skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have AGI in some ways though. Like I can use Claude for both generating code and helping with some maths problems and physics derivations.

It isn't a specific model for any of those problems, but a "general" intelligence.

Of course, it's not perfect, and it's obviously not sentient or conscious, etc. - but maybe general intelligence doesn't require or imply that at all?
Any system where losing one page would be too dear is likely not using a MMU in the first place.

Besides, memory access is twice as fast on the zero page!
Wait, you're telling me the 6502 isn't the standard anymore? ;p
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Is this the same basic idea as those 20 Questions toys? Except, I imagine, that they pre-train the “model” and load it with the 2^20 leaf nodes?
> This is a tech website, most people here have no relevant expertise to say or think anything meaningful about this.

To be fair, this is true of almost every article submitted to HN, even the "tech" articles. Tech is a massive field with countless subspecialties.
It‘ almost certainly Hacker News‘ automatic title rewriting, and not the submitter‘s fault. A missing word at the start is a sure sign.
When the tide goes out, you can see who's been swimming naked.
She wrote this in a casual post on Threads [1], not an article. There’s no attempt to “sensationalize for clicks” here. Journalists don’t have to be in journalist mode all the time when they’re communicating casually.

You seem to have a rather large chip on your shoulder.

[1]: https://www.threads.net/@karaswisher/post/DEniSxyS01i
What kind of apps?
Perhaps something like this can be used in AI based development teams.

After all, as it says, ants are not very intelligent themselves yet manage to do amazing things due to stigmergy.
Matt controls the WordPress foundation, owns and operates wordpress.org, is CEO of Automattic, and votes 84% of its stock (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657150). AFAICS, there's no one who has the means to remove him.
April 2016, damn, that's 2 full years before Microsoft acquired GitHub!
https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5 has 5 year warranty. Parts are replaceable but there's no choice of parts, with a bit more tools one would be able to do the same replacements on an iphone. https://www.fairphone.com/en/2023/08/30/is-the-fairphone-5-t...
You're right that there's not much precedent to this, which is why I do think that "training rights" is a valid proposal, as long as the proponents acknowledge that this would be an expansion of current IP laws (i.e. further away from the ideal of a limited copyright).

Though... if you say "And the result, despite many years and billions of dollars worth of work, is something that can’t even reliably reference or summarize the material it’s trained on.", doesn't this imply that there's not much to worry about here? I sense that this is a negative jab, but this undermines the original argument that there is so much worth in the model that we need to create new IP laws to handle it.

I mean, I'm not sure what to make of this statement in the first place. Training data should be for the model to learn language and facts, and referencing or summarizing the material directly seems to be out of scope of that. One tends to summarize the prompt, not training data.
I found that fine-tuning and RAG can be replaced with tool calling for some specialized domains, e.g. real-time data. Even things like user's location can be tool called, so context can be obtained reliably. I also note that GPT-4o and better are smart enough to chain together different functions you give it, but not reliably. System prompting helps some, but the non-determinism of AI today is both awesome and a cure.
Hardly. Social media algorithms optimising for engagement is surely one of the main reasons we're in this hyper-polarised environment. So yes, their marketing said DEI, but their algos pushed far-right propaganda onto my screen.
Everyone I know in environmental activism hates hydrogen and sees it as green-washing the petrochemical industry.
It comes down to moats. Does OpenAI have a moat? It's leading the pack, but the competitors always seem to be catching up to it. We don't see network effects with it yet like with social networks, unless OpenAI introduces household robots for everyone or something, builds a leading marketshare in that segment, and the rich data from these household bots is enough training data that one can't replicate with a smaller robot fleet.

And AI is too fundamental of a technology that a "loss leader biggest wallet wins" strategy, used by the likes of Uber, will work.

API access can be restricted. Big part of why Twitter got authwalled was so that AI models can't train from it. Stack overflow added a no AI models clause to their free data dump releases (supposed to be CC licensed), they want to be paid if you use their data for AI models.
Yeah. Guess it'll involve some trade off in terms of UI.
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Ubuntu Mirror Redirects to Zerobounce.net
I observed this happening last night when downloading an Ubuntu ISO. It seems like an interesting attack vector so I wanted to raise awareness. The redirect sends you to the third-party website instead of serving the ISO.
I was expecting a head mounted display that somehow unlocks things
...let alone not deliver at all for days due to "inclement" weather. Makes you wonder how Scandinavia or Switzerland cope...
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I thought it's basically a subset of Aider[0] bolted into a VS Code fork, and I remain confused as to why we're talking about it so much now, when we didn't about Aider before. Some kind of startup-friendly bias? I for one would prefer OSS to succeed in this space.

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[0] - https://aider.chat/
Never used it. https://github.com/mlajtos/mosaic/blob/master/DesignDecision...
Oh no.

