skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, which is where I suspect most of the "visual UI builders are not the right tools to express dynamic constraints" objections come from: people are over-constraining the problem space with irrelevant nonsense. Half of the problems stem from abandoning OS standard controls, many of the rest are managing complexity of a large and complex UI codebase that didn't need to exist in the first place.

It's not like most webapp UIs are particularly well-aligned or consistent anyway, nor they are easy to visually overhaul on marketing teams' whim - so, what's the point? Why use tools that make important and impactful things between difficult and impossible?

(A possibly legitimate argument against RAD tools is that they encourage mixing business logic with UI code (static and dynamic). I used to be receptive to that, but I long come into conclusion that "separation of content and presentation" is bullshit both conceptually and in practice. And guess what, with React & all, we're all back to mixing UI and business logic - or adding extra layers of complexity to pretend we're not.)
Would you count group hunting as “highly complex social behavior”? It’s not just a numbers thing, they communicate and coordinate with the group.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5120912/octopuses-and-f...

Octopuses also build colonies, using coconut shells and other tools.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18281-octopuses-use-c...

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-discover-...

https://mashable.com/article/octopus-garden-colony-deep-sea-...

They can also solve human made puzzles.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

As for knowledge transfer, we know that they can teach other how to perform certain tasks. But beyond that, there seems to be a lack of research. Do they have complex language and can they transfer abstract “ideas”? My guess would be yes, but they communicate through color changes in ways that we have a hard time understanding. It seems likely that birds and whales have complex language, but we haven’t cracked the code on that even though their communication is much more like ours. Hopefully we find out some day.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc...

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-evolution-of-stupidity-and...
My home office chair is what might be called a "jury chair." Simple wood armchair, similar to these:

https://www.kpetersen.com/jurychairs.htm

Solid, easy to clean, nothing really to break or wear out or fail, and reminds you to get up and walk around every so often :)
Still fascinating how a computing device that used to cost upwards of 10k a couple of years ago is now not even considered a "workstation".

On a more serious note, I'm not sure that ECC RAM should be an important distinguishing factor. If your workstation actually produces an artifact that is used further down the line (a model, a binary or even just a number, a decision based on a simulation), then yes, definitely, it should run ECC RAM.

I feel like it's a different story for software engineers. What they use their "workstations" for is not what will eventually get shipped. That artifact is (hopefully) getting built on dedicated build machines (and those better have ECC RAM). ECC RAM won't have much impact on running IDEs and local compile-test-run cycles, right?
And the other side of the coin is if you are a driver who isn’t a brainless idiot, who hasn’t ever been in an accident, self driving cars are worse than your average performance even if they are better than the median american idiot.
YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning
Next stage thus? built standardized stockpiles, store in the middle of nowhere in containers, assemble on route.
X is going to go the way of Digg.
Funny enough, optimizing for promotion is not only a common strategy among individual contributors but is also encourage by mgmt. During my single year at Google I collaborated with a guy from a different team. His strategy was to do most of the meaningful (measureable) work on his own. Fair enough, I don't care. But he didn't predict that the project can be reassign. At that was exactly what happened. When I ask product manager why, he said that this is normal practice, credits should go to the product owning team.
When discussed such situations with other googlers two separate views emerge: either you're new and you exploit the system as is or "It's not the same google any more". Funny fact that we still think about that old google when it comes to culture, work, ppl, etc.
You usually move around while doing those activities.
If it has a H100 it’s a workstation, if it has a consumer GPU it’s not
Your post mentioned five projects all of which are free and open source. You then mentioned that upstream devs should be billed.

How can your post be read as anything other than "open source devs should be billed"?
Pushed my favourite geography trick question of "what is the tallest mountain in Europe" to second place.
A lot of effort to not use a regular ole database as a database... when you know, you could just use a database.
Non-Amazon link:
https://www.lightdims.com/store.htm
> Humans don't live for centuries! We can't wait for progress.
Why are Boston biotech firms downsizing?
That is a truly unfortunate name. Guessing English not your first language?
> The blind trust OpenAI and competitors like Google, Anthropic, or Meta put on the scaling laws—if you increase size, data, and compute you’ll get a better model—was unjustified. And how could it be otherwise! Scale was never a law of nature like gravity or evolution, but an observation of what was working at the time—just like Moore’s law, which today rests in peace, outmatched by the impenetrability of quantum mechanics and the geopolitical forces that menace Taiwan.

This is a self-contradicting paragraph. It cites quantum mechanics understanding as breaking down Moore's law while ignoring the fact that it has implications on our so-called "laws" of physics in just the same way.

I can imagine the author having originally written "physics" instead of "gravity" but needing to re-write the paragraph to squirm away from the contradiction they set up for themselves. I feel that this presentation is not intellectually honest.
>Everything I am saying is straightforward and in good faith.

