skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's equally easy to imagine a machine that can't be generally intelligent because it can't experience.

In other words, just because you can imagine it, doesn't mean you get to treat your assumptions as fact.

What we know right now is that we don't have AGI. Therefore, we currently don't know how to achieve AGI. While it is possible that scaling current methods and models will get us there, it is also possible that it never gets us there.

And when you consider that we see examples of general intelligence everywhere, in other people and animals, operating at far less power than it takes to train these models, it's not out of hand to say that we are possibly barking up the wrong tree.

Then there is the matter of actually defining general intelligence. It may also be the definition of consciousness, or at least require it. But currently, there is no mutually agreed upon definition of "general intelligence". Some people try to define it as "has a lot of knowledge". In which case, a hard drive can be considered intelligent. Or even a book. But people generally accept neither as intelligent. So "knowledgeable" is not a fitting definition. Something with intelligence must be able to act on its knowledge.

And I think that's where consciousness would come into play, if it does. It could be that consciousness is needed to direct knowledge. And one's ability to direct that knowledge is what we would consider intelligence.

Which could be why LLMs plateau. They have no internal direction. They are pure knowledge without direction. We supply the direction. And we must navigate the nodes to find the knowledge we can use. LLMs can't really tell truth from falsehoods, we do that. Just like we do internally. We discard untrue things, or things that aren't quite what we were thinking, or some other filter. LLMs just expose that process because now part of our knowledge is contained in the LLM.

So, just because it's easy to imagine, it doesn't mean that it's possible.
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> People don't want to pour their heart and soul into something that somebody else owns.

Plus the soul of academia is openess and sharing (perhaps trending towards closed IP and privatisation).
What I see in this article is something like "ephaptic" effects in neurons are mysterious, consciousness is also mysterious so maybe "ephaptic" effects can explain consciousness.

Ephaptic coupling[1] sounds cool and interesting but the article did not convince me that it is linked it to consciousness.

The involvement of consciousness in the article is not a hook for me and I would rather it not be in the article at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephaptic_coupling
It's "canon" [1]. Autocorrect? :)

[1]: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/headcanon
I think we should expect basic software security updates and third party app compatibility to continue until the last device’s hardware fails. This idea that a device that millions of people still use is “old and icky and we just don’t wanna support it anymore” is user-hostile and should not be tolerated.
I dont see that way at all. Space exploration in no way hampers or restricts our ability to improve earth. The two can be done in parallel.

Do you think that all non-urgent activities should/must be halted until the earth is improved?
I'm excited to test the final model. This could be a major breakthrough for open-source LLMs.
The government desperately wants US fabs because the military requires tech and it's increasingly dangerous to rely on globalization when the globe is going nuts -- the rest of it doesn't really matter.
This is great "write a horror story in 7 words" content.
I probably misunderstand your comment but electric potentials play many roles in biological functions (example: proton gradient). As for magnetism, it's certainly speculated that some migratory animals can detect the earth's magnetic field.
Sure, if humans will not needlessly harm any sapient life, I think there would be a lot less reasonable complaints around. Whether on Mars or on Earth, let's do that, shall we? Oh wait...now I see the longstanding problem with conquest and "might makes right". Sounds to me like we'll have an acceptable Mars civilization...for a bit. Or is it fine if they aren't pre-existing life?
I don't have email or sms checks, just a captcher to check for bot activity
I'm currently in the same position, upgrading from an iPhone 6s (2015) to an iPhone 16.

The thing is, it is mostly not the apps which forced me to upgrade. I can't get newer ones, of course, but the old ones still work. (Except a supermarket app which practically deactivated its current app and asks me to update to a newer version which I can't install. There is no need, no new APIs except maybe developer convenience.)

But the real villain is the web.

Browsing simple websites becomes a chore, Safari becomes unresponsive for minutes at a time. Sometimes it feels worse web experience than the one an iPhone 1 with the checkerboard background.

I blame React for having to pay money just to stand still.
> author seems to think that lights would be inappropriate

If they're "visible with the naked eye from Earth." From what we can tell, no lights on Earth are visible from the Moon. So sure, when MGM is developing the Luxor Mare Imbrium, we can talk.

> Native American tribes have claimed that burials and even human waste desecrates the moon

With all due respect to the Navajo Nation, I'm putting this one the wrong side of reasonable. (It's remarkably close to the extraterritorial projection of ownership and demand for control that cost them their lands in the first place.)
No I would not.

