skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligence can be defined as the ability to accurately predict the future consequences of one's actions. And the only way to make such predictions is by having an internal model of how the world works.

Moreover, for social species that live and evolve in groups, like humans, this world-model must crucially include a model of oneself and other minds. We need to be able to predict how others will think and react to our own behaviors. This is what gives rise to self-consciousness and "theory of mind" - a world-model that is recursive and includes representations of itself.

That said, while our conscious experience seems deeply linked to our world-model, the world-model likely encompasses much more than just conscious awareness. It runs in the background, guiding our reflexes, breathing, balance, and myriad other functions below the level of consciousness. It takes in raw sensory data and interprets it, and uses feelings and emotions as a communication channel to influence conscious thought.

There are known critical developmental windows during which an animal's world-model is shaped by early sensory experiences and social interactions. If key stimuli are missing during these windows, the world-model may remain stunted in certain ways even if the missing stimuli are later provided. The animal may compensate through other means, but its overall intelligence - its ability to model and predict - will be constrained by the limitations of its world-model.

So in that sense, a highly sophisticated but narrowly specialized world-model, as in a mathematical or musical savant, may produce an individual who is brilliant in one domain but quite limited in general intelligence.

Whereas a broad but shallower world-model, as in many animals, can enable robust if limited intelligence that is well-adapted to the animal's ecological niche.

Evolution tends to select for world-models and intelligence that are "just enough" for an animal's lifestyle and no more. The metabolic cost of excess intelligence makes it maladaptive. So we see each species with a world-model and associated intelligence that is tailored to its particular environment and survival needs.
> strings.Split, regex.FindAll

But they already do, slices are iterables, and the input is bounded. Plus you have lots of other benefits like indexability. What need would it solve?

> scanner.Scan, sql.Query

Right, these are not suitable for slices because they’re unbounded. But still, what’s the use case? You still have roughly the same amount of code, no? Even the same noisy if err != nil checks. Can you provide a snippet that highlights the benefits?
Yeah, although really no-one of the 'regular people' (well, I have even educated programmer friends saying it's good to catch criminals) care/know (they glaze over when I talk about 'another tech blah') about this, they did vote the people in who like this kind of stuff (and probably are somewhere making $ with it).
Perhaps the German pirate party should have sticked to focusing on privacy and digital rights instead of becoming a second Green party with a far left bend.

Really his snide at the right gaining traction in his post shows that he still doesn't get it.
The website looks well made and the UI is beautifully designed.
You can still apologize by editing your parent comment. Humility is a gift.
Using van Gogh as an example of “artists who make it” is insane.

Which I guess is appropriate, because he was literally crazy. He suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and died from suicide, depressed and in poverty.

That’s the opposite of “making it”. It’s zero consolation that people like his work now, he never even knew.
Meta releases Threads API for developers to build 'unique integrations'
> book in the 1500s was only available to (and therefore likely directed at) wealthy and highly-educated people

Those people also had to compete, in the long run, for their positions. Broadening scope from a selected sample to the population necessarily degrades quality as the common denominator is pursued.

On the other hand, it creates tremendous wealth which allows niche art to flourish. (On the third hand, populism hates niche art.)
It would be hilarious if some intern used ChatGPT to write the copy for the SPAC website and it hallucinated based off of being trained on the SEC filings.
We are not lead by our betters, is all I can surmise.
I for one blame the NPC Population that can't think more than 5 Minutes ahead in terms of policy.
Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water. Thanks for the extra worries.
… right up until you hear the sound a human being makes when their enhanced quads rip the connective tissue off their knees in the middle of a squat, and you see them collapse to the floor as fast as gravity could take them, only surviving because this one time they’d decided to actually engage the bar stop on the rack.

Very useful lesson to a 16 year old with body dysmorphia issues, even if I can still hear those screams.
>If you’re a EU citizen, please consider contacting your government’s representative today, asking them to vote against Chat Control.

Are there any studies on the effectiveness of this? To me it always read like a joke. The only way I can imagine this going is.

>Good day Mr. Rep I'm really really worried about x legistlation for reasons y and z.

>Sure buddy. hangs up

>Votes like his "donors" asked him to anyways.
Are the recent shifts in electoral preferences the reason for the push?

As a backhanded way to surveil those politicians and citizens with the "wrong views" on remigration, etc.?
Those not yet brain washed voters do actually care.

But then there are the „Wahlhelfer“ who openly proud themselves in Twitter to invalidate votes for parties they disagree with.

