skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Francois, I'm a huge fan of your work!

In projecting ARC challenge progress with a naive regression from the latest cycle of improvement (from 34% to 54%), it seems that a plausible estimate as to when the 85% target will be reached is sometime between late 2025 & mid 2026.

Supposing ARC challenge target is reached in the coming years, does this update your model of 'AI risk'? // Would this cause you to consider your article on 'The implausibility of intelligence explosion' to be outdated?
I tried it in Chromium and it didn't work either. It did remind me to blat Chromium from my computer though, so thanks! :D
Does this also happen in Zerotier?

Don't take me wrong, I think tailscale is absolutely great, I'm just interested in trying Zerotier for a while since it has integration with OPNSense (in the GUI, I know tailscale works fine if you install the package and configure it manually).
Firefox support is not great. Typing through the terminal eats some keystrokes.
Why are there not more operating systems?
Warranty is still the legally required minimum of 2 years for Miele. You have no guarantee it will last longer than that. If Miele had so much confidence in their products lasting longer they'd offer longer warranties like Samsung does on their SSDs of 5 years or so.

The concept of "Miele lasts forever" is as outdated as the "German cars last forever". It used to be true in the past but we can't be coasting on that trope today.
set a policy for what happens when the spend limit is reached? not rocket science
Chollet is a leading skeptic of the generality of LLMs (see arcprize.org). He surely isn't doing a startup to train another one.
Were they? They [Guardian] are now claiming that both groups are being treated the same when they were clearly claiming that that wasn’t the case earlier?

Which exact groups they are talking about doesn’t really matter for this specific argument.
If they use a non-standard version of JSON (for example, one supporting comments, or one with rules about duplicate keys, or any other rule that's not part of the underspecified JSON spec) they should use a custom content type. Something can be valid JSON but invalid AmazJSON and this is exactly how you would distinguish between the two.
All security is obscurity. I think it's laughable that you believe you know what someone does just because they say this. Consider there's many levels of knowledge about a topic and sometimes when you get to a deeper level your conclusion or the labels you use for stuff "flip".

Understanding the differences that you outlined is so basic that a good commenter wouldn't assume they don't know the difference, they are making a deeper point.
Why? They seem to do the job they’re meant to do very well and generally very reliable.

The interfaces are simple. The touchscreens are instantly responsive. They support a variety of features.

Overall they seem better than the ones National ATM makes.
> Charging per deployment sounds crazy though.

I think technically I was just being charged for the container host machine, but while each individual deploy only lasted a minute or so, I was being charged the minimum each time. And each new deploy started a new host machine. Something like that anyway, it was a few years ago, so I don't remember the specifics.

So I can understand why, but it doesn't change that if their logging hadn't been so flaky, I should have been able to fix the issue in minutes with minimal cost, like I did on Digital Ocean. Besides, the $100 they charged me doesn't include the much more expensive two days I wasted on it.
Hey, can you give an example ? The model is not perfect and this is our first version, so will get better and faster for sure. Still I generated the full prompt you referenced and it sounds good to me. Adds some laughter, but this makes it more non-robotic in my mind.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JzfweTdvCWzJ6Wwv0KdgfaxZcyn...

Speaker 1: Oh yes, the deep sea, nature’s basement. Home to creatures so bizarre, even nightmares are like, “Nah, I’ll pass.”
Speaker 2: Right? It's like the ocean was running a clearance sale on leftover parts. “Hey, who wants a fish with a lightbulb head? No one? Alright, let’s just drop this bad boy in the Mariana Trench.”
Speaker 1: Oh man, let’s start with a classic: the anglerfish. It’s a fish that decided it was uh, tired of chasing its food and thought, “What if I just dangle a glow stick on my head and let dinner come to me?”
Speaker 2: Honestly, I respect that. Can you imagine if we had that? Like, I’m sitting on my couch with a glowing Dorito on my forehead, waiting for snacks to find me.
Speaker 1: Dang man, I’d come find you for sure.
At this point I don't think S3 counts as a new technology anymore.
This money is better spent with bets
This is a hilarious take given the overwhelming number of outages that are caused by "bad config".

If you can't code, then yeah, I bet config is easier. But as a person who codes every day, I much prefer something that I can interact with, test, debug, type check, and lint _before_ I push to prod (or push anywhere, for that matter).
In order to make a surface properly flat you need to have the cleave surface line up with crystal boundaries, but crystals are randomly oriented in three dimensions meaning the surface can't be truly flat.

