skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on the person. My anecdotal experience is that I'm using Go for hobby projects because with Python at my day job, I wanted a modern language with fancy-ish static typing. Additionally, I wanted it to be equally practical on Win/Mac/Linux, and to not run inside a VM.

The obvious first candidate was Rust, but the low-level features were unnecessary overhead. A "higher-level Rust" is literally Swift, but the portability is not there. The search basically ended here, so I went with Go as a consolation prize - I don't get a fancy type system to play with, but the development ergonomics, especially with the v2 modules system, are the best I've experienced yet.
Student Pilot Emergency When Instructor Passes Out [video]
sour grapes
This claim that these tests are easy for humans seems dubious, and so I went looking a bit. Melanie Mitchell chimed in on Chollet's thread and posted their related test [ConceptARC].

In it they question the ease of Chollet's tests: "One limitation on ARC’s usefulness for AI research is that it might be too challenging. Many of the tasks in Chollet’s corpus are difficult even for humans, and the corpus as a whole might be sufficiently difficult for machines that it does not reveal real progress on machine acquisition of core knowledge."

ConceptARC is designed to be easier, but then also has to filter ~15% of its own test takers for "[failing] at solving two or more minimal tasks... or they provided empty or nonsensical explanations for their solutions"

After this filtering, ConceptARC finds another 10-15% failure rate amongst humans on the main corpus questions, so they're seeing maybe 25-30% unable to solve these simpler questions meant to test for "AGI".

ConceptARC's main results show CG4 scoring well below the filtered humans, which would agree with a [Mensa] test result that its IQ=85.

Chollet and Mitchell could instead stratify their human groups to estimate IQ then compare with the Mensa measures and see if e.g. Claude3@IQ=100 compares with their ARC scores for their average human

[ConceptArc]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07141
[Mensa]https://www.maximumtruth.org/p/ais-ranked-by-iq-ai-passes-10...
> Produce them from the integral forms

Pretty much what he was looking for. Keep in mind that this was at the end of a course covering pretty much all of static fields. And this course was a precursor and prerequisite for the following course which was about the application and implications of Maxwell's equations.

The latter was taught by my favorite professor, who seemed to have a radar to know when the class was not following. Without request, he would erase what he had written on the board and restart.

The lab was fun. Three quarters of the way through the first 2-hour lab, he said "By the way, anyone who gets the right answer loses points on this exercise. The point is to teach you how hard it is to come to the right answer."

He told a story of his work during WW II. His favorite thing then was to build a little $50 piece of equipment to render million-dollar radar sets useless. Clearly his task was to help improve the radar set. "The odds are stacked in favor of the jammer." Who obviously cheer for the inverse of the distance to the fourth power.
Agree. But, if the source API pricing is increased, theoretically any startup that has actually created something of value and stickiness should be able to adapt.

Or, even better if they can price future API price increases in their own pricing, today.
Sounds similar to what these guys are up to: https://xolo3d.com/

They have a novel photoinitiator which requires light from two different wavelengths to initiate polymerization. They currently scan a plane of laser light through a static resin vat while projecting a 2D video through the same vat.
They don't. The numbers in the article include imputed rents.

If you plot house prices against incomes they do a wave pattern which is high at the moment. But they were even higher against income in 1845.

Article here has data from 1845 for the UK
https://archive.ph/FRzaA
Oh, is it a sequel to the covid vaccine purchase from Pfizer which is now under criminal investigation?

Is CSL texting von der Leyen too?
Crazy that they’re still offering CentOS 7 images. PLEASE DONT USE THEM
Yeah, I use their free tier. At $0 it's the best offering. But I end up with racknerd for just raw Linux machine that I manage myself with `iptables` and friends.
> While the housing stock is also increasing with that population growth, the actual amount of desirable land does not grow as fast.

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore." — Mark Twain
He'll never shut up, people will learn to ignore him if they haven't already.
It's quite amusing what everyone got on to the retinal scans, completely ignoring the face bio.

