skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AGI exists now

AGI exists if we redefine AGI to mean what we have now. But otherwise, no, it doesn't. What we have today does not meet the criteria that have been standard for the last half century[0]. I know people have a hard time keeping up, but no, the Turing Test is not the accepted threshold and hasn't really ever been. It was a starting point, and I should mention we beat it since at least 1967 (<20 years since Turings proposal). Nor is Chess, which we succeeded at in 1997.

What I hate about these conversations is that people learn the basics but there's been a lot of advancements since the 50's. We've learned a lot since the 90's too! Yes, the metrics keep changing, but they are not in response to the current state of the art in a specific effort to make the systems not AGI[1]. But rather the criteria keeps changing because we keep learning. It would be ludicrous if it didn't! Because WE STILL HAVE NOT CONCRETELY DEFINED CONSCIOUSNESS, REASONING, THINKING, and many other similar terms. The criteria are generally guides created by best guesses. But until we have formal definitions, expect it to change (and when we do have formal definitions, be sure as hell to understand their assumptions!).

But I can confidently tell you that LLMs do not exhibit generalization in the way we've been using it for decades. This is easy to demonstrate but if you're a true believer then there's no convincing. And in that case, just don't bother arguing either.

I really do encourage people to take their passion and use it to drive gaining a deep expertise on these subjects. You're passionate right? I hope that passion is not about "being right" or "having answers" and is actually about "understanding." And if you can't differentiate that, I suggest starting at the beginning, since these topics are covered there.

[0] Sure, you can find examples of people stating criteria, but I can find you samples of idiots, even among scientists.

[1] There are some bad faith people who do this but they're terrible people too. You may freely disregard their opinions.
Can salary range based on experience be included in the post please
OK? The model doesn't work for you, so... don't read the article. You are not entitled to free content.
The president in Brazil does not have the power to take down content just because he want..

This was the justice system that ruled that some content should be blocked, and this decision can be appealed bu the person that was blocked..

The problem here is that twitter, that was not a party in the case, decided they wanted to appeal, something they cannot do in Brazil legal system..
A related quiz that might be interesting: fill the screen with random grid of colors, all close to BLUE and tell user to pick "blue". See how close people recognize 0x0000FF.
Why has this been upvoted so much? It's a completely useless test where it seems we all agree there are a bunch of turquoises.
That's exactly right. The issue I ran into is that the Playdate's CPU doesn't have a lot of juice, and spends a lot of time every frame just filling the screen. There's no specialized blitting hardware or GPU. Hence realtime sprite scaling is not feasible.

I tried making some pre-scaled sprites, and the ROM footprint had to be pretty large to afford enough size steps for reasonably smooth motion as the train moved past objects. Even then, all that sprite drawing was starting to dip the frame rate.

So, I experimented with a pre-rendered approach, and that was a huge unlock. Eventually I was able to wrangle it into something that I think worked even better in the end! The pre-rendered video based approach allowed way more elaborate detail and I didn't have to worry about frame rate anymore.
I suspect this will lead to an increase in the number of people staying on Win10 and below. Naturally, MS will also continue spreading their usual FUD in their attempts at persuading the userbase to "bend over and take it".

This will also lead to an increased demand for custom "distros" and modding tools and such, which has always been a bit of an "underground" community but has occasional resurgences. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130230

As the old saying goes: "challenge accepted." ;-)
Keep in mind that they’re studying unemployment whereas your anecdote is about retirement. The article argues that unemployment leads to a loss of control which leads to certain significant attitude changes.

It would be quite irregular for someone who received a career ending windfall in their mid-30s to feel a lack of control. There is a whole other can of angry cobras for them.
Do note it can take up to 24 hours or drop requests altogether. But if that’s not an issue for your use case it’s a great cost saving.
If the machine is accessed remotely, how can its own local keyboard settings affect other users?
The deal breaker for me has been the loss of certain features. Specifically for me, they removed most of the functionality related to local network music libraries.

Originally they said the feature was totally supported but just didn't make the cut for the initial app release. I've heard that story before, including from my own PMs. Can't say I'm too surprised that the feature still isn't supported and I've yet to see any further mention of adding it back.
I really like the way this shows the final result. Thank you!
nothing, I strip out all the HTML tags and pass raw text
Cyan is just another shade of blue to me. The colour you get when you google image search "cyan" is definitely more blue than green to my eyes.
Or maybe their lives or political lives, being cynical.
I realize you're using ghosts as an analogy. I'm saying this isn't about anything mystical. I'm exactly trying to avoid any woo, by introducing more concrete definitions.