This is democracy?
Thailand passes marriage equality bill, first in Southeast Asia
> and stick to what they are good at.

No they should be kept accountable for their actions and the money they waste. Currently there is no mechanism for that, but i m sure hordes of them would quit if we made one
And be targeted by cyberwarfare from the first-world side.
>7900X3D

What purpose could this possibly serve? Enjoying worse performance than a 7900X?
Modern operating systems render to buffers on the GPU and then composite them, which I would guess adds some latency (although likely unnoticeable).
> Next year could be to help the climate or protect lbtgqi++ rights.

Unlikely—this would actually benefit people.
"Chat Control" is already real. This is just codifying prevalent practice done by a multitude of agencies into law.
For military and political security there is NATO.

The EU's mutual defense clause is an empty shell
Generally, if you've got a task big enough that you're worried about pricing, it's probably going to involve thousands of API calls.

In that case you might as well make ~20 API calls to each LLM under consideration, and evaluate the results yourself.

It's far easier to evaluate a model's performance on a given prompt by looking at the output than by looking at the input alone.
Google sells eyeballs to advertisers, they don't sell to consumers. They've largely baked their pricing strategies in algorithms that self-adjust to increase costs as advertisers invest more, so that they don't have to expose themselves, but they still push prices up when they feel like it. They're also so brazenly exploitative that they were investigated and fined by the EU multiple times for doing bad things to their customers.

So yeah, they behave exactly the same - towards their actual customers, which are advertisers, not you.
No it's not. Please read some more recent writing by Rob Pike, like here: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right.... The money quotes:

> In short, Go is not just a programming language. Of course it is a programming language, that's its definition, but its purpose was to help provide a better way to develop high-quality software, at least compared to our environment 14 plus years ago.

> And that's still what it's about today. Go is a project to make building production software easier and more productive.

I think there is an idea that Go is "software engineering for the masses", and that's why the word "easier" is used, and not "simpler". "easier" is fine when you're starting out and you don't know what you don't know. As times goes on, you start understanding more because you have more experience, and so you may yearn for something simpler, with less abstractions, more control. Go isn't the best language for this, but it's also far from the worst.
We do not directly compete with them as we are more of a niche based solution for businesses that want their own private cloud and do not want to undertake the many millions in capopex to build and deploy their own super computer clusters. As such, our offerings should not have an impact on their pricing. But who knows… maybe long term we will. Hard to say.
I don't think many people fear those things, they're just used as a rhetorical cudgel.
My pet made-up theory is that careers aren't really killable like that any more, since Cambridge Analytica.

Before CA, the received wisdom was that if you do something bad, you will need to resign before you are pushed for causing damage to the organisation reputation and therefore electability. This was perhaps borne out with enormous error bars by focus groups and polls asking "would you still vote for X in case of Y".

After CA, and in particular the live social media sentiment data that was gathered around the debacle of the UK Brexit referendum, the data showed that actually egregious misbehaviour did not materially affect sentiments, and perhaps even appealed to a larger proportion of people than believed. For example, the famous "shy Tory" might not show up well in a focus group, but it all hangs out after analysing Facebook's data.

With that data in hand, people started doing things that they would never have dared to do before, knowing that it won't actually harm them, at least in the short run (since this data only shows short term effects).

And that's how we go from resigning over fairly small gaffes to the "screw it, what you gonna do, we know you won't vote for the others, we've seen your data" of today.

Not long ago, calling a woman a bigot on a hot mic was a dreadful PR disaster. Now, you can physically snatch a journalist's phone and it barely registers.

It does, however stack up over time with catastrophic final effects, much like chasing only quarterly figures or always postponing dealing with technical or real debt.
The wording in the current draft seems to indicate that it applies to "providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services". So unless this includes ISPs, I wonder if that means a decentralized P2P service is not covered.
>Francois never claimed to be a neuro-symbolic believer

His response:

"This has been the most promising branch of approaches so far -- leveraging a LLM to help with discrete program search, by using the LLM as a way to sample programs or branching decisions. This is exactly what neurosymbolic AI is, for the record..."

"Deep learning-guided discrete search over program space is the approach I've been advocating, yes... there are many different flavors it could take though. This is one of them (perhaps the simplest one)."

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1802773156341641480
There are exemptions in the document and this article also talks about it; it would be good to know what tools we can use (p2p chat etc) that are exempt from this. I guess most people will blindly accept and won't care, but at least people can move if they do care (and possibly convince others).
In bigger cities yes, and I’m certain as a baseline it’s a better situation than the US just due to the size difference, but it’s pretty poor in much of the country.

