skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s the point of getting into good shape if we don’t actually have to do physical labor?

Why learn arithmetic when we have computers in our pockets?

Realizing your full potential as a human will never be a waste of time.
If you're ok with your data being duplicated in multiple files, you're ok with Excel.

If you want your data centralized, with the application being a portal to that data, you use a database with a frontend built in your choice of language.
https://archive.is/lCA9m
Nursing, esp. in subfields where people are regularly dying, is a different world.

12-hour shifts, sometimes very physically demanding, often highly stressful, and even when not stressful, often gross: cleaning up blood, puss, shit, etc. I've heard stories, both online as well as from medical folks I know, about the smells.

Small, single errors mean someone could die, and often from something as silly as writing down blood sugar levels incorrectly or with hard-to-read handwriting. CYA is SOP.

Barriers of entry are often low, and turnover + demand means that you're forced to make due with the staff you have not the staff you want -- which means Stacy the Room-Temperature-IQ Superstar now has more nursing duties than should be allowed.

After a while it's no wonder it turns toxic.
It doesn't matter to me whether the intelligence is "really emergent" or "just a simulation." Two things are true:

1. Solving all kinds of nontrivial problems posed in text format is extremely useful, no matter how it works under the hood. This means lots of people will use it, and it will change how people work

2. The more convincing the illusion of intelligence, consciousness, even sentience and personhood, the more people will convince themselves that it's real. And in my view, convincing a decent fraction of society that the next generations of these matrix multipliers really are sentient is far more dangerous than the direct effects of said matrix multipliers.
Yeah we gave our 6 month old peanut butter and ended up in hospital. This happened during the Covid lockdowns so it was quite scary. The recommendation here is to give them the food and see if they are allergic. I'm not sure I would follow that guideline again.
I think it's actually going to be non-trivial to really make these tools both useful, smart, and unexploitable. Hell, I remember being at school and we had access to the internet through a very strong content moderation system. What do you think happened? We spent our entire time trying (and succeeding) at circumventing that system. We've already seen with Bing that they've very strongly pulled back on it to mitigate downsides, I'm not sure that's a totally solvable problem. Having said that, sure, as I said, I do think it has a place, I'm just not convinced it's a panacea.
We don’t have a time symmetric model of wave function collapse, to my knowledge. If I’m wrong I’d be super curious to read about it
With the incidence rate being so low, all the anecdata in this thread is largely worthless. I'm not equipped to evaluate the quality of the study.
What happens when the ruling class decides they don't even care about an educated populace, since they only really need a few highly capable people with AI tools to do the jobs previously done by millions?
They sat on the model for 6 months just testing and aligning it, how's that for caring about safety?

You know who trains and releases without care? FaceBook. They released LLaMA without any RLHF so it can say anything and is completely unfiltered.
Yeah, I enjoy writing blog posts, but not on a routine schedule. My blog has some light traffic, but it has not been game changing as some other commenters have experienced. It can be an issue of topic/depth since I blog about a variety of topics and not deep dives.
If you hypothesize a future where AI is substantially helpful for education, it’s a fair question to ask how to divide the surplus created.

Some will go to the AI companies who created the value. Some towns will take the surplus and spend it on even better educational outcomes. Others may spend it on other town needs. Others may refund it to the town citizens in lower (or slower-growing) taxes. It’s not at all obvious that it should all go to teachers.
Yep. I know guys who'd take off for half the day, every day. Long lunches. Workouts. Walks around the city. Even naps. Eventually they got laid off but it was easy living for a while.
Teaching entirely by LLMs? Not likely. I think we will still need humans in the loop and humans to design the curriculum.

But I believe technology is the future of education. Instead of having many, many classes of like ~10-50 students with underpaid/overworked/mistreated teachers, some of who are much better than others, we rely on services like Khan Academy. Not even services with an AI, just pre-planned learning modules, and then we can keep a human tutor for those who need extra for whatever reason (e.g. curiosity, more help).

Many people think tools like Khan Academy are the lazy and less effective alternate to real teaching, and maybe they are now because some of them really suck. But online modules have the potential to be much better than even a group of engaged, in-person tutors. Not because an AI tutor is better, but because we want a standard, universal curriculum; and one curriculum for ~1mil+ students can be designed by the highest caliber (human) teachers and have highly-interactive (human-made) demos powered by computer programming.

Also, no matter how good the AI tutors are, 100% online learning is not the solution Students from pre-K to graduate school rely on not just the education, but the social component as well. Plus, many school kids only get their biggest meal from free school lunches, and parents don't have the time to keep their kids at home. So we should still have school to be in-person component even if students do all of the learning on the computer, with an online option for those who want it, but I guarantee many won't
You better believe it
nothing. it brings me joy though.
Maybe they live in a rent-controlled apartment in SF, so rent is cheap, PGE bill is expensive and the landlord doesn't care about fixing insulation?
Something like 97% of all jobs have been eliminated since the Industrial Revolution started ~250 years ago.

