skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's a crazy theory (but fun to think about). I don't think he ever believed that terraforming Mars would be achieved in his lifetime. It's not necessary for a colony, and he always talked about "window" in which colonization can be started. Like, there are many things that can set our civilization back, like nuclear war, pandemics, meteors etc., and technical progress isn't guaranteed (we've been on the Moon on 60's and can't do that now), so his philosophy is that we must do it as soon as we can because at any moment we can lose that chance. And starting a colony without terraforming is of course better than not doing anything at all.

I think his behavior is just the consequence of his wealth and success, of being literally at the top of the world in terms of money. And especially because his money comes from SpaceX and Tesla, both of which were considered crazy and impossible enterprises by most people (and there were many people people saying that it all will fail well before he became really famous and really rich). So I think he just started believing that since he was right with SpaceX and Tesla, and others were wrong (and he became the world's wealthiest person because he was right, so he was in a certain capitalistic way more right than literally everyone), he is right about everything and can do everything. And he was always kind of crazy.

Politically I think that maybe his actions are somewhat calculated, maybe he's predicting that Trump will win and be more willing to finance crazy big missions to space? Right now Tesla isn't dependent on American environmental programs as much as it was before, and SpaceX is in a position in which they'll get government contracts forever, no matter who's in power, so he doesn't need to please the current government. And I think he was always more of a libertarian, so that checks out with many things he's saying. His "anti-war" views can also be explained by desire to minimize the risk of closing that window in which Mars colonization is possible.
They're not really GPUs then, are they? Even if they're capable of generating a video output.
(Shrug) It seems to be working for them.
I think empathy is a brain feature/circuitry which would be a foundation for anything resembling telepathy, and our societal development took us into the opposite direction of suppressing empathy, and thus further from any chance of telepathy/etc. Instead we’ll ultimately have AI guessing/calculating our thoughts better than any telepathy.
Glad you mentioned Microchip. The PIC32MK family is MIPS architecture microcontroller, with hardware floating point unit, running at 120 MHz, with a whole slew of peripherals, like 10 MHz unity-gain op-amp, D/A converter, lots of flexibility in mapping peripherals to pins, fast A/D, DMA, etc..

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-an...
Grocery store I used to work called it "facing", and it does make the store look neat and organized, but we were never instructed to make it look like they are about to fall off which seems strange to me.
Like they've learned to ignore Trump?
It's a dick move to give people false expectations when you don't have to. It's a dick move to break your word. He didn't "have" to give them the money, but he didn't have to tell them he would give it to them either.
It really is grift all the way down.
Meanwhile NXP is producing 3000+ page PDFs with behavioral examples.
> If every company had their own Lightning connector, there would be no choice but to force them all to converge.

You mean like forcing every phone maker to use the awesome connecter known as micro USB-B?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
They might not need to raise any more money. If they manage to release a significantly smarter model (gpt-5), I, and millions of others, will gladly pay hundreds of dollars per month to use it.
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The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027749 - May 2012 (78 comments)

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From The Teaching of Buddha:

Once there was a man on a long journey who came to a river. He said to himself: “This side of the river is very difficult and dangerous to walk on, and the other side seems easier and safer, but how shall I get across?” So he built a raft out of branches and reeds and safely crossed the river. Then he thought to himself: “This raft has been very useful to me in crossing the river; I will not abandon it to rot on the bank, but will carry it along with me.” And thus he voluntarily assumed an unnecessary burden.
I just tried the first puzzle and I can't get it right. I think my solution makes logical sense and I explain why the patterns are consistent with the input, but it says its wrong. I'm either a lot dumber than I thought or they need to do a better job of vetting their tests.
Who knows, it may be fixed by now.
The problem is that we don't know which of his statements are actually directly honest, and which are bullshit, spin, or just plain exaggeration.

Musk seems quite happy to do all of the above without distinction. :(
These things are related. If people don't use the right option then it's starved of resources with which to improve.

Of course, you can also improve the right option independently of that, e.g. by making contributions. But now we're back to "Apple interferes with this by making it harder to tinker."
Calling chatgpt "plagiarism software" was an incredibly succinct quip.
> to me it seems like they are more like "things that are intuitive to human visual processing".

Yann LeCun argues that humans are not general intelligence and that such a thing doesn't really exist. Intelligence can only be measured in specific domains. To the extent that this test represents a domain where humans greatly outperform AI, it's a useful test. We need more tests like that, because AIs are acing all of our regular tests despite being obviously less capable than humans in many domains.

> the problems require spatial knowledge that we intelligent humans learn with far more than 800 training examples.

