skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're doing bad math. My point is that a shitty, low-cost middle-American diet greatly exceeds the caloric burn of walking, across any time window you choose.

I mean, it's obviously better to walk than to not, but I'm claiming the dominant factor is sugar-bomb drinks and fatty foods (which isn't at all a novel claim anyway). Walking only barely chips away at that.
Construction of the Sodium Reactor Experiment
Constant update rate is a must, and can even be tweaked to minimize input latency if you are using a custom engine.

Using two frames to interpolate at render time is adding one frame of latency.

It is possible to do it on a single frame, extrapolating instead of interpolating, but you have to use a simple but uncommon trick to make it robust.

The latency gain is not a full frame but some sizeable fraction of a frame, I think it is worth it for some games.
> which seems to mean the condition didn't worsen.

That is indeed what it means. The other metric you'll see is Overall Survival, which also is what it sounds like it is.
Nice work!

Emacs folks may also like the Maxima mode, a very capable interface to a full-blown CAS: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MaximaMode
> haven't thought that air travel can be made significantly better

I wonder if it could be made significantly worse. Leg room has been reduced overtime as far as I can tell. I’m 198cm, and it’s actually hell. I probably need to just pay more and go nearer the front, however this would only solve the legroom problem. The seats are too low and aren’t even close to supporting someone tall. I’m in NZ so everything is far away, and 18+ hour flights are actually awful.
I haven't been going to the gym in a while, but when I did there were a lot of people mostly looking at their phones and not doing much exercise. It was noteworthy when I ran on the treadmill that I saw other people actually running on them instead of merely walking.

I'd guess that many people going to the normal gyms aren't getting much out of it. Combined with the drive to and from the gym, and often getting a snack or something along the way, I have doubts that going to the gym is an efficient use of their time.

(the expensive, specialized gyms like Crossfit or climbing that cost much more are completely different)
Ask HN: What everyday repetitive task SHOULD AI Agents automate?
As engineers and builders, I know we would love to automate everything. Still, some things shouldn't be automated, such as responding to a loved one, scrolling Instagram, or watching movies.

I've seen hypothetical demos of AI helping to plan trips. In reality, I don't think I want to do that. I'd instead plan my trip, pick destinations and activities and check out the hotels/Airbnbs myself.

So I'm curious: What do you do daily on your mobile devices (phones and laptops) that you think SHOULD be automated?
Google domain migration to square space has started
Discussion 2 days ago [0] (82 points, 69 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382783
It will keep latency constant, at right the amount you tested the game with.
Is that what humanity is doing now?
A relevant project in a sense that it's an always expanding collaborative pixel infinite (sort of) canvas is https://ourworldofpixels.com/ it's similar in being a very detailed and huge.

Reddit /r/place might have been inspired by this or this by /r/place. On here you will find some special worlds, e.g. there is one with so many ships drawn, one with flags, one with a huge fantasy world map. There may be more interesting ones but these are the ones I discovered.

https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim

https://ourworldofpixels.com/planetsim

https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld

There is also https://yourworldoftext.com which is same idea but in text format.
LLMs don't reason. Without reasoning, you don't have AGI.

I can't wait until we're past the peak on the hype cycle because people's understanding of what these models can and can't do or how close we are to AGI isn't grounded in reality.
Yes! It's debatable current models demonstrate any kind of "intelligence", but AGI is so far off it's ridiculous to even mention it. But not everyone's delusional. Here's what Yann Le Cun is currently saying:

> It seems to me that before "urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us" we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat.

and

> don't confuse the superhuman knowledge accumulation and retrieval abilities of current LLMs with actual intelligence

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1791890883425570823
I dabble with the CP/M simulator in z80pack.

And I had to use stty to make it work better from the command line. At least from BASH on MacOS.

Minimally, you need to disable ^Z, or you send it into the background. ^Z is the EOF character for text files in CP/M.

The other is ^Y. Which is another suspend process command for BASH. ^Y is important for Turbo Pascal, it’s a key editing command.

I don’t think I’ve have to fix any others. Those two have let me do what I want so far.
Bill Gates the day of any OS release.

He was good at always saying the current version selling is the best, never a future version.

And for windows 3 and windows 95, he definitely called the old versions trash.

In comparison, they were.
These are Boeings we're talking about.
Yes they do, only if it's competitors AI. if they cared for their own they wouldn't have dismantled the team at openAi or tried to shut Unofficial whistle-blowers by challenging their equity.
Previously on HN (55 points, 2 months ago, 12 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39750598
I was making a descriptive statement, not a normative one. Regardless of your political views, I don’t think you are accurately describing the state of the law.

