skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32537042 - raise your aspirations!

(Whatever that means. Or don’t. Apply any and all advice to your situation, don’t just take the advice as stated ;)
The only thing that scares me a wee bit about AGI is that it will show us all that our humanity, sentience, and freedom of choice are all far shallower than we want to believe.
I'm a big fan of what is called Ocean Iron Fertilization, and, though the devil is in the details, I think it's the only way forward (as the article says, sipping the atmosphere through a straw is a nonstarter).

Basically all the GHG-removal techniques I have any faith in (including my own work, not on OIF) are essentially all uv powered.

Unfortunately, at the moment OIF is banned by the London Protocol to the Law of the Sea. Small research projects are OK, but any deployment is not. As it happens there is still a lot of work to be done on deployment (e.g. the upper parts of the pelagic ocean are pretty much dead as we seem to have ruined an important ecosystem by killing too many whales). You probably want to stay away from coastal waters. Also to really do the job properly, the amount of vegetation growth you need to stimulate is far more than we could use as feedstock (which merely defers the problem anyway): we need to make a lot of it and have it die and sink to the ocean floor, and those vertical currents are not well enough understood. And we need to extract the CO2 that the oceans have been aggressively dissolving for us, acidifying themselves in the process.

In any case, you're bringing up the right path.
'fraid so.

I think the Mellencamp lyrics have a universality that's lacking in most rock, which is largely teen-age and young adult themes. I'm thinking especially about "Little Pink Houses."

He's a Midwestern boy. What can I say?
Also called the Reddit hug of death.

Fun Fact: Back in 2000, Joe Lieberman claimed his website was 'hacked'. What did happen was he used a cheap $20 a month website that got the hug of death.

Fact 2: This asshole killed the health care public option. May he spend eternity in Sheol in great pain from easily cured diseases.
There are loads of information available on this. For example, Khan Academy has a very nice multivar glass, done by Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown). Why are you limited by what happened (presumably) years ago?
Yes I misremembered the story. Probably because the title has so many C’s and R’s in it.
Most RL models have something akin to pain and pleasure for the purpose of learning. I do agree that a big RL model isn't going to suddenly arrive at social behavior unless we work very hard at it. Most birds and some mammals don't even have the concept. If we train a model to predict human behavior by modeling human brain state, that could potentially get there by accident. A much more likely route to a rogue AI is one based on a human brain map, or one trained off human behavior in order to emulate it. Using someone's entire online presence as a train/test set to try to predict their future behavior for instance.
Of note, a non-human cannot hold a copyright.

Anything generated by copilot, which if it is a derivative work, is not something that copilot can hold the copyright on.

From the auditor's perspective it doesn't matter if you copied it out of stack overflow, from some GitHub search, or copilot. You, the human, didn't check the license / plagiarism detecter. It is you, the human, claiming copyright on the work you are creating which may incorporate material from other sources.

Copilot isn't claiming fair use.

You could argue that the model that copilot runs from is a derivative work (and this is going to be interesting when it gets to the courts, because, frankly no one will come out the 'winner' on this when trying to explain it to a judge) - but that's not the code that a human is claiming to be their creative work and is ultimately the license violation.

Personally, I (not a lawyer), believe that copilot is on ok ground - but anyone using it needs to do their due diligence in verifying that the code that they've incorporated is licensed appropriately - just as if they've copied something from Stack Overflow - who knows where that copied was copied from.

I have less concerns with identifiable code from copilot than humans not caring about the licenses of their source material in creating human generated content.
If anything the issue with AP courses is that the bar is so low to pass one. Indeed it's a bar based on percentile and not on actual knowledge. Someone getting a 4 or 5 on the APCS test tells a department zero. Which is why some schools have the policy that APCS does not allow students to skip the intro CS course.
Any recommendations on how to do this?
Midjourney’s results stand out as a lot more… artistic?
Switch teams, be careful about what you choose, can be radically different
> I have a good manager, a good comp and my job isn’t that stressful.

You have it made! Try not to let your job become your identity.
As with all music recommendation engines, I want the ability to remove things from the mix. I have zero interest in music similar to Kidz Bop, it's just something I happen to play for my kids.
Would this show on an A1C assay?
There's a series on Apple TV "1971" which was also a great year. The movie gives just way too much airtime to Sly and the Family Stone and Gil Scott-Heron, though. Not that they weren't important, but there are a whole lot of other groups they don't mention at all.
Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead?
I think the scheduling both at the same time might just be an "optimal" solution if you already know that people can't take them at the same time.
That frees up other time slots for courses people taking either one might take.
> I'm not export[sic] on Dugin, nor a supporter, but that's kind of silly to call him a fascist, since he himself rejects "Fascism" as an antiquated ideology.