There is so much wokeism and other nonsense going on with these AI apps. Especially search. You can't do a search anymore without the results being curated or filtered. That's got to stop
It was wildly variable. Nomads actually had higher life expectancies, and were taller, than most agrarian people.

A Neolithic person who made it to 20 had a good chance of making it into his 50s or 60s, but a serf’s odds weren’t great and a day laborer’s were near zero.
Seconding the Imperial Radch series, which has a similar "not exactly human" perspective.
"sense of smelf". underappreciated comment.
The only bad thing about this pardon is that it fuels conspiracy theories like these. But it doesn’t really matter, since the conspiracy theorists will soon have full control of the government without any checks and balances to stop them. The country is doomed, so might as well do a bit of good on the way out without asking for permission.
It’s a very specific kind of feedback but, your app seems to not be aware of the way that the top bar works on for example iPhone 15 Pro.

This results in part of the UI of your app shown on first launch ("Window Controls" menu, containing "App Tools", "Files", "Editor", "GitHub") being obscured by the black oval that surrounds the camera on the top of the display on these phones. This happens in portrait as well as landscape orientation.

You’ll probably be able to see the same issue if you select the iPhone 15 Pro or similar model in the iPhone simulator in Xcode.
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Motivation is important too, but it’s not what I meant. A very simple example would be

Theorem: Every subspace Y of a second-countable topological space X is second-countable.

Reason: Intersecting each set in a basis for X with Y yields a basis for Y.

Proof: [formal symbolic stuff involving open sets and unions, and mentioning cardinality, etc.]

(I’m not claiming ‘reason’ is the best word for this — it probably isn’t. But it’s not the same thing as motivation.)

> The "Reason" as result is true is that it follows from the previously established axioms via logical reasoning.

One could argue this is not the reason a result is true; it’s the reason we know it’s true. The fact that true statements follow from established truths by logical reasoning is more a property of the formal system (which hopefully is sound and consistent) than it is to do with the notion of truth itself.
> let's do that, shall we? Oh wait...now I see the longstanding problem with conquest

That it's irrelevant to this conversation? Conquest means conquering. To conquer means to take possession of a foreign land by force [1]. There are no Moon Men our rovers are waging war with. Lunar colonisation is manifest destiny in the way my dog peeing on a fence post is. (Practically speaking, less so.)

> we'll have an acceptable Mars civilization...for a bit. Or is it fine if they aren't pre-existing life?

Making nonsense arguments doesn't exactly advance your point.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/conqu...
What roasters are you buying from?
Ugh. The AI-generated rear views being nowhere near at the level of detail of even the uncanny valley foreground images. Is not really generating a "3D 'world'" so much as extrapolating a 360º view from a single scene. There's no sense to the architecture or flora. Staircases that lead nowhere.

It's more hypecycle nonsense. But they'll poor billions into this rather than pay human artists what they're worth.
> I was able to read the StarCraft manual on the bus to school, car rides, waiting rooms. If the info had been locked in the game itself, in some kind of sub-menu, I never would have read through it, because I was playing the game.

Kind of a fun exercise to think how a modern game would be different. I haven’t played StarCraft II so this is just my take on a modern version of this.

Put some more info into cutscenes and really hammer the important stuff home (repeat it), taking advantage of the higher-quality cutscenes we can make these days. Other info goes in the encyclopedia. Make an encyclopedia mechanic—each entry for a unit is unlocked once you destroy a certain number of those units in-game. Unlocking the entry gives you some slight mechanical advantage, like the ability to see which upgrades the unit has or the exact HP values. Once or twice during the game, design a segment of gameplay that requires you to complete an encyclopedia entry in order to pass.

I’m sure the kids in the 2000s could just play games on the bus.
You can induce an activation potential with an external EM field. That’s the entire basis for deep brain stimulation.
Autism is not one thing. For some, intellectual disability (ID) is not separate from their autism .. it shares the same causes.

For others, ID plays no part. even at the subdiagnostic level.
I have seen that, and I came close to buying one of those Lytro light field cameras so many times (but thankfully restrained myself). Light field seemed like a huge obvious "way of the future" thing in the 2010s but with the benefit of hindsight it did not exactly seem to have changed the world.
I don’t think this is the correct comparison.

The iphone doesn’t just die after 5 years.

I still have a 10 year iPhone 6 and a 8 years old iPhone 7 both still working just fine.

Apple stopped releasing OS upgrades with NEW features, but they are still releasing security updates. (In this aspect it’s better than most (all?) modern TVs.

Those iphone are still working the same way as when they were released. The only issue is that some apps doesn’t works anymore.