Anyway…
Does something like this exist for C#?
I've experienced this in the corporate world too, when someone is seeking a promotion. Entitlement is becoming a bane
OpenOffice won't print on Tuesdays (2009)
Tool calling is just systems integration with a different name. The job of the tool is still to provide context from some other system.
We know social media was supposed to be a glorious freedom for everyone to publish their story. It was presumed that around every corner lay a French Salon, or an Algonquin round table, or Einstein and Dirac just walking home on a summers day. And we could all listen in.

How wonderful it would be.

And yeah, sometimes it worked. New voices have been found and shared. But new voices require those listening to learn, to chnage. That’s hard and takes effort - social media’s fundamental promise was not publishing, it was an infinity of effort on behalf of the demos.

That’s quite an ask. Entertainment is easier - but traditional media does that well, and social media is only slowly catching on that a teenager in their bedroom can be entertaining but Sitcoms are more consistently entertaining

So social media kind of gives us a curation over millions of teenagers and selects the 100 best shorts- but that can only work without ever learning anything new - social media will find and supply cheap low rent entertainment shorts to people who have not learnt or changed.

But it is here. It owns all the ad revenue and is the portal on the rest of the world

Newspapers used to be that portal, then TV and now the algorithm. But how often did newspapers challenge their readers as opposed to pandering ? The only way to defeat it is to provide a better portal. Is it am LLM ? Is it just talking to our neighbours?

In the end we need to make effort, to learn, to discover to become informed and to build a mental model of the world that is accurate and refined.

And that’s hard work.

So perhaps regulation should be focused on teaching us, not regulating entertainment

Edit: I think there are two camps on a spectrum here - both are in favour of freedom of speech, but one end believes that any speech, lies, untruth or nonsense is fine and that caveat emptor applies, and the other end believes that there is a pool of common speech and lies and untruths sully the water. Which is right is the current argument, not which lies should be banned
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Yes! Be very aware of your time and opportunity costs. It can be an amazing journey, struggles and all, but make sure to not get stuck long-hauling on something you’re not passionate about.
At this point in 2024/25, it's obvious to the point of multiple antitrust lawsuits against Google.

If you want a POV on the most recent one involving Doubleclick, listen to the first part of this podcast with Brian Kelley of App Nexus - a competitor to Google ad tech.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xm8gPuwqFHk
> Agentic search

All you've proposed is moving the context problem somewhere else. You still need to build the search index. It's still a problem of building and providing context.
It's easier being on time in a walkable city, because the number of pedestrians and cyclists required to cause 'traffic' is extreme.

(I assume you mean Florence/Firenze in Italy, if there's an American city called Florence known for its lack of cars I'm unaware of it.)
> I think Socrates was a hoot, and he taught in a cave or something like that.

I'm not sure whether you're joking or serious, but in any case, Socrates didn't teach in a cave, and you're probably referring to Plato's allegory of the cave.

The interlocuters and followers of Socrates were mostly the wealthy elite of Athens.
So it's kind of the equivalent of naming your wifi network "FBI Surveillance Truck"?
I'll be surprised if anything meaningful comes of those issues in the end.

Copyright issues here feel very similar to claims against Microsoft in the 80s and 90s.
Yup. And it’s already playing out that way. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini - technically not an upstart. All have hyperscalers backing and subsidizing their model training (AWS, Azure, GCP, respectively). It’s difficult to discern where the segmentation between compute and models are here.
“WordPress is in trouble” depends on what “WordPress” is.

WordPress the supply chain is currently dependent on wordpress.org. The community is working to route around this by decentralising distribution - see efforts such as AspirePress.

WordPress the software development project is dependent on wordpress.org, and there is no way to route around this unless Matt agrees to give up his DFL position or a fork is created.

WordPress the brand is being tarnished, mostly by Matt’s actions. wpdrama creates a riskier environment when assessing whether to use it as a CMS.

WordPress the community is being denigrated and diminished. Again, I think only a change in governance can resolve that.
Or a SaaS company that serves those customers.
> No matter how good the AI gets, it can't answer about what it doesn't know. It can't perform a process for which it doesn't know the steps or the rules

This is exactly the motivation behind https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt: so that users can demonstrate their desktop workflows to AI models step by step (without worrying about their data being used by a corporation).
The license there is custom and a bit ambiguous: https://assethunts.com/license/
Was 23 the first to be released under GPLv3? I think that is what stopped Apple from updating a number of packages.
> I was told by locals that it was explicitly

My experience with Finnish people is that it can be hard to tell when they are joking and they have a dark sense of humor. Great poker players too.
Totally! All these ideas are just a placeholder to make a note of something we can observe until we have a better theory.

Luminiferous aether was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space. [1] Eventually we found evidence that contradicted that idea.

