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I think you meant to respond to @noduerme, not @qudat. If so, I agree with both of you, otherwise I’m confused by what you’re saying.

Fuchsia pervasively uses capabilities.

I’m not sure there’s a better alternative.

What does this mean?

They are obviously not saying that they think this is going to happen. It is explicitly an “if-then” thought experiment: “if technology is deflationary, then avoid civil unrest”. The tone is rightly skeptical.

That doesn’t logically follow. It got this very straightforward thing correct; that doesn’t prove their response was cynical. It sounds like they know what they’re talking about.

A couple of times per month I give Gemini a try at work, and it is good at some things and bad at others. If there is a confusing compiler error, it will usually point me in the right direction faster than I could figure it out myself.

However, when it tries to debug a complex problem it jumps to conclusion after conclusion “a-ha now I DEFINTELY understand the problem”. Sometimes it has an OK idea (worth checking out, but not conclusive yet), and sometimes it has very bad ideas. Most times, after I humor it by gathering further info that debunks its hypotheses, it gives up.

If he’s that drunk all the time, the uncle might want to wear a helmet.

Yes it was Alan Kay. https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging

Another relevant page on the same site is: https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented

Not really, because you still recompile and start the program from scratch, rather than modifying the code that executes on the still-existing data structures.

Edit: rather than just naysaying, it occurred to me to reference the notion of Orthogonal Persistence, which the image-based approach provides (not without drawbacks) but IDEs typically don’t. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615228

How does it “jam up the airwaves” if its operating at a different frequency than the devices you say it will be jamming?

Oops, sorry I misread. That makes more sense in context.

Yeah, I remember all the hype about the first Nvidia chip that offloaded “T&L” from the CPU.

I think they’re using “vector” in the linear algebra sense, e.g. multiplying a matrix and a vector produces a different vector.

Not, as I assume you mean, vector graphics like SVG, and renderers like Skia.

I recall hearing, more than a decade ago IIRC, that facebook.com ran as a monolith for much longer than you would have expected. Perhaps someone with direct experience can comment?

At some point it becomes difficult to improve the O() complexity. How do you do better that the O(n-squared) of the Transformer, with acceptable tradeoffs? Many big brains in all the big labs are very aware of the importance of algorithmic advances. There is no low hanging fruit, but they're doing their best.

Then in parallel to that looking at compiler optimizations, and other higher-level algorithmic innovations such as Flash Attention (a classic at this point) which had a drastic impact on performance due to cache awareness, without changing the O() complexity.

I’m not a practitioner. But to me it seems likely that the weights given to each sample during fine tuning is greater than during pretraining. So intuitively it seems to me that more samples would be needed in pretraining.

Fuchsia seems like a potentially practical OS for constraining the operations of AI models. As an object capability operating system, each component (and hence the process that one is instantiated in) has access only to the capabilities that it is explicitly granted.

Are you sure? It wouldn’t shock me, but they specifically say “Gemini Apps”. I wasn’t familiar with the term, but a web search indicated that it has a specific meaning, and it doesn’t seem to me like web search AI summaries would be covered by it. Am I missing something?

> Today, I consider anyone who isn’t an emergency responder with a phone that makes noise a selfish asshole.

You’re probably getting a lot of false positives. Is it ok to answer a vibrating phone around you, or do I need to leave the vicinity first?

You might want to look into the work of Michael Levin’s lab to give you a broader perspective on the intelligence of individual cells and tissues. Your machine metaphor is arguably as misleading as anthropomorphization.

Edit: did you read the article? The examples described go far beyond your straw man about undiscovered receptors.

In this context I believe it refers to models that are trained to generate an internal dialogue that is then fed back in as additional input. This cycle might be performed several times before generating the final output text.

This is in contrast to the way that GPT-2/3/“original 4” work, which is by repeatedly generating the next finalized token based on the full dialogue thus far.

I think it’s a play on “don’t anthropomorphize the lawn mower”, referring to Larry Ellison.

The Internet and the Web are not the same thing. Apple absolutely gatekeeps the ability to run non-HTTP internet connected apps. Your statement that Apple is not a “gatekeeper to any part of the Internet” is simply false.

So smug. Unless you’re replying to someone you know (and my apologies if so), how do you know their die hard libertarian friends voted for Trump?

I think they were replying to the person with the green user name :-)

It’s true that the large majority of aid came in the form of weapons that the military industrial complex wanted to replace anyway. However, there has still been many billions of “cash” sent, totaling over $40 billion. That’s nothing to sneeze at. For example, from two years ago: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-us-aid-ukraine-money-e...

People who disagree with the Covid response may have been voting for RFK as much as Trump.

Many people disagree with the Covid response.

Many people look at the Bidens’ relationship with Ukraine and wonder whether the war could have been avoided, and we wouldn’t have to hear stories about “we sent $X billions, but Zelenskyy says he received only $0.5X billions” which could have been spent here, not to mention millions of lives spared (the latter doesn’t affect ordinary Americans directly, but there you go).

Edit: it’s abundantly clear that Trump is also highly corrupt. A big part of the problem is that many are only to see the other side’s corruption (not to mention the felt need to pick a side)

It’s somewhat surprising to me. If you take any two furry animals, they are more closely related to each other than to a lizard.

How would that work, exactly? Would Google’s search algorithm highlight pro-TRUMP articles to pump the token price? I think you’ll be waiting a long time.

Or perhaps if your phone goes down.