skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son is a second grader who is behind on his english reading and writing. He's smart, able to understand and convey complex ideas, and can solve math problems beyond his grade level.

He is classified as learning disabled, and has IEP through the school district which gives him accommodations including access to assistive technologies--such as an OCR reader that will read the words on a page to him to allow him to answer questions.

At the very least, AI for ed-tech is the next evolution of those technologies, which may even be allowed without the need of a 504 or IEP (e.g. each student in his class has a school issued laptop).

I'm also curious what subjects would be made obsolete because of the power of AI assistants. I certainly was not taught Latin, and my kids will never need to learn cursive writing.
Of course not. Religion is a choice if one becomes religious as an adult. However, for the vast majority of religious people, they become religious at a young age, when they cannot make any choices.
It's still boosting the science profile of the mission to use it as test bed for Americium. There's a lot of science to be done in the Kuiper belt and further out where longevity may matter eventually simply because we wouldn't be sending repeat missions to each dwarf planet out there anytime soon.
It's your project to run as you please, of course.

My guess is that the attacks you draw will skip any basis in technical merit and land directly on the tone, proceeding on an emotional basis. We have an n=1 here with plenty of that behavior on display.

You'd like to believe that someone proposing Tree Notation for a project wouldn't be dismissed with "isn't that, like, the YAML for TimeCube guy?". But this is, in large part, how the world actually functions.
Native vertical tabs. About time! I hope they can match Sidebery’s functionality.
Pretending that they are anything but synonyms now is ridiculous and I'm glad the article pointed out that they are used that way instead of pretending that the older definitions still have merit like so many prescriptionist folks do.
Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 to fix bug that resurfaced deleted photos
I've been curious as to when games would implement any kind of these new technologies, but i think they are simply too slow for now?

I think we're at least 10-15 years from being able to run low latency agents that "rag" themselves into the games they are a part of, where there are 100's of them, some of them NPC's other's controlling some game mechanic or checking if the output from other agents is acceptable or needs to be run again.

At the moment a macbook air 16 gb can run Phi-Medium 14gb, which is extremely impressive, but it's 7 tokens per second, way to slow for any kind of gaming, you need to 100x performance and we need 5+ generations before i can see this happening.

Unless there's some other application?
Sure feels great trusting businesses to resist the scourge of government corruption. Yessiree:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
I've read that it such text usually was read out loud. Not sure if doing so actually make it easier to parse, but maybe latin was more phonetically regular than english?

whenwordseparationbecamethestandardsystemitwasseenasasimplificationofromanculturebecauseitunderminedthemetricandrhythmicfluencygeneratedthroughscriptiocontinua
This is on brand for him, he's been voicing his skepticism of LLMs for a long while now.
This comment is an offtopic rant about the bane of 2.5gbit nics. A discussion about how awesome and cheap 25gbit nics are (on iOS devices no less!) seems as good a place as any to bring it up.

2.5gbit nics are a boondoggle. They must contain the same 10gbit capable transceivers as any other n-base-t transceiver (because that's how they work) yet they are sold with the 5gbit and 10gbit rates disabled. Ostensably this is to limit power draw (and heat) but in most applications they are used those things aren't actually much of an issue.

What will it take to get non-nerfed 10gbit nics as standard offerings on consumer hardware? 2.5Gbit is simply not fast enough to move data in and out of modern systems with modern storage. It's a twisted joke that network connectivity is so shit on systems that otherwise bend over backwards to advertise how many thunderbolt and 10gbit usb ports they have.
Frankly, Qcom doesn't have the leadership to even attempt it. They make a lot of really questionable decisions, and basically only exist as a leader today because of a mountain of patents.
Yeah....I feel your pain. Honestly. Sorry to hear it. I think there's too many context-specific things I don't know about your situation for me to be overly helpful.

30 minutes ago, I was just complaining to a coworker how difficult it is to "package" an app and know that it will work, because so much of getting an app to build is outside the code base, outside the git repo. Things like keys, certificates, identities, provisioning profiles, freaking DUNS numbers, device IDs, IDE settings, build pipelines, anything involving push notifications, everything in Apple/Google Dev and store accounts, etc, etc. It's comical that it all even works.

Tracking down and deciphering the keys, certificates, and provisioning profiles has been the biggest hurdle for me. Code can always be tracked and changed.... But certificates are forever! Better not lose those, or their passwords, or you're sorry out of luck.

I imagine that's what you mean by a file of dependencies, because the app won't build until the provisioning profiles are squared away.

