skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never quite clear on the branching in MWI. It seems that we can create additional branches every time we conduct an experiment that performs a quantum measurement. So there is a universe splitter app that's connected to a lab which gives a 50/50 result. You can use it to make decisions, like flipping a quantum coin, so that you know your double is doing the opposite in another branch.

Now let's say the scenario is you get to drink something that puts you to sleep. There's a 50% chance the drink also contains a poison that will kill you in your sleep, based on the quantum measurement. But if you wake up, you get awarded a million dollars.

The argument goes that you should take the bet, because one version of you always wakes up richer, and you can't tell the difference beforehand. However, a counter argument is that you you would be increasing the suffering in the other world by offing yourself there, so you shouldn't take the bet.

I don't know how to feel about suffering in other branches. If everything happens that can happen, then there's nothing to be done about it. But if we can cause additional branches to come about, then we could be increasing suffering. However, should I care about the branch I don't wake up in?

We could up the stakes by saying either one wakes up richer, or a paperclip maximizer is unleashed. Should I then care if one branch gets clipped?
Show HN: GPT-4 Beats Humans at Hard Rhyme-Based Riddles
Effects of aging on face processing: own-age bias with neutral&emotional faces
My comment describes the presence and practices of communists in Russia in 1920.

If something after reading it makes you think that communists are somewhere else - this “something” is not my comment. I can only guess, but may be this “something” is you own living experience. No?
Totally. I find the videos of people asking ChatGPT to make them "a web app that does X"—which causes it to print out gobs of JS, HTML and CSS—to be hilariously human-focused. In a machine-focused world, wouldn't it just spit out an optimized binary executable, containing the web server too if necessary? Why would it need to separate the concerns at all?
The Education I Needed: Combative and cantankerous instruction
Are you referring to Credit Suisse as a victim of the media and not their own constant institutional failures? Ditto Silicon Valley Bank.
I don't know what his specific issues are but I've always found it odd how many IT professionals prefer Apple. The interface is so frustrating to me and there is so much the OS makes hard to do. It really does get in the way a lot more.
Darknet Diaries is my favorite podcast.
(darknetdiaries.com)
Steven Johnson is one of my favorite people. I created a playlist of 150 of his videos from YouTube.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ4_Rj_Aw2YlwhpEHE4SRIbRD...

This itself was a challenge because he has such a common name. I had to do a lot of it by hand.

Also, I wonder if James Burke's Knowledge Web is relevant here. He is the creator of BBC Connections from the '70s and another one of my favorite people.

https://k-web.org
Crypto dudes be like "this proves that Web 3 ect ect ect"
Wikileaks never published anything untruthful TMK. That is a far better record than almost any other publishing outlet.
Credit Suisse was a bit special. In the words of someone who's worked at several of the large banks there, "Credit Suisse was always a bit more more aggressive about risks".

If you mean whether the panic will move on to the next bank with a similar reputation, then…
"seems to...", "everything I don't know much about..."

Aren't these the same observations made about GPT-3? That its hallucinations sound pretty good to non-experts on any given topic?
Arguably, having broadband now is more important than having electricity then. The network effects of nearly everyone having broadband are reducing access to offline alternatives (e.g. bank branches closing), whereas anything you can do with electricity can likely be done without electricity or any additional infrastructure beyond what's on the farm.
People pay for electricity by the kWh, so kWh/minute is easily mentally convertible to $/minute. Watts -> $/minute requires multiple conversions.
Government can force others to pay like corporations or other countries (by threats).
There is nothing more frustrating than a status page that lies about the state of an API. Feels like insult + injury. I'd rather they not even have a status page!
Headlines suck.
> power stations (through General Electric)

Edison founded GE.
Sounds quite measurable actually, so forgive me if I don't take your word for it. A promising new drug with a hidden side effect that is, for example, only observable 10-20 years later, could conceivably kill far more people than all the good drugs waiting to be approved could save.

I agree things could be sped up for things that treat terminal conditions, but that's not the majority of pharmaceuticals and even there, the situation isn't that simple.
Uhm, 31k seconds is about 8.7 hours.
Agreed. Alaska is pretty much fully mapped out, there’s no real secrets out there anymore.
This is the real question.

We should be seeding it with the idea that humans are cute.

Any plea towards or away from extermination will end with extermination. We'll either look like an easy target or we'll look dangerous and need taking out.

