skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your analogy inadvertently once again emphasizes the point. Now change it from being a rabbit and a turtle, to an unknown animal and some non-animal thing pretending to be another unknown animal. And you have to guess which is which. It would be effectively impossible to figure anything out, because you have absolutely no basis to work from.

It'd be possible to get an idea if there was some box movement that was unique to animals. That's not particularly interesting because it's fairly uncontroversial that a box-sized robot could very accurately imitate an animal through the medium of box movement, but for a bot to imitate a human through the medium of text (seen as a sufficiently general interface to test "almost any one of the fields of human endeavour that we wish to include") is interesting to many.

But, the concept the analogy was demonstrating was really just basic reasoning. That, if you're given X xor Y and have evidence of Y, you should tend towards Y even lacking direct evidence for/against X. Do you agree that, in my example, you would choose the box giving some evidence of being a rabbit over the one that gives none?

> LLMs are trained on nothing except the corpus of human knowledge. It is literally impossible for them to e.g. accidentally say something that it's inconceivable for a human to say

Depends on what you mean by "inconceivable", but it's certainly possible for it to say things that it is unlikely for a human to say due to the bot's limitations (at the extreme, consider a Markov chain). And, even if only saying things that a human could just as well say, if those things are also trivial for a bot to say it is poor evidence of personhood.

> And no, always giving bad answers it not a failing strategy. As I mentioned, the scenario I'm describing is not a hypothetical. The Turing Test (or at least yet another abysmal bastardization of it) [...]

To put relevant emphasis on my claims:

> > Always giving bad answers just because humans can also give a bad answer is already a failing strategy with low success rate when the test is carried out as Turing specified

> > Then the real human B would, on average, offer far more compelling evidence of personhood and the bot would fail the majority of the time. I don't see how this issue affects Turing's proposed version of the experiment.

I agree that there are ways to bastardize the test. If for instance you have no second player that you must choose between (have to say A xor B is a bot), then just remaining silent/incoherent to give no information either way can be a reasonable strategy. As with all benchmarks, you also need a sufficient number of repeats such that your margin of error is low enough - fooling a handful of judges does not give a good approximation of the bot's actual rate.

I'd even claim it's a bit of a bastardization to use Turing's 30% prediction (of where we'd be by 2000) to reduce the experiment down to just pass or fail. Ultimately the test gives a metric for which the human benchmark is 50%.
Last time I tried an hdpi display on linux it was not good. But that was a couple years ago so I assumed things would probably be much better now. Was curious if it is still bad.
There are many reasons including prevalence of fast food locations, ultraprocessed foods, food marketing, car culture, social tolerance, and sedentary lifestyles. So much would have to change in America, including attitudes, to make a dent.

PS: Ozempic is not for weight management, it's for blood sugar control. Wegovy is a higher dose for weight management and not covered by Medicare discriminating against all causes of obesity without nuance.
Because 'lab grown self-organizing brain samples continue to grow after being frozen' is a little less appealing than the clickbait title
I think Ritchie's influence while significant is overblown and not entirely positive. I am not a fan of Steve Jobs, who had many reprehensible traits, but I find it ridiculous to dismiss his genius. Frankly, I find Jobs's ability to manipulate people more impressive than Ritchie's ability to manipulate machines.
> I don’t know what the answer is, but I too believe things won’t change until the day someone figures out how to push a “kill all humans” OTA update to all the self-driving cars on some random Tuesday afternoon.

Even in that case I’m pessimistic that any action will happen. People will go on TV and say grave things, hearings will be held. Fingers will be pointed. Task Forces will kick off. Reports will be written. Bureaucrats will have stern conversations with bureaucrats. Politicians will say: we must this and we shall that. IT companies will sell their “solutions”. But no actual action will happen. It will be all talk and commerce but no actual hands unplugging and plugging in cables. We have completely lost the societal will to actually do anything besides generate words and reports.
But that itself is just a special-case of the principal-agent problem.
I just imagined dying and then noticing myself thinking again but without any sensory inputs; freaky stuff.
> Note Milton's italic e, hooks and curls on letters and distinctive s's.

The Ses look about as normal as could be to me. What's distinctive about them?

If anything, I'm surprised John Milton's handwriting looks so similar to modern handwriting.
The portals in prey were cool but, definitely the games Portal and Portal 2 are places you could see it elsewhere. Also in portal you can actually choose where the portals are, whereas Prey's portals were fixed in place
I will not vote. But give me US salaries in Germany please. All these €100k@35 hours workweek offers are boring. It’s almost top salary for senior level developers at big companies. Mostly no stock at all. I will sign probably every shady document for one million € stock compensation.
Setting aside theories around state directed strategies around favouring exports etc shouldn't we expect, in the dull normal case, a remarkable amount of exports from China given that they're a very large country that is dramatically larger than most?
Everyone has outsourced all their cheap and low-quality manufacturing to China, therefore China is only capable of manufacturing cheap, low quality items. Is this your argument?
This reads like a skit.