My best practice is to store EVERYTHING in a 1Password vault (keys, files, passwords, certificates) cause you never know when you'll need them again. Then I take lots of screenshots and write up a wiki in DevOps as I go along, because I will forget some setting or config by tomorrow. It's far too complex and layered to rely on my brain.
I just want to plug an nVidia GPU into my macbook pro.
> It is very difficult to see the version of a binary if its source is tracked in git.

come on, this should be done by your build system. it's pretty silly to not put this tiny amount of work in.
Open AI is already dealing with Microsoft, Microsoft already had a working relationship with Jen Taylor (Cortana), why not contract her and dodge the infringement and creepiness of stealing from Her?
Sam Altman's Fall from Grace
Context, I shared this because it sounded consistent with what I said previously about potential areas to explore in AI in case we want to make new progress. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333962
This is delightful! Thanks so much for sharing!
>Personal computers came standard with 1Gb interfaces in the early 00’s.

Standard? Definitely not. Only high end prosumer gear came with gigabit as standard in the early 00's. The vast majority of affordable consumer gear still had 10/100 Fast Ethernet well into late 00's and I even saw new laptops with it even early 2010's(!).
IINAL BUT, This depends on the state you live in, New Hampshire for example I believe your liability is much more limited.
In some cases, the law can be used to force the sale of an easement for access to a landlocked property. So, in that sense, it can amount to an emergency for you.

But it is still a sale.
Security > Performance could be an settings option.
One of the owners of my company moved to France for a few years. Which was important because if he stayed in the US he would have had to get an outside job instead of working for the company. That would have been bad.

It was all because child expenses and healthcare.
"I'd like to make a toast: to the troops. All the troops. Both sides."
Without going into the economics of it all, I know that most college students, myself included, didn't really need a dedicated place to study very often, if it all.

For those rare times where it could have been needed, we tended to use the University library...or literally any space on campus. Or studied at home for those of us that commuted.

Driving/Walking to a dedicated place would have been seen as wasted time better used elsewhere (studying/partying)
That's all well and good when you're test-driving, but when you're spelunking into a legacy codebase it can be awfully hard to identify "intent," so it's good to know when you've changed any observable behavior.
Is climate change making turbulence worse?
Related question: what's the minimum GPU that's roughly equivalent to Microsoft's Copilot+ spec NPU?

I imagine that Copilot+ will become the target minimum spec for many local LLM products and that most local LLM vendors will use GPU instead of NPU if a good GPU is available.
Why doesn’t it behave like a kitchen timer though? By that, I mean that no Start button would be needed, and that the time could be adjusted while the timer is running.
Alongside motorworks there are countless others: motorcycle, motorboat, motorway, motorhome, motel (hotel that you motor to), motor oil, motor mounts, etc. etc.
This sounds like a scoping issue
They do not. A model is the training set plus feature engineering scripts, not the resulting weights.
Very cool project, I love the drawing function, can bring to interesting ideas. Unfortunately, some songs are broken, MIDI file 404. The code tries to parse the empty response, instead of escaping early.
> You’re using these terms in a way that seems unorthodox

I don’t think so - see https://chatgpt.com/share/507ca1a4-43a3-4b30-afaf-08273ed54d...

(I just tried once)

This is of course not meant as proof or knowledge of any kind, but just that the way I’m using the words is what the “average” of how people in books and on the internet would use those words.

I don’t understand how “evolution and brain development” cause sensations to arise. What part of our biology is the part directly producing sentience experience? How would you explain why we experience anything instead of nothing? Can we replicate it in a non-biological system?
If its just for you, may I suggest Open AI's python notebook examples. This was the one I used to get started.

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/parse_pdf_docs_for_rag

There are several other examples like this .. but I got stuck in jargon of Langchain or LlamaIndex etc..
Have you written that story to Khan academy?
In Bipartisan Vote Senate Passes Senator Wiener's AI Safety and Innovation Bill
Yeah I thought it was broken on iOS too, then flipped the silent switch and it worked.
(not OP but I would be surprised if the answer wasn't) yes, because you're changing the order in which the random draws are interpreted. But this isn't a problem in practice because you generally aren't changing the generator in the middle of debugging a failure.
He said:

She may well have a point but after that I could only see her as an unhinged contrarian.

You're the one talking about cancelling, not him. We all have the freedom to listen to who we want.
Speaking of Pharo, for those interested, enrollment is opening for the advanced MOOC scheduled to start next month: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/advanced-object-oriented-...
If you pluck one of the sets of strings, it's like strumming. But you can pluck them individually, which is definitely NOT strumming.
Go look at their official publications and live streams, it couldn't be easier than that.
and clearly parent is not okay with choosing to give the information behind the webgl api
There are advantages to docker, but also disadvantages. Definitely the same w/ "curl | sh" That's all I was trying to allude to, tongue in cheek.
You may also find this very detailed post interesting https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regular-expression-imp...

