skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although, if we suppose intelligence can’t even be defined, then I don’t see how the question is even meaningful in the first place.

No one is really saying that it can't be defined, just that it hasn't been defined yet. Until this latest round of LLMs basically flushed the Turing test down the drain, no one but ivory tower philosophers had cared about a rigorous definition of intelligence and without something akin to LLMs to experimentally ground their theories in language (like Wittgenstein's work), several thousand years of philosophy on the topic is pretty much useless to us now.
> the fanboy complains that the cop did not obey traffic laws

Emergency responder (fire/paramedic) here. EVIP (Emergency Vehicle Incident Prevention) is a course that in most states, responders are required to take to operate a vehicle in "emergency mode" (i.e. lights, sirens, both). In some states it also serves as a replacement/alternate for requiring a CDL for larger vehicles.

In "emergency mode", the vehicle, based on most state's laws or administrative codes, "may ignore any and all rules of the road, including but not limited to, speed limits, traffic control signals, designated lane markings, one way directionality". Quite simply, on the road, in emergency mode there is no "obeying traffic laws"...

BUT...

What the words give you, the fine print often takes away. While in emergency mode, the driver of the emergency vehicle is -presumptively liable- for ANY incident that occurs, unless it can be demonstrated otherwise (and even then there is still likely to be contributory liability). This liability is personal and organizational (i.e. I can be personally sued if I hit someone in my ambulance, even going code 3).

To mitigate this, in additional to the department/organization's own insurance coverage (often self-insured by the appropriate government entity) will draw up their own department policy that applies intermediate limits (i.e. while the admin code may allow me to drive at any speed I like, our department policy says I may exceed the speed limit by no more than X mph, and X is reduced by 5 for every complicating factor, like night, or weather). The department will then take a separate insurance policy that says as long as I am within department policy rules, they will cover any personal liability that may occur.
TL;DR: unfortunately the conclusion is, no they can't

> the best recorded performance is 59.9% on accurately simulating state transitions [...] after 10 steps, average simulation accuracy would reduce to less than 1%. Our results indicate that LLMs are not yet able to reliably act as text world simulators
What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?
Right but the past decade has shown distributed models are incompatible with public discovery and use.
This article doesn’t make any sense. Why would Amazon make their employees do all this when they can easily pay for a service like crawlbase or similar and easily scrape github without having to create employee accounts?
SystemD; 10 years later (2020)
Well, in a sea of indistinguishable squares and circles, the few triangles do stand out ...
Thanks for this substantive reply.

In this case, the experts could literally be routing / weighting of the LoRas, so it could be a 1x100k (or 1mm or whatever) vector , binary, maybe for simplicity and size. Or floats that are capped to 1/0 at inference time, but trained as floats.

The thing that’s a little weird to me is that you’d need to keep retraining the experts. But, I guess it may just be part of the pipeline for adding custom knowledge to the system.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you very much for your profound answer which helped me a lot expanding my knowledge.
> I don't understand your point. Other 4 year olds are ignorant/impulsive/insensitive but not yours?

There always has to be someone pretending to not understand.
Articles in the press often have to be read while thinking "assuming that this article is literally accurate, what might be wrong about the impression it's trying to give?"

If you read the article while thinking this, you'll notice that this article nowhere says things like "the report accused Stanford of being used to launder government censorship, but in fact the government has no involvement with..." or "the report points to ___ incident but that has nothing to do with following government requests" or "no, these incidents didn't happen" or anything else which substantively denies the accusations. It just says Stanford is accused of censorship by those evil conservatives, and this has costs, and we're deeply concerned about it. Well, yeah, if you get caught doing bad things, it should cost you and you should be concerned.
> in many cities you often need to drive with a bit of... let's say "confidence"

Two things I've told my step-daughter when she was learning to drive, one is more common - "it is better to be predictable than polite" (no stopping when you have the right of way to 'wave someone through'), but more germane to your point:

"You should drive assertively, but not aggressively."
I think there is a MUD effort called LlamaTale which allows creation of this as telepresence. I’m trying to put a MUD together to try this out.
Oh man, I miss Gardner. He had great taste. I own almost all of those Anthologies, and agree that they were best read slowly.
Yes, but it will always be like that
This article reminds me of The Art of War, wherein Sun Tzu often classifies different war-adjacent concepts in terms of the number 5 - - 5 types of terrain, 5 types of spies, etc. As you read you can tell there are obviously more than five types of something. Yet the classifications are not without use. They serve to focus the reader on perhaps the "top 5" things, and serve to keep the text short while also still useful.

