skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Based on Sam's statement they seem to be making a bet that accelerating progress on AI now will help to solve the Control problem faster in the future but this strikes me as an extremely dangerous bet to make because if they are wrong they are reducing the time the rest of the world has to solve the problem substantially and potentially closing that opening enough that it won't be solved in time at all and then foom.

Moreover, now that they've started the arms race, they can't stop. There's too many other companies joining in, and I don't think it's plausible they'll all hold to a truce even if OpenAI wants to.

I assume you've read Scott Alexander's taken on this? https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/openais-planning-for-a...
That's a "yes and", not a "no".
This is a dangerous proposal, it includes adding a new HTML element attribute “anchor” that will completely reposition the element.

I would expect there are frameworks out there using “anchor” as a custom attribute that this would break.

Changing the CSS spec is all well and good, but I’d like a slower more considered approach to the HTML spec.
This implies demand is still being met.
Intel still makes most of its stuff in the US. TSMC is building two new fabs in Arizona, which AMD, Nvidia, and Apple all plan to contract with. They're also building one in Japan.

If China is going to squeeze the global semiconductor industry, they'd better do it soon.
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Like I said in my related comment, some severe cherry-picking.
3rd party misbehavior does not justify Apple misbehavior.
You're putting forth a strawman. Where did I mention anything about a company??? Who did I call names?

"A working person could support a family, buy a home before 30 and have hobbies 50 years ago."

Try not living on the coast near your favorite coffee shop and you too can achieve this. It's almost like those generations didn't expect to have a beach front condo in LA with every tech gadget available.

That's because one person worked. What do you think happens economically when both parents in a family start working? This is basic economic principle.
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> So what has changed since the 1950s? Culture.

Culture always changes. That's expected.

What wasn't expected is the near-total collapse of the middle class and the redistribution of wealth to the rich. That's more of a punch in the gut than the most baroquely decorated food made in a jello mold (50s culture).
Thanks for providing a useful, fact-based and detailed counter-point to these takes.
Based upon the graphs there it doesn't seem to have much changed since 2014, so I don't know that we can say it's going down.
Seemingly everything about education becomes a national scandal.

The federal No Child Left Behind law, and the state-led Common Core initiative, were both major efforts to improve education in the U.S. They both also created massive national backlashes.

California tried to do something as simple as refactor a few math classes and somehow it got turned into fodder for some ideological battle. The College Board tried to offer a new optional AP class and the Florida governor nearly called the National Guard on them.

Everyone says they want to fix education until actual change starts to happen. Then there is a huge freak out about how (insert group) is trying to ruin schools.
How much does an image cost you?

I don't quite understand why some image generators are free and others charge credits, assuming the non-free ones aren't just goldrushing.

Is it just free until oops it gets too popular?
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Yeah, you can see it in comments in this thread, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985638
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My issue with TikTok is its a walled garden.

I can search Google, or Alphabet services like YouTube, anyonymously or with a reasonable degree of privacy. I cant do that on TikTok, because it basically only works logged into the app, and all the content is within TikTok.

I guess you could account swap on TikTok to keep the "interests" separate, but I don't really trust that since you are still bound to the app.

But that is not unique to TikTok. Discord and Facebook suffer from the same issue.
Conversely it's really annoying to add a new method to each shape--you've got to open them all up and add shape-specific code for them with a bunch of boilerplate. With switch statements you just add one more function.

This is the "expression problem": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
I'm impressed they kept the doom and gloom and BS to a minimum. Let's be clear: this is a nothing burger.

If humans do NOTHING, the melting of artic and Iceland ice sheets will provide an average of 7.7mm of sea level rise over the next 130 years.

1m is nothing compared to the 120m sea level has risen from 19000bc to 6000bc [1]

That's 13000 years at an average of 9.23mm per year.

We are currently expected to rise 300-1000mm over the next 80 years.

That equals 3.75-12.5mm per year. [2] And it's all in the future, magically it's never here.

[1]https://noc.ac.uk/news/global-sea-level-rise-end-last-ice-ag...

[2]https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-ris...
Intended cycling frequency and the role of happiness, environmental friendliness
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Japan Buys Supercomputer Just to Predict Torrential Downpours
Canon is also fine. I have a Canon laser that's worked fine for 10 years now, even with generic toner cartridges. (I don't know if newer Canons behave well in that area.)

I thought Epson was notorious for playing lockout games with toner cartridges, almost as bad as HP, although the info I've seen is only anecdotal.
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I can't agree with you more about how demotivating Unity is to work with. waiting for 5 seconds every time I save a C# file and another 5 seconds when I press play (on a new, small project), rolling a d4 to see if the engine crashes, fighting VCS with random changes to files I haven't touched every time I open the editor, absolutely no clear direction about how I should be building if I start a project today.. I could go on and others already have.

it's sad, because I can see what Unity could be (and what it used to be), and it is just not there right now.

