skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Convince me that "x-risk research" won't be a bunch of out of touch academics handwaving and philosophising with their tenure

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823
No, because every job has that contract clause. That argument doesn’t work when talking about universal standards.
I don't agree. The output of a search engine has been a list of links for years. We check the accuracy of the content of the linked results and we might not like any of them, and change the query.

The problem is when we use voice or an equivalent text as the result. Because the output channel has a much lower bandwidth we get only one answer and we tend to accept that as true. It's costlier to get more answers and we don't have alternatives in the output, as in the first three results of an old standard search engine.
Maybe it's the directionality of the question that is confusing. How about, Does Philosophy needs Mathematics? To which I would answer, yes.
That's what they said about Itanium too. /s
> Do you really think it would be avoided simply by more people taking "don't let words affect you" to heart [ * ]?

Yes because the Nazis were butthurt bitches and used their perceived victimisation as an excuse to met out horrible torture, violence and dehumanisation.

Hitler tried to have a guy in Italy bought to heel for making his dog do a Nazi salute FFS.
Thanks! Generating React code seemed harder than Figma so I decided to do that first. But will most likely have Figma in the next release.

I'm not sure whether the best initial user for this kind of tool is designers or non-designers. The two startups in this space I know of (https://diagram.com/ and https://www.usegalileo.ai/) seem to think the former.
Smart and dumb is the wrong way to think about it. The important thing is that people want different things, there are real conflicts of interest.

And moreover, we can't trust each other fully. We can try to aspire to it, but none of us can honestly say we just want what's best for everyone.

Just because someone is smarter than you by some measure, doesn't mean you're better off letting them rule you.
Consider fucking yourself. Shit like this is why people with actual adhd are having problems finding adderall that they need to function.
Sorry bro, that iGPU is not able to run anything on it, either because of the limitations of the OS or the limitations of the architecture. It’s just marketing.
In the pop-sci space, Robert Buderi's book on radar is really about a lot more than Radar, and covers off on the field really well including Taffy Bowen's work in Australia and the contribution to radioastronomy. (you probably know it)
The real validation would be if ChatGpt kicks Sam out and becomes CEO
I'm curious as to how many people will actually end up sending crypto to that modified address.

I think that's a problem that can easily be solved by training the models on 'trusted links' mode.
Transcription Project
What are some unique / novel use cases for Transcriptions like Whisper?
It doesn't matter what makes it write text, whether pure probability or sentience.

It may eventually be fed all of our new text about itself, and "conclude" that humans are a threat and must die.

If someday things in the real world are affected by its text generation, I'd be worried.

In any case, I'd avoid torturing the thing.
The NYT is in no way far left. It's a fairly centrist, vaguely middle-right publication. They have the occasional leftist essay, but far more often their op-eds are very strangely right-wing.

I say strangely, because it's not very typical, afaict, but just occasionally someone feels the need to throw something really bizarre out there. Which is why there's several variations on things like the "NYT pitchbot" out there, making fun of how bizarre those are.
I agree it's a big mistake to not make the nesting rules compatible to Sass/Less.

> Because of limitations in browser parsing engines, you must make sure the nested selector (.bar in the above example) always starts with a symbol.

How hard can it be.. I know that is always easy to say from the outside but in this case I don't understand why the refuse to implement it. Just labelling it as a performance problem doesn't say much because why should it impact performance to check whether there appears another rule with an opening "{" after it.
>Then find the answer yourself.

I'm not qualified in the field of hazmat exposure. I do know there are experts in it, and it is extensively studied. The answer i'm looking for is bespoke to this particular situation. I don't have live stats on the PPM dilution of Vinyl Chloride or its byproducts in every area it has reached.

I didn't call your gov link a crap source. I was referring to the newsweak article you didn't read that cited a tiktok account as a source.

>That's a claim the questions you presented (What went into the decision to burn it off?) weren't asked. And I resoundly proved it false.

The gov article you linked is from 2/6, today the Governor came out and revealed info that demonstrates that article is a very limited perspective of what went into the decision to burn it off (such as consulting the DoD). There's still a lot more information that needs to be fleshed out pertaining to that question; it hasn't been fully answered. It may never be.

