith, not only is there no evidence for it, the evidence that we do have runs counter to the belief.

Let’s be honest here. Climate change was a completely predicable problem with known causes causes and solutions. It was detected early and alarms were raised in a timely manner. Literally nothing happened. In fact, even today, nothing happens. Why? Money. Because the billionaires would rather have us all die than not buy a tenth superyacht. (NB: Go Team Orca!)

The problem was not, and is not, science. It’s money and who has it. Now those same folks and their apologists promote quite laughable ideas like carbon capture and geoengineering. Could we have gotten cheaper lithium batteries earlier with more investment? Probably, but what did we get instead? Fracking. Literally the opposite of what was needed.

Science is not magic. Even if it was, the nature of the problem means it gets exponentially more difficult every day that passes. You mange to repeal the second law of thermodynamics and somehow got the carbon pollution industry to spend enough money to make it viable? Great! Oh, oops! The permafrost melted and now 10x more powerful methane has been released, so… yeah. Too late!

It’s just Pollyanna talk that actively harmful as it not only directs resources from mitigation and migration to wasteful handouts while simultaneously giving cover for just staying the course.

But hey. Maybe I’m just a doomer, and those Titanic passengers should have just sciences up more lifeboats instead of drown. Maybe all of this just… “needs more study”.
Is the VMWare integration tied to the GCP marketplace? Maybe Terraform modifying a fundamental VMWare resource (like renaming a cluster, etc) where the entire account is tied to a reseller or integration account could cause it to think it needs to delete and re-create.
This is implying that therapy is nothing more than someone to talk to; if that’s your experience with therapy, then you should get another therapist.
I do some front end work. I push back on things and win some battles re-directing them, but ultimately if the client pays to do a stupid thing, they get the stupid thing. It is their website, not mine.
Yeah. Once the Proxmox team fixed the recent kernel bug that caused migration hangs with Ryzen/EPYC hardware (~20% of migrations just hung), things have been pretty great.

Presently trialling a HA cluster with it, and likely to deploy that to a local data centre in the next few weeks.
It can only be "super unlikely" for an AI to "run away and do it's own thing" when we actually know how to align it.

Which we don't.

So we're not aligning it with corporate boards yet, though not for lack of trying.

(While LLMs are not directly agents, they are easy enough to turn into agents, and there's plenty of people willing to do that and disregard any concerns about the wisdom of this).

So yes, the crapshoot is exactly what everyone in AI alignment is trying to prevent.

(There's also, confusingly, "AI safety", which includes alignment but also covers things like misuse, social responsibility, and so on)
In truth it's not; however if the software has to do extra things like, for instance, translate io calls to a virtualbox disk format that hyperv cannot natively support or do an extra memcpy on the video framebuffer to get their UI to work then there will be necessary performance impacts. How fast a guest os "feels" is mostly down to the performance of the virtualized devices and not necessarily the overhead of virtualization itself.
Obesity is different, because eating is a basic need, and the factors in the US behind obesity have more to do with the available food being "poisoned": corn syrup, pressed oil, dyes, and other industrial fillers are added to almost all packaged foods, and social traditions around food preparation are vanishing because they're inconvenient with the modern lifestyle.

If you don't want to be obese, you have to maintain constant self-denial, long-term planning, and a basic scientific understanding of nutrition in the face of your available food supply being hijacked by advertisers and profiteers. For millions of years, the best possible strategy for feeding was "acquire as many calories as possible and make them as tasty as possible", and only in the past 30-40 years has that strategy suddenly started yielding bad results.

I think there is a much stronger need for a huge legal and philosophical intervention into the western food supply than there is into the western nicotine supply.
i'm compelling people that it's not solved given how critical reading is. It should be better than reading a book in every way. Right now the library sync features are better but the reading experience is worse.
Geoffrey Hinton on visualizing higher dimensions:

"To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it."
That’s so bad, it’s good!

Reminds me of https://www.lingscars.com/ only even more so…
The switch isn't nearly as easy for vmware, but nothing drove EDR sales like the new bcom website after they acquired Symantec.

