skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its kind of funny to think we've already had many of these services that were apparently really ahead of their time.

I remember being an outside sales rep for a local mom and pop wireless company in the late 90's, early aughts. We sold an automated "assistant" called Wildfire that would screen calls and stood as an intermediary between you can callers. She would answer, you would record your name and then it would call you on any number of devices you had entered. At one point, I had it calling three of my numbers (office and two mobile numbers) and at any time, you could just send people to voicemail. It was very similar to how many of the AI assistants work today. If I remember it was like $30/month, but as reps we got to use it for free which was really fun tinkering with it.

AT&T also had something like this where you could have a program they offered which would screen your calls and either connect you or you could send people directly to voicemail. It didn't have nearly the features that Wildfire had, but it was effective.

Obviously in the late 90's and early aughts, something like this wasn't really needed and after a few quarters, AT&T quietly stopped offering their service. Wildfire lived on until the mid aughts after being bought and then killed due to lack of adoption and use.

Kind of crazy these kinds of programs were pretty common before the AI assistant craze now.

Details about Wildfire here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire_Communications
Like any other worker, they should be fired when they don't do their job well enough.

Civil servants are people like you and me, and have as strong will as anyone.
Google loses yet another AI pioneer as Keras creator leaves
> “Well, progress is possible now because civilization gets destroyed every couple of thousand years, and all we're doing is we're rediscovering the old stuff.”

Irrespective of the historical accuracy of the quote I've always felt this way in some form, having personally lived through the transition from a world where it felt like you didn't have to have an opinion on everything to one dominated by the ubiquitous presence of the Internet. Although not so much because I believe an advanced human civilization has destroyed itself in our current timeline, but because the presence of so many life-changing breakthroughs in such a short period of time to me indicates a unceasing march towards a Great Filter.
Despite that MOST of the country voted #MAGA, the Democrat MSM has been calling MAGA every kind of slander they could think of including Nazi and Fascist.

They really ramped it up during the election, but most Americans saw thru it and knew it was lies.
I worked in the telecom business 15 years ago on 4G (LTE) and there it was considered a big savior compared to how it was done before.

Basically before they had a lot of error handling code and it was a significant part of the code base (don’t remember but let’s say 50%) and this error handling code had the worst quality because it is very hard to inject faults everywhere. So basically the error handling code had a lot of bugs in it which made the system fail to recover properly.

But DbC was a godsend in the way that now you didn’t try to handle errors inside the program any longer. Now the only thing that mattered was that a service should be able to handle clients and other services failing. And failure in a few well defined interfaces is much easier to handle. So the quality became much better.

What about the crashes then? Well, by actually crashing and getting really good failure point detection it was much easier to find bugs and remove them. So the failures grew less and less. Also, at that time I believe there were 70 ms between voice packages so as long as the service could recover within that timeframe, no cell phone users would suffer.

Plus of course much less error prone error handling code to write.

And as someone else said, DbC should never be turned of in production. Of course, in embedded systems, speed is not so important as long as it is fast enough to not miss any deadlines. And you need to code it so it doesn’t miss deadlines during integration and verification with DbC so there is no reason to turn them off in production.
I left college with a math degree and a profound antipathy for weird cursive symbols. The one that nearly killed me was the Greek "xi". I couldn't pronounce it, and I couldn't write it with any fluency, and in some of the classes I took it was everywhere.
Same as last time.
I think we are saying the same thing, only my statement is more cautious and yours is more gung-ho.
Without a non-linear activation function, chaining perceptrons together is equivalent to one large perceptron.
Someone agreeing with you broke your brain.
Ask HN: Run WASM (GC) kernel Touch-UI on Embedded Devices?
I would like to write a small App to play audio tracks and control it via touch screen. My goto dev device would be a Raspberry PI with a touch screen, but possibly later also a smaller embedded RISC-V device with a battery.

Recently I stumbled over kernel-wasm[1].

Would it be possible to run a kernel WASM app accepting input from a touch screen and playing audio via audio jack? If so, how would you achieve this?

Thanks for any comments on this.

1: https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm/blob/master/README.md
Pixel phones will be able to detect and report malicious apps in real time
These are not widely trusted by the American public, at least in my own anecdotal experience. I've been told numerous times that the Bureau of Justice Statistics lies because they're the government. Typically, in relation to modern politics. From what I've seen, distrust for the government is at an all-time high, but trust in randos with podcasts is also at an all-time high.
I don't think the families wanted money. They wanted to ruin his life.
I think uniplate does what this author wants: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/uniplate

Looks like there's a Rust crate too: https://crates.io/crates/uniplate
"While the model was initially expected to significantly surpass previous versions of the technology behind ChatGPT, it fell short in key areas, particularly in answering coding questions outside its training data."

