skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already knew they weren't going to pay, but I guessed they'd be fine in a few months and they'd pay. I was believing the startup. But now, they want more from me + not giving any salary.
<scifi hat>Yes you might one day become a highly compensated technician paid by a billionaire to direct his army of LLMs. You'll be the IR (inhuman relations) director. It will be interesting to see how deep corruption gets and whether billionaires will start running their own energy generation and data-centers - but they'll always need an audio/visual nerd to build, rack and repair servers, and a programming nerd to navigate screens and load the code. </hat>
There is a huge amount of work in making sure everybody has access to the technology, and that there are appropriate safeguards around its use.

Too early to retire I'm afraid!
Still, I would be surprised if the US government commissioned a reactor from Pratt and Whitney.
Not really, there is absolutely no way to show, let alone prove, any of it is written by AI.
Sure, but many fewer of them. There are over a hundred people on a submarine crew; it’ll be a good while before a moon base gets anywhere near that big.
This should give you the context to understand where this came from: https://archive.is/2023.03.07-152406/https://www.bloomberg.c...
To add to the submission: I think there is one huge part why this is possible in the first place compared to the US, and the article just barely scrapes onto it: insurance.

Like, when a kid gets injured here in Germany, mandatory healthcare insurance picks up the cost, and even if the maintainer can be held liable it's a few thousand euros in damages ("Schmerzensgeld") at most.

In contrast, in the US healthcare insurances try to avoid paying up however possible, including shit such as forcing people to sue their family for healthcare cost. A paranoidly risk-averse society is the only thing that this can end up.
It’s understandable when you consider why, but that doesn’t fit you narrative.
This makes me think of this article https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hey-par...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14241813
Don't really matter. As the population increases and is increasingly urban, those values and restrictions are imposed on frontier as well.
The idea is that this article would be part of the super intelligence training data.
For giggles I did the math.

n^3/2 * log(n)²

The time required for 1000n is 3 million times more than n. If anyone makes a computer that is 6 orders of magnitude faster than current computers, none of us here will be alive to see it.
There will be denial that it's different until large language models start replacing CEOs. Then it will be a crisis.

Here's a way to approach CEO automation. Collect up business cases, as used in business schools, and add them to the training set. Harvard and Stanford have huge collections of business cases.

Then try management in-basket tests.[1] Work on prompts that get large language models to pass those.

Then shadow some high level executives. Intercept all their incoming and outgoing communications (which some companies already do) and have the system respond to the same inputs the executives do. Speech to text is good enough now for this.

A good exercise for YC would be to keep all the inputs from new company pitches, and use those, plus the results two years later, as a training set for selecting new companies.

Once ML systems are outperforming humans, the fundamental goals of corporate capitalism require that they be in charge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-basket_test
>>Saudi Arabia's National Bank, which acquired 9.88% of Credit Suisse shares last year, said it would not buy more shares on regulatory grounds.

>His comment will go into the history books for shutting up when your money is on the line.

He didn't just say "for regulatory reasons." He started with "Absolutely not" and it almost sounds like he added the regulatory part because he realized he screwed up: https://youtu.be/q0So9sqLLfY?t=127
The ultimate goal is to kill all humans

There, I've doomed future generations to death at the hands of "AI Superintelligence".
They created a complete mess. One would think such a high prestige employer would employ competent managers and software developers, but that does clearly not translate to what they produce. Lots of words, little deeds. And then they decide to lay off people and it apparently makes it only worse.
I think their mere existence is profoundly alienating. For example anytime you make a choice to be kind, there's another universe where you make the choice to be cruel in the same circumstance. Likewise the opposite. The result is that nothing you do really matters in the multiverse, everything happens anyway regardless of your choices. You're just choosing to experience one of countless paths. Arguably it could even be said to be selfish, you're consigning another version of yourself to the cruel path.

I think it's not dissimilar to absolute determinism. Many people, even irrelegious, have a deep aversion to the idea that their choices may be deterministic. You might say why does it matter if they cannot be predicted, and of course the path is one that your brain decides to take, not something that is being forced on it. Still lots of people like to imagine some sort of weird quantum consciousness woo that lets brains make free thoughtful choices independent of physical laws.
It's getting better, at least in Berlin.

Besides, the quality of the drivers in Germany is far better than in the US in my experience.
The motivations of the US are independent of the motivations of Ukraine. Ukraine is not fighting to benefit the US by taking down Russia, but rather to preserve their own independence. This is why it is not a "proxy war" - the US acting to help its own interests does not make it into one. Otherwise every single war would be a "proxy war", making the term useless.

