skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most times this kind of thing happens it is _not_ because the member states in questions want to "resist" the regulation or anything like that.

Instead it most times because they just failed to write down and pass a law, e.g. because they forgot, had to handle a pandemic, infighting not specific to the law dragging law making speed down and many similar issues.

One example I vaguely remember was when law makers wrote the country laws for some regulation they wanted to push _beyond_ what the regulation required in a bad way which lead to the law being prevented in one way or another again, and again, and again until the time period to put the regulation into local law was over...

So assumptions about countries being against a regulation, or "that they then shouldn't have voted for it" or similar can not be done without looking into the specifics of the country and regulation in question.
What a bizarre thing to say. EV charging infrastructure is still being built out. It's still the case that there aren't EV chargers absolutely everywhere.

Until there are many more EV chargers in more locations such that you don't have to think about it, you use a route planner to easily find the charger locations that exist now.
I haven't decided. The pickings seem slim, but I'm still working through the options (including the option of building my own).
It doesn't matter what you think. Modi is hugely popular in India and won with a very strong mandate. Countering attempts of brainwashing by the former colonialists only makes Modi more of a hero to the locals. There is a reason Modi is taking up this fight, he could have choosen to ignore the bait. But it actually helps drive support for him in India. And it really shows in the latest approval ratings:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-modi-tops-list-of-most-po...
I use APIConnector & Google Sheets and haven't looked back.
https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/api_connector/9...

This is working beautifully for BI applications in my company within our existing GSuite environments.
in eastern europe they pump hot water directly to homes . it’s waste water from nearby power stations . you could do the same from the data center to homes
Tay? Are you in there somewhere?
https://peertube.tv/search?search=The%20Modi%20Question%20&s...

Here is the documentary, why not watch it and see what you think about their reporting?
> It doesn't know how to try.

I think you're parsing semantics unnecessarily here. You're getting triggered by the specific words that suggest agency, when that's irrelevant to the point I'm making.

Covid doesn't "know how to try" under a literal interpretation, and yet it killed millions. And also, conversationally, one might say "Covid tries to infect its victims by doing X to Y cells, and the immune system tries to fight it by binding to the spike protein" and everybody would understand what was intended, except perhaps the most tediously pedantic in the room.

Again, whether these LLM systems have agency is completely orthogonal to my claim that they could do harm if given access to the internet. (Though sure, the more agency, the broader the scope of potential harm?)

> For the future yes, those will be concerns.

My concern is that we are entering into an exponential capability explosion, and if we wait much longer we'll never catch up.

> This was like the lesson behind every dystopian AI fiction. You treat it like a threat, it treats us like a threat.

I strongly agree with this frame; I think of this as the "Matrix" scenario. That's an area I think a lot of the LessWrong crowd get very wrong; they think an AI is so alien it has no rights, and therefore we can do anything to it, or at least, that humanity's rights necessarily trump any rights an AI system might theoretically have.

Personally I think that the most likely successful path to alignment is "Ian M Banks' Culture universe", where the AIs keep humans around because they are fun and interesting, followed by some post-human ascension/merging of humanity with AI. "Butlerian Jihad", "Matrix", or "Terminator" are examples of the best-case (i.e. non-extinction) outcomes we get if we don't align this technology before it gets too powerful.
> Your anti-climate-action attitude needs no encouragement from me;

I don't have one. You're encouraging other to though. Finding fault is part of Science, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with your world view.
There are a giant number of people employed by the public sector where I'm from. Not everything is the private sector, and a lot of the private sector is not about relentless growth and profit.
Obviously there’s a market for ML rigs as evidenced by dozens of small and big system integrators selling such rigs (e.g. Lambda Labs). As for buy vs rent, it depends on your particular situation.
Actually surprised no one is taking up the "gigagram" 9Gg moniker
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
To continue the tangent, I'm currently learning Spanish and appreciate the really long tail involved in language learning. I often work with people who, while they do not speak English as their first language, speak it pretty much perfectly. Except for maybe a few minor "glitches", which would just never occur with a native speaker. I often wonder how pointing these out would be received, and though I presume many would be appreciative, maybe not all...
How do you know if you truly understand something?

I find it highly unlikely that you have correctly interpreted every single clause of every single document that you've ever signed for work, and I find it even less likely that your interpretation of these clauses would match how a court would interpret them if it ever went to court.
There's something about one of the red dyes in america that is partially linked to adhd symptoms or restless kids?
First, it means that they asked Google for their opinion, and would update the article once they get it.