So part of the blame is on app developers.

Sure, maybe the app needs some feature which the old phone doesn’t have, but more likely is that the company just can’t bother to maintain their app in older OS versions.
Lovely series! Wells is awesome.

How does Wired continue to thrive without a paywall? (please I hope I didn't just jinx it) (huh, maybe there is a paywall and I just haven't hit it yet? I just noticed an archive.is and archive.ph links in other comments)
You always hope as a technical person to see an engineer running a company. This move, in these circumstances do little to inspire confidence for engineers occupying c-suite positions. I had high hopes for Pat, given his previous track record. But it appears the damage to Intel had already been done.
These statistical inaccuracies often happen with StatCounter. Nothing newsworthy and no, users are not downgrading to Win10. November was a pretty good month for Windows 11 in fact, see the Steam HW survey for example: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
No,because that's not a thing. Scientists are trying to find the neural correlates of consciousness based on entirely physical, detectable, and scientifically understandable concepts, not pseudospiritualism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment) amplified by poor journalism.
It's not about it needing special fabs, but about breaking it up into market segments.
There's Now a Wiki for Hacking Redbox Machines
A woman in my local spinning and weaving club took up silk worms as a hobby, spent about 6 months from beginning to end and wound up (lol) with a ~ square foot patch to hang on the wall. Pretty impressive conversion from tree leaves to silk when you think about it.
A rediscovery is also a discovery. No need for the quotes here.

EDIT: Finding more evidence for convergence between scientific fields is also worthy. (Though the delta is very small at this point.)
An argument can be made for beer being above, perhaps even the peak. Unlike coffee or wine, beerwankers took something that didn't really have a high-end and then made it up. They created their own wanktopic! And for this achievement, they get comparatively little of their due social opprobrium - 'homebrew' has come to connote scrappy and hip even though it's transparent wankery of the highest order.
The big travesty is third party software developers. They just give up after the OS vendor releases a new major version and they stop working on older major versions. This should be totally unacceptable. The software works on iOS N one day, and then the next day when iOS N+1 comes out, the developers give their users the big “up yours” and stop caring about iOS N.
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If you're truly a leader then hire one. You should always strive to hire people smarter than you, that's a talent in of itself, and a good senior manager will reward you for doing it consistently. It's a great market to find people with experience right now.
They're is no evidence that Russell's Teapot is floating out in space in orbit around the sun, AND I don't believe that it's there.

If I said "I STRONGLY believe that a teapot is out there," it would be reasonable to ask me why.
Not in my Supercluster.
I think the way you support publishers is one of a few things

* they list a patreon or librepay or whatever and you support them directly
* They have ads and they ask you nicely to disable your adblocker (as long as they are unobtrusive I'm fine with this)

I think that's really it, if publishers dont give you a clear way to support them, in my eyes, they are providing the service for free.
My belief is that many people will think "Oh good! A safe harbor where we can fix our mistakes!" My problems with this: 1) Is everyone going to Mars in a reasonable time frame, or are people going to be left behind? Permanently? 2) Are we actually going to fix the Earth? Let's assume many people will be there for a while longer. 3) Are we going to not wreck Mars?
ChatGPT refuses to say one specific name "David Mayer" – and people are worried
Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution
> When we build a colony on the Moon, we aren't taking land from Moon people

I think the key distinction in this discussion is your view that the Moon belongs to no people yet, versus the opposing view established by the Outer Space Treaty that the Moon belongs to all people.
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I haven't had the chance to have coffee in Kenya, but I would note that most serious coffee places in the US also "puts the crap Americans pay $$$ for at Starbucks to absolute shame."

A high quality roast, a decent grinder and a pour-over will make home brewed coffee that is not even recognizable next to the swill they sell at Starbucks. To be fair though, at Starbucks' scale it neigh impossible to produce consistent flavor with the quality of curated small batch coffee.
Are you still actively working on the port?
I was not disagreeing with that, merely pointing out that the reproduction test shouldn't be passing with the minimal runnable C program, or indeed for many many previous iterations before that. In my mind also runnable programs would be tested with grep, instead of relying on the return code of the program.
I hope they sell off some more distracting/minor parts of the business, and then work with a fund to take the company private.

Similar to Yahoo a number of years ago, there's some real business still there, they just need to remove the expectation of constant quarterly calls and expectations and make long term, consistent investments again.
I find the note unfortunate. They state 2-4x performance improvement. I'm sure looking at the implementation with a profiler and tactically optimizing critical paths would have yielded them 2-3x as is. They could have also reached out to .NET JIT team via issues or discussions on GitHub for guidance. Especially since .NET has rich set of SIMD APIs very well suited for implementing SOTA text search algorithms (and also comes with many out of box, seriously, look at e.g. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...)