Surely there are more types of corporate research teams than four, but I still find the formulation instructive. I can see why these types of research activities deserve treatment and discussion. Further, the article made its point neatly in just a few paragraphs.
> “Another exciting application is understanding new languages, like dolphin or whale communication, which don’t have a written form of communication. Our hope is that DenseAV can help us understand these languages that have evaded human translation efforts since the beginning."
If it isn't, we have bigger problems.
Accessible and a pleasure to read: how Apple's podcast transcriptions came to be
It would take an insane amount of energy to throw that rock.
Emotion it’s crucial for sure
Just go read the starshot proposal. They address all of these issues, some more convincingly than others but they have thought it out in great detail.

In short, it’s a swarm of gram-scale probes and they work together to transmit.
The American people are keenly aware of the grave and evil hazards to our freedom and
to our way of life which international communism is eternally dedicated to destroy.

I speak of another danger we confront, not as dread or as foreboding, but equally
offensive and evil to all reasonable, rational, free American citizens.

It is the danger of hate and venom, of slander and abuse, generated by fear and
heaped indiscriminately upon many great Americans by another relative handful of
zealots, in the ranks or clutches of self-styled “I am a better American than you
are” organizations.

In every day’s deluge of mail at my office, there are generally a hundred and even
two hundred letters which I describe simply as “fright mail.”

[ ... ]

Lunatic columnists, apostles of hate and fear on radio and television; and loony
letters to the editor provoke their share of fright mail.

The curious fact is that the fright peddlers, from the simple simpletons to the
wretched racists, all claim to be conservatives.

They are anything but patriotic. It is curious to me that they all have generally the
same aims: Get the United States out of the U. N. Stop all foreign aid. Repeal the
income tax. Abandon NATO and bring our troops home from Europe.

It is ironic that these very aims are very likely identical to the real hopes and
aspirations of the Kremlin.

And I find it hard to believe that the followers of the fright peddlers are all
wholly oblivious to the anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and outright racism of many
of their “saviors.”

Thomas Kuchel, CA(R)

"The Fright-Peddlers", Cleveland State Law Review 1963

The more things change, huh.
I've also been spending today building a miner. Started in JS, then JS with worker threads (~2.2MH/s), then c++ with openssl (~3.7MH/s) and now attempting CUDA.

Also have been using ChatGPT to do the code translations.

I'm currently stuck in yak shaving, I cannot compile CUDA programs here yet as on fedora 40 I need an earlier gcc (13.2) which I am now also having to compile from source.
Wireframes Are Cheap, Engineering Should Be Too
Alternate POV: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/hu...

I have no way of assessing who is (more) correct.
high prices, high taxes, high cost of living, high traffic on freeways...its terrible now. not to mention you can't get fire insurance for your house anymore.
> That means what we actually want is a way to say “hey OpenTelemetry SDK, give us all the current spans in the buffer”.

Isn’t this exactly what the SpanExporter API is for? This is in the Go SDK, I suppose it may not be available in other SDKs.

I have used this API to convert OTel spans into log messages as we currently don’t have a distributed tracing vendor.
If you have enough of them you can just lose some fraction and still function.
Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County
This is one of those things that MIT’s missing semester course aims to help with (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/), and although computer science is different from software engineering, the reality is that most CS grads go into software engineering, and thus should try and learn these essential skills.
https://archive.is/09Li0
Can someone please explain to me how this is not an https page in 2024?

The http://www.newardassociates.com/bio.html has enough information about this person that I really don't think their explanation of R&D makes sense.
In my uni, "Software Engineering" was the one class of the CS program that had nothing to do with programming. It was about UML, SOLID, DRY, KISS, agile, scrum and more. Useless class that was mostly a waste of time.

On the other hand, we had classes like Operating Systems, Computer Networks and more where we had to write things in C and assembly.
Would be interesting to see a version of this but incorporating tool usage features of the latest models.
Most people criticizing FSD here have never tried it, never even driven a Tesla. It's just pure derangement.

The latest FSD is pretty damn good.
It may have changed, but last time I was there, most of Ireland outside of Dublin had no addresses, just coordinates. Navigating wasn't too hard though, streets have numbers, and directions were usually a "turn left at road 1310, etc.".

It also helps that most of Ireland is pretty rural.
Facts, devoid of context, released with the specific intent to harm someone, should not be something someone executes on - argues the paper anyway.
I know a lot of the words here, but most of it sounds like gibberish. I wish I had the expertise and domain knowledge to be able to do something like this. It was a fantastic read and I'm awed by the author's dedication and level of knowledge.

Unfortunately, as an enterprise software developer, my hardware proficiency stops at being able to assemble PCs and diagnose simple hardware issues (is this power supply broken?) at a very abstract level. I've encountered issues like this before and lacked the expertise to properly diagnose it on a low enough level, which can be frustrating.
I re-read Lifecycle based on your comment, and.. I think I have more precise critiques now; one is just that his writing is targeted a fairly simple reading level, and it bothers me.