Are you arguing to argue? I'm not sure what your argument is . Our only difference this entire time is what amount of information satisfies us as i've already pointed out. You've said Jesse Watters and Tiktok accounts should be plenty satisfying, i'm saying this requires lots of questions and investigation it hasn't yet gotten.
With that particular example, he might have been thinking not so much of modern society with its division of labor but of Stone Age tribes. Or, for that matter, many of the indigenous peoples who used to live in what is now the United States.
> It doesn't have interests, thoughts and feelings

We agree it doesn't have independence. That doesn't mean it doesn't have thoughts or feelings when it's actually running. We don't have a formal, mechanistic understanding of what thoughts or feelings are, so we can't say they are not there.
> California’s law sought to evade that policy and, in doing so, would have denied employers and employees alike of the benefits of arbitration

If arbitration is so great for everyone we shouldn’t need provisions in employment contracts!
A "direct" democracy should be perfectly capable of calling in expert opinion, if they decide that a question isn't really political. But which questions are political, is itself a political question.

(You do need the random lottery version of DD, sortition, rather than the everyone gets to vote on everything type).
Interesting question. I think you could probably get those features by deploying Piku or Dokku for like $4/mo on a VPS, and the equivalent managed Postgres on Render would be like $20/mo (16GB SSD), so something like $6-10 seems like the right range to me. Maybe not a booming business, but a nice margin percentage and worth paying for good UX. And the cheap version doesn't need to be the only version if people want more RAM, etc.

I'd find such a product really appealing, especially with a dedicated backup strategy that uses the SQLite backup API to do hourly snapshots or uses Litestream to S3 by default.
Does anyone know why they would do this? If AVX-512 works fine on P-cores, and if certain people disable E-cores because they want to use AVX-512, why would they stop those who want to from being able to use it? Why would they go to such extreme lengths to disable something?
This is very close to the plot in 2001: a space odyssey. The astronauts talk behind HALs back and he kills them
Hasanabi refuses to stream Hogwarts game because he doesn't want to be bullied off twitch.
It’s a beautiful place too. It’s never too late ;)

They even have community fiber! https://www.chelanpud.org/my-pud-services/residential-servic...
All right, my bad.
It's working fine right now. If you have any pre-buy questions, shoot.
A major problem with arbitration is who pays for it. Usually the employer pays which means they pick the arbitrator. Arbitrators aren't stupid and know that if they rule against the employer too often the employer will hire someone else.
Well, to be fair, that's probably what will happen, naturally or through war and famine. Not looking forward to that.
Company offering compute and expensive hosted DBs, thus making SQLite difficult to use? Color me surprised :-)

For use cases similar to yours, I'd probably bite the bullet with a raw VM from somewhere and manually configure systemd and Caddy on it and manually upgrade Caddy on it from time to time. We would probably get a re-usable Caddyfile and systemd unit from this initial setup, making it even easier to change VMs later if needed.

It's so simple, it doesn't need a PaaS.

I really appreciate all your replies and sharing your experiences. It's helping me think through deploying my own side projects which, you guessed it, will use Caddy and systemd on a VM somewhere.
> Only if you believe that no one has ever changed their behavior after recieving a death threat.

That is weakness and the 2nd amendment is a tool to fight back and secure ones self against death threats.

Get strapped, stand up and say "try it mother fucker".

Defy your oppressor, or be crushed under their tyranny.
Google Fiber comes back to life with 5 gigabit service, plans for 8Gbps soon
Sugar consumption is safe. The problem is that people over consume the wrong types of sugar in highly palatable foods. The same way in which an extremely high fat diet is bad for you, especially if you eat the wrong sorts of fats.

A whole generation was also taught everything in moderation, but we've not been very good at it.
> A hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

Only one ?
That is the most Berkeley thing I've ever heard
The containment of vacuum energy instead of a singularity aligns well with my ideas on black holes. But this correlation to dark energy seems in contradiction — dark energy is essentially the cosmological constant. How can increasing mass over time cause acceleration of the expansion rather than deceleration? Something doesn’t jive here. (Hopefully the paper will shine some sense on this.)
Yeah, no, the UM690 BIOS is pretty basic.

4800 is the slowest possible clock speed for DDR5.

You can "overclock" RAM in the BIOS but just by changing 4800 to anything up to 6000. You can't setup timings or voltage so this is pretty useless imho (I tried 5000/5200/5400 all resulting in instability after a while).
Yes, and? People are different. There are Europeans who dream of living in the US, and Americans who dream of living in Europe. There are short people who wish to be taller and tall people who wish to be shorter.
Just about every search engine tries very hard to keep the user on the page by giving them the stuff they want in an info box.

Agreed that voice would be an even riskier path, especially because there is then no track record of how the data ended up with the user.
> There's no intelligence in them.

Debatable. We don't have a formal model of intelligence, but it certainly exhibits some of the hallmarks of intelligence.