And that's even assuming the solid you're working with is crystalline of the sort that can do this. Many materials are alloys meaning that cold welding would be further difficult.
The problem is convenience; I've been using Steam streaming quite a bit lately, for example.

Plus you get Linux/Proton too on Steam [1]. And the Deck if you're into that.

I used to go to GoG first but convenience is winning lately :(

[1] I remember, but can't provide links, that CDProjekt/GoG got called out for their bad "port" of Witcher 2 to Linux/Mac. Guess what, instead of improving things with 3, they simply dropped any pretense of official "ports". Not good for cross platform customers...
I've also shot myself in the foot with various APIs, e.g. I racked a 3k bill in a month with Google APIs for my side project, just because I wasn't checking the usage, I didn't think I was using that much. This is more of my fault I guess, but luckily support waived that fee for me after some back and forth. Also I'm not from the US so this bill is larger for me compared to US folks. But honestly also Google APIs are pretty expensive. For hosting my side projects I use a single dedicated DO droplet for $320 a month, where I have 40+ docker containers.
I'm not sure if it is Jungle music, but the electronic (drum and bass?) music in games like Forsaken 64 and Unreal Tournament (1999) was amazing.

I still listen to the UT99 soundtrack when I need to concentrate on something.
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One other connection between these two is the fact that for AI assisted coding you can only get the AI to write you code that has broad adoption on the internet. Otherwise the AI doesn’t know the standard libraries and conventions.

I worry overall that this could signal the complete end of new programming languages except in a few special cases. (Which I think was already a worrying trend before AI- see Bret Victor’s “The Future of Programming” talk).
That’s generally how it works.
Cutting cost: driving creativity since forever :)
Watermarking is not just steganography and steganography is not just watermarking

In June 1996, Ross Anderson organized the first workshop dedicated specifically to information hiding at Cambridge University. This event marked the beginning of a long series known as the Information Hiding Workshops, during which foundational terminology for the field was established. Information hiding, i.e., concealing a message within a host content, branches into two main applications: digital watermarking and steganography. In the case of watermarking, hiding means robustly embedding the message, permanently linking it to the content. In the case of steganography, hiding means concealing without leaving any statistically detectable traces.

References:
1. R. J. Anderson, editor. Proc. 1st Intl. Workshop on Inf. Hiding, volume 1174 of LNCS, 1996.
2. B. Pfitzmann: Information hiding terminology - Results of an informal plenary meeting and additional proposals. In Anderson [1], pages 347–350.
As a fan of both, I have to admit vaporwave and twee are both dead genres - although vaporwave has spawned a host of successor stuff, the great innovation there all happened a decade and more ago. Twee will always exist, but it's hardly a great example of a lively scene.
Monkey see monkey do. It's the same on the web where smaller sites just cargo cult all the usual dark patterns because that's what the devs are used to.
Thanks for reporting this, the approach to keyboard input is quite convoluted to integrate mobile input well. No "keydown"/"keyup" events on mobile.

Any specific key or character that is not working for you? Or this is a widespread problem?
> I homelab

Didn't know there was a verb for it! I "homelab" too and so far am very happy. With a (free) CDN in front of it it can handle spikes in traffic (that are rare anyways), and everything is simple and mostly free (since the machines are already there).
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As per your settings we have removed all objects from S3, All RDS Databases, All Route53 Domains, all ESB volumes, all elastic IPs, All EC2 instances and all Snapshots.

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Is the last line said ironically? Japanese brands long have and continue to absolutely dominate long term reliability ratings for vehicles, and the first mass market hybrid and full EV vehicles came from Japan.

If you’re talking about innovation and mass EV manufacturing, sure the US and China are leading, but the European Volkswagen and BMW Groups are still competitive. Japan is admittedly a laggard in the EV market, but largely because EVs are still a luxury good and Japanese brands are primarily mainstream.
It’s not dead but nearly dead.

The question is why they focused on DEI, weird social activism so much and not on engineering itself.

Look at SQLite. SQLite is notable example where they don’t even have CoC(!) and focus only on getting engineering done. No marketing, events, sponsorships.

Pure wonderful code that works.

Edit: read more here about their „progressive” transformation https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/diversity/2022/
I find that it's advantageous to be consistently villainous for politicians and companies, because their detractors get condemned for 'vitriol'.

