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> concerns about AGI make about as much sense as an overpopulation on Mars

I disagree strongly that this is an apt analogy. Planning strategies for dealing with overpopulation on Mars is contrived and unnecessary, whereas planning for AGI is more reasonable.

The creation of AGI is a more important event than overpopulation of any given planet. There is good reason to believe that mishandling the creation of AGI would pose a permanent existential threat to humans. Overpopulation on Mars would only be an existential threat if we believed it to be followed by an exhausting of resources leading to extinction of all humans in our solar system. It is contrived to worry about that now.

There is no good way to know just how close or far we are from AGI like there would be to predict overpopulation on Mars. In general, we have a strong grasp on the fundamental dynamics of overpopulation, whereas we don't yet have a strong grasp on how intelligence works.

People have been very bad at predicting when AI would be capable of accomplishing tasks. There have been many under- and over- estimates by prominent researchers. If progress is unpredictable, there is some significant chance we are closer to AGI than most people think.

AGI is both far more important and more probable than overpopulation of Mars in the next 20 years.

> But I don't think there is any indication that they are moving towards human level intellect at some exponential rate.

Is there any very strong indication that progress is plateauing, or that the current approach of deep learning is definitely not going to work? If your benchmark is simply "can it do X, or not?", it's not a very good benchmark for determining progress. That's why benchmarks usually have scores associated with them.

> If DALL-E suddenly started to discuss philosophy with me I'd be concerned

If DALL-E suddenly started discussing philosophy with you in a way that would concern you in that moment, you should have been concerned for years.
So you mean if the plants wouldn't suffocate from lack of CO2, wouldn't instantly freeze or dehydrate and not have their DNA destroyed by the radiation, then settlers could actually harvest them and prosper? Yeah, wonder why no-one thought about that.
In 20 years, do you think the kid will think the gratuitously restrictive parenting or the hooking up with older men caused more damage?
Reddit always has had community moderators which ensured that the subreddits were respecting the rules of their communities. For example, on LGBTQ issues subreddits telling people that they are groomers is not tolerated. If it was, people would quickly go away. While on some other subreddit, it might be tolerated but the targeted people are not present and will not see those messages.

It is similar on Facebook where people will gather in groups that have their own moderation.

This is different on a public platform like Twitter where everyone can see everything. If users can hate-speech each others within the confines of the law, it will not take long until a lot of people leave.

I use hate-speech as an example because the "groomer" as a slur issue is at a peak right now and is fresh in my head. But the same concept applies to a lot of topics.
Yes. It was once somewhat pleasant to use and less algo reliant, and now it is very unpleasant to use and reading a tweet's thread has become difficult.
The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible
> there were only a couple old barely-maintained libraries for parsing.

Do they work, though? If it’s a mostly stable standard, doesn’t seem like you’d need a frequently updated parser.
Since the DuckDB people are here, just want to say that what you're doing is going to be a complete game-changer in the next few years, much like SQLite changed the game. Thanks for making it open source!
> HN post politics-moderation is far less influential than HN was pre politics-moderation

Influential in what way?
I'm waffling on when to "ship" the programming language I've been working on for the past couple years. I think it could be something real and useful, but there are still things I want to add/redesign/fix before I officially thrust it out into the world as an alpha version.

But I'm worried about killing the initial spark of enthusiasm when people try to use it and it's still broken. Or when they start building on it and then I redesign some language feature and their code doesn't work in newer versions.

I wonder if it's a different question for something like a language, or whether I'm just getting sucked into the classic fallacy
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> So on a practical level if you actually want to stop this becoming policy, it would be much more effective to actually to find different solutions.

There is no solution to the "problem" of some people sharing photos or other content which some other people don't like which would be compatible with either privacy or freedom of speech.

The issue to be solved here isn't CSAM, it's CSA. The CSAM is evidence; they should be using it to find and prosecute actual abusers, not trying to drive it further underground.
it is simply balance of power between parties like all human affairs

if you want to improve it - work to increase accountability (so more liars and cheaters get caught) & accessibility (so young and fresh minds have opportunity) and these two things together benefit new competitors over abusive incumbents, and society as a whole
That's a quote coming from someone who stole repeatedly, so of course they said that.

Alfred Tennyson had this to say: "That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil."
Just a spring cleaning that is about a decade late.

Twitter under-performs in every aspect imaginable: financially, product quality, product innovation. Nothing ever gets released and whilst this pace has improved in recent years, those "innovations" don't really deliver. They're barely used, copycats from other apps, and so on. Meanwhile, age-old problems are never addressed, like bots and the extremely hostile mob mentality on the platform.