Dark matter is implied by gravitational effects which cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be observed. [2] We are searching for direct evidence, but haven’t found any yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
I'm not sure I buy Thiel's argument becuase plenty of their non-search businesses such as Google Cloud, GSuite, Waymo, and Verily have become pretty successful in their own right, and vertical integration is another form of monopoly that tends to cracked down on.
I do want to point out one thing that is a common misconception by IT engineer types:

> The use of NATs force the interactions into client-initiated transactions... (abbreviated)

There is absolutely ZERO chance that that, let's say Roomba, is going to let you connect directly to your vacuum robot at your home, from your cell, over ipv6, without going through their proxy server in an AWS Datacenter in Virgina.

The nativity of engineers is face-palm inducing.

Roomba will _never_ give up that control over your device. Same with your Tesla, your iPhone, your security cameras, or your ring doorbell. Zilch, none, nada. Giving you direct control, even if ipv6 were fully implemented, is simply not on the roadmap for the companies. They want to control you. They want to control your devices. They will not release the death grip on this, as it releases their control over your property post purchase.

This sounds incredibly cynical but it's playing out in front of us. By restricting the use of their services, they now control and downstream resale of the device and can force people to buy new, rather than repair or renovate. And of course the leaders in all of this anti-repair initiatives are the so called "Green" companies of the world.
Common Lisp is great until it isn’t.
The company hiring an H-1B has to plenty of fees, needs authorizations, and then needs to submit a lot of documentation to the Immigration service for processing that can take 3 months and still get denied. Many companies just say they won't transfer H-1Bs rather than deal with the trouble.
It's not realistic to make firm quantified predictions any more specific than what I have given.

We will likely see between 3 and 10000 times improvement in efficiency or IQ or speed of LLM reasoning in the next 5 years.
Top is just marketing. In Big Tech it's market cap or something, but it's not proof of anything and may be just marketing. Google is a search advertising monopoly pretending to be a "tech" company (per Thiel), but is a "top" company to work for. Ok.

And intelligence agencies are government mandated, not marketing made. Or at least I haven't heard any marketing from the NSA saying how selective they are in admissions (as if that means anything).
TIL combat card games exist. This is so cool.

My poor partner will have these inflicted upon her.
150 wh/kg sodium ion batteries enable a cheap 200 mile city car that ice complexity can't hope to touch.

It's a car that several billion people in urban cores will buy. Yeah it may be a glorified golf cart.

I also think a sodium ion 50 mile all electric phev has a ten year platform cycle in the US market while charging infrastructure and solid state / sulfur techs get developed.

The Chinese and other companies will probably partner with us market companies to get the cars in somehow, even with trump in office.
I'm not misunderstanding it. In fact, I think it's a misunderstanding of the current zeitgeist that "public safety net" must necessarily include a public healthcare system. If that were true, then a country like Switzerland wouldn't qualify as having a public safety net.

In the US, our public safety net consists of Medicaid, Medicare, unemployment benefits and SNAP, among other things. Like I said in my previous comment, the outcomes/efficacy of our safety net versus Germany's safety net are totally different, and it's fair to criticize that. But the spending reflects our country's intent to provide a safety net, even if it's far from perfect.
What if the quantum domain is consciousness and life evolved from it rather than the other way around?

Random btw, is the human interpretation. Superpositions and superstates have rules which may not be precisely predicted, yet as a whole they resolve to produce all state and “certainty” we imagine and experience.

Life may well have evolved from consciousness rather than the other way around.
I know Tattoo Try-On is nothing new, there shd be a YC company doing that 10+ years ago and no longer active now.

Still I built Tatship (https://tatship.com) for myself and it helped me to make the leap forward to get my first Tattoo.

Then I put the tool online and users from all over the world start using it ...... for free lol.

Still, Many users from different countries told me that it helped them make their Tattoo decision and I am so happy.

We are still finding our product market fit by testing different product directions, also we are trying our best to do time and computing efficient 3D shape curve fitting.

That's it guys, if you are thinking of getting a Tattoo, try it!
OpenGameArt has a section for music[0], itch.io also has a bunch of free music assets[1], but do check the license before using them. I use these often and there's some surprisingly great tracks there.

[0]: https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?field_art_type_t...

[1]: https://itch.io/game-assets/top-rated/free/tag-music
Jumping the opportunity:; we make a product that do hyper-personalisation for marketing emails, we do have few customers using SFMC and we tried to think about some use cases with Agentforce but i don't see a lot of useful things.
Some customers want to see data about who saw personalisation in tableau/datacloud but again this isn't direct integration with Agentforce but more sending data to any salesforce product. Did you see any pratical use case for Agentforce in SFMC ? Thanks
How many devices actually support DHCPv6?
SLAAC is pretty much the standard way of assigning addresses these days.
Now if you want to pay it forward, I am in the same situation…
And then you grab a macro, extend it and it's great again ;)
Yes, it looks like he did miss out on the physiological parts of what might contribute to a burnout.
> This reinforce the idea that there is no real strategic advantage in owning a model.