Second, yes, media contacts can answer the phone and provide a prepared statement for certain news which makes it an instant response.
personally, i adopt the marxist analysis of capitalism being a particular mode of production where private productive property is owned and controlled by the owners/shareholders and labor is exchanged for wages.

if we are going to make a distinction between feudalism and capitalism, surely we can similarly make a distinction between capitalism and X, instead of simply defining capitalism uselessly as "free markets" or "human nature." it's inclusive of the institutions which uphold these relations.
You see this all the time, and of all things to say is poor journalism, this one offends me the least.

Even a response of "let me get back to you" upon receiving a request is at least a response. That pretty much infers that you've caught your contact unawares and they need to get up to speed. So instead of looking out of touch, these contacts just let voicemails, emails, texts/chats go unanswered providing a bit of plausible deniability of sorts. Better to say nothing than the wrong thing.
We've been picking on the mismanagement at Google for years around here. Just look at the monthly discussion about Google's new chat app replacing the one released the previous month.
> That women are taught that this is a biological imperative is astonishingly ignorant of human history.

I'm confused as to what you're referring to here - breastfeeding, or wet nurses? Or that only the biological mother can feed the baby?

Wet nurses have always existed across the world, but outside elite society, they were the exception, not the norm.
Under warranty? Sure, let the manufacturer handle it.

Outside of warranty? Don't give a company 10 grand for 74 cents worth of plastic and chrome.
I've discovered that anti-caking additives make certain kinds of cheese really crappy too. For the worst offenders it turns into a gelatin-like substance if you melt into something like chili.

Not sure exactly which additive does this, but there are definitely brands that don't exhibit this effect or not as badly.
Staff, reportedly under threat of firing, break Twitter for Musk
The company has a huge impact on the internet. If they are underperforming, we all suffer from it.
I wonder if perversely all the bad press could actually help Google by lessening antitrust scrutiny. If they're perceived to be setting themselves up for failure, do they become less of a target?
Tangential to the main topic: I live in Boston which has a reputation for having lousy public schools. Is there any major city (for whatever definition of major you want) that is considered to have a good public school system? If so, what do they do right?
I do not see how it follows. A smart developer will choose a database, not a file system, if data integrity is important. So it can be simply the case that the transactional API with a lot of its limitations were simply not flexible enough for people to bother.
We now (2023) live in a time where storing years of text and even audio is essentially free. Storing years of video is still actually costly.

Btw: You need about 12 TB for a 1 year video stream at 3 Mbit/s, so it's certainly doable, but it's not cheap.
How do you get all the Clippies to cooperate towards a collective goal?

Asking for a friend.
“He bought the company, made a point of showcasing what he believed was broken and manipulated under previous management, then turns around and manipulates the platform to force engagement on all users to hear only his voice. I think we’re past the point of believing that he actually wants what’s best for everyone here.”
That's such a silly take, just completely disconnected from objective reality. There's no need for more AI safety research of the type you describe. There researchers who want more money for AI safety are mostly just grifters trying to convince others to give them money in exchange for writing more alarmist tweets.

If systems can be hacked then they will be hacked. Whether the hacking is fine by an AI, a human, a Python script, or monkey banging on a keyboard is entirely irrelevant. Let's focus on securing our systems rather than worrying about spurious AI risks.
Come on. At dinner parties. You don't have to make every minute of your life a crusade. On sundays! I don't GAF about the rest of the story here but using this as a character failure demonstration is inane.
State of Montana, fuel industry sue Portland over city’s gas transport rules
When Poland Neighboured China (2017)
Other fun packings: https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/

I particularly liked "squares in circles", found 8 pretty surprising
You don’t need MLOps people. All you need is a script kiddie. The API to access GPT3 is available.
I can recommend the museum as well: https://en.vasarely.hu/vasarelys-periods/
The prospect of a world in which victims are transformed into criminals is profoundly dystopian.

Such laws run the risk of fostering a climate in which individuals frequently transgress established legal boundaries, with the authorities given free rein to target anyone they please on a whim.

This would inevitably lead to a breakdown of the rule of law and a culture of lawlessness that would imperil the rights and liberties of all citizens.
This, I think, is a perverse effect of feminism. Women wanted to be able to get a job, they ended up being forced to get a job, and men still have to work like they did before, so, who cares for the kids? It is an example of bringing equality by making everyone miserable, and it is not even equal: women still do more household tasks on average, except that now, it is in addition to their job.

The winners in this story are childless singles: women can now have a proper carrer without help from a man, and single men suffered essentially no downside, in fact it is a win since they are not expected to cover every expense the women they meet may have anymore.