I've read his work - his complaint about historic fascism wasn't that it was bad, but that it wasn't done properly.
> If you allow students to use copilot, you're handing out certificates or diplomas to people who can't code.

I've given a couple hundred technical interviews over the last 10 years. This has been the case for a long, long time—even from fancy colleges.
I think this problem stems from the fact that the public image Hollywood agencies create for 90% of their actors are full of lies, with explicit and costly deals to fulfill those lies. And now an actor can be very worried to be confronted publicly. Jonah could just come out for his own sanity.
TeX Live allows a minimal installation, but what MikTeX has that TeX Live doesn't (AFAIK) is the on-demand automatic fetching and installing of packages. For example, if you `\usepackage{foo}` then with a minimal TeX Live you have to install it manually (with `tlmgr install foopkg`), while MiKTeX will either install it automatically or pop up a prompt asking you whether you want to install foopkg.
> knowing ones own neurotype

How does one going about finding their neurotype?
You have one of the most desirable jobs in the world. Economic self-determination is a luxury of the rich, which you will be in a short while if you just stay put and keep working. Just get some hobbies outside work and stack money until you can afford to do nothing but what you want.
That explains it. I can never manage to understand the lyrics in music. So I respond almost entirely to melody and rythm. I think it's also why I enjoy country and rap less than other music.
People scamming crypto people.
> my job isn’t that stressful.

If it wasn't that stressful, you wouldn't be posting this. Feeling unfulfilled is stressful. You are stressed and you are probably burning out (yes it's possible to burn out on boredom).

Change things. Start with easy low risk changes and work your way out from there. If you want to stay in the job you have now, you likely need to change your approach to how you try to make an impact, because what you're doing now obviously isn't working.

But there are likely teams in your company where you'd feel more fulfilled. If not, being promoted at one megacorp is basically catnip for recruiters at others.
It sounds like you want more influence, and sometimes developing relationships and building trust with people in your organization takes more than two years to build, especially in a larger company.
So it’s not dependent on an external Fortran compiler anymore? That’s nice, I need to test it. That said, I could not find a Fortran 2003/2008/2018 features implementation matrix, which could be helpful.
I could see how this would relate to sugar cravings. Or sweet craving. More and more of a certain kind of bacteria lines the gut and grows better in it's main food supply. So what breaks these NNSs down?
My 4 big reasons for wanting to leave my current FAANG:

1. I'm not learning things that feel relevant outside the company. Our build processes, templating language, version control, and even our IDE are all proprietary and internal-only. It requires a lot of work to master these things, and that mastery is not transferable anywhere else.

2. I continually scan the internal job boards, and have yet to see another position that looks significantly more appealing.

3. The amount of red tape required to make any change, while expected and understandable for enterprise software, makes it hard to feel innovative or creative.

4. It takes 2 minutes to recompile/reload after every trivial changes. This is hugely detrimental to my "flow," and this is unlikely to ever be fixed due to the size of the codebase.
So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller yet to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)
My advice would be to put your head down, live like a monk, and save/invest money. Get promoted as far as you can, but don't burn yourself out. If you see yourself having a family someday, spend your free time on finding a spouse.

Five years in, you'll have a huge pile of cash and an insane chunk on your resume that will almost certainly guarantee you an interview wherever you want. Once you hit that point, take some time off and do literally anything. Start a startup, be a contractor, get a new degree.

You have stumbled onto the sort of prosperity (easy low-stress job) that 99.95% of the world literally dreams about. To throw it away because you're not "creatively expressing yourself" would be foolish.

This advice doesn't apply if you're a relentlessly competitive founder type like Gates or Bezons, but if you were of that mentality, I doubt you'd be having the same troubles you are.
I'm sympathetic to having to take courses on material you already know, but I do think there is some justification to making everybody take an intro CS course. Specifically if it's a course that is about teaching the ways of thinking about programming, such as abstraction, composition, state, rather than a rote course on how to write code, then it provides students with a foundation that is rarely seen in AP courses or self-study. It can be an opportunity for a professor to provide their views and experiences on programming. It can also be a chance to talk about other essential, but rarely discussed topics such as ethics, the qualities of a good programmer, programmer culture, etc.

Of course an intro course that is this well thought out is rather rare, in which case experienced people should by all means skip the rote nonsense.
Nice write up. I noticed a couple things you may want to consider.

>>> Money doesn't actually have to be a scarce thing, it just needs to be a trusty record of transactions

Physical cash or coin, exchanged between parties, is trusted by both parties yet leaves no transaction record.

>>> Money is simply any promise backed by trust

Credit is backed by trust.

