skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then what is coordinated lobbying
Copilot is a button. ;)
Yes, and I was already struggling to understand what Microsoft 365 actually meant. Adding AI and renaming it all to Copilot is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I don’t think language is the key, but it certainly is A key and we can go as far as agi with this key.
I personally would like to "fix" the thinking when it comes to asking these models for help on more complex and subjective problems. Things like design solutions. Since a lot of these types of solutions are belief based rather than fact based, it's important to be able to fine-tune those beliefs in the "middle" of the reasoning step and re-run or generate new output.

Most people do this now through engineering longwinded and instruction-heavy prompts, but again that type of thing supposes that you know the output you want before you ask for it. It's not very freeform.
The point isn't that wells fargo management didn't scheme to intentionally defraud customers, it's that the government was able to punish wells fargo for defrauding customers without having to prove they intentionally schemed to do so.
It doesn’t call it into question- they’re not. OpenAI has been bleeding researchers since the Anthropic split (and arguably their best ones, given Claude vs GPT-4o). While Google should have all the data in the world to build the best models, they still seem organizationally incapable of leveraging it to the their advantage, as was the case with their inventing Transformers in the first place.
I thought part of the argument though was that renewables are now cheaper.
You can get this information from google. If you're trying to make a point, just make it!
The censorship is not present in the distilled models which you can run locally
Microsoft really has to pull itself together in terms of product branding. Microsoft 365 itself was a terrible name for an office suite, but adding a "copilot" at the end is hitting too low a bar. Not sure how it even got an approval in the first place.
The human brain is also dry big data statistical machinery.

The frontier models (of which R1 is an example) « think » in much the same way a human would - look at their chain of thought output). I think if you shut down LLMs in your head because you think you « understand » them and there’s nothing interesting there, then you’re blinded by hubris.
Beautiful work. Could it be worth repeating the experiment with the monitor running at a very low refresh rate, i.e. 30hz? If Wayland is always a frame slower than X11, it should be much easier to observe.
The various wayland compositors all have huge problems with keyboards, mice, and other input devices because the wayland spec and reference implementation(s) chose not to support such things. So each wayland compositor picks a different solution. Popular ones are libei and libinput but often there's just no support for "advanced" mouse/keyboard inputs at all (looking at you, weston). And you can never tell if a particular piece of linux software will work on any given wayland. The fragmentation is terrible. On X with the strong X11 reference that actually implements everything you can be sure something that works on one will work on another.

Hell, it's been 12 years and not a single wayland compositor supports screen readers for the visually disabled yet. They are toys.
Yes but this is what causes confusion when scientists push back against proposed bans which seems like a legitimately insane and evil position to take.

We can sharpen the language and say "ban GoF research that increases transmissibility of infectious disease", for example.
Have you ever tried upgrading python on a machine with a large codebase that you need to maintain?
I had a similar view during the GFC.

Clearly crimes were committed, and clearly layers and layers of management were in on the joke, but only the few little fish at the bottom who were dumb enough to ever put things into writing with a paper trail went to jail.

A lot of the alleged rogue traders were far less rogue than their employers would like you to believe, similar with the LIBOR fixing scandal, etc.

J6 is very similar because there will never be a paper trail of the Orange man sending written orders to storm the Capitol. Everything is a wink and a nod.

The guy at the top never actually says the thing, the next rung down maybe says it but only 1-1 in-person in a secure environment, a few levels down maybe a phone call & hopes not to be tapped, a few more layers down you start to get to the idiots who send a text/email.

Akin to the Mafia.
The startup ecosystem in which the goal is to get bought to be killed by the monopolies would help us how anyway?
Or even the quasi-counterfactual of imagining what was true from 1868-1924 even though it’s not true after 1924.

An under-appreciated advocacy skill is reframing arguments to make the logical fallacies in the opponent’s argument clearer. You see arguments all the time that beg the question, but nobody really understands what that is. But sometimes you can rephrase that argument in a way that shows it is engaged in circular reasoning, which is easier to identify.
What does this mean? What does the zapping accomplish?
It's even dumber than it seems at first glance; what people do has changed to the degree where besides a niche market segment of users with deep product knowledge and usage, most activities and work happens in much simpler shapes than a productivity suite is a good fit for. It's primarily tasks using surface level functionality.

This essentially (along with subscriptions and bundling) makes the fit just worse, which in turn makes the value proposition even worse.

The global idea of having something that does what a publisher's desk needs but "on the computer" became irrelevant over 10 years ago, and at the same time, the work that remained moved to where specialised work has always been: in specialised tools. The space between emulating the physical world and processes that are mostly digital but somehow still have to relate to the physical world is pretty much self-eliminating.