Genius really.
Deterrence, and twisting the arm of NATO. For the war to end, Ukraine needs to believe that Russia won't just turn around and try again in a few years. Realistically, that either means being part of NATO (i.e. that NATO has formally committed to let them join once a peace of some form is agreed) or nukes. They'd rather be part of NATO, nukes are a crappy second option, but they know NATO doesn't like nuclear proliferation, so they will threaten to develop their own nukes if NATO doesn't commit to letting them in.
Absolute gold for any founder or would-be founder, as are all his posts on TinyPilot and his other web businesses. Raw numbers and transparency abound, and the overall tone is that of a well-organised, fair-minded person.
A valid ethical question is: will this technology do more good than bad? Or put differently: given the bad implications this technology will likely have, is it worth it?

Example: "I have made this technology that makes me (and only me) earn 1 cent per day when managed right. Bad actors can use it to hack into hospitals and ransom them".

Wouldn't you agree that this hypothetical technology is probably not worth it?

In my opinion, it's not acceptable to say "I created a technology that helps bad guys be even worse, but I don't have any responsibility at all because I don't personally ask them to be bad guys".

Of course sometimes it's harder than one may think a posteriori: sometimes it was not clear while developping the technology that it would have bad applications.
I like how in the initial reports, police officers speculated about some (complicated) coordination between Apple devices in a Faraday cage, while the actual solution seems to be simply a timeout-reboot.
WAT.

The first paragraph is from a different world than mine. «I’ve been in countless Scrum meetings that felt like a waste of time. You might relate - watching engineers zone out during standups, sprint planning meetings that drag on forever, and retrospectives that never lead to real change.» I've never even experienced any of those.

My standups tended to last either 10-15 minutes or up to half an hour (different teams different customs). I don't think I've had a sprint planning meeting lasting more than, say, an hour and five minutes, with the typical duration being maybe three quarters of an hour and people getting antsy as the top of the hour approached. Retrospectives typically around the same range, except when we did a postmortem as part of the retrospective.

I'm not saying that I've experienced good scrum too. I'm saying that the above paragraphs describes the entire range of my experience since the late nineties. What a vastly different experience.

I don't think my teams "broke free from rigid scrum", rather the opposite. We took scrum seriously, and did standups where people stand up and the meetings are short, and so on. I think if a standup lasts long enough for anyone to zone out, you've lost track of what a standup is, and you've lost sight of one of the core parts of scrum. If you don't learn from retrospectives, you've lost sight of another. If you don't adapt based on what you learn, you've lost track of a third.
The DOI URI Scheme: Utility or Branding?
That's exactly what happened at my company. They said return to office three days a week, then half the devs quit. They frantically put together new smaller teams based on who had which skills.

But I live in an expensive city that everyone moved away from when they could work from home. Therefore all the other devs had no choice but to quit as they couldn't come in, and the people I'd handed stuff over to recently were all in different offices. So I ended up coming into the office three days a week just to sit on Microsoft Teams.

And then the managing director had the cheek to tell me that wasn't in the spirit of coming back to the office. What was I supposed to do, ignore productive meetings and never communicate with my team, but instead talk face-to-face with Janet about her daughter's nativity play for the twentieth time?
', or have a different skin color.'.

Really?
Ability to mute individual tabs is nice. Especially when long ad starts playing on e.g Youtube.

Last time I used Chrome, you can only mute all at once.
Care to share any details?
Polymarket also had Harris at 70% to win the popular vote right up to election day, which has transpired to be wrong.
Plus; all the betting markets had similar odds for Trump winning; smarket, predictit etc.
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They will probably only cut staff until unliked agencies can't fulfill their tasks and convince Trump to deregulate everything.

I expect more Boeings and more East Palestines in 10-15 years.
Ape Escape was mentioned. That game was released to promote the dual analog controller on Playstation 1. Back then the convention of camera control on right stick wasn't even established, so camera rotation was on the shoulder buttnos, while the right stick was used to control weapons!

The game's soundtrack is iconic. Dark Ruins is a favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbNHgmU1TM
That is not the poster's point.

The poster contends women are being prejudicially hired as "diversity" rather men who have "sacrificed" and worked hard.

"lolwut" indeed.
I agree with your overall sentiment, but there are a few areas that the public clouds excel at despite this: geoscale and startups.
I'm wondering if there's going to be an initiative for a new programming language that is specifically intended for AI usage. E.g. AI has some statistical patterns built in that it would naturally guess what the method names should be or the API package names, and then we would just invent a programming language based on what is most natural for AI for any sort of use case. So even if AI "hallucinates" it would likely be the right guess since all the API and syntax is picked by AI in the first place.
This is the MVP, as the subset of the all the various contract proposals that stands a chance to pass approval, as the feature has been extremely contentious with irreconcilable positions on some details.
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brilliant set, takes me right back, love it
This roughly aligns with my timeline. ARC will be solved within a couple of years.

