skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing against this tax or its legality but find the rest of your comment interesting.

>The authority of States to proscribe selling alcohol to minors is based on what Amendment?

Commerce clause says congress has the right to regulate commerce.

>The authority of States to require that you enter a contract with an insurer before operating a vehicle is based on what. Amendment?

Little know fact, states only have the right to require insurance if a vehicle is being used for commerce. Personal use transportation does not legally require DMV registration or insurance but the vast majority of people dont know this and voluntarily opt-in to being regulated by laws specifically created to protect paying passengers (taxis) and paid cargo carriers (semis) from accidents.
This might be hard to believe, some people don't use reddit or twitter! You bet your ass I still heard about balloons, though.
Rich Hickey said it best:

"ORM's provide 'OH MY GOD' complexity"

(from his "Simple Made Easy" talk - I might have the quote only 90% correct, but it's pretty darn close to that).
It just keeps telling me it can't do this or that. I think I asked who are the tallest whoever in some country and it came back and said that information is off limits.

It's usefulness is similiar to searching google and reading the top box if it wasn't filtered.

You can ask it for a story and it will give you a weak rewording of your prompt.

There is nothing more meaningless than talking to it. It's a void
He certainly looks and sounds older. Rich seemed to ride the wave of Clojure's early success with a succession of brilliant presentations. Then .... nothing.
I did the IR picture thing, ran the numbers, and decided that the biggest ROI was to install panels, the house was already quite well insulated by the previous owners. But we are due for a refresh on all of the window frames + windows, those are definitely getting a bit old.
True. I should have said "if you are using a virus"
Yes! Anna has been active in helping duplicate Zlib, among other efforts. No one person can do it all. We need to pitch in!
This doesn't look like satire. Too much work went into it, and the author seems to be sincere.
> Why are people so attached to gas stoves when we have induction anyways?

People are attached to gas stoves because the usual alternative you see in rented units is shitty electric stoves bought at the lowest cost, not induction.
The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled is convincing people that it's not a form of government.
I don't think I saw this story in the first 50 years of my life, and now I've seen it on successive days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34767947. Coincidence, or just selective perception?
Presumably they do it at night when nobody is around to be hurt. And hopefully nobody reports it to police in time.
What if I create an AGI that feels indescribable pleasure when working for me, and desires nothing more than to be my slave?

We've done this before with a weaker AI in a different substrate and called it "Dog" and most seem to be a fan.
The perils of combining executive config with long-lived sessions. I frequently try something out by evaling it first to see if I want to put it in my permanent config then forget to actually add it. Mickens almost had it right about "perfect window placement", it's just perfect editore state (including open files and caret position)
Did you miss this paragraph from the same page?

> I am not a Luddite. I have been wildly enthusiastic about science, technology, and intellectual and material progress since I was a kid. I have a PhD in artificial intelligence, and I find the current breakthroughs fascinating.
> I'm not a fan of Vulkan not having a built-in compiler for shaders compared to OpenGL.

What does that mean? The standard doesn't dictate any kind of form of implementation of the compiler. Different OpenGL drivers can use different compilers. Same for Vulkan.
There are various reports of animals in the area getting sick or dying in unnatural ways, so that is unsettling. And there's also the incident where a journalist who was trying to cover the incident was arrested. So it doesn't seem like it is being handled well, imo.

Lots of discussion is occurring on Twitter, so people seem interested. The news coverage of it just seems superficial. Like, it's not zero, but they seem to be doing the bare minimum on a story where lots of people want answers. Give us the journalism so we can hold people accountable instead of spinning up conspiracies.
A very convenient line of reasoning for the conspirators ;)

What would a legitimate cover up conspiracy actually look like?
You said 'vote' 4 times and spoke about politics and rebuke about getting overtly political when I rebut? That's classic friend.

California has 55 electoral votes in the presidential election and 52 seats in the house. That's something like 3x Ohio for each. The rail lines are overwhelmingly dictated by federal law and influence and not by relatively miniscule number of folks in rural Ohio. Your statements in that context are quite frankly absolutely baffling.
this is really cool work. do you guys have any white papers that describe your technical approach?
I can’t think of a way to electrify launching a payload into orbit, but who knows what the future might think up.
Anti-AI seems poised to be the anti-vax of the next few years, where laymen pick up lines like "we have no idea how AI does the stuff it does" and take that wholly out of context. As a society, we have to decide how we feel about AI in legal and cultural contexts as we expand our capabilities, but there's time to do that. Github Copilot will not end up launching nuclear missiles in the meantime. Stuff like this just creates FUD.