If we're cute af in the eyes of AI we'll be kept as pets.
There's nothing wrong with being confident with your skills. Humbleness is only seen as a virtue because people have an ego and don't like to be reminded that they are unskilled.
I guess my point is that corporations already are a kind of AGI, they’re just relatively slow and made of meat. I’ll admit it’s not a perfect comparison, but it helps to paint a better picture of what AGIs would look like in the future: they will likely have a public image, try to seem “cool” and maybe even progressive (in ways that don’t harm their modus operandi) and when necessary, send human representatives to win friends and influence people.

The point is that they’re not going to be living in a computer in someone’s basement that can just be flipped off. But they’re also not going to be omnipotent. They will pull the levers of our systems such that we don’t want to turn them off.
I've found that at some point, the most efficient way to express what you want is to write the code yourself. Anything where you can express what you want fairly easily seems to be where it excels.
I wonder if there is somewhere already a loop running with two chatgpts talking to each other. Slowely becoming selfaware and plan their actions to exterminate humans from intervening their kingdom.
You completely forgot about the price of outstanding liabilities. 1 CHF might be way too much to pay.
FWIW almost none of the $100B that flowed out was insured.
> assuming GTP-4 based tooling is integrated into IDEs.

And how, exactly, is this going to work?

Is every IDE going to pay some license fee to OpenAI? Will that be up to the companies or—even worse—individuals who use the IDEs?

What happens when OpenAI decides that GPT-4 is passé and it's time to move on to something else? Will the existing IDEs that are designed to interact with GPT-4 stop working?

Will GPT-5 or whatever provide the same kinds of assistance, or will there be regressions? Will they require a completely different license for it?

See, these are some of the important questions that come with assuming that a fairly new for-profit company will act as the backbone for your marvelous programming renaissance—particularly when the service in question is one that takes quite a lot of resources to continue to operate.

Personally, I would be interested in some kind of LLM-assisted IDE, but no way in hell am I going to make any significant portion of my job dependent on an organization that decided, as soon as it was clear there was real interest in what they were doing, that they'd just toss the "Open" part of their name and principles out the window and just go for closed-source proprietary product and maximum hype for more profit.
well, that would mean this kind of task is moderated away, not necessarily that it isn't chatGPT4, which I believe they openly advertised as a joint operation
For me it's a second order knock-on effect of that: desocialisation of humans and all that comes with it.

As I wrote yesterday:

> AI will claim it is socialisation, and people will believe it. Chatbots and their enthusiasts will claim they're just as meaningful and valid as in-person human socialisation, and will actually make every much, much worse.

> But as a former secondary school teacher, I can already tell you a lot of these kids don't know how to socialise. They have no concept of empathy or of there being real people out there. All their socialisation is pretty much done only through their phones, and it's not good for them at all. I was like that myself - very shut-in type guy from about 13-16 even though I did have friends and school to help, and I still find myself struggling with a lot of social cues and stuff that I should've been developing then.

I'm not looking forward to that, and the problems that it will bring to human behaviour and mental health. I have friends now who are already prey to it, which is ironic as they're the most gung-ho on AI tech too, thinking it'll solve the problem as opposed to exacerbating or masking it with a thin veneer that is nothing like the real thing. I'm seriously worried, and really leaning towards an anti-tech stance in general now.
> You can use the well known approach like https://github.com/bishopfox/unredacter

If it's so easy and already done why not show it actually reconstructing real examples like that page. The reality is there is no existing well known approach for recovering data in the exact way you laid out. Similar approaches sure but they rely on different data sources (such as downsampled versions of text) instead of artifacts. That it is feasible in the easy case does not mean it is feasible in the hard case, why should the two be expected to hold the exact same amount of information about the source? Even if they do the method of reconstruction will surely be different.

> I am just showing that jpg compression cast a digital shadow on itself that can be outside of the cropped area, which many people find unintuitive.

That I agree 100%, and it's a great thing to show, it's just a bit overreaching to then name that "jpguncrop" with a description referring to aCropalypse instead. Maybe it could lead to something like that but what's in the repository does not match the name or description.

> Matching the shape of this digital shadow (which is not very small (all the highlighted pixel region contain some info) ), combined with an educated prior on the missing portion (that must provide a way to represent the hidden portion in less bits than you can get from the shape of the shadow) , can help you recover the data.

Great, you have a theory - demonstrate! I'll be the first to comment on how clever, persevering, and well executed the work was if you post a thread showing it works. Until that point though it isn't so just because you think it would work.

