skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. The US economy isn’t doing well overall, and it would be worse if the US Dollar weren’t the global reserve. The thing you mention with money going to the top is exactly what one should expect in inflationary monetary policies and large amounts of government spending. It’s also what one should expect in a representative democracy. Money goes first to the banking cartel and the. To those who are politically and/or financially well connected. Period. They enrich themselves and the rest of us pay $6 for a carton of eggs.
Guess I need to pay more attention to the humanoid robots around me, and less attention to the fact that hotels offer less housekeeping services, restaurants offer smaller menus and less wait service, plumbers and electricians and other tradespeople have longer lead times…things that tend to happen when demand for work is increasing faster than supply of labor to perform the work.
The Matrix.org Foundation has been steadily increasing its independence, with the recent introduction of the Governing Board (https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/election-results/) which includes a mix of representatives from commercial players, the community, as well as Spec Core Team members and Guardians. Also, there are nowadays several Spec Core Team members who are not employed or contracted by Element, including some who are working for (near-)competitors in the space.

In other words, people are actively thinking of and implementing measures to mitigate the risk of accidentally/unintentionally backsliding into a closed standard.
No you didn't word it incorrectly!

> the killer thought he was associated with a church that left his family destitute

The killer certainly thought that. Also it was true!
Chimp video shows one of most complex tool-use by wild animals ever documented
You must be using a peculiar definition of expert because even generally conservative AI experts like LeCun now expect we could have human-level intelligence within 5 to 10 years.
> This guy left behind a wife and kids

Yeah lots of scumbags have families. What's your point? 'Think about the children' when the only reaction to a school shooting from the right is 'thoughts and prayers'? Maybe now that CEOs are getting killed instead they will take gun control more seriously :)
The amount of money flowing into it has been a real shock.

I too played with bitcoin many years ago, mining on my CPU. Like a sucker I got rid of it because it clearly was not useful at its stated purpose.

Why have we created an economy where this kind of speculation is rewarded so highly, while it contributes nothing back to society? It's nonsensical.

But once you accept that finance is kind of ridiculous (and completely decoupled from any meaningful work in the real world), you can see that there is no limit to how high it can go.
It would have been nice a comparison with pgvectorscale, which uses binary quantization and StreamingDiskANN.
haha, a rule based precursor to deepmind agent57
I would say that consciousness is a necessary requirement in order to have moral compass. But I would not equate the two.
I think we should discard the entire concept of intelligence at this point. If it is a thing, humans are too dumb to even agree on what it looks like.
I definitely agree that some conditions went undiagnosed or
weren't even considered a disorder [...] 20-30+ years ago
someone was just really into trains.

I always think about this.

I think we've gained much more than we've lost. I'm glad we diagnose more things. I'm glad we as a society have begun to accept neurodivergence in general.

But, I don't know, it feels like some things were lost as well. Labels and diagnoses can really hurt as well as help.
There is zero reasoning in it so far, everything up to today is perfectly explainable with advanced statistics and NLP. Its large _language_ models after all, no matter the hype.

Still I find it excellent when exploring new knowledge domains or cross-comparing cross knowledge domains, since LLMs by design (and training corpus) will spill out highly probable terms/concepts matching my questions and phrase it nicely. Search on steroids when you will, where also real-time doesn't matter for me at all.

This is not intelligence, yet hugely valuable if used right. And I am sure because of this, a lot of scientific discoveries will be made with todays LLMs used in creative ways, since most of scientific discoveries is ultimately looking at X within a setting at Y, and there are a lot of potential X and Y combinations.

I am exaggerating a bit, but at some point (niels bohr?) had the thought of thinking about atoms like we do about planets, with stuff circling each other. Its an X but in Y situation. First come up with such a scenario (or: an automated way to combine lots of X and Y cleverly) and then filter the results for something that actually would make sense, and then dig deeper in a semi-automatic way with actual human in the loop at least.
When you are self-employed it's "you couldn't handle a real job"
"This guy left behind a wife and kids and probably had nothing to do with the decision of denying someone health care (and couldn't change it even if he wanted to)." CEO certainly has a lot to do with implementing policies that lead to denial of insurance claims at twice the industry avg. Many serial killers had families that has very little to do with how society at large views their actions and what is proportional punishment for those actions.
One of the things he wanted to implement is "shoots" - where something goes flying to the opponent. Perhaps in a future release!
Believing that misallocation of capital means that we are living in a post scarcity society is a very techno optimist way of looking at things.

HN is unbelievably apolitical, apart from it's baseline tendency towards the left and whatever silicon valley demands people believe.

