skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Realistically, if you eat smaller servings and walk more, it's easier to have a healthy weight.

Yeah, many years ago as a student I spent a summer in Manhattan. The diet probably couldn't have been more different than Japan, but the combination of walking a ton compared to the suburbs where I grew up, and the fact that as a poor student in a very expensive city my portions were smaller out of necessity (e.g. my snacks were usually fresh fruit sold outside of a store/bodega) I got much healthier.
Why do we give this people credit by giving for granted that AGI is somehow magically around the corner?
It is not, and everyone’s delusional.
The biggest risk of ai can be simply characterized by one concept:

This very report could have been generated by AI. We can’t fully tell.
Seems like you can do that already?

https://www.useequityval.com/model?ticker=PATH
I’m a capitalist first and foremost.

Don’t be silly. I’m a hacker is so I can make money and live an awesome life ;)
From looking at the summary, I think it's a bit more measured than this statement implies. They talk about concrete risks of spam, scams, and deepfakes. They then go into possible future harms but couched in language of "experts are uncertain if this is possible or likely" etc.
No, the other clients apart from UWPX and Kaidan (which for obvious reasons very few people use) implement the same version of OMEMO. They do this because, contrary to what you're implying, developers in the XMPP community care about people being able to communicate with each other successfully :)

The upgrade path for any E2EE protocol is generally non-trivial, and we're not quite there yet with OMEMO. It's something we are working on, as a community, which is why you'll see the transition to newer versions happen across all clients at roughly the same time.

The new spec is being worked on, for example some of the more recent changes were specifically to make the upgrade path smoother. There may be more tweaks to make before we're ready for the first clients to start the transition. This kind of thing is not easy, though I appreciate that it may seem that way when you're looking on from the outside.
I don't think they are actively discriminating. Non-native accents are generally harder to understand, even for people. This is more or less true depending on the what kind of accent it is and how heavy it is.

I'm sure if a voice assistant was developed in Japan and I tried to speak Japanese to it with my American accent, I would have a really hard time. I wouldn't view this as discrimination, I'd view it as my Japanese being hard to understand.

I have issues with Siri trying to set a timer for 50 minutes. It always thinks I say 15. This isn't a hallucination, it's a misunderstanding, as the two words sounds very similar. Humans can also make this mistake and generally will ask for clarification if the number doesn't make sense in context. The typical way to clear this up with a human is by saying "five zero", which is what I started doing with Siri and it works. To be fair, 15 is a much more normal and common timer length than 50.
Last month, I guess. I still have and use thumb drives periodically, but I don't believe I can lay hands on a floppy of any size.
I believe there is nothing actually inside a black hole -- to us, it appears as a giant sphere, where all of the matter is at the surface, but there is no "inside." It' s like a giant shell with no interior because spacetime breaks down. All matter on the shell is at zero distance from all the other matter on the shell.
Steve Jobs and Elon Musk called out their bad products, and notoriously berate employees for failures and producing what they view as substandard work. I however don’t put Sam in the same ballpark as Steve and Elon… At least yet.
A voice recognition based task app is not the same thing as an LLM. They are solving two completely different problems. It's like saying you prefer bike riding instead of grilled cheese sandwiches.

Ask Siri to write unit tests for a function you've written or to "please explain the common misunderstanding of the phrase 'blood is thicker than water'" and then get back to me about how much more capable Siri is.
that's a direct implication that they're waiting for a liquidity event before they speak
Yes. I live in the Ruhrgebiet, which is essentially a giant area of mid-sized cities, connected by a fantastic train network. The time to a neighbor city cinema is more or less the same than to my own. And I was looking for a place that plays the english version of LOTR for years now.
To every other mammal, reptile, and fish humans are the intelligence explosion. The fate of their species depends on our good will since we have so utterly dominated the planet by means of our intelligence.

Moreso, human intelligence is tied into the weakness of our flesh. Human intelligence is also balanced by greed and ambition. Someone dumber than you can 'win' by stabbing you and your intelligence ceases to exist.

Since we don't have the level of AGI we're discussing here yet, it's hard to say what it will look like in its implementation, but I find it hard to believe it would mimic the human model of its intelligence being tied to one body. A hivemind of embodied agents that feed data back into processing centers to be captured in 'intelligence nodes' that push out updates seems way more likely. More like a hive of super intelligent bees.
I wonder which DB is hosting all the data. My first pick would be Clickhouse, which should shine with all the data denormalized in a single table.
Doubtful. But things like mail, documents, file storage, etc might be another story.

It depends on what the person in question is hosting, and how it relates to the life of the SO. There are a lot of options around, just take a look at the awesome-selfhosted repo on github
On mobile, the text I type is black on a black background.

On desktop, the intro movie stalls, and I have to do right-click -> show controls -> play, to get the game to start.

