skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And about that guy they put in front of the Canadian parliament (even though he has absolutely nothing to do with Azov, and hence nothing one might say about him can have any bearing on the original assertions you were making) -- just to get him out of the way:

If you think that anyone who fought or otherwise worked for the Germans -- even if they served in the camps and did horrific things there (which this guy did not apparently), or served in a nominally elite military unit (as he did) -- is ipso facto a Nazi -- then it seems you haven't taken stock of one of the cardinal rules by which the Nazis operated in these countries (or any long-lived dictatorship operates for that matter, including certainly Putin's).

Which is: they don't need you to join the Party, or even believe the ideological flim-flam (and in the Nazis' case -- they definitely didn't need you to be antisemitic). You can even be a bit skeptical, or outright disdainful under the hood. At the end of the day, they don't really care about what your think as an individual. And they don't need you to be hip to their Master Plan.

They just need you to go along with it.
Ugh that pissed me off so much! Thankfully I used paypal to subscribe, and Paypal allows me to just not pay anymore for a subscription, so I just did that.

Good to know that's not a thing anymore, i don't know how that was ever legal to allow someone to subscribe through one medium, and not allow them to unsubscribe through the same medium.
But that is of little help when you want to train an LLM to do the job at your company. A human requires just a little bit of tutorials and help, an LLM still require an unknown amount of data to get up to speed since we haven't reached that level yet.
It all starts with imitation of some sufficient fidelity and generality that seeds a runaway evolutionary process. Language evolved to improve the fidelity of imitation much like how genes evolved pathways to minimize random mutations during copying.

Once imitation gets good enough (general and accurate) were capable of spreading behaviors (phenotypes) without having to wait for folks to be born and grow up.
It's worth being clear about what Cadence are announcing here (Cadence sells VLSI tooling and libraries) - they have 2 things:

- cells for a chip to send/receive at 128Gb/s - this solution requires 8 of them running in parallel (like 8 PCIe lanes)
- a module that takes 8 lanes in/out and drives/receives a single fiber
I'm not sure how to quantify how quickly or well humans learn in-context (if you know of any work on this I'd love to read it!)

In general, there is too much fluff and confusion floating around about what these models are and are not capable of (regardless of the training mechanism.) I think more people need to read Song Mei's lovely slides[1] and related work by others. These slides are the best exposition I've found of neat ideas around ICL that researchers have been aware of for a while.

[1] https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~songmei/Presentation/Algorith...
The whole notion of nature as legal personhood is frankly logically incoherent buzzword garbage from people appropriating legal terminology which they don't understand. Like all of the idiots who think abolishing corporate personhood would be a good idea, up until all of their contracts break and they are unable to sue a non-entity?

What is stopping the asinine concept from from being used to argue that, no the area really would prefer if it didn't have all of those pesky trees infesting it and digging its roots in, or that it would prefer to be pretty from mining run-off?
A concession has no legal effect. We have the tradition because it reassures the supporters of the losing candidate that the election system is trustworthy. If you say the word “concede” but then spend the next four years saying “the election was stolen” and “the president is illegitimate” you’re damaging public trust just as much as if you hadn’t conceded.

Gore, more than anyone in recent memory, deserves a special place in hell for helping turn American elections into the circus we have today. Gore exploited a loophole in Florida election law to seek hand recounts only in counties that had gone heavily in his favor. Since hand recounts identify valid votes the machine rejected, hand recounting a Gore-leaning subset of all the ballots would identify disproportionately more new Gore votes. It was blatant cheating, and on top of that the (apparently innumerate) Florida Supreme Court did things like allow the results of partially completed hand recounts to be added to certified election results. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Gore’s shenanigans twice, once in a per curiam decision, and the other in a 7-2. (The part that everyone remembers, the 5-4 part, was only about whether to give Florida yet another chance to do a valid recount. But it was Gore’s fuckery that put the Supreme Court in the lose-lose position of having to decide that issue.)

There is nobody who hates election denial more than me. We should throw people in prison for saying that duly elected officers are illegitimate or that elections were stolen. We shouldn’t be able to litigate election results for all but the most obvious malfeasance. Seeing America today reminds me of the third world country I’m from, and it sickens me to see Americans behaving like third world people.
Photonic wavelengths are shorter than electronic wavelengths. Why are photonics waveguides bigger then?
> there's the data that's read, the rules applied, and the data that's written

and each rule applied can do one of three basic things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498382

I like to collapse layers that are doing the "same kind" of thing according to the taxonomy above.
Then you're an emotionally intolerant ideologue about the notion of profit in a digital content landscape, who isn't willing to entertain criteria such as good faith arguments, benefit of the doubt, degree or nuance.