I suppose the only thing that remains is a spreadsheet, because it is a tool that has no direct analog. But even there you end up with people using it to manage lists (which you can do with practically anything else) or doing actual spreadsheet work. That split is not really apparent with the other many products in the Copilot suite as the processes it used to be used for are themselves shrinking. For example: we're not writing a larger number of internal memos in Word, we're not creating more brochures in Publisher, and we're not printing letters all day long. Our meetings aren't better because we have outlook, planner, project and onenote. Even if all of those products had 1000 AIs built in, that wouldn't change.

Sprinkling AI around to try and manufacture relevant improvements or relevance for the processes that used to be the primary way to spend a working day only hurts the product.
For what it’s worth, which isn’t much, I see signs this precept is changing because of the huge amounts of investible capital fighting for opportunities as the thaw progresses. It’s not going to be a widespread change, though, most will stick with what they’ve known.
Clearly understandable? Every time someone tells me on Teams about "the file they shared last week", I struggle to find out if I need to go to Onedrive, SharePoint, the Teams channel "files", the Teams channel "documents", etc. It's the most confusing piece of software I'm forced to use...
hahaha love it
This has failed me. I was mugged while black out drunk, and they succesfully unlocked my phone, unlocked my banking app, etc, despite me having the eye contact feature enabled.
That's true, which is why we should be heavily focused on keeping corporations small, discrete and weak enough to drown in a bathtub when they act up.
Are you willfully misleading here or did you simply not, you know, do the thing you're supposed to do before commenting?
Has implications for competitive FPS gaming on modern Linux — one more problem to fix. For example "The Finals" allows Linux players, but imagine having this much input delay and having to revert to classic x11 to play games, lol.
I'm not sure that the voters don't care -- it's mostly that they don't know. Because they are being constantly flooded with messaging that screams in other directions: "it's the immigrants!!" "it's trans people!" "it's those f*ing libs!!" "it's those MAGA idiots!!" etc. etc.

And because these things are complicated, it's hard to boil them down to a few words that stick with voters, and attempts to do so come off as "West/East Coast Elitism". This is why populism is great for large monopolistic corporations so long as it can be channeled away from them (which they spend a great deal of money on).
Don’t both Apple and Android implement random BT MAC addresses specifically to prevent this kind of tracking?
The capitalists have found a way to make 51+% of the justifiably furious people vote for further dismantling of the institutions that work (as well as anti-DEI witch hunts and other nonsense) and, therefore, more abandon and decay.
> blame the politicians that built the system to work this way.

Politicians are only doing what the potato cartel is telling them to, because if they weren't they'd be replaced by big-potato-friendly politicians. You can't blame a single actor. What's to blame is the system itself. As long as what's driving it is capital, whomever and whatever makes it grow most will be rewarded, under the risk of being replaced. There's only one metric that counts in this game, and it's no surprise that everything arranges around its optimization.

World is controlled by big potato.
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Adam Curtis‘ excellent documentary Hypernormalisation is available on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?si=ao9n52h4yn6Y40T1
You could just say employees get a blackout period each year where they can’t buy or sell company stock.
Magnetic rubber-coated balls that levitate in the bearing cavity, that you set in motion through electromagnets mounted in the bearing..?
> We have access to the same AI assistants. Don't try to sell me your AI assistants "insights" as your own insights. I can interact with the same AI assistant to gather the same insights.

With AI, the insights (or "insights") depend on what questions you ask, and what you know to push back on. We all have access to the same IDEs, but we don't write the same code.

With that said, I agree with your points.
Funny, because the direction ML is going is completely the opposite of what is needed for ASI, so they are never going to get what they want.

People are focusing on datasets and training, not realizing that these are still explicit steps that are never going to get you to something that can reason.
I think it's actually rational to say that you think it's good for the world and for society for people that are compelled to do art and skilled at it have an avenue to make money off of it (or at least to be recognized for it), and to therefore choose to vote with your wallet for bespoke creators to prop up the industry.

In the same way that you could rationally choose not to shop at Walmart, even if it's superior in price, quality, and convenience, because you want non-Walmart stores to continue to exist.
When CoPilot showed up in my Word, I was writing a pitch doc that asked me to also describe whether I was using GenAI for anything for this pitch. It made me realize I didn’t know whether this doc was getting auto-pushed to CoPilot and would be used for training in some way. Dislike.
Likewise, if investors want to invest (deploy capital) they will adapt. There is more balanced leverage recently.
> If rents get too high, people move to a different city.