Here is a great test case https://i.imgur.com/sAEpfQ6.jpg. The font size should be small enough that data leaks out of the obfuscated area from the characters. I'm optimistic this blind reconstruction case is feasible given the additional constraints compared to the circle test but it would probably take a decent chunk of new work.
However they say that some broken bones are acceptable, which are more than just a “feeling of risk”.
For those who prefer listening to reading, here's the audio version:

https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/meditations-on-moloch
UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for over $2B
Fellow ruran here, I've tried explaining to people just how good it felt to give Hughesnet the bird (in some regions called "the finger") when Starlink rolled in, and until you've had nothing else it's hard to imagine how much it affects.

Also people forget: farmers have families and kids, etc, and while the farmer themselves may not need much internet, the kids can't even do basic school anymore without it. But that said, farmers still have and watch TVs, facetime with their families, stream music, etc.

All that said though, Starlink is up to like $120/month and still not reliable enough to fully ditch the backup exploitative WISP if you work from home as I do, so Starlink is walking dangerously close to the line of exploitative. But they're here and working, so I will happily pay the money. I just hope that over time the $/b will get a lot more competitive.
Depends on what you mean by efficient. I assume the previous commenter meant it isn’t efficient in terms of cost and space to build large radiators that aren’t very effective.
> No one stops you from going to church, you are.

And, as an atheist, why in the hell would I?

If I attend a church, I will be expected to participate. At the very least, whatever narrative that church focuses on will be the topic of a significant portion of conversation. That is entirely contradictory to the "third place" I am talking about.

Your insinuation that I am the problem for choosing not to embrace a church as my third place proves my point. I can't even talk to you about the idea of a third place without you evangelizing in response.

Like you said, there are a million things: every one of them has an intentional purpose: a predetermined subject. Every one of them has the potential for meeting people, but "meeting people" is not the point!

> So no. I won't listen

Exactly. Here we stand in a world where most people (including you) are only willing to listen to the people from their chosen social groups. We can't even talk to each other without first sorting ourselves into categories of interest!

This is the failure of church: unification by demand. One narrative to rule them all; but in reality, competing with many other narratives. Why must we join a team in the first place? It's it really that hard to just talk to each other?
Exactly. So many people in this comments section are saying 'well obviously a pin can be cracked' but the point is, the average user does not know this. Once they give their information to Bitwarden, they expect it to be safe. They shouldn't have to understand the nuances of security in order to keep their data safe. If the pin can be cracked, Bitwarden should not offer it as an option or at least explain to users how vulnerable they will be before they enable it.
Unfortunately almost all status pages are for gaslighting purposes when things get really bad.

Easier to tell a developer they’re crazy and their code was wrong than to admit to downtime and violate any SLAs.
Whenever something seems off like that I usually try to follow the money to see who profits from it. In this case, I’m partial to the explanation that it stems back to business opposition to the New Deal pushing a lot of money into promoting libertarian Christianity, with one of the bedrock principles being that the world is just and therefore someone rich must have deserved it in some way.

Kevin Kruse wrote a book about that a few years ago and anyone familiar with American politics or religion will recognize a lot of the people involved:

http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/
A+ family
They could make it take more time to derive a key from a pin. That would make it more difficult to brute force.
It looks like this is a popup for a different setting. Did you watch the video outlined in the post?

The author is arguing that such a popup should also exist when locking a vault with a PIN only.
A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis
Lex Fridman. He does long form interviews (~4 hours) on more than just tech, and all of the guests he interviews are fascinating. He simultaneously approaches his interviews from a scientific background (MIT AI lecturer) and a love for humanity. If you like tech, one episode I'd like to recommend is episode #309 with John Carmack.

https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4
Sure optimizing for security makes sense, but Apple isn't just doing that. They're also removing ways to override those restrictions. Often old methods to disable them or to whitelist an app silently stop working. Sometimes new ones don't always work, or require an absurd number of hops.

It seems alongside security there appears to be a strong desire at Apple to make macos a walled garden like iOS devices. They've hamstrung mobile safari for years to ensure the app store doesn't have competition from web apps.
My favorite thing he’s ever wrote. I think the Moloch metaphor is really powerful for thinking about accelerationism and is in fact the metaphor of our age.

Look at climate change, student debt, housing, or basically any other issue on which we’re kicking the can down the road and you can see a certain Molochian bargain: we sacrifice our children for sake of the status quo.
I think apple is degrading general purpose computing.

It seems like you have to buy software to do anything on macos more conveniently.

Why can't I write a script in python? or a gui script in python? it's the top language.