If you were anywhere near a post scarcity society (applies to USA) you wouldn't be hurtling towards national sovereign debt default at a rate of knots, and you wouldn't have the most expensive healthcare in the world.

As it happens, what appears to be a "post scarcity society" is just pathological misallocation of capital due to a political failure (that shaln't be spoken of here) that has the entire west circling the bowl at the moment.
No. I meant use GPS to figure out what the light settings are legal where the car is and adjust them accordingly.
You don't know the history of ELIZA, do you?

That story goes way deeper than some wordplay fooling people. The entire intent was to get people to realize that it was worthless, but, even after people learned that and what it was, they clamoured for more!

"Just imagine how stupid the average person is, and them remember that half of them are even stupider than that!" --George Carlin

And, yes, we humans are very different, but you'll have to traverse my recent comment history to get the extensive explanation. It's worth it, though, I promise, but I doubt you'll like it or agree with it. Good luck!
> Aesthetic contemplations are really just an afterthought

Aesthetic contemplations are never an afterthought.
> If you can't sell $2M at your preferred price to pay your taxes

But the whole point is that you don't _want_ to sell it. And it's entirely possible to own something that is work more than 20x (given a 5% tax rate) than you currently have in accessible cash.

For example, assume you write a story and MegaCorp decides they want to make a movie of it. Right now, they need to pay you to license it. With the Harberger tax scheme, they can force you to sell it to them; because you don't currently have the money to pay taxes on what it's worth to them.
I agree and I think it's good that you pointed that out. Unfortunately the quality of nature.com articles is often quite bad.
Your model works when every player provides something of value.

What does Europe's self indulgent attitude bring to the international table?
> No, Hole Punching is a thing precisely because it (the blocking method) works reliably. A NAT router drops all inbound connections by default because it doesn't know where to route them. This reliably protects devices on your network, because no inbound connections ever reach them.

It is the state tracking that does the protection, which you do not need NAT to do:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(computing)#Connectio...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall

And by getting rid of NAT, you also remove the need for the convoluted bullshit of STUN/TURN/ICE, and all you're left with is PCP:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punching_(networking)
> superhuman-level intelligence

Is this even a meaningful concept?
Vega: AI Copilot Extending Beyond Gen-AI Through API Connectivity
Currently it seems easy enough to write clients/servers using the protocol and the Synapse server can easily be forked (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse) if you find the need to do so. It does seem to be mainly worked on by Element, so there's always a risk that they might stop working on it and instead work on a closed source implementation. That does seem unlikely though as it goes against their goals and the idea of an open, secure communication standard.
you need to use throwing star 4 times before it will give you access to exploding star. If you use any other star, it costs you in "charge"

All of his is not clear - he plans to make it more clear for the next version
Maybe that would be a suitable working definition of general intelligence, and props to you for even giving a definition at all (in contrast to TFA). However your definition seems almost tailor-made to exclude present and near-future AI (and, I suspect, motivated thereby) . Current AI works by being trained on large amounts of existing data. If current AI would be real intelligence, we would be sad, therefore real intelligence is the opposite of intelligence trained on large amounts of data.

Having said that, one can also make the case that LLMs start from a limited set of capabilities and, via exploration, acquire a rich competence. Only these are linguistic abilities and the exploration is exploration of a linguistic environment. Maybe the real intelligence is the friends we made along the way i.e. the general class of algorithms roughly called "backpropagation and gradient descent on a very high-dimensional neural network".
No, because Java is #2, C++ is #4, C# is #7. People just really like Python for what it brings to the table.
> Computability isn't the problem. LLMs are forced to a reply, regardless of the quality of the reply. If "Confidence level is too low for a reply" is an option, the argument in that paper becomes invalid.

This is false. The confidence level of these models does not encode facts, it encodes statistical probabilities that a particular word would be the next one in the training data set. One source of output that is not fit for purpose (i.e. hallucinations) is unfit information in the training data, which is a problem that's intractable given the size of the data required to train a base model.

You can reduce this problem by managing your training data better, but that's not possible to do perfectly, which gets to my point—managing hallucinations is entirely about risk management and reducing probabilities of failure to an acceptable level. It's not decidable, it's only manageable, and that only for applications that are low enough stakes that a 99.9% (or whatever) success rate is acceptable. It's a quality control problem, and one that will always be a battle.

> Alibaba's QwQ [1] supposedly is better at reporting when it doesn't know something. Comments on that?

