skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what reason would school need to change?

Education will change, but education moved to happening outside of schools a long, long time ago.
There is some gap between AGI and a singularity, at least in principle. The term "singularity" doesn't mean "black swan that disrupts society", it means "intelligence trends to ~infinity (or at least something incomprehensible to humans) recursively in a very short period of time". That's (on paper) a much stronger result than an AI that can reason as well as humans in a domain-general way.

An AGI that is 20% better than humans at everything might be able to recursively improve itself effectively without limit, but it also might not. It took billions of humans millennia to invent things smarter than ourselves even in limited domains; such an AGI - even if it is significantly smarter than humans at everything - might take decades or centuries to produce a similar relative improvement. No doubt it would still change our world in massive ways, but it wouldn't be a singularity.
I think there's a very concrete difference between this and your examples
Did AI write this?

"This age is characterized by society's increasingly advanced capabilities, driven not by genetic changes but by societal infrastructure becoming smarter and more efficient over time."
Maybe too much of meta tangent: mccarthyism 2.0 = take scholarship from Chinese Americans with grain of salt. Or at least be aware of motivations. Yasheng Huang slowly transiting to "house chink" - suspect Huang's trying to avoid becoming a Gang Chen in the next wave of China Initiative purges, so not surprising some of his analysis has gotten more "motivated" over the years. The one's who don't play the game, i.e. Cheng Li from Brookings, don't get the podium anymore. There's still "libtard" audiences in PRC who eats Huang's work up, the main propaganda pitch of this book is:

> I really want to push back against this view that automatically you have a Western ideological view because you emphasize diversity, freedom, and competition, and that somehow is ideology rather than fact. I’m telling that story from China’s own history. I do hope that I win some hearts from people who have an automatic immunity to Western ideas.

...

> I aim to convey this message through Chinese history, hoping to persuade people to reconsider their aversion to diversity and competition.

...

>"Too much autocratic stability is detrimental"

Gets challenged on Song innovation. No, no, I've rescaled importance of inventions, downplaying "four great inventions" that Chinese find significant, which conveniently illustrates Song is less innovative than Han-Sui interregnum, I hope the take away for PRC is that Chinese innovation the strongest when China most fragmented and mired in chaos. Get's challenged on commerce. No, no, historic/current Chinese commerce too restricted to launch industrial revolutions, see Jack Ma. NVM PRC explicitly did not want industrial revolution in unchecked financialization. Or PRC biasing scale in lieu of scope is pushing involution tier industrial revolution in many strategic sectors, i.e. PRC in a place to pick what revolution to scale. "In contrast, Western countries resolved this tension by embracing scope", except this came at the expense of scale, and one of PRC's biggest advantage is acknolwedging and pursuing quantity having quality of it's own. Funny how blob incentives map to imperial bureaucracy, think tanks another incarnation of posturing eunuchs vying for position (or not losing it) at the end of the day.
We are building an AI tool that we've code-named goose and so uh this was super funny and timely :)
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1. What failure mode do LLMs have that proves they don't understand anything at all ? And why can't i prove the same with humans (who have an abundance of failure modes)

2. You genuinely think that a system whose goal is to predict the data it's given and continues to improve is limited in what it can learn ? Of all the shortcomings of the Transformer architecture, its objective function is not one of them.
It's amazing how he can imagine wars being fought over AI but not wars being fought over resources needed to "build enough infrastructure."
> Not much is known about UltraAV besides being part of Pango Group, which controls multiple VPN brands (e.g., Hotspot Shield, UltraVPN, and Betternet) and Comparitech (a VPN software review website).

I recognize these names. For a long time after VPNs like Mullvad, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, etc were removed from Chinese app stores, Betternet and Hotspot shield was still there. I’ve heard them referred to as whitelisted and monitored. Would not trust this company.
> Projecting the same with LLMs, we will have AIs running locally on mobile devices

That’s not much of a projection. That’s been announced for months as coming to iPhones. Sure, they’re not the biggest models, but no one doubts more will be possible.

> or perhaps AIs replacing OS of mobile devices and router protocols and servers.

Holy shit, please no. There’s no sane reason for that to happen. Why would you replace stable nimble systems which depend on being predictable and low power with a system that’s statistical and consumes tons of resources? That’s unfettered hype-chasing. Let’s please not turn our brains off just yet.
That is indeed little-endian. And cursed.
I can't speak for everyone but I found Sarada Herke's series on Graph Theory to be incredibly illuminating and I haven't really found anything of the same quality elsewhere. Combine that with the fact that YT has the Strange Loop video archive, the Perl Conference, MIT OpenCourseWare, talks by Guy Steele, Gerald Sussman, Dan Friedman, Damian Conway, Rich Hickey, and so on, and so forth... even if we only look at educational material and ignore entertainment it's a vast treasure trove. Sure: some, if not most, of that stuff can be found elsewhere but there is value in having all of it available from a single source.
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Bruteforce trial and error to change something like healthcare would still take years even with superintelligence.