You expect that people should be obligated to conduct their efforts at creating readable information for free, unless they want your moral disdain?

Particularly laughable notions from someone enjoying a site deeply embedded in the ad-funded Silicon Valley parasitic consumer surveillance landscape.
You don't need public certificates for DKIM, it uses privately generated ones for as long as you want to keep them. (A security researcher recently found quite a few domains using weak DKIM keys generated by buggy Debian OpenSSL, more than fifteen years ago.)
You don't "hide behind" NDAs. Either you have one or you don't. Whatever your position is on the NDAs in general, you really shouldn't break one you accepted.
I'll say what a lot of people seem to be denying. GPT-4 is an AGI, just a very bad one. Even GPT-1 was an AGI. There isn't a hard boundary between non AGI and AGI. A lot of people wish there was so they imagine absolutes regarding LLM's like "they cannot create anything new" or something like that. Just think: we consider humans a general intelligence, but obviously wouldn't consider an embryo or infant a general intelligence. So at what point does a human go from not generally intelligent to generally intelligent? And I don't mean an age or brain size, I mean suite of testable abilities.

Intelligence is an ability that is naturally gradual and emerges over many domains. It is a collection of tools via which general abstractive principles can be applied, not a singular universally applicable ability to think in abstractions. GPT-4, compared to a human, is a very very small brain trained for the single purpose of textual thinking with some image capabilities. Claiming that ARC is the absolute market of general intelligence fails to account for the big picture of what intelligence is.
I used to. Then at a certain point in my life it was no longer a top priority in my life to run a tight financial ship. This usually happens around the time you invite a partner and children into your life. There’s just too many expenses to question.

I’ll do maybe a yearly audit but apart from that, if nothing seems out of the ordinary, I don’t check.
Absolutely same. I wonder how much of it is most people being like this and many of those saying "well yes of course I see the apple" without really thinking about it. If someone actually sees the apple, v.s. imagining what it would be like if they were seeing it, they're hallucinating. Not that it wouldn't be cool to be able to do that on command, I just wonder how many people really can.
I tried switching to Affinity. I'm glad it exists. I use Affinity Designer but Affinity Photo didn't meet my needs and I ended up signing up for a Photoshop subscription. It was small workflow stuff but ultimately, for me needs, some poor UX choices in Affinity meant editing 200+ files would have taking 2-3 hours more. Photoshop was $120 for a 1yr subscription. My time is easily worth more than $120 for the 2-3 hours I saved.

I'm not dissing Affinity Photo. It seems great. And like I said, I use Affinity Designer (never owned Illustrator). all I'm saying is $120 isn't that much money if you actually need the software for work.

If you just need something for a hobby than there's Affinity Photo ($50) as well as gIMP and Krita. There's also Photopea which I find is meeting most of my short term Photoshop needs so I might switch and give them my $$$ instead of Adobe. Though I suspect if I ever have to do 200+ images again I'll find Photopea's workflow to be missing the things that made me pony up last time.
Empire Market owners charged for enabling $430M in dark web transactions
Show HN: No-Code Notion Form Builder – An Alternative to NoteForms and TypeForms
> Start-stop systems help, but a lot of people disable them.

I've been exposed to a fair amount of different start-stop systems because every rental is different, and some of them are reasonable/good and some of them are awful. My main car is a PHEV, so I'm used to limited idling and that's fine, the big question is what triggers the start and how long does it take to start.

I've been in cars that consistently aren't ready to move when I've pressed the accelerator. Those get disabled everytime I start the car; hopefully I wouldn't buy a broken car like this, but I'd definitely figure out how to disable it if I did. The better ones will start when I reduce brake pressure, so by the time my foot gets to the accelerator, it's ready to move. Those get to stay enabled. In the middle, I might disable them sometimes when they're particularly bothersome, but otherwise leave them be.
> Especially as many people actually good enough at collating and editing encyclopedic articles about subjects that aren't about their own media-based hobbies quickly decide Wikipedia isn't a very fun place to do that any more.

That cuts both ways. IMO Wikipedia has lost a lot of contributors by banning fun and disallowing the topics that people found interesting.
Path of Exile hosts their own wiki now. poewiki.net

> This is the official Path of Exile wiki, maintained by the community and hosted by Grinding Gear Games.

But for duckduckgo if you use the !poe bang... It takes you to the fandom page, even though the fandom page doesn't get updates anymore because there is an official wiki elsewhere.

As an example of out of dateness of fandom: https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Version_history claims the latest update to the game is version 3.17, from feb 2022... https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Version_history says its version 3.24.0 from April 23, 2024. They don't even bother scraping the official wiki to update their own. It's actually dead.

