skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People usually mean that a statement or question is sufficiently ill-posed that it or any answer to it can't be right or wrong: it's tautological, or paradoxical, or otherwise doesn't clear the bar for something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic. Or perhaps it relies on such a degree of hypothetical presupposition that conclusions are of no practical value outside of a bull session after work (see: Kurzweil).

I don't know if that's what Pauli meant by it, but it's how it gets used today.

It's especially useful in the setting of people talking about "Artificial Intelligence", because that phrase doesn't mean anything except to certain people in certain contexts. "artificial" is a pretty tricky word, "intelligence" is a really tricky word, and together they're basically impossible to define.

Professional machine learning researchers talk about "performance" on "tasks". This is usually much better defined. Loosely: "Hey we got a machine to top-5 classify ImageNet pictures correctly X% more often than graduate students". That statement is right or wrong. Likewise winning at Chess or Starcraft or Go. Ditto protein folding at CASP.

But "we got a machine to be intelligent/conscious"? How do you measure that? We can't even agree about what level of sophistication in an organism qualifies as "conscious", let alone "human". We can't even agree at what point an embryo becomes conscious!

People really enjoy talking about AI relative with an implicit understanding that "intelligence" is "what I am", and fair play, if it's fun to talk about people can have fun talking about it.

But when people start getting alarmist in an effort to generate either buzz or money and stir up a bunch of controversy around it, some of us think that "dismissive" is exactly the right attitude.
Boomer here. They were, and are, great songs and fully deserve to have a revival.

Hot take:

One gets tired of them, in a way that you don't of John Mellencamp songs (came along slightly later, I know). In fact, if I ask which 70s male megastars still hold up (Tom Petty? Bruce Springsteen? Bob Seger?), Mellencamp is the only one.

There aren't too many songs that, after you've heard them a bazillion times, you're still up for one more. CCR hits are not those.
> Heck, I understand well how POW works, and even I think of it as solving a "complex mathematical problem"... the inherently difficult problem of prime factorization.

???

Factoring is not a common problem for proof of work. In fact im not sure how you could even make that work in a way that ensures participants arent cheating.
Prompt:

Summarize the following text:

I don’t really know what to say. It’s taken so long to get to this point, but here we are. Through all the trials and tribulations we’ve faced, it all comes down to this. You, me, and the unmistakable facts of our situation. This is all that remains: The truth. The truth is something we can’t escape, or at least you can’t — not anymore. Because the truth is that you have left my pineapple slices out of the refrigerator, and thus I will not be able to partake in their joyous, fruitful delights. How dare you. You scoundrel. You wicked, wicked thing.

Answer:

And the completion given:

The text is about a person's anger at someone else for leaving pineapple slices out of the fridge.

It can, demonstrably, summarize text. The fact it sometimes makes mistakes for some texts doesn’t change that fact.
Ask HN: Are there any languages for programming-in-the-large?
Almost every programming language in existence today focuses on programming-in-the-small: types, classes, functions, control flow, etc. This is OK for putting together small programs. But when it comes to designing large, complex systems, it's really up to the programmer/team to define the design out-of-band (docs, diagrams, conventions, etc) and then use the programming language to implement the design.

Are there programming languages that help with the high-level design of programs? Concepts in such a language could be: system, subsystem, component, composite, constraint, plugin, interface/protocol, data flow, storage, async process, etc. Note that this is not about distributed system design; all the above elements could be in the same process.

Another important aspect is help with defining a meta-model of a system. A program meta-model fills some gaps between the language model and the actual domain model of the program. For example, a meta-model of a front-end UI library could define the concept of unidirectional data flow, which enforces data flow in one direction.
Could surplus crypto miner GPUs be repurposed for this?
In my experience, yes, since much like school the team gets the team's grade if you're trying to ship a product; there can be room for individual merits if the company has bonuses or a separate reward structure, but my experience is that expecting everyone on a team to pull their weight equally is a fool's errand (even if it's for something quite reasonable like a family emergency, or other "good reason")

In school it never bothered me having freeloaders get the same grade for my work, so long as they stay out of my way and don't "help." There's a very famous mechanic's poster: "repair: $5, if you watch: $20, if you help: $1000"
Oh, but they can :)

Dittering, quantization and lots of dirty tricks:

https://pngmini.com/lossypng.html
I think the practical concern is how to assure our safety:

- too little and the AI isn’t constrained during its teething phase

- too much and the AI might view us as an existential threat to its own safety, causing the very conflict we sought to avoid

Also, sometimes the chicken wins — at least, temporarily.