What it can do is create the best simulation and a model representation and bruteforce on top of that and then take actions, but the model will still be far from perfect and it likely just will help do a bit wiser or optimal decisions, that are like 10 percent efficiency gain here, 20 percent there, etc. And it will take years to see results.
I’ve also had a good experience with my SV06, though if I were buying a new printer to replace it now I’d probably pick a Bambu.

It does require some tinkering and few minor upgrades (nylock mod for bed levelling, oldham couplers for Z-wobble) to get good results as well as plenty of profile tuning, though now I’m there it’s been rock-solid.
[My works-on-my-machine]

By default, I tether my phone. In the places that's not possible, the public WiFi is typically part of large scale infrastructure like an airport.

The biggest practical advantage of tethering is not security. It's repeatability. Sure security matters and I trust my phone's security. But not having to navigate other people's ideas of internet access is why I tether.

Good luck.
I grew up with TV in the 80's. I remember the myriad of shows created solely to sell toys. Those shilled toys and food items required a lot of money and production. Plus the FCC and parental orgs kept those TV people on their toes. Now any doofus with a phone is a "youtuber" and there is little if any over-site.

Also realize you usually had one TV in the house and when mom or dad wanted to watch it was their turn no matter what. Cartoons were limited from ~2-5PM on weekdays and Saturday mornings till noon. Sundays were a wash. You had these small slots where you were captivated then you did other things, usually homework on weekdays or go play with friends on weekends. Even when I got older and got my own TV it was OTA limited with time slots.

Kids dont have that separation anymore. These things live with them 24/7 and they have little if any regulation.
SDL can be used to provide something similar to what you describe.

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/README-andr...
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. If discrimination is long, it will spoil.
I don't remember whether it was Potrzebie or one of the other classic MAD nonsense words, but one day I was amazed to see it as a town name on a sign in the Czech Republic. With a couple of accents.
Thank you! This book isn't just a technical one. It's unique because it covers more than just software development, it goes into the life aspects of being a software engineer from migration challenges to balancing work as a parent.

We often lack mentors who guide us beyond the technical matters. In our careers, we wished having such mentors. In this book, we try to offer practical wisdom and answers to questions you may not even know you had.

It’s a holistic approach to software engineering, addressing both personal and professional growth in a way few other books do.
LLMs exhibit very similar behavior to a search algorithm.

Text query in -> relevant text out.

I don’t say that search algorithms “learn” or “think” outside of ML.
Did you get Meta or a lawyer to clear your usage, especially after you introduce monthly subscriptions, against the WhatsApp Business Policy?

I looked into it previously, and it seemed to imply software services were not welcome. From the WhatsApp Business Policy[1] (emphasis mine):

> 4. Prohibited Organizations and Restrictions on Use

> ...

> If you use Catalogs, or provide any other commerce experiences to sell or otherwise facilitate the exchange of goods or services prohibited by the Meta Commerce Policy, then we may prohibit you from using some or all of the WhatsApp Business Services.

And the Meta Commerce Policy[2] says

> Prohibited Content

> 16. No item for Sale: Listings may not promote news, humor, or other content that does not offer any product for sale.

> 19. Services: Services may not be listed.

> 22. Subscriptions and Digital Products: Listings may not promote the buying or selling of downloadable digital content, digital subscriptions, and digital accounts.

It was unclear to me whether this applies only to marketplace-like platforms, or any service or product that you provide yourself. A tenuous ground to build a company on.

[1] https://business.whatsapp.com/policy

[2] https://www.facebook.com/policies_center/commerce
The Russo-Ukrainian war saw a huge explosion of drone warfare, but I am mostly certain that it didn't happen due to military drones coming of age.
Another entry in the long list of “words and phrases you translate by saying the thing in English while trying to sound as racist as possible”.
It's a lot more comforting to work on AI (or any tech for that matter) if you believe or force yourself to believe it will be used for good. OpenAI's for-profit and gatekeeping approach is unlikely to be the path to the prosperity Sam Altman envisions.
AI Airlock pilot call for applications – AI Medical Devices
Has Sam Altman ever talked about ways that he personally uses ChatGPT. Does he at all? does he have an all-smart watch? Is he dreaming of producing a perfect replicant like this guy in Blade Runner 2049... cause with his pathos and present position, he may be among these peoples who can allow himself to do so. This is all so vague he says, i mean, we have all read enough cyberpunk to write the same essay. But I don't know if he actually builds with this tool, cause the way I see it he probably has very little time to actually use it. So why so confident whether its deep learning that worked. I say Euler's graph theory worked more than anything else, and Chomsky's understanding of grammars, so what?