It's an indepth look at where regex in dotnet was prior to and after version 7.
Pachelbel is slightly more complicated than the default here, five chords instead of four (adding iii - F#m in the key of D that he used, or Em in the key of C which is the key that this defaults to). So I guess that makes Pachelbel a god among men.
I'm not sure how modifying the compiler is relevant to the point. I think it's the general trend that early in languages lives its much easier to contribute to the tools, after decades of amassing improvements (such as yours!) they tend to become less accessible.

But regardless, the "rewrite in rust" advocacy has created a significant opportunity for projects created by single people, without outside review and often without significant domain expertise (at least where they are slavish re-implementations of existing code), to be proposed as replacements for longstanding stable tools. Whatever the merits of that chance it's also dream for someone looking to introduce new vulnerabilities. Even where the replacement itself is reviewed it will usually come with a massively expanded dependency footprint which isn't.
Right. "Inconsistent candor" is a euphemism for "liar, liar, pants on fire!" that won't get one sued for libel or slander.
If there were single genes that produced high intelligence scientists probably would have found one by now. Those sorts of traits are almost certainly highly polygenic. Any single gene is likely to have both small and unpredictable contributions to the traits in question. Even totting up all your "good" and "bad" genes to try to come up with a genetic score is fraught due to complicated interactions; perhaps two "good" genes interact badly and make a bad result, or similar.
It's like debt. If I'm standing on the ground, I'm constantly "making payments" to the ground. If I jump off a cliff, then while I am falling, I stop making payments, so when I next contact the ground, accumulated debt suddenly must be paid.

More precisely, while I am falling, my velocity and consequently my momentum relative to the Earth steadily increases, which is analogous to debt because I will eventually need to restore the situation in which my momentum relative to the Earth is zero (because that is how people live their lives: at rest relative to the surface of the Earth rather than for example in orbit).

In the same way, the passenger in the airplane must eventually go back to being at rest relative to the airplane, but if the seat belt is very loose, "debt" (momentum relative to the airliner) can be accumulated before all the slack has been taken out of the seat belt.

Yes, the total amount of impulse (change in momentum caused by the environment's pushing on the person) integrated over time is the same regardless of how tight the seat belt is, but it matters whether that impulse is spread out over time or comes in one big jolt.
Is there any validity to the idea of using a higher-level LLM to generate the initial data, and then copying that data to a lower-level LLM for actual use?

For example, another comment asked:

"If I have a big pile of PDFs and wanted to get an LLM to be really good at answering questions about what's in all those PDFs, would it be best for me to try running this locally?"

So what if you used a paid LLM to analyze these PDFs and create the data, but then moved that data to a weaker LLM in order to run question-answer sessions on it? The idea being that you don't need the better LLM at this point, as you've already extracted the data into a more efficient form.
Personal answer: I cannot read Perl. I've checked it out a few times and the syntax looks alien to me.

Meanwhile, Amber looks perfectly readable, despite the fact that I've never used it. Maybe this is because Amber looks closer to languages that I'm used to. But I'd have a much easier time with it than any Perl script I've ever looked at. This is regarding personal, on-my-computer use cases.

Professionally, I think most of my coworkers would also have an easier time with this than Perl scripts, but of course, I could be wrong.
> If you had progressive taxation that would essentially prevent any entity from acquiring power to rival the state.

We have progressive taxation. That doesn't matter because fixed costs are fixed.

If it costs $30,000/year to live, someone who makes $30,000/year will accumulate no wealth even if you tax them at 0%, because all of their income is going to food and rent and utilities. Whereas someone who makes a billion dollars a year will accumulate wealth even if you tax them at 90%, because the remaining 10% is still a hundred million dollars and after you subtract out $30,000, or even $250,000, there is still nearly the entire hundred million dollars left. Then that hundred million dollars collects interest every year going forward.

Trying to use taxation also ignores that the problem isn't actually billionaires. Corporations have more money than any individual, but the largest ones are publicly traded, so that would still be the case even if no individual shareholder had a lot of wealth. Because the corporation would, and its executives would thereby be in control of those resources and use them to capture the government.

It also ignores that you don't have to be a single entity to capture the government. For example, many professional licensing requirements purposely take a long time to satisfy (e.g. multi-year apprenticeship requirements) to create barriers to entering those trades. Not because General Electric wants to limit the supply of electricians, but because local electricians do, and together they represent a significant voting block. Landlords and homeowners capture zoning boards to inhibit housing construction, not because any of them individually have a monopoly, but because they all want housing prices to go up at the expense of people outside the local jurisdiction who have been priced out of the local area by the zoning restrictions and thereby don't get a vote.

> If you look away for a second, there is going to be some corporation trying to re-write the tax code or do away with regulations.

Why is it that the largest corporations and most corrupt organizations are the ones asking for regulations? DMCA 1201 wasn't enacted out of popular demand. The National Association of Realtors hasn't been lobbying to relax zoning rules. The telcos are the ones who want those laws prohibiting anybody from competing with them. Certificate of Need laws don't exist for the benefit of the public.