You asked me why I thought he was unsuitable after I'd already explained why I thought he was unsuitable.

>It seems you've confused postponing a strike with quashing a strike.

He helped Biden block the rail strike. As I said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-r...

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-pete-buttigieg-str...

>Don't worry, all strikes in every industry will be quashed by Trump and Musk over the next 4 years.

That's how strikes work under the rule of law and the faith that all parties will operate fairly within it, which we can agree is going away under Trump to some extent.

>Also, do you seriously consider a single neglectful shipping company ramming into the bridge to be the fault of the transportation secretary?

Yes. As with the train incident, it speaks to a culture of ineffectiveness under his direction. (Admittedly rando) guy at this link makes a good point:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/1efjxp8/though...

>I can't think of a single mode of transportation that has gotten better under Buttigieg, can you?

In his examples, he mentions air travel headaches, which combine with my Boeing criticism from earlier. I also hadn't considered personal vehicles: to add to his talk about EVs, there are also the many controversies involving self-driving cars and the companies his department have allowed to operate recklessly, per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0.

In all, Buttigieg's tenure has been marked by a lack of sufficient oversight of industry; his lax supervision has lead to a disturbing number of incidents across all modes of transit. He's supposed to be keeping them honest, and they ran roughshod over him for the majority of his time in office. He was not ready for the position and it was a mistake to give it to him. He only got it through a corrupt transaction that lead to Biden's improbable nomination over Sanders in 2020, which has ultimately lead to the electoral trouncing we saw last week.

For what it's worth, we don't need "luck"; we need people like you to stop carrying water for pompous losers who put their pocketbook before people (and to maybe stop being them, too).
A Review of Significant HPAI H5 Related Events over the Past 3 Weeks
The very first name that came to my mind was Jasper Maskelyne. He led British camouflage efforts during WWII, and sure enough, while they don't come right out and say it, the mention of him studying British work makes me think that Ohmer must have worked with him.
I'm sure a better philosophical definition exists but off the top of my head:

An intelligence should be able to actually understand its input / output (rather than appear to understand), be able to reason about itself recursively*, be able to learn and generally have state, be able to have an internal thought process without being prompted**.

Some emotion isn't strictly a requirement but likely a desirable quality for human interaction.

* "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" and "I am a Strange Loop" are meant to cover this but I've only started the latter

** A sci-fi book series called Old Man's War features a race of aliens that are intelligent but not sentient due to not having an internal thought process and self awareness, which does raise the question of whether it's possible to have one without the other.
I went to Brooks Bargain in Wilmington, MA, to get a used Aeron chair for about $500 if I remember right. They had a ton of different kinds of chairs to try on site. I went there torn between Aeron or SteelCase.

I’ve heard good things about Granite State Office Furniture too, if you don’t mind hoofing it up to Manchester NH.
"Reading and writing more" are just aspirations. Those don't translate well to new behaviors. BJ Fogg (Stanford prof, behavioral scientist) lays out how to build new behaviors in Tiny Habits. You need to make them easy and attach the easy thing to something you already do regularly. (When I sit down to lunch, I read one page...) https://tinyhabits.com/

Secondly, your mind is interfering with its own work. Tim Gallwey talks about this in the Inner Game of Tennis (which is not really about tennis! ;). Your critic is not allowing you to "run hot" and put down some words that are less than perfect. It would be helpful to find something to focus your mind on, a simple count, like key strokes or word count. Alternatively, there's the practice of Morning Pages from the Artist's Way. Just let yourself write anything for a while. It's not for publication. You need to open the gates and you can do that by lowering the stakes involved with putting a word on the page.

Inner Game

https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance...

Artists Way

https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/01431...

I wrote about some other stuff here that helps.

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/a-few-ideas-that-made-my-life-...
I think the whale population is still at least 90% below pre whaling levels.

So the sea water layers are probably less mixed than natural. No idea what effects that might have.
Maybe they could have fingers on their trunk. It is already strongly innervated and very sensitive.
It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots
The traditionally named 'workstations' existed before workstation GPUs ever did.
You could have poured billions into developing space flight in the 1800s, but it doesn't mean you'd get a working spaceship once the funds ran out.

I suspect we're in a similar situation with AGI.
Can this be used in something like graphical APIS like OpenGL, Vulkan, WebGPU, etc?
I spend a lot of time riding my bike in the summer here in Massachusetts. Temperatures regularly get up to around 35 °C (95 °F), but fortunately the humidity isn't usually too bad. These rides are usually at least two hours long, and sometimes up to six. I'm always surprised at how tolerable those temperatures are when air is moving by you at a decent speed. It definitely requires a lot of water and mineral replacement to sustain. Aside from having to make more stops to refill and pay closer attention to hydration, I surprisingly find it more pleasant than riding at 30 °C (86 °F).
My employer isn't struggling with this because it's not trying to do this in the first place. It's not something that is being demanded by anybody, either devs or management.