Granted, lack of parking is correlated with living in big cities, but I live in what was once primarily a mining, steelworks, and ceramics town; there is a hell of a lot of terraced housing where even parking close to your house is a nightmare, let alone charging.
Private Contact Discovery (2017)
>The code is all on GitHub, the ISA docs are public, the driver is in upstream Linux with the work in progress on Gitlab

That's exactly what I meant by dumping the source and hoping that someone turns else it to plug and play magic - for free. This simply doesn't work.
I don't get it. How is my comment about Eurovision wrong when you then immediately agree with what I just said? It calls itself the European Broadcasting Union and the Eurovision song contest, but as you clearly agree, its membership rules have nothing to do with being in Europe.

Europe is quite obviously not a political concept. It's an ancient word that always has and always will mean a geographical area. You're repeating the exact behavior we are openly criticizing in this thread. Misusing language in that way is not only a cheap attempt to manipulate and socially engineer populations, but actively divisive. This thread is a perfect example. Europe hasn't managed to produce many Google competitors, but there's one in the UK and now the people who run it are hurt and upset because they were excluded from a list that claims to represent all of Europe, but in reality the list is some sort of ideological construct defined by political allegiances.

I really don't think self-proclaimed "European citizens" realize how much damage they do to the continent with this approach. It's not just the UK, I live in Switzerland and these games get noticed here too. Many problems are geographical in nature (war, famine, energy, immigration etc). Europe could use as much collaboration as it can get. Alienating some of the continent's most successful countries is the worst way to bring that about.
That's because it's native to the browser and not hijacked by JS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap...
In Aus and NZ this is known as "cutting down the tall poppy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
If anything, such ideas are usually to appease people who are in favor of deportation.
Apparently their XB-1 starts supersonic flights tests this year [1].

Given their prototype just flew, isn’t staging for mass production premature? Is Overture even in prototype? (EDIT: Right, they haven’t built the engine yet [2]. Confused why this “superfactory” is a priority.)

[1] https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb1-prepares-for-first-supe...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Symphony
Definitely not true. My last company had the finance department phished and they never recovered the funds. It was about $50k I believe.

See also all the people pissed at zelle.
Because it is exactly the EU governance that lacks democratic representation, enabling unfavoured politicians to remain in significant power. You can only elect MEPs (via party lists) locally. The majority of legalislation is drafted by the technocratic European Commission and legislation is mostly passed through parlaiment unchanged from there.

There are many nationally disgraced politicians seating in the EP, EC or council. Only the ones in the EP were electible.

The people have correctly identified that a massive supranational unaccountable government is the problem, enabling corrupt people to keep ruling which undermines the core functioning of representative democracy.
Unfortunately, most of those misguided "device integrity" checkers detect VMs and the best of them (luckily still not used very often) are essentially unbeatable (unless there's a critical bug) due to hardware-backed attestation.
My guess is language emergence allows to teach and "accumulate" knowledge in cultures.
The formalism that data-driven machine learning leans on is empirical tuning of stochastic search to drive approximation of functions, and despite what Silicon Valley would have you believe, most of the significant advances have been in creating useful meta-structures for modeling certain kinds of problems (e.g. convolution for efficiently processing transformations that care about local structure across dimensions of data, or qkv attention for keeping throughlines of non-local correspondences intact through a long sequence). Neural networks as a flavor of empirical function approximation happened to scale well, and then a bunch of people who saw how much this scale improved the models' capabilities but couldn't be bothered to understand the structural component concluded that scale somehow magically gets you to every unsolved problem being solved. It's also convenient for business types that if you buy this premise, any unicorn they want to promise is just a matter of throwing obscene amounts of resources at the problem (through their company of course)

I think probably the general idea of dynamic structures that are versatile in their ability to approximate functional models is at least a solid hypothesis for how some biological intelligence works at some level (I think maybe the "fluid/crystallized" intelligence distinction some psychology uses is informative here - a strong world model probably informs a lot of quick acquisition of relationships, but most intelligent systems clearly posess strong feedback mechanisms for capturing new models), though I definitely agree that a focus on how best to throw a ton of scale at these models doesn't seem like a fruitful path for actionably learning how to build or analyze intelligent systems in the way we usually think about, nor is it, well, sustainable. Moore's law appeals to business people because buying more computronium feels more like a predictable input-output relationship to put capital into, but even if we're just talking about raw computation speed advances in algorithms tend to dwarf advances in computing power in the long run. I think the same will hold true in AGI
Can You Replace Google Search with Reddit? I Tried It for a Week
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61405#issuecomment-16388...:

> Can you provide more motivation for range over functions?