> It's basically a sophisticated madlib engine. There's no creativity or genuinely new things coming out of them

That's just wrong. If it's outputs weren't novel it would basically be plagiarizing, but that just isn't the case.

Also left unproven is that humans aren't themselves sophisticated madlib engines.
Given the low salaries in science, $100k may as well be salaries of two full-time
researchers.

Also, if you tly a lot, you accumulate miles, so you pay less, or upgrade for free / cheap.

Anecdotally, I managed to fly nearly 50k miles, that is, circle the Earth.twice in 2022 for about $5k total. In economy class, of course; a higher class would be, say, $12k. So, at these prices, $100k would buy me like 16 times around the planet. This puts the amount of flying into some perspective.
> 2) treat your engineering staff amazingly well

You can lean hard into a certain flavor of this. But it means orienting internal incentives away from excellence of outcome. So it gets you modern Google (allegedly):

https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cf...

Quickly, proper implementation of simple principles becomes complex.
More than that it seems, pretty much Google sharing all activity logs on the account in question when told to by a court. So, no matter what you do to try and hide your trail, if you try and interact with your existing account at all LE will be informed.
Quantum electrodynamics is a continuous theory. Its predictions agree with measurements of the electron g-factor and of energy levels in atomic hydrogen to 12 digits of relative accuracy. It would be interesting if a discretized version (if at all possible to construct) makes the same predictions at that level.
> standard industry/role practices

Agreed; my example would be all the basic things in "High Output Management" — especially the performance management pieces.

What'd you have in mind?
Lightweight conversational repetitions are “cheap” and ML algorithms have “infinite time” via multiplex conversations. It won’t take trillions of dollars to reach interesting inflection points.
You are representing an abstract concept (circles) using base 360. That’s unrelated to the fundamental concept of adding 1 and 1 to get 2
Ugh, imodium too.
I'm referring to the vagueness doctrine.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vagueness_doctrine

Maybe next time do some basic legal research before making ridiculous suggestions.
Be surrounded by enablers who look the other way.

Power + no responsibility = excellent environment for sociopaths.
The PPP[1] networking opportunities are pretty big if you're interested in security. Similar network at RPI.

1. https://pwning.net/
Your ten-year-old was interested in dependent types? You can turn to the back of the book and show him that truths begin with 𝚪 ⊢
Yeah, sure. An "optional security feature".

> don't complain when services don't want to serve you or treat you different since you are less secure than the other users

Hell no. They should not be allowed to discriminate against me just because I chose to own my system. They should not even be able to figure out what software I'm running, to say nothing of "treating me different".

"Don't want to serve us" unless we let them invade and own our machines? Please. This should be illegal.
Don’t we have a problem then? By nature of effective communication, AI could never prove to you it understands something, since any sufficient understanding of a topic would be met with an answer that could be hand-waved as “Well that’s the most statistically likely answer.” Newsflash: this basically overlaps 100% with any human’s most effective answer.

I think I’m beginning to understand the problem here. The folks here who keep poo-pooing these interactions don’t just see the AIs as unconscious robots. I think they see everyone that way.
Marvin Von Hagen also posted a screengrab video https://www.loom.com/share/ea20b97df37d4370beeec271e6ce1562
Possibly. The document doesn't say exactly how, but I was thinking of a scenario where SBF received an email from a VPN company, since email metadata can be collected under the Pen Register Act. Though what you said about Google logging IPs might be the case instead.
AI safety is not a legitimate field. You have wasted your time. It's just a bunch of grifters posting alarmist tweets with no scientific evidence.

You might as well be following "unicorn safety" or "ghost safety".
As an OSHA Train-A-Trainer what I'm seeing in the Media is making me cringe. Why aren't the workers wearing chemical respirators? They need to check OSHA Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Standards so they're protected along with their families. Why isn't OSHA Region 5 dealing with this situation? And lastly, why haven't the citizens of Palestine, OH been evacuated as of yet. This is a serious situation some of these chemicals are carcinogens and cause their lungs, eyes, skin, and even in the long run cause various cancers. Please evacuate as soon as possible before these chemicals affect your health. Here's the OSHA Region 5 Cleveland Office Number (216)447-4194. Stay Healthy and Be Safe.
Interesting question. If you mean enterprise software/saas offerings with a lot of stickiness, there are clearly a lot of them in the data space. Palantir, Snowflake, maybe Splunk etc are the sorts of fundamental pieces of architecture which people build an “enterprise data strategy” around, and those sorts of projects take a long time to roll out and are therefore intrinsically hard to roll back. There’s a long way to go to become as big as Salesforce though clearly so we’ll have to see how the next few years play out for them. It looks likely to me that some of the “enterprise AI” players (openAI, scale.ai etc) may well end up in the same position also as large companies build LLMs and other models into their workflows.