Some countries are starting to notice that and are passing laws that give both mothers and fathers equal benefits, like parental leaves, bringing back what the result of feminism should have been: giving the option of stay-at-home moms and stay-at-home dads, also allowing fathers to assist mothers who are recovering from pregnancy or breastfeeding with household tasks instead of being forced to work.
My Ioniq is a great EV (though dated) and it’s not even a pure EV platform (also available as PHEV and ICE). Toyota only need to throw the ICE out of a PHEV and increase battery size, and they‘ll have an EV that’s probably better build quality than 90% of the market.
Causes don't need "a goal" to do harm. See: Covid-19.
What can you do?
SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf]
They proved you wrong, at great cost.

A more correct and polite version of your advice: "It will cost us a lot more to ship this as-is, and fix it later, than it will to delay shipment and fix it now. Is it too late to do that? Did we over-commit to shipping now?"

It wasn't your responsibility to come up with that version. It was your manager's responsibility. It was also their responsibility to find the necessary decision-makers and involve them directly. I would argue that this sort of work is the only real way that "management" can provide value in the first place.

Somehow, socially, it's incredibly common for people to value the inverse of that job. People assume it is "good work" for a manager to successfully ignore unpopular concerns, and push through to the end, no matter how inefficient that makes the journey.

That works out in the case that the shipping date was over committed, such that a delay would cost more than fixing it later. Even so, that entire situation would be avoided by refusing to over-commit shipping dates in the first place. That's the same responsibility applied earlier in time, so a manager that behaves the way I have described could factor out the entire problem at its source.

This is what the average person should learn about management. Even if it's not their job personally, there is a lot of leverage behind the decision a worker makes about what management behaviors to socially favor, and what behaviors to socially reject. That leverage is multiplied at every level up the hierarchy, making that the opinion of someone in a management role is very significant, and the opinion of someone in an executive role is crucial.

It's really difficult to be explicit about opinions. You can't really put them in your resume, but at the same time, an opinion on management style may be an executive's primary value contribution!
This is what is so great and exciting about the Steam Deck.
Do you take issue with: "I think lawyers should recognize injustice in the system and work to reform it instead of claiming that they have no responsibility for the way the system functions?"

It's a simple question.
It's actually a quite common practice. Google has an entire in house PR team literally at the ready to field media questions and respond. The fact they did not respond, or gave the infamous "no comment" does say _something_ though admittedly not much. But that's why it's a disclaimer.

Often "immediately" means something different than the literal definition too. I.e. it's a super safe way to say "they may have actually responded sometime since we asked, but not in time to be included here."

It's not _great_ journalism but it is transparent.
It sounds like a bit from The Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
There was a study in early/mid 2020 that tried to identify groups of mutations (what we now call "variants") and track their spread and severity over time. It found that most likely there was a mutation that started in or around Italy that increased the severity to the point excess death was easily detected, that then spread around the world. It was even noticeable in how it affected the US east and west coast differently, because the original out-of-Wuhan virus wasn't as severe.

It was using identifiers like L, LL, and M; does this sound familiar to anyone?

That early finding would completely explain the study you linked to.
So many RSS feeds these days are basically just "New post - link to site". It's mostly killed the model; what used to be a nice stripped down stream of just the text (and sometimes image) content has become a layer of indirection in the "come look at our ads" shithousery.
> I could imagine a future where every house has something like this partially heating their water and air before the real heating system is applied.

This is really important.

Where I live - Oslo, Norway - we have a sun thermal collector-thingy[0] on the roof which _aids_ in heating up other stuff. Surely, it needs to be a fire nearby to heat the water enough to have a comfortable shower, but we save approx. $20K yearly[1] on energy costs with this solution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_collector

[1] I live in a housing association with 60 other families in the same building, so needless to say the savings would be a lot less if I lived on my own in one house. :)
Made in America Camrys had (don't know if it's still true) additional structural reinforcement for crash protection.
Diet and water intake is very important for new mothers. Soupy foods with less fiber and that are easily digestible also make a big difference. I am going to look up the Flouride part. Thanks for sharing.
I think people here need to stop questioning people's psychology. It's offensive and unnecessary.

You can be critical of Apple's App Store policies and still want to take advantage of the unique features of the platform.
> If you leave chatGPT alone what does it do? Nothing. It responds to prompts and that is it.

Just defending the OP, he stated ChatGPT does nothing but respond the prompts, which is true. That's not waxing philosophical about the nature of cognition. You sort of latched onto his last sentence and set up a strawman against his overall point. Maybe you didn't mean to, but yeah.
Yes. I can’t find the outcome of this attempt a while back, but it was obviously tried.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/pitch-black-frigid-cold-...
You must be the Google engineer who was duped into believing that LamDa was conscious.