Hint: it's already deployed and working and nobody wants your retinal scans, because it requires a more costly setup at the PoS.
Look up US coaling stations as well. The Great White Fleet (circumnavigated the globe from 16 Dec. 1907 to 22 Feb 1909) was a demonstration that the US could send 16 battleships and support vessels on global missions.

Transition of navies from coal to oil (initiated by the British just prior to WWI) greatly simplified bunkering operations. Fuel was still required, but oil (even the extraordinarily viscous bunker oil used by ships) is far easier to manage both in fueling and subsequent rebunkering to maintain ship's trim than solid coal.

Among significant US refueling stations was the Saudi peninsula (though precisely where I'm not certain), which had a strong influence on subsequent US relationships and allegiances in the region, particularly notable after the discovery of vast oil reserves.

I'd be interested in a list of US coaling / fueling stations, though I'm not finding one immediately. Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) and Subic Bay (Philippines) / were all but certainly two of these.
> points out that Russia did not target (initially, now they are) essential civilian infrastructure like power plants

Oh, right, they were targeting shopping malls and residential buildings... Or, you know, nuclear power plants.

> When people are confronted with this fact they typically turn to the argument that our team are pure-of-heart so their killing doesn't count.

Yes, your side is the only one that has rational individuals.

> I don't remember where or if he talked about the claim of genocide in Ukraine but there is not a "staggering amount of evidence" unless your definition of genocide is so broad as to include a large proportion of armed conflicts

So, Mariupol, Bucha... Bucha was just a massacre, there's no justification there, but let's say you want to compare Mariupol with... Fallujah? Do you have a worse US massacre in recent history? Well, yeah, the US killed people, and they should be blamed for it, but the scale doesn't even compare. Even if you take the Russian number of casualties, it's way higher in Mariupol.

>Like I said these criticisms fall apart almost immediately when you start discussing the facts.

What facts?
No mutiny has ever succeeded; if it had, it would be called a revolution (paraphrasing).
I think it was 280 chars still. It is now that you can do very long posts with formatting and multiple images embedded in the text.
Editing posts was in beta and was released in full after the purchased
In my opinion, not having an open platform and open-source code is completely at odds with "respecting the user" and whatever nice stuff they write on their website.

Open up or shut up.
They're not writing Elon a check for $45 billion.
Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI
>...Tesla’s market cap has gone up by $487 billion (almost 10x) since he was awarded that comp package in 2018

Another way to think about this is that investors are in a position where they got that wildly ambitious growth, and are currently not obligated to pay for it, so why would they? This is to the guy that has no problems breaking contracts of his own, and gives the finger to people he owes money to.

I guess we'll see when this comes to a vote, but it would be shrewd business not to.
Maybe regulatory overhead due to the legacy of Li-ion cells i.e. their explosive failure mode?

My understanding is that LFP is a fair bit safer so maybe regulators haven’t caught up?
Maybe not for editing per se. But for providing meta-functionalities to services built on top of revideo. Rendering, for instance, but maybe even reusable embeds, video watch analytics, download links, programatic re-rendering with webhooks and their configuration, etc.
What other functionalities could you offer?
> the rest of your program doesn't have to be an explicit state machine; it can use structured control flow with nested loops and conditionals and subroutines

This works well until the requirements change and you have to run two structured control flows simultaneously. If I find myself in such a situation and have no SRAM for a second thread, rust async may be the quickest way to accomplish the goal without a major rewrite into manual event driven code.
You're saying Orwell's concepts on language are outdated nonsense, but one of the biggest movements in modern politics is organized through a website literally called "Truth Social" where the content is mostly intentional lies about basic verifiable facts, and markets itself as an unbiased platform for free speech while silently censoring any dissenting opinions.
And the "I now have to evaluate thousands of libraries instead of 10 well established framework" tax?

I've seen plenty of bad go libraries. For example their authors will be unaware of isatty() so they will output control codes when piped.