The note also states "No framework dependencies (CLR or JVM virtual machines)" which isn't true either - 'dotnet publish /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:PublishTrimmed=true' gives the same "dependency-less" experience. "Ahead-of-time instead of just-in-time compilation" is similarly wrong - replace previous args with '/p:PublishAot=true' and you get a native binary.
I tend to agree.

Our first playthrough of a new board game usually ends up being 2x longer than the average game time listed on a box, mostly due to how long the rule book is.

My thought is that you basically need every rulebook to have an MVP - what is the fastest way to get players to start their first game. If that takes longer than 45 minutes, it's a pretty big drawback. If it takes an hour - it's a game design failure.

It's also the reason why we keep coming back to the same classic board games - Marvel, Battlestar Galactica, Carcassonne, Terraforming Mars, Race for the Galaxy. We already know the rules and it's so much easier to pick it back up with a simple refresher.
Nice thing about Cisco AnyConnect and ASA firewalls is that they are rock solid.
On the one hand I do get the concern, on the other there’s never been a better time to be a hardware hacker. Cheap microcontrollers abound, raspberry pi etc, cheap fpgas, one can even make their own asic. So I just can’t get that worked up over pc architectures getting closed.
sir there are children reading this site.
PPC’s likely last hope died when Google didn’t go ahead with OpenPower.

Talos is the exception that proves the rule, sadly.
How the fearless John Milton foresaw our age of chilling censorship
If you are comparing Inferno to Paradiso, then this is a poor summary of it.
Being poetic about it, silk was effectively wielded as an economic weapon against the British empire to the point they retaliated with opium (flooding a foreign market with cheap drugs is surely an act of subterfuge if not war, so who's to say it has to have a pointy end to be a weapon?)
It kind of feels criminal to do time-series analysis with multimodel models and not use any traditional numerical models to provide a baseline result. It's an interesting result though.
A long time ago I also wasn't a fan of sudo so I used SSH only (password authentication from localhost). Eventually I stopped caring and stopped having strong opinions about sudo anymore.
Indeed, and without saying it outright. Show, don't tell.
This kind of “security ransom” should not be acceptable. Oh I should throw away my perfectly working phone because the OS vendor just up and decided to stop fixing its security, leaving the device useless? Shouldn’t they compensate me for making my perfectly good hardware useless, since I should not be connecting it to the web now?

This person is doing the right thing: complaining loudly about corporate practice that should not be accepted by consumers.
no

Bot Fight Mode => Enabled.
Block AI Bots => Disabled.
Wars involving the US in the 21st century:

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
US intervention in Yemen (2002–present)
Iraq War (2003–2011)
US intervention in the War in North-West Pakistan (2004–2018)
Second US Intervention in the Somali Civil War (2007–present)
Operation Ocean Shield (2009–2016)
Intervention in Libya (2011)
Operation Observant Compass (2011–2017)
US military intervention in Niger (2013–2024)
US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)
US intervention in the Syrian civil war (2014–present)
US intervention in Libya (2015–2019)
Operation Prosperity Guardian (2023–present)

Wars involving Russia in the 21st century:

Second Chechen War (1999–2009)
Russo-Georgian War (2008)
Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present)
Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War (2015–present)
Central African Republic Civil War (2018–present)
Mali War (2021–present)
Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso (2024–present)
> Is this based on cost per Watt without the expenses related to keeping the grid perfectly synchronized or not?

It's the LCOE, you can read what it encompasses in the link I provided.

> A significant and stable base load is important and it has shown that wind/solar makes it substantially more expensive to keep the grid stabilized, which is of course a no brainer if you don't want a blackout.

I assume you mean the utility frequency [1] when you say "base load", because you said "synchronized" and "stabilized". The frequency indeed has to be stable with a rather small margin of tolerance. Today that's mostly a job for gas turbines, though. One can hope that we find ways to store all the surplus regenerative power soon, so that we can retire those, too. Nuclear power plants, in any case, are too slow for that purpose.

Just in case you really meant load, load has no requirement to be stable. The power demands at any time can be met by dispatchable power plants, but utilities like to plan long-term, so they use some averaged load over time to determine a "base load" and buy accordingly on the electricity market. That's prudent business practice, but there is no technical reason to run low-variability power plants because of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency
Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit
OpenAI denies it is building ad biz model into its platform