They're ineffective and lack accountability. They need a reset and mentality change.
Isn't memory also improved by novelty? For instance, your memories before and after a major life event (say, a surgery) are likely going to be more vivid than your memories around an average day (say, day 4000 sitting in a cage). This makes evolutionary sense--novel events should take up more of your limited memory resources than events you've encountered thousands of times before. It also makes me wonder about the methodology behind this paper.
Microservices gets owned by different teams, teams get cemented, politics get in the way of refactoring. Game over.

Sure, if you are a single team working on 10 microservices you can probably refactor with abandon without spending 70% of your working days in meetings talking about migrations and trying to sync strategies...

You may have experiences that that microservices are as easy to refactor as monoliths; in my experience it is orders of magnitude harder...

I think there is a bit of a "No true scotsman" fallacy at play here. You see something you do not like then it is "not microservices done properly".

How about state all the things you don't like about monoliths , then I say "that is not monoliths done properly", "don't do that" for each one?

I think both monoliths and microservices can lead to good code or balls of mud depending on the organization and developers involved.

Real question isn't whether "microservices done right" is better. The question is: does a Decision to do microservices reduce the chances of a ball of mud, when that Decision is then implemented by imperfect developers in an imperfect organization?

PS I always meant that each microservice had their own DB above, we agree on that and I never dreamt otherwise.

What I was getting at is that when you go distributed, sometimes quite complex patterns must be applied to compensate.

You may say the architecture is then "better", but on what metric? It is certainly more work up front -- so you start out in the negative and to become better the system and organization need at least to get to a certain scale, you need to save in the hours you invested to come out ahead.

In many scenarios the cost in developer-months needed up front is just as important as other factors in evaluating the best architecture. E.g. a scrappy startup simply should not do it IMO. Corporations..... perhaps;but I have seen it gone badly. (I guess it is just not "done right" then? See above.)
To your question above, the answer is better than all levels.

The meta idea is what I first thought. It’s hard to evaluate though. The ai does not adapt, but continues to beat pros, who are welcome to try and adapt.

I’m curious if there are some zany cheese strats against this kind of AI that work reliably but the answer may be no. The only really practical tool you have that could work is a crazy bluff, but I doubt that’s sustainable.

It doesn’t really matter if perfect play is considered though. Games should be rated assuming equal competence. It’s not misleading if in fact your turn out to be a worse player in a game of skill.
I applaud WorkOS for the idea (even if I also hate the name). The sheer amount of externally developed apps that don't manage to authenticate to our IdP is staggering. I've had a dozen calls with developer teams, walking them step by step through the OIDC flow and they still can't manage to implement it.

I fail to understand why this is so hard for so many companies. It's really not rocket science.
I've been attacked by an owl before and the experience is incredibly terrifying because they have razor sharp talons and they fly without making a sound.

I was uninjured thanks only to a thick hood I was wearing at the time.
Many folks seem to understand the chilling effect of surveillance but can not fathom that such a thing might exist related to family leave.
> Putin's MO is to openly support dissidents in neighbouring countries; declare that the dissidents are being persecuted or "genocided"; encourage them to declare a republic; and then move an army in, to defend the bogus republic.

Is not confined to neighbors. It seems that Putin secretly offered 10.000 soldiers to the crooks in Cataluña to "defend" the new republic after the independence declaration. Has been playing the amoeba game for a long time:

"During his visit (2017), Medoyev drew parallels between Catalonia and pro-Russian, theoretically independent republics such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia"

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/26/inenglish/15090...

Puigdemont talked with Russia the day before declaring the independence of Catalonia.

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/putins-envoy-allegedly-of...
That was one of my favorite SNL episodes. Really interesting to learn about how much work was behind this. It really showed in the final product.
Matt is an awesome developer that keeps pushing his project passionately forward and also contributes to open source (e.g. LSP client for swift).
I guess the furries don't feel the need to create alt accounts for their porn
Playing Atari is cool, but it's just another "trick". Training a computer to do progressively more difficult tasks doesn't seem much more impressive than training an animal to do so.

I see no evidence in the paper that it can learn arbitrary tasks on the fly. It's very impressive, though.
You'll probably get varying answers to your question based on who you ask, but I would recommend developing an expertise in one particular area -- perhaps in one individual project, or even a subcomponent of a project -- that you care about and will naturally develop an encyclopediac knowledge of simply because you find it fascinating enough to want to read everything about it (historic and ongoing).