Divide your time in communication and focus work. After 3 units of work, do 1 unit of communication. Or any other ratio.

Work from home for x days l, then work at the office for y days.

Work for five units of time, then don't work for two units of time. We can call it week and weekend.
Don't most modern video games run a physics thread at fixed rate in addition to the rendering one?

I remember Quake 3 still having that issue, but that was in '99...
This looks interesting but 4.2k stars for a js app that shows readily available LLMs is fishy.....

I mean it's nothing ground breaking. I guess the AI bubble is real :)
AI safety is of existential importance to the human race. AI safety is used by market incumbents to create an artificial moat. Both things can be true.
Definitely, we've seen this in fiber cuts before. That said a degraded availability is better than no availability.

I know it's controversial in the context of net neutrality but personally I'd be okay with traffic shaping/prioritization for critical infra in cases such as this. Keep the power plants, emergency services, military, government, transit running over intsagram and netflix when things come down to it.
My understanding is that GLP-1 affects appetite, and thus affects diet. And one of the reasons people quit GLP-1 long-term is because they miss eating and enjoying food.[1]

> The drugs work by activating GLP-1 receptors in the body in a way that reduces appetite, alters gut function, and may impact addiction pathways.[2] However, adherence to the drugs long-term is a challenge, as many people stop taking them after some time.

[1]: https://youtu.be/d3X3HPp44b8?t=951

[2]: https://youtu.be/d3X3HPp44b8?t=239
Is there a non-paywalled version of this?
Netherlands is a bicycle country. There are fucking bicycle highways and extensive safe, multimode traffic design patterns everywhere. I've ridden them from Amsterdam through the countryside to Belgium.

And you haven't been to Los Angeles, Texas, or Florida if you call Netherlands a "car country".
One time in Highschool at a party we played a game of “Fugitive” across a few miles of neighborhood. I don’t think anyone crossed any private property, but the police showed up and told us “You’re scaring the heck out of some people”. We’d basically finished up anyway.

It’s tragic that this kind of fun gets quashed. Arguably avoidable with a little community communication. I generally think it’s a product of fear-mongering. People being told that their neighborhoods are under attack from nebulous “others” who don’t look or sound like them. A ghost story.
I always wondered if you can orbit inside the event horizon of a large black hole and wait until its hawking radiation shrinks the event horizon so that you find yourself outside. You would have to wait a long time I guess.
The Chernoff bound needed in this work can be derived from Binomial distribution (with Stirling's approximation);

I have worked on pairwise independent hash functions for a decade and every time I introduce such a function, it feels like magic. The notion of pairwise independence is easy to explain but the notion of pairwise independent hash functions isn't.

The other strength of our work is that it can work for general settings of sets for which pairwise independent hash functions are not known. Please see: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3452021.3458333
The irony is that they were scrapped after unsuccessfully trying and failing to align OpenAI by forcing out Sam Altman.

Sam Altman completely outsmarted and outmaneuvered them.

If they lost so badly to Sam Altman, they are deluded if they think they can align a super-human intelligence.
> If the lefties can have their pronouns and the rednecks can shoot their guns can the basilisk build its Dyson swarm?

Can the Etoro practice child buggery and the Spartans infanticide and the Canadians abortion? Can the modern Germans stop siblings reared apart from having sex and the Germans from 80 years stop the disabled having sex? Can the Americans practice circumcision and the Somali's FGM?

Libertarianism is all well and good in theory, except no one can agree quite where the other guy's nose ends or even who counts as a person.
Just come to US pls. It is the whole package you sign up for not just the salaries. Shitty food, healthcare etc.
The statistics for those doing more exercise and those suffering from obesity are likely describing two different groups of people.
> contributed some code to an N64 emulator named UltraHLE

That's a blast from the past, I distinctly remember reading up about UltraHLE way back when and then trying it our and for the first time being able to play Ocarina of Time on my middle class PC with almost no issues, that was magical.
The question you replied to wasn't "why should you believe someone who says they are behind a piece of research", it was about the usefulness of receiving an email saying it.

Their point (I assume) was that it would be illogical to worry that the report might be written and released by AI yet consider an email response as evidence against it.

If AI can create and release this report it can also hijack a real person's email or create a fake persona that pretends to be a real person.
A few years ago I became interested in the cryonics movement.

What I find most interesting about it aren't the kooks and weirdos that are into cryonics, but the visceral reaction that your average Joe has to the idea.

The average opinion about cryonics seems to range from 'That is impossible' to 'why would you want that?'. But if you ask that same average Joe about a cure for cancer they're likely to say that it's been done and the rich just horde it for themselves.