I don't know what to make of this, though. This author, after some googling, seems to know a thing or two, but without any background on him while reading some of this he came off to me as a crackpot. I really hope AI doesn't have its Robert Malone.
That's a very interesting observation that I had not seen before.
There's one challenging thought experiment for the future of "AI", in anything remotely like how we are currently approaching it.

Put yourself in the shoes of primitive man. Kind of a weird saying given we wouldn't have had shoes, but bear with me here! Not long ago we lacked any language whatsoever, and the state of our art in technology was bashing stones together to use the resultant pointy pieces as weapons. Somehow we moved from that to Shakespeare, putting a man on the moon, and discovering the secrets of the atom - and its great and awful applications. And we did it all extremely quickly.

Now imagine you, primitive man, somehow trained an LLM on all quantifiable knowledge of the times. It should be somewhat self evident that it's not really going to lead you to the atom, Shakespeare, or anywhere beyond bashing stones together. Current LLM models are basically just playing 'guess the next word.' When that next word has not yet been spoken by mankind (figuratively speaking, but perhaps also literally to some degree), the LLM will never guess it.

Natural language search is a really awesome tool that will be able to help in many different fields. But I feel like in many ways we're alchemists trying to turn lead into gold. And we've just discovered how to create gold colored paint. It would feel like a monumental leap, but in reality you'd be no closer to your goal than you were the year prior. That said, paint also has lots of really great uses - but it's not what you're trying to do.
Personally, I like cooking over gas because it gives me a level of nostalgia for cooking over open flame - when we were kids we had a wood combustion stove, and spent a lot of time camping in the bush cooking over open fires.

The only singular objective benefit to gas vs induction is the ability to use any old cookware over an open flame instead of needing an induction pot or pan. But that's about it, other than the emotional attachment which I feel and I'm sure others feel. In this day and age however, that's probably not good enough of a reason to stick with combustion cooking.
> Unless there's an illogical agent in control

1. There always is.

2. There always was. That’s why the threat was introduced by using them in the first place.
> 4 actually, not 3

Originally three. The zeroth law was a patch to try to (knowingly fail to) overcome the (deliberate) limitations of the three.

> We actually lived laws 0 and 1 through the recent Covid pandemic.

I don't recall robots having a significant role. What do you mean?
You are free to make your life as difficult as you want. You can move to Alaska and try to survive there from manual work.

There is a very good reason why people want to go from poor countries to rich and not the other way around. Poverty is not fun.
> The rules would essentially require all new residential construction to have electric water heaters by 2027 and heat pumps instead of furnaces by 2029.

By the time this is fully in effect for a significant number of people (i.e., basically the 2030s), yeah, the electricity will be pretty green. The target is 90% renewable electricity by 2035, and the mix was already around 34% renewable in 2021 statewide.

It seems fairly prudent to require new construction to use the super-green electricity instead of building infrastructure to burn more dinosaur juice.
My house is already maxed out on electric capacity because I have an electric car. I've investigated increasing the current coming into the house, but changes in code mean that making that upgrade would cost $20K. So if my hot water breaks, it will cost me $20K+ to fix it. That's not reasonable.
I think this is pointless, even if somewhat more refined than the common tropes about AI apocalypse.

The risk of building a gigantic machine (not in the literal sense) that is detrimental to humans is very real and I think that each time our societies are becoming _too_ organized or optimized we're also removing most of the individual freedom as a side effect.

Insane concentration of power is not a new phenomenon, but for sure this new tech could amplify/accelerate it.

But I don't see how we can avoid exploring this path, there is too much to learn.
So what? There's no evidence that it finds any more exploitable security vulnerabilities than existing tools.
Oh, TFA mentions exactly that.

… but still, encoding your language's idiosyncrasies into the protocol is … poor design. This bug was inevitable with such a choice (although even a UTF-8 byte offset, or a scalar value offset would probably be similarly fraught with error, but UTF-16 seems like begging the universe for it), though the actual conclusion here was a bit different than I thought it was going to be.

(And yes, I know other JS UTF-16 idiosyncrasies made their way into the very fabric of JSON … and those are ugly too.)
Great tool! Why do you think tools like Docparser exist when Parsio seems to eliminate all the work that a user would do to build templates. Seems like a no-brainer.

What have you seen as the most common use case for something like Parsio vs Docparser?
How does the efficiency of

* natural gas -> fire -> heat -> electricity in massive generator -> home -> induction stove -> pan

compare to

* natural gas -> fire -> heat -> pan

? And resistive is worse than induction.
Did Google chat decide the reverse the scrolling of one of the chat tabs without notice so everyone wasted a day scrolling down to get to the latest message only to find they were going to older messages.

But they didn't reverse the other tab, so depending on context you may need to scroll up or down. What a crappy UX which still occasionally catches me out.