I also think you are frankly getting caught in black and white thinking. Yes, some companies abuse things like non-disparagement clauses, but they can also be used in a perfectly fine manner.

The carve outs typically say something like “you agree to not disparage the Company, provided nothing herein prohibits you from speaking out about workplace harassment, conduct prohibited by the National Labor Relations Act, or [other speech/laws that local law might say you can’t restrict].”

Terminations are emotionally fraught. People’s egos get hurt and it becomes contentious. A company might want to pay you 3 months severance to end on good terms and avoid a larger dispute, but have it be contingent on a release of claims and non disparagement clause. That does not mean it’s because they “have something to hide”.

For example, these clauses are often mutual. Does the terminated executive have something to hide?

I agree that coercively using NDAs and non-disparagement clauses to hide illegal conduct (harassment, labor law violations) is probably illegal and immoral.

But should OpenAI and Ilya be allowed to agree to a mutual non-disparagement, where both wish each other well, instead of having Sam post publicly about how Ilya is a backstabbing disloyal person that can’t be trusted, and Ilya posting about how Sam is a maniacal power hungry awful boss? These are personality conflicts and workplace disagreements, not illegal conduct.
If I’m not mistaken, yes. I believe the flight cost is 300-5k+

Fixed wing planes like Cessna 172s are in the ballpark of 100/hr.
Safe for whom or what? Who are we protecting from AI again? Are they aiming to protect the interests of the many, or the interest of a few?
GPT4o didn’t even need to be better than GPT4 in any benchmarks. Being conversational and running in real time, is such a big difference user experience wise, that the fact that they beat GPT4 is just cherries on top. And it’s almost quasi confirmed that GPT-5 has been trained and that it’s undergoing red teaming and safety checks now and it will be out in the summer, further cementing their 1 year lead.
The user ID that asked the question looks to have last answered a question in 2016.

I'm not sure what this means. Have we asked and answered all the good questions already?
Even Duolingo repeatedly cites French workers being on strike (en grève) in its examples. They sound peaceful, but inconvenient.
I vividly remember people saying that on this very forum when the topic was Crypto, the last "Make NVIDIA's stock and the market soar" technology was the darling. Proof of Work will give way to Proof of Stake, or some other thing will happen, trust us, the tech is just so good and useful!

What makes this different? What do we actually have, stripping away all of the "it will be this someday" thinking? Pretty good chat bots, ok summarizers, things that can messily and somewhat unpredictably code at a low level, and worst of all, things that sometimes just make up what they're saying or otherwise fail in harmful ways.

Then compare that to the cost to run these mediocre miracles.
Technically, the set of strings containing balanced parentheses is not a regular language...
yeah, that is without doubt the biggest millstone around scrabble's neck. the community could have done a lot more were it able to freely develop the game and surrounding activities.
I'm not sure it's happened to Reddit so far? They've managed to avoid the desexualization that has destroyed other platforms, and now their size might mean they can ride it out.

In the same way that Playboy can get away with posting sneaky things and Meta can only shadowban them and doesn't dare terminate them: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3-nnn9RM82/ (NSFW)
Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
I'm not sure if I implementing ideas out of Rick and Morty is the best thing for our universe...
> Any one noticed how Sam sometimes intentionally tries to attack his own work? For example, he has said GPT-2 was very bad, GPT-3 was bad, and GPT-4 is okay. He also fed the AI doomers by talking about AGI dangers and how the world needs to watch out for a future AI catastrophe.

That is the opposite of criticism. It all translates to "GPT-(n+1) is going to be super awesome".
This is almost exactly how it is for me as well. I've experienced this 50+ times, the feeling of complete or almost complete paralysis. I make a great effort to move and can feel my heart racing and heat in my face from panic and exertion. I can see my immediate surroundings; if the sun is up I can tell it's daytime. Although my eyes are open and aware, I'm not quite fully alert. Sometimes there are hints of hallucinations like the feeling that a shadowy figure is approaching my bed, and it's scary, but most often I'm just aware that I'm paralyzed. As a child I learned that if I can force a limb to move slowly, I will usually jerk myself fully awake. About 25% of the time I can calm myself down and fall back to sleep.
I don't think that the notion of melancholia need be an old thing to be picked over with modern tweezers. I have no idea what the current DSM (1) has to say about it, if anything.

Medical history has proven to be rather ... complicated ... Doctors/physicians/faith healers/shamans/druids etc have all featured at some point.