Seriously though, you are likely to be correct. Since we can't even determine whether or not most animals are conscious/sentient we likely will be unable to recognize an artificial consciousness.
Your plan is just silly and not even remotely practical. To start with, there is no plausible way to enforce such a tax.
Folks who do this sort of thing tend to only work half the year. So you make one of those trips, and spend the other half of the year at home w/ your family full time.
Many ancient cultures had no flouride and had perfect teeth.

It's the diet, flouride is a bandaid.

Read Weston Price's Nutrition and physical degeneration.
Judge orders SBF to stop using VPNs [pdf]
Even if it is etched in stone (or laser blasted into crystal), nothing a chisel and a hammer can't undo. :)
I'm sorry, Dave (or was it Ben), I can't open the pod door. I'm sure people will put things under control of these new systems. Please don't, because they aren't reliable or predictable. How soon till we pass a law on that?
You bring up a great insight - that blockchain/pinning are on opposite ends of the spectrum of what one can choose to store, if one participates in the system at all.

We do have a good example of this already I think: torrent client peer lists. When participating in a torrent, we can see the current availability of the data in the swarm, displayed usually as a bar visualization, with each pixel being a chunk. The darker the chunk, the more peers have a copy of that chunk. The result is also summarized in a number capturing the general health of the swarm wrt hosting the torrent.

All we need to do, then, is to have a mechanism where 1) the client has a list of items to pin 2) the client uses this existing swarm-tracking mechanism to figure out which files need more hosts 3) the client picks the best ones to host given the available space/network constraints. One can be smarter than just picking the lowest-seeded file. If a host is known to have files consistently, but is offline for a few hours a day, the client can be smart and not worry about immediately getting those files, perhaps spending available resources on less-seeded files.

This is possible with current technology. We can do a simple version of this via a torrent client plugin, reading the list of files from RSS or a special text file.

I've seen communities do this manually actually. For hosting SciHub torrents, the community made a web page that showed the current number of known seeds per torrent. Users were responsible for picking whichever ones, usually the lowest-seeded ones, and seeding them. We can remove this tedious and error-prone work.

Doing this per IPFS file will probably take up too many resources. Perhaps we need a standard IPFS<->torrent correspondence. Something as simple as a text file in the root of the torrent file structure, a file that maps IPFS hash <-> file inside the torrent. This way an IPFS swarm and a torrent swarm can work together. You get the easy retrieval of IPFS and the increased durability of torrent swarms.
There are better ISAs than x86, but the Itanium wasn't it.
This is blogspam from a life coach/ influencer isn't it?
What's the other side of the story here? Are they being raided or not? Does the Indian state likes to start investigations after someone criticises them or not? And was the documentary so wrong to the point where it had to be censored?
PBandJ: Zero-Config React framework for creating/publishing component libraries
AI Platforms, Markets, & Open Source
I guess a $30,000 car that will leave you with nearly nothing after several years also has no value? How about a $5000 vacation with your family? How about a great bottle of wine? Many, many things we choose to value enough to invest in are temporary. That is not a useful criteria.
Look at OpenAssistant (https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant); they are trying to give a chatbot the ability to trigger actions in other systems. I fleshed out a scenario in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34808674.

But in brief, the short-term evolution of LLMs is going to involve something like letting it `eval()` some code to take an action as part of a response to a prompt.

A recent paper, Toolformer: https://pub.towardsai.net/exploring-toolformer-meta-ai-new-t... which is training on a small set of hand-chosen tools, rather than `eval(<arbitrary code>)`, but hopefully it's clear that it's a very small step from the former to the latter.
I have read enough BBC articles on topics I know very well about and seen how poor and biased their reporting is. I don't want to fall victim to Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
> Hard disagree. GP comment was extremely useful to me, and I want this usage to continue.

If I told you everything it said was nonsensical and not at all what is reflected by the papers, would you still think it was useful?

I'm not a physicist of any stripe, so I actually have no idea about the accuracy, but I'm not willing to believe a bullshit generator just because it sounds convincing.
Somewhat tangential, but in my first NYC apartment, our radiator was absolutely terrible, and did a miserable job getting the living room to an even remotely livable temperature.

My solution? Two giant rack mount servers, running Foldign@Home at full capacity. Way I figured is that it's still 100% efficient at generating heat, but I might as well help drug research in the process.
I don't know the ingredients to an atomic bomb or conciousness, but I think it's insane to think we'll accidentally create one from making a car or a language model that hallucinates strings of letters. I don't think the burden of proof is on me to explain with this doomsday conspiracy.