Ironically, a huge part of what my employer does involves developing deep learning systems and has been for over a decade now.
My regular cat doesn't drink water if he's eating his raw (wet) food.
It's easier to do with dedicated military facilities than it is with factories and particularly in the Chinese silo examples they can't hide they're building something there just disguising what it's purpose is. It's a lot harder to do that with a factory where you need to fake a lot more signs of life, material deliveries, workers, finished products rolling off the line.

I'm not saying decoys as an entire category are dead just that disguising factories like the US did in WW2 is unlikely to work well in the modern world. We're way past the age where you can hide a whole huge factory. Imagery is just too good to hide something that large with that much activity around it.
a) this is why x86 software bpt is a single byte

b) if you ask to "step out" of a scope, your debugger may have to set many of these patches, depending upon how complicated the potential control flow may be
It's difficult to reason about intelligence in this context.

Human intelligence is defined by behavior we humans value. Intelligence tests are geared to measuring these aspects.

Intelligence tests devised by animals would look totally different - and it's quite thinkable humans wouldn't do too well taking them.

Wouldn't assume that animals have less language ability than we humans, unless we totally figured out what other species are really talking about. Unless we do this is just an assumption.
I thought you were about to pitch 3 dimensional space. Like iPhone app pages but instead of a few pages left to right, it’s a 3d cube? Sounds useless and no different but also very exciting
> Not gutting the machine that does - and that's courts, the entire FSB, whole departments of the MVD

The FSB _itself_ needs to be split and de-powered. There should never be a state organization with this amount of power.

However, people who were working there should not just be blindly purged. This way you end up with the Iraq scenario. From the practical standpoint, FSB also contains border guards, law enforcement departments, counter-terrorism, etc. They are all needed in a normal state.

Instead, there should be _personal_ prosecutions of people responsible for political persecution and for the illegal foreign operations that started the war. This is probably far less than 10000 people.

> Poland is not that small, more than 1/4 the population of Russia, and their lustrations worked very well.

Their version was pretty mild, and even then had problems with false documents used to libel even Lech Walesa.

> No living person there had any memory of democracy at the time they happened.

Poland was occupied in 1939, so people who were 20 at that time were 70 by 1990.

> Way to conflate civic lustrations with a war, and by total destruction by a superpower onslaught at that.

That's another argument: you probably won't even _have_ a chance to do a massive purge (never mind if it's a good idea or not). But reforms are a possibility.
When would you ever want anything other than Semantic chunking? Cutting chunks into fixed lengths is fast, but it's arbitrarily encoding potentially dissimilar information.
I've played around with sst v2 and now v3/ion for side projects and like it a lot.

Is there a timeline/roadmap for supporting the languages noted on the bottom of the post?
Austrian law isn't US law, correct. I still don't understand your persistent pessimism though...

What I once saw when I went to the Arbeits- und Sozialgericht was a man, in the beginning of his 40s, suing for unlawful termination of his employment contract, after notice period and 7 months of employment. He sued with the help of the Arbeiterkammer. The judge asked the employer for their reasons, and tried to figure out if the termination has been made through thoughtful reasoning and after consideration of any other options. It is the responsibility of the employer too(!), and frankly in their best interest, to bring their employees up to speed and make them succeed in their work.

"We don't need to state any reason" won't fly in front of the judge in Austria, as the judge wants to make an informed decision.
Correction: Regarding #1 In Firefox it is possible. Apologies for the inadvertence.
Here we go. It’s groundhog unfair ban day again.
Context: ARC Prize 2024 just wrapped up yesterday. ARC Prize's goal is to be a north star towards AGI. The two major categories of this year's progress seem to fall into "program synthesis" and "test-time fine tuning". Both of these techniques are adopted by DeepMind's impressive AlphaProof system [1]. And I'm personally excited to finally see actual code implementation of these ideas [2]!

We still have a long way to go for the grand prize -- we'll be back next year. Also got some new stuff in the works for 2025.

Watch for the official ARC Prize 2024 paper coming Dec 6. We're going to be overviewing all the new AI reasoning code and approaches open sourced via the competition [3].

[1] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...

[2] https://github.com/ekinakyurek/marc

[3] https://x.com/arcprize
Indeed, and where they were not present they have a powerful detrimental effect when introduced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...
You can also wind it while twisting the remaining of the cable on the opposite direction.

