skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to sound snarky, but please consider interpreting comments like these as making a statement about rate rather than an absolute binary.
To oversimplify, the KOSA is two things: First, a bundle of relatively uncontroversial rules that enhance privacy for minors and let them and their parents better control their experience online. Second, a ban on hosting content "harmful to minors."

The first thing is probably cool and good, and if that was all that was in there nobody would complain. The second thing is essentially the end of free speech on the Internet. At the very least anybody will be able to take anything down with a single report, and at worst it will simply become legally too risky to ever allow user-generated content to be posted.
Do what you enjoy. (This is easier said than done.) What else could you do, worry?
Nope. Don't even need the dark web. All you need is social media.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/who-needs-the-da...
Apparently there is “entrapment by estoppel” in which a government official tells you an act is legal when it isn’t. They have to be acting as a representative of the government, though; undercover cops wouldn’t count.

I still wouldn’t be very excited to try this defense in court.
I think I was the 'not quite smart' at my current job, for a few months at least.

My only advice is to try to pair program with him. First you take the screen, then you let him handle it. Build his knowledge and confidence.

Our best engineer is so clever it becomes intimidating sometime. He regularly takes some time to explain what he's doing and why, create then present new abstractions to make our job easier. That helped, understanding why some design decisions were made, and knowing our tools better.

The second best engineer of the team building me up in the beginning also helped me a lot, my previous job was a grind where I lost all my motivation and a lot of love for programming. Having someone that good using his time for me helped.

I'm now middling and not as much of a dead weight I used to be, but some subjects I tend to still have issues with. I like teaching though, so I took it upon myself to help new team members with a lot of pair programming (or I stay in our daily conversation with my screen shared and respond to any questions new members have until lunch)
It's also worth keeping in mind that AIs are a lot less risky to deploy for businesses than humans.

You can scale them up and down at any time, they can work 24/7 (including holidays) with no overtime pay and no breaks, they need no corporate campuses, office space, HR personnel or travel budgets, you don't have to worry about key employees going on sick/maternity leave or taking time off the moment they're needed most, they won't assault a coworker, sue for discrimination or secretly turn out to be a pedophile and tarnish the reputation of your company, they won't leak internal documents to the press or rage quit because of new company policies, they won't even stop working when a pandemic stops most of the world from running.
The sounds a bit like the book Sphere by Michael Crichton.
Because ARC somehow convinced people that solving it was an indicator of AGI.
Yeah, desktop environments are pretty bad on Linux. Window managers are where it’s at of course. I guess it is sort of unfortunate for people if they get the impression that Linux has bad UI because somebody decided a desktop environments should be the out-of-the-box experience.
Ah Snap, 1st thing to uninstall :)
You agree with which part? Hopefully not the part about only counting hospital deaths, which was inaccurate (I'm sure it was an honest mistake). Not trying to minimize the suffering that's happening, but it's important to have our facts straight when genocide accusations are being tossed around.
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On the surface this is just another callous comment but you are making a few dangerous implications here:

1. Gaza is not as bad as Hamburg (for which no proof was provided)
2. Gaza has to be as bad as Hamburg for it to be called a genocide
3. You want Israel to make Gaza look like Hamburg ‘43
4. The historical precedent (without even getting into land occupation) of movements justifies a genocide.
Sad to see everyone so focused on compute expense during this massive breakthrough. GPT-2 originally cost $50k to train, but now can be trained for ~$150.

The key part is that scaling test-time compute will likely be a key to achieving AGI/ASI. Costs will definitely come down as is evidenced by precedents, Moore’s law, o3-mini being cheaper than o1 with improved performance, etc.
Bingo! Solar energy moves us toward a future where a household's energy needs become nearly cost-free.

Energy Need: The average home uses 30 kWh/day, requiring 6 kW/hour over 5 peak sunlight hours.

Multijunction Panels: Lab efficiencies are already at 47% (2023), and with multiple years of progress, 60% efficiency is probable.

Efficiency Impact: At 60% efficiency, panels generate 600 W/m², requiring 10 m² (e.g., 2 m × 5 m) to meet energy needs.

This size can fit on most home roofs, be mounted on a pole with stacked layers, or even be hung through an apartment window.
Your performance on these tests would be equivalent to the highest performing model, and you would be much cheaper.

Investment in human talent augmented by AI is the future.
US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp
I believe the idea is to have a source that updates infrequently, so that one isn't compelled to refresh it all the time.