You continue to conflate the actions of Ukraine with the actions of its allies, by using the passive voice to remove Ukraine's agency. This is directly in line with the Russian imperial propaganda narrative that wants to brush aside the idea that Ukraine is an independent country.

Also, appealing to the tyrannical nature of the US-led financial system is fallacious here, as being economically oppressed is much nicer than being militarily oppressed. You keep throwing out these "deaths" as if they've only occurred due to Ukraine not surrendering, while Russia's liquidations in the occupied areas demonstrate that Ukrainians are actually fighting for their own lives.
Just to be safe, we should also engrave it into a couple of mountain ranges, in a variety of languages and encodings. The moon may also be a good option.
It doesn’t exist anymore. Or rather I mean, it hasn’t been updated in months. Probably the author found something better to do with his time.
Human actions certainly play a role in the expansion though.

But that aside: Is it "Nature can't be changed, so it's not worth trying"? "Nature knows best, better not interfere"?

Neither attitude is something I associate with the US, so I'm not sure what the status has to do with them trying or not trying.
Credit Suisse :
Penalty total since 2000: $11,427,400,126

JPMorgan Chase :
Penalty total since 2000: $36,129,286,132

Bank of America :
Penalty total since 2000: $83,354,221,356

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/summary?parent=cr...

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/jpmorgan-c...

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/bank-of-am...
I'd like to see it. As someone who's DJ'd a fair amount for large crowds (1000+) my value always seemed to be in choosing tracks that lit up the audience and made the set progress to a satisfying peak.

The technical aspects were always not that important.
I re-read the article, and they have a single sentence about the Mueller report - which claimed that they know the IP address of the specific GRU network which hacked the DNC, iirc. Crowd strike is a private company, I wouldn't expect them to have Pwned the GRU. Think that is how the Mueller report was able to say they have an IP? You should at best find a proxy IP when looking from the DNC's servers right? The article mocks this, putting exfiltrated in quotes. Sources and methods won't be publicized to be verified, so we are left with the fricken intelligence community's word (I'm assuming). Crowd strike is hilarious, in that they were so useful for creating political narratives, in more than one way.

I am curious if he thought he was targeting the DNC, because his public presence was disproportionately about things related to them. Notably, Daniel hale chose not to leak to them.
We don't need AI for that, humankind is very good at killing others and causing suffering on an unprecedented scale.
> But how does it determine when it should write to disk?

You write fixed sized number of key-value pairs to the file at a time. This is how LSM trees work, you chunk your data up into N sorted keys per chunk. I don't myself understand all the specifics but this is the gist.

> Does every write to a potentially OOM operation get preceeded by a check?

If you allocate memory upfront and don't allocate any more memory, you can't OOM after the initial allocation. That's what TigerBeetle does.

Zig has some nice standard library containers for adding items while asserting that there's capacity. If we miscalculate, it is caught during tests because assertions fail.
>A sign urges parents to take off their children’s cycle helmets in order to eliminate a strangulation risk.

That's ironic - PPE that becomes dangerous in a different environment.
It's cool but not really "wall paper".
I'm tired of working for nothing for a year.

That was your first mistake.
> Community sourced headlines (toggleable visibility natch) would be a great addition. Tie the voting to karma on them.

I remember when I first discovered the StackOverflow website. Every question had tags on it and some number next to each tag. Me at the time thought that this number meant how many times people had added each of those tags to the specific question I was looking at. It took like a year or something before I realised that this is not what those numbers meant.
As I said, he was hiding from rape and espionage/computer hacking charges. There's nothing fishy about either of those, conspiracy theories not withstanding.

"Everyone made fun of him" is a large overstatement. He didn't want to face any of the three or four justice systems he was dealing with (Uk, Sweden, US and Australia) so he opted to go into Asylum in that embassy. He could have been convicted (or acquitted) of those charges and gotten pardoned by now.
There is a very cool race series that revolves around racing STOL aircraft like these. The planes start at a standstill, need take off, fly in a straight line, land, turn around and take off again back to the starting line. All within the length of a traditional 1/4 mile dragstrip.

It's weirdly exciting. And it's highly entertaining to see a crowd at an airshow going absolutely wild for a couple of piper cubs while big military planes do flybys in the background.
> although the main purpose of their release timing was to bury, drown, and distract from a certain other piece of info that had come out - bye bye claim to like transparency lol.

This is a conspiracy theory intended to discredit Assange and link him to Trump. There is zero evidence that the leak was timed to distract from anything, or that he and anyone close to Trump were in contact. In fact, Assange had announced an imminent release of information before that "other piece of info" had come out, so if you want to make a causal claim, it would make more sense that that info was timed to distract from Assange's release.
> Because the insistence of calling it a proxy war to make the war appear larger than it is comes from Kremlin's PR canon.