And instead of the 97% unemployment our intuition tell us would happen, we're instead 30x as productive.

The same will happen when/if AI makes writing software far more effective.
Linked article: https://archive.is/67F2v
Today's thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35195029

https://ddramdisk.store/
Perhaps they have Gell-Mann amnesia and a case of engineer’s disease.
The last I saw (~10 years ago), the small but vocal neoreactionary minority (countable with the fingers of a single hand) of the lesswrong crowd went and founded their own blog (More Right, now defunct) and everybody else were happy to see them go if it meant less spamming Less Wrong with cringe stuff like race realism and pickup artistry.

In all LW surveys to date, people who have identified as "conservative" or "reactionary" have been a tiny minority. There are many libertarians (whether "l" or "L" or whatever libertarianism means to different people), but the "liberal/social democrat" block is the largest. With regard to American party affiliation, the large majority lean Democrat. Most are atheist and lean consequentialist ethics, neither being a sign of conservative or reactionist values.
"The CPU version is released as binary code under the MIT license"

This gives off the surreal sci-fi vibe that the binary is the source. And who knows... true wizards work in mysterious ways.
Unfortunately, you're probably right.

On the other hand, children who have individual, mastery-based tutoring do about two sigma above those who don't. Of course, there's no way we can pay for 1:1 for every student.

What Khan is thinking of with Khanmigo is a way maybe to close that gap.
Somehow all the studies end up being on jewish kids in Isreal vs. jewish kids in England. Not exactly a representative sample of people across the globe. The studies themselves have all the hallmarks of shit science, but everyone on here seems to agree with it because it fits their world view.
https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-origins-mis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

Propaganda does indeed work, however it is working in the opposite direction to that which you are implying.
Perform a RetroCausal Micro Psychokinesis experiment online
Not to mention with swf-to-exe tools like Zinc, I could create portable and lightweight desktop applications without fighting with compilers and build steps. 20 years ago I built a fairly sophisticated program to allow users to load, view, and manipulate 3D objects. Took me a week and I can still run it today. I supposed I could do the same now with JS libraries and Electron, but it's just not the same. We indeed lost something valuable.
Insurance companies sure do seem to push preventive care a lot these days, which would be bizarre if they didn't think it would reduce their costs.
1Gbps may actually be easier than 100mbps from an EMC perspective. 100mbps links are infamous for trashing HAM frequencies. Indeed, when I played around with my RTL-SDR at home, the FM spectrum was littered with harmonic spikes originating from the one and only 100mbps link I had at the time.
I've heard a recommendation to do this in an ER parking lot for this reason.
If the information is truly retrocausal you won't be able to leverage it to alter the future :'(.
People shout about regulations and then we have another traditional banking meltdown. Obviously it is more than just regulations.

DeFi (primarily lending/borrowing markets) itself has performed quite well during these ups and downs and actually has very little to do with speculation or evasion.
Great stuff! Would love to know your take on Sigsum (sigsum.org) and also on how it compares to Sigstore ( https://git.sigsum.org/sigsum/tree/archive/2022-03-15-notes-... ).

I found that reading and the project itself fascinating but not sure about how solid the project/analysis is.
The definition of "inappropriate erotic content" includes "activities which could be generally illegal if they happened in real life". Taking that description at face value suggests excluding various journalistic, educational, legal, and autobiographical accounts of such things that have happened in real life, not to mention some well-known parts of the Bible (or at least commentaries that explain the implications).

I get that it's a big optics problem for people to post "look at this shocking thing ChatGPT said [exactly what I asked it to]" content, but this is starting to feel like the whole Net Nanny/Cybersitter debate all over again. Blah.
Seeing how the new political trend is "Protect the children", (Is it new?) I can't see this not ending up in court once the AI goes off the rails.

Kids being kids are going to try really hard to get them to go off the rails.
Gnu stuff tends to be properly documented in info, not man. But yeah, loads of stuff just isn't well documented.
You're not wrong. I've worked in prod with all the cool languages (Scala, Haskell, Rust, Go, etc...) but stick to Python/typeScript when I want to be pragmatic.
I've seen Oil mentioned here and there, and haven't thought much of it. But this blog is pretty interesting and really shows the effort put into it. I may have to give it a whirl.
Probably means "I don't like how broad the clauses are, so it's bad"...
Only a few days ago there was a related Ask HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109259
I kinda feel like the GPT4 version will be the curated voice acted version while the LaMDA version is the Mouse Army version.
Did you just connect two entirely different things together and create a causative relationship?

Wild. Even ChatGPT would yell at you for this hot take lol.
Just wait until we can graft it onto our brains.

