skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, save invoking supernatural causes, the human brain is a collection of cells with electro-chemical connections that if fully reconstructed either physically or virtually would necessarily need to represent the original person's brain. Therefore with sufficient intelligence it would be possible to engineer technology that would be able to do that reconstruction without even having to go to the atomic level, which we also have a near full understanding of already.
a) China is third to US and EU in terms of GDP. And their economy is on a downwards trajectory.

b) Majority of the early R&D in solar, EVs etc came from the US. China has been vital in driving unit economics.
A bit like the Italian Job.
“Simply brute-forcing”

That’s the thing that’s interesting to me though and I had the same first reaction. It’s a very different problem than brute-forcing chess. It has one chance to come to the correct answer. Running through thousands or millions of options means nothing if the model can’t determine which is correct. And each of these visual problems involve combinations of different interacting concepts. To solve them requires understanding, not mimicry. So no matter how inefficient and “stupid” these models are, they can be said to understand these novel problems. That’s a direct counter to everyone who ever called these a stochastic parrot and said they were a dead-end to AGI that was only searching an in distribution training set.

The compute costs are currently disappointing, but so was the cost of sequencing the first whole human genome. That went from 3 billion to a few hundred bucks from your local doctor.
I guess a little. I really liked the read though, it put in words what I couldn't and I was curious if others felt the same.

However the post was posted here yesterday and didn't really have a lot of traction.
I thought this was partially because of the term agentic, which the community seems a bit fatigued by. So I put it in quotes to highlight that Anthropic themselves deems it a little vague and hopefully spark more interest.
I don't think it messes with their message too much?

Honestly it didn't matter anyways, without second chance pooling this post would have been lost again (so thanks Daniel!)
Last time I looked the Royce SMR design could use the same fuel supply chain and processing facilities, which is a huge plus compared to having to set up everything all over again for something like metallic fuel.
The term that I always hear, is "probe."
Is a Flatpak release planned? I am interested in Grayjay but don't really want to deal with a binary that lives outside of my distros package manager.
Yeah, I use cities virtual card numbers for most subscription services.
Yeah. The only lesson that would be learned from a bunch of tablets depicting agonizing death to those who approach would be "I'll make sure to send the low-paid workers in first before I go in".
By the end of Day 3, it seemed quite clear that Qualcomm's legal team and position was far ahead of ARM's. I feel the following snippet sums up the whole week:

"Qualcomm’s counsel turned Arm’s Piano analogy on its head. Arm compared its ISA to a Piano Keyboard design during the opening statement and used it throughout the trial. It claimed that no matter how big or small the Piano is, the keyboard design remains the same and is covered by its license. Qualcomm’s counsel extended that analogy to show how ridiculous it would be to say that because you designed the keyboard, you own all the pianos in the world. Suggesting that is what Arm is trying to do."

Source: https://www.tantraanalyst.com/ta/qualcomm-vs-arm-trial-day-3...
Not everyone is trying to make a chip for a phone. There are plenty of low compute applications which just need something.
And you think the bullshit generators backed by the largest corporate entities in humanity who are, as we speak, causing all the issues you mention are somehow gonna solve any of this?
Yeah I think that time it was ok because they were demoing the app function, but for this they are demoing the model smarts
RISCV is an instruction set, but you compare ASICs

If qualcomm changes instruction decoding over you’ll likely see a dramatic difference
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...

They mean the rate of reduction in the metric graphed above.
You shouldn't even use those, at least hardcoded. Follow the XDG Base Directories spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
It writes too many logs. It's always log writes, except when it's the DNS.
Your otherwise on point piece contains the common misconception that ARM began in embedded systems. When they started they had a full computer system that had very competitive CPU performance for the time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

They pivoted to embedded shortly after spinning off into a separate company.
Hmm, you could be right, but you could also be very wrong. Jury's still out, so the next few years will be interesting.

