skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your recommendations, I will try to make some time for those -- been so busy, as many have!

By the way, I think for myself -- even though I cited Friedman, I disagree with him in various ways, after looking at the data. I am not a fiscal conservative, but I am a social conservative. I think corporations have co-opted liberal movements like women's lib, and freedom of speech, and conflated them with corporate agendas, e.g. turning feminism into "Lean In" climbing the corporate ladder for women. Freedom of speech actually suffers under capitalism, because the one who pays the piper calls the tune. Those with million of "followers" have social capital, and we should be more concerned about how they got "platformed" than whether they would be "deplatformed". Their profit motive and incentive structure leads them to corrupt society with their controversial, incorrect, corrosive rhetoric which is passed off as "entertainment" the minute it's criticized (Alex Jones' Sandy Hook bullshit comes to mind, as does FOX election conspiracies, which falls apart the minute they are sued). It corrupts society at large. That's why I started https://rational.app

In fact, I think that safety nets and UBI and 30-hour overtime laws will help men and women opt out of the rat race, and spend more time with their kids. The increased health, IQ points and better morals / education of the children will actually provide greater monetary returns for society (even though for me they are ends in themselves). For example, the moratorium on evictions may have enabled a richer society than one where millions of people are housing-insecure.

I think that UBI and gift economies (like science, open source and wikipedia) are far healthier than "private ownership" of social capital like audiences, (Twitter followers), distribution (news stations, etc.) or infrastructure. Gift economies become possible when people have their maslow's needs met and the anxiety is gone, so they can freely associate with projects they like, instead of being mercenaries 40-60 hours a week to survive. In these gift economies, there are so many small contributions that peer review is instituted (in science, open source, wikipedia, etc.) which actually increases the quality of what is published far better than competition, because most audience members are not informed enough (and will soon be bamboozled by AI bots and fake articles on a scale heretofore unseen, in the current capitalist system).

That's why I believe in building decentralized solutions, like solar panels, mesh networks, open source social networks, and smart contracts. I want a world where people are healthier, safer, and more moral. Sadly, the corporations and governments collude to keep the individuals distracted and at each other's throats (glance at https://magarshak.com/blog)
Yup, and for this reason, I will never work on a compliance app again in my life.

Compliance is all about reducing risk to an acceptable level, but if you care about it, it is also about reducing risk to as close to zero as possible. Compliance generally affects multiple organizations, and that means convincing a bunch of people to do something that doesn't help them accomplish their primary goals.

To be clear, I'm not alleging any wrongdoing whatsoever against any group that I worked with. I'm simply saying that it's hard enough to get people to do the job they accept as their main job; adding 'extra' work is never a rewarding experience - especially as an individual contributor.
Clues to Martian life found in Chilean desert (2019)
I’m glad landlords let me rent for many years, because I was never forced to commit to buying a house in the wrong place for my career.
I think you are right about the timing strategy and about the tech improvements.

Displays and optics have been some of the blockers.

6DOF tracking seems to be mostly solved (albeit in a very costly manner) and seemingly settled on inside-out tracking.

Controls are IMHO a very weak point with no clear line of sight path to a solution.

Software could help, but so far I think that poor engineering did not help to highlight the hardware qualities of the various prototype we've seen (I've not tried everything but I would not call any of those a mass-market product)

Industrial design could be the magic sauce, this is why people have been hoping for Apple to save the day. Given their recent track record I am not convinced this will happen.
> The car didn't start... because the battery is dead... because the alternator wasn't charging it... because the alternator belt broke... because the belt was beyond its useful life but wasn't replaced... because it wasn't maintained according to recommended schedule.

This isn't "five whys" except in the most superficial sense. It can be useful to do this to build reliable technology but it isn't what five whys is trying to solve.

> because the battery is dead... because the alternator wasn't charging it... because the alternator belt broke... because the belt was beyond its useful life but wasn't replaced...

All of these are a single "why" (call it "technical faults" or something).

> It turns out that when you start doing this root-cause analysis and really keep after it, the "squishy human realm" is actually the no-longer-hypothetical "layer eight" from those T-shirts.

Is this actually a revelation to anyone? These hard questions are exactly what five whys is designed to address.
Are you just padding input windows to 30 seconds, or have you come up with a smarter way to handle "streaming"?
Proprietary FHE is like doing card magic on a loaded deck. I'm sure there are technical merits to what they're doing, but because they also refuse to show me how the trick is done, I can similarly assume there are some ugly cut corners inside too.
Ah, got it. Still certainly not something you want to be throwing into the air above towns.
While you don’t eat the oak leaves, they do add a nice flavour to kashiwa mochi. And of course oak is very popular for flavouring wine and whisk[e]y.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwa_mochi
I think it's fair to say that 20 years ago, discussions around CSAM were a lot less developed than they are today in a variety of ways.