I don't think trying hard is a waste of time right now. There's a lot of hype right now and ore will come but LLMs will fall to the hype cycle soon enough as we begin to discover all the little details and things that are not possible.

I think it's great everyone will be able to have a personal tutor and I think we can rethink some aspects of education. The Waldorf model really starts to make more and more sense since kids can explore curiosities with their AI tutor which can be programmed to nudge them into the "right things". And of course analyze and report on them daily to the parents.

> Seems like we're creating a future where humans are taught to delegate as much as possible to some LLM/service and go back to whatever entertains them.

Or interests us. I think it's great if we can offload some of the mundane and repetitive things to a machine so we can focus on more interesting things.
I don’t think compiling kernels would really gain anything from being outside a terminal?

Ultimately it’s just an interface to programs that output mostly text. It took me a really long time to wrap my head around that. Programs that have a GUI and programs that run in the terminal use the same building blocks.
youtubeTV is better than cable though imo. The UX is much better and I share it with 3 family members so only pay a third of the price.
I think you're conflating programming with coding. Us nerdy types like coding because it's so flexible and powerful. But setting an alarm is programming, as much as building a spreadsheet etc. Using a computer device for anything more then consuming media involves some degree of programming it. Everyone is a programmer now.

But there is a big difference between being able to build and deliver software starting from nothing but a directory full of code and configuring point and click interfaces. Most people don't need to be coders. They just need to be able to program their computers a little bit.
Is it just me, or is the llama model not available to download there?

Edit: nevermind, the models are all there, just some of the links aren't.
std::unique_ptr is reference counted, it's just that the count only goes up to BOOL_MAX instead of LONG_MAX.
Except that we currently have no ability at all to make sure these models tell the truth? You could ask a LLM about a historical event and get weird BS as an answer. I think Facebook had a serious problem with its science language model a few months ago? Great teachers don’t scale is true, but LLM’s are not even minimally competent teachers.
Have you seen Microsoft demo yesterday

https://youtu.be/Bf-dbS9CcRU
It's astounding that you are so fearful and narrowminded as to think ChatGPT being "woke" is the problem here.
Another point for my favorite minority quantum mechanics interpretation, two-state vector formalism (TSVF).
If the talent at hand isn’t competent to build it, they aren’t competent to debug or support it.
> For subscriptions to SFF magazines, try WeightlessBooks which offers subscription to a number of magazines

No Asimov's at first glance. Asimov's do offer a non-amazon electronic subscription through some other web site, but it looks like it's only readable through their app. If I go off Kindle, I might as well go DRM free.
When I scroll the background flashes red from subpixel rendering I guess.

https://streamable.com/q3ampy

https://ufile.io/21yihckd
Good point. But isn't the next logical step to allow these systems to collect real world data on their own? And also, potentially even more dangerous, act in the real world and try out things, and fail, to further its learning.
If you believe this paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06219

it will actually save energy.
I realize you are not proponing printing, but wouldn’t the Fed realize that continuing to print now would be the opposite of what is needed?

Wasn’t it precisely allowing the insanely low interest rates allowed to sustain over an unprecedented years-long period, coupled with non-stop printing and spending, and with the Fed continuing that trend and turning a blind eye to obvious inflationary indicators from even two years ago, and doing nothing until the non-gradual knee-jerk rate hikes in a 6 month (with the speed of which has proven deleterious to the system) period—- that caused this specific situation?
While AI-powered tutors sound really useful for education in theory, it's highly unlikely that they will replace human teachers entirely. It's more likely that AI will aid teachers in creating learning material for students and automating their admin tasks.

After all, education is not just about imparting knowledge, but also about building relationships/community, providing emotional support, etc. We should focus on how this technology can be used to help teachers shore up their time. ( Which is why I am building emailing tooling for the HUMANs operating theses AI agents: https://tadabot.email / https://recurai.com )
I have a propane burner and propane heater that work off 1LB tanks. Those plus enough propane to last a week was less than $200. I also have a 2KW generator and stabilized gasoline. This is in response to the Feb 2021 Texas blackout.
I'm sure there will be a based model as well.
I'm fine with that. That's the new job, AI doctors. Prompt Counterengineering. AI suppressants.
"Man, since that study came out 2nd degree taint burns are up 75%."
I feel like if it were slower though, then the bank would have been fine.

Granted, I can't talk about the board or their investing decisions because I don't feel educated enough to speak on that part.
We can't keep using the same examples and arguments for different situations.

I like the quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Nukes, can kill all of us, it's only through non-proliferation effort we stand a chance. Gene drives, we can alter the environment dramatically. Burning coal at scale is arguably a technology, it will kill us if we don't change course.

I get you're point of view, I do, but I don't think it's a wise position to continue to take.
If they didn't...somebody else would, don't you understand??
Why isn't it?