Regarding the value of "pointless pattern matching" in particular, I would refer you to Douglas Hofstadter's discussion of Bongard problems starting on page 652 of _Godel, Escher, Bach_. Money quote: "I believe that the skill of solving Bongard [pattern recognition] problems lies very close to the core of 'pure' intelligence, if there is such a thing."
Ahh yes, subst was very handy many times back in the day and it worked like magic to me!
So then what is AGI?
> if anything it's fdroids fault for giving their own repository the same name as their infrastructure tool instead of doing what every other project did and give them separate names. for example docker and dockerhub, flatpak and flathub, etc.

F-That
At multiple points in my career I stumbled upon stuff from Bredan Greg. He is highly skilled in large-scale distributed computing but also down to the nitty gritty details (bits).
It's the percentage cut in emissions relative to the 1990 bench line.
The study makes no distinction between that and recreational use. "Getting drunk with friends" counted, for example.

Besides if anything I'd say current generations have less trauma to avoid so they're more likely to use it than past generations.
Interesting. Unfortunately, your repo seems to be private.
> The world is all phones

For some strange reason, when people speak about Linux adoption, they mean GNU/Linux but never say it. Then comments like yours appear. Android has almost nothing to do with actual Linux. You can't run Linux-specific software or drivers. Case in point: Librem 5 runs GNU/Linux, and it's not very popular.
Yeah, was going to say, I'd take 800MB/s. I get a mere 180MB/s on this Drobo 5C (filled with 7200rpm HDDs) — theoretical max is 625MB/s.
From IT bubble it’s very easy to have impression that AI will replace most people. Most of people on my street do not work in IT. Teacher, nurse, hobby shop owner, construction workers, etc. Surely programming and other virtual work may become less paid job but it’s not end of the world.
There's a difference between flying directly into the sun as if landing there, and orbiting the sun but so close that the spacecraft is inside the solar atmosphere.

This is doing the latter.
Remember the military bukhankas rolling around in late May and early June, grabbing men off the street for conscription if they looked even a little bit like they'd just finished high school?

I've got a pretty vivid memory of seeing the 'recruiters' grabbing an amputee out of a wheelchair in broad daylight and shoving him in the back of the van along with the several other men they already had in there.
Why is that a ratepayer’s prerogative rather than the home insurer’s?
This is correct. It's easy to get arbitrarily bad results on Mechanical Turk, since without any quality control people will just click as fast as they can to get paid (or bot it and get paid even faster).

So in practice, there's always some kind of quality control. Stricter quality control will improve your results, and the right amount of quality control is subjective. This makes any assessment of human quality meaningless without explanation of how those humans were selected and incentivized. Chollet is careful to provide that, but many posters here are not.

In any case, the ensemble of task-specific, low-compute Kaggle solutions is reportedly also super-Turk, at 81%. I don't think anyone would call that AGI, since it's not general; but if the "(tuned)" in the figure means o3 was tuned specifically for these tasks, that's not obviously general either.
> But the law doesn’t really care about that.

California has contribitory negligence. If the court determined it was negligent to build or keep a house in these places and that contributed to the loss, it must determine the share of loss attributable to each party and reduce the award. In some states, a party must have be less than half at fault to receive compensation, but California doesn't have a minimum, if you are 99% at fault and the other party is 1%, you can get 1% of your loss compensated.
What action do you expect them to take?

What law would effectively reduce risk from AGI? The EU passed a law that is entirely about reducing AI risk and people in the technology world almost universally considered it a bad law. Why would other countries do better? How could they do better?
Show HN: Raylib Beginner's Interactive Guide
In this sense I personally prefer pixi because of this. It is pixi like but resolves using conda channels like conda, and similar to conda it supports PyPI packages via uv.

With a background in scientific computing where many of the dependencies I managed are compiled, conda packages gives me much more control.