It's not unlike one service that I saw where you'd get email once per day in your inbox, at a specific time.
Makes complete sense to me. Drugs are an effective distraction because they're easy to use and often fast-acting. Outdoor/sport distractions require effort (driving, etc). Video games require much less effort. Add to that less-trivial things like investing and research, and you've got the perfect "addiction"
It's plants you need a fancy setup for. Also, the microbiome thing, surprisingly, isn't universal, a lot of animals have no stomach microbiome to speak of.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/04/animals-...
At what? This is clearly true by experience. As long as you remember it’s a rate and not an absolute statement. Cool kids still go to more parties and are less terminally online than their lamer peers, but it’s a lot less parties and a lot more screen time for the cool kid as well.
even if you had a billion dollars and a private island you still wouldnt be ready for whats coming. consider the fact that the global order is an equilibrium where the military and economic forces of each country in the world are pushing against each other... where the forces find a global equilibrium is where borders are. each time in history that technology changed, borders changed because the equilibrium was disturbed. there is no way to escape it: agi will lead to global war. the world will be turned upside down. we are entering into an existential sinkhole. and the idiots in silicon valley are literally driving the whole thing forward as fast as possible.
it's official old buddy, i'm a has been.
You have so much time to figure things out. The average person in this thread is probably 1.5-2x your age. I wouldn’t stress too much. AI is an amazing tool. Just use it to make hay while the sun shines, and if it puts you out of work and automates away all other alternatives, then you’ll be witnessing the greatest economic shift in human history. Productivity will become easier than ever, before it becomes automatic and boundless. I’m not cynical enough to believe the average person won’t benefit, much less educated people in STEM like you.
The democratically elected president who has been leading the country for years is now "a guy", got it.

All these discussions are generally about the actions of the Israeli government anyway, which he represents.
I will work on making it better! This was announced Tuesday [0] I still need to give it lots of love.

Even though the README isn’t completely done, give it a chance I bet you can have fun with it :)

[0] https://youtu.be/14leJ1fg4Pw?t=625&si=aqHm1UAdDEz91TnD
This is me as well. Either:

1) Just give up computing entirely, the field I've been dreaming about since childhood. Perhaps if I immiserate myself with a dry regulated engineering field or trade I would perhaps survive to recursive self-improvement, but if anything the length it takes to pivot (I am a Junior in College that has already done probably 3/4th of my CS credits) means I probably couldn't get any foothold until all jobs are irrelevant and I've wasted more money.

2) Hard pivot into automation, AI my entire workflow, figure out how to use the bleeding edge of LLMs. Somehow. Even though I have no drive to learn LLMs and no practical project ideas with LLMs. And then I'd have to deal with the moral burden that I'm inflicting unfathomable hurt on others until recursive self-improvement, and after that it's simply a wildcard on what will happen with the monster I create.

It's like I'm suffocating constantly. The most I can do to "cope" is hold on to my (admittedly weak) faith in Christ, which provides me peace knowing that there is some eternal joy beyond the chaos here. I'm still just as lost as you.
It is available in fdroid on my ungoogled phone. I don't know what you're talking about
Thank you for even considering those things.
HN has a super bland and anti-culture culture. Combine that with the tendency to love technology and watching the free market "solve" "problems" and you're bound to find prolific posters like the parent commenter with these cold takes.

I'm not surprised in the least.
I think the question everyone has in their minds isn't "when will AGI get here" or even "how soon will it get here" — it's "how soon will AGI get so cheap that everyone will get their hands on it"

that's why everyone's thinking about compute expense.
but I guess in terms of a "lifetime expense of a person" even someone who costs $10/hr isn't actually all that cheap, considering what it takes to grow a human into a fully functioning person that's able to just do stuff
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It was Elite. Once you had a fuel scoop there was no requirement to dock and refuel any more so it was much easier to be a pirate or privateer.

There was a bug (or was it?) in the very PC version where by if you had fuel scoops installed, set your view to looking out the rear of the ship, flew toward a star, and ignored all the warnings on your dashboard, you could fly right through the star. If you were being chased at the time you had the additional satisfaction of watching your pursuers' ships explode as they tried to follow you in.
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Yep. My point exactly!
Won't the crafts relative motion (relative to desired travel) provide the same effective force as the water+keel?
To drag the humanity in a different direction.

Notre Dame and other great architecture is inspired by great archetypes, it's a well crafted expression of those archetypes to the extent it's possible in stone and concrete. Simply looking at it drags us closer to the ideas behind it.

But not everyone agrees with that direction. There is a large number of people who would rather take humanity in a different direction, and they build this oppressive architecture of bland geometric forms.
Second link is beautiful and really shows the whiplash of the last set of solar encounters. Recommend clicking through to anyone with a passing interest.
"I haven't looked into those allegations" when it's been all over the news somewhat undermines the whole claim of authority.
Mad cow disease didn’t just happen. Though the idea that cows would preferentially eat brain and spinal cord tissue doesn’t seem likely.
Yes, some tasks, even complex tasks will become more automated, and machine driven, but that will only open up more opportunities for us as humans to take on more challenging issues. Each time a great advancement comes we think it's going to kill human productivity, but really it just amplifies it.
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And you can’t use TikTok without an account because they need that to “spy” on you.
> Giving them meat isn't exactly an innovation.