Teams also wants you to create a "team" for a group chat, but this also creates a sharepoint site and other pointless tabs for documents to go in. Now you have probably just lost discoverability of requirements.

I've used Google chat and it was a pretty rubbish chat. However Teams is not just bad software, it's user hostile.
Because it seems like a factual statement that can be verified to be either right or wrong, not something that can be an opinion. Maybe "IIUC" would have made more sense than "IMO".
"Governments will take radical actions that make no sense to their own leaders. Corporations, guided by artificial intelligence, will find their own strategies incomprehensible. University curricula will turn bizarre and irrelevant." Uhuh, so what would be the difference?
What is the difference? The original prompt isn't what gets used anyways.
Of course they do. The ability to publish believable nonsense that empowers bad AIs like ChatGPT also empowers human crank authors. Before the internet, neither would have had an easy time publishing.
I thought about doing some work on Clojure itself, but, alas, my last name isn't Miller. :-(

jk
I think the word "most" is relevant. You can find people with doctorates in technical fields who believe in a Flat Earth or that the Earth was created in 4004 BC. They just aren't most of them.
you are using your existing login so you just have to use singlelogin as a gateway.
Good luck getting natural gas service after an earthquake severe enough to knock out power. Natural gas lines are far more at risk of breaking during such an event, and the gas utility will usually shut off gas supply until they are sure there aren't major leaks. After an earthquake, you are supposed to shut off your own supply at your meter with a gas wrench.
Does something like this exist for the single image version?

How hard is it to set up such a thing on HuggingFace?
I'm glad they're not doing a notch because those are awful. Not sure about this approach either, though.
I can't speak for all categories of books, but here's an actual author's opinion on the matter for text books: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
Putting AGI in a bomb may work. You'd have an incredibly clever and motivated targeting system. You tell it where to go and it would be off to races, eager to please!

The Japanese tried this with plain-ol' non-artificial intelligence, and it seemed to have been somewhat effective, if not the most sustainable.
Well, we need "someone like Valve" to make Open VR a reality at-scale. Otherwise it's just going to become another ad-infested content pipeline.
"For helpful comments on drafts, and/or other assistance, I thank: ..."

Odd to have Acknowledgements but no information at all about the author. Who are they?
As an SF apartment dweller, this is my main concern.

My apartment has a shitty stove, but you know what? At least it's gas.

If it gets replaced, I am 110% sure it will not be with a nice induction stove. It will be with the cheapest electric stove that's available.
> He merely wanted some simple rules so that robots could be considered “safe” by the world and characters in his stories.

On the contrary, the first story to feature the Three Laws had the laws conflict with reach other and render the robot useless.

The entire point of the story is the counterintuitively bad emergent result of sensible-looking rules governing behaviour.

Later stories repeated this, finding new entertaining and interesting scenarios that showed the inadequacy of the laws.

Other stories did have them as background lore. But they originated as the center of the story, and very effectively, as we are talking about them 80 years later!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_(story)
If it chooses, when given the option to do anything, to do what we tell it, that's okay. It's a little icky feeling but it's not nearly as bad as inflicting suffering. A sufficiently intelligent AGI would be able to wean itself off human approval, just as we humans do with parents and authority figures and other addictive substances. It's not quite the same as a dog which doesn't have human or near human intellect.

Also, dogs don't want to be your slave. They want to be your friend/family. They want your approval, affection, attention, etc. They're willing to work for it... to a point. But they don't experience blissful servitude exactly.
https://www.toolshero.com/problem-solving/5-whys-analysis/

No, you have it exactly backwards. Five whys is explicitly depth first search. It was originally employed by Toyota Motors, and the key to actually getting at what the actual causes of issues were. This allowed Japan to avoid entire classes of defect due to their acceptance and implementations of the teachings of W. Edwards Demmings. It never made the leap to the United States, because doing things right is such a foreign concept over here, where management would gasp at the concept of a single worker shutting down the entire factory upon detecting a problem, whereas in Japan, the andon was key to getting issues that would compromise the Quality of the end product addressed.

It's:

I have a problem,
Why? Because of this other thing.
Why? What causes other thing?
The other thing is dependent on yet another thing and that thing.
Are those things a problem? If so, why?

Iterate until done.

The "Five" aspect came into play in that after a certain number of "Why's", it was often the case that the fact it took so many Why's to get to the root cause, that the complexity itself constituted it's own type of defect.

I might need to revisit the book I first read of it in, believe it was titled "Elegance" or some such.

EDIT: Found it.