It's weird that they don't see things like cures for cancer, regrowing organs, age slowing drugs etc... as all part of a pathway to the same thing which is a technological solution to many causes of aging and death.

Unlocking the ability to grow and store organs or even just store donated organs cryogenically is highly desirable from an economic standpoint has it frees up so many resources (1pc of US GDP is spent on dialysis alone) so if there's a technological means to do it we're going to find a way sooner or later.

And once we've found a way to freeze and revive large parts of the body it's just a gruesome divide and conquer from there...
The climate models aren't based on accurate data, nor enough data, so they lack integrity and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Likewise, the cloud seeding they seem to be doing nearly worldwide now - the cloud formations from whatever they're spraying - are artificially changing weather patterns, and so a lot of the weather "anomalies" or unexpected-unusual weather-temperatures could very easily be because of those shenanigans; it could very easily be as a method to manufacture consent with the general population.

Similarly with the arson forest fires in Canada last summer, something like 90%+ of them were arson + a few years prior some of the governments in the prairie provinces (e.g. hottest and dryest) gutted their forest firefighting budgets; interesting behaviour considering if they're expecting more things to get hotter-dryer, you'd add to the budget, not take away from it, right?
>All Xs have Ys.

>A Z is an X.

>Therefore a Z has Ys.

I am fairly certain variations of this are in the training set. The tokens following that about "in reality Zs not having Ys" are due to X, Y, and Z being incongruous in the rest of the data.

It is not not performing a logical calculation, it is predicting the next token.

Explanations of simple logical chains are also in the training data.

Think of it instead as really good (and flexible) language templates. It can fill in the template for different things.
This sounds really frustrating. I've not owned an electric car, but am all for them. Can you not charge without the specific app for each brand of charger? Does your debit card not work?

I did a 10 day, 12 country road-trip around Europe once in a Jap supercar and the trickiest bits were persuading the Italians who want to pump your gas that I need to add some octane booster because their gas was so crappy (the land of the supercar?), getting kidnapped at a Shell station in France, and getting shook down by Hungarian cops.

Are you enjoying the trip otherwise? I would think it would be a blast in a Taycan. Did you do the Alps? Does your car have a speed governor? I thought 145mph on the Autobahn would be good, but everyone drives on their limiters and I was a traffic hazard; I had to stay above 160mph to be "safe".
to the soup kitchen, yes, you are, if they aren't paying you.
Show HN: Yet another take on a boilerplate
Hey HN!

I launched my take on a boilerplate using SvelteKit and tools in the Svelte ecosystem like SkeletonUI.

I'm sure there's some fatigue with boilerplates but I had yet to find anything that I liked using Svelte. Let me know what you think!
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones
What leads to highly bonded teams?
I'm doing some research for a book on team bonding. If you have ever been on a highly bonded team and have ideas about what circumstances led to the bonding I'd love your thoughts.
How do you suppose the nearly global cloud seeding effort to artificially form clouds is impacting shifting weather patters?
Do any of these fit the bill?

Plane: https://plane.so/

Kanboard: https://kanboard.org/

Taiga: https://taiga.io/

Redmine (which OpenProject is a fork of): https://www.redmine.org/

Teambox: https://www.teambox.com/

GitLab (more than just issues): https://about.gitlab.com/
> Why?

Because I run a lot, and was steadily gaining weight. Stopping eating all desserts, pies, boxes of cookies, candy, soda, etc. resulted in slowly losing weight. I still eat high fat foods, chips, cheese, etc.
I'm no fan of Elon Musk or Tesla, but this is just a woman who decided not to use the manual release so she could make a video saying that she was stuck.

Typical influencer bs.
Nice. Brings back memories of playing Capture the Flag at night at Warren Dunes State Park long ago as a Boy Scout. A quick Google search shows kids are still doing that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Dunes_State_Park
https://www.glencoescouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/W...
That's kind of the definition of the event horizon. You cannot be 'safe' once you're inside. All paths lead to the event horizon. No matter which direction you point, you're pointed at it.
Small mammals up to the size of hamsters can successfully be cryogenically frozen and revived significantly later. So while the same thing working on small samples of human tissue is completely expected it’s still useful research for organ transplants etc.

All that cryogenic preservation that showed in science fiction is somewhat realistic even if we can’t do it yet and it’s probably going to require extensive surgery beforehand to enable rapid cooling.
I think one of the potentially bigger things that doesn't yet exist is an easy way for non-developers to build their own packages with whatever options they want. By easy I mean a GUI tool that works across the majority of projects out there, and on any distro.
Self-driving taxis are available in only a handful of cities around the world. This is far from progress. And how often are those taxis secretly controlled by an Indian call center?
Lol. Yep. That's pretty much the average temp all year. It's why everyone has a driver over there... take me from the door of point A directly to the door of point B :(
She could have used the manual release to exit the car, but she said she did not want to, so no real story here.
This is like someone saying "I am much more worried about the implications of dumb humans using flintlock muskets in the near term, then I am about the theoretical threat of machine guns and nuclear weapons." Surely the potential for both misuse and mistakes goes up the more powerful the technology gets.
This is neat!