So now you're an expert in that field - and it doesn't feel like work, because it's what you enjoy and want to see advance technologically. Now what you do is look around to see who benefits from experience in that area. If you're lucky, they've reached out to you already.

Worst case, you've learned about and perhaps developed and furthered a technology cause that you care about. Best case, you've found an employer (and team) who want to do the same.

What's your favourite example of a static analysis success story?
The trick for me was to start with a very low amount of them, find something below that threshold where it was causing you discomfort and stick with it until there are some improvements.

It's quite surprising to me just how weak my back can get at times if I'm not doing regular strength exercises for it.

I also second the lacrosse ball. It's a life saver for long car and plane trips!
Thanks: I hadn’t thought of it as say Puritan echos; but yes, telling others what they should and shouldn’t do with their time and resources definitely has religious (any kind) and political (both left and right) facets.

There is not an equivalent 1st amendment “right” to spend our time and money as we will. Too many people just spout an opinion on what we should be “allowed” to do: without thinking of how that could be used against them.

It drives me crazy how willing so many people are to decide what is best for others: the rich, the poor, the disabled, the foreign. And how little insight people have that their own choices are definitely pure waste in the eyes of others.

When did liberty get debased?
I've also put the demo slider infographic on this web page, which allows for testing it in non-javascript enabled browsers - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-005.html
Yes, Amazon's UX is horrible.
It likely is.

Don't be surprised if a new company emerges though. There's always some truth behind what he does – even though it doesn't necessarily aligns with what he says.
Interesting behind the scenes look at the NIMBY processes that plague SF
Production has resumed: https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1524812171179327488
Gnu awk also has a csv extension that comes with gawkextlib. I think it may even be installed on many Linux distros by default.
At least _prior_ to knowing anything else about regolith, aside from it sometimes having volcanic origins: Speaking as a person who grows a wide variety of woody tree species (pines, maples, junipers, cottonwoods, azaleas, etc) in inorganic substrates like pure perlite, pure lava, pure pumice (+combinations of those and other volcanic media), and has seen all of these tree species happily send roots into things like IKEA astroturf or blocks of Rockwool, it doesn't surprise me that regolith could maybe work as a grow media.
> If the odds are obviously against you

Can you define "obviously"?

Spoiler, but for financial investments, there are no [genuine] odds. That's kind of my point about the efficient markets hypothesis.

For example, Tesla was at $88.60 on January 3, 2020. It's at $728 now (and peaked[?] at $1222-ish in November 2021].

Presumably there were not very many people who, in January 2020, thought Tesla would increase in value, or it wouldn't have been at $88.60 for very long.
Discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235427
FWIW, if your PyInstaller experience is from several years ago, I'd strongly recommend checking it out again. I used to dread its updates because they usually broke something, but everything has been super smooth in the last 1-2 years. :)
Sort of, but it's Eric Raymond's fallacy, which should be given as little weight as everything else he proclaims. It's also generally wrong in science, speaking from experience in experimental physics.
Andrenochrome?
Black screen on Firefox Android.
interesting.. would simplify a lot for us, especially if retention would be scalable or at least data would be exportable from clickhouse.. unclear in the article
Hope this will not be an Enterprise only thing (we can't afford that) but priced similar to workers
How would they control mob mentality?
I do command-shift-v all the time too and it works. Course maybe the places where it doesn't seem to work are the ones that require "option" too... hmm...
This is just... wrong, to put it mildly.

When it comes to serious financial modeling in big firms, everything from PDEs and stochastic calculus to cutting edge forecasting models and deep learning is fair game.
>> This is the unix way. Small tools with narrow focus, strung together in pipelines.

> ah yes, awk's famously narrow focus, [...]

"GNU's Not Unix"
Real lunar regolith is not available for experiments like this. However you can buy simulated lunar regolith, it’s very expensive but not nearly so as the real thing.
> These were legally authorized programs

By secret courts, in clear violation of the 4th amendment (that the author never mentions). He seems to be under the impression that the legal system is infallible. I find it difficult to believe a Harvard graduate and former DOJ associate counsel could be so naive.

The entire article can be summed up with "a court did not find it illegal, therefore it was good and right".
By larger context you mean what?
Choosing between Jew or Polish population?

Or maybe lets see what happened in Ukraine which was under USSR occupation before the WW2 - Holodomor which resulted in up to 3 - 5.5 million people dead, which is close to Holocaust numbers.