Pretraining on unlimited amounts of data is fair game. Generalizing from readily available data to the test tasks is exactly what humans are doing.

> Would an intelligent but blind human be able to solve these problems?

I'm confident that they would, given a translation of the colors to tactile sensation. Blind humans still understand spatial relationships.
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how you feel about someone. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Building codes can guarantee that new construction has decent insulation and double paned windows etc. but getting existing structures insulated is hard (esp. for people who are renting - you can add your own window AC, but you can't replace the windows and insulate the place...) One thing that could help is adding exterior sun shades, keeping the sun from shining in windows would ease the load on the AC (and you can possibly put those up even if you're a renter).
CYC was an expert system, which is arguably what LLMs are.

A similar vintage GOFAI project that might do better on these, with a suitable visual front end, is SOAR - a general purpose problem solver.
I bet it becomes unique far far less often then most people think.

Computing the number of permutations is thoroughly unconvincing.

For instance, there's 20 possible first moves and of those only probably 2 are played 95% of the time. You can certainly compute what the rates open is and the rarest response that's actually played or the rarest response to the most common open
AGI should really be able to do what only a select few humans can do and construct its own mathematical systems to prove presently unsolved conjectures (the Shinichi Mochizuki test of AGI).
No, you have to feed the entire prompt token-by-token before getting response.
You are saying he "clearly had nothing to do with" a company he founded, funded, and has been CEO, CTO, and chief engineer.

What do you think the word "nothing" means?
This is much like trying to understand the US invasion of Iraq from the neoconservative point of view, and parroting it uncredulously. This necessitates dehumanizing the invaded population.
If there is one, it would be this, it's loud and continuously cycles through so many different noises, there is no pattern you can tune out. I can't find a recording of the whole progression, but I can assure you it is very long. I should record a full video of it.
Does that even matter when the same set of eyeballs theoretically produce the same hash? It leaking has the same effect, what more benefit would having the “real” eye scan have to an attacker that just wants to use your bank account?

I guess if every PoS that supports bio also required a camera and human verification, then you couldn’t just pass the hash to some API
> You are incorrect, no matter what pop science tells itself, these matters are not settled.

Causality is one way, or the universe makes no sense.

FTL information communication makes sending messages to the past trivial to implement. Outside of a Marvel movie, that literally breaks all of reality. Since reality isn't broken to pieces, and because we have a crap ton of evidence in favor of information being limited to the speed of light, we can safely assume that instantaneous information transfer isn't possible.

This is not one of those still under debate things, this is one of those things that people spent a century debating, and every "what-if" was tested and eliminated one by one until we were left with "information cannot travel faster than the speed of light"[1].

Some things CAN travel faster than the speed of light, but they do not contain useful information. This is a bit confusing, because outside of mathematics, and software engineers who actually paid attention in their theoretical computer science classes, we aren't used to thinking about information as a fundamental aspect of reality.

> Besides the qubit is a dead end, the future of quantum computing is quantum holography.

Quantum Computers will get us over the scaling problem we've ran into as a species with classical computing, but we are still algorithmically limited in what we know when it comes to solving certain problems. If a 64qubit computer existed tomorrow, we still wouldn't have AGI, although we'd have much better physics/chemistry/biology simulations which would help with a ton of fields.

[1] Even if, for example, a black hole instantly spits you out in some other part of the galaxy, it will do so by destroying you and emitting you as random radiation someplace else. Because that information is emitted randomly, there is no chance of reconstructing you.
I'm trying to wrap my head around your point and having a real hard time understanding what the problem is.

Yes, openai can't be a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker. This is a feature not a bug.
Speaking of relative maturity, I just had a heap corruption debug for a few days. Imagine my surprise when fixing the issue involved switching from the default ESP32 BLE library to the NimBLE library...
To be fair, RP2040 also has the least features compared to those.

I’m not talking size of documentation, but it’s “bio-availability”.
So your employer prefers to save a good chunk of money cause you’re likely a little rusty.
Are you working on (a book detailing) AGI also? It’s a lonely field but I have no doubt there are a sea of malcontent engineers across the world who saw the truth early on and are pushing solo for AGI. It’s going well for me, but I’m not sure whether to take that as “you’re great” or “it’s really that easy”, so was interested to see such a fellow brazen American on HN of all places.

Game on for the million, if so :). If not, apologies for distracting from the good fight for OSS/noncorp devs!

