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> Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion. He then asks Huang when he believes AGI will be real — asking if it’s, say, five, 10, 15, or 20 years away — and Huang responds, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

> But Huang then seemed to slightly walk back his earlier claims, saying, “A lot of people use it for a couple of months and it kind of dies away. Now, the odds of 100,000 of those agents building Nvidia is zero percent.”

So a lot of podcast banter nonsense basically :-/

You have that backwards though! :-)

We'd get to know people in our community, often because they were born in to it, then we'd fit in to productive roles.

The way we do it these days is a recent, post industrial revolution, mode of society.

Wired headphones and earbuds seem to be having a moment as well.

Which would be totally fine with me TBH.

Rather amusingly, invite-only torrent sites might be the only semi-public authentically human hangouts left on the internet!

Be interesting to see the numbers graphed over time.

Funny thing about AI layoffs is the cloud cover it provides to do it. Which I know is not a fresh insight. :-)

In HR speak, if you 'reduce headcount' because you over hired or needed to cut costs, then that's a bad signal to the markets.

If you do it because of AI efficiencies, you are an innovative industry leader and your stock goes up.

Atlassian stock up 2% on the news :-/

Sadly this is what I discovered.

I'd hoped there would be cheap external drive bays to mount HDDs in and connect to the mini PC over SATA.

But alas there isnt really.

It makes more sense to just use a PC Case and mount the drives that way.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > In Comments > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

No, I'm saying they are not a 'technical person'.

I know them very well, and they are not a coder, or a 'technical person' by a broad HN definition.

What I'm saying is that we are at the point where technology is so pervasive in our society, and the lure of AI so seductive, that many more people are excited to try things out than I might have expected.

I suppose it has similarities to the early to mid 1980s and the home computing revolution. Where many people thought they should have a computer at home, even if they were not sure what they'd do with it.

Much like the excitement around AI today!

My hairdresser knew all about it and had ordered a Mac mini.

I have been surprised at how much attention is being paid to this AI thing by pretty much everybody AFAICT.

So when we think about capturing any underlying structure of reality itself, we are constrained by the tools at hand.

The capability of the tool forms the description which grants the level of understanding.

If you are doing a DIY NAS with HDDs then you want real SATA ports. Or a well supported PCI card with SATA Ports, which you cant sensibly connect to a Laptop or micro PC. Sure, you might be able to use Thunderbolt to reliably hook up an external PCI chassis, but then you might as well buy a NAS at that point or use a full tower case with an ATX mobo!

Using an older Gaming PC you already have is actually a very good option for TrueNAS or OMV.

I took an older 10th Gen Intel Gaming PC we had, sold the core i9 CPU, and replaced it with an i7-10700T I found used on eBay.

I'm finding this setup to be better for my needs than various ex-lease Dell Micro PCs I've used in the past, mainly because of the reliability of the SATA ports.

I've found quality external Samsung T5 SSDs to be very reliable over USB with TrueNAS. But HDDs are a nightmare over USB for a NAS, in my experience.

I was hoping this might be the year that I can finally get rid of the spinning rust. But looks like AI data centres had other ideas! :-)

However, I will say that if you just want to run some virtualized Linux servers or similar, then ex-lease micro PCs are a fantastic deal and can be fun to setup and learn Proxmox and Truenas etc..

I can ask an LLM for specific help with my codebase and it can explain things in context and provide actual concrete relevant examples that make sense to me.

Then I can ask again for explanations about idiomatic code patterns that aren't familiar for me.

Working on my own, I don't get that feedback and code review loop.

Working with new languages and techniques, or diving into someone else's legacy code base is no longer as daunting with an LLM to ask for help!

> ASUS XG27UCDMG ROG Strix 27" 4K QD-OLED 240Hz G-SYNC Gaming

> https://rog.asus.com/au/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-strix...

Doesn’t have built in speakers, and can’t comment on what it’s like for work.

However it does look absolutely amazing!

Jaw dropping gorgeous. The colours are just so rich. I was genuinely not expecting to as impressed by it as I was!

Not about the new Apple Displays.

My bad - I've seen this multiple times and somehow my brain skipped over that bit LOL.

Like, why do you want to go to the car wash?

We can’t assume it’s to wash a car.

Or maybe ask about local weather conditions and so on.

This to me is what a human adult with experience would do. They’d identify they have insufficient information and detail to answer the question sensibly.

I've given up bothering to correct it now.

So I just search for why.is.ios.keyboard.broken and google seems to know!

Sure, I can consciously and deliberately hit the spacebar, but for a decade or more I had zero issues with causally typing and not looking.

Is it a result of moving to Pro Max sized phones? It could be, and maybe the spacebar is just now further away. I'm willing to concede it could be that.

But then there are many reports of other people with issues....

I constantly forget which way the half hour difference is between Adelaide and Melbourne / Sydney!

Then I have regular contact with offices in London and LA. For some of the year it’s not too bad, and then our clocks switch the opposite way and it gets less convenient! Which way is which I can never remember.

Queensland doesn’t bother changing their clocks at all.

Writing software that deals with Timezones isn’t too bad these days, but supporting it is as it constantly confuses users I find!