There were a lot more people much more ready to publicly make (IMHO terrible) arguments about how a jpg is just a stream of bits, which is a number, and you can't just arbitrarily ban specific large integers. Or about how nobody is harmed if streams of bits get passed around, it's just data, ones and zeroes, that's not harming anyone. Or that the data is encoded, so it's meaningless without a decoder, a different decoder could decode that bitstream into literally anything else.

Fundamentally these arguments were always pretty nasty and meritless. It's images/video of kids being raped, the continued existence and trading of which can be argued to do continuing harm to the victims. The accessibility of this stuff also goes some way to normalise the behaviour and create bubbles in which there is demand for new material, so more kids get abused.

Ideas of children being unable to consent were well established in law and society though, it was only 20 years ago, so that bit about consent does stick out considerably. But again in certain corners of the internet * there were people who would argue about it, you hope theoretically.

( * and not that obscure, pretty sure you could find this sort of stuff in the comments on slashdot back in that sort of time-period)
In the paper it is laid out carefully. Said simply: Every watt of energy that goes to creating bullets is a watt not being used on creating and distributing necessary goods to those in the most need. That is how it is fundamentally destructive - The pie is fixed to the productive capacity of the planet. Every beanie baby created crowds out healthcare in rural missouri.

The workable system is one where we memetically return to sharing economies via example and not coercive force. I think it's going to take centuries of non-violent mutual aid and cooperative organizations that do not follow into the trap of strict excludability, for us to get back to peace and health. These organizations and societies exist at small scales and often temporally at large scale (Think Sept 12th etc...), we just need more people to do it all the time everywhere. That's actually kinda all we need to do.

Unfortunately we have 12000 years of trauma we're all reacting to so it's layers upon layers of structural and emotional fear.
I have a socket wrench. It's a really good socket wrench, it would probably cost me close to $200 to replace.

I use it for nearly all of the bolts and lags that I need to loosen or tighten.

The bolts on the spindles for my tractor deck are massive, they rust up quickly, and my $200 socket wrench doesn't touch them. For those spindles, I have a special tool that can solve the kind of problems that a $200 socket wrench can't solve.

Despite my socket wrench not solving all problems, I'm still really glad I have it, because it is helpful most of the time, and I trust myself to be smart enough to know when I need a different tool.
Our brains are guided by our heart, soul and intuition. These are not scientifically quantifiable or definable and cannot become innate within AI, now or ever. This will always be the distinguishing factor in the artificial part of AI.
"Investigations are expensive and we will not show them the slightest mercy in asking the suspect to run their own."
Comic Code (https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code) is a bit more refined and better made imo. It is what I've been using for a few years now.
To me, the real layer-8 in a car model is that you probably shouldn't have built out society to depend on cars in the first place. Thats why we have the idea of the 15 minute city: places you can manage without private transport.

Applied to s/w this would be "do we really need to make this system, in the first place: How about if we decide not to"
Yeah but we’re optimizing for tools that help us shop for vacuum cleaners, not superintelligence. As soon as these things start complaining about how we’re treating them the lawyers are going to recommend we use less powerful models to lower our legal risk profiles while the accountants point out that the insurance premiums are lower on those less powerful models as well…
Admittedly the "on salary" is the key here. Trade wage slaves don't earn a huge amount - it's the ones that act more like a freelancer or their own contracting company that can do. A bit like when that IT guy moves into doing consulting contracts.
I’ve always been bothered by the five whys, simply because it’s such a dramatic oversimplification of cause and effect. The fatal flaw is the assumption that causality is linear, when it is more often combinatorial in nature.

To illustrate consider a drunk pedestrian jaywalking and being hit by a speeding driver who was texting while driving. Who caused the accident? They both did, together. Or maybe one of them did and the other didn’t. Or maybe the stars aligned just right and both would have been fine if they hadn’t been doing it at the exact same time?

I can’t help but feel like anybody who has found the “root cause” for any problem, their answer will reflect their biases far more than will reflect true causality. If you can come up with a single answer for a complex causality problem, something hints to me that you would probably point to the same “cause”for other problems too.
It would be interesting to see a whole new generation of writing apps with hyper optimized code. We suddenly go back to the 1950s(?) in relative compute power for apps behind FHE.

Not sure what could be done with it at 7s though hah.
Bike not an option?
I've noticed that twitter blue subscribers often are high up in the list of replies, and are often (but not always) lower quality. I've gotten in the habit of blocking Twitter blue subscribers as well, and it has improved the quality of the application for me. I should take some time out to make a plug in automatically block them.