True, but the results were.
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Its like the "Open" in OpenAI or the "Democratic" in North Koreas DPRK. Naming things helps fool a lot of people.
I couldn't find it from the article, but how the scammer got access to the Gmail account? How he triggered that prompt in the victim's phone, and what did it mean?

It feels something is missing here?

Edit: Well, I learnt about Google Prompts today: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7026266?hl=en&co=...

Basically someone can request access to your account and if you click Yes, they do access it.

This part from a Reddit thread [1] scared me a bit:

> The notification pops up on my screen over whatever I am doing, and if I'm using my phone, I worry that I might accidentally hit YES (it almost happened today).

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/ccd304/someone...
Hey! It’s more like comparing apples to apple pie.

BGE-M3 is a fine-tuned embedding models. This means that they’ve taken a base language model, which was trained for just language modeling, then applied further fine-tuning to make it useful for a given application, in this case, retrieval.

ModernBERT is one step back earlier in the pipeline: it’s the language model that application-specific models such as M3 build on.
the appetite for self-destruction is just as big now as it used to be among teenagers. i think people simply dont understand how self-destructive social media is. thats why theyre surprised.
Everyone always forgets that they only perform at less than half of their rated capacity and require significant battery installations. Rooftop solar plus storage is actually more expensive than nuclear on a comparable system LCOE due to their lack of efficiency of scale. Rooftop solar plus storage is about the most expensive form of electricity on earth, maybe excluding gas peaker plants.
Pizza rat is going to pizza. The most successful animals are generally those that will take calories from anywhere they can, with things like pandas and koalas at the other end of the spectrum.
I don’t care where they come from. Why do they force you to signup to see a video that can be played using standard web technology?
I'd bet that it'll exceed tirzepatide by a bit, but they'll hype up the triple agonist action.

What's wild is that there's companies doing research for quadruple agonists! Found this[0] company that's looking at one such agonist right now.

[0] https://www.biomedind.com/NA-931.html
Fun fact: no. You're thinking of the regular courts.

Unlike the regular courts, the supreme court specifically has the power to just go "nope, this law is now void" if they deem it unconstitutional, and fun fact: that constitution sure is open to interpretation, hoo boy. Imagine if a corrupt justice was allowed to just keep on ruling, that sure would make for a fair and just system. Like say someone who had to rule on cases involving their friends who bought them millions of dollars in gifts and instead of recusing themselves, take the case and rule in their friends' favor.

And no way for the people to intervene.

SCOTUS has serious problems.
It can’t buy friendship. That’s the one thing in life that is earned and earned alone.
It is pretty easy to remember and follow things if you keep it simple. with this it is remarkably simple.

- never answer unknown number calls
- never answer unknown number texts
- never open any emails from anyone you don’t know or do anything that email tells you to do if curiosity gets the best of ya and you open it.

ALL communication with any “business” or “government” (state/local/federal) is in one direction, YOU contact THEM. That’s it, can’t be any simpler
Yes, over small scales and distances.

Say you want a stereogram that shows you Manhattan or the Grand Canyon as if it were a model laid out on a table before you. A human-like stereoscopic shot of those places will not produce the depth.

(Maybe something can be computed, but that's a separate discussion.)
Online services have displaced at least:

- the TV
- the radio
- board games
- card games
- video games
- theaters
- phones and faxes
- the mail

Perhaps the above where the equivalent of vodka to some of you, but I wouldn't look at someone with their smartphone and think "wow, they're getting wasted !"
Compared to Anthony Braxton, "Kind of Blue" is elevator music.
They are running a business selling access these models to enterprises and consumers. People won’t pay for stuff that doesn’t solve real problems. Nobody pays for stuff just because of a benchmark. It’d be really weird to become obsessed with metrics gaming rather than racing to build something smarter than the other guys. Nothing wrong with curating any type of training set that actually produces something that is useful.
I've always known squirrels to eat birds. The fact that scientists are new to this fact is what is surprising.

It might just be that the headline is bad and the literature is simply describing vole predation.

Anecdata:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zoology/comments/2bypwd/i_saw_a_gra...

https://www.reddit.com/r/birding/comments/1d1ddnv/birdhouses...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/14715zj/squirrel_eatin... (graphic video)

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/dsws02/a_squirrel_eati... (different graphic video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9F-lnJtkDA (graphic video eating a mouse)

etc.

The really graphic stuff you tend to see when you look for it is the raptors eating the squirrels. Bird eats squirrel eats bird. The circle of life.
The way your comment was written, it wasn't obvious you were familiar with needle drops.
True. And they might close your account if you login.