I'm not trying to pigeonhole you. I do believe that consciousness is only zero at the domain minimum and it's a slowly growing function, but I disagree that there's any sort of "certain point". Humans are "more conscious" than cats (and better terminology is that they are conscious of more things than cats, or their world model encompasses more than cats, or something like that), but that doesn't mean humans are conscious and cats aren't.

My entire point is that "consciousness" is entirely unlike "blue". You can ask the question "is this blue?" and have a coherent answer. You can't ask the question "is this conscious?". You need to ask the question "what is this conscious of?".
Curious whether you've tried the VSCode Neovim extension. It is “real vim” in that it connects to a Neovim server, which means you can use your neovimrc and packages and all that. It still lives inside VSCode, so there's going to be keyboard latency and the like, but I find it really good.
Or better web standards allow everything you need for the common things in a web app to be plain html and css so that porting to JSX etc. is mechanical.

For example menu systems, popups etc. Yes there are html css hacks but they are indeed hacks. A checkbox is not a button or a parent menu.
If you mean mobile OSes sure, I can agree with you they are becoming worse with time. OSes for real computers, not so much.
Oh shit. Turned off night mode and switched sides!
Hangul and the corresponding Japanese syllabaries made sense because Chinese characters are very poorly suited to writing Korean and Japanese.

Latin and Arabic, on the other hand, have a long history of being used for other languages and can be adapted to represent basically anything.
What does it mean when I get better and better at picking blues/greens on second or third attempts? Does it mean my ability to pick colors can be somehow influenced or improved?
Because in many cases human engineers will directly fight the mere suggestion of measuring anything in order to achieve self-satisfying desires like easy, clean, clear, safe, and so on. Its not about what the developers want. It's only about the product. Human engineers that put themselves before the product are an ethical liability. Ethical failures are more the norm than the contrary in software, and one way to fix that is to hold people (entire teams) liable for failures to perform above certain established baselines.

For me its all about lowering regression and internal execution speed at all steps as much as possible, because I would rather do something else with my time than repeat myself on the same slow failures over and over. Getting my time back for personal use is a win for me and it allows the employer to ship a faster and more durable product.
I can't imagine IT departments are going to put up with this, either.
holy crap. who is the guy malding at 26:50? dude should never have been given a mic.
Its a series of strawmen that make up the blog I'm replying to - no counterforce was given to the benefits of "founder mode" so I'm making those arguments.
Author here, yes, it tests a mix of your monitor calibration and colour naming. The two types of inferences you can make with this are:

1. If two people take the test with the same device, in the same lighting (e.g. in the same room), their relative thresholds should be fairly stable.
2. If you average over large populations, you can estimate population thresholds, marginalizing over monitor calibrations.

The most interesting thing for me is that while cyan (#00ffff) is nominally halfway between blue and green, most people's thresholds, averaged over monitor calibrations, imply that cyan is classified as blue. I was not expecting that the median threshold (hue 174) would be so deep into the greens.
It's neutral (-1 * 0 ≡ +1 * 0); don't confuse it for an infinitesimal (which can be positive or negative).
UBI vs DUKI: What Are Your Thoughts on This Matter?
UBI is good. but I am concerned about government-driven Universal Basic Income (UBI). As Thomas Jefferson said, 'To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.'
In contrast, AllLivesMatter.World advocates for DUKI. DUKI stands for Decentralized Universal Kindness Income. It's a universal kindness-based income system funded by voluntary contributions from kind individuals and organizations worldwide.It aligns well with kindness and fairness, offering an alternative approach to addressing economic security and social welfare.
What are your opinions on this matter?
1 line of rust != 1 line of C
Frontend work is demeaning endless drudgery.
My personal trick is not to bother with styling and call it “homemade, organic”.
Awesome, I once developed a project called https://rerss.xyz, aimed at creating an RSS feed that reorders historical blog posts, but it was hindered by the two issues mentioned in the article.
> It’s the fact that it forces the phone to be bulkier in one dimension or another.

It’s also often repeated that it’s harder to make waterproof.

Don’t know how true it is, but given practically everything I own supports Bluetooth… I’d take the waterproofing over the jack in an instant, even just for a small improvement.
Great job, I’m glad someone finally made a Densha-De-Go-like! Such a great gameplay concept!

Question: is the route accurate to a real train, or is it fictional?
>>I tried getting Claude to help me model an event-based store with moderate type safety and it was a total disaster.

That's just not how you work with a LLM. You don't give LLMs problems to solve. You do the thinking part and solve problems, and ask the LLM to implement small blocks of code, like the smallest possible, and you incrementally go from there.

This really is some what like asking the whole question in the Google search bar, not seeing any result and saying Google search doesn't work.