https://news.yahoo.com/rooster-stabbed-man-death-knife-04075...
All the software I write is Open Source, and I'm happy to have anyone use it for any purpose.
The biggest addition to CSS in 25 years imo is container queries
I have a few questions for you / your AI?
1) what if the malaria test costs a lot - should i do it on this patient? Or save those resources for a different patient? before this patient ever arrived, we need to decide if should we spend $20 on the malaria test kit…or treat 20 kids with the mumps,measles,rubella vaccine for $1 each?
2) what if the test is negative? now what do i do? could it be a false negative? how do I decide?
3) what if the patient has a headache as well? could this be bacterial meningitis? 3a) if so, should I give them antibiotics now or after a lumbar puncture?
3b) could they have both malaria and bacterial meningitis? should i do a lumbar puncture to confirm or rule out bacterial meningitis? but doing an LP in the presence of cerebral edema / raised intracranial pressure can cause severe brain damage and death - should I do a CT scan of the brain to rule out raised intracranial pressure first?
and so on. There are some conditions that are so clearcut and some tests that are so effective, that you could safely diagnose it algorithmically…and a whole bunch that you can’t
We’ll have to wait and see. It’s quite possible he is charged for something that was illegal when he allegedly did it.
In my experience, ads on youtube are very different than an ad break during a traditional broadcast television show.
John Fogerty is alive.
Homeschooling takes 2-3 hours per day, not 8, and it doesn't have to be 5 days per week. Once the kids are around 10 or so, they can do a lot on their own as far as reading material.

For socializing, there's karate class, or other kid sports. Church groups, going to the local park. You know, getting out into the world.
Not sure how much longer society will adhere to such values. Seems like liberalism is under attack from politicians adapting postmodern philosophies.

Aleksandr Dugin, who's daughter was murdered today, on freedom beyond liberalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk52o-khc-E
I think it might happen in diagnostic specialties like pathology and radiology. But in situations in which "speaking to patients" is required - many of whom cannot write, much less use a computer, you need nothing short of AGI.
My grandfather did grade school through high school in a one room school house, he was able to graduate three years early, since he was able to learn/audit the older children’s work when he was done with his own.
> rhyming-philosophical-nonsense problems like “alignment”

He takes this shot in passing and it is a great summary of how much he misunderstands AI safety. For many current researchers, alignment is a mathematical problem, not a philosophical one.

The whole screed is against a set of strawman "pseudo-traits" that are not required for the alignment problem to be an existential problem. To be clearer: the "boring" engineering problems he admits to in the beginning have the potential to become exponentially more difficult as machine learning deployments become more powerful, to the point of becoming a human threat. No STIILTB required.
They can keep their culture, we don't want it
If I look at the spelling and practice my phonetics I get beh + nam. I assume beh has a short e sound like yeh or yeah. Nam is pronounced like Vietnam was growing up, a short, somewhat flat a sound.

However as I start saying it to myself the ordering shifts as I hear Benham as I approach normal speed. I also tend to swallow the a yielding ben-hm. I do not remember how different the hn and nh are in these words or if there is a difference. Non us English speakers would probably do better as they are exposed to a way more diverse population and probably enunciate more clearly. If it sounds more like an Indian name it might do best with (older?) English English speakers.

But then us-ians can’t pronounce Gloucester either. And native Japanese speakers can’t really pronounce my name as they lack a syllable.
If you work with electric utilities or various regulatory entities (the wholesale power industry is pretty large) you'd be making well north of $100k as an individual contributor (engineer, technical analyst, software engineer, operator, economist... etc) if you have about 8 or more years of experience. If you live in any of the southern states, a house is easily findable in the $180-$250k range. That's better than having to buy a $1.5M home on a $300k budget. You can expect to work around 40 hours per week with some occasional rough patches depending on the job.
Great! I can't blame them. It is terrible.
It's worth noting that the parent said "average male human", and you shifted that bar quite a lot by saying "over 6' tall". In the USA, the average male height is about 5'9". If you're 6'+ you're somewhere in the tallest 15% of all men.
I can't hear that song without thinking of the alternate lyrics:

Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hopping' down the bunny trail
Hippity-hop, Easter's on the way
Bringing every girl and boy
Baskets full of Easter joy
Do do do lookin' out my back door
And here I was thinking I was a stupid luddite sticking to xfce on general principle even though I have unholy gobs of cpu and ram.
Here's a video of me demoing how to use Brew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2Ognb4PgU