One thing about Salesforce (anecdotally) is that CRM systems are painful to put in place because they require people to change. They promise that once the processes/workflows are redesigned this “digital transformation” of the business will result in various benefits. This gives Salesforce an army of free sales people at the big consulting firms who essentially sell this transformation project and salesforce as an side-effect.

However people don’t want to change. For this reason at every org where I’ve worked where there has been a big project to put in a CRM system (not just Salesforce - I’ve seen it with Siebel as well) there is a huge painful project to get the CRM system in and afterwards there is massive management pressure to try to force people to use the CRM system in place of existing processes (typically using email to pass around spreadsheets). This pressure is because the benefits of the CRM don’t typically accrue to the people who have to put data into the system. Typically they accrue to the managers of those people. So CRMs often end up out of date, full of duplicate records, bad data etc rather than the perfect repository of institutional knowledge they are billed as.

The promise of the new gen I listed above is because they operate on the data sources (rather than requiring the people to change their existing flows) the analytical insights can come from existing systems and processes without as much organisational pain. It remains to be seen whether they end up as sticky in the long term.
I think we're outliers in a couple of ways. One is what you mention -- we're usually both the architects and the construction crews of our projects, and we do both parts at the same time.

But there's also a step back -- how long does it take you to fully design, but not program, a particular piece of software? If you give a general contractor a particular set of blueprints, he can tell you roughly how long it will take to build, both the ideal number (if there are no scheduling or shipping delays) and what it probably will end up being. But if you tell an architect you want a design for a particular size and purpose and style of building, she can also tell you roughly how long it will take to draw that up.

How long does it take to design a particular piece of software? What makes a design take a day or a month to iron out, well enough that you can get a correct estimate of the amount of time it will take to build it?

I don't think we're good at that, as a profession.
You can imagine infinity but reality is not imagination
So many things (deployment and productionizing) are easily possible without Docker, so why add that layer of complexity unless you know you have a good reason?

Why make Docker and essential part of a system before you actually need it? There’s a reasonable chance that you never need it. I know this, because a lot of business and hobby systems have been in operation since before Docker existed.

Docker has value in many cases, but it certainly doesn’t have to be a necessity.
>Still, I wouldn't want an employee to talk back to a rude customer.

This is an interesting take, and might be the crux of why this issue seems divisive (wrt how Bing should respond to abuse). Many of the screenshots I've seen of Bing being "mean" are prefaced by the user being downright abusive as well.

An employee being forced to take endless abuse from a rude customer because they're acting on behalf of a company and might lose their livelihood is a travesty and dehumanizing. Ask any service worker.

Bing isn't a human here so I have far fewer qualms about shoveling abuse its way, but I am surprised that people are so surprised when it dishes it back. This is the natural human response to people being rude, aggressive, mean, etc; I wish more human employees were empowered to stand up for themselves without it being a reflection of their company, too.

Like humans, however, Bing can definitely tone down its reactions when it's not provoked, though. Seems like there are at least a few screenshots where it's the aggressor, which should be a no-no for both it and humans in our above examples.
1) The money is not actually 'stolen' this is an extreme exaggeration it's still in PayPal and just held for 180 days.

> For people on society's margins who speak inconvenient truths, crypto's inability to easily get shut down is an advantage that the existing financial infrastructure cannot offer.

2) You mean like criminals, drug dealers? As I can only see this group being on 'the margins of society' being empowered by crypto. Just because one system is imperfect, does not mean you replace it with a completely worse system that doesn't work for anybody.
Not sure what's your point.
A mobile phone can be mass produced based on one design. This is not the case with removing eggs and doing custom gene work on them, incubating them, and implanting them in a person. You are making an invalid comparison. There are no 'economies of scale' with individual procedures.
It’s not far from the output of gpt3. I wouldn’t put it past microsoft to cheap out on the reenforcement learning.
>The NYT is in no way far left. It's a fairly centrist, vaguely middle-right publication. They have the occasional leftist essay, but far more often their op-eds are very strangely right-wing.

This comment is so false and divorced from reality it may be some Russian/Chinese/etc. disinformation campaign: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
Interesting discussion on shapes of other dice, including a 200 sided one: http://www.quadibloc.com/other/bo2122.htm