Right. If you generate some code with ChatGPT, and then try to find similar code on the web, you usually will. Search for unusual phrases in comments and for variable names. Often, something from Stack Overflow will match.

LLMs do search and copy/paste with idiom translation and some transliteration. That's good enough for a lot of common problems. Especially in the HTML/Javascript space, where people solve the same problems over and over. Or problems covered in textbooks and classes.

But it does not look like artificial general intelligence emerges from LLMs alone.

There's also the elephant in the room - the hallucination/lack of confidence metric problem. The curse of LLMs is that they return answers which are confident but wrong. "I don't know" is rarely seen. Until that's fixed, you can't trust LLMs to actually do much on their own. LLMs with a confidence metric would be much more useful than what we have now.
Marginal cost. And one might reasonably expect fixed costs too to keep dropping, altho not as spectacularly quickly.
A typical acquisition of the legal entity from the shareholders provides protection because there’s no limited liability in the deal (as it’s a sale by the shareholders (as individuals)). An asset sale has higher risk for the buyer (because the sale is, essentially, looting the corpse of a legal entity) with the benefit of not having any liability for the legal entity’s past deeds. Purchasing assets from the company while also expecting the former owner to be on the hook for the value of assets is trying to eat their cake and keep you on the hook to make them another cake.

That said, U.S. LLCs are not normal limited liability companies (like they are in the rest of the world). A U.S. LLC is a weird amalgamation of tax and law. Perhaps what you’re describing (as described to you buy your lawyer) is just one more weird aspect of U.S. LLCs.

(Outside of the U.S., a limited liability company is nothing like a U.S. LLC. The closest the U.S. has to a typical limited liability company is an Inc.)
I wonder how much this has to do with a fluency plateau.

Up to a certain point, a conditional fluency stores knowledge, in the sense that semantically correct sentences are more likely to be fluent… but we may have tapped out in that regard. LLMs have solved language very well, but to get beyond that has seemed, thus far, to require RLHF, with all the attendant negatives.
Simple: shoot the messenger.
I had a similar thought recently as someone not in the U.S and who doesn't care that much. If hypothetically prompted, there's a way in which I could say "Well it was more sensible to vote for Trump". If no other context was asked for, I'd probably be thought of as a Trump person, but if it was, I'd explain that I can see why a lot of people preferred him or didn't prefer the other, therefore for them it's sensible, and democracy worked as intended.
And worth noting that Tesla faked a ton of its robot footage already, they might be making progress but their physical human robotics does not seem advanced at the moment.
Xitter is my favorite!
Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean and it really stirs shit up with people who are emotionally attached to the old brand name.
Why is that clear? Why is that more probable than a second AI winter? What if there's no path from LLMs to anything else?
The new one is really bad. Feels so fake. And the anchor can't role play. The old one is so much better. If you don't listen, you don't even get that it is a joke.
If we were to expand on face control scheme furthur, what face gestures would be used for clicking/tapping? click holding? What would be least exhausting to face muscles, what would look least ridiculous?
> We don't know how much the families gave up (could be a little, could be significant)

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes but as a parent I can imagine the money not playing an important factor at all in this. Money would hopefully be the least of my worries.
I think it does work, just look who won the presidential election thanks to Men
Linux to Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection to Performance Bottleneck
Sega Is Making an Emoji-Only Pager That's Sending Us Back to the 1990s
I thought this was a prank, but "The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-i...

See also: "Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'"

"Make no mistake: This is a coup for our company and a well-deserved victory for multinational elites the world over... we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal."

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
We don't want to pay with our attention.
> Pseudo-science like "critical thinking" can't really be taught, but actual science can.

Arguably critical thinking is the express purpose of English and Language-Arts. Media literacy falls into that, too. People often discredit schools, but they already teach a lot of this stuff, it's just that Billy Bob was blowing snot bubbles.

I mean, a huge part of school is just reading pieces of text and trying to formulate an understanding, as well as gauging the Author's intent and the larger social context. That, to me, is just critical thinking.
A Node.js tool that downloads GitHub repositories and generates LLM-optimized markdown documentation for easy code understanding with Claude and other AI assistants.