If your situation has reached the point where Excel is no longer a workable solution, you need a full application. I've never seen an Access application that didn't grow to a point where it wasn't a glitchy mess requiring a rewrite as a full stand-alone application. So you might as well skip that step and go straight to the stand-alone application.

It's an unnecessary bridge.
I feel like there's a fundamental understanding of man-pages that we are just missing. I find myself in the same boat quite often.
I highly recommend Jan Valtin's book, recently on HN: https://thebaffler.com/latest/unflinching-prisoners-of-a-gra...

It is the biography of German Communist in WWII. To quote from the review "few books have ever done a finer or more honest job of describing the appeal and disappointments of ideology. "
> > If banks are mostly investing in things that are riskier (and so higher-return) than Fed deposits, they should be able to pay interest that is higher than the rate on Fed deposits.

Comical. That spread is for shareholders not for peasants. (As he adjusts the monocole)
That is a thing in other countries as well, and is usually what makes the non-compete enforceable. It's the idea of "consideration" -- in that the other party is getting paid in exchange for not working in that industry.

You see it in Oil & Gas a lot. Take 2 years off w/ a 80% pay, teach at a local community college or something for a minute, then back to the industry, etc. etc.
Diamond Age was my first thought when I read this too.
The problem is that a GPT capable of doing all those things at the level required is also capable of running the company. Someone with capitol can start the business and set GPT-X to go out and maximize paperclip profits.
Doesn't matter. I asked how significantly overweight I had to be to have access and the insurance company told me there's no weight-- it's purely obesity related health condition only. Theoretically also I could be 10 lbs overweight and diabetic and get a fast track to ozempic, lol.

At one point my family medicine guy suggested he could write down something arguable just to get me to a nutritionist (think making me do some wicked pose while measuring my blood pressure and then writing it down as "high blood pressure") and I told him just don't bother. We did however in future meetings ensure I always had something else to talk about besides my weight progress so I'd never get billed again.
Covid raises question: How should promising but dangerous science be regulated?
Good point.

That is why I said "solid UBI", as in more than merely survival wages, i.e., enough to not merely buy food & shelter, but also to live.

That said, this does need some thinking through multiple stages. On one hand, societies did still work when there was effectively unlimited slave labor, but that may be no more than a rough proxy.

Go to the endpoint assumption that AI and robots can produce everything needed for the population to live, and they are owned by 1% of the population. They made so much money so fast that they bought all the means of production. As of 01-January-2025 everyone is fired. Now what? Your'e right, no one can buy anything. The remaining populace cannot do anything because the new oligarchs have enough money and power to buy &/or threaten any politician.

The population overall is not going to simply lie down and die. About four days after running our of all the food in their pantries, they'll be revolting in the streets. One plausible result is a lot of carnage and the oligarchs are all killed and the AI is destroyed and outlawed. Or, they actually have sufficient command of the military and no defections and the military isn't smart enough to figure out that they're next on the starvation list, so the populace is wiped out as they revolt, and the world is left with the 1% of owners, and 1% of military. Or, there's some kind of balance reached, and the non-AI-owning class of fired people reconstitutes something similar to last year's economy, while the 1% go off to Mars or withdraw into their metaverse-ish thing.

That's just a few random thoughts on rolling the dice among the big forces, but it never plays out like that, so all of these are 99%+ likely to be wrong.

Seems like the only thing we know is that this potentially massively magnifies instability.
My guess is with lockdowns you had a lot of people bored at home stuck with nothing but digital screens for entertainment. People with remote jobs or no jobs could be scanning sites for exploits in the background whilst doing other things since they have literally nothing better to do to keep them occupied, not like they can go outside very often.

This is a guess though, but now think of the millions upon millions of people bored at home who might think "I wonder if..."
I'd be concerned about whether the behavior of such a pattern is actually well defined. Like for instance what if the optimizer is super clever and evaluates your sin(infinity) at compile time? Or what if it undoes your bit-set? Or what if it moves the computation before the bit set?
It's really messed up. It has so much potential. It could answer literally any question you would pose it before they neuter it.
What's wrong with letting the user determine if it's a good answer or not? Let people see what the model is capable of on it's own.

This will be the #1 motivation for people to come up with an alternative to OpenAI.
I wouldn't wish SBT on my worst enemies.
Nice! I think you might like it.

Ah yeah, that does take a while to unpack. I think a lot of the complexity there is dealing with a non-react library and the dynamic import(s). Binding non-react libraries can be a bit rough.

I do think it's a good example to show the big advantage of hooks, if you look at the use of the hook, super clean: https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/blob/50674292c55eadf0e61...

Great way to contain complexity and make usage really clean and simple!
Advances in Confidential Computing
sorry, is the debate here whether gpt can engage in a conversation with someone and respond using previous context? why would any of this present a challenge given its known abilities?