When Soviet army marched everyone hid their daughters and wifes, to this day our grandparents tell stories how they were in the basements, or escaped to the west just not to be taken by Soviet soldiers.

On the other hand some parts of Poland were consider by Nazis as their land and they didn't rape or kill citizens, but they had obligatory conscription of capable man - many of them tried to hide and died if they were found.
General Relativity has pretty much nothing to do with planet formation.

Newtonian gravity is good enough for that problem, and the problems have nothing to do with not understanding gravity well enough. The problems have to do with things like complex chemistry in stellar accretion disks, how grains in these disks stick to one another to eventually form rocks, and so on.
Macro scale doesn't have to mean national. There are many precincts per district, and many districts per county, etc.

> So in terms of actual representation, it would actually be better to have a district that voted nearly unanimously for candidate A, and another district that voted nearly unanimously for candidate B, because then the vast majority of people would be getting the representative that they voted for, and represents them.

No, only the throwaway districts in gerrymandered maps are represented, all other districts swallow up many more unrepresented voters.

> In the scenario where every district is purple, fully half the people have no representation of their interests in congress.

But you missed the point, not every district can be purple. In absolute terms, more people would be represented than the status quo. It's better than gerrymandering.

But again, not my prefered solution.
I always thought that SIDS stands for "parents likely accidentally killed their child through negligence or error, and a prison sentence seems too harsh". So we make it a medical condition instead of a crime.
Imortan Jeff?
Clearly there's going to be plastic shielding in the balloon style green houses they will build with the right air mixture. /s
Ukraine has done joint "war games" with NATO ships in 2020 and 2021 (see HMS Dragon and HMS Defender for example). On November 11, 2021 Russian jets were scrambled to intercept "British spy plane". On November 29, 2021, a NATO summit was held in Riga, where the commitment to admitting Georgia and Ukraine was repeated, and the idea of sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine was discussed. Zelenskyy was quoted repeatedly saying that "NATO is the only way to end the war in Donbas".

Now, if the elevated rhetoric and the calls for sending NATO soldiers do not sound like "doubling down", joint war games should certainly do.
Hey, you can say you were rich enough to smoke a million dollars. There's some street cred to that.
> > The team says that other technological hurdles would arise long before optoelectronic devices reach the realm of PHz.

Yup... just the memory access (even if "instant", ram is so "far away" (physically) that the transmission delay will be many multiples of the clock... Currently this is a pain to implement correctly by the CPU manufacturers, but atleast with caches you don't run out of data to calculate while waiting for something new from RAM.
welcome back,
about the issue you mentioned, one of the original author wrote a blog in how to address it and how the issue is related to angular.
https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/issues/25283
It does make a significant difference in profiling though
The show Silicon Valley had a small story arc that involved this kind of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA0AH-LSbo
Hey, this is kind of cool! If only it supported caldav I might get one.
Would a convincing medical explanation change your opinion?
1. A corporation is a legal fiction created by government gift to signify that the individuals participating in the corporation's affairs have limited financial exposure when they would otherwise be subject to unlimited exposure for the corporation's debts and liabilities. If, as a condition of that limited liability, a relevant governing body wants to restrict what can be published in the name of a corporation, no individual's free speech is being restricted. Congress should be able to impose such restrictions under the Commerce Clause and/or the Republican Form of Government Clause; states should be able to do so under their general police powers; all subject to the usual constitutional restrictions (equal protection, due process, etc.).

2. A corporation can (or at least should be able to) allow or forbid content on its own platform as it sees fit --- but by the same reasoning as #1, a relevant state legislature should be able impose conditions on limited liability, and logically those conditions could include free-speech [EDIT:] restrictions on content moderation (subject to federal constitutional constraints, e.g., under the Supremacy Clause).
Not sure what you're talking about because this kind of hate speech is very common on current day Twitter.

The "grooming" remark typically coming from right-wing accounts is very common and as far as I can tell, not moderated. Likewise, left-wing "woke" accounts openly hating whites, men in general or white men specifically is also "just another tuesday".
In B2C targets have a lot free time and less money. So you want to get a lot of engagement & eyeballs to sell for money via ads etc. Whereas in B2B the target have money and pain points and less time… which is one step to monetize vs two.
Probably. Except I don't live in SV. I did for 10 years but now live in Boston. Entirely different environment.
Okay, so more for end-user facing applications? That makes a lot more sense. I still have server installed applications in my head, where getting the “right” Python installed can be solved by multiple mechanisms. For end-user applications, having a Python binary that travels with the program code makes a ton of sense. Thanks!