Maybe we will attend superintelligence in 1000 years, maybe not. Maybe Jesus comes back or Krishna reincarnates on earth, who knows. But it is a long way ahead, and it did not start with Sam, and is really not going to end with ChatGPT.
I don’t think it was just post 2022.

“Neural networks” “learned” data by being “trained” since they were first described in the late 1900s.

The same language was used in Ian Goodfellow’s (excellent) 2012 text book “Deep Learning”
I’d say if you don’t have good friends at work, find another job.

Having experienced both, I’d actually choose a boring job with good friends vs an engaging job.
Gradle was created by folks that didn't learn the Ant lesson, and only matters thanks to Android.

Had it not been for Android replacing Ant with Gradle, and most folks wouldn't even remember Gradle.
What Building Blocks Remains After an AI Collapse?
Over a decade ago, I was a salaried electrician, 9.5 hour days, MT-RF (considered "full-time"). Wednesdays "off" was absolutely incredible, and it brought refreshed energy to my team... major issue was that most of our clients always wanted us to be available/working on Wednesdays; sometimes we'd get blamed for "delaying project" simply because a PM thought we should be working every day of the week =D

When I was IBEW, I'd work 60 hrs/week... beginning the day at 5AM and still getting home before sunsets (usually). I do NOT miss only-Sundays-off.
I read this as: "we need to ramp up nuclear energy".
Before Verizon stopped using pre-LTE, most unlocked phones wouldn't work on Verizon. I imagine you get burned by that once, and then you pay attention longer than necessary.
And ultimately, fusion doesn't solve the hardest problem with energy today which is cost.

Solar already provides unlimited clean energy, and it took decades of development for the cost to drop to a competitive rate.

Even if we had a functioning fusion plant tomorrow, it will likely cost WAY more per kWh and require decades of iteration and improvement to become economically feasible.
Yeah, maybe it’s just unfortunate that “learn” and “think” are such fuzzy subjects.
> "What are people for?" is a question that cannot be answered by intelligence no matter how great

It absolutely can be answered, but only the the intender. Who is and who was and who is to come. Or, if you side with the "Nietzche is right" side of the conversation "who will be or who may have come to be today or who recently came to be again". The former is eucatastrophic, the latter is dystopic.
> Damage to what? The bags? The food? The environment? I don't understand why bags built to be re-used is a bad thing.

Any damage done by throwing away a one time use plastic bag is multiplied by throwing away a "reusable" plastic bag. People want one time plastic bags and they'll use reusable plastic bags like one time if you force them. These bags are built to be tougher so are more expensive, more carbon intensive to produce, stay around longer in landfills, [insert bad metric of plastic bag]

> If the food already being wrapped in plastic is a factor in how we bag the food, why do we need plastic bags at all? I don't see how this is relevant at all.

Because there is already plastic bags everywhere so its a farce to declare "plastic is okay in every part of the process except this final part".

> This seems easily solvable with a "return extra bags" feature. If you're getting delivery, the delivery man will be back next week. Why can't he pick them up then?

Because it costs them money, and effort and gasoline to do so and then they have to clean them and recycle them. It sounds like a nightmare and a huge liability to do so. No offense, but I imagine you don't have any experience in recycling or operations of a food chain. It's like someone telling an engineer "why don't they just make code unhackable"

> Well before the current bag ban, most of the stores near me (California) had done away with shopping baskets. People stealing/taking them has been a thing forever and they constantly need to be replenished (same with shopping carts).

Great consumers don't even have to option to steal shopping carts. I guess they can work on balancing food on their head. Problem solved.

> The bag ban is not to combat global warming. It's about the plastic bags that do not make it to the landfill. They end up in waterways and on plants and inside or on the faces of animals. I don't think I've ever heard of one of these bills arguing to get rid of single-use bags for global warming or landfill reasons. It's almost always an anti-litter measure.

This seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. How about you figure out how to get people not to pollute or to clean things up rather than just prevent them from having things that are super convenient.
> What you mean is they’re not embracing gaming the way you want

Yes. And I consider it disregarding when it comes to the needs of gamers (or users in general really). Apple's approach is always shoving in their users' faces "that's the way to do it". As I said, it's a major reason to completely stay away from them.
JPEG vs JXL vs AVIF - The Battle of Compression [video]
Android team marketing.