Here we are talking about mental health, which has only recently been granted the status of actually existing and the study of it moving away from hand waving nonsense and real science being employed.

etc etc

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Man...
Previously on HN (199 points, 2 years ago, 222 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937545
AGI seems like a stretch when none of the LLM’s right now can solve the prompt:

“
Write a sentence that has an odd number of words, with the third word being "keyboard", the last word being "anyway", the next-to-last word being a number, and the first word being a palindrome
“

Do we have to add these examples to the dataset now, so that they can solve this? Then maybe we find another prompt and add that too, as a human I’ve never seen such a question before, why do I seem to be able to do it so easily? We are creating some form of intelligence that will have a massive economic impact, but I doubt we are creating human like intelligence that has the ability of being far better than humans along every dimension, which is what super intelligence is
Isn't the point (and I could be wrong) with a Dyson sphere that it should have a spectrum that approaches that of a perfect blackbody radiator? Or would any radiation that sneaks past the swarm drown out the blackbody spectrum?
Oh man you've already got two problems? Maybe it's four now.
If you can achieve faster than light travel (worm holes?) and some sort of immortality (digital? consciousness quantum woo?) then maybe you transcend the worries of physical destruction…
I live on a dead end street with forest park across, very quiet. For when my boys were preteens, we celebrated their birthdays together and one year we had the typical party with probably 30 kids, I blew up bunches of balloons and made them about a hundred icely sharpened spears out of branches from the forest to throw at balloons to see who can pop the most. My wife thought that was a bad dangerous idea that other parents wouldn't like but it was the most fun part of the event that night for kids. Everyone chucking spears,girls, boys, little hunters came out in them all. Nobody got hurt, except the bballoons. Fun!!!
Greg has some agency in this

He also stuck by Altman in November. I'm surprised by how much credit and how much hate goes to the CEO when there are clearly other people making their own decisions, too.

Say whatever you want, they've done something impressive. That credit goes to more than just Sam. Ilya & Jan aren't the only ones making decisions.

Also, if you've ever been at a startup growing at the speed OpenAI is growing (think revenue, fundraising, headcount), it's not that unusual to see cofounders leave or to have other leadership changes. The reason why everybody thinks OpenAI looks particularly bad is because everybody is watching them (and public sentiment towards ai has shifted)
I wonder if they tried jumping into the sales funnel.
FYI, but lots of elements in there are interactive. There are some screens you can click and they will change there animations. Some things trigger sounds. There is even a game if I remember correctly.
It would probably be against hacker news guidelines to call him a manipulative weasel, so I will refrain from that.
> The average person has no idea, nor cares about Web3. The Web3 scene is full of crypto bros who think that if only the right technology comes along, it will disrupt the current web. They're focused so much on the tech, that they don't realize that the average person doesn't care about privacy, and just wants to use a product for "free".

The problem is that they're focused on getting rich or getting richer, not on the tech. The tech is only interesting to them if it offers a method of early investors being set up for a lifetime (or eternity) of completely passive income.

I'm working in peer-to-peer, and everything that I find within the web2/cryptosphere incidental to the problems I'm working on is hopelessly focused on convincing people to trade cash for new tokens. You do find a nice idea or implementation here and there, but mainly you only see what a concept would look like as the disguise for a con.

> the average person doesn't care about privacy, and just wants to use a product for "free".

This is a lie. The average person cares about privacy far more than the average programmer who spends all day trying to come up with new ways to subvert privacy. I've literally never had a conversation with a "normal person" about privacy, especially in the US, where it wasn't an extreme priority for them. They just 1) aren't technically savvy, and often don't understand that since computers can cheaply focus on everybody at the same time, everybody is worth paying attention to, and they 2) are shrewd enough to know that if there are truly private options, they'll be quickly eliminated or subverted by governments.

Bragging about not being interesting enough to pay attention to is just a way for some incurious people to signal to the people around them that they're not hiding any dirty secrets. There's also the instinct to be protected by the herd: if I'm doing the same thing as millions of other people ("buying IBM"), they're not going to hurt all of us. It's a very dumb instinct to apply especially to technology working at scale, but also even to entities like massive corporations, billionaires and states who will kill you without even noticing.

One may not think they're going to round up everyone who has ever read a particular book, or has criticized a president even in conversation with their cousin in a bar, or everyone who ever supported a political party that won the last election, but it's happened many times, all over the modern world, using index cards, punchcards, and handwritten lists compiled at local police stations from networks of informants, and handed up the chain to death squads. Pol Pot even got down to everyone who wore glasses being a potential source of trouble.