I've been trying it out, and what it's actually better at is going in circles indefinitely, giving the illusion of careful thought. This can possibly be useful, but it's just as likely to "hallucinate" reasons why its first (correct) response might have been wrong (reasons that make no sense) as it is to correctly correct itself.
My ideal world we would pay a reasonable wage to people to take care of their own children and the eldarly relatives. These are real valuable and nessasry jobs that end up being an economic drag on those that can least afford it. So instead of paying a stranger to help grandma do household chores make meals and drive her to her medical appointment why not pay her granddaughter to take care of her instead taking a second job to pay for the assured living facility? Why have both parent work two job and pay for all day daycare when dad can stay at home clean house and watch the kids? We fear population colapse as younger generation put off or decides not to have kids and yet child care cost so much that they cant aford to have kids instead pay people to be parents and nurture and raise children.
"|sh" is such a great thing I completely agree! I'm so glad to have opened your eyes to it! I use it all the time! (And it's not even specific to awk at all really! (xargs/sed/grep/tr/etc are all so helpful here! Heck.. make a python script that prints out commands and whack "|sh" on the end! that can work too! (very slow in comparison to awk tho!))

At work there are complex shell-environment cases where this type of redirection doesn't work because it needs to run in the actual-current-shell, not just a new shell spawned for your user which is what "|sh" does.

To work around that you can instead redirect the output to a file and source it into the current shell instead! It is a totally easy thing to do as long as u have somewhere you can write a temporary script file to! I use a 'tmp' dir in my home directory to do this (via an alias of course), like:

command > ~/tmp/bonza.sh; source ~/tmp/bonza.sh

Hopefully you won't have to worry about that in the short-term but I think it's good to keep in mind as an option when things don't work with "|sh" in more complex shell environments... generally I think it's really quite easy to generate a runnable script-file using redirection-to-awk, when u know how to use it! Very well worth the effort to learn!!
https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp
> Or terrorists who kill people

Your post is ironically just a pro-terrorism argument. You want terrorism targeted at CEOs to change their behavior.

There are a million different viewpoints on what acts are harmful and how to minimize or prevent those harms. It's better that we use things like voting and laws and courts to collectively reach consensus on when to use violence, rather than individuals killing people who disagree with them.

You can argue that this CEO should have been arrested for some crime and you can argue that said crime should carry the death penalty upon conviction. But that doesn't mean it's valid for a random person to be judge, jury and executioner based on their own personal concept of justice.
Thank you for defending the DX7's honor so vociferously so that I didn't have to!
It was a marketing trick. LLMs are not AI, the same way that a picture of a man is not a man.
> won't be attacked first

that isn't really the issue

the issue is that, at least for a long time, they where too naive believing Russia never would go as far as attacking NATO member or economical partners

was that dump, yes, but that was a _very_ wide spread believe

and while I have seen that mindset a lot I haven't really seen any one not worrying because there are other countries in between. I mean maybe such people do exist, further west then I live.

Like in general until recently, even after the annexation of the Crimea, there commonly was the consensus that the time of offensive wars between European countries (including eastern EU and Russia) is over because it makes so little sense (economically, power wise) that none one would be dump enough to do that. But no one calculated in a autocrat with Napoleonic complex, or should be say soviet union complex. And if told the pleasant truth, with facts, people did what they always do with unpleasant truths: Try to ignore them.
Using the brain can be especially hard work because you can't let your mind wander. You're giving over more of yourself to the employer.
I'm grateful that I was able to afford a home for my family. I am the sole provider and it costs half my income per month to live in a townhouse in the suburbs an hour away from a major city. It's hard enough as is.
Patches / parameter sets / whatever else you call the way to describe it are way more compact and should be much less expensive, shouldn't they? I honestly would expect a competent (if not exquisite) grand piano to be among presets in a good synthesizer.
Revolutions are fascinating. The Reign of Terror served as a warning to plenty of non-peasants. But, to get there, the army of the monarchy had to kill thousands of peasants without any warning or recognition of their humanity. So I think people who know the Revolution wonder whether people are reacting like we’re at the beginning, or the middle.
> you can be a good human without any need of fearing a god

But does secular morality lead to conclusions that people—who mostly are immersed in religious morality even if they don’t believe in the supernatural aspects—perceive as “good?” In this example, it seems to me that Christian morality leads to one result, and secular morality leads to a different result. It seems like there’s some sub-rules that don’t exist in secular morality, perhaps because they’re difficult to justify without resort to fear of sky daddy.
> They're all hallucinations, we just happen to like some of them more than others.

I love it! Puts things into perspective.
> How does a French/German person benefit from the money from their taxes being sent to another country when their own economies are in the dumpster?

Both France and Germany are above EU average GDP PPP, how is this equivalent to a dumpster?

> If the EU is a no brainer, we should be swimming in cash, shouldn't we?

How did you reach that conclusion?
"moral compass"

Right from the start, so many assumptions.