SEP was great because it was low impact and ticked a compliance checkbox. Useless if any event was going on but in the technical planning calls these clients just werent interested and would passively renew SEP every year like clockwork. Then broadcom switched up the website and every single one of them brought up the 'so we are wanting EDR after all' pitch request on their own. None of them could figure out how to renew their license.

edit: Have you guys seen IBM's fix pack site? it technically works, but jeeze. Why do I have to go through a web store ordering flow to patch db2?
I wish you could just buy single cigarettes rather than always getting a pack. I feel that's a big part of the problem right there.

It would be like only being able to buy wine in boxes of 20, or beers in crates of 30. Once you have it, you're much more likely to use it. I just want a beer or a bottle of wine this Friday evening, and maybe after that I want a cigarette. And that's it.
You're much more confident than I am that the researchers at OpenAI (or anyone else currently alive) are masters of their craft to such an extent that they would even be able to predict whether the next big training run they do will result in a superintelligence or not. Another way of saying the same thing is to say that the only way anyone knows that GPT-4 is not dangerously capable is that it has been deployed extensively enough by now that if it was going to harm us, it would've done so by now: not even the researchers that designed and coded-up GPT-4 or watched it during training could predict with any confidence how capable it would be. For example, everyone was quite surprised by its being able to score in the 90th decile on a bar exam.

Also, even if they never produce a superintelligence, they are likely to produce insights that would make it easier for other teams to produce a superintelligence. (Since employees are free to leave OpenAI and join some other team, there is no practical way to prevent the flow of insights out of OpenAI.)
I would argue that it is society’s job to care for its most vulnerable.
Haha I remember this launch and how awful it was an thinking about how a bunch of fans have done such a better job. Hell, even Nintendo did a better job for the Wii's Virtual Console.
Been using Fluent for a while now.

I like that it lets you specify to open pages as RSS or full webpage, some sites don't feed their RSS well so full webpage fixes it.

https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
Yeah I like that too. I don't know if it is accidental or what but it might be chaotic... but it is chaotic in a way that looks like it is governed by some very specific rules that sets your expectations and makes it pretty fun.
> if OpenAI is no longer pursuing AGI/superintelligence

What leads you to believe that's true?
Another funny thing is to actually try to go through all politically incorrect stuff in order to censor the model.
To do that you need to actually make the list and make sure you haven't overlooked anything or else the vigilanti will punish you (on Twitter first, but then it will escalate quickly).
So you need to make sure all references to differences between male end female brain, personality etc. get nullified. But there is always danger that you still missed some obscure and non-obvious thing that will make someone mad.
I mean, sometimes the entitled developers are right and predict that the monetization of a software product will lead to it's inevitable demise. More often than not that's how these sorts of projects end up.

Linux as a whole exists because developers said "fuck AT&T, we're taking this train off the rails" and nobody ever looked back since.
I don’t think we’re even close to exhausting the potential of transformer architectures. gpt4o shows that a huge amount can be gained by implementing work done on understanding other media modalities. There’s a lot of audio that they can continue to train on still and the voice interactions they collect will go into further fine tuning. Even after that plays out there will be video to integrate next and thanks to physics simulations and 3D rendering there is a potentially endless and readily generated license free supply of it, at least for the simpler examples. For more complex real world video they could just set up web cams in public areas around the world where consent isn’t required by law and collect masses of data every second. Given that audio seems to have enabled emotional understanding and possibly even humour, I can’t imagine what all might fall out of video. At the least it’s going to improve reasoning since it will involve predicting cause and effect. There are probably a lot of others you could add though we don’t have large datasets for them.
> How come the goal posts for AGI are always the best of what people can do?

Not the best, I just want it to be able to do what average professionals can do because average humans can become average professionals in most fields.

> I can't diagnose anyone, yet I have GI.

You can learn to, an AGI system should be able to learn to as well. And since we can copy AGI learning it means that if it hasn't learned to diagnose people yet then it probably isn't an AGI, because an AGI should be able to learn that without humans changing its code and once it learned it once we copy it forever and now the entire AGI knows how to do it.

So, the AGI should be able to do all the things you could do if we include all versions of you that learned different fields. If the AGI can't do that then you are more intelligent than it in those areas, even if the singular you isn't better at those things than it is.