I just ran out of guesses (how many do you have?) and was told the secret word was yarn. About in the middle of my guesses was "string", apparently not very semantically related to yarn? I am not going to play this any more right now.
"At a time of unprecedented progress in AI development, this first publication restricts its focus to
a type of AI that has advanced particularly rapidly in recent years: General-purpose AI, or AI that
can perform a wide variety of tasks"

Is "general-purpose AI" supposed to be something different from "AGI" or from "General Artificial Intelligence"? Or is it yet another ambiguous ill-defined term that means something different to every person? How many terms do we need?

It's funny that they claim that "general purpose AI" has "advanced particularly rapidly" even though they didn't, nor can't, define what it even is. They have a glossary of terms at the end, but don't bother to have an entry to define general purpose AI, which the entire report is about. They closest thing they include for defining the term is "AI that
can perform a wide variety of tasks".
It's surprising what a higher refresh let's you do. I noticed I was scrolling through output and logs much faster because I wasn't afraid of missing what I'm looking for. The opposite is pair programming remotely having to go extra slow.
he isn't dissing his own products - his products are safe and ethical. it's the pesky competitors who need to be regulated out of existence.
I believe by “general-purpose AI” the report doesn’t mean AGI.
So what if it was generated by AI? Does that invalidate its contents in any way?
You can do that, but it has serious drawbacks. You can:

* Run physics at such a high rate that sampling it at 30 or 60 or 144 or 260 hertz is fine, like running physics at 1kHz. This is appropriate for certain kinds of very realistic physics sim style games, but usually undesirable due to performance.

* Run physics at some fixed, sane rate (somewhere between 20 and 100 Hz probably), and then do rendering separately, interpolating between positions for refresh rates higher than the physics tick rate. This can be hard to make feel good on refresh rates which aren't clean multiples or divisors of the tick rate, but ensures that physics behaves identically independent of frame rate.

* Couple rendering and physics and run at a fixed frame rate (60 FPS). This will work okay for many players but a whole lot of people will be angry at you that your game is choppy on their fancy high refresh monitor, and if you don't change monitor mode to change the monitor's refresh rate, a 144Hz screen will sometimes refresh twice and sometimes thrice per game frame, meaning nothing will ever seem smooth even by 60 FPS standards.

* Couple physics and frame rate but allow the delta time to vary (maybe running physics 2 or 3 times per frame if the frame rate is really low). I'd say this produces the best results for any given refresh rate, and it's relatively simple to implement, but it causes physics to behave slightly differently with different frame rates, and it's prone to bugs like the one discussed in this article.

It's not an easy decision, there is no good rule of thumb. I tend to prefer the last option I listed for my games, but I'm aware that it has drawbacks. But "just decouple physics from rendering" is certainly not the straightforward rule of thumb you seem to suggest it is. (EDIT since this post seemed more negative than I meant: running at a fixed time step is a good solution and very appropriate for many games, I'm not saying your suggestion is bad)
I think this perspective is probably only true for 0.001% of people that actually follow Sam closely and are not optimistic about AGI and like to throw their opinions around. The superficial stuff. The rest don’t care to even know who Sam is and don’t care to assume motive.

It’s very likely they’ll bounce back. I’d rather OpenAI continue to innovate and push the industry forward as they have been. Haven’t seen much of that from Microsoft, so heavily disagree with you there. Prefer to focus on the actual product of the company not the personalities of the people there or armchair assumptions on the vibes of the culture.
> (maybe not in the "right" direction but in the technical prowess direction) which offsets all criticism.

Are you sure about that? Maybe you would like to think a bit harder about what exactly offsets "all criticism"? Being very good at one thing doesn't absolve you from consequences of your other shitty actions.
Which is hard to do well and has its own set of drawbacks.
> You didn’t have any of that 30 years ago.

"Ubiquitous Applications: Embedded Systems to Mainframe"

"To support a variety of platforms, Smalltalk uses a virtual machine approach to portability that allows applications to be easily migrated between platforms with little or no change to the code."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/226239.226264

~

"… Smalltalk developers can work and deploy on Linux, Windows, AIX®, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and OS/2®. You can also create applications to be deployed on the mainframe with VisualAge Smalltalk Server for OS/390 and z/OS."

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUS202-10...
What about responding inline to parts of a message?
Yes, Wuffs can do better than WasmBoxC because it does more than sandboxing of the code. It also checks things like integer overflows which can lead to exploits that are technically not memory safety issues, but still potentially dangerous.

