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Will definitely be entertaining to watch if it happens.

I guess it makes sense. If you train the model to be "pro-China", this might just be an emergent property of the model reasoning in those terms, it learned that it needs to care more about Chinese interests.

Google maps is probably a big moat that's very hard to replicate. You can't as easily just crawl all of that data. It's not easy to generate directions. The average user doesn't want to use your search engine for one thing and Google for everything else, they just want a one stop shop for search.

Don't hold your breath. Chip fabrication is extremely sophisticated. It's basically nanotechnology. Not something that could practically be done at home anytime soon.

Genetics do factor. It's not just a question of genetics affecting metabolism. People literally don't feel hunger with the same intensity as one another. It's like sex drive. There are both very horny people and asexuals out there. There are also people who routinely forget to eat. For many people though, the notion of "forgetting to eat" seems completely alien, because those signals are much stronger for them.

They're very expensive drugs so it would be one lobby against another. However given that they're so expensive, I would think that broke, uneducated alcoholics just won't have access to them, so those profits are safe...

The reality might just be that most technology is slow to spread? But it also depends on what you mean by slow. The name ChatGPT became part of popular culture extremely quickly.

I've been reviewing papers for NeurIPS and I can tell you that many of the submissions are using various strategies to string together LLM calls for various purposes.

It tends to work better when you give the LLMs some specific narrow subtask to do rather than expecting them to be in the driver's seat.

Then the command should probably be "I summon you to open the gate to loserdom!"

They give it a list of tool commands it can use in the context I believe.

There are many futures where humanity stops.

There's also the popularity of HN itself and the popularity of posting jobs on HN that's an important factor.

You could both normalize the figures and include a separate graph for job posting density per month or something like that. Total posts on HN monthly would also be interesting to visualize. Is it trending up or down?

The problem is that Apple intelligence is currently kinda useless. They rushed it into production in a misguided effort to "stay relevant". It may take a few years but we should eventually get useful personal assistant type AIs.

I would say LLMs are very useful for specific scenarios. They're also getting better. Just takes time to iron out the kinks.

That's not wrong. There is a lot of hype-driven development in the programming world. People are always jumping on the latest web frameworks and such. A little bit more stability is not a bad thing.

That being said, I think that people underestimate how fast LLM technology can evolve. At the moment, lots of training data is needed for LLMs to learn something. This may not always be the case. In 2 to 5 years, it may be possible to train an LLM to be helpful with a new programming language with much less data than is needed today. No reason to assume that the current situation is what things will be like forever. It's not like this technology isn't evolving incredibly fast.

It's not a choice between going to raves or staying at home and using apps. There are other options.

Having been to raves, another issue you run into if you go there to meet people is that the kind of people who will hook up at raves probably don't want anything serious. It's a super hedonistic environment. If you want more than a one night stand any other form of dating is better.

Our cells also probably just don't divide as fast anymore. The entire metabolism slows down.

I think it's more common now. I don't know that phone sex was ever all that popular, but OnlyFans is huge. Also, there's just a lot more sollicitations. On twitch you have gamer girls in skimpy outfits using the platform as a funnel to drive people to OF, and most of their audience is underage. They're on twitter and reddit as well. Just in general porn is a lot more prevalent and it's kind of leaking into other platforms, harder to completely avoid it.

Also uh, I was on Facebook recently and they've added this reels feature, trying to be tiktok. Occasionally I browse my feed to see what my friends are up to, and in the reels (which can't be turned off) I see some underage girls doing really inappropriate things for views. I think this is really problematic. I don't want to be shown this, and I also feel upset that young girls are being encouraged by social media platforms to use their sexuality to get attention online (and make said platforms more money by doing so).

IMO it's likely that alien life would mirror the life we have here in a lot of ways. It's likely that aliens would have DNA or RNA, and would be made out of cells (unless they've become machines). So I think they would be pretty likely to understand what they are looking at given a bit of time for analysis.

The reason aliens are likely to be made out of DNA and have cells is simply that those things tend to naturally come to exist in our universe. We don't really have any evidence that any other chemistry (e.g. silicon-based) can produce life in this universe. If DNA-based life comes about elsewhere in the universe, it won't look exactly like us, but that life is also likely to have both plants and animals, just because life tends to try to fill every available evolutionary niche.

So in 2013 Google bought Boston Dynamics, then later sold them in 2017. The rumor is that BD didn't play nice with the rest of Google. They wanted to just keep doing whatever they wanted and not be told what to do.

I think that if Tesla had bought BD, it may have been more trouble than it's worth. They might have had to fire a lot of the staff, and then I'm not sure what they would have been left with. Tesla is trying to optimize for production cost and mass manufacturing whereas BD doesn't care about cost. It also seems to me like BD hasn't done much in the AI realm. They've focused a lot more on the locomotion and have been using classic robotics techniques.

I think you would have to start a small business like rent your robot to do housecleaning for your neighbors, that being said housecleaning will probably quickly become way more competitive and you would have to undercut bigger businesses.

I'm fairly ignorant about motor design, but my immediate thought was "isn't this going to exert pulling forces on the PCB traces?". Seems like that would limit how much torque your motor can exert? Which I guess isn't necessarily a problem for many applications.

You could also just put a ballistic missile on a satellite, then you'd have a guidance system.

You can look at studies done using psylocybin for a start, but also, adjust based on your own experience. Most people use between one and two grams of mushrooms, with two grams being quite strong strong for many people.

Some people are tempted to push the dosage so far as they can take it to experience "ego death", and I don't think that's necessary for therapeutic effects. Not quite sure how safe it is to push the dosage as high as you can either. There's some kind of esoteric belief in some circles that you'll get some magic enlightenment, connecting with another realm if you trip hard enough, but imo that mostly attracts people who already have fragile mental health.

Can we petition for HN to block paywalled and ad-riddled content? As it is there's an incentive to spam paywalled content around social media websites to earn yourself more money.

Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article. This is a community website, so we should favor content that is openly shareable.

Why not both? I think Claude is probably already more useful and helpful than many doctors. It would be nice to one day be able to just chat with an AI bot from home and get prescriptions or test sheets delivered. You could add automatic safeguards for certain medications or for drug interactions.

Obviously we're not there yet but many people in the world have access to no medical care or only expensive and crappy medical care.

We can't even simulate a single cell. At least not accurately. You'd need to be able to simulate ribosomes, gene expression, epigenetic factors. Still a lot we don't understand because even single cells are incredibly complex electrochemical machines.

> Two levels of interpretation seems baroque, but somehow it was fast enough for 68k workstations.

Well today we have x86 that gets translate into micro ops, and I doubt those micro-ops directly activate control lines? Not to mention all the magic that happens with reordering, register renaming, speculative execution etc. The amount of complexity inside a modern x86 chip is insane, I don't think it makes two levels of microcode seem all that baroque in comparison.

I don't think it's necessarily the small competitors that they are worried about, but they could be trying to prevent OpenAI from becoming too powerful and competing with them.

Different APIs and models are going to come with different capabilities and restrictions.