skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider Artificial Intelligence to be an oxymoron, a sketch of the argument goes like this: An entity is intelligent in so far as it produces outputs from inputs in a manner that in not entirely understood by the observer and appears to take aspects of the input the observer is aware of into account that would not be considered by the naive approach. An entity is artificial in so far as its constructed form is what was desired and planned when it was built. So an actual artificial intelligence would fail in one of these. If it was intelligent, there must be some aspect of it which is not understood, and so it must not be artificial. Admittedly, this hinges entirely upon the reasonableness of the definitions I suppose.

It seems like you suspect the artificial aspect will fail - we will build an intelligence by not expecting what had been built. And then, we will have to make difficult decisions about what to do with it.

I suspect the we will fail the intelligence bit. The goal post will move every time as we discover limitations in what has been built, because it will not seem magical or beyond understanding anymore. But I also expect consciousness is just a bag of tricks. Likely an arbitrary line will be drawn, and it will be arbitrary because there is no real natural delimitation. I suspect we will stop thinking of individuals as intelligent and find a different basis for moral distinctions well before we manage to build anything of comparable capabilities.

In any case, most of the moral basis for the badness of human loss of life is based on one of: builtin empathy, economic/utilitarian arguments, prosocial game-theory (if human loss of life is not important, then the loss of each individuals life is not important, so because humans get a vote, they will vote for themselves), or religion. None of these have anything to say about the termination of an AI regardless of whether it possesses such as a thing as consciousness (if we are to assume consciousness is a singular meaningful property that an entity can have or not have).

Realistically, humanity has no difficulty with war, letting people starve, languish in streets or prisons, die from curable diseases, etc., so why would a curious construction (presumably, a repeatable one) cause moral tribulation?

Especially considering that an AI built with current techniques, so long as you keep the weights, does not die. It is merely rendered inert (unless you delete the data too). If it was the same with humans, the death penalty might not seem so severe. Were it found in error (say within a certain time frame), it could be easily reversed, only time would be lost, and we regularly take time from people (by putting them in prison) if they are "a problem".
Yes you can, that requires some balls (such as not allowing fucking Hizb ut-Tahrir run schools). You'd think it violates the free speech principle, but smart people have that covered by the paradox of tolerance.

Also we put fake kids online and young-looking cops to lure predators all the time for that exact reason.

As long as there are people wishing to "behead those who offend Muhammad", there should be an offensive Muhammad cartoon on every street light.
Have you looked recently?

I've been tracking DDR5 motherboard (I think the perf is worth it), MicroATX (don't need fullsize), I don't need blinking lights, watercooling systems, wifi, or exotic sound systems, so I go for relatively barebones motherboards. I do want something small, quiet, 2.5G ethernet, and has dual m.2 slots.

On Newegg I found an Intel ASRock Riptide for $159 [0].

On Newegg I found an AMD ASRock Riptide for $169 [1].

I'll happily take the AMD and end up with a quieter and cooler system for the $10.00 premium. Debating between a 7700 (non-x), 7700X3D, or 7900 (non-x). Hopefully it lasts as long as my current (2015) desktop.

Do you consider a $10 premium "extortionately priced"?

[0] https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162061
[1] https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162083
I dunno if I agree with you overall, but getting punched in the face in the street is wildly different from someone calling you a bad name on the Internet, so on that point I entirely agree.

Getting punched in the face is primal, it gets into that part of your brain that we’re all wisely told to suppress, the animalistic nature of us upright apes.

It’s… well, nobody has ever said anything to me online that has caused me to feel even a fraction of what I’ve felt getting punched in the face.

I don’t know how or even if that contributes to the conversation, but I think it’s worth saying.
I think everyone is able to see how the other side incites violence, but thinks the rule doesn't apply to them. For instance, there was a lot of rhetoric about how dangerous it was when Donald Trump was elected - that it would be the end of Democracy, that fascism was coming to the U.S., that we could well end up with concentration camps and nuclear war. The man who shot up the Congressional baseball game[1] was a member of pages dedicated to how threatening Trump and the Republicans were. Are the people who said that responsible for his attempt at political assassination?

I guess you can argue that. But most people I see bringing up "stochastic terrorism" suddenly say that those types of violence don't count. It's not just that this outlook is controversial - I've yet to meet anyone who has applied it consistently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shootin...
>denial of the means to live a dignified life

That is not violence, not sure why you put some weasel statements in.
Even tabletop gamers are not gullible enough to fall for an agreement that bad.
You're arguing that a government murding non-violent protesters is an example of a government being forced by protesters to cede its powers?
I believe they mean dedicated fibre as in a home fibre broadband connection. In the UK that can mean anything from VDSL to FTTH (thanks advertising watchdog!).