With what money? It takes three months rent up-front to move (first+last month rent and a deposit equal to one month rent) up front. People _need_ a place to live and will spend every last dollar to not be homeless.
Worse than CoPilot is the new Notepad.

Can close the program without saving the file, open it again and it is still there! WTF?
Luigi Inc.
It doesn't matter how the cartel came to be, if it's a cartel fixing prices, it's illegal. You are doing a lot of water carrying for criminals here, ever consider how that makes you look?
Windows 2000 was pretty revolutionary
This is why, short of real financial hardship, I will never work again at a company where I need to rely on Microsoft products.

Have to use Windows as an OS? No thanks. Microsoft Teams as core employee platform? Nope.

I get it’s not a choice for many.
You're a perfect example of why reporting about Vietnam was horribly broken. We all know about the atrocities committed by the Americans, but nobody understands how horrendous the VC were, and the direct threat they presented to those conquered.

I've already given you the source for the mayor story, but you're not actually interested in it, are you? You'll stay blissfully ignorant with false plausible deniability.
While this is good info, it should also be known that in the USA, a judge (maybe and police officer?) can legally command you to unlock your phone via biometrics, but they cannot legally command you to unlock via password or passphrase.
“Legally command” = command you to do something with the force of law, and legally punish you if you resist
Is m364 the same as m365 but without AI? What is the SKU?
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All of what you say is true, and yet practical applications that did break are somehow not talked about quite as much as hypothetical applications that might have broken. SWI could reuse infix dot precisely because it was universally considered bad style to use it in the old style, and hence was not used in the old style.

Which is not to say that I think the record syntax is particularly useful. But I wish not every Prolog discussion devolved into "Markus Triska fanpersons regurgitate walls of text about infix dot".
There's a saying in Argentina: “Nothing changes in years, but everything changes in a day” It’s still too early to make definitive statements about Milei’s government. However, for those unfamiliar with Argentina, it’s worth noting some key realities under this so-called "libertarian" administration: the USD/ARS exchange rate remains controlled, a nominee presented by Milei to the Supreme Court is widely regarded as a highly corrupt judge (in the Gotham City way), and similar contradictions abound [0].

Milei is undoubtedly a skilled influencer. On a more practical note, consider this: if your software company needed a few laptops or notebooks to operate, you were previously limited to importing them by courier with a cap of USD 1,000, which was only recently increased to USD 3,000 a few months ago. This is one Apple powerful notebook, including taxes.

When it comes to managing inflation, certain strategies or "tricks" are often employed: inducing a recession, withholding increases in retirement benefits, and encouraging carry-trade practices [1]. In this binary world it is important to highlight that the previous governments were terrible.

[0] https://www.cato.org/blog/mileis-key-pending-task-ending-arg...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currencycarrytrade.asp
well that's just what the LWN article states, the project itself does not do that anywhere

the desktops on chimera are standard (gnome/kde/xfce and a variety of compositors and window managers available for installation)
> future models (which admittedly may not look much like today's LLMs) will blur the lines between mutable context and immutable weights.

"may not look much like today's LLMs" is really sweeping the whole point under the rug. The difference between what we are doing now with static LLM models and dynamic models will require algorithmic changes that have not yet been invented. That's in addition to the fact that the processing of a single neuron is completely parallel with respect to inputs. GPUs make them more parallel, but the analog devices we are trying to mimic are vastly more complicated than what we are using as a substitute.
The examples of "lab leaks" being given in this thread are things like a large-scale human vaccine trial not using a properly inactivated virus. This is not a "lab leak" in anything like the sense of that is being alleged here.

> We take the effort to air gap infected or security critical IT systems, but can't be bothered to air gap humanity from existential threats.

My whole point is that we're not air-gapped in the first place. Millions of humans are interacting with infected animals every day, under conditions that are much less safe and controlled.

Imagine if all of your data had been leaked to the public internet, was mirrored across a dozen websites, and was being downloaded 1000 times a day, but then one security researcher had your data on an encrypted drive, and only read it on an air-gapped computer. Would you be more worried about the one security researcher, or the dozens of publicly accessible websites?

> If protecting all of humanity from the next pandemic is too much work for virologists, maybe it's best that they consider another career?

They are protecting you, and the thanks they get is that you scapegoat them, hound them online, and cheer when they get fired. You should be grateful that people like Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology worked so hard on understanding coronaviruses for decades, and warned about the risks of a pandemic. Instead, without any knowledge of the subject, you're participating in a witch hunt against her and her colleagues.
This outcome is exactly what I fear most. Paul Graham described Altman as the type of individual who would become the chief of a cannibal tribe after he was parachuted onto their island. I call this type the inverse of the effective altruist: the efficient psychopath. This is the type of person that would have first access to an AGI. I don't think I'm being an alarmist when I say that this type of individual having sole access to AGI would likely produce hell on earth for the rest of us. All wrapped up in very altruistic language of "safety" and "flourishing" of course.