E: it occurred to me on the drive home how easily we (engineers) can fall into competitiveness, even when we’ve all read the thinkpieces about why an AI Race would/will be/is incredibly dangerous. Maybe not “game on”, perhaps… “god I hope it’s impossible but best of luck anyway to both of us”?
Not sure where you're at but in California the gov't incentivized everyone to install rooftop solar and now that Sempra isn't increasing revenue at the same rate they did before, they're aggressively lobbying to increase rates on rooftop solar customers to make up for it.

I'm very eager to get off the grid completely and be rid of this profit-chasing nonsense.

I know this is going to get me a bunch of responses about how much more pressure is on the grid because of EVs, solar doesn't help during off-peak hours, etc. Boo-hoo cry me a river. These energy companies have gotten billions in gov't grants and credits and they're still massively profitable and continue gouging customers.
If you are going to do that, other play grounds should also be counted: the forests and fields which used to be nearby, the per-child space in nearby parks, etc.

All these are places children used to go unsupervised, but now mostly don't.
But now you're just defining "convenient" as "worthwhile" which is hardly the same thing.
Sounds great, but this won't work out to the way the author imagines it. We have a very strong bias towards anything technical, but if you've ever worked outside the SWE field, you'll see that half of the people simply aren't interested in "thinking". They don't like or enjoy their jobs. They sure as hell aren't going to sit there and think, "how do I take this problem and break it down into a dozen/hundreds of small steps to create a small app that solves my problem?"

The majority of people are content with learning the bare minimum needed to get by and never having to learn anything new. Don't believe, the proof is self evident the moment you try to update a UI that requires users to do things differently than before.

And this is all fine, I've accepted it by now. It's the way it's always been and always will be. Still, these new tools will empower a relatively small percentage of the population to create amazing open source apps that will be used by a lot of people. The tools also very much empower pro-developers to build a lot more apps with less efforts than before, which I'm looking forward to.
1Password's support is actively hostile towards bug reports. No matter how clear of a reproducible example, they minimize it as the user is doing the wrong thing. It's destroyed my confidence in them. I really just need to find the time to migrate to another solution.
ok so just a bigoted comment that I replied to originally
Thanks for the suggestion! As I understand, you can only postgres_execute against a running Postgres db. It does work and I’ve used it in my tests, I think I could get around the limitations that I ran into by running a pg instance alongside DuckDB.
For now I think I’ll stick with just pg, as I was looking into DuckDB to replace pg in my local analytic workloads: load data from rest apis, dump into a database and use sql in a custom dbt-like pipeline to build the tables for analysis in bi tools. Unfortunately, many endpoints return xml data and much of the sql I’ve already written deals with json, meaning it would have to be adapted to work with DuckDB.
I'm in Greece, which is basically the same, except the money lines the politicians' pockets as well as the energy companies'.
Don't forget the foremost democratic country, the GDR. It's right in their name, man!
They've been out of instances for years on free tier now. E.g. there is no free Ampere available anymore effectively.
> So the wealth of everyone is going up faster than the supply of desirable land

We are also slowing down the rate we are making land desirable. During the 50s-70s we had massive success by creating suburbs that were connected to city centers. Due to how geography works, new suburbs are further from city centers and inherently less desirable. We have developed most of the geographically appealing regions of the US. The regions that can support more sprawl are seeing growth at a high enough rate that local infrastructure such as schools, roads, water, and construction labor is being stressed.

In the not too distant future we will have climate change that will displace people and a declining population that will reduce housing demand. Combine that with new building techniques/materials and in 100 years the housing situation will be totally different than today.
The "huge jump in complexity, usability" refers to not being able to use a mouse, which a lot of people find intimidating for some reason.
Swift compilation is slower than C++.
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I don’t know enough of biology or genetics or evolution, but
surely the millions of years of training that is hardcoded into our genes and expressed in our biology had much larger “training” runs.
One point of an iPhone is that it lasts longer, but if you really want new hardware all the time, Android is a cheaper option.
Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails
Sure I'm missing something, but isn't that just an untrusted server self-reporting its own hash? Apple publishes the bootloader source and we'd have to assume it's what's actually running and reporting honestly the hash of the OS it's hosting. So we need to go earlier in the chain. In the end, from afar, we don't know if we're communicating with an actual Secure Enclave/SGX whatever or something that just acts like one.