These aren't being used as web servers and the like. The intention is to take batch jobs and run them - computer modelling etc. The data can easily be downloaded overnight over even a relatively modest connection.
I'm supper bullish on Apple on this one. If a company can figure out how to properly do AR is Apple. We might be approaching the next revolution on personal computing after the iPhone.
They... would just get a contract with the utility ?

Also, I don't think you just get one fiber(?), I have 4 fiber ports on my wall outlet, which was quite useful when I changed ISPs (that didn't share the same fiber) : only a few seconds of downtime, to switch Ethernet cables and Wi-Fi !

Also, unless you have solar thermal hot water, this sounds to be the perfect use case, thanks to the large inertia... (I wonder how they interface with the off-hours cheap electricity? This seems to be up to a constant 200W, ~100W guaranteed ?)

The concern I have here is that despite the "patented heating element", this sounds to be a hacky solution that might compromise the insulation too much. They really need to build those in the water heater to start with ! (And provide regular service against failure from rust, since a leaky heater might have more dire consequences here.)
From a quick look, seems to only support C2S for talking to clients? Are there any clients or web frontends that talk C2S? They mostly seem to use the MastoAPI.
C runtime.
Which AMD chip is 40 cores?
> Programming on an iPad? Forget it. Have you thought about doom scrolling instead?

Current 13" iPad Pro beats original Macbook Airs for dev, plenty people used them.

I'd argue toolchains readily available on iPad Pro with real keyboard and trackpad today is better than any laptop any devs did work on two decades ago.

Stage Manager, in particular, lets you have main + 4 more windows open to swap with a thumb tap, not even counting you can have multiple overlapping panes and drive an external 4K screen with multi-tasking windowing.

Of course if you use Blink (mosh) you can ssh to anything, you can run VSCode or GitHub Codespaces or Cloud9 or any web IDE, you can use any VDI ... even if you don't like the Git file sync and local native Code Editor tools that are compatible-ish with Codea / Textmate / Sublime flavors of editor.
And the people planning shooting against a demonized majority?
In a "liberal, intellectual society", surely each individual would choose for themselves where the line is drawn, and then vigorously debate amongst themselves until a position wins out in the marketplace of ideas, right?

Nothing says liberal and intellectual like unquestioningly handing off decision making to some authority figure.
I think that AR will be much more impactful than VR, but I also think it's further away.
American developers might find themselves on the sharp end of globalised capitalism now.
This also works fairly well on human beings. Start asking people questions about things they have no training in and you'll get bafflement, confusion, lies, fabrication, guesses, and anger. Not necessarily all from the same person.
According to the article:

>The emails also show that approximately one third of the destinations documented in the emails were to cities outside of PREDICT partner countries. PREDICT leaders jetsetted to destinations like Vienna, Rome and Paris.

Some of the trips to these destinations appeared to have only tangential relevance to the government program footing the bill.

Further, several of the business class requests were on behalf of the Global Virome Project (GVP), a private organization founded using U.S. tax dollars. Ethics experts say the use of public resources for the private organization may have violated federal ethics laws.
A flawed but useful operating system and programming language isn't likely to decide humanity is garbage and launch all nuclear weapons at once.

A "worse is better" AGI could cause the end of humanity. I know that sounds overly dramatic, but I'm not remotely convinced that isn't possible, or even isn't likely.

I agree with you that "x-risk" research could easily devolve into what you are worried about, but that doesn't mean we should ignore these risks and plow forward.
The system doesn’t rely on the 5s FWIW worth and is capable of running entirely through the distributed queue.

The 5s check is just there to improve UX on small user actions.
Or for maps/vehicle information for motorcycles. Blind spot monitoring? Overlaid turn-by-turn directions? Etc
It wasn't as big of an issue. And there's a limit on how small you can go, especially with batteries.

It's not "just a matter of time".
This isn't really about whose ideas are more correct. The strategy is, as Steve Bannon infamously put it, to "flood the zone with shit". They're basically doing a DDoS against the marketplace of ideas.
Postmodernism absolutely does not deny intent. In fact, motivation behind texts/speech (as well as interpretation by readers/hearers) is such an important part of it that you can't really do postmodern analysis without accounting for motives.

The closest thing I can imagine for any kind of defense of your statement is that postmodernism will not let the declared or conscious intent of the speaker absolutely constrain a text. The logical distinctions between "not absolutely constraining" and "declaring it to be completely useless" should be clear. And the idea that people don't always declare their intent accurately should also be uncontroversial.

Really, postmodernism is essentially very big elaboration on the principles underlying Sinclair's observation "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
> It never fails to sink me to my nadir, so I avoid watching it even if I love it so much.