P.S. I’d like to point out to others to differentiate between package index and package managers. PyPI is an index (that hosts packages in a predefined format) while pip, poetry, uv are package managers that resolve and build your environments using the index.

Similarly but a bit more confusingly, conda can be understood as the index, hosted by anaconda but can also be hosted elsewhere, with different “channels” (kinda like a GitHub organization) where conda-forge is a popular one built by communities. Conda is also a reference implementation of a package manager that uses anaconda channels to resolve. Mamba is an independent, performant, drop in replacement of conda. And pixi is a different one with a different interface by the author of mamba.

Even more confusingly, there are distributions. Distributions come with a set of predefined packages together with the package manager such that you just start running things immediately (sort of like a TeXLive distribution in relation to the package manager tlmgr.) there are anaconda distributions (if you installed anaconda instead of installing conda, that’s what you get), but also Intels distribution for Python, mini forge, mambaforge, etc.
Hmm, lived there for a long time and walked by Boston City Hall almost every day. I'm not quite sure how to differentiate objective beauty and subjective beauty, but at least subjectively, in my opinion, it's an eyesore.

Agreed on all fronts that City Hall Plaza is a disaster, though. I thought there were plans to revamp it with the Government Center station green line revamp a few years ago, but not sure if that improved anything.
Because access to the financial system was democratized ten years ago
The Manufacturing Manifesto
Key to understanding the power of agentic workflows is tool usage. You don't have to write logic anymore, you simply give an agent the tools it needs to accomplish a task and ask it to do so. Models like the latest Sonnet have gotten so advanced now that coding abilities are reaching superhuman levels. All the hallucinations and "jitter" of models from 1-2 years ago has gone away. They can be reasoned on now and you can build reliable systems with them.
Also the insane political risks and social instability, climate change, heightened risks of war and econmomic calamity, housing cost increase.
I remember wondering APPEND as a kid three decades ago. Looks like it had a very specific legacy use case, which was no longer present in more modern DOS versions. Live and learn.
That's true. They don't have Claude 3.5 on there either. So maybe it's not relevant anymore, but I'm not sure.

If so, let's move on to the murder mysteries or more complex literary analysis.
If it’s any consolation, Agile priests and middle managers will be the first to go
well I said when using Chrome, how would they make it happen?

well it's not like it's using AutoHotkey to automate things, it must be using underlying browser apis to move to move the mouse to mouseover something etc. as opposed to actually using the mouse, as an example

naive workflow -

I would think the browser sends message to google that instance (unique id) is being automated, recaptcha is detected by chrome on page, chrome calls hidden recaptcha method .setUniqueId(uniqueID) uniqueID is sent back to Google response tells it this is actually an automated browser that is being used as opposed to recaptcha, recaptcha gives 90% chance browser is automated to site, site stops browser access.

Site happy it uses recaptcha because they stopped automation.

Sure, Playwright can use FF, but most often people just use Chrome.
How Japan Made Their Outlets Safe
Eventually you draw the black ball, it is inevitable.
"1B solver + 8B verifier + search" beating 0-shot 70B is nice, agree.

"1B solver + 8B verifier + search" beating 1B-0-shot or 1B-majority as baselines isn't illustrative imo. In other words, by using larger verifier, HF's replication fails to establish a "fair" baseline. Still an awesome blog and release/repository from HF's group - I love it!
> you simply give an agent the tools

That isn’t simple. There is a lot of nuance in tool definition.
Sure. We accept or reject all candidates as quickly as we can. But do you think this candidate should be progressed or rejected?

Our actual decision was to ask them to send in a video introduction before we schedule a phone screen with one of our engineers.
Another thing that bothers me is that dishwashers are low. As I get older, I’m finding it really annoying to bend down.