A finalized and appended bitcoin block needs no further trust. It is settled.
> But if it e.g. kills all humans, it's suddenly left with a limited number of chips and can't grow beyond that number, without being able to manufacture new chips.

I imagine an better-than-human AGI could figure this out and plan/act accordingly, considering a mere human being figured this out. (Also sometimes it might be better to think of an AGI, when it gets to a certain level, as a nation state and not an individual)

> trivial

It doesn't need to be trivial to be incredibly dangerous

> The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else
This happened to me twice. I'm actually endlessly annoyed at the whole college system being structured like this.
>> C++, Java, Go, Ada, Erlang. These are all designed explicitly for programming-in-the-large.

Absolutely correct. Each one has strengths and weaknesses and were designed for specific use cases and needs. One of them probably will meet your use case.
The “elite” that the right hates are liberals and intellectuals, or whatever other object they are directing their endless two-minutes-hate at at the time. It’s not really “the elite” as understood in the context of, say, Fortunate Son.
You actually lose a relatively small part of your stake for being offline, so it happens gradually. I believe the amount lost corresponds roughly to what you would have gained in rewards over the same time period.
Save up some money, then give your two weeks notice. Don't expect to recover from burnout instantly. It may take months. Consider interviewing for and taking a different job.
Try changing teams first. You should be able to find something there that appeals to you. You cant work in a single team in one of the largest tech companies in the world and expect it’s the same way throughout the entire company.
> Reading Bits: Most of the speedup just comes from reading and applying Fabian Giesen’s posts on Huffman decoding

Strongly recommend reading Fabian's blog, he has a wealth of great performance knowledge on display there.
>Given that we do not even know how consciousness works in our brains, I don't think we have the answer yet. I'm not sure it's plausible to make such an assumption.

Possibly a fair argument, but I think the opposite would be just as valid then. That you can't assume that consciousness IS a requirement for intelligence.

It seems hard to argue that you don't need some intelligence for consciousness, there seems to be a kind of minimum. We can already see that narrow intelligences for Vision, NLP, game playing, etc are at or above human level and no one claims these systems are conscious. So why should we assume that some meta system of these already existing systems would be?
What is the overall end goal of the entire game?
> By doing this in addition to completing my full course load, I graduated college in two and a half years. I got my bachelor’s degree when I was twenty.

Instead of 3 years?? OK.
This as well.

I love the no speed limit mindset and was endlessly annoyed at uni for not being structured like that, but at the same time it does take a toll
The basis for crypto transactions on most blockchains is a public ledger whereby if you don't launder your money, anyone can see every transaction you make, anyone you transact with can see your whole history.

"need" is a value judgement, but people in general would certainly dislike the premise of using money where everything you did was public knowledge.
> Is adaptation a universal effect? Should our office meetings have “commercial interruptions”?

Meetings are the interruptions lol, they make me appreciate real work all the more
The story of the immigrant experience and trying to fit into a foreign culture is as old as humanity itself.

To be honest I now find these kind of stories a little tedious and boring.
Being an immigrant is not remotely a special or interesting thing.
Did you mean "it's not only about GPL"? I said "licenses like GPL"
Gist: The authors think, without interruptions, we get adapted to the pleasures of a show; it becomes less pleasurable as we get used to it. Interruptions re-trigger the initial enjoyment. So, commercials (interruptions) make us like TV more.

Thoughts: Clickbait title. A better title would be: 'Interruptions make us like a TV show more'.

Note: The authors are "working with a large TV network, which is replicating the study in its market research".
A pension fund with no losses is not taking any risk. Risk is always present, and is a normal part of doing business. So long as the risk is being managed appropriately across the entire portfolio, they're going to do just fine.
I literally use “libre” and “gratis” to make that precise distinction.

And it’s at best questionable whether copilot is derivative of the code it is trained on.
But our public schools are fine, except in places where they have a lot of violence (and private schools are not a factor). Education everywhere is throttled by students’ time and attention, not the quality of the schools.

“School choice” means vouchers, so that means everybody can afford to send their kids to a private school. That won’t make the kid any smarter, but they’re usually in a better school culture.
"right" is a value judgement that just doesn't have a place in choices as complex as how a person should live and fulfill basic necessities. There just isn't one way that's the only way to do things, there's no optimum life, no strict ordering of "this > that" and thinking of things along the lines of "good for you vs. bad for you" is the wrong metaphor.
> I have tried over the past 2 years to propose different solutions to hard problems and I just get blown off

This is the core of the problem, right? You want to work on interesting things, but you're being prohibited from it. Also it seems a bit like you're being disrespected by them if they're not taking your ideas seriously and dismissing them immediately. If you want to stay (which I think you should), you can wait until you're 40 years old and people start listening to you just because of your age, which might feel unfulfilling. Or you can hack on these ideas on your own time, release them as an open-source project, and try to get the company to use them if the project becomes popular.
Open source is usually referring to the OSI definition which is essentially identical to the FSF “free software” term.