>>it’s typically filling in the simpler details of an implementation I had to design without its help.

Most complex solutions are just reusing and connecting simpler solutions.
I think it's an exaggeration to say this event was the end of the company. E.g. we don't say GM ended because it went through a bankruptcy.

Kongo gumi still continued operating even though it went through a restructuring, so it's fair to say it's still the oldest company in the world.

Just it's no longer the oldest family business in the world - that ended when direct Kongo control of it ended, although I hear they still have a ceremonial involvement with the company.
In my personal experience on X it seems like the platform has become way more tolerant of more types of speech from more diverse perspectives. I feel this change has been an improvement. I’m curious about accounts you’ve noticed get censored more.

What I mean by the current set of ideas we’re stuck with is the total set of every mainstream idea we have about everything. There have been a few recent examples of ideas that used to be considered misinformation worthy of censorship that have since gotten unstuck and are now part of the new accepted set (ex: the idea that COVID might be a lab leak, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Ivermectin). Without free speech that lets extremists explore “unacceptable” fringe ideas our society gets to the actual truth much slower.
Nice to see more Sysadmin type person such as myself out there! You seem to have great programming languages to back it up too. But I definitely miss the days when Linux Engineer was more of a main job. I've transitioned to Devops, but I definitely miss being more focused on scaling performance on bare metal, or VM's rather than moving everything to the cloud and everything being containers.

I almost took a job at NASA Ames with a veterans org that would have worked on a lot of the lander stuff. My career has done well, but I kinda regret not pursuing that further.Good luck going forward, don't have any work just wanted to say something when I saw a similar resume.
Yes we have, but probably for different problems.
I believe Havana Syndrome is one of the great government coverups of our time. In 30 years there will be books and movies about it.

Right now there seems to be an unnatural lack of curiosity about it from the government, media, and public.
The politicians and political appointees on top of the agencies need to keep the sweet lobby money flowing and they are also probably scared of an ad blitz by the industry against them. Once you have enough money (like many Super PACs), you don't even need to deploy the money. The threat alone is enough.
This is great and surprisingly consistent. Apparently I’m in the 98th percentile of how blue my cutoff is. I wonder if this is related to my favorite color being green (I’m perceiving more things as green because I like the color)
>Crazy that the Obama administration refused to stand up to the industry on this.

Not really, if you look at Obama Presidency, he was extremely neoliberal. Bank bailouts, healthcare bill and massive corporate consolidation.
It' s quite acceptable with 1.10.
National Defense runs almost entirely on Windows workstations, including "high-side" or classified networks.

I can't imagine the powers that be are too thrilled with this feature, and much like the Intel TPM High Assurance bit, I bet there's an undocumented way to remove it.
This is actually a really interesting concept, tried it out. Worked well.

I can see it being useful for business podcasts, like key points people are making etc as you are summarising.

One feature you could look at implementing is allowing users to trigger the summary once its listened to (you would have to somehow link into their spotify or apple music or whatever account etc) but people do often with business and other learning podcasts love to have key take aways etc and take their own notes.

Productising that (as you have done so to an extent here) would be pretty interesting. So also serving people that want to actually listen to the cast as well.
It is possible to uninstall any Windows component if you know which files contain it. And it's not like Windows would refuse to boot if Recall exe/dlls suddenly go missing.

(this website is behind Cloudflare and blocks me unless I use a VPN)
Sent you an email. I am a father of two young kids. I totally understand the pain you are addressing. Hope to talk soon
Throughout a lifetime of intellectual pursuits, I've found that being forced on to a UBI or disability benefit long term led to gradually building a life based around the things I truly value, and spending my productive time paying my way to society and the planet in the typically-non-monetary manners of my choosing.

It was hard to start off, of course, because it's unconventional. But now it is sweeter than conventional employment ever was for me, where I did not fit and caused issues for everybody involved.

That's not to say one or other is inherently superior. And that's the point, in a way. Conventional employment is only one of the possible means through which the claimed rewards of life can be had.

Beyond that, the reliance is only a function of social structure. That is, if we collectively choose to "look down" upon certain demographics, then those demographics will indeed feel perenially looked down upon! - because we've made it so.
That’s easy, any hot dog that is more than $1.50 USD is overpriced.
I have a feeling that the author procrastinated on their project by writing this blog
You believe Elon Musk is always wrong? That seems like a bit of a stretch.
I used to have the same issue then started running and changed my approach. Now:

1.) When you run, you’re only finished training when your body gives out, you die or give up the sport. In software, a product is never really finished; a version is. Therefore if I forget something or mess something up, I already know what tasks to work on for the next version. Forgetting something is bad but it makes planning easier. If finality is scary, turn it into a yield sign.