You say it's not a tech problem, it's an education problem. I say it's neither, it's a political problem.
How about the million dollar homepage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

Edit: Hmm not really what you were looking for, on reflection. But I'll leave this anyway, the MDH had its own charms.
I disagree that they’re embedded in the Israel-Gaza conflict, or that their funding from university partners is at risk by staying silent on that issue, since it is totally unrelated to what they’re writing about - architecture. To me what this looks like, is extremist authors/editors deciding to use their position to inject their personal political views here. Not everything needs to be politicized, and work isn’t the place for personal politics. I get this has been normalized in recent years with many institutions being politicized, but it needs to stop.

> The extra effort of closing a dialog box doesn't seem like too much of a cost for you to bear in exchange for reading their article.

It’s not about the cost of closing the dialog box, but the indication of poor quality and poor staff that this type of mentality indicates. It undermines the credibility of their work on topics like architecture, when they see fit to bring personal politics into this unrelated topic.
Suing your shareholders, let’s see how this works out for you.
Hi there. Your question is valid. That's why we built Prompt Markup Language:

https://github.com/narenaryan/promptml/
https://www.promptml.org/

It isn't XML nor JSON, but a DSL built especially for writing prompts. We do not have published benchmarks but running few examples, we see consistent outputs from LLM, and supplements RAG by separating context and using it for enriching prompt.
All the other kids with their pumped up kicks follow notes, follow notes, rather than the lyrics.
> I can't even imagine the pain of building stuff like GCC on 60Mhz CPU

Some of us remember what that sort of thing was like, not so very long ago...
I'm 40 ... havent we always called it a home lab lol
African Countries Are Failing to Make a Dent in Washington's Diplomatic Scene
Yeah, I do both in prod and in the lib. In the lib I even ported Anthropics streaming API to be OpenAI compatible. Will write the docs over the coming days if interested.
The problem with this theory is that the family is the most important human institution and all of human evolutionary history has occurred in the context of this fact. So if you think you can just make babies without families, well… just go see how things went whenever communists have tried to replace the family with the state.
So far, yes, but not intentionally. Any electromagnetic wave we emit becomes noise. We're still ants compared to what alien civilization can be theoretically. But this does not mean we'll always stay this way.

I'm a supporter of making humans detectable in any way illegal.
Some do, most don't.

Unless you're working on undergraduate integrals then it's pretty useless for advanced stuff without writing your own library. By that point you may as well write it in a language that's more performant and cheaper.
That doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried.
Except for the minor issue that this density plays a significant part in Japan's well-below-replacement-popluation birthrate.

You may have noticed, walking around Tokyo, the lack of children. I certainly do every time I'm there -- I live about two hours away in a bedroom community, where you absolutely do need a car to get around.

Most Tokyo families have one and only one child.

Out where I live, where 1000sqft+ houses are the norm, three or more is not uncommon.
Not a single comment in this thread says the author is Russian.
My comments should not be interpreted as “black and white”, but as a total lack of trust in corporate actors, necessitating robust due diligence and potential government intervention to ensure any constraints imposed are entirely legal and proper. It’s possible the carve outs are legal, and there is no malfeasance. But there could be, and that’s where the work lies, because more often than not (and I believe the evidence around this to be robust), there is malfeasance and corporate actors are not acting in good faith.

My political views are, broadly speaking, “be a decent human, defend and empower other humans”. Understandably, what that means is potentially up for interpretation.

My character assessment of Altman was inaccurate, and my comments speak to a posture needed as a counterparty of his or an org he has a control of.
> When the entire San Diego region lost power during rush hour for 4 hours in 2011, the cell phone system still worked. I was able to email documents to Tokyo from a car despite no traffic lights.

Around me, cell towers have 3-5 hours of battery when utility power is out. If your outage had gone on much longer, you would likely have seen cell towers start dropping out.

Of course, my area also has some other nasty SPoFs. A couple years ago, a telco cable was severed and DSL for everyone was out and at least some of the cell towers were live, but no service. A few weeks ago, the cableco had its wires severed, and cable tv and internet was offline, and so were some cell towers. IIRC, for the telco one t-mobile worked and verizon didn't, and for the cableco t-mobile didn't work and verizon did. Not sure about at&t.
And still, Yann LeCun (head of AI at Meta, renowned AI/ML researcher) is convinced that we are far from reaching AGI. He makes convincing arguments, especially around the fact that we are not able to expose models to the amount of redundant information that even a young kid is exposed to.

I guess we'll see some shifting goals around "what is even AGI". You say the we'll have soon "models that most of us consider AGI today", but what does that even mean?