Corrupt regulations don't exist because of oversized corporations, oversized corporations exist because of corrupt regulations. If the megacorps didn't exist, all it would take is for some small organization with contacts to a powerful legislator to get something snuck into a bill, and soon the small organization is a megacorp with the power to keep those laws on the books. There were no trillion dollar corporations in 1913 or 1791, but there was Congress, so we don't have to wonder which came first.

What you need is to constrain the legislators from passing those laws to begin with, regardless of whether they start off at the behest of a billionaire or a trade organization or just the Senator's brother-in-law.
Granola: AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
I'm going to be straight forward with you: You're wrong. Not everybody can sit their butts down and go through every word in a textbook. Watching videos on Youtube helps a lot, along with other methods.

Don't believe me? Look at those school tutorials on Youtube. Look at all the math videos, science videos and other topics. And I'm not talking about people who build cool DIY stuff and explain it at the surface level. I'm talking about people going through a school curriculum. There are kids who actually watch this, believe it or not, and it's wonderful.

This counters your statement which is "people don't want to learn". That's simply untrue. Everyday we are learning something new. You may not want to learn whatever they're teaching in school, but you will want to learn other things. And I think a personal tutor, especially a cheaper one, like Khan's AI tutor, will help a lot.
From the article, at least one Conservative MP thinks that's a reason to wait longer:

> Privately, there is confusion in at least some parts of the Conservative Party about why Rishi Sunak decided to call the general election sooner than was widely expected. “I just don’t understand it,” one Conservative MP said. “The economy is improving. Why not give that more time to bed in?”
Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare
This could also be a good thing in that they may not be even close to real AGI.
Not quite. I don't ascribe completely to the notion that we can't figure stuff out. But we do need to be careful about assuming that things like 3d topology (aka "inside", "outside", when the mathematical spaces we're looking might have no equivalent concept), cause/effect -- or even the spatial dimensions themselves -- are fundamental. Particularly when we're talking about black holes. It's hard, because our brains are optimized to deal with this very specific slice of spacetime we've evolved in, so we keep falling back into the trap of our words.
So by "homogeneous" you don't really mean homogeneous, you mean upstanding people who don't commit a lot of crime or problems?

Eastern Europe is much more homogeneous than western Europe, there is also more crime and problems there, so I don't see a strong link between the two at all.
I think the elephant in the room with this discussion is homelessness. Aside from public parks and libraries though, I think you can quantify that churches, social clubs and bars are in decline. While these places still exist, many of the options that people used to exercise for going out in public are no longer being considered as much.
I love that we've gone from "AI" to "AGI" as the buzz word in a matter of months.
If you have a sense of the song and it's not to your liking, don't be too pluckable.
This is a stupid take, frankly. Lots of crime in major American cities would go away if much more affordable housing was available. High cost of living causes poverty and stress, which can lead to drug use and mental illness. It's very obvious that these things are related.
Is the vector method really faster than mask/subtract/compare?

They never really say in the article.
Oh hey, it does. But why? (Seems like the same thing is true on actual physical strings.)
Tesla's Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low
what are some of the other directions then? any ideas?
Meta and NSA have said before that they don't care about content of a message, but metadata. They what to know who with who, where and when.
Gato and RoboCat[0] are examples of what transformer architectures with environment/action tokens can accomplish. These are pretrained with visual and experiential data, but ultimately are "simply generating the next token". This is why it's likely that transformers are capable of AGI, and the top models are no longer strictly LLMs since they are multimodal.

[0] https://deepmind.google/research/publications/35829/
People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem
That's an very good point about the radiators—you need some overcapacity with a fast-decaying radioisotope, so you will need more heat dissipation.

It's still not a close call, as far as I can tell (I'm not a domain expert). If you plan for even 20 years operating life, then your initial heat dissipation (for Pu-238) would be 1.17 of the nominal power at t+20 years, due it its radioactive decay. The largest RTG, GPHS-RTG, has 13.0 kg of "housing and fins" [0]; if you scale that linearly by 1.17 that would add +2.2 kg.

On the flip side, the isotope mass that emits 4,500 Watts of heat goes from 8.3 kg of Pu-238, to 39.5 kg of Am-241—that's +31.2 kg.

This is relative to a total mass (GPHS-RTG) of 56.0 kg.

(To preempt anyone complaining that this are small quibbles: the total dry mass of New Horzions [1], which contained one of these RTG's, is 401 kg).

[0, pdf] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080003866/downloads/20... (table 1 on page 3, "State-of-the-art RPS. Comparing existing GPHS-RTG with near-term MMRTG and SRG110")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
I'm trying to help people here.

It just starts a lame language war thread while being dismissive of and incurious about the thing being discussed. Things the site docs ask you to avoid as they reliably generate more noise than interesting conversation.