But the tradeoff is that you need to rewrite your code for Wuffs, while WasmBoxC can sandbox anything that compiles to wasm and prevent it from corrupting the outside, including existing code in C, C++, Zig, unsafe Rust, etc. etc.
I mean you have to think the people who are building it know a lot more than you do. If they are concerned so much so that they quitting and forfeiting millions of dollars there should be reason to be concerned.
It's even a core point for Carbon, their hopeful C++ replacement

Under language goals on their readme,

> We also have explicit non-goals for Carbon, notably including:

> * A stable application binary interface (ABI) for the entire language and library

> * Perfect backwards or forwards compatibility

There's also this blurb

> Our goals are focused on migration from one version of Carbon to the next rather than compatibility between them. This is rooted in our experience with evolving software over time more generally and a live-at-head model. Any transition, whether based on backward compatibility or a migration plan, will require some manual intervention despite our best efforts, due to Hyrum's Law, and so we should acknowledge that upgrades require active migrations.

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
Not even wrong (imho)
art is not spreading a message, in some art someone see a message, and having a message someone put it in artistic form.
art is (beside all) about meaning, and is way wider than the realm of all possible messages or propagandas
Law is theory, court outcome is practice. In theory people should be able to protest effectively. In practice it will gain you a felony charge.
We do it like Hacker News. It's just another message, with > indicators. Globally, inline replies are A. Rare and B. Often used with prank intent (i.e. you can make it look like you're replying to something they didn't say).
Could you point to something specific that you believe promotes a culturally western/Abrahamic moral viewpoint, and then explain how you'd word it to also include the viewpoint of another culture, and what that culture is?
In the USA, you mean.
From a game theory perspective, it can make sense to punish future generations to prevent someone from YOLO'ing at the end of their life. But that only works if they actually care about their children, so perhaps it should be, "you are less responsible for the sins of your father the more seriously fucked in the head he is."
You're not saying anything that in any way contradicts my original post. Here, I'll simplify it - OpenAI's PPUs are not in any sense of the word "equity" in OpenAI, they are simply a subordinated claim to an unknown % of a hypothetical future profit.
Of course there are tons of other ways that Japanese society makes it easier to be skinny than American society does. Im just saying that some portion is the shame culture, not sure how much and not sure if its possible to figure that out, but I do know that Im not interested in trying that method.
Depends, I have the 32 inch 6k dell and the lg ergo, both are 60hz and have no issues. Mind you, I specifically use these two monitors for work whereas I do have a 240hz 4k Oled connected to my gaming pc next to it.

The initial 60hz feel is jarring but you quickly get used to it. At least that's the case for me.
What can you recommend?
I’m myself not bearish, but I think seeing what companies do with the current OpenAI APIs is pretty disappointing. I found out today that Logi+, a software to manage your Logitech devices has a “prompt builder” and can help you write your emails?! Couldn’t they find something more interesting to do with something as powerful as GPT4?

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-prompt-build...

I wouldn’t be surprised if my bank and insurance applications implements exactly the same features. And all of this will be removed in a few months or years when they realized it’s a terrible, expensive idea.

We will likely have a down to earth moment where companies who poorly invested in AI products will want to cut their losses.
Learning from and translating these values/mentalities/ways of seeing things is an interesting and valuable problem nevertheless.

(I know that these are complex and wicked problems, and using the word “translating” might sound like an oversimplification, but humans are incredibly adaptable)
For pair programming I recommend VSCode Live Share extension. So much better than screen share and dictating code changes.
Sure you can. You simply email one of the listed authors and ask them if the document is legit.
Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
They have multiple NDA's, including ones that are signed before joining the company [1].

[1]https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kovCotfpTFWFXaxwi/simeon_c-s...
60hz limits on displays should be a crime in 2024. At least hit 90hz, or preferably 120hz.
Siri original release came four or five years before Google assistant.
>because they rely on eastern values

That's almost bordering on orientalism. The fact that everything you do has a social dimension, that the way you live impacts the people around you is a true fact, not an eastern value. It's simply that we in the West ignore this at our own peril because we ideologically pretend that every man and woman is an island. That what any individual does has no impact on their surroundings, and for that reason that society cannot impose on our "private decisions". You can actually map out obesity spreading within families and communities like a viral disease.

That's why they have a 4% obesity rate spending almost nothing, why over here half the nations are obese despite spending hundreds of billions on individual livestyle fixes. They have a correct understanding of how societies work in this regard at least, we've given up on it. This is not about subjective cultural values.
Those same quibbles applied to the policy before the addition of the LLM section: how does the NetBSD project detect if I copy & paste a bunch of code from my day job into a patch submission (and then lie about it)? Obviously, they can't. I, personally, don't feel like it's a failure of the policy if it relies on your contributors acting in good faith, because:

a) many people are acting in good faith, and their behavior will change as a result of this policy;

b) if someone wants to be a jerk and use an LLM after they were told not to, and is at some later time found out, it makes it easier for the org to act quickly and in a fair and consistent manner;

c) [more speculative as to the motives of the NetBSD project] normative statements by well-regarded institutions are useful in setting an example for other organizations to follow, so there is some political utility regardless of the practical efficacy of these rules.
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games
Longcovid is a persistent infection of the SARS-Cov2 virus. It is not psychosomatic. Most of the symptoms can be explained by vascular inflammation and vascular damage in the various affected tissues throughout the body.