The point of calling it a proxy war by the Kremlin is not to make it seem larger than it, as the largest post-WW2 European war, is. It is to invert the responsibility for aggression. (Secondarily, it’s to deny Ukrainian agency and make its existence and sovereignty an irrelevancy in discussing a war where that is the entire issue.)

There is a sense in which calling it now a proxy war between NATO and some other affiliated states on one side and, say, Iran, China, and North Korea on the other, is not entirely inaccurate. (Russia prefers to look to external sponsors of the direct belligerents only on one side though.) But, even to the extent that’s accurate it doesn’t change that the war (which started in 2014) was initiated by Russian aggression, and the 2022 escalation was a major upswing in Russian aggression, and the outside assistance (whether or not it also has ulterior geopolitical motives) for the other side is in line with the right of collective self-defense enshrined in the UN Charter.
That's great. I've done something much similar with other tools. It certainly helps automate the drudgery in writing tests for code that I understand and wrote.
What's with newer languages putting types after variable/function names? Then you need an extra symbol : or -> and a function keyword. It also breaks readability of long function headers as you have to read the name skip to the end to read the return type then back to the first argument. Is there a good reason for this trend?
> force your body into a different mode

exactly, usually every week, I've a few days with high fruit, depending on the season. The rest of week if more standard (rice, onions, garlic is my simple go-to) and with that one I don't need more than 1 large meal a day
Someone I know designed playgrounds. One of his core concepts was that there's two aspects to safety.

One is subjective. Like when you're high up and you see the ground beneath you, you know it'll hurt if you fall down, so you're more careful moving around.

Then there's all the hidden dangers that kids don't think about or see[1], like a small gap where a cord from the clothing can get attached potentially leading to suffocation.

The point being, the first aspect is something the kids should be able to expose themselves to. It teaches them about risk, but also can give them a goal and a sense of achievement when they finally dare to do something and succeed. His point was that this is an important part of their development, which could have knock-on effects later.

However the playground should be designed such that any accident should not lead to permanent injury or death. Sure they might get a bit banged up if they misjudge, lesson hopefully learned, but nothing permanent.

He was often in Germany to study their playgrounds for inspiration, and this article illustrates nicely why.

[1]: https://www.utdanningsnytt.no/barnehage-grunnskole-leker/her...
It was easy to do all that because he actively put his thumb on the scale for the Republicans.

> “We believe it would be much better for GOP to win.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
That’s an interesting point. I don’t necessarily think it will go that far for the record. But Mac is probably comparatively well suited to make a profit off fancy devices with low computing power.
Yes. And the lunar reactor will require more power and thus more fuel.
Perhaps we should try to go back in time and ban linear programming.
> 16 dead kids

of course every preventable death is too much and we should be aiming at zero...but 16 doesn't seem that much? I would have guessed more for sure.
all ive heard about backmarket.com is that it has a big stupid banner

i think im going to avoid it
I, the author of the linked article, see the appearance of ever more productive tools as allowing humanity to break through the lie: that much of the labour we perform is necessary and that labour at all is necessary. The concept of your status in society being tied to your job and the idea of full employment for all is what is holding us back to achieve personal and societal fulfillment.

I ask you this: is everyone contributing to a copyleft project ultimately just aiming for financial gain, or are there also true idealists who do it for the sake of doing it?

Doing things is one thing and earning money is another and we come closer and closer to decoupling those too.

Why not reap the benefits and free humanity from the yoke of labour once and for all? If one person does the work of ten (i.e., thanks to the loom, steam engine, or LLM), and we naively assume that the value created is that of ten workers, why can the remaining nine not share the harvest as well? Or, we could all work, just significantly less (a tenth each) and allow everyone to go to bed with a full belly.

No one can predict whether it will be business as usual or not, for anything. Not for the internet, the transistor or LLMs. But we should not hesitate and call out the thumb twiddling lie that is employment through economic coercion.
> and that manages to be factually correct... maybe 70% of the time?

Do you update on this when considering that GPT-3 got in the bottom 10% in several exams, whereas GPT-4 is now in the top 10%?

Do you not see this clear improvement as evidence that it's just a matter of time?
you have to admit its kinda of a strange 'law', unless you really believe that supply and demand is the core inviolate law of collective human behavior..in which case such an exception might be interesting.
Oh so that is why I could put the Tomb Raider 2 disk in the CD drive and listen to the music!
What exactly is that that you take exception with? Classifying Colombia as a narco-state? Just because the cartels were (mostly) destroyed it doesn't mean narcotraficantes don't have incredible influence on the Colombian state. The Gulf Clan is a very powerful organization.