There is a distinction between solving ARC, creating AGI, and creating an AI that would represent an existential risk. ARC is a stepping stone towards AGI, so the first model that solves ARC should have taught us something fundamental about how to create truly general intelligence that can adapt to never-seen-before problem, but it will likely not itself be AGI (due to be specialized in the ARC format, for instance). Its architecture could likely be adapted into a genuine AGI, after a few iterations -- a system capable of solving novel scientific problems in any domain.

Even this would not clearly lead to "intelligence explosion". The points in my old article on intelligence explosion are still valid -- while AGI will lead to some level of recursive self-improvement (as do many other systems!) the available evidence just does not point to this loop triggering an exponential explosion (due to diminishing returns and the fact that "how intelligent one can be" has inherent limitations brought about by things outside of the AI agent itself). And intelligence on its own, without executive autonomy or embodiment, is just a tool in human hands, not a standalone threat. It can certainly present risks, like any other powerful technology, but it isn't a "new species" out to get us.
This isn't true at all of cinema cameras - which run off v-mount, b-mount etc type batteries and are expected to burn through them, and still face the same processor and feature limitations. There isn't (to my knowledge) a single cinema camera that supports bluetooth headphones for example, bizarrely.
No, an Earth-mass object forming on its own would not be considered a brown dwarf, but an Earth-mass object is incredibly unlikely to form on its own. An object that small will have almost certainly been formed in an accretion disk and been ejected.
UUID(v7)
Since 2024 shapes to be the year of big flops in gaming, probably not the wisest timing
For you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not im
"This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.

Please die.

Please."

Now my discussion, I don't know if it was posted here, i couldn't see it, hard to me to get which is the context to trigger this.
What are some other applications of WebAssembly that you find promising?
> there is a two-tiered system targeting white people. That's obviously a myth

Except… That’s obviously not what Farage et al are saying.

The claim is that white nationalists (verging on fringe(?) neo-nazi) protestors and rioters were treated more harshly than protestors and rioters belonging to other races or subscribing to other (also violent and radical) political (or religious) ideologies.

It does not seem obvious at all to me that this is clearly a myth.
I think we are agreeing. I'm not claiming the comments are incorrect in the regard you are mentioning, I mean to say that the paper is conflating genetic algorithms (GAS) as tho they are the only sort of EA.

Words mean things and my goal is to enhance the discourse by clarifying the imprecise language used in the paper regarding the term "Evolutionary Algorithm".

I make no comment on any other issues with the paper.
Also when you do these lessons with an in-person AWS trainer, they give you a specific unlimited training account that gets destroyed when the course ends.
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Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi
> the 90s IDM/jungle/trance is superior to modern EDM/house/trap

This is your own fault for going to EDM/house/trap parties. Go to better parties, then you'll find better music.
It's not as if they don't know that this is a false comparison, specially because generations of Intel CPUs used in Macs also did frequency throttling.

"Unlike traditional Intel CPUs, CPU cores in Apple silicon chips can be run at a wide range of frequencies, as set by macOS."

The use of the word 'traditional' here is essentially gaslighting.
Great work, feels great to use!

Only nitpick I could find would be to include url for POIs from OSM - like this one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5433059850
Edit: Looks like normal text.

My initial thought is that someone may have deliberately triggered the model to respond this way through what looks like mundane messages but actually have different character encodings of some sort.
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AFAIK, none of these teach person, how to research a topic.
1. Doing research is exactly the purpose of NASA.
2. I'm highly sceptical of the idea that space mining will be an economically profitable activity in the near future and even more sceptical of the idea that nation states on Earth won't find a way to tax it.
That is true now, but remember how far back this was. I was programming Modula-2 on CP/M - our lab standardised on the Amstrad 8512 for control / data acquisition for cost reasons. Early PCs existed, running MS/DOS, so you could probably get Micro-Emacs - I don't remember when that came out. I remember seeing one Sun 3, but they were not common equipment. This was at Oxford. So in brief, it didn't work well with the operating systems of the period.

Can you fix that problem now? Yes, but the window for Modula-2 closed decades back. It doesn't have any significant selling points now.
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