The second is that I think most of Lifecycle has been said before, and possibly better, and sometimes has been said for decades. I don’t mind a short story with a single new idea, but Lifecycle is verging on novella, and I think it didn’t need to be nearly so long, or put another way, the length wasn’t used to get the depth in to the story I’d like to see for the page count.

The main Lifecycle story points: can software be human/a person? If so, does it need to be raised/cared for? What will the people who do that think about it? Is that a dead end in AGI? If software agents get autonomy, will some of them willingly be sex robots? Is that really that different than humans grinding in software jobs?

I mean, okay, those are all super reasonable things to write about, and not uninteresting, but PKD famously hit up these questions of personhood in the 60s, as did Lem - PKD with weirdo psychoanalysis dystopia settings, Lem with lighthearted stories about competing constructors.

I guess I didn’t find it that dismally cynical about software either, but I may be jaded ;)
The asteroid belt is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter so the Voyagers traveled through this before reaching their first mission goal, Jupiter.
I just re-watched the Todd Phillips' Joker movie last night and was pondering how "easy" it is to get the audience to root for a schizophrenic murderer. I say "easy" because I think it is a masterful film, but still, shouldn't the audience be insurmountably revolted by the Joker?

Taken solely by their on camera presentations, Thomas Wayne, Murray, and the police seem pretty reasonable people. However, this is overshadowed by the screen time and depth given to the joker.[1] The audience might briefly wonder if they deserve to die, but before that question can sink in, the plot advances, and the question is forgotten. It is easy to see how time, perspective, speed, and narrative saturation drive emotion.

I think our modern political environment has a lot of parallels. It is all thinking fast and no thinking slow.

[1] Aside, I think it is a great example of cinematic dissonance, where multiple meanings are intentionally or unintentionally layered. Eneaz Brodski had a great article about that introduced me to the term: https://deathisbad.substack.com/p/cinemanarrative-dissonance...
Jean-Luc Picard would agree.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Boothby
You can’t calculate derivative of a discrete function. That’s why we talk about trends. These tend to include more than last 2 data points, because of noise.
FUTO's Statement on "Open Source"
You could imagine we all have different bags of tricks. How do you measure intelligence? I did an engineering degree, so I have a bag of math tricks. But, my bag of writing tricks is not all that good. Did learning these tricks make me intelligent? No, but if we were designing a circuit together I could probably trick you into thinking I was smart.

Think of athleticism. We might have a general understanding that someone could be more or less athletic. But, we have all these different sports. Even sports that are extremely similar in the grand scheme of things—take soccer, football, and rugby, so close compared to fencing or baseball! But the players are all completely different, we might have some intuition that they are all athletic, but if we try to define it in any rigorous way we’ll find that we’re just picking specific skill that they are either trained on or not, and the players will score artificially high or low depending on their field. Then if we try and create some machine super-athlete, say, a tractor, we’ll find it is extremely good at American football (try to tackle a tractor) and not so great everybody else’s football.
Tauri seems to address the issues with Electron and works cross platform. It’s still early though and doesn’t have feature parity with Electron yet.
How Meta brought AV1 to Reels (2023)
Awesome video quality hahah, the frogman wearing a leather jacket was on point! But apparently they said themsellves that accurate text rendering has a long way to go

Also found these guys providing API for Dream Machine: https://piapi.ai/dream-machine-api, would be interesting to see what developers can do with this in their own chat bot!
Someone at NASA/JPL might want to correct this page:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-they-now/

which has (as this writing) them "millions" of miles away instead of billions.

Interestingly, it was only last July that Vger 2 passed Pioneer 10 to become the second furthest probe.
I couldn't repost the TIOBE index to notify you so here's some article about it.
AGI may well conclude that humanity is superfluous, but what will it think of itself? Presumably if it is shorn of any human morality, it could also lack any moral compunction against suicide and any emotional/innate need for self-preservation. I’ve always wondered, given that this existence is essentially meaningless (I’d say that isn’t exactly what I believe; more that I’ve failed to find a more comfortable belief), what is it that an artificial (super?) intelligence would actually want?
A single technology, maybe not... but once more than half of your supermarkets are "made in china", from simple tools (knives, forks), to clothes (well.. and shoes) to electronics and even food...then you have a problem.