If you factor in the time to find a competently written library (and quite possibly write one yourself) it starts to be less convenient.
“Would an intelligent but blind human be able to solve these problems?”

This is the wrong way to think about it IMO. Spatial relationships are just another type of logical relationship and we should expect AGI to be able to analyze relationships and generate algorithms on the fly to solve problems.

Just because humans can be biased in various ways doesn’t mean these biases are inherent to all intelligences.
Wow, that's really clean and snappy. I played on mobile, too. Great job!

From this thread, I played and beat Solitaire and Minesweeper on the first tries. I should buy a lotto ticket or something because today is my day.
We tried to reach out to Jacob but unfortunately didn't get a response from him. In general, Revideo and Motion Canvas have very different goals and we were very reluctant to go the route of forking his work. We are always open to contribute changes back into Motion Canvas if that is wanted, so far we haven't seen that to be the case.
Lots of shade being thrown, I'm surprised at all the toxic bile. All cloud providers are fundamentally in a race to the bottom for commoditization of compute infrastructure. The competition should be desirable.

Anyhow, if I had to guess why ClosedAI made this decision, well there are lots of big companies who like Oracle Cloud because if the spend is sufficient, Oracle will literally build and then support whatever configurations you want in any region across the entire globe. Good luck getting that level of care from AWS, Azure, or Goggle.

In my experience OCI is still better than GCP, not that it's really saying much, AWS has been the "best" IME :)

Clouds can't love you back.
One of Putin's stated goals when he came to power was joining NATO. He did not feel threatened by it until he needed to justify his imperialistic behavior.
I honestly wonder if Apple should come after him for libel after yesterday's comments.

Apple exhaustively demonstrated privacy-focused AI integration in the OS using local models, and the ability to dial out to the OpenAI API, but only with the user authorizing every single call.

If Apple isn't going to publicly insult Elon's intelligence by accepting that he really believes his mentally bankrupt statements, he leaves them no choice but to file a libel case. His statements seemed to be carefully and maliciously prepared in a way that would damage Apple.
rp2040 is 64cents @ 1000qty, thats a good price, compatible winbond 16mbit flash is 12cents.

You need to go up way above a dollar to get comparable specs, given the unique nature of rp2040, two cores with fairly high clock, 264kb sram, pio.

The only thing i dont like about rp2040 is the package, not hobbyist home soldering friendly for custom board designs.
Should've let him keep the options we granted him back in 2018. Taking away his performance-based compensation is total bullshit. I voted to give it back. His options were worthless for most of that time. He got the stock to appreciate a lot and some guy with 6 shares sued him for this crap so that the lawyers and him could split $5 b that a judge granted them.

If anyone took away a software engineers options here after a company became successful because the company later decided it's too much there'd be hell to pay. Everyone rightfully complained about Zynga doing this.

But here it's fine? Bullshit. I voted to pay the man his due. I voted to move the corp out of Delaware to Texas. He made me money under reasonable terms. Back then everyone said he'd just fail.
Just wait until they system can be exploited with a picture of the scan of a person's eye.
Elon, was just outed by his own xAI, https://grook.ai/share?id=e269e88a7b1a71eff4f176c864b30161&h...
Self-Supervised Visual Grounding of Sound and Language
Yes their “private cloud” runs on Swift, which supposedly increases security because they believe Swift has things nailed by now.
Will they support Android unlike FaceTime, iMessage, etc?
> As for the rest, it would be cool if binaries shipped with a manifest of some sort naming all the versions of their statically included dependencies. A SBoM of sorts. It would make this sort of vulnerability scanning much easier to do.

Go binaries have that. You can apply "go version -m" to any recent Go binary.

Also "govulncheck".