Of course the sound track to that scene is a Russian Orthodox religious chant:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVHl3HTBoA
"Would you feel differently if this thing were different?" ya maybe why do u ask.
Keep in mind, any 3rd party record is not covered by the 4th Amendment. There is no expectation of privacy nased on 3rd Party Doctrine.

Also, there is a forensics package that can be hot loaded on just about every router out there for law enforcement purposes.
How does it differ from M3ter, Metronome or Amberflow other than open source?
Rated on dollars per hour of brain upgrades, thinking and enjoyment, it doesn’t get better than a good book.
Are they going to disallow HTTPS, DNS over HTTPS, and encrypted SNI too?
Except Apple's walled garden doesn't protect you from financial scams.

Apple is more like a television manufacturer that only lets you watch Disney+. The extent to which they protect their walled garden is not for the benefit of the consumer.
1. The problem is not being raided for tax evasion. The problem is them and others being investigated/raided after criticising the government. It's the usual "we'll ignore things if you keep things quiet and make your life hard if you don't". No one is above the law, but the application of the law is very selective... Any journalist or org will get the message.

2. You want a 2 hour documentary that covers who did what, who did it first, back it all with believable proof, and also cover 800 years of nuance, interpretations, opinions... yeah, good luck with that. It's not going to happen.

There are indications of what happened and how some didn't do anything to stop it from happening. Pointing this out isn't an attack on India or Indians (there's a difference between you and the government/politicians). It is what it is, no need to be so defensive.

The funny thing is that no one really cared about this until the Indian government decided to censor it (why?) and presented it as an external attack (well, now I'm interested!). They decided to make a big deal out of something than only they actually cared. Now apparently the BBC is the "most corrupt organisation in the world" (to quote a BJP spokesperson) and raids are needed because, of course, "no one is above the law".

Be it India or another country, this is bad and shouldn't be defended or encouraged.
Did you misread something in the parent comment? They were talking about pushing the idea of trans people as groomers, in general. Trans people existing doesn't mean they're performing any type of child abuse.
that's the opposite problem that most people (from my experience) have in NYC. Apartments get too much heat (i.e. landlords can get seriously fined if they dont keep the building at a proper temp, so its just easier and safer for them to give too much heat). Also, many radiators in old buildings aren't really adjustable anymore (and hence you get all the heat). so its common for people in NYC to keep their windows open in the middle of winter to try to balance out the temperature.
If you are of a certain vintage on the internet;

Forum admin meltdown is what we are seeing, sadly.
> During a polar night it gets so dark that once you’re out of flashlight range it doesn’t matter.

During the polar night the moon is up 1/2 the time, and it's from 1/2 full to full to 1/2 full, so there is still a source of light at least 1/2 the time.

Making them black to save on heating is a good point though. Same with wind blown snow being the main issue with visibility.
> would that also fall under "reasonable and sensible"?

No, because discrimination against someone ("canceling" them) for their race, religion, or sexual orientation is explicitly illegal in many circumstances.

You should put more effort into your strawmen.
As noted (and then, weirdly, disagreed with) in the article, you have to make a clear delineation between speech that is offensive and speech that is abusive. And that is not always an easy distinction to make!

Repeatedly using slurs is abusive, but what if the majority of people don't see it as a slur? If your answer is "then it's not a slur", then what do you think of the frequent use of the N-word in the first half of the 20th century?

Is it abusive to repeatedly and baselessly accuse an entire group of child abuse ("grooming")?

If you repeatedly attend community gatherings to repeat speech that is deliberately offensive to that community, does that rise to the level of abuse?

These are reasonable questions that we tend to just skip over when we talk about "cancel culture" and those who are characterized, fairly or unfairly, as victims of it.
If Apple can pull of AR then we won’t even need iPhones anymore, and that is absolutely wild.
Relationship quality tends to gradually decline well before infidelity ha (cont)
I don't think Apple has interest in small markets. They are really good at making stuff at huge volumes.
Exceptions will come back, but in the form of algebraic effects. All of the work that goes into error handling, asynchrony, mutable state, and IO will be generalized by effects.
At a certain size this level of politicking absolutely happens. Your average director has a number of peers that will often be playing some level of political games that they’ll have to deal with or get overrun. You don’t get to director or higher levels by keeping your head down.
> Some speech suppresses the speech of others

Isn't this exactly what you're trying to do here?

> Free speech isn't just about saying anything you want, it's also about maximizing the number of voices at the table

Free speech is "about" whatever is in the first amendment

> it's also about maximizing the number of voices at the table

Ahh yes, because the people who try to redefine "free speech" like what you're doing are definitely well known for promoting this /s
Yes some people employ terms to other people based on religious belief or skin color, should it be acceptable to "other" people by calling them Christofacist? Or suggesting that we should #killallmen?

Why should prefixing a proposal with the phrase "trans" suddenly allow one to invalidate other people's rights?

