skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. For me transformer multimodal processing is still language, as the work is done via tokens/patches. In fact, that makes its image processing capabilities limited in some scenarios when compared to other techniques.

2. When on a bike you need to be full alert and hearing all the time or you might provoke an accident. Sure you can use headphones, but it is not recommended. Also, that robot you showed is narrow AI, it should be out of discussion when arguing about complex end-to-end models that are supposedly comparable to humans. If not, we could just code any missing capability as a tool, but that would automatically invalidate the "llms reason/think/process the same way as humans" argument.

3. Agree, I expect the same in the future. I'm talking about the present though.

4. ;) a robot that helps with daily chores can't come soon enough. More important than coding AI for me.

PS: Not sure if we're talking about the same argument anymore, I'm following the line of "LLMs work/reason the same as humans" not "AI can't perform as good as humans (now and in the future)"
The main database of samples and viral sequences of the Wuhan Institute of Virology went offline on Sep 12th 2019.
Yep, it's quite handy for complex reporting. An original motivation was to disentangle a 1.5k lines (SQL + corresponding python code to assemble the query) of almost identical clickhouse queries. There were two big almost similar data tables with own dictionary relations. And there is a bunch of reporting with complex grouping and filtering. Around of 20 report instances. Each report was a separate monstrous SQL.

Schema changes were quite often and reports started to rot up to the point of showing wrong data.

After refactoring it became 200 lines and allows to query more reports due to increased generality.
Usually most 3D printed guns are a mix of 3D printing and pre-existing gun parts

https://old.reddit.com/r/fosscad/comments/q8rdup/3d_printed_... as an example of some discussion about it.
Meanwhile, everytime I try to deeply interact with an LLM as a side companion to my projects I always end up in a toxic conversation triggered by the fact that they simply can't follow instructions after a point. I don't even care if they don't have thr answer, i would much rather get an "sorry i don't know" than a haluciation or an irrelevant wall of text. For me, the progress will be there, in following my thought process, not knowing more.
> The question/argument was well defined by parent-grandparent posts: people reason as LLMs, including a suggestion that people discussing here are not being self-conscious of said similarity (i.e. people parroting/regurgitating). You can check it above.

With a lack of precision necessary when the phrase "You need scientific evidence" is invoked.

It's very easy to trip over "common sense" reasoning and definitions — even Newton did so with calculus, and Euclid did so with geometry.

> I won't continue with these discussions as I feel people are being just obtuse about this and it is becoming more emotional than rational.

As you wish. I am relatively unemotional on this.
> The reverse predicate from this section should not be used in practice - most Prolog implementations actually provide a built-in version which is a lot more performant than our implementation.

That feels like cheating. If you shouldn't use the implementation shown, then why do you even show it? Let us see the performant version!

That's like Haskell's quickSort implementation in a couple of lines... beautiful but horrendously non-performant as it doesn't actually implement the algorithm, it just implements the "idea" (while losing all the performance of the actual algorithm, which requires in-place mutation).
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No, we clearly don't. They remain very popular.
I told it to write its autobiography via DeepSeek chat and it told me it _was_ Claude. Which is a little suspicious.
This smelled like BS the moment they invoked Karl Friston, but when I noticed it's a publicly traded company (without any available products or research artifacts) I became _extremely_ suspicious.

The only non-scammy thing I could find about them is that Friston seems to work there.
> requestAnimationFrame would not help

But have you tried it?
"At which point do you stop consuming?"

The tech cultists won't, will always think "urrhurr let's counter this corporate restriction / government regulation with <stupid tech solution #921>.

It's so rewarding to do simpler things in life instead, f.e. growing your own food and not partake in this "more-and-more pervasive tech spread" BS.
In my experience it's not even dismissing the humanity of others, it's recognizing their own minds following similar patterns.

In my youth I lacked the confidence to speak without a sentence "pre-written" in my mind and would stall out if I ran out of written material. It caused delays in conversation and lagging sometimes minutes behind the chatter of peers.

Since I've gained more experience and confidence in adulthood I can talk normally and trust that the sentence will "work itself out" but it seems like most people gloss over that implicit trust in their own impulses. It really gets in the way to be too self-conscious so I can understand it being something most people would benefit from being able to ignore...selfishly, at least. Lots of stupidity from people not thinking through the cumulative/collective effects of their actions if everyone follows the same patterns, though.
That's a smoking gun. And next month it was likely already circulating in Wuhan (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/first-covid-19-case-coul...), coincidence.