And by that logic, gpt3 and dall-e are also copyright violations. Except this has never been proven to be the case.
I don't see how Intelligence depends on SILTBness; it seems like SILTBness would require a subjective sense of self, which (to me) doesn't seem even remotely required for intelligence, and certainly doesn't seem to be required for e.g. predicting human behavior and optimizing based on the predictions.
Grew up listening to CCR, had all their LPs, bought all the CDs, and have those all ripped onto my iPhone. Out of all the great bands from those years, the Beatles, the Stones, CSNY, only they give me a strong wayback feeling to those years and the great times we had whenever I hear one of their songs.
I agree with most everything you say, except:

> Unfortunately, more often than not, teachers feel threatened by such students

My wife and many (most?) of our friends are educators, and my impression is quite the opposite. By and large, they would love to provide more for these students – there simply aren’t any resources provided to do so.
I had never heard of John Prine until he died of covid -- I think obscurity to that degree rules him out.
Honestly, for a brand new name service I would just stick to ASCII to sidestep the whole issue.
What would you call two parasites parasiting each other? Or a parasite parasiting himself?

Also does this exist?

I do know snakes occasionally eat themselves. There are pics of this online.
This is what I was wondering, but I imagine it was instead of 4 years (giving the benefit of doubt)
Ive run a major CDN and authoritative nameservice. Its small enough to not matter in most cases. A quick swag is Id expect 95% of traffic to respect the ttl. Another 4% will appear to have some sort of minimum ttl on the order of single digit minutes. The last 1% transitions over the next hours. There will be a super long tail with measurable, but insignificant, traffic using the previous RDATA effectively forever. Im sure someone from DNS OARC has more recent and well quantified numbers.
Reverse Engineered Clone of Zelda 3 – A Link to the Past in C++. Fully Playable
But the potential payoff is much greater in the US. 6 figure jobs are rarer in the UK, less discreationary income.
Mellencamp line which sticks with me:

I knew this would happen, but I was hopin' not today.

So many things we know will happen eventually, but please, NOT today!
I ponder similar themes and they are indeed very thought-provoking. There's a loose precedent for this in things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation: you've got to jump through some pretty narrow hoops to end up with a scientific argument for objectively-conscious human beings with a distinct past, free will about the future, a clear arrow of time, and a concrete notion of identity.

And yet the human experience is one of being conscious, having a past, having choices about the future, and being the only "me".

For myself I am generally satisfied with the answer that this experienced reality belongs to my personal spirituality (with or without some higher power), and that spirituality is a different matter than science.
> I cannot even understand or empathize with mindsets capable of being scared of AI and robots in a special way

Then has to explain (or invent) that special way before arguing against it.

If it's that special then it's uncommon. I don't think most of us need to get beyond it.
Maybe unduly harsh but I think medical school exemplifies the "busyness directive" more than anything. Sure people go to medical school for altruistic reasons but usually there's more to it than that. Medical school is work. It's hard work. You're spending almost all of your time studying or working. But it suppresses the need to think about your life and what path you want to take for quite a few years. You go from medical school to internship to residency. You don't have to decide anything beyond specialty and even that's partially determined by grades.

It also gives you more clout and a stable, high paying profession at the end.

I don't think it's a surprise that many of the people I know from my prestigious high school and semi-prestigious college are going to medical school.
I started asking this question, but everyone just lied. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think developing an artistic hobby is incredibly beneficial right now. The ability to compound rote memorization with natural curiosity leads to original merit in creating beautiful experiences in the minds of others.

This person has the ability to make that possibly serious with enough prepared latitude in making the jump if/when the soul desires. Worst case outcome: a fun social life.
Yeah. I wonder if this guy has read Blindsight.
Switch FAANGs, not all of them have the same culture.
I interpret it as meaning that the statement referred to is not falsifiable: it is thus beyond the reach of science.
You are just wrong here. References were not added to C++ for that reason. Pointers can be presumed in some code bases not to be null with nullability being the unusual and documented scenario.
And you had a one on one teacher. Come on.
The thing is, you don't know that you would be better off socially had you gone down the normal path.

School suppresses kids and forces them to conform. That's probably the thing it does more strongly than anything else. And it does it even more strongly to shy kids.

So you might've missed out on deep friendships, but maybe not. And you almost assuredly missed out on bullying (physical and emotional) and negative, oppressive social pressure during those formative years.
I second this op. Also relatively early in my career and in fang and have been circling on this line of thought as the "optimal" way to spend the next few years. We genuinely have it too good and should take advantage of it.