I still haven't "clicked" with Godot, but I'm eager to give v4 a try now that it is officially released.
Is this a trick question? Isn't the answer: "because they need to make hard copies"? The scumminess of the business notwithstanding, "printing-as-a-service" is not much of an option for most people unless they happen to live next door to a Staples or something.
I took a super old printer from work when they didn't need it anymore. This was years ago. HP LaserJet 1320. It's been working perfectly. Needs cartridge replacement very rarely. And works like a champ.

That is what I recommend to all my relatives - find an old business Laser printer on Craigslist or eBay. Otherwise you are endlessly buying cartridges.

I connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the USB slot and shared it wirelessly. Now I can print from a laptop or a phone or whatever.
After many conversations with different development teams, along with my own experiences, I realized that a lot of the barriers to team growth is caused by working with people like this.

These people make other team members feel like impostors, like they aren't good enough, etc.

If you replace this person with a senior person who encourages learning, it can really help uplevel your entire team.
Tennessee did a version of this, and had to fire a huge number of teachers because they were just straight-up giving their students the answers to state-level test.

Not saying incentives are totally the wrong approach, but they're also easily gamed, especially in the hands of people who are already criminally underpaid and overworked.
The question to answer is why the wage of an individual electrician (or tradesperson) isn't rising. A 90th percentile electrician makes <100k, and that salary has increased by ~2% per annum for decades, but customers complain about paying $xxx/hr for electricians/tradespeople in major cities, electrical/trade SMB owners seem to make $xxxK/yr, and PE shops are running around buying and rolling up electrical/trade companies.

Some combination of culture and regulatory capture keep the supply depressed, but only exploitation keeps the resulting surplus from accruing to the people doing the actual work.
I agree with this in general.

Living in the U.S., though, there are some real problems with the healthcare system that came to a head at the same time as (and partly due to) the pandemic.

I just find it interesting that an someone would make predictions about drastically higher life expectancy during a period where the trend isn't even directionally accurate.
Go telemetry could have been useful (video)
This feels like manufactured outrage to me, I guess to capitalize on the AI anxiety people are feeling.

open.ai doesn't actually owe everyone something.

I get that we all wish they were better people, who would somehow usher in the AI age in a strictly principled and ethical way. It just seems false to me to demand or expect that they be better people than all the rest of us.
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The issue is not "what percentage of landmass is uninhabitable" but rather how many will no longer be able to afford food and water, be admitted to refugee camps and if the rich will be willing to share these things with the poor. War is another potential factor.
Correct that figure for confounding factors, including but not limited to socioeconomic status, availability of prenatal care, nutrition. . .
Cars have lights and reflectors
I have long wondered why Amazon doesn't offer a print on demand service, they have the shipping infrastructure to pull it off.

I finally broke down about a year ago and got a color brother laser printer. It does the job I need it to do, I can leave it alone for months and come back and print like nothing happened.

I can't exactly say that I have paid for it vs just going to staples and doing prints. But the convenience is nice.
I applaud you, sir. I can totally relate.

I started a fairly major project, assuming that it would take four years to take off.

It took ten years, but it has taken off.
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> If english isn't your primary language, learning math that is taught in english will also be more difficult.

Having been in a German school for several months where I did not know German, the only subject I did well in was math. I'm not so sure your assertion is correct.
45 checking in -- essentially, preventative maintenance. Increasingly, a focus on joints and the muscle groups that support them, particularly towards range of movement/flexibility. Annual physicals to catch problems early, ask your parents about family health history if you haven't yet, and don't ignore the small things that linger.

The better health habits you can lock in now, the better -- it's only going to get harder from here on out to lay that foundation.
Sure:

https://ev-database.org/uk/compare/efficiency-electric-vehic...
https://ev-database.org/uk/compare/rapid-charging-electric-v...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...

Note that the cars which come close to Tesla in the raw wattage value are usually with less powerful single motor and a smaller battery (lighter).
The "so what" is that effective systems have a breaking point. The CCP can work for some people, but if it comes at the expense of ethic cleansing (the Uighurs) or violent territorial aggression (Taiwan/Hong Kong) then it's not worth it. All of the countries China tries so desperately to woo agree.

In your own words - those people can choose for themselves. The Chinese government does not respect their decision either way. If China's next moves are to follow in Russia's footsteps, they will be rejected as a member of the first-world altogether (as Putin recently found out). If they somehow dominate despite that, then they will rule over nothing but ashes.
GDScript for UI and prototyping, c++ for the game logic when its needed or when the game design is stable and we have time to rewrite it. I want to write a GDScript -> C++ transpiler, to be honest.