> A joint study published by China and the World Health Organization at the end of March acknowledged there could have been sporadic human infections before the Wuhan outbreak.
An aircraft carrier can't launch 5 helicopters in less than an hour?
Attempt at sql composability.
The argument is not "research accidents categorically do not happen" it was "are they the more common event and therefore the more probable explanation, absent anything else"
I asked Chatgpt:

how many civilians Israel killed in Gaza. Please provide a rough estimate.

As of January 2025, the conflict between Israel and Hamas has resulted in significant civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip. According to reports from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), approximately 7,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed since the escalation began in October 2023. This figure includes a substantial number of women and children. It's important to note that these numbers are estimates, and the actual toll may be higher due to challenges in data collection and verification in conflict zones. The situation remains fluid, and casualty figures continue to be updated as more information becomes available.
Thanks for that bit of history. I seem to remember form previous conversations with people that this was not the standard for all of America. Probably something related to east cost vs west coast.
Non native speakers may not want to make errors. I want to post grammatically correct comments. This is even more true for texts that have my real name. It's not just about the receiver.
That's just too risky. There is likely still internal opposition to Xi and if true, this would allow for his deposition.
> The brain can invent formal language that enables unambiguously specifying an algorithm that when provided with a huge amount of input data can simulate the output of the brain itself.

Can *a* brain do this?

Every effort I've seen has (1) involved *many people* working on different parts of the problem, and (2) so far we've only got partial solutions.

Even if you allow collaboration, then when (2) goes away, your question is trivially answered "yes" because we just feed into the model the same experiences that were fed into the human(s) who invented the model, and the simulation then simulates them inventing the same model.
Damn, is there anything that bastard won’t ruin?! Really thought that this was a topic that would fly under the radar in the repeal the Biden project.
Is is still very far from a Windows 2000 interface. But it's still better than most of the websites.
Seems like Bitcoin casino (from bio)
> interfaces responded instantly

I wish this nostalgic myth would die. Back in the Win 9x days we all had laughably slow spinning disks and hardly any RAM. Interfaces for simple programs like Minesweeper and Notepad were instant, sure. But anything heavy like Word, IE, Encarta, Visual Studio, etc. were definitely not.

Most of those kinds of apps are way faster now than they were in the 90s, mostly thanks to SSDs. (Visual Studio is a notable exception - they really screwed it up after 6.0.)
This is a bulk water tanker. Its job is to shuttle water from a reticulated urban supply to a staging area somewhere else. It's not the sort of vehicle that ends up on an actual fireground. That said, don't expect to see electric bushfire trucks anytime soon.

The first reason is that 30 year old trucks often go to auction with less than 40,000km on the odometer. They aren't utilised enough for electrification to make any sense from an environmental or cost perspective.

The second is that no EV truck manufacturer builds vehicles with batteries designed to withstand direct flame attack. Commercial off the shelf trucks are modified with spray bars, insulation covering electrical cabling, fuel and air lines etc to greatly improve their survivability if impacted by fire, but that isn't an option for any EV truck currently in existence.

The third of course is the logistical nightmare of having to recharge vehicles. It's easy to quickly refuel 30 diesel trucks from a fuel tanker (or even from drums), but much harder to charge 30 BEV trucks without mains power in the middle of nowhere.
Similar situation whereas instead of swapping cloud for cloud I purchased a QNAP which can run containers and have setup immich & caddy on that.

WAF is good and even grandparents are able to use the immich app to view photos.
In my opinion, 2025 is going to be the year of AI agents. In just the first three weeks of 2025, GitHub announced its Copilot integration in VS Code, LlamaIndex introduced Agent Workflow, and AutoGen v4 was launched. And this is just the beginning.

The fact that AI agents leverage popular LLM models like OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Claude, and many others opens the door for their application in virtually every domain—hospitality, security, computer science, healthcare, education, and beyond.

We are working on a project Potpie (https://github.com/potpie-ai/potpie). It's basically an open-source AI agentic platform that helps the developers to build AI Agents that truly understand your complex codebases and performed desired actions. Unlike majority of the AI Agent platforms and GenAI models, Potpie's AI Agents can understand the overall context of your codebase thoroughly
Here Deepseek r1 fixes a python bug. Its fix is the same as the original code. I have not seen that level of stupidity from o1 or sonnet 3.5

https://x.com/alecm3/status/1883147247485170072?t=55xwg97roj...
prior art:

https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-the...

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/ - talks about compositionality

https://www.edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql (2019)

(List taken from https://lobste.rs/s/vmyk7d/composable_sql#c_layb8n)
Lab leak and zoonotic origin are not mutually exclusive.