Examples:

go version -m $(which go)
go install golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck@latest
go version -m $(which govulncheck)
govulncheck -mode=binary $(which govulncheck)
for b in $(go env GOPATH)/bin/*; do govulncheck -mode=binary "$b"; done
Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles
If anyone wants to download the data, it's available at:

> The Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database is the result of an extensive data collection effort over several years. In one place it brings together macroeconomic data that previously had been dispersed across a variety of sources. On this website, we provide convenient no-cost open access under a license to the most extensive long-run macro-financial dataset to date. Under the Terms of Use and Licence Terms below, the data is made freely available, expressly forbidding commercial data providers from integrating, in addition to any existing data they may already provide, all or parts of the dataset into their services, or to sell the data.

* https://www.macrohistory.net/database/

See also perhaps "Historical Returns on [US] Stocks, Bonds and Bills: 1928-2023" (updated annually AFAICT):

* https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile...

There's also the The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook:

> The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook is the authoritative guide to historical long-run returns. Published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute in collaboration with London Business School, it covers all the main asset categories in 35 countries. Most of these markets, as well as the world index have 123 years of data since 1900.

* https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us-news/en/articles/medi...

* https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/s...

As well as:

> The Global Investment Returns Yearbook, an authoritative guide to historical long-run returns, launched by UBS Investment Bank Research and UBS Global Wealth Management’s Chief Investment Office. This edition demonstrates the combined strength of UBS and Credit Suisse as the integration of the two banks progresses, and also marks the continuity of a longstanding relationship with the authors, Professor Paul Marsh and Dr Mike Staunton of London Business School and Professor Elroy Dimson of Cambridge University.

* https://www.ubs.com/global/en/investment-bank/in-focus/2024/...
Possibly, but software development seems particularly susceptible to the illusion of the ease of "rewriting from scratch" in ways that physical endeavors are not.
Electronics in these systems are a low % of the BoM cost though, so wouldn’t expect it to make such a big difference.
I assure you I am very much alone in my own mind
After dubious shootdowns, NORAD now checks with balloon hobbyist groups
I'm just writing little stuff in Java, and use that as my x-platform environment, but even it has its challenges.

So, I was considering a PWA. I don't need tight local integration per se. I do have a conceptual problem not being able to save a file or read a file, even if it's just chosen by the user. I THINK I can do that. I THINK you can pop a file chooser to read a file, but not necessarily just open any file you want. If you can read/write a file as directed by a user, that would be fine. I can see the rest being stored in the IndexDB. And that gives the option of an export/backup if it becomes necessary for peace of mind.

Then there's the whole x-browser game, I'm not really looking at mobile, just desktop, but I'd like to support FF/Chrome/Safari/Edge.

It's not rocket science stuff by any means. But I don't want a user to call up and talking about how their data suddenly vanished because they went to get the latest, and I did something innocent/ignorant (or not), or THEY did something (deleted their PWA icon, copied it, moved it, etc.), or the browser did something.

I have no experience with it, so for now, I'm not comfortable because I don't have my "hands" on the data.

If I can export it, then the comfort level goes way up. Inform the user to back up "just in case", especially early on when we're all still bumping in the dark.

To be clear, I don't want a server side, I have no interest in standing up a service component. I have less interest in maintaining a service component. I'd like the code to be local and "standalone" as practical.

But I also want something a touch more than "git clone app; cd app; ./build".
Oracle? Oracle is the most expensive at everything.

There were consultants specializing in optimizing Oracle bills way before they existed for AWS.
"...We present DenseAV, a novel dual encoder grounding architecture that learns high-resolution, semantically meaningful, and audio-visually aligned features solely through watching videos. We show that DenseAV can discover the ``meaning'' of words and the ``location'' of sounds without explicit localization supervision. Furthermore, it automatically discovers and distinguishes between these two types of associations without supervision. We show that DenseAV's localization abilities arise from a new multi-head feature aggregation operator that directly compares dense image and audio representations for contrastive learning..."
> Well yes but every business owner knows that, or should know that.

Know that they are buying services below cost? I don't think so.