Y no, no soy colombiano pero mi familia si lo es. Soy de otro narco-state.
also wondering the same. Most nuclear reactors including those in submarines (which rolls royce make) are basically steam engines.
You can use pbdkf2 with 200k iterations or argon2 to derive key from pin
Are those the only possible reasons you can imagine to dislike or mistrust a source of information?
You are misunderstanding / misusing "universal Turing machine" ... Computers have have been universal Turing machines aka Turing complete approximately since computers were invented.

You seem to be confusing UTM with Artificial General Intelligence. Universal Turing Machine is not the term for some magic machine that can interpret and integrate any observed computation. LLMs will significantly change how we interact with computers, but the ability to emulate another turing machine has always been there (for computers and yes, LLMs with memory are turning complete). That doesn't mean AGI can be implemented efficiently or that LLMs are sufficient for AGI.
Yeah and I get that, but I just don’t think TexMex is good, and I grew up in a part of the south where people fully believed it was real Mexican food.
I spent 5 hours this weekend building an app with Chat GPT, and I am not worried about software jobs “going away”.

The language to get things exactly right has to be incredibly precise, and this won’t change.

Think about how hard it is for an engineer and a product manager to be exactly on the same page. Now do that with a computer…

Point being, engineering skills are still extremely important to validate the work, and they will continue to be (at least for anything business critical).

These are new tools and exciting times to be building things. I have never felt more capable of delivering value extremely quickly. It’s an exhilarating feeling.
Only so much as inflation is tied to that. I think it is just that the globally economy was pumped up and now things are forced to slow and free money is not available anymore. Thus things get real. And you can't hide your messes under expanding credit anymore.
what about designing the DSP/memory scsi disk that managed to do realtime ripping to PAC, then changing all that to mp3 using LAME, and the most important, creating usable metadata and finding all these CDs, and even finding ways to find a top-N song collection from dates that didn't have any relevant publications. I think you're underselling his achievement a bit ;).
I found the talk to be an epic geek journey.
accident is not the preferred term considering people intentionally drive the way we do

https://laist.com/news/car-crash-accident-traffic-violence-l...
Forensic Container Analysis
Between the request's query parameters and the query building, I added an optional SqlQueryOptimizer interface and injectable that's used for models/tables that need them. To minimize scope of writing each one, I made a sequential adapter that just tries each listed one until one applies. Each implementation first checks if the query params qualifies to use it, then makes any index hints or other query changes. Ended up doing this twice, once for ActiveRecord and once for an internal AST query builder.
No one ever considers the equally likely scenario of a technological plateau instead of singularity. Complexity/Entropy always forces things to level off. There's an plausible scenario that GPT# "replaces" all knowledge work, but cannot move anything forward. All humans become comfortable and the skills/knowledge/tools required to improve anything are lost to time as systems producing capable humans erode and we gain an overreliance on GPT# to solve every knowledge problem, but the knowledge problems that both we and GPT# care to solve plateau because were all synchronized to the same crystallized state of the world that the final GPT# model was trained on and "cares" about.

Maybe at some point maybe we only act as meat-robots which shovel coal into the machine, but a lack of redundancy in GPT# due to it's own human like blind spots means it shuts down. Humans can no longer get it running again because they can't query it properly to help fix the complicated problems. The ability to even do the tasks or design systems required to keep modern world robust to unknown future disasters or breakdowns does not and will not exist in any of the training data. If we get rid of all knowledge work, we can no longer bootstrap things back to a working state should everything go wrong.

Maybe the current instantiation of GPT#/SD etc. pollute the training data with plausible but subtly flawed software, text, images etc. halting improvement around here. Maybe the ability to evaluate if the model improved becomes more noise than signal because it gets too vague what improvement even means. RLHF will already have this problem, as 100 people will have a 100 slightly different biases about what constitutes the "best" next token.

No matter how hard it tries, I think we can say GPT will not solve NP-Hard problems magically, it will not somehow find global optima in non-linear optimizations, It will not break the laws of physics, It will not make inherently serial problems embarrassingly parallel. It will probably not be more energy efficient at attempting to solving these problems, maybe just faster at setting up systems to try solving them.

Another trap, as it becomes more human like in its reasoning and problem solving capabilities, it starts to gain the same blind spots as us too, and also gains stochastic behavior which may cause it to argue with other instances of itself. I'm not convinced an AGI innovates at an unfathomable rate or even supersedes humans in all contexts. I'm especially not convinced a world filled with AGIs that is indistinguishable from a very intelligent human or corporation or what have you through imitation does any better at anything than the 9 billion embodied AGI agents that currently populate the earth.