2.) If you want to run well at a distance, you have to specialize in that distance. If you train for Leadville and the 100m dash simultaneously, you won’t perform as well at either. In software, I work on one version of one product at a time. If I have to choose which one to work on when I sit down, I have already failed.

3.) I’m a human so for me, running is all about pace. Anyone can complete any race if they find and keep their pace. Software is the same. So find your pace and learn how to keep it. When I’m trying to find my pace for a race, I run that pace six days a week regardless of my distance - on shorter days, I’ll add in gliders at the end so I get the workout. With software, I have to keep the same kind of consistency or it takes me too long to get back where I was to ever finish anything.

4.) If you want to run fast so you can see the stars backs for a few moments, you have to treat every single training session just like the race. If you want to run fast enough to be one of the stars, it has to be your whole life. With software, everything even silly side projects gets the same name - product - and I follow the same methods. Practice is always good but deliberate, competitive practice is better.
Nope, not enjoying this at all. We're already looking at full OS alternatives for our workloads.
I was never really unemployed, but even for the short period when I was on a sabbatical, migrated to a new country and didn't work for just over two months, I felt weird about it. I remember seeing all the people going to work, complaining about it, and felt somewhat inadequate, fraudulent and maladapted for not working. So I can only imagine how hard that must be when you experience that on a longer term, get rejections on your applications, and see your financial cushions dwindling (if you were lucky enough to have any).
Well we're not going to convince each other of fundamentally different worldviews over the internet. Until proven otherwise, I think qualia is just a trick smart people play on themselves to convince themselves humans are special because it makes them feel better, and indelibly tied to the concept of a soul and like woo. I'm willing to be proven wrong, and that's what science is for. Hopefully we'll see answers in our lifetimes.
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i'm a reverse engineer, software developer, and embedded systems expert with about 15 years of experience. my secret to avoiding burnout is to work on and learn as many new things as possible in full immersion style and i'm currently in the throes of a raging ML obsession -- i would love to do more work related to it.

as far as hardware goes, i'm experienced with robotics (remote control, sensors, motors, actuators, etc), motion simulators, microcontrollers, embedded x86, audio amplifiers, express racks (for the ISS) and a bit of RF and analog electronics. on the software side, i'm intimately familiar with c, c++ and python, but i can read most code and understand it, including assembly (there were a lot of misspent hours in IDA pro during my youth). while i know javascript, html, and css i am not interested in writing web apps again.

when it comes to ML, i'm proficient with pytorch debugging and i can full finetune extremely large models (120B+) with sft or offline RL (dpo/kto). i've had to do my own data wrangling, so i'm familiar with most of the chat templates/prompt formats of LLMs and converting to and from the various dataset formats that training software uses. i am familiar with most LLM architecture internals and i follow mechanistic interp papers and research, so i train a lot of steering/control vectors on gemma and peek at them with the gemmascope sparse autoencoders. i've trained new output heads for pretrained models, permanently imbued models with control vectors and run abliteration/orthogonalize activation steering, and i can fix your axolotl container when it inevitably breaks under the weight of the hf/torch ecosystem.

i'm a seasoned hacker but my position has turned into project management, which i hate.
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>Too often I feel like programmers are like fat 50-year-olds talking smack on the locker room about how doomed the other team is because they know the importance of MD5-hashing passwords in the database, and they have no idea they're going out on to the field against an NFL team.

why did you go out of your way to insult fat 50 year olds?

any NFL team would absolutely crush any allstar team of programmers in their 20s, even if they were selected for regularly doing triathlons and a lot of lifting. Any NFL team would beat the NCAA Division 1 champion football team. (for non-USA, that's a university team, the same teams that supply most of the players to the NFL, but only a fraction of even a championship team actually make it)

I wouldn't bet against a fat 50 year old retired NFL players team against any "we know MD5 squad"
This is neat, I’ve been looking for a way to run our analytics (LLM-based) without affecting the rate limits of our prod app.

May need to give this a try!
Can we get this for yellow and green?
It is common practice in psychometrics to use two levels in a forced choice and model responses as a logistic regression, which is what's done here. Adding an N/A option turns the thing into an ordered logistic regression with unknown levels, which is tricky to fit, but it's possible. Having done a lot of psychophysics, having more options generally doesn't make the task easier.
To be fair, that order would only matter if Bluesky is logging and storing user IPs. I don't know of any technical reason for needing to track that based on the AT Protocol, they could avoid the entire problem by not tracking that data (assuming they currently do).
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If it was being looked for. Don’t think the necessary electromagnetic spectrum analysis equipment (and people) are very common.