SARS and MERs survivors Longhauled as well. If you need more convincing, Feline infectious peritonitis is a coronavirus extremely similar to SARS-Cov2 and is persistent and can be cured with the same set of antivirals that help with COVID.
That's a very thorough reply and way more than I expected. I appreciate it, and it'll make me think more about this.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of reasonable perspectives on the current attitudes towards AI safety. Assuming that current employees have a secret they’re not sharing about what’s around the corner is just one of many reasonable possibilities.
I think it's just the pendulum swinging back the other way after it swung this way during the 19th to 20th centuries.

Being fat was considered appealing in ye olde times, because it indicated to your peers that you had more access to food. Being lean became popular (again) in more recent times, especially with advances in entertainment like cinema and fashion magazines.

Now that entertainment is lambasted for seeding unrealistic (and in some cases even harmful) expectations, so too has popularity for leanness waned.

The pendulum will swing back again, of course. Before being fat became appealing, the ancient Greeks and Romans certainly preferred lean figures, judging by all their marble statues and other cultural artifacts.
Whenever I see “programming monitor” I hope it’ll be another 5K+ high DPI display to compete with LG Ultrafine 5K, but here the horizontal resolution is <4000 pixels. People go on about 120hz displays but I really think 5k is much more important for programming where reading and writing text is the whole game.
> Haven’t seen much of that from Microsoft

Microsoft is the de facto controlling shareholder in OpenAI. They provide all the money, compute, and backing, and have full access to the models. If OpenAI collapsed tomorrow, Microsoft would absorb its key employees (as they almost did during the board debacle) and everything would continue under the Microsoft umbrella. “OpenAI” is just a shinier name for work that is being done under the near-total control of Microsoft.
But I‘d like Siri to have the comprehension and attention of the semibroken digital god. Knowing everything anyone has ever written might be a nice bonus.
Are there any LLM products yet that can navigate websites for you ?

Or perform operations on your local computer?
4K 27-32" monitors at 144hz or better are a commodity at this point, just get whatever is currently cheapest and has RTINGS seal of approval. LGs are generally a safe choice.

If you are a Mac user then you have to compromise though, 4K at those sizes isn't dense enough to meet Apples ~220dpi Retina standard, and the monitors that do meet that standard are all limited to 60hz (and hideously expensive). You either have to deal with Apples janky fractional DPI scaling, or put up with 60hz for now.
not sure, more vertical estate would be nice when working on the ugly Allman styled code but does this fit two buffers side by side?
Are global climate trends a non-linear, chaotic system the way short term local weather is? If not this sounds intentionally misleading.

I don't like to feed the trolls usually but I found it entertaining to see you mix and match a "be reasonable" tone with bonkers suggestions and irresponsible "just buy your way out of it later" proposals. In particular I laughed out loud when you handwaved away catastrophic temperature changes because we could try to intentionally change the climate by injecting aerosols. I guess that unpredictable, chaotic system is totally predictable when it supports the (in)action you prefer?

> And if temperatures rise too much then stratospheric aerosol injection is always an option.

This reads like bad faith.
> Doctors have to tip-toe around the issue lest some patients become offended.

As someone with a couple doctors in my family, that's BS if talking about any competent doctor. No, doctors may not say "You're super fat and better eat less", but that's because they're generally not assholes, not because they're "tip-toeing" around obesity. On the contrary, for many decades most doctors would say the same thing: "You're overweight. You have bad lab numbers (e.g. high A1C, high cholesterol, etc.) You need to diet and exercise."

Of course, that advice obviously made no difference at a societal level (Americans only got more obese) largely because of things pointed out in this article: cultural impacts of things like standard portion sizes, favored cuisines, ease of walking instead of needing to take a car everywhere, etc. swamped any once or twice a year advice of "you're overweight and need to diet and exercise more".
> Spam is not a technical problem

Spam is 100% a technical problem. Any "societal solution" will be orders of magnitude more expensive and less robust than technical solutions.
The article says Datascript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
> It's funny that they claim that "general purpose AI" has "advanced particularly rapidly" even though they didn't, nor can't, define what it even is.

I'm confused about what you are missing. You are quoting their definition. "General-purpose AI, or AI that can perform a wide variety of tasks". That's their definition. You might not like it but that is a definition.
The arcade version is great. I’ve had a lot of fun playing local co-op on the Nintendo Switch version as well.
it could also be written by a communist/terrorist/nazi/russian in Notepad on Windows XP. you can't fully tell.