So get me a counter-level dishwasher cabinet and I’ll be happy!
Are you familiar with the phrase "the dose makes the poison"?
Isn't updating once a day a bit too rare for content heavy websites, like HN? I use online RSS reader just to keep up with all updates when I am not online. With updates once a day I'd probably be using desktop RSS reader app.
Neither to me. But it’s a matter in names: if it does not handle WIP limit it’s not a “Kanban Board”. It’s a Board, and that’s perfectly fine.
He's probably just smart than you :)
YES! And thank you for a great app that is getting better.

I bought in right away too. Louis gave a rundown on the idea; namely, you can pay for it, or not pay for it, and in either case we are going to do our best to make it work for you, and maybe those you recommend it to.

Nice. Happy to support thinking like that.
Court: Section 230 Doesn't Protect Salesforce for Providing Office Software
The original title is:

> Fifth Circuit: Salesforce Can’t Use Section 230 To Get Out Of Sex Trafficking Case, Because It Only Provided CRM Software, Not Content Moderation
> There's plenty of proof of intent which has been addressed by actual international law experts

Do you mind citing specific proof you have in mind?

> The practical effects of Israel's action, regardless of intent, look like genocide.

What does it mean to "look like genocide regardless of intent" if the intent is the defining feature of the genocide?
> Huge huge implications for humanity, e.g. how does an economy and society even work without workers?

I don't think those that create AI care about that. They just to come out on top before someone else does.
When is this available? Which plans can use it?
First net is the worst and likely to cause more issues - I migrated off of it, putting my lines back on an (existing) AT&T account.

It was mid billing cycle so I was told there’d be a prorated charge on that account. Sure, no problem.

There wasn’t.

Skip ahead three months. I’m paying my regular account bill on time. I get a text message saying “your account is about to be disconnected for non payment” with no indication of amount or account number. And within 30 minutes all of our family lines had indeed been disconnected.

Now the shit show began.

Go into AT&T store. “What’s your account number?” Don’t know, here’s my details. “I can’t find any other accounts here.” “How do I pay what I owe?” “You need to find an account number.”

Huh. They give me a number to call. I sit down there in the store and call it and wait.

“We can see you had a first net account, but I can’t see the number or the amount owed.” Plan to transfer me to FirstNet. “We can’t find an account.”

I just want to give you an amount that is less than $100. I’m right here with the cash/card, willing but no one can tell me how I can pay it.

This went on for days and escalations before someone found out the deal. I was one of the first subscribers, and they had screwed up so many of my account details and line details that we essentially had to go through, pay some money, then cancel and reactivate a bunch of lines and make sure to preserve numbers and then have managers apply approvals to waive activation charges and on and on and on.

All told, probably 6-8 hours on phone and in store. (And on phone while “working on it”, not just waiting on hold.) for $43.25.
Be interesting if someone makes a nice recommendation engine (search) that does trending of real videos by views/votes, not fake hand picked curated trending like yt.

Seems like people are finally annoyed at being controlled on what they are fed while they consume content. Thats what i like about grayjay, it embraced that freedom of the original internet, not letting corps control what you, putting the control back into the hands of the viewers.

I toyed with an idea for a patreon clone, that would allow users to post a thumbnail to their video, and underneath quick links to other hosting providers. So the main choice is upto the creator, but also allow users to choose a different content streamer. I always hated how these services controlled creators too. What stores they can use.

The idea of a "plugin" or provider, creators could pick their merch store provider even. Such ideas of opening a system to different companies, making competition.
I have an issue with the link, I cannot delete the post. Here is the link: https://www.exaequos.com/exalib/v/YzUxOTliMmZhMjBk
> Teens aren't ... having sex.

Nor are people in their 20s (that is, both groups are having much less sex). That is the most worrying thing to me. People are not even engaging in the most fundamental, unavoidable, pleasurable human drive.

They seem very much like traumatized people, on a massive scale, just trying to survive.
Does anyone have prompts they like to use to test the quality of new models?