Ive submitted to DDG a few times that the !poe bang points to an unofficial bad source when an official better source exists, but search engines don't care. The out of date fandom page is still the second result, because people will keep clicking it and it has years of accumulated SEO.
but it would then be your choice.

and, c’mon, people do harder things in the interest of family.

Maintaining a home is a shitload of work, but we dont live in a prison so that we can avoid the effort of cleaning and cooking.

The skills to run a federated matrix instance, for example, can be had in less time than it takes to learn how to BBQ without starting a fire or poisoning someone. Yet we choose to do that, we even consider transferal of those skills to be a bonding experience.
The guy who made magic the gathering made a game called Keyforge, every deck sold at retail has a unique selection of cards in it. You do not get to mix and match your own ingredients to play the game.

Very unique idea, very unique feeling, I still dont even know how it is mass produced actually... Kind of mediocre game to me, but thats just personal taste. It is special enough that any board gamer should give it a play at least a couple times to feel it
Wikimedia spends the vast majority of its resources on stuff that has a lot less to do with traditional-Wikipedia than a Fandom competitor would.
Yeah, a Cassandra library has an “iterator” that reads a row’s data into a struct pointer, and returns false if there’s no more data.
1 & 2. requires that you audit the agents and have uniform permissions, or additional plumbing to lookup user permissions and pass those along.

Have you looked at the agents prepackaged in popular frameworks? They aren't doing permission propagation or using additional libraries as guardrails.

What are most people going to do? This is why people are hesitant and ask about auditability

Considering 2 further, I only described deletion. A read-only database is of limited value. If you have write permissions, you could alternatively change values maliciously, even if you disable deletions. This might not be a malicious, and could be the result of an LLM error or hallucination.
Who says that you have more detail. An eagle can see much farther and in more detail than you, and yeah it can fly. A bat has sonar. Some orient by Earths magnetic field which we do not detect. Etc.
Meta did $12.4B profit in Q1 2024 which was 116.7% increase year-over-year. They have a lot of treasure to spend and the treasure chest keeps getting bigger.
I've been using this:

javascript:(function() { for (var n of document.querySelectorAll('a, p, li, div')) { n.style.color = (n.nodeName == 'A' ? 'LinkText' : 'CanvasText'); n.style.backgroundColor = 'Canvas'; n.style.font = '500 16px/1.4em sans-serif'; }})();

It uses system colors and thus, if your browser supports them, should adapt to dark mode automatically. Using .style has the advantage that sites can't override the style themselves using .style. (You'd think looping over all these elements would be slow, but it's not.) This version also works on sites that aren't using jQuery, although it wouldn't be hard to use `var s = document.head.appendChild(document.createElement("style")); s.innerText = "...";` for that.

I was surprised at how helpful forcing the font face and spacing is. There's a lot of sites out there with bad-looking fonts or huge line spacing on top of unreadably-light gray.

I added the background color part based on your version. Thanks for prompting me to try that; the way my bookmarklet didn't work on black backgrounds was occasionally a problem. I also added a bit to force link colors, since neither of our versions handled those well.

Perhaps the next step is a "multistage" bookmarklet that applies more rules the more times you click on it, so the more forceful rules (like background color, which often messes up other parts of the site design) can be optional.
I think a lot of people are conflating illusion of free will with consciousness.
Nice to see different architecture styles compared side-by-side in one concise table.
> It seems like you don’t understand the rules of the competition.

I don't think you "don't understand" anything :) I'd ask you, politely, to consider that when you're replying to other people in the future.

Better to bring to interactions the prior that your interlocutor is a presumably intelligent individual who can have a different interpretation of the same facts, than decide they just don't get it. The second is a quite lonely path.

> Entries don’t have access to the internet.

Correct. Per TFA, cofounder, Chollet, then me: this is an offline solution: the solution is the Python program found by an LLM.

> The HN comment from the prize co-founder specifically says the OP’s claims haven’t been scrutinized.

Objection: relevancy? Is your claim here that it might be false so we shouldn't be discussing it at all?

> (implicit: they won’t be for the prize set unless the OP submits with an open LLM implementation)

I don't know what this means, "open LLM implementation" is either a term of art I don't recognize, or a misunderstanding of the situation.

I do assume you read the article, so I'm not trying to talk down to you, but to clarify:

The solution is the Python program, not the LLM prompts that iterated on a Python program. A common thread that would describe the confusing experience of reading your comment phrased aggressively and disputing everything up until you agree with me: your observations assume I assume the solution requires a cloud-based LLM to run. As noted above, it doesn't, which is also the thrust of my comment: they found a way to skirt what I thought the rules are, and the co-founder and Chollett have embraced it, publicly.