On a short cable like a headphone string, this is just a matter of holding the cable up so the plug can rotate freely. Then you can do anything, you won't accumulate stress. (On a longer cable that means putting temporary stress on the non-wound part of the cable. If it's too long, you need to remove it from time to time.)

Anyway, I've just printed a ton of cable-winders, for all sizes and calipers, and never thought about it again.
I'd argue that LLMs don't have intelligence, they have the ability to match a correct response to a prompt but that's not a product of any internal process that's like what we call intelligence (unless that's used to refer to smart programming / probabilistic models / machine learning).

Parrots are closer but I used them for the example since they also mimic instead of understand.
The tariffs let Trump push tax cuts. People want the tax cuts. The tariffs are just a way to say they’ll be paid for. (Dems do that same with deficit financing and ‘tax the rich’ schemes.)

There are also communities who don’t think tariffs will be reciprocated. If we truly engage in a trade war, American farming and car manufacturing will be in crisis—they’re overbuilt for a domestic-only market.
Yep! I'm using OpenAI's assistants api. Regarding the tool forking - I have the canonical function hosted on the server. When someone forks an agent it grabs the agent context and all the tools and creates a new `assistant` with Open AI. When the tool is called during a thread it just points to the canonical function. I'm really excited about the next step - allowing folks to create their own tools and add them to the canonical function list. This will allow everyone to build on each other's work and use tools as building blocks for complex agents. Thanks for checking it out! Lmk if you have other questions!
If I had to speculate…

For billionaires like Andreessen, it will be worth the very limited pain in order to see the destruction of the administrative and regulatory state.
Sadly I don't remember the name of the business, but I'm sure something like it exists.. A quick web search doesn't show anything obvious of that scale or type though..

I think what was so interesting about that place was the homogeneous nature of the available furniture, since "fancy office furniture for tech companies" wasn't quite a thing yet, so everything was either Herman Miller, Steelcase and maybe a few others..

Hence the room full of hundreds of exactly the same chair..

I feel like today you'd have more of a mix of stuff since so many other companies got in on the action (and uniqueness/variety is more highly valued socially).
I was hoping the article would reflect on the problems with predictions markets, but it's just a dry history.

Crucially, "predictions markets" do not and cannot exist in any real sense. A pure predictions market would be completely isolated, causality-wise, from the event they are trying to predict. But the two are not and cannot be isolated, except for some degenerate cases like trying to guess the output of a true random number generator (and even then I'm not so sure sufficiently motivated people wouldn't try to game the system anyway). This is why we have problems with our current predictions markets, e.g. the stock market (insider trading, etc.) and sports betting (match-fixing, etc.).

Every prediction with a stake is an incentive to alter the outcome of an event. Once the weight of the stake outweighs the resources being used to ensure the impartiality of the outcome, the wheels fully come off the cart and the prediction stops being about the underlying event and starts self-referentially predicting the impact of the prediction itself. The snake eats its own tail and the market becomes useless. You cannot scale up a predictions market without this eventually coming to pass. See also the famous example of how a predictions market for when public figures will die is just an assassination market with extra steps.
The problem is not the testing. The problem statement is flawed.

Chord naming is not particularly useful as simply a function mapping a set of undifferentiated notes to a name.
The post interestingly gets that the root note is important, but then sort of misses the point in the end. You either have to specify the root, or if the procedure is generating all combinations then one needs to know the implied root in the output (and then this of course leaves the hard bit of identifying what is the correct root to elsewhere).
As an example, an input of {A, C, E, G} will spit out C6 and Am7. Which one it is, is the important part. And these are both relatively common chords.

Looking at prior art you will see that chord namers either take something like a key to infer the root, they take the root explicitly, or they treat the notes as an ordered set, some then improperly assume the first element is the root (conflating root and bass).
In a GUI that is super misleading.

https://muted.io/chord-identifier/

eg: If you put in E-G-C it identifies as Em#5. Which is a completely false sense of "oneness" and would usually be incorrect. In practice E-G-C played on the keyboard in pop music is more likely a first inversion Cmaj chord, or C/E.

There are better tools out there (https://www.scales-chords.com/), but the example above would be how not to do it. This is not to dunk on it (or the post), but to motivate thinking more about the problem.

In this case the posted algorithm won't identify Em#5, simply because the database doesn't have an those entries.
If you scale the algorithm by augmenting the database with more spellings then the output set is going to become larger without being more useful. It will be technically correct, yes that C-E-G might be a Csus4♭4, a C, a Em#5, but what do I do with that.
It’s poorly worded, not incorrect.

I’d replace top with something like: A fan isn’t directly helpful, unlike an AC it’s not going to cool an empty closed room. However, it can make a wider range of temperatures and humidity levels comfortable through aiding evaporation or bringing in cooler air when possible.