skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the press release article. I also looked at the paper now, and to me their presented proof looked more like a technicality than a new insight.

If it's not solvable in polynomial time, how did nature solve it in a couple of million years?
I’m working on figuring out what I will be working on.

Friday was my last day at my now previous employer and I’m looking at the wake of promising projects I’ve let lay idle. Do I want to seek funding and dive in full time on something? I think yes, but that’s going to be hard mode because I don’t fit the profile.
Sounds like legislation that mis-indentifies the root issue as "somehow maybe the computer is too smart" as opposed to, say, "humans and corporations should be liable for using the tool to do evil."
Nothing like this should pass until the legislators can come up with a definition that doesn’t encompass basically every computer program ever written:

(b) “Artificial intelligence model” means a machine-based system that can make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments and can use model inference to formulate options for information or action.

Yes, they limited the scope of law by further defining “covered model”, but the above shouldn’t be the baseline definition of “Artificial intelligence model.”

Text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1047/id/2919384
Advanced technology will drop the cost of training.

The flop targets in that bill would be like saying “640KB of memory is all we will ever need” and outlawing anything more.

Imagine what other countries would have done to us if we allowed a monopoly like that on memory in 1980.
As streaming services provide less and less value more and more people are going to discover that torrents are much easier than they were before.
Heard of the Jevons paradox?
I recommend trying it out. Just don’t drink the Kool-aid.
This is because you chose to live an expensive life. Most of the world gets by on less.
We are clearly closer than 20 years ago - o1 is an order of magnitude closer than anything in the mid-2000s.

Also I would think most people would consider AGI science fiction in 2004 - now we consider it a technical possibility which demonstrates a huge change.
There aren't a lot of public fruit trees in US cities because the falling ripe fruit can create a sanitization issue.
"unlikely to ever come to fruition" is more baseless than suggesting AGI is imminent.

I'm not an AGI optimist myself, but I'd be very surprised if a time traveller told me that mankind won't have AGI by, say, 2250.
It’s a fairly significant feature but it’s not mentioned in the 6.12 pull notes. Various sites mention that it’s “definitely, for sure, this time” mainlined in the next release, but I haven’t seen anything definitive.

I’m just an end user, so I don’t know if it’s been mentioned in a newsgroup somewhere.
> Energy will get so inexpensive in a few years (10?)

Any evidence for that? I predict the exact opposite. The price of energy will rise.
At least in the case of researchers, like the ones working on the PlanBench benchmarks they were kindly asking for increasing API rate limits for running the benchmarks on o1 (https://x.com/rao2z/status/1834314021912359393?s=46&t=u6bMGX...).

Treat it as a perdonal opinion but I really think the analogy resists no analysis after situations like that. If it is closed (and that's what OAI proposes, they aren't advocating for open models but the contrary), it will never be like electricity.
The issue with having your regulation based on fear is that most people using AI are good. If you regulate only big models then you incentivize people to use smaller ones. Think about it. Wouldn't you want the people who provide you services to be able to use the smartest AI possible?
Nothing. This is the official firmware repo.
> one of the worst corporations that exists.

Disney? I'm not a fan, but I'm pretty sure I could come up with a list of a few dozen worse corporations.
I don't know what issues others have had with it, but for me one notable thing is that html/template strips all comments out. This is by design, but it's not documented anywhere. I've proposed making this configurable, but my proposal has gotten no traction so far.
> Public controversy

I think you accidentally hit the letter "L". :P
That’s fair. I don’t want to marginally increase the level of toxicity.
>You have to omit China and other Asian countries from the graphs that show Europe is falling behind so to claim that free market and libertarianism is driving innovation and growth, because if you include Asia you end up claiming that its communism and centralized economies are actually the big success stories.

See, you have to realize that China is "still in the process of democratizing from free market exposure" and "the world is more peaceful now than it ever has been because of economic interdependence". Thanks Milton Friedman! /s

Admitting that offshoring was actually prioritizing lower prices (through regulatory arbitrage and human suffering based subsidies) over national economic and skills maintenance security will get you shooed out of the room. Yeah. Look at all the Indians lifted out of poverty... Shipbreaking multi-decade old ships, rebuilding lead batteries by hand (without PPE). Look at all the uplifting of the Global South! ...Often ruining their own environment to do things that absolutely would not fly here. Look at all the inroads we've made making the world more peaceful by shipping all the most advanced manufacturing infra over to a hostile regime that culturally values patience and tends to think further ahead than a 200 year old upstart.