> There is a plan for a “public” leaderboard, but it currently has no entries, so we don’t actually know what the SOTA for the unrestrained version is. [1]

This was false before you posted, when I checked this morning, and it was false as early as 4 days ago, June 14th, we can confirm via archive.is. (prefix the URL you provided with archive.is/ to check for yourself)

> The general idea - test time augmentation - is what the current private set SOTA uses. [2] Generating more examples via transforming the samples is not a new idea.

Did anyone claim it was?

> Really, it seems like all the publicity has just gotten a bunch of armchair software architects coming up with 1-4 year-old ideas thinking they are geniuses.

I don't know what this means other than you're upset, but yes, sounds like both you and I agree that having an LLM generate Python programs isn't quite what we'd thought would be an AGI solution in the eyes of Chollet.

Alas, here we are.
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There was never any smooth transition for me. You do it by doing it. Sometimes you have to quit your job. Sometimes you apply for a job you don't yet qualify for, at a pay cut. Sometimes you pay for classes. Sometimes you just sit down and code random stuff every night until someone notices.

When you have done something long enough, opportunities open. It's not because someone has been magically waiting for you. It's more that if you walk down a path, you'll find the other people walking that same path. Many of whom are also much, much more experienced but they've been in your place and are happy to mentor you.

But one catch is you have to already be experienced enough. Build things with a target to get it done in 2 or so weeks max (part time). Then the next thing at 4 weeks. That's one approach.

Draw stuff you see on Codepen. Build a thing in React. Make games. Turn your phone into a massage tool. Make a raytracer. Make a proper AI thing. You want to solve minimum level problems, not do advanced hello worlds, and get a feel for the whole cycle.
But importantly, making sure a nuke can still hit Moscow despite geolocation countermeasures has lots of worrying consequences for normal people that are in normal cities. If nukes are hitting random countryside then a lot less people die.

But when it's the difference between hitting a hardened target or being off by 200 meters, that doesn't really affect normal people.
Charm makes a nice tool: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
I was a huge BeOS fan at the time, but in retrospect it was more like a vertical slice demo of an operating system. There was so much missing features and technical debt that fleshing it out would have been 90% of the work.
The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes
I wish we would refactor our stack!

Each level throws away a lot of the effort of the preceding layer.

E.g. after heroic engineering for the OS and memory management systems to present the illusory abstraction of a flat memory address space to the runtime, it almost immediately chops it up into smaller independent "packets" that don't interact directly.

Or the whole storage <-> memory <-> slow cache <-> fast cache <-> register divide.

I think we should be building processors that are made of tens of millions of very simple processors, each with their own memory and with dedicated "network on chip"-like communication electronics. These processors would directly map to language structures like objects/structs/functions.

Essentially flattening the stack so that there is just one level between language and silicon.
This article inspired me to check out the respective market caps for Intel and AMD. Hell of a turnaround! I remember the raging wars between the Pentiums and the Athlons. Intel won. The GPU wars between Nvidia and ATI; Nvidia won. Thereafter AMD, the supposed loser to Intel, absorbed ATI, the supposed loser to Nvidia. But I love that the story didn't end there. Look at what AMD did with Sony PlayStation (extensively discussed in this interview)...and that's without getting into the contemporary GPU AI revolution that's likely driving AMD's $250+ billion market cap. Epic!
We didn't really bottleneck AGP8X until nVidia dropped the 200 series GeForce GPU. Then PCI-E was pretty much a requirement.
Or they tried the strategy in the past, and they had learned behavior that by eating things at night, they can get away with it. If you read the methods of this study, they used dogs that lived as pets [1].

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...
I would submit that if we care about outcomes then it matters if someone is the best suited for the role.

There will always be subjectivity, and “the best” is going to be at least partly defined in terms of who is available. Nevertheless we could insist upon certain standards. Not being a pathological liar, a sociopath, deeply conflicted or self-interested, and so on, seem like good starting positions.

I’m not arguing that we live in a reality that reflects this, of course. Just that it would be nice to.
I'd say these are essential complexities, they are features necessary for the client.
Accidental complexity would be, if you for example, assigned the work on your new house to different "teams". Then the "guest room" team also build a drainage, or used a prebuilt drainage, not connected to the drainage the other team built.

To quote a quote from the article:
"In my experience most of the complexities which are encountered in systems work are symptoms of organizational malfunctions."
Create a dark theme for the Firefox Add-ons website
Mozilla is open to having an official dark theme for addons.mozilla.org, but the team working on AMO is too small and has no time for designing a new theme.

They're accepting pull requests: https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/2193#issuecomment-2151006096 .
In the last few months, we have reduced the SMS verification upon signup to a minimum.
The "general" part of AGI implies it should be capable across all types of different tasks. I would definitely call it real Artificial Intelligence, but it's not general by any means.