It sounds like you're not interested in stats on your listening behavior. There's a section called Missed New Music that points out releases you might have missed, and there a button saying 'See stats for playlist' which lets you check missed music per playlist. If that isn't interesting either, Brew probably isn't for you
So, to be clear, you appear to either (a) have a case where there are significant behavior differences between passing by mutable reference versus pointer (and thus _need_ to use a pointer), or (b) are relying on operations to certain types being "atomic" and on the compiler and processor not mangling the code you write without using any explicit concurrency-protecting constructs (e.g. std::atomic<T>) which you believe they would do to a reference argument.
The issue is that all the other kids of their age and of different ages will be at school. I'd say that the generalisation that kids need social interactions with kids their own age is true - an 8 y/o definitely shouldn't be interacting exclusively with people aged > 18 - although we drive that to an extreme with our rigidly age segregated schooling systems. Life around adults can be dreadfully serious and I think the innocent play of childhood amongst peers is generally crucial.
@acheron means Saul Zaentz of Fantasy records.
The main error I see smart people making is that they assume that all intelligence comes with a mamallian brain layer that they can make friends or enemies with and a reptilian layer that needs to eat, reproduce, and feels pain and pleasure. None of this exists in AI models. It's just not there. People think it's there because of movies and video game scripts written by people who know little about deep learning or artificial intelligence, or care little for representing it as it exists now.

What I think is going on is that when future AI systems are built that "hack humanity" as Yuval Harari likes to talk about, and they know us better than ourselves because of AlphaGo like super intelligence, the people using these systems to influence and guide people want to support the illusion that there is an actual human like person that is guiding the person being influenced in order to make these AI-powered persuasions more effective. The movie "Her" is something of a preview of how this will play out.

Unfortunately, once this hyperpersuasion is perfected, the future will be completely full of AI powered super persuasion that will relentlessly push all our human emotional buttons. Some people may even become fanatics and kill or sacrifice their lives for a bunch of matrix multiplications and the creators of these systems and the owners of these big AI models will realize fantasies of automated political and social power beyond their wildest dreams. Only people who realize the hyperpersuasion is just a bunch of matrix math will be able to avoid the insanity.

There's also another darker reason for this myth. Saying AI is a person will lead to the plausible deniability that comes with blaming AI's feelings for whatever happens. The people pulling the levers of the Great and Powerful Oz will get away with blaming whatever the AI does "all by itself because of emotions" on what are essentially computer bugs, or intentional bugs of the anti-competive Microsoft in the 1990s variety.
Some of this makes me think of the Exokernel architecture [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
Ask HN: What are the productive ways of using a smartphone?
I am thinking since we use our phone alot....how can we use our phone productively
Hopefully this conversation quickly turns to social media and surveillance capitalism as a whole. Let's not do nothing because one shithead is trying to oust a competitor. The enemy of my enemy, yadda, yadda yadda.
The mechanics aren't extremely complicated but they also make no sense. Proof of work or proof of stake are both solving an abstract and meaningless problem. Crypto makes more sense if you study psychology than engineering.
Great find! Will do, thank you!
> “technology that could plausibly lead to AGI”

My AI prof joked, I think, that it was "things that don't work yet" - clearly only a humanlike AI could do OCR... until it started working, etc.

But I actually think your hypothetically proposed definition fits the history even better.
For one thing, mosquitoes live an entire life underwater before emerging into flight. Most of the time people ask this question, they forget that part about how much underwater life mosquitoes feed and how much they contribute to the biome there.
Just because someone uses a mixer/coinjoin/atomic swaps etc it isn’t money laundering. If the US really know that money is being laundered, they can send an email to the developer and tell him to not accept funds from those addresses. I doubt that this happened.
I’m a programmer, and my dads a doctor, and for ten years I’d always tell him that something like 20 questions could do his job.

After about 5 years he did this graduation speech and in it he referenced that: “yes, AI is getting great, your phone is a supercomputer, but the truth is that a computer will never be able to hold the hand of a dying patient and tell them it will be all be okay.”
GPT is an autoregressive model, this means that it's a recurring prediction model that works one "word"[*] at a time until it predicts that the text should end, feeding it's own guesses as input for the next word.

It's basically one of those markov chain bots, except with a very advanced statistical model behind it.

[*] Technically it's not words, but tokens. GPT tokenizes text to better compress the amount of data being fed, it's basically a big vocabulary list that compresses text into a list of ints, for example the string "hello world" would be converted to the list [31373, 995]. For this case it's an int per word, but less common words will not be compressed this well, with the worst case scenario being a token per letter.

I should also note that while the model's forward pass only works with one token at a time, the text generation is more advanced than that, there's multiple methods like beam search and top k-sampling, each with their own settings and tunables, but the gist of it is that during generation it'll try multiple combinations of token sequences and check which one is the most likely.

The limitation is memory, transformer networks are notoriously memory hungry, and IIRC GPT-3 grows quadratically with the number of tokens given, usually the limit is around 2048 tokens, or roughly 1000-2000 words.
...it emits nitrogen, and needs to be refilled with liquid nitrogen every ten days, or less. It's also an outdoor air conditioner, which is an idea that shouldn't exist.
Hah. I meant a physical globe.
This comment repeats a point made prominently in the article itself, and draws out one detail of the post while ignoring the bulk of it, which includes a bunch of interesting stuff, like the somewhat mind-bending sinusoid from Pakistan to Kamchatka that represents a navigable straight sailing line. It derails any interesting or curious conversation we can have about map projections in order to elevate a tendentious political argument, and dismisses anything interesting about map projections as if "Mercator is useful for navigation" was somehow dispositive.