There was a period of complete retardation in full swing in the 80's to early 10's that I truly wish it were easier to articulate in media res as opposed to in hindsight. But that's life for ya.
This is just the official repo for the stock firmware. Last update 3 weeks ago for 1.0.1.
> 2M+ illegal crossings every year from a country that hates us

Huh? Since when does Mexico hate America? Many Mexicans like visiting America for shopping and sightseeing, which is why over 2.3M were issued visitor visas in 2023 alone. Mexicans living in American tend to be very hardworking and friendly. Also, I thought most of the people crossing illegally are originally coming from points south of Mexico?
Same. I think PG and the bay area has been such a goldmine the last few decades most people in tech and VC driven by the rewards. Most people in American are somewhat more money driven than Europeans, but most are relatively content than the Bay Area population.
https://archive.today/qBaiH
I'm going to be a dad next year, so I've been thinking about how to baby-proof areas of my house while allowing my cat freedom of navigation.

My wife is an English teacher, so I've been building little educational games for her to try in the classroom. My latest attempt is a proof-reading game https://frogs.cool Currently I'm using wikipedia articles but I'm working on adding a variety of age appropriate texts in different genres.
Some laws are just bad. When the API-mediated/closed-weights companies agree with the open-weight/operator-aligned community that a law is bad, it’s probably got to be pretty awful. That said, though my mind might be playing tricks on me, I seem to recall the big labs being in favor at one time.

There are a number of related threads linked, but I’ll personally highlight Jeremy Howard’s open letter as IMHO the best-argued case against SB 1047.

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-04-29-sb1047.html
Nvidia Container Toolkit Vulnerability
I think it will be an organoid brain bio-machine. We can already grow organs—just need to grow a brain and connect it to a machine.
This is way off in a tangent but that's kinda why I think a UBI won't lead to mass unemployment. So many people self identify with their work that it's almost always the first question when you're getting to know someone.
The Role of Childhood Trauma in Psychosis and Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8858420/

"Childhood Trauma is probably the most important environmental factor associated with Schizophrenia. There is evidence of multiple paths between traumatic experiences and psychosis. Mental disorders are systems of interacting symptoms through a framework of networks. Psychotic symptoms in patients with a history of child abuse are more severe, persistent, and refractory to treatment. In developmental years, exposure to neglect and abuse reveals severe adverse effects on the average neurobiological growth, leading to vulnerable neurobiology preceding disadvantageous psychiatric outcomes."

https://www.theguesthouseocala.com/understanding-the-connect...

"The guiding principles of trauma-specific care can give you the space to uncover the root of your schizophrenia and trauma. Thus, understanding how your early traumas have impacted you opens the door to dismantling maladaptive coping mechanisms. As you deepen your self-understanding, it encourages you to lean into adaptive coping strategies to process your experiences and life stressors. Furthermore, with support, you can find a path to recovery from schizophrenia and trauma that considers you and your specific experiences."
I think that might be its successor. I managed to track that back to the game I played

It was called eterna
https://eternagame.org/
No, there are two thresholds and BOTH must be met.

One of those is $100MM in training costs.

The other is measured in FLOPs but is already larger than GPT-4, so the “think of the small guys!” argument doesn’t make much sense.
Building a contextual ad-targeting engine to replace Grapeshot which Oracle is shuttering, uh, tomorrow.
I'm working on a production version that allows for the cloning of identification cards with or without RFID using a 7 color epaper display I call psychic paper. Raw BOM is ~$100 I presented it at skywalks and defcon 32.

The hardware and software is really all built out the real thing is to find the right epaper display (4.01 inch 7 color display) and an easy way to display the badge. I moved to a pimoroni instead of waveshare due to an easier way to program the system . See https://github.com/zitterbewegung/psychic_paper

If you want to follow the development see https://discord.gg/xE4TmkSc
Then why does it say "Unlock"? Nothing burger?
> Those donated hours could be directed towards things that aren't in WPEngines interest

I have a hard time seeing how that can happen. WP-Engine still decides what bits of WordPress they work on – it's just a matter of having developers who work on it.
I find it has improved heaps in recent years. Even Debian (a fairly conservative Linux distro) supports Intel wireless chips right out of the box and I understand it has support for other wireless chips as well. It's gotten to the point sometimes Linux has better support out of the box than Windows does! Windows for example struggles with USB-C data but works perfectly on Linux.
Building a web app that lets me do math and chemistry problems on an infinite canvas with a drawing tablet. After finishing the problem, I can open up an integrated text editor (with vim bindings) that lets me create Anki flashcards about the problem, letting me copy different portions of the handwritten/hand-drawn stuff onto the flashcard.

I developed a very simple compiler to specify flashcard content. Anything inside brackets is considered the "back" of the flashcard (cloze) in Anki. The @n references the nth group in the canvas, and copies those svg paths into the flashcard.