Almost no other build tool has had so many conference talks regarding performance issues, and dealing with its gotchas as Gradle.
Yeah, it's about usecase, and some people find one, others do not. The separate device is just golden for leaving next to the speaker in a shared trusted space, and people can go up to it and change the music if you're not there and the album finished our whatever. Not everyone finds themselves in that position frequently.
cant we use OA intelligence to figure out how to do more with less rather yhan "stupidly" accelerate the climate crisis?

the climate crisis + AI is the nightmare
Inertial confinement most likely can't be reasonably commoditized into generating electricity. Also, I may be wrong, but I think on the wave of that hype I read that the number they used was an incomplete one. Basically they reframed the conditions of the problem to get more favorable number for advertisement.
NIF research will most likely be limited to the nuclear bomb research and simulations.

But even if NIF had a reasonable path to energy generation in say 20-30 years, it still won't matter much, just like ITER probably won't. Solar will be way more cheap and widespread, it's costs are still dropping down ahead of all predictions, govt. or commercial. Fusion may just be a pure science project in the end, for a long time.
One I recall, working on a C++ program that we distributed to Windows, Linux and PowerPC OSX at the time, was how some platforms had memory zero-initialized by the OS memory manager, and some didn't.

Our code didn't mean to take advantage of this, but it sometimes meant buggy code would appear fine on one platform as pointers in structures would be zeroed out, but crash on others where they weren't.

As I recall, it was mostly that and the endianess that caused the most grief. Not that there was many issues at all since we used Qt and Boost...
The article is three parts. One part explanation of how batteries are made. This is joined with a very high level conjecture about how this perhaps could subverted to build a weapon. And then there's a policy/values part.

I wrote what I wrote because it felt like comments were coming in swinging against the second part, saying this was a dangerous bad thing to write because it was technically informative.

I feel like you are focusing onto her third party, the policy & strategy. Which is a great part, and is the part where Bunnie giving opinion. And I don't want to diminish that from Bunnie. But the bulk of the words & illustrations by page length was part 1, explaining batteries, and then part 2, some conjecture on how to subvert that. The policy part was dense & to the point (your couple sentences of quotes encompass almost all of it!), and leaves plenty to argue over & discuss, but I felt like it was part 2 that is 3rd rail radioactive, is where folks were saying you shouldn't even be allowed to post about this, oh no, techies are dangerous and a menace, and I was trying to show how that's not really what the technical content (of which there is super much) is super deep on.
Oh lordy, I'll bite.

I was responding to your blanket claim that server-side is misguided in general.

I have no idea what you consider complex, but most people pushing toward server side UI are not advocating that it's a one-stop solution, just that it simplifies a large majority of situations that many of us are in which is building CRUD apps. You can even get pretty complex, like say an email client though at that point we're in a grey area where you could kind of go either way. If we're talking something like building PhotoShop in-browser or even a calendar or gantt chart (which I have worked on) then, no, I would not personally advocate server side and instead use a good client-side view library.

The Elixir/Erlang comment was that it makes server-side even easier as you can hop into running production systems and debug them.
Totally agree regarding the piano roll. Same with the sample editor.

Saying that, DAWs just have different specialization. E.g. for a long time midi support in ProTools was extremely limited. Cakewalk already had an excellent piano roll in the late 90s.
Watching a video here or there isn't a good way to assess a threat

You can watch plenty of videos of people getting dismembered during vehicle accidents, but does daily driving traumatize people? No

What are the statistics? At least for me thats what I would want to know

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-psychology-behind-...

In store robberies its unlikely to turn violent if the clerk is behind the counter and complies with the robber, according to one source at least

So people in poor neighborhoods who have experienced common robberies would probably know this and basically be used to it

Perhaps there is a difference in perception on this for those who are from affluent or middle class backgrounds as compared to those who grew up in poor communities?

My high school teacher had a friend who would simply and calmly say "No" like it wasn't a big deal whenever people tried to rob him at gun point. That lack of fear and compliance would take away the robber's strength and make them scared and run

Thats not a statistic though, but it does partly explain my perception and feeling over this I guess

The main statistic I would be interested in, though, is not likelihood of a single robbery, but a 5 year or 10 year likelihood of getting harmed, if I was living in a poor neighborhood
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And perhaps AI can help some of the problems in building a fusion reactor.
Maybe it's too late but it could have used a name that communicates that.
The Age of Inhumanity... AI mimicry of human patterns devalues our very humanity. Without wise leadership, which we clearly lack, this upcoming Age will be profoundly unstable.
darn, I was really hoping the solution was building more habitat for them
Congrats and keep going! I ultimately failed at mine because I didn't keep disciplined focus on it when life got in the way. It was many lessons learnt.

https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Django-Beyond-Brandon-2016-03-2...
Who manages the exposure to the devices a children has? Where did they get these devices from in the first place?
You ever seen two ant colonies fight?
I am also very interested in how this work in practice. With OOP at least you know the shape of your data structure as opposed to the hash map as a mere container type.