For these reasons it makes more sense to compare an AGI to humanity rather than individual humans, because for an AGI there is no such thing as "individuals", at least not the way we make AI today.
Can they not go under the traffic?
We have the solution for decades. The rolling class just doesn’t want to use them because it would cost them money
> would generate way too much workload to follow up and thereby cost time and money for better leads

Having lived a decade in NL, my impression was that keeping costs down is the top priority. Unless you have a serious chronic condition or were in an accident, good luck getting somebody to take a look at you.

(irl, after a while you learn to push, exaggerate symptoms etc. or just go back home to get tests and treatment).
Cabover designs tend to be pretty bumpy due to the driver being on top of the wheels. Long distance truckers don't like that. Used to be more common in the past here in the US.
> is in fact the 2d fourier transform of the spatial distribution of that light at the lens. this property has been used to build optical-computing military machine vision systems

Amazing. Do you have any links/references about those systems and how they should work in theory?
> If mommy and daddy drink coffee in the morning, it doesn't matter that it tastes like ass, a literal 3-year-old will just by sheer force of will drink that bitter nectar just to feel like they belong

Then I must be quite different from that "literal 3 year old". Mom and Dad both drank coffee, and around the 3-year point I did want to try it, for the reason you say, because it was something "they" were doing. And, yes, that sip did taste like ass. So much like ass that to this day 54 years later, I do not and will not drink coffee.
The pipe organ was about the only way to get that much bass volume for more decades than anything else.
The people in control of emissions policies.

1. Governments.

2. In functioning democracies, voters.

And yes, production.
Does money matter when we are all dead from a lack of oxygen?
I think you're on to something, but to me it has more to do with being part of the set of issues that intersect political policy and ethics. I see it as facing the same "discourse challenges" as:

abortion

animal cruelty laws/veganism/vegetarianism

affirmative action

climate change(denial)

These are legitimate issues, but it is also totally possible to just "ignore" them and pretend like they don't exist.
Having been on founding teams that imploded like open AI and ones that succeeded I've found that waving a big wad of cash before every meeting does wonders to motivate people.

>This is what we all want, and we want it as fast as possible. Let's get through this together and enjoy our tropical islands alone.

You can trust people's greed, you can't trust their morals. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't seen a large enough wad of cash yet.
That doesn't mean we pad all the rooms or ban peanuts. Yes, we should care for them but not at the detriment of the other 99%.
Building & Deploying Networks Is Highly Collaborative and Automation Might Can
https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~eptcs/content.cgi?DSS2013

Other essays from the same occasion.
Somewhere in Australia (with Australian accents):

"Hey terraform just output a wall of text, it wants to know whether or not to proceed."

"That's what it does mate. Let it do its thing, she'll be right."
Pure LLM based approach will not lead to AGI, I'm 100% sure. A new research paper has shown [0] that no matter what LLM model is used, it exhibits diminishing returns, when you would be wanting at least a linear curve when looking for AGI.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU
Show HN: I Built a Free AI Form Builder Similar to Formless
As one commenter on the page said:

> This is a MAJOR breach. “Deleted” must be “DELETED”! If the photos are resurfacing that means that Apple is somehow storing these photos illegally.

Can this be debunked, or is this a reasonable take?
Programming Basic Solutions
Is there a place where I can ask programmers to make a solution for a common problem? Is it hacker news, product hunt, reddit, twitter, or is there something else more specialized? Granted, the latest AI tools are awe inspiring, but what about something for cheaper child care?
I don’t know for sure but I imagine getting blackballed by the defence department is not fun.
Okay this is a weird philosophy to have lol
What a wild accusation for someone light years away from the board room.
You can turn off auto aim in the game though. Always the first thing I do.
Foss projects are drama. I've found it much worse in the non-profit space than the for profit space. Which openai showed us ironically.
Few weeks ago archeologists found similar, older settlement bit west from that one, that belongs to Vinca culture, that spanned in current Serbia, South Hungary and western Romania
Here is HN story about it

Archaeology team discovers a 7k-year-old settlement in Serbia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220691

All those are obviously connected and related