Matt Green's posts about it so am sure it's been thought out - but hard to understand how it doesn't just depend on employees doing the right thing, when if you could, you would need all the rigmarole.
The video for Atom Bomb is all Wipeout footage with extra live/cg added on. It's a great track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc

And don't forget "Loops of Fury" from the Chemicals.
How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)
Is it seeing this with rose-tinted glasses, or before the late 70s it was indeed actually safer (physically, not medically) to undertake such a trip?
Both times I put someone on a pip it was heartbreaking. They were hired to do X, Y, and Z. Their cv indicated they were capable of X, Y, and Z. Both desperately needed the job. The pip was “you must complete X, Y, and Z each week. I can’t do your work for you, but I want you to be successful and I’m here to support you”. One was a payroll related position where the lens in which they were evaluated was clear (we need less than a certain number of paycheck errors each month).

Both failed… I would have much preferred keeping them to finding and training someone new.
More software should “enforce” their preferences, many decisions are objectively superior and this “anything goes” attitude has done nothing but hurt OSS/Linux adoption.

Everything about the shared lib model is stupid, and has contributed to poor Linux market share to date.
California's pot economy is crashing. What comes next?
Humans, I would bet, could distinguish between two animals they've never seen based only on a loose or tangential description. I.e. "A dog hunts animals by tracking and chasing them long enough to exhaust their energy, but a cat is opportunistic and strikes using stealth and agility."

A human that has never seen a dog or a cat could probably determine which is which based on looking at the two animals and their adaptations. This would be an interesting test for AIs, but I'm not quite sure how one would formulate a eval for this.
"One fighter with a sharp stick and nothing left to lose can take the day. They’ve no idea we’re coming. They’ve no reason to expect us. If we can make it to the ground, we’ll take the next chance. And the next. On and on until we win, or the chances are spent."
Have you looked into shock watches? I use Pavlok, and while the technology is NOT there, it does wake me up. They have a long way to go, and honestly I'd recommend a different brand, but it does help those of us who can do puzzles in our sleep.

Shock clock also has puzzles you can use, or I have a QR code In my kitchen that I need to scan to stop being zapped.
Wouldn't be surprised if these people are connected to a foreign gov.
They are not all in bad faith. Maybe it depends on the company.

Once I had a really bad family issue. Won't go into it, but I took a bunch of time off. Coming back to work, I wasn't fully engaged, because there was a lot of chaos. So I got put on a pip.

My manager did this in good faith. He gave me a bunch of things to do, a bunch of milestones to meet, deadlines.

Honestly, it was a lifeline I needed. And better, I didn't have to guess on schedule, make promises on tight deadlines. So I worked specifically to the milestones. Helped people after things were done. Didn't take on extra, but added it to my notes. And I got through it.

Now I was worried. Was this just gathering evidence for something inevitable. Was it pre-decided? I just took it on good faith, did the work, and when I accomplished the goals, I was off the pip.

I was good after that. I think I'm better for it.

(that said, I've been told a second pip might be impossible to pull off)
I think you can do something similar with black walnut shells/fruit (which is also good for fungal skin infections.)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651 is a nice overview. The "key storage" column is the part to pay attention to. The keys to user keychains are stored on devices only.
> They are popular because they offer an easy way to project your own political opinions and biases into them.

No, they are popular because someone who lived 80+ years ago got it right, when all the Pompous People got it wrong. When everyone who was anyone was a Communist and thought Stalin was just great, and the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War was the essence of Purest Virtue.

> Orwell hasn't introduced anything substantial that hasn't been done better by other authors.

Really now? Before 1948? If you wouldn't mind, please enumerate those "substantial" things and tell us who did them all better, before Orwell.
no they don't.....
Foraging on U.S. Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited
Russia is a nuclear-armed state. They have nothing to fear from NATO. They can never be invaded or conquered again, by anyone, ever.

Except from within.

Disagree? Answer my questions below, and explain exactly how you would go about attacking Russia.
https://archive.ph/OOc1Q
> from my perspective there's absolutely no reason a capable person can't get themselves out of a PIP and remain at a company.

Many (possibly most) companies use PIPs as a pretense for a firing decision that has already been made. In those companies it is a fool's errand to try and improve your performance (because performance may have nothing to do with it). You cannot win. You should feel lucky that you only seem to have encountered legitimate pips where both sides are hoping for improved performance.
Better to be put on a PIP than this other weird thing that can happen sometimes, where you’re “unassigned” from a team, maybe due to layoffs or restructuring or performance, but report to essentially no one and have no real work to do. Eventually they expect you to get frustrated and quit, but it can be very difficult when you are in that situation to figure out where you stand.
Actually ARC fit's my definition of animal intelligence - "degree of ability to use prior experience to predict future outcomes".

Any useful definition of intelligence has to be totally general - to our brain experience is just patterns of neural activation. Our brain has no notion of certain inputs being from the the jungle and others from the blackboard or whatever.