`npx github2claude https://github.com/username/repository`

- Clones the GitHub repository

- Analyzes the codebase structure and relationships

- Generates a comprehensive markdown document optimized for Large Language Models

- Packages the code in a format that's ideal for uploading to Claude conversations
> If you build a business on a fork of someone else's project, you can't really complain. Using GPL was the cost of starting from that base.

I agree - but that is what people like the Wordpress developers are complaining of.

> Individuals get your code from you or each other. I don't doubt that you'd have easy to use packaging if "Source available + All Rights Reserved + casual piracy" caught on as a copyleft "license"; the *arr software sort of demonstrates that already.

I am very cautious about installing things not from either distro repos (on my desktop) or from a known app store (not necessarily the OS developers) on mobile. How would people know that was your intent? If they get the software from each other, how could they verify it did not have malware inserted.

One of the things I like about FOSS is that it can be forked. If the original developer stops working on it (especially if they stop applying security patches), or to take it in a different direction, or if the original developer changes licence for new versions (the equivalent with your idea would be to start enforcing the copyright).

> That it only allows people who are not reluctant to break copyright laws to use your software is exactly the point. It's a proper anarchist's copyleft license.

Its not copyleft. If people get software from each other how do you ensure that the source gets distributed? Or that people know they can get the source and from where?
Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now on Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS
Alright, let's reframe this:

- AcmeShop is paying Facebook money to run a targeted marketing campaign on Facebook

- to do this, in practice AcmeShop is forced to share visit data with Facebook (this bit could be done differently, but for some reason that's how Facebook does it)

- a customer goes to AcmeShop, doesn't make an immediate purchase, leaves

- AcmeShop is paying Facebook to run a remarketing campaign for that customer, showing them the same product leading to AcmeShop

- at the same time, Facebook is using information that they obtained in the process of providing paid services to AcmeShop to show goods on their marketplace platform to the customer. For Facebook, it's not "remarketing", it's just "marketing" at this point. Not only that, but they control which ads they are showing, and naturally with Marketplace-only placements Facebook has an advantage over AcmeShop (again, using information that they effectively forced AcmeShop to provide)

Does this reframing make the problem of Facebook being both an ad seller, an ad manager, and offering the same service as their customers any clearer?
Narrator: the whole of the internet was indeed sockpuppeting them.

(sorry, i couldn’t resist)
The summary in this article is golden!
I would prefer a standard list method/function to test for emptiness, which would be both readable and efficient.
Searle's Chinese Room Argument springs to mind:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

The idea that "human-like" behaviour will lead to self-awareness is both unproven (it can't be proven until it happens) and impossible to disprove (like Russell's teapot).

Yet, one common assumption of many people running these companies or investing in them, or of some developers investing their time in these technologies, is precisely that some sort of explosion of superintelligence is likely, or even inevitable.

It surely is possible, but stretching that to likely seems a bit much if you really think how imperfectly we understand things like consciousness and the mind.

Of course there are people who have essentially religious reactions to the notion that there may be limits to certain domains of knowledge. Nonetheless, I think that's the reality we're faced with here.
Seems stupid to publicly announce this product so that scammers are now aware of it? Also what happens when scammers start using AIs of their own to do the scamming?
A lot of the leaders of the hippies were actually older than that generation, despite the classic "don't trust anyone over 30" and "hope I die before I get old" sentiments of the movement. For example, both Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin (who founded the "Youth International Party" or yippies, which mutated into hippies) were born in the 1930s, a decade or more older than most hippies.
Passwords also work this way.
It's a marketing gimmick, I don't think engineers working on these tools believe they work on AGI (or they mean something else than self-awareness). I used to be a bit annoyed with this trend, but now that I work in such a company I'm more cynical. If that helps to make my stocks rise, they can call LLMs anything they like. I suppose people who own much more stock than I do are even more eager to mislead the public.
@msarnoff had already stipulated that the json lib is returning lengths:

all the “tokens” are given as byte offsets and lengths
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-p...
That has not been my experience consulting at many big videogame companies.

Lately my bread and butter is fixing legacy game engines. I have yet to meet a ciswoman tech lead who can do this work.
As someone who has struggled with getting CSS to do normal layout stuff that had clear precise semantics but required weird CSS trickery, it's actually more scary than lucky that stuff like container queries have arrived 30 years after CSS was introduced.