But you can also just store the jars upside down in the fridge. No need to stir.
Some people manage projects that aren't software at all. Git has little utility for construction documents, and big construction design projects may involve interdisciplinary teams of dozens of people of widely varying cost and availability.
> whose bright idea was it to start building from Bakersfield to Merced

Someone that's good with maps and realizes it adding 17 miles to the route runs the line through the side of the valley where several million people live. Vs the side where no one lives.

If you think about it I5 through the central valley is a dumb idea. It's 27 miles shorter yes, and runs 250 miles through the middle of nowhere.
If you have a Vitamix, you can use roasted peanuts and just make your own preanut butter. It's trivial. No separation to worry about either.
This is a misunderstanding of the term: "pain text" sits opposite of "rich text", formats where the markup is part of the content. The terms are at a higher level of abstraction than just encoding, rich text being things like xml/html or word documents that require specialized parsers to retrieve the content. Plain text refers to files that don't have that kind of special markup language.
It’s kind of like you’re asking why people in AA like getting their 5 year chip. Having an external “thing”, even if it’s of token monetary value, can be a huge motivation to keeping clean. It helps give focus and grounding and makes you feel like you’re working towards something in what can otherwise be a very long and lonely path to sobriety.
It's slowly getting better, and depending on what you're doing you may or may not run into issues, but it's still leagues behind e.g. Windows 10.
> Janel admitted she could have used the manual release, but fear of damaging her car kept her from trying it.

Does the manual release have the potential to damage the car?
> A simple example would be "if you care caught doing AI research, you are to pay the people who caught you 10 times your yearly total comp in cash."

That sounds like a prime example of perverse incentive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

> A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers.

For example, the British government offering a bounty on dead cobra snakes lead to a large number of cobra breeders.

Your proposal is conceptionally similar to the Alberta Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act (fourth bullet point): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#Community_s...
Chinese coworkers with code review and visibility are more trustworthy than Chinese open-source developers.
> That is the kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours.

Really? You believe the Russian claim that it attacks its neighbours because they're mumbling about NATO membership?

Russia attacks its neighbours because it regrets its loss of a "zone of influence" at the end of the Cold War. Like all former imperial powers (I'm a Brit!), loss of empire is hard to swallow.
> That is the kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours.

Only if you subscribe to the argument that Russia has no intention to gobble up countries west of it at least to the furthest extent of USSR and its satellites.

No European neighbors of Russia subscribe to that anymore. Finland and Sweden were the last holdouts who thought that having a "responsible" diplomacy would prevent war with Russia, but the absurd and fabricated excuses Russia uses to justify the invasion of Ukraine have destroyed almost overnight all credibility of that line of thought.

Assuming imperialistic intentions, staying neutral and out of alliances only lowers the cost of invasion for Russia. If Russia decides to invade a country like Poland, then at the moment they risk a large multinational response that can go far-far beyond Poland's own means, up to a nuclear war. If Poland didn't have solid allies, the potential cost associated with the invasion would be considerably smaller for Russia.
Keep in mind that Apple's AMX is pretty much undocumented and not guaranteed to be stable, so the effort invested into integrating reverse engineered work might not be the best allocation of resources. Particularly now that M4 supports ARM SME which is the "official" extension (though not yet offered via hardware intrinsics in .NET (pretty much no hardware on the market supports it as of now), with the closest one in the form of SVE2 coming in .NET 9).

I did look once at back-end implementations and contributing either Metal back-end or adapting Vulkan back-end to run on top of MoltenVK seemed much more realistic.

With that said, OpenCL already works as is so you are not completely unsupported.
To be fair, chances of Tesla refusing warranty due to small print in the manual about not using manual release during fw upgrades: non-zero.
They need to justify having it in the first place, that's why it'll get dispatched for less than needed situations. Use it or lose it.
Once when it happened to me and the whole gang responded, the "lead responder" was clear that he considered that this was a bullshit call and that WE totally had the right to do what we were doing and HE was sorting out a nuisance call to the police. He may also have been playing "good cop" - it's not like I was trusting him. While one of his buddies had parting words for me: "Do you realize what it looked like <insert saucer eyes>?" and "It could have been XXXXX, so of course police has to respond."

About a helicopter, the problem is compounded because that whole outfit needs some quota of flying hours to remain certified. It might be a boring area, and any opportunity to take it out and fly then counts as training, if nothing else can be written up for that flight. That there is a helicopter guarantees that it will be used. And same for SWAT and such.