Unfortunately, we seem to be on this exact trajectory. If open source AGI does not keep up with the billionaires, we risk sliding into an inescapable hellscape.
Years ago I read an article about AI and it said the biggest hurdle is getting to where the user doesn’t feel like they have to intervene. Now we have “self driving cars” that require attention, LLMs that require attention. We have blown this first round by making people feel like they cannot trust anything automated. Now our relationship will be “you can do this ok, but I have to babysit you”. Personally I’d rather be a maker than managing an unpredictable ai.
So it's not really possible at this time with these general consumer offerings?
Yes, but the tension is that you can't always reinforce the bridge.

There are a lot of contingencies that need to be satisfied to be able to do that, some about the bridge, some about the environment (people, resources, conviction, interest, etc) around the bridge.

And among those environmental contingencies, because they're so numerous and imprecise, the failing bridge increasingly invites people advocating to just accelerate retirement of the bridge on their preferred terms, towards their preferred replacement.

Ultimately, there is some point of no return, where you can no longer reasonably expect anybody to be able to gather enough resources to repair the bridge as it stands, even though it still hasn't spontaneously collapsed just yet.

It's very hard to know where you are on this progression though, and for many people, they don't have much effective potency in doing anything about it anyway. Hence, they just kinda get by and hope that they still have some way to cross the river tomorrow, with the inkling sense that they very well may not.
Thanks. I suppose the “more than all others combined” would be “except shoplifting,” which is a big “except.”

I still maintain that wage theft is covered and enforced far less than it should be given the scale, precisely because of who the victims and perpetrators are. Your link lays it out nicely: “ While wage theft is a horrible crime against workers, retail theft also directly causes higher costs for consumers and arguably hurts workers even more than wage theft does.” Don’t worry about what we’re stealing from you, peons, the real problem is what you’re stealing from us.
Yes, their point is to inflate the AI bubble some more so they can extract more wealth before it's over.
>but how many of the people who caused the 2008 disaster ended up in prison? My point exactly.

>I also think it’s clear that SBF was jailed for his effects on the rich rather than on average people. Worse than fleecing billionaires, he made them look bad.

"The rich" was upset enough at SBF losing $32 billion to throw the book at him, but are totally fine with the GFC causing $2 trillion in damage to the global economy?
Fair point, but that hadn't yet been determined and the flight chief and captain were taking a severe career risk (rightly IMO) in making that call.
We will solve the cheating problem with more AI, all essays will need to be written in 3 hour time windows in web portals with key-logging + copilot off and children on webcam the entire time. An AI will assess all the data and tell you if the child cheated or not.

Of course no one will care if you're good at writing essays in the future, and having that skill just means you're working a low paying training data creation job, but we will carry on pretending otherwise for a few years.
I get major lag spikes when the gpu is under heavy load (like doing Stable Diffusion inference or something). TBF I haven't A/B tested with X11, but I don't ever remember it being like that. An extra frame of latency isn't great on it's own, but the occasional spikes in lag are really irritating.
Setting aside that 'too few young people' is by definition when there's a problem, thus making it a tautology, there's a lot we can do by changing our views of what retirement means.

Retirement should not mean a life of air travel and cruises, achieved by pension savings.

Retirement should not mean continuing to live in your 2,500 sq. ft. ranch house in the suburbs with only car access.

John Maynard Keynes famously predicted we would be working 15 hours a week due because of increasing productivity. Where did all that productivity go?

If it's because we believed we needed ('deserved') more, then change those beliefs. If it's because of the concentration of wealth into the 0.01% then AI productivity improvements won't fix things.

The AI-mongers sell the false and unsustainable promise that AI will magically solve things so people don't need to change their habits.

Yet we can achieve a lot of savings by building more compact areas to live which don't require a car, and by building mass transit with the needs of the elderly in mind (no steps, low-frequency lines which run through neighborhoods, for those with limited mobility, etc.)

We can save money and get better health outcomes with a tried-and-true single-payer health care system done in every other developed country (eg, "Medicare For All".)

That can all be done now.

Yet we aren't. Because it's easier, and more profitable to those with money, to ignore the festering problem, with the fig leaf of 'AI' or some other future technology, and let someone else deal with it,
For those just skimming the article and who haven't heard, as an existing subscriber to Microsoft 365, you can switch to the Classic variant without AI and without the price increase, by clicking on "Cancel subscription" on your account page and selecting Classic.

...at least for now...