I agree with GP that CSS should be scrapped.
Well, that just invokes we-had-a-baby-its-a-boy
> DOGE department

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedu...
my very first exposure to this was paying for parking. i worked at a large private university which had a beautiful but very big campus. ofc for some reason the institution decided that employee's had to pay for their own parking, which i disagreed with on moral grounds and the fact that parking was so far away it was like a 20 minute walk just to get to my work space...so i did an experiment where i basically never paid for parking in my entire 4 years there.

it would have cost me about 2 grand to diligently pay for parking. the actual expense from tickets? about 100 bucks maybe 200. and some of them got automatically thrown out just by challenging them. now towards the end of my time there i did see a guy get towed as he was walking up to his car. i started paying for parking then.
UFC Names IBM as First-Ever Official AI Partner
I only asked for a mere 6 examples of developer career-lotto winners to infer your ideas were plausible...

You have provided 0, and instead of acknowledging real issues... you present a straw-man argument as a poor substitute. In time, you will learn how the corporate world is structured. lol =)
The technical definition matters because the evidence people supply about the genetics of intelligence is based on that technical definition, not your intuitive definition. You said intelligence has been shown to be heritable. Indeed, it has. But that doesn't mean what you think it meant.
Right. These scam calls are not a god-given problem. Some countries do not have them in any significant amount. I suspect there is greed involved (political or corporate) that prevents this problem from getting solved.
Wait until the scammers become AIs too. Thinking of a world where phone conversations between humans is the exception ...
Other controversies aside, this could end up being a bit of a organic Turing test, if the AI ever becomes convincing to enough scammers.
Russian Food Prices Skyrocket in Growing Concern for Kremlin
https://archive.today/ttqdO
We finally have a word for what capitalism eventually leads to. In a few years economics textbooks will be full of it.
My personal opinion is that Python gave up on "simple and intuitive" a long time ago and people still citing that as a guiding principle of the language really need to sit down and just read the Python documentation again from start to finish, and then ponder for a moment. If they still need a clue, they are invited to the same thing to, say, Python 2.1, and ponder for a few more moments. It clearly isn't and hasn't been for a while. That is not, on its own, a bad thing necessarily. It just means it isn't a guiding principle anymore, or at the very least, it has moved way down the priority list. Plenty of languages have changed their guiding principles over time.

However, this is not an example of that. "if list:" has been the idiomatic Python since inception, and "if len(list):" has been an unnecessary complication for the same period of time. Python's "preferably one way to do it" has never been about "there is literally only one syntactically valid way to do it", for fairly obvious reasons if you think about it.
>> So I can let my body figure out how much sleep I need.

This is why my doctor advised (during a bout of insomnia a few years ago) not to use those "blackout" shades. They completely confuse your brain. My doctor said to sleep with the blinds open so your body can naturally reset its clock with the sunrise and sunset. Thankfully, this was in the Summer in a midwestern state, so I got back on track, but I still had to make some adjustments when daylight savings and Winter started.

Your strategy was the other recommendation my doctor said to use. Anything that allows your body to naturally find its biorhythm is the best.
We don't really know what self awareness is, so we're not going to know. AGI just means it can observe, learn, and act in any domain or problem space.
so you believe if your teacher or parent tell you not to over eat sugars, not to drop out of school, take care of looks, because these things will prevent you from being rich, relationship, comfort.

you believe this type of messaging shouldnt be shown because we are too mentally weak to handle it? you dont believe parents should parent their child either? you think anything that can possibly make a human form an opinion is inherently evil? do you think a company that lets say shows how boring your life is so they try to sell you a book is wrong.
or a workout machine shouldnt show what it can potentially offer to your life. or basically extending your life. a school that sells prestige and highest level of education should instead never advertise so you dont feel dumb?

im not saying this is the ideal utopia. this is reality. for businesses to work they need money, for a country to prosper it needs successful businesses whether it be govt or otherwise. you want to teach kids to be able to handle reality not play victim. ofc this is just my way of seeing things. but i believe being able to use what is being offered to your advantage is what makes successful people. and ill be damned if someone in the states believes they dont have all the opportunities in the world with the most access to whatever they want with govt regulating the things you are so afraid of to at least a reasonable level. being able to identify the evil in everything thus shutting themselves off is counter productive imo and its honestly even a blessing to be able to think like this lol. many countries this cant even be a factor because these companies cant even exsist to give you these evil messages. because they dont survive in those small economies