Example card:

How do you solve for x in this problem?
@0 // handwritten text of 2x = 4

[
Divide both sides by 2, them simplify
]

This project was a response to the lack of systematic review in my college's STEM classes. I would practice a lot, but forget how to approach certain problems on exams. The hope is to have a digital space where I can be reasonably productive in solving practice problems, but also lets me easily integrate with SRS tools.

I wish educators and educational institutions would make an attempt to incorporate SRS into classes. I think it would help a lot of students, especially for cumulative final exams.

Edit: Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Yaq7vBx
Well maybe that is a bad assumption in this case
Homelessness is higher than ever, it probably contributes a little to this
Well, that's one potential interpretation of the word woke. It's amazing how much different the definition is.

But that's why I put my definition into my comment, so we don't have to argue over definitions in order to discuss the assertion made by the parent.

As a side note, the "token black man" has been a thing for decades, if not longer. This is nothing new, but it sure makes a great talking point for gathering angry people.
The keyword being “just”.
> Servers are overly friendly and will interrupt conversations to ask if the food is up to standard, etc.

The median American in any restaurant with chairs not bolted to the floor can be assumed to operate on roughly the level of a marginally clever, but ill-parented and intemperate, four- or five-year-old child. Even nice places have to deal with this, because neither the child nor the American recognizes any such distinction.

The waitstaff need you to convince them they won't deal with this with you, which you can quickly and easily do by dressing appropriately - I know, but an American would need to be told - and comporting yourself in the correct fashion you described. A place worth eating at will recognize this and leave you pretty much in peace thereafter.
No need to worry about AGI until the LLMs are writing their own source.
There was never a shoplifting crisis. Shifting consumer behaviors, changes in social behavior, and other boring (normal) things have affected business and public perceptions on the subject. For businesses there's good motivation for falling back on crime surges to cover for closing less successful stores or less than expect quarterly earning reports. For the public a group of teens running amok in pedmall is easy footage and engages viewers.

* Brookings offers a really clear report for US consumers: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities...
* The Conversation offers really quick list with lots of links for support summarizing the UK version: https://theconversation.com/whats-the-truth-behind-the-shopl...

It's alarming to see these market-focused outlets fall for this type of "news" hook, line, and sinker -- there's not a mention of the possibility there was never a shrinkage crisis. The Brookings report was popular and I might have even come across it here.

If you're seeing retail theft on your TikTok FYP, then you need to evaluate what kinds of other videos you're interacting with. Granted, I don't know the numbers, but it's not a wave so virulent that it is inescapable. Like so many other things if you're fired up about what the youth are doing and morally affronted -- you're likely setting yourself up to look like a fool.
The point of my comment, in response to its parent, is that people in the US are willing to support immense amounts of money being spent on the homeless as long as it doesn't involve housing anyone.

I think the institutional structure of most US states and cities wouldn't blink at spend huge amounts on schizophrenia drugs as long as it doesn't involve any kind of inpatient treatment (forced or not) that would put a roof over anyone's head.
“I think the problem is that, even if they are making a profit, it’ll never be enough. They’ll add more ads to your ad tier, or add ads to my paid tier.”

Time for a new tier. Limited ads.
No, there’s another 2M illegal entries per year in addition to the 2M+ authorized crossings.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wt91pxCd0qA&pp=ygUZc3RldmUgYmF...
>I really wish legislators would operate inside reality instead of a Star Trek episode.

What are your thoughts about businesses like Google and Meta providing guidance and assistance to legislators?
> or you spend twenty hours soldering nearly microscopic bits of magnet wire to it.

A real chip would only need two or three contacts to vastly outperform thing demonstrated here. These would probably not be soldered, they would ideally be bonded directly to the chip.

Imagine a near-microscopic 4-ball BGA on a bit of flexible PCB, except the PCB material can flex in multiple axes simultaneously.
> the government should regulate the people deploying AI rather than the people inventing AI

Yeah, there's no point having system that is made the most scrupulous of standards and then someone else deploys it in an evil way. (Which in some cases can be done simply by choosing to do the opposite of whatever a good model recommends.)
Sob stories are definitely not covered by the text of the bill. The "critical harm" clause (ctrl-f this comment section for a full quote) is all about nuclear weapons and massive hacks and explicitly excludes "just" someone dying or getting injured with very clear language.
I just tried the podcast generation, and got surprised! Sadly English only, but I gave a Portuguese link to it, and it did well...
Working on a Run N Gun for the Wonderswan Color. Starting making "retro" games about 3 years ago and have been really loving it.