It's a reasonable bet that compute costs generally trend downwards, and in a competitive market where the key thing you're paying for is compute that should also trend downwards.

That's different to finding out that everyone's been selling things way under the true cost.
DevToys: Swiss Army Knife for Developers
Fascinating. It wasn't long ago I did a high performance computer architecture grad class. They covered Tomasulo but no mention of Conway's contributions. TIL.
> it's very unclear how some photons bouncing around between atoms constitutes a "time evolution of the system", and other photons bouncing around between atoms constitutes a "measurement of the system".

No "photons bouncing around between atoms" would constitute a measurement. A measurement involves some kind of macroscopic, irreversible change.

> every detector is itself just built out of atoms

Yes.

> which evolve in accordance with Schrodinger's equation.

That's not what standard "shut up and calculate" QM says. The MWI is what you get if you insist that this is literally true, all the time, no exceptions. For many physicists, however, the fact that the MWI leads to claims that appear to grossly contradict observation is a reason to doubt that the Schrodinger equation really has to be literally true, all the time.
For… taking a train? Getting a visa might be tricky, but I’m fairly sure it’s legal to get a train, even in Iran.
Reliability should be looked at by model, not by brand, because if you buy a BMW in the US for reliability, you may have a bad time considering the most available models there.

And I will always go for repairability, that's why I will advise to only buy models with easy electronics and reliable mechanics so that the only shit that can fail me are the axle (which is cheap to repair) and the motor (which isn't). And preferably look at how much a second hand car with the same model is worth after 2 years, that tell a lot about a model reliability.
For hiking, you can buy a pulse oximeter for $200. Some of them can record up to 24 hours and then later you can review your "hike" on the PC to see if your blood oxygen ever went down significantly.
The value of a private company is not so easy to estimate.
Meanwhile, xAI which gets (licenses) all its training data from Twitter is worth $25 billion on their latest round. Maybe take this into account.
Good luck to Apple to prove damages.

Could you actually outline for us what comments of his you're saying are libel, and explain why they're libel? Rather than just seemingly piling on the ad hominem in this thread.
>Whats wrong with their image? They're still able to raise billions no problem. Their day to day doesn't change.

Not sure I'd classify either of those as "image".
Why not? OAI is still a year ahead of everyone else in R&D while Mistral doesn't currently offer any SOTA models.
> i remain dumbfounded that copenhagen is still the preferred interpretation

So you're an MWI proponent, then? If it's "obviously true" to you that everything, including measuring devices and ourselves, always evolves in time exactly according to the Schrodinger equation, no exceptions, then the MWI is your only option as an interpretation.

The fact that many people do not think the MWI is a viable interpretation is why interpretations like Copenhagen, which do not rest on the belief that the Schrodinger equation has to be literally true, everywhere, all the time, continue to exist.
Don't cycle sleeps help on the esp32? I typically run on power but I know a lot of people get all day with wifi on reasonable LiPo
There are definitely languages with better cross platform support. But far better languages? I think Swift is a pretty good language and I like to know what you think is far better than it.
I guess that’s why they call it… Fahrenheit 450-banned!
https://archive.is/glw1K
> Or am I missing something?

The security issue.

I.e., Mastercard treats their technology as infallible and the people who find an exploit select you as the victim. Mastercard fails to take responsibility and continues to allow you to be exploited with absolutely no mechanism to defend yourself.

Credit card numbers can be changed a lot easier than eyeballs can be.
Human bodies mostly recover from space, tourist mission shows
Here are three sources:

Mistral AI employee: https://x.com/dchaplot/status/1800601722722935153

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/paris-based-ai-startup-mis...

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/french-startup-mistral-ai-raises...
I think that we, as a society, are really attached to language and convention. And telepathy is incompatible with that. So any evidence or argument for telepathy is voided.

There is a mountain of anecdote, however.
The empty brain. Your brain is not a computer
Fixed. I will mirror installer on GitHub as well. Thanks for the idea!