How I display, download or request data without an account and which browser or app I use to do it is still my choice. I'd guess if they could do anything about it, they would have half a year ago. The only way would be to DRM/widevine all videos and apparently they aren't ready for that yet. If they block my IP I'll just get a new one.

I wouldn't even be thinking about using a 3rd party app or blocking the ads if their service was reasonable. No way I will endure that, if they block it I'll just watch something else.
Incorrect -- the "genocide" in Dresden killed only 20,000 germans but helped the war effort for the allies -- preventing our causalities and mitigating further nazi atrocities (auschwitz alone was almost doubling that 20k kill count each week btw). Of course the efficacy of the raid is another matter.

It was a "good genocide"
Back in high school I worked with some pleasant man in his 50's who was a cashier. Eventually we got to talking about jobs and it turns out he was typist (something like that) for most of his life than computers came along and now he makes close to minimum wage.

Most of the blacksmiths in the 19th century drank themselves to death after the industrial revolution. the US culture isn't one of care... Point is, it's reasonable to be sad and afraid of change, and think carefully about what to specialize in.

That said... we're at the point of diminishing returns in LLM, so I doubt any very technical jobs are being lost soon. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/ai-scaling-laws-are-showin...
Yeah, good question. I think it depends on our politics. If we’re in a techno-capital-oligarchy, people are going to have a hard time making fresh water a priority when the robots would prefer to build nuclear power everywhere and use it to desalinate sea water.

OTOH if these data centers are sufficiently decentralized and run for public benefit, maybe there’s a chance we use them to solve collective action problems.
Israel is holding large numbers of women and children in jails without trial. They're hostages too, which is why Hamas has been able to occasionally exchanged hostages with Israel.
Domain name and wire protocol. What's that worth in bankruptcy proceedings? I've never had to shut down a company before, could a gofundme buy the existing domain and source code?
> For herbivores, meat is objectively bad food .

We feed cattle the leftovers from processing meat. It's how we got mad cow disease.
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AI brings similar risks - they can leak internal information, they can be tricked into performing prohibited tasks (with catastrophic effects if this is connected to core systems), they could be accused of actions that are discriminatory (biased training sets are very common).

Sure, if a business deploys it to perform tasks that are inherently low risk e.g. no client interface, no core system connection and low error impact, then the human performing these tasks is going to be replaced.
Yes, I’m just saying how it kicks in basically immediately (O1).
A couple of years ago I found Assassin's Creed 2 for £2.50 - bargain! I'd never played it. At the end of the quarter my electricity bill was £600 higher than usual. Not a bargain!
I recall a study that identified deer as a major predator of bird nests. I don't recall if it was eggs or young that they went after.

I can't find a reference to the study at the moment.
How is in situ learning not a massive leap? We have no clue how to make an intelligent general task judger, and without that we don't know how to do in situ learning that actually improves performance on general tasks.
I am days late to this thread, but there's at least one person out there putting out builds of LineageOS-based AndroidTV for Raspberry Pis.

https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi5/

If you go to the devices menu there's stuff for older models as well. I haven't tried out the builds yet, but have seen reports around the Internet of other people using them with success.

Currently playing around with Android TV on a $20 disposable Walmart Onn-branded streaming box to see what apps and customizations are possible before taking the plunge and fiddling with on of my RPi 4Bs. Though you might want a Pi 5 for a 4K TV.

Long term goal would be to combine Raspberry Pi, reliable builds of AndroidTV which are downstream of either LineageOS, CalyxOS, or GrapheneOS, and then some kind of IR Receiver like the FLIRC and a remote control.
Honestly how about stop stressing and bullshitting yourself to death and instead focus on learning and mastering the material in your cs education. There is so much that ai as in openai api or hugging face models can't do yet or does poorly and there are more things to cs than churning out some half-broken JavaScript for some webapp.

It's powerful and world changing but it's also terrible overhyped at the moment.
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Not that I don't think costs will dramatically decrease, but the $1000 cost per task just seems to be per one problem on ARC-AGI. If so, I'd imagine extrapolating that to generating a useful midsized patch would be like 5-10x

But only OpenAI really knows how the cost would scale for different tasks. I'm just making (poor) speculation
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> ARM isn't even asking for a lot more money

I thought the entire point of this was that Arm was trying to prevent Qualcomm from switching away from products that fall under the TLA. Isn't revenue from TLA fees a huge difference from that of ALA fees?
Exactly. Put one foot in front of the other. No one knows what’s going to happen.

Even if our civilization transforms into an AI robotic utopia, it’s not going to do so overnight. We’re the ones who get to build the infrastructure that underpins it all.
I can still save multireddits. Did they remove that on new.reddit.com ? Try https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/
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I’d encourage others to click on that link and do a 360. There are so many architectural styles with 200 yards.