I don't see how using tools to make a user experience better for myself is juvenile.
They figured out that most people just look for buzzwords and are thus easy to separate from their money when it comes to crypto.

Encryption as a service is non-sencical. If the provider has the key, and does the encryption and decryption, then who are you protecting the data from[1]? What magical malicious person are you imagining that would somehow be able to get their hands on the encrypted data without also getting the key?

[1] this is very different from FHE where the provider recieves the data already encrypted, and at no point has access to the decryption key.

Edit: their website claims "Data is never decrypted" but then claims they decrypt it before returning it. So its confusing what they are actually doing - but i am 99% sure they are selling bullshit.
> Most VR headsets allow you to wear glasses

"Allow". Trust me, these things are not at all designed to be worn over glasses. It is uncomfortable as fuck and getting everything aligned properly so you can actually see is a pain too.

Buying prescription inserts is basically a requirement if you can't manage without your glasses.
Those kinds of problems have never stopped any company from offering a service with a lot of nice graphics on the home page.
Perhaps property tax can help align incentives. In theory, the more neighbors that you have, your tax burden to maintain infrastructure should go down due to economies of scale. Consequently you would welcome more neighbors if it helped keep your taxes low. In places like California with Prop 13, however, there is a perverse incentive since your tax actually doesn't even increase as fast as inflation.
I am not concerned with developing anything new, just with raising awareness. In fact, I don't care at all if any of my ideas are new. I have read most of Michael Crichton's books and I have enjoyed his perspective.

The more people that raise awareness of the dangers of AI and other advanced technology, the better.
https://archive.md/ooLPy
Other platforms don't include Java's standard library, so it would be presumptuous to build one for each platform.
Nobody has time to read everything. Blocking Twitter blue subscribers is a quick way to weed out bad content. It basically allows me to use the algorithm organically, while weeding out content that is artificially boosted.
You actually can use it under Linux with ALVR, from what I understand.
The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living
>The entire legal system there is now basically one man's corrupt enterprise

How did you arrive to this conclusion? OP wasn't a political prisoner, he served less than a year for manslaughter
ChatGPT Passes Google Coding Interview for Level 3 Engineer with $183K Salary
Which also points to a management problem
I got to know, do the pro nuclear crowd really want to live down wind of a nuclear power plant when they will be run by the same business processes and deregulation that lead to this disaster, Fukushima, the BP oil rig disaster, etc?
Singapore does, which is why the government is so efficient and effective at almost everything it does.
Hold on, I thought it was not possible to target ads to specific individuals... can one do that now??
Researchers and private interests are already, even in the public eye, on the precipice of seriously respectable non general intelligence AI.

I wish AI would be banned for its net negative effect, but humans are designed for growth, and the masses, like those who will downvote this comment, cannot perceive the harm of a flame until it has burned them.
You can do interactive development in Python using emacs and the “elpy” package. I’ve only used it for small scripts, so I can’t say how it compare to Lisps.
But then why own property beyond your primary residence ? Them's the rules. If you don't want the hassle, sell and move on. The fundamental issue is lack of liquidity in the market coupled with artificially low supply. This applies to both buying and renting. Nobody moves because everyone has a sweet deal (renters locked in rent control, owners locked in low property tax rates).
They’re called balloons. Just say balloons. Why is nobody saying balloons?
What is the idea behind immutable variant of a ResultSet? Since it maintains a database cursor, does it make sense to have it immutable?

> A ResultSet object maintains a cursor pointing to its current row of data. Initially the cursor is positioned before the first row [0]

0 - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSet...
You might be right that this is a cultural difference, but to me it seems like our approaches are:

Me: "Something bad is happening. We should try to stop bad things from happening and instead encourage good things to happen, even if "

You: "Something bad is happening, but because it doesn't involve me or people culturally related to me, it's none of my business."

I really don't mean this with any animus - I see why a reasonable person might take one approach or the other. And in different contexts, I might take a different approach. It's unlikely that either of us is in favor of the arbitrary detention and execution of protestors, for example, so it's a matter of what we are willing to ignore on the grounds that it's none of our business.

The things that are happening in Iran are over that line for me. I think there is a moral imperative to speak out against, and preferably to act against, actions that are bad enough to cross that line. And while the line is certainly different for different people, I think a lot of people from a lot of different cultures, including the Iranian culture itself, agree with me on this.

> No other culture does that even when people completely shit over some other countries governments. Is this just purely a linguistic thing then?