> If the results can be generated one at a time, then a representation that allows iterating over them scales better than returning an entire slice. We do not have a standard signature for functions that represent this iteration. Adding support for functions in range would both define a standard signature and provide a real benefit that would encourage its use.

> There are also functions we were reluctant to provide in slices form that probably deserve to be added in iterator form. For example, there should be a strings.Lines(text) that iterates over the lines in a text.
Fair. It would be interesting to compare the way Bell Labs was funded with modern economic / legal conditions.
SourceForge [0]... the Sony [1] of software development.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Adware_controversy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
All things considered I think that’s a strong yes. Open borders, free trade, technological collaboration, and shared health, industry and consumer regulations help accelerate economic development. Can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
How much is 'modernity' screwing up your life right now?
Exactly this. Once you read up about donors, or keys, or whatever word your country uses, it becomes obvious that it's all pretty straight forward
I've been following drug policy around the world for decades. The reason it is so interesting (and so pernicious) is because it's a big jumble of counterintuitive, niggling details and unintended consequences that defies common sense.

Of course cough medicine isn't any more mind altering than caffeine - except that there at least two types of highly psychoactive cough medicine: opioid, which has narcotic effects, and dextromethorphan, which has dissociative effects.

Experts, including Dr. Toshihiko Matsumoto, claim that wrist-cutting, suicides, and other self-harm increases when it becomes more difficult for young people to purchase cough syrup, presumably because they use it self-medicate trauma.

This is a microcosm for drug policy in general. Prohibition is only successful if you ignore second-order effects.

None of this is to discourage you from learning more about drug policy. Maybe if more people learned about it we would stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again
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Money in their pocket is not money on the table. You are in fact reinforcing my point: Client loyalty and trust is critical in business, you're a lousy businessman if you've damaged that by ripping off your clients too hard angering them.

The most effective business is getting all the money on the table and making your client happy. Thusly the art of business, ripping off your client without pissing them off.

Absolutely nobody gets ahead in business by selling wares cheaper than what they could have gone for, unless you are deliberately underselling the market to gain share by sheer force of will. Likewise by selling wares higher than what they could have gone for, clients will just look elsewhere because you're just another one of many merchants.
I was just in a nuclear power plant in the US.

Needless to say several things stuck out but I was actually pretty surprised about their phone policy.

I was allowed to keep my phone the entire time and allowed to take pictures of everything except the control room and security related procedures, items, devices, etc. All the employee phones I saw were standard devices.

The asked us to avoid posting to social media but that was more of a consideration for why we were there. It didn’t seem to have anything to do with broader security concerns, etc.

All of that said you are accompanied by at least one escort the entire time, down to water breaks, bathroom visits (they wait for you outside), etc.

What they were most strict about was safety related issues that weren’t strictly nuclear related. For example, they take holding handrails incredibly seriously and if someone saw you taking a single step on stairs without holding a hand rail you’d (basically) get yelled at.
Yes, but the underlying mechanisms behind brains, neurons, cells, DNA etc. aren't going to be so different.
While your other examples are damning, I see nothing wrong with an elderly politician without social media profiles.
Will the lead time still be 50+ weeks though? My guess is yes.
I'd strongly advise taking a page from J's book and allow rank specification for function application. Julia having ranks element and infinite is nice, but what about application row-by-row ? On on regular sub arrays?
How many people did actually bother to vote in Germany?

Here in France, the "extremists" got a bit over 30% of votes. But turnout was only 51%.

According to [0] average turnout is 51%. Some countries have very high numbers (IIRC voting is mandatory in Belgium?), others ridiculously low. This, to me, means pretty much that "voters don't care".

[0] https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/turnout/
The evergreen "think of the children" excuse to make you forego of your privacy rights.
Does the existence of this project imply that it's harder to find a drive controller than it is to find actual drives ?
Given it has suppressed an entire planet of innovation, prosperity, possibility, and experience, I would say it has negatively impacted all of us in ways you can't fathom.
This is what the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn proposes. Interesting read.
> Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

How is the US different from any other country in history in that regard?

You can be in North Korea and freely criticize the government, you're just not gonna be "free from the consequences".

Turns out, being protected from the 'consequences' is what actually matters.