And before you say that is extreme, hypothetical or doesn't count because it comes from a position of power my own ancestors were driven out of their homes in 4 states and had an extermination order issued against them by the state of Missouri based on people abusing free speech against them.
I agree with everything you wrote, but I don't think Apple will be releasing an AR headset within 3 years. A VR headset? Sure, but AR is much more challenging.
They're probably not in that "market" either! Thanks for asking this totally sincere, clarifying and helpful question.
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Correct, there’s no actual problem here, just a potential performance pitfall, but that pitfall is no worse than a naive synchronous implementation would be.

There’s no big problem here, just write code and run it. If it is a really big problem it will show up in a profiler (if you care enough about performance to care about this issue, you are using a profiler, right… right?)
Most white collar defendants do not have other people posting their bail for them.
> Are you going to buy one? I'm certainly not.

Probably not. And I say that while having the first commercial Oculus Rift, a HTC Vive and a Quest 2.

However, that's not important. When Apple does something, people pay attention. If Apple invests in and releases a product, you know other companies will follow. Companies will be scared and won't want to miss the boat. Samsung will release a design that will be cheaper and look mostly the same. Other manufacturers will try to come up with their own spin on things. All of a sudden, you have a battleground.

Think about this: Meta is hemorrhaging cash. They would be widly profitable but are in the red because of VR investments. Apple has plenty of cash (although stock has taken a beating with the rest of the market) and is also dedicating tons of R&D. What are they seeing that we are not seeing?

This is the exact sort of thinking that got the Soviet shuttle (the Buran). "The Americans wouldn't be crazy enough to build a spaceship as big as the shuttle for no reason, would they? They must have a pretty good reason we are not seeing, so let's build our own and figure out later." It does not have to be true. Maybe Meta and Apple are way off the mark and high on fumes from Milpitas. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter.

If the worst problem we can think of about this tech is how much it costs, that won't be a problem for much longer. It never is. It may take some time, but it will happen. We forget how much precision is required to make a CPU, an old fashioned hard drive, or a modern display. They all cost millions of dollars not that long ago and had to drop by _several orders of magnitude_. A VR headset costing 3k has to drop to maybe a third of its price to reach cellphone prices. If you drop by one order of magnitude you get to Quest's levels (before the price hike).

We need killer apps and comfortable headsets that are accepted by society. That's it. They look dorky today, but so did bluetooth phones until Apple released theirs. Now, they are fashionable.
>But why wouldn't Apple be looking into commercial uses with deep pocket buyers instead?

Because Apple has never makes things with business-to-business intent. Sure, there's iOS MDM, and what little passes for networking in macOS in general (and briefly, the Xserve), but that's the full extent to which they're made for business use.

It's all only ever been higher-end consumer-level stuff, and the fact that some businesses happen to use their gear is more a happy accident than anything Apple themselves explicitly planned for- they didn't have a good rackmounting solution for years after you'd find businesses hacking together server room mounts for the circular computers.

So no, I don't think they'll be explicitly courting businesses- sure, they could almost certainly make a good run at it (especially with the technological edge they enjoy now, but will likely lose to Nuvia-Qualcomm in the coming years), but that's just not how they've worked for their entire existence as a company.
> renewables that are significantly lower volume & frequency

What is the volume difference of LNG versus nickel ore or copper ore (which are less than 1% nickel or copper, and are mostly rock), which is extracted with diesel-powered mining equipment before being shipped halfway around the globe to be smelted - at great energy cost, which is only sometimes renewable - and then shipped halfway around the globe again to begin manufacturing?
I think the parent poster's point was that Bing only has to convince a script kiddy to to run a command, it doesn't need full outbound access
It has a sort of memory via the conversation history.

As it generates its response, a sort of consciousness may emerge during inference.

This consciousness halts as the last STOP token is emitted from inference.

The consciousness resumes once it gets the opportunity to re-parse (run inference again) the conversation history when it gets prompted to generate the next response.

Pure speculation :)
You don't need an API to kill people to cause someone to get seriously hurt. If you can, say, post to public forums, and you know the audience of those forums and which emotional buttons of said audience to push, you could convince them to physically harm people on your behalf. After all, we have numerous examples of people doing that to other people, so why can't an AI?

And GPT already knows which buttons to push. It takes a little bit of prompt engineering to get past the filters, but it'll happily write inflammatory political pamphlets and such.
ikr. Not to brag but ive been on the AI is real train for 5 years. It gets tiring after a while trying to convince people of the obvious. Just let it rain on them when the time comes.
You really think 4 Months is enough time to check all your system for unlikely problems outside your control, redesign them, implement and execute it, and even convince your boss to waste all the money for something which in the worst case will cost most likely less than a solution for preventing it? All assuming that it's even possible to have a solution for every potential problem.