Yes, because you can't build a moat. Open source will very quickly catch up.
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If most of the local people are going to move to that location, they could also move to a different location which is a bit further away from where it's planned now.
I think down voting photomatt is immature and unconstructive. Whether you agree or disagree with his opinion, I think his views are quite central to a discussion on what is going on.

Down votes hides posts. I don't understand why so many HN'er wants Matt's comments removed from HN threads about WP.
Does this support disabling the ability to have floating popout windows?
Yeah I can't make this article work as a day to day advice piece. In the time it takes to get a generational change in AI from computational resources, we might find a worthy result for your PhD, business, drug design, or killer application.

It can be simultaneously true that a tech is doomed to obsolescence from over specialization, and that it does incredibly useful things in the mean time.
Definitely not the full explanation. I made a strident, blunt
statement to move the discussion along. If you follow the Hobbsian
thing the biggest gang is the state. And it's supposed to be "our"
gang cos we vote for it and give tacit assent to a violent monopoly we
call "the law". What's happened is the law has become very weak, and
so has the democracy that keeps the biggest baddest gang on the side
of 'the people'.

I think US society, and small companies as you say, sense that the
West has been "re-wilded". In the new frontier anything goes so long
as you have the money.

Aaron was a principled, smart and courageous dude, but he was acting
without support from a strong enough base. The gang he thought he was
in, MIT, betrayed him. (Chomsky has plenty of wisdom on what terrible
cowards universities and academics really are.) The law that should
have protected someone like Aaron was weak and compromised. It remains
so.

The same (lack of) state and laws are now protecting others doing the
same things as Aaron, at an even bigger scale, and for money. At least
that's how I read TFA.
If you want to check out OpenTelemetry, Otel-collector does the same job - though it's tightly coupled to opentelemetry
AI founders will also make sure that users - the ones that are not capable of telling if you're lying to them by taking their money and energy - will learn the bitter lesson of taking it right up the arse. Again. Just like a repetition of history. Humanity is like ever before caught in the action of serving the individuals that made us fuck ourselves over. And the only thing you do is thanking them for it by applying to their tactics. Middle class humanity and above is morally bankrupt, and AI is the next thing they will fight over and with, but of course without adding anything positive to the world.
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> It’s difficult to discern where the segmentation between compute and models are here.

Startups can outcompete the Foundational Model companies by concentrating on creating a very domain specific model, and providing support and services that comes out of having expertise in that specific domain.

This is why OpenAI chose to co-invest in Cybersecurity startups with Menlo Ventures in 2022 instead of building their own dedicated cybersecurity vertical, because a partnership driven growth model nets the most profit with the least resources expended when trying to expand your TAM into a new and very competitive market like Cybersecurity.

This is the same reason why hyperscalers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google themselves have ownership stakes in the foundational model companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, etc because at Hyperscalers size and revenue, Foundational Models are just a feature (an important feature, but a feature nontheless).

Foundational Models are a good first start, but are not 100% perfect in a number of fields and usecases. Ime, tooling built with these models are often used to cut down on headcount by 30-50% for the team using it to solve a specific problem. And this is why domain specific startups still thrive - sales, support, services, etc will still need to be tailored for buyers.
I know the crowd here (mostly from USA) hates this kind of comment, but as a SOUTH AMERICAN, can I point out the absurdity of this kind of sentence? Chile is a South American country, in the American continent, and is 8000 miles south of America somehow. I know the why's and the meaning intented, no need to explain. Wont stop pointing this out though, as it will always feel to me as a example of the general disregard USA has for its neighbours.
What was everyone's favourite workaround for the lack of horizontal line in select? I used blank space and a useless item with "---", though it's thankfully been many (20+) years since I manually wrote a select.
Reminds me a little bit of https://markwhen.com/
Question. We know that one major WP company is refusing to put significant working time into the project, that's how this started. Earlier this week another reduced its effort to match.

But have any hosters offered to increase their effort? Pay for five or so dedicated people to work on the open source?
> It makes it harder to accept the statement "Trans women are women", for example.

This is a statement about social identity rather than biology. Transgender people have little or no interest in opening their gray matter or genitals to public scrutiny. It's about respecting the feelings and choices of the individual.

Consider this analogy: suppose that we refused to call people "Christians" who self-identify as Christian but nonetheless ignore or even act in contraction to the teachings of Jesus Christ? As far as I can tell, this would apply to the majority of so-called Christians in the United States. (I personally refer to these people as "Old Testament Christians".)