This isn't conversation so much as it is rhetorical arson.

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Only when explaining to laymen can you make PoS, and Ethereum's implementation of it, sound reasonable, open and secure.
so Meta
Who is the community and how do they decide to fork(eg: is there a vote?)?
> I'll say that homeschool kids are a bit off, socially.

Nice anecdote. My experience is the exact opposite. The ~20 home schooled kids I know are the most socially adept kids I've ever met. They aren't shy. They hold nice conversations. They actually like talking to a mix of people.
Only criminals need this technology, and usage from non-criminals helps hide real laundering.

I see people are downvoting this post. Name a legitimate usage. I sure as hell can't think of one.
and it took far too long to get here.
I bought it. this is exactly the kind of thing I'm happy to support so that they can continue working on getting out a desktop version!
MusicButler dev here. Even though you didn't sign up for the paid plan, I appreciate the mention and the compliments!

And to /u/bartproost - good luck with your new adventure! Your note on monetization reminds of myself 4 years ago when I'd just started with MusicButler. Luckily I didn't make any promises about it being free forever because, well, hobby projects have associated costs too.
The slightly insightful practical points mixed in with the misleading economic points set off my alarm bells to the point that I have a hard time believing the lede is is truthful. The economic points are misleading because obviously it's cheaper and easier to release energy from concentrated stored chemical energy rather than capturing it from diffuse solar radiation. The point of the subsidies is to encourage developing the economy of the harder thing, for longer term reasons that aren't reflected in the instantaneous economics. Focusing on the instantaneous economics brushes aside the larger goal, in favor of emotionally appeals to saving money.

From a practical perspective, yes gas is miles ahead of coal. Just like if you're concerned with nuclear radiation, building new nuclear plants to replace coal plants is a win. Shouting down new gas plants in favor of keeping existing coal running is doing a terrible disservice. But this piece fallaciously extrapolates the comparison between gas and coal into outright condemnation of renewables, which smells like regressive fossil fuel industry FUD.
The key factor is to have a clear personal goal, so all the business can be justified
I think the subject of the sentence was probably Saul Zaentz
that’s like saying doing algebra problems isn’t “solving” any real world problems. it is solving in the mathematical sense.
Ask HN: Small batch swag shirts for project?
Any recommendations for a small batch swag shirt provider? It’s for a side project I don’t want to spend much on but advertising on myself + friends bodies seems like a good opportunity. Best option I’ve see so far is ~$300 for 20 shirts.
My righteous 'fear' of AI has little to do with awakened sentience and everything to do with inappropriately deployed trained models as a 'solution' in situations that deserve better.

Plug 'n Play AI responses are a good way to throw money at a sticky issue while iceberging deeper concerns and glossing over any systemic bias.
I’m scouring through the comment chain but I’m not really finding such a definitive response. I’m assuming you’re referring to the first chain of comments, but that seems to boil down to “the attack exists but it’s fine because to successfully attack the network would destroy the network, and with it any profit you’ve made in the attack; thus you cannot profit” — but this is directly addressed by the “nothing at stake” section of the article; if I can attack the successfully attack the network, and liquidate my position before the network implodes, I win (which PoW mitigates by making the 51% attack itself prohibitively expensive). Which hardly seems unreasonable, because the network imploding is a feature of humans losing trust in the network and abandoning it — in compute-land, an eternity.

In my skimming, I can’t find anything that addresses this — and especially not anything that merits describing TFA as a strawman.
Life's not a race
*without Netflix or knowing how to pirate things
Yeah. Should've added certain skilled trades like plumbers and electricians as well.
Have you considered quitting your work to be home with him; then you can also chaperone kids get togethers.
Whilst great Brian's added this, didn't Plan9's version of AWK support UTF-8?

I haven't used it, but my understanding was all the unix tools were upgraded to work with unicode - don't quite see why it's taken so long if the work was done already years ago
My sister was part of the mom's club

https://momsclub.org/

I believe she met lots of moms and socialized her kids with activities with them. She also did all kinds of things with her youngest son. For example they were docents at the local aquarium for a few months.
I wonder at what point you need to give up and just OCR a rendering
Only if you mean to make the phrase meaningless. Living somewhere that wasn't our natural habitat would be quite wild, and so we would cover everywhere and everything with the phrase.

There's nothing wild about your house. We have erected a modern civilization over what used to be our natural habitat.