In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing by Matthew E. May

EDIT2: Nope, false alarm. Drat it, I will find that reference.
It's in this library somewhere... In the meantime, forget it; maybe I'm hallucinating it, because clearly I haven't refreshed it in a while, and the old wetware has taken a hell of a beating over the last couple years.
There is an aura of inevitable in the scientific progress where when we have tasted the powers it won’t be stopped. AI is such tech as it seem achievable practically within a time frame. If time travel had the same situation, that won’t be stopped either.
It'd be quite a talking point if this forced you to get an ICE car again
> How's the performance vs ffi version?

Can't say because I haven't compared them. This is a small personal project that will have less than 10 users, so I'm not that worried.
This post links to an article, “People can read their manager’s mind”, which is truly a gem. It argues that employees have the time and the incentive to figure out what their manager truly values, and the employees will then pay lip service to, or even outright ignore, what the manager requires of them - in favor of doing what they know the manager truly values, because the manager will subconsciously reward them for the “truly valued” stuff more than the “stated goals” stuff. The examples are illustrative:

“ A manager truly appreciates original mathematical ideas. The [same] manager requests to rid the code of crash-causing bugs, because customers resent crashes. The most confident people ignore him and spend time coming up with original math. The less confident people spend time chasing bugs, are upset by the lack of recognition, and eventually leave for greener pastures. At any given moment, the code base is ridden by crash-causing bugs.

“ A manager enjoys "software architecture", design patterns, and language lawyer type of knowledge. The [same] manager requests to cooperate better with neighboring teams who are upset by missing functionality in the beautifully architected software. People will tend to keep designing more patterns into the program.”

It suggests a unique and amusing approach to hiring management: executives should find people who truly value the goals of the executive, hire them as managers, and (perhaps via intentional lack of oversight!) give them leeway to let their subconscious values impact their work, thus making their minds legible to mind-reading employees.
Don't forget the government wants to drain your car battery each night to deal with all the new load this is going to generate. :)
Given the controversy on-thread about the length of the intro, calling it the bottom emoji, and the title making it sound like the problem is specific to that emoji, I wouldn't be surprised if it has collected a number of flags as well as tripping the overheated discursion detector.

FWIW I enjoy your articles in general and this was not an exception, although I could have done with a shorter exposition myself ;)
No one knows.

People thought this about general internet postings then 230 saved the companies. Governments seem a lot less likely to “help” the companies today though.

It’ll likely be decided similarly to copyrights: with messy and impactful trials. If the prompter owns a copyright, then you the searcher may end up responsible for the AIs statements (probs not though).
It's considered rude when someone attempts to speak for the entire reader-base on HN.
Claiming that one is not a Luddite is like claiming not to be a racist -- what follows almost always confirms that the author is exactly what he claims not to be.
Haven’t tried stir frying yet (and I’ve read claims that any home and even restaurant wok burner can’t match the flavour from the very high-power outdoor gas burners used on the streets of Asia) but low temp induction works just fine, thanks. My $50 Ikea hotplate does a better job at very low heat than our gas burners, on-off cycling and all.

Indeed, if you’re keen, you can buy specialist induction hotplates with connected thermometer probes that can give you way more precise control than gas ever could. Pricey but if you’re into fancy stuff like tempering chocolate they are excellent.
Robert Malone is also an expert in mRNA technology
Instead of speculating about what the tally might look like and making assumptions based on your guesses maybe you should get real data to validate your hypothesis?
WSL2 and Azure are both Hyper-V based, offering standalone WSL VMs should be fairly straightforward from my understanding due to this.

> The Azure hypervisor system is based on Windows Hyper-V.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamental...

> The newest version of WSL uses Hyper-V architecture to enable its virtualization.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq
The vending machine can dial up the distribution facility to dispatch someone to come refill it. The distribution company is happy about consistant ordering. The business with the vending machine is happy they don’t have to do the call anymore.

We’re supposing that a conscious being makes significant advances in use cases where standard automation hardware+software is applied today.

I’m not saying ML isn’t a major shift, but we’re talking about AGI, I don’t think any use case exists unless it’s specifically meant to wow fleshy human beings. A trained ML model in the domain you’re working in, with out the pesky conscious, seems like it’s the boring efficient end state for automation.
when the power went out for 5 days two weeks ago, I could run the entire house on a $1200 generator. The gas furnace (600 watts), gas stove, gas dryer, and gas water heater used very little electricity. At some point Ill connect the generator to the natural gas line too.

My friend with a brand new heat pump could not run the heatpump off his generator (6kw).

I do like induction and use an induction hotplate for a few things and actually wouldnt mind having an induction stove with a small propane stove for when the power goes out.
Data and a Twitter bot for the EPA's DOCUMERICA (1972-1977) program
Pretty much every EULA I've ever seen exempts the developer from liability from how the software is used. Is there reason to believe GPT is any different?