After successfully completing my first game, Strife Sisters - a strategy RPG, I decided to try out a new genre. Although I'm having fun working on this style of game, part of me wishes I had stuck with the same genre since I still had a lot of ideas to work with.
> He’s called a “threat to democracy” and that’s laughable considering the Democrat nominee won not a single primary

He's called that not because of anything leading up to the upcoming election, but because of what he keeps saying he'll do after it.
Some email platforms already cache images to prevent tracking.
I edited the link once to a graph that better illustrated what I meant both results came from a google image search.
I'm just going by the title. If the title was, "Don't believe the hype, LLMs will not achieve AGI" then I might agree. If it was "Don't believe the hype, AGIs is 100s of years away" I'd consider the arguments. But, given brains exist, it does seem inevitable that we will eventually create something that replicates it even if we have to simulate every atom to do it. And once we do, it certainly seem inevitable that we'll have AGI because unlike brain we can make our copy bigger, faster, and/or copy it. We can give it access to more info faster and more inputs.
You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
> It will suggest a tweak to config if it sees live reload times going past 4s

No I mean, I can tell it will get slow, haha.

> the rest of the stack is so damn good.

I agree! (so far, I think)
Why the wonderswan, if you don't mind me asking?
> Audits cannot prove anything and they offer no value when planning for the future. They're purely a retrospective tool that offers insights into potential risk factors.

Uh, aren't potential risk factors things you want to consider when planning for the future?
Sick, I couldn't figure it out when I needed it so I just manually created a 20 line script to cd into each directory and go build.
The challenge of updating InsydeH2O UEFI with Linux
Deepening the primary literature review for Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical at https://retrochronic.com/
In short, a couple of hundred square feet with decent temperatures, a sturdy lock, and basic facilities. I believe that the de facto illegalization of SROs in US cities is one of the more prominent factors when it comes to both invisibly and visibly homeless populations.
AMD using an Alpha bus for early Athlons feels like a weird lost opportunity. Cheap x86 aimed motherboards that can run also run Alpha chips with Windows 2000 + FX!32 for compatibility, it might’ve had a chance to shine, albeit a slight chance. Sadly by then Compaq had already boarded the Itanic…
Yeah, but what if you take a stupid, below the "certain scale" limit model and hook it up to something important, like a nuclear reactor or a healthcare system?

The point is that this is a terrible way to approach things. The model itself isn't what creates the danger, it's what you hook it up to. A model 100 times larger than the current available that's just sending output into /dev/null is completely harmless.

A small, below the "certain scale" model used for something important like healthcare could be awful.
“Critical harm” does not include any of the following: (A) Harms caused or materially enabled by information that a covered model or covered model derivative outputs if the information is otherwise reasonably publicly accessible by an ordinary person from sources other than a covered model or covered model derivative.

The bogeyman is not these models, it's future agentic autonomous ones, if and when they can hack major infrastructure or build nukes. The quoted text is very very clear on that.
Such as this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBox
I spend around 25% of my income
It’s less about efficiency and more about continued improvement with increased scale. I wouldn’t call self attention based transformers particularly efficient. And afaik we’ve not hit performance with increased scale degradation even at these enormous scales.

However I would note that I in principle agree that we aren’t on the path to a human like intelligence because the difference between directed cognition (or however you want to characterize current LLMs or other AI) and awareness is extreme. We don’t really understand even abstractly what awareness actually is because it’s impossible to interrogate unlike expressive language, logic, even art. It’s far from obvious to me that we can use language or other outputs of our intelligent awareness to produce awareness, or even if goal based agents cobbling together AI techniques is even approximate to awareness.

I suspect we will end up creating an amazing tool that has its own form of intelligence but will fundamentally not be like aware intelligence we are familiar with in humans and other animals. But this is all theorizing on my part as a professional practitioner in this field.
Not everyone takes "I don't want to talk about that" easily. A '...with you' is always available to be inferred, and a weak ego easily takes insult at that. If that weak ego belongs to someone who signs your paychecks, now you have a problem.
Only poor people can lose money, rich people get bailouts.
> There have been 17 attempts that I'm aware of to create a government based off of the ideals that Marx preached.

What does Marx say in the Communist Manifesto?

"The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation and with a much more developed proletariat than that of England was in the seventeenth, and France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution."

This is what Marx said, what his ideals were. A political fight in a country with the developed proletariat of the Ruhr Valley - Germany. What he can be judged by is what he said.

Marx said a precondition for his ideals would be the conditions the Ruhr Valley and Germany had. So if attempts made without the ingredients he stated failed, then Marx's ideals are shown to be correct. Your examples prove Marx was right.