Please share. I’m compiling a list.
How many spatulae are you planning on eating?
Political constraints are real constraints! It's very possible to end up in a state where declaring an emergency is genuinely better than any of the options to avoid it. Consider:

* A is clearly important and will have to be "code yellowed" if it's not addressed in the next few months. But you've got to drop one of B, C, or D in order to avoid the code yellow.

* B is one of your best engineers' passion project. She's not a big fan of C or D, and she might run away to Google if you tell her they're more important.

* C is a promise you made to a customer to unblock some big deal. They might not sign if you tell them you changed your mind and would prefer to work on some projects B and D they don't care at all about.

* D is a demand from your VP to address some company priority, and he doesn't think the effort-reward ratio from B or C are very high. If you try to drop D he will probably get mad and tell you that you're not allowed to.
Technical question: how are you dealing with feeds blocked by cloudflare protection or captchas?
Definitely a false positive
A possibility is a coalition: of people who refuse to use AI and who refuse to do business with those who use AI. If the coalition grows large enough, AI can be stopped by economic attrition.
Err… what is their job, then, if not investigating and preventing crime? That pet theory with the slave patrols of yours, by the way, isn’t it; that’s a hoax. The modern police in the USA and other countries stems from the British police, which did exactly what they are supposed to do, since ages.
Despite lake of fearsome teeth or claws, humans are way op due to brain, hand dexterity, and balance.
Sorry yes, I should have been more specific. The important thing is that it is reasonably well encrypted. Its not like the USA where they just yeet it in the clear for all to see.

The downside is that the non cellular backhaul is provided by arquiva, who are shits.
convex is really elegant and now that you mention it, multiplayer games like their ai-town agent sim is such a great fit for the class - thank you
We had similar problems with the Nixon/Ford/Carter price and allocation controls on gasoline. There were shortages and long lines in some states and gluts in others. Carter was baffled about what to do.

Reagan ended it on day one with an Executive Order to repeal the controls. The lines disappeared overnight and never returned.
It was probably a VAX 11/780. If you were cheap you purchased an 11/750. The 780 had a PDP-8 for a console processor. https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-c...
Still. ~200,000 m/s (= ~430,000 mph) is unfathomably fast.
Why specifically programming? I think every knowledge profession is at risk, or at the very minimum suspect to a huge transformation. Doctors, analysts, lawyers, etc.
Study reveals right whales live 130 years – or more
Mostly agree but he wasn't a nepo baby appointment, he knows the business and specifically these companies. I think that if anyone is qualified to say there's a deathly smell over this sector of the car business in Japan it's him.

Sometimes the obdurate "batteries will fail" views of the Japanese auto industry spokesperson amazes me. What they seem to be saying by omission is "we're fucked because we didn't tool up early enough to seize a lead" and now they're watching other companies steal their lunch.
That is exactly what diversity is when it comes to immigration, the freaking yearly green card lottery has diversity in the name of the program https://www.usa.gov/green-card-lottery
this is exactly the type of pointer i was hoping for, thank you
Ask HN: Do math/programming contests put students on path away from creativity?
For example, do such contests nudge top students toward the constrained creativity of computer science, instead of the less constrained creativity of indie game development?
I install Snakemake via miniforge which uses mambaforge to make its own envs. Biology is messy ;)
Oh shoot, yes. I have imitation copies of the original game graphics in there, and so I can't make it public without violating copyright of their assets. :-(

Here is a public gist with the `Result` data structure, as well a good portion of the file handling all the game mechanics, which should show it gets used.
https://gist.github.com/sjrd/34fe234d1b6232cf42ffda5d23292d3...
business reasons, the console is sold as a loss leader and the real money is made in licensing the games. also serves as brand protection i.e. preventing poor quality third party games from tarnishing the reputation of the console.
SUBST is all fine, up until the point some tool explodes when it sees that normalizePath("P:\\whatever") == "C:\\code\\whatever", and it ends up with two paths to one file, or no way to build a relative path. I’ve seen that happen with some node tooling, for example.
I immediately thought so too. Why confuse everyone?