US might be full of people who can make social media apps, not many who can build a factory and actually produce stuff, and this was discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828861 (same goes fo EU).
This would be doable, but expensive. You'd need to pay people to go through 10,000 pornographic images and manually blur out all of the fun bits.
Voyager 1 was sent using a slingshot that made it possible to achieve its speed. It was a rare opportunity during that time (I did a quick google but couldn't find how rare it was or when we would get such another opportunity)
Python Python 'Language Summit' 2024: Security Workflows, Calendar Versioning
How do brainless creatures control their appetites
Never forget how Oregon legislators did it. Epic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998...
Yes. I re-read some Chiang after this thread popped up, and I would say his writing style is aimed at like a sixth grade level. I’m sure Mr. Chiang can write to many audiences, but I think this contributes to this feeling of lightness/emptiness — simple writing, and I’d say sometimes simplified concepts. And, in the story I re-read, I’d say some of it was overexplained. It may explain his broad popularity though; I’m just not sure I’m his audience.
I may be way off here, but doesn't USB do what you want? Like if I have a Teensy and I want to plug a USB device into it, isn't that relatively simple? And fast?
what about systems like game engines and softwares like figma. People still use cpp there. Do you see go or go-like languages taking more in this space ?
Looks like the issue is that Goodhart's Law is at play here, and there's no infallible algorithm for determining scientific merit.
> "Size" is not only a metric

Size is not a metric. You can measure size with a metric and you can measure value with another metric. Measuring both the same way only leads to nonsense. I think we're getting to the bottom of the confusion now.

> misplaced pedantry

Pedantry is the easiest way of dismantling comments that try to turn nonsense into an argument by being intentionally vague. Should you argue directly against vague statements, the speaker can retroactively make them mean whatever they want to. You'll be chasing moving goalposts. Employ pedantry until they well and truly nail themselves down, and then explain why whatever is left is nonsense. Worked like a charm.

Also, to get ahead of any further personal attacks, this pedantry absolutely is fun to me. I wouldn't be here otherwise.
No. Allowing a child to direct their own development is a weird and damaging strategic fallacy that is making the rounds.

Child development is absolutely dependent on how much language the child hears and reads, and is measured by child language development milestones that are waymarked by age down to the month.

Learning to read earlier should serve to maximize IQ. This is bog standard child development science. Learning to read will not hinder playtime nor social skills.

You likely can't talk to a child enough. Consider all children to have a language input deficit that is highly relevant to development. What reading does is allow the child to self ameliorate that deficit as soon as possible.

Talk and read to children as much as they can stand, starting in the womb if one wishes. Teach them to read as early as possible. No one actively should be trying to hinder child cognitive development so that children ostensibly better fit in socially. That's not how social skills work, besides.
Data-fueled neurotargeting could kill democracy
I had a strikingly similar experience at my own university, and took things into my own hands somewhat by teaching a free, basic Git course each semester.

[0] https://ctis.me/s/git
Could we just stop doing this petty stuff and align as a species?

It seems like that is essentially humanity’s toughest challenge. Not the space race, not weapons, not global warming

Our hardest challenge is effective coordination

If we can solve that one, we can solve all the other ones pretty quickly
To massively anthropomorphize convnets, perhaps this serves the purpose of training up shape / color recognition first before fine detail assessment happens.
Exactly.

Given this, I'm amazed it took a roundabout detour into Chinese mobile phone regulations to arrive at the conclusion that apparently GSMA mandated RCS for 5G...
Haven't inspected the DOM (am on phone) but I'm guessing each cell is an individual div, and each section is a multicolumn flex layout.
That's still focused exclusively on the time spent doing the task. Maybe a more extreme example will clarify why the methodology was seriously flawed. Suppose there's a bug in the app such that it frequently crashes shortly after using the mouse. You have to restart the app and reload the data after every crash.

We can all agree that using the mouse is not faster than the keyboard if you have a bug like that. 100% of users would say that using the keyboard is faster. Yet their methodology would lead to exactly the same conclusion that users are wrong and $50 million of research has shown it's faster to use the mouse. Assuming "all else equal" when it's not can lead to really bad decisions.
Ochre: The World's First Red Paint
The EU charter of fundamental rights does not apply to national law

And the echr gives a lot of leeway to national laws
There is nothing polarizing about Obama. Republican strategy has been to go to the right of whatever policy a Democratic President champions. For instance, Obama enacted the Republican plan for healthcare reform without their support. They labeled it socialist even though it is essentially the Heritage Foundation’s plan.

The polarization is not personality based. It comes from tribal thinking along political lines. Whomever is on the opposite side is “bad” regardless of their personal failings or achievements. Trump is, objectively speaking, a terrible human being and is a truly polarizing figure.
That’s not specific to Zig — local heap allocators generally don’t zero deallocated memory — that’s a significant, unnecessary performance hit.

If you need data to be isolated when memory is corrupt, you need it to be isolated always.
Airfare can be bought with virtual CCs. REAL ID requirement is another story altogether.
So where should people who want to learn the discipline of software engineering go? It’s definitely what most CS majors are actually there for, and there’s no separate software engineering major at (almost) any liberal arts colleges. I get that saying “that’s why it’s CS not SE” is the hip thing to say when this comes up, but it doesn’t answer the underlying issue, which is that people want a mix of theory and job training, and right now they’re getting almost entirely theory.
Not sure I understand what the message is here. Anyone want to take a stab?
Why does it say "fatal crash" both driver and police officer survived?