I wouldnt want to use c# as I dont want the complexity. Our games go on the web, as well, and I don't think c# works there.

godot-Nim is an attractive project, as well.
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Yet more friction. It actually takes quite a bit of space to not smack into things playing the more active games.
Thanks for the book recommendation.

And about the news links, since we are talking about environmental and animal rights protest groups, I would say the terrorism here comes from the police. Making a baby for better undercover credibility is very low and in no relationship to the threat of the quite harmles activists. But this is a good indicator, of how willing the secret forces are, when it comes to real terrorists. There were years of investigations into the NSU in germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground) for example and how close exactly the double agents were to the terrorists and how much involved.
> which could potentially damage a product if connected in an unexpected way

Only if the cable is bad.

All capabilities are negotiated between the chips in the cable and the USB-C chipset in the device.

Assuming all cables are automatically bad is an anti-consumer move.
Right. A mention in the ToS does not equal real consent. I would only add that it also has to be informed consent. Saying something like "can we collect data from you to improve our products and services?" is also not soliciting real consent, because it tells the user basically nothing about what is being asked of them and how it will be used.
Hm. Open source is really not thriving.
Don't tell the electrical engineers; this is the pathway to color-code diagrams some may deem unnatural...

https://eepower.com/resistor-guide/resistor-standards-and-co...
Great, hope it lasts longer so some of the negativity in the world reduces for a brief moment.
>>sentience is just high-order analysis of lower-order processes with the ability to impact the lower-order processes....we will see it within the next 10 years.

Definitely plausible timeline, but we're not there yet.

I think it'll take a good number more layers with equal or greater sophistication, between and on top of each other.

The current text and graphic tools make only associations, they have zero conceptual knowledge. Enough associations make it look good, but they don't make an abstract concept. E.g., shown enough pics of an astronaut, it draws a good astronaut. But, it can also generate pics of a bikini-clad woman with both her bum and her torso & face facing us (literally putting the bottom half on backwards). Or, if asked for a pic of a specific person, responding with the same picture, background and all, when there were not high numbers of examples input. It isn't figuring out what is the person's image, and how body parts go together, and how the subject is different from the background the way even children do when drawing.

Same for text, where we can ask it "Mike's mom has three kids named Alice, Bob, and Chris; what is the name of her fourth child?" it says "Not enough info". When told that the answer is in the question, it doubles down on explaining how there's insufficient info. It posts entirely fabricated references.

These are not even close to intelligences; they're only fancy statistics which are a fantastic parlor trick and sometimes useful.

Add another one that understands the 4D physical world, then combine it's understanding of billions of 2D photos, and trillions of words, and MAYBE it'll be able to properly abstract the concept of a person, with the right number of limbs, in the right relationship with each other, and the right relationship with the chair, and the right relationship with the skin, hair, eyes, clothing, and background etc., and an appropriate understanding of the input text to reliably generate an original output that actually makes sense in the world. Add several layers on top of that, and maybe we're approaching sentience...?
Kind of seems like your eyes are making judgements to assume 2 downward data points indicate a change in the overall trend.
Feelings are a result of evolution. Why would an AGI develop feelings?
Not even money. How involved are the parents in the child's education. That's generally the number one predictor I found in my years of teaching.
Two things here:

1. In the sense presented by the media it is clear they want to point toward the idea that sentience AI is a conscious AI => using this idea your dog is not sentient

2. Dogs are legally sentient beings but in this conversation should make a difference between making a law like this to protect them (which we should do as the legal system needs to name things to work) and the idea that something has a level of sentience that includes consciousness that can be comparable with humans.

In my mind, this is more about levels of complexity. Say we do a scale of matter aggregations that creates a level of complexity that will create new abilities out of this complexity.

This would be a scale and not a 0/1.

Thus we and animals are let's say inside an interval from 50..100. And sentience is from 50 to 100 in that imaginary scale. Humans are close to 100 (as we are the ones defining the scale) and animals start at 50 some of them are at 70, some at 80, and maybe some at 90.

Now, what is the main purpose of these articles, the underlying idea: is that AI is at 100 or that is close to being at 100.

And my main point was that AI is not there. I am not even sure AI is at 50, for me AI is between 0 and 50 on that scale. It is evolving but it is still very simple in how it experiences it's external and internal world. It talks like a being that is on that scale over 50, but it is not there.
> Looking at the history this doesn’t seem abnormal, and it hovers around 49%.

Ties in with this data too:

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

~50% of the entire US is at a 6th-grade reading level.

Update: Sorry, I didn't put the hyphen that is in the text of the article. "sixth-grade level"
I disagree. There are known “good” and “bad” school districts. The known good school districts have better teachers and teaching methods.

This is not about the bell curve, it’s about a lot of US schools not actually teaching students successfully.