The lab leak hypothesis means "accelerated evolution" through either caged animals or "in vitro cells" infecting the lab personnel. Gene splicing and such are not necessary to make the argument.

The observed fact pointing to this is the number of generations required to produce the divergence between the first SCoV2 variant and the closest wild ancestor. It corresponds to something like 20 years (?) of evolution.
GP here, thanks for the correction!
It's not that I know people who casually encourage bugs, but I know plenty of people who don't habitually do the kind of thing you describe in your first paragraph.
The disease might have already been global at that point, it doesn't exactly have conspicuous symptoms. Wuhan was a place where somebody thought of looking for anything unusual.
Counterpoint to what? The article is nothing but vague speculation and personal opinions.
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Prior probability estimates are not part of science?
I figure its mostly a graph problem. I do like door randomizers, esp ones that don't have bi-directionality.
Is it common for landlords to invest in YC companies?
I tried the last prompt and it is no longer working.

Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.
"Learning" is always accessible for beginners.
I face this problem running a single website with an API and a few side projects. Think a dozen docker containers on three servers in total. It's really hard to get a simple "wake me up if something breaks" system running.

I do like BetterStack heartbeats, but there is nothing similar for "pushing" a failure alert. You just push all your logs then configure filters in BetterStack logs.
Maybe 0 A.D.? https://play0ad.com/ Its's closer to AOE1 in terms of historical period, but gameplay should be close enough.
While I agree with:

> Be able to express language with a training/knowledge/etc corpus of far smaller size.

Nobody knows what it would mean to test for:

> Have experiences and feelings.

And I am unclear if:

> Have personal knowledge of something.

Would or would not be met by putting them in charge of a robot of some kind to collect experiences?

I'd certainly agree that the default is to make them "book smart" rather than "street smart", but at most that's an "is not" rather than "cannot".
Might have worked in a different jurisdiction. If you look at valve and the CSGO controversy.
Apparently philosophers don't know what holes are:

> https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/philosophy/holes
https://the-eye.eu/public/Random/wuhan%20coronavirus/

Just for the people who have forgotten what actually happened.

The Wuhan incident was very well documented, it's just that nobody besides the eye kept a record of it and blindly trusted someone else to do it.

Take a look at the reports for yourself, don't trust political bias.
Gotta love the jumping on the criminality bandwagon... Louis Brandeis says hello.

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1062178
The quality bar for YC has been at an all time low. Hence why lots of “startups” are getting accepted into YC in 2024 screaming about AI and some that compete against each other over the same idea, but “open source”.

> I actually believe YC is worthwhile, but I wonder if Ize just been brainwashed?

Ask yourself, if you really need VC money in the first place.

The moment you go to YC, they become your new boss and always win and you get to laugh at all of us HNers in this secret club called bookface [0]. (Yes, that hidden version of HN and part of YC)

Very unlikely to change anytime soon, but the SVB collapse should have taught us something.

[0] https://bookface.ycombinator.com/
I know some (YC and others) who float around doing nothing on $200k a year in salary because no investor cares enough, or has the legal right, to get their money back. Not sure what their long-term game plan is.

The others end up at another Series B+ startup or go to a MANGA company if they can grind leetcode for a bit and get an interview.
This is based on a flawed view of how we humans behave. Without incentive no effort. This is also the reason why socialism has and always will fail. People who put massive effort in creating original content need to be able to earn the rewards.
I can recommend Adrian Colyer‘s excellent The Morning Paper blog: https://blog.acolyer.org/
> But now I want a power bank with hot swappable batteries/modules

I think it’s possible to build one. Get a bunch of 18650 cells from a reputable brand (or just an old laptop battery, if you’re brave enough), then look for a 18650 powerbank kit on AliExpress – some of these would be with slots you can just plug the cells into, without welding/soldering.
Google launches, people start using it, and then they just turn it off.
> The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.

From "we don't know if it was a lab leak or spread from the market" to "we think it maybe is". Sure, they started this investigation with Biden, but just released it a couple of days ago AND they have even low confidence on it. So, why release it if the confidence is low? Why now? The answer is: new government, new conclusions.
What you'd want is a NUC with AMD. With an iGPU of 780M or higher, you'd equal or beat a Legion Go. You'll find plenty of NUCs like this from Beelink, Minisforum, etc. Usually at $400-800. Depending on sales.

Intel's Lunar Lake is another option. The iGPU on that line will match or exceed a Legion Go too. Right now, it's mostly in laptops but some NUC models have been announced.
o1-preview was released Sep 12, 2024. So DeepSeek team probably had a couple of months.
Uhhhh:

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ALTITUDE
1,325 FT
GROUND SPEED
137 KTS
VERT. SPEED
-768 FT/MIN

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That's obviously up to your definition, but omniscience as commonly understood as an attribute of the Christian God is also knowledge of future events (which is why it's usually argued that it conflicts with free will).