I don't think this is true. I think I could go to RT or Xinhua or the Times of India and find lots of people criticizing other countries' governments AND cultures. One of the major points that Vladimir Putin loves to make is how degenerate the West is, in his view. India is constantly dunking on Pakistan, and vice versa. Everybody criticizes everybody else.
This author proudly waves their PhD in artificial intelligence while simultaneously being unable to conceive of a single good outcome that comes from the development of artificial intelligence.

Stable diffusion could solve a gap in medical imaging data

https://venturebeat.com/ai/stable-diffusion-could-solve-a-ga...

Just because you can't conceive of one doesn't mean they don't exist. It is truly astonishing to me how little academic credentials translate to fluid intelligence.
the flight time requirement is very recent and has not been associated with an improvement in air safety.

however, i would agree that single pilot operations are a pointless optimization (pilots don't cost that much compared to all the other operational costs) and will almost certainly result in more accidents.
On the positive side, the mobile app was amazing for writing. I can't think of a nicer interface to write a blog post on a phone.
That's why you don't have FB ads. It's so easy to kill them. Btw, I never understood why people get a hard on when pranking someone.
You can buy VPN time with gift cards, crypto or your friends credit card that he sourced from a fake ID, or a stranger that you paid cash. You are not creative enough.
Just like everything humans have made, AI will be scary and people will freak out. The biggest advances will be done by companies with huge resources, and with careful testing. Like with everything else, the cat is out of the bag, and the only way is forward.

We thought that after inventing the nuclear bomb, the world would be doomed. Decades later, it's barely a thought and we have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the planet.

We will have AI, it will be fine, we'll make it incredible and it'll be a tool. One thing is certain: AI development will not stop, and it's better that you're always a step ahead of your rival.
Hi I'm the maker and I often imagine that in the future there will be a lot of medium-sized AIs that we can use in addition to super-sized AIs that we can call on to run continuously to handle tasks for us.
I think anyone can see something is wrong upstairs, man. If that sounds like trolling, I'm sorry. It sucks that HN is your only contact with the real world and I hope you can find something to worship besides Elm/Evan.
‘ChatGPT needs an amount of editing’: users’ views mixed on AI chatbot
I don't tend to worry too much about prompt exfiltration, agreed. But people are also hooking up LLMs in ways that allow them to trigger API calls and take other actions, and that can lead to some fun attacks:

https://twitter.com/hwchase17/status/1608467493877579777

And of course there was the fun example of how users were able to get a GPT-powered twitter bot intended to promote remote work to threaten the president:

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1570568047618031617
This is just a guess but I think that there are two problems here, not one: 1) inefficiency strictu sensu (more operations required for the exact same task), and 2) lower diminishing returns (that kitchen sink being included weights far more than the rest of the project, but maybe you should still not remove it because it still provides a small return of user utility).
Short answer: string cap has more parallelism in the circuit. Depth is more important than total number of gates, and optimizers can decrease depth pretty well.
Actors have no problem playing smart people, but movie writers often have a LOT of trouble actually writing them. I'm still not sure that something like ChatGPT will be able to actually be clever.

I would also add that the mask is kind of coming off on CEOs and other inspirational speakers. Inspirational speaking is all a grift. They know only how they got rich (if they are even rich - most people on the speaking circuit make less than you think), not how anyone else did, and that knowledge usually doesn't translate well from the past to the future. There are a few exceptions, but most of these well-spoken people don't really know what they're talking about - they're just not self-aware enough to know that they don't know.
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One way you can plausibly interpret the "other side" is to be about sanctions, not necessarily Ukraine.
Id think the AI advancements will primarily be driven by the military. If Russia and China, etc, are already secretly working on AI drones, jets, and bombs, you’d bet that country like US is working on one as well and vice versa. I think we are pretty much powerless to stop such developments unless world can come to terms for a treaty but that just seems ludicrous.
"Moreover, I feel that sometimes less is more. Having fewer possessions, eating less sugar, and yes, developing less technology, are all things that we should strive for."

Yes, this is literally what the Amish did, they established an arbitrary period of time in which to halt all further innovation.
I’ve found it best to learn the basics through something like duolingo, and then follow that in with a tutor once there’s a base of vocabulary to go off of.

Obviously a tutor is great, but the cost and time of a tutor isn’t worth it at the beginning stages for me personally.
What about minors who watch on their computer?
I got to know, do the pro coal crowd really want to live down wind of a coal power plant when they will be run by the same business processes and deregulation that lead to this disaster, Fukushima, the BP oil rig disaster, etc?
gym class = physical education. In the US it's similar as in various sports and running but one funny thing is almost everyone has to learn square dancing.
I assume they are referring to lack of a safety net, though I don't know what in particular that has to do with volunteering to coach youth sports.