It is going a little under the radar, but AI is really throwing the religions into a tizzy now that they are being forced to think about these things. In the good old days, you could just trust the bible to say how we were created.

Now people are being forced to think about it for the first time. Where do morals come from? Do they even exist? Who am I? What am I doing here?

Like whole new generation having an existential crisis.
I also find it quite weird, I think the fact that the current cycle is focused on chat bots fools a lot of people into anthropomorphising LLMs and perceiving them as better than they actually are. It's very comforting in a world with increasingly less meaningful social interaction
how to connect it then? Or just don't care?

I mean creating a website will not allow people see it. I've seen situations when google refused to pop out a page even if exact words were taken from the website and put into the search text. And there were no other finds.
He learned about LLM hallucination the hard way, when it recommended things that didn't actually work.

This next generation will have deep understanding of power and limitations of these tools.

Appreciate your comments!
OpenAI's new defense contract completes its military pivot
I have seen a couple of snarky comments about how AoC is just a competition for who can write an input parser the fastest for 25 days in a row, I'll just share the following:

Just write that once, put it in a template /day0 folder that has /day0/part1, /day0/part2, and /day0/input.txt, and then just copy it and focus on the actual problem. It's all about having fun!
I would say that those are solid reasons historically, but I would say that stocks/401k/IRA have spun out of control and driven P/E ratios to stupid levels that are unsustainable. Also, housing prices are no longer affordable for the majority. For example, many people I know bought homes in 2019-2022 and they are now stuck. They could sell and make money, but then they’d be buying roughly an equivalent house to the one they’re in due to rising costs. They could rent, but rents have become extortionate.
CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna sue to block FTC case over insulin prices
The first point is reasonable enough, but the point still stands you can't find the same size house in the city for the suburb price.
Most cities simply don't have more than a handful of spacious houses with big yards.

Your second point is invalid, as you're arguing against his assumptions. It's only possible to argue againt someone's logic, arguing someones assuptions is the same as calling names. I like woodwork and have alternatives.
I may be wrong but I don't think it is about "superiority" ... I think Europeans look at how US workers (VAST majority of them) are treated by their employers and go "who in their RIGHT MIND would live like this - regardless of what the 'income/compensation' for that might be. America has an entirely different way of life. I have been "best man" at 5 weddings and have christened 11 kids. I hardly see any of them. Everyone is "busy" running around, work work work, then errands etc etc... in most of Europe this would be unheard of, there is higher value placed on social aspects of life. Hence the myriad of studies and stories and... about general loneliness in America (these studies often include people that are married and have children).

Another personal example - my sister is highly educated, has two PhD and I consider her the smartest person I know. Years ago we were discussing something and I mentioned that one of my dear friends is seeing a psychiatrist. My sister scoffed... And I was taken aback to say the least. How can someone that smart and that educated dismiss someone who is basically a Doctor and spent years educating themselves in this field. After talking through it I realized that if you have robust social life, myriad of friends, different friends to talk to about different things (as well as family) you just might not need a psychiatrist to talk to... Just an entirely different kind of life/existence...
Yeah, I live in a rural area and cities make my skin crawl. I'll take my quiet space with lots of room for my kids to play, explore, and to garden and grow food. Where I know everyone and we all have each others backs. Where the vegetation is natural, and there's plenty of bugs and birds, amphibians and mammals. Clean air and clean water. Surrounded by miles and miles of forests.

So many of the things people love about cities are the things I want to get away from, and would sacrifice a huge amount of income to do so.

The suburbs offer people a little taste of that magic and it's no suprise people want that.
Yeah, it's interesting, your phrasing in this comment thread comes off very serious and sincere with little if any hint of sarcasm. Maybe throw a "lol" in there somewhere so the rest of us can get a hint.
A post explaining the reasoning behind a personal preference for living in the suburbs almost made you throw up?

Your close-mindedness of the opinions that others are allowed to have makes me almost want to throw up.

The person you are responding to isn’t displaying a lack of empathy for people that can’t afford to live in the suburbs. They are explaining the very real and understandable reasoning behind a behind their preference.

That’s not selfish and privileged. That’s a preference.

Look, I understand that the fringe groups you might associate yourself with throw around the word “privilege” as an insult at anyone that does something not inline with the group’s thinking, but it’s just not the insult that you think it is outside of those fringe groups.
It’s a very portable synth, the small factor, the included speakers and 6xAA battery operation give it playability on the go. I for one use it at home due to limited available space, I use the power adapter and ignore the built in speaker.
UnitedHealth data breach leaked info on over 100M people
> According to the Census Bureau, 80% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas. The remaining 20% lives in areas classified as rural. *There isn’t a specific category for suburban areas*

Sounds like the suburbs are counted as urban wrt the census.