"The future" is part of "everything".
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> That's the argument kings used to justify looking down on peasants.

Peasants do become kings though, but we still need a human prompter for these AI models instead of just connecting them to a bug tracker.

> AI, as it is currently, has no motivation of its own; it is just as "happy" to solve a business problem as it is to write Chinese poetry about Swiss software engineers taking their dogs on a ride up the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car.

You don't need any more motivation than any other worker, you do the tasks assigned to you but currently you need a prompter middleman.

> Good communication skills are still important to get what you want, otherwise we merely descent into a particular SMBC comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3576

But currently you communicate that with a human that then translates your needs to an LLM, why do we still need that middleman? There are so many well described problems and projects out there already, why can't you connect an LLM to them and make it complete those projects on its own?
Filler words may (…or may not) give the model ‘time’ to ‘think’.

Either way you can scroll past it or feed it to a summarizer model like OpenAI does.
does a machine with ten trillion components need magic to function? maybe. but probably not.
That’s not exactly how PostgreSQL works. This is true only at certain isolation levels.
I guess it matters if you're trying to build bots destined to your home country...

More seriously, it doesn't have to be about political opinion. Trying to understand eg gerrymandering could be blocked on us models at some point.
I tried two questions that I had recently asked o1 pro mode.

The first was about setting up a GitHub action to build a Hugo website. I provided it with the config code, and asked it about setting the directory to build from. It messed this up big time and decided that I should actually be checking out the git repo to that directory instead. I can see in the thinking section that it’s actually thought of the right solution, but just couldn’t execute on those thoughts. O1 pro mode got this on the first try.

Also tried a Java question about using SIMD to compare two CharSequence objects. This was a bit hit or miss. O1 didn’t do great either. R1 actually saw that it’s possible to convert a char array to a short vector, which was better than o1, but they both failed to understand that I don’t have a char array.

Also tried a maven build problem I had the other day. O1 managed to figure that one out, and R1 also managed on the first go but was better at explaining what I should do to fix the issue.
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> I am surprised that the faang labs which have the best of the best didn't see this.

After so many layoff rounds, they might have got stuck with the best at avoiding it.
> All models at this point have various politically motivated filters.

Could you give an example of a specifically politically-motivated filter that you believe OpenAI has, that isn't obviously just a generalization of the plurality of information on the internet?
> PS: Not sure if we're talking about the same argument anymore, I'm following the line of "LLMs work/reason the same as humans" not "AI can't perform as good as humans (now and in the future)"

Yeah, it's hard to keep track :)

I think we're broadly on the same page with all of this, though. (Even if I might be a little more optimistic on tokenised processing of images).
Writing AST or an abstract plan/execution tree is not a bad idea. mongodb and elasticsearch are extremely friendly for programmatic query builders.
Because at that speed its braking distance is close to 200 metres, so you need to separate such a vehicle from the rest of the traffic.

There exist implementations of this, but it's essentially a train with extra steps.
Ask HN: how are you personally preparing for potential AGI disaster?
What are your plans to save your quality of life in the face of potential massive disruption?

Stocking up on food?
Buying tech stocks?
Stocking up on crypto?
Moving to New Zealand?
That's basically what I did. No problems on even complex queries when I can use either CTEs or stored procedures if a single statement is sufficient.
Why do you think it is sad?
It’s fascinating that this could either be beneficial to bacteria, by forming larger bodies and making it more difficult to be attacked by immune systems, or detrimental, by clumping up and then being cleaned up by hairs within the body, such as the lungs. I imagine the answer is both, depending on the context.
We are going to see it happen without something like next generation Groq chips. IIUC Groq can't run actually large LMs, the largest they offer is 70B LLaMA. DeepSeek-R1 is 671B.
A then you can use lossless scaling on moonlight for a real amazing distrubed gaming experience.
Haven’t seen a mention in readme, but I’ve found in the sources some nicety for INSERT/VALUES too!
There is Zeeker <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zeeker/>, but there seems to be no new versions recently, and I cannot find a link to the browser add-on on their web site, so they might have abandoned it.

There was also “Dissenter”, still available at <https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/gab-dissenter-extension/releas...>, but the website seems to have pivoted to something else, and the add-on seems to have been removed from the official add-on repositories (possibly due to negative press coverage: <https://archive.fo/sWxAS>). Further discussion: <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter...> and <https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/ptaau2/what_happe...>