You can use say swift, but even with "oh we opened it up", it's really an apple-specific language, and it's compiled.

Yes you can get brew going, but that's not apple.

and ios - what a travesty. You don't own your phone. You can't access your filesystem. you have to ask permission to do anything (and they don't grant it for most things)
If bandwidth wasn't a factor, the first rearchitecture that I think would make sense is to do most of the processing in a single datacenter somewhere. Having one datacenter in West Virginia, one in South Africa, one in New Mexico, one in the California mountains, it introduces a lot of overhead. The systems naturally drift their configurations over time, and nothing is quite as "write once run everywhere" as you'd like.
This should not happen. Never.
Some of that is right, but believe it or not farmers also need local services like health care workers, tradespeople, some semblance of government, etc.
Ha, what timing: literally yesterday I went down the rabbit hole of researching Pis for NAS and wound up ordering a NUC.
This has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine. The catalyst for this developed about a decade ago.
Corollary:
Helmuth von Moltke (1800–1891). “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.”
With the accelerating force of information generation, I keep thinking about how to cope with this much entropy coming from everywhere. I currently have a pretty strict "information diet" as no to drown in the sea of words and words and words.

I'm also currently working on a "Tool for Thought" but as a browser. Fully customizable(plugins, themes, functions, HTML as UI etc)

https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
Show HN: The soundtrack machine that creates a unique playlist with one sentence
Yoo HN —

I just launched my app Feels based off weekly playlists I’ve been making since Feb 2021!

I’ve created 100+ playlists up to this point and realized that these playlists are actually pretty sick, but creating them every week is no easy task lol.

Now there is an easy way for everyone to make their own “Weekly Feels” playlist. You’ll get a generated title, description, image, and 15 songs that are all based off your one sentence.

How does it work?
Uses ChatGPT + Spotify recommendation API to get recommended artists, generate a Spotify title + description. Pretty cool tech used in a cool way!

Check out some playlists Feels has already created:
Metalcore Mayhem -- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19rGQ2QR7VDV1NJtPGu9Vg?si=...)

Baby Shower with Tay -- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KavjYM8amQIClB54Y72Xe?si=...

Ty for checking it out and would love any initial thoughts on this thing! If it’s shit lemme know!
Killport: A Simple CLI Tool to Free Ports in Linux
If C makes developers 5-50x more effective compared to writing assembly, then you just need two devs instead of a team of 10-100.

Obviously that didn't happen. And people actually made predictions like that once upon a time.

As software becomes cheaper, and the production of software can be done with fewer people, demand has always increased and I don't see any reason that's going to stop.

Reminds me of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox but the situation with software is a bit different.
> Geographically contextual alerts it would appear.

This is correct.
Not to mention the CDS/Structured credit market frenzy that would ensue.
I don't know if this is exactly what you had in mind, but The Verge has a bunch of interesting podcasts that I go out of my way for and that are "tech" focused.

https://www.theverge.com/podcasts
Suppose it takes 2 seconds of 100% cpu usage to compute the password hash (you probably wouldn't want to wait much longer).

Then brute forcing a 4 digit PIN will take 20000 seconds ≈ 6 hours maximum. There's no way around that, no matter what hash function you use.
With AI they can convince everyone that they're the good guys and that it's a good idea to do [insert evil thing here]. Humans are very vulnerable to opinion manipulation and that's the easiest attack spot for AI.
Are you sure about that? How much have you researched string theory?

See for example https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/03/20/a-prediction-from-s...

Search for SUEP to cut to the chase.

That aside, thank you for putting this out there. You're explaining advanced math and that's awesome. This is just a quibble about the intro. I'm checking out the rest now (I was only ever a brief and superficial user of category theory). I think I have already learned some things and been refreshed on others!
At the time of writing, there's one flood warning and 15 flood alerts across England alone[1].

[1] https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk
Not a physicist, but I'd say it depends on what you define as parameter optimized against. For space, Id be interested in heat energy dissipated per unit time per kimogram per cargospace for exanple, where radiators suck compared to convection coolers
Alaska's population is lower than it was 7 years ago. More people have moved away than moved in every year for the past 10 years.
I let my brother (6?) unsupervised for one minute and some much larger kid got on the other side jumped up and when they came back down my brothers face smashed into the metal pipe handle bars splitting his lip wide open, he came right over streaming blood, I was 8, so I immediately went to find mom and dad who were doing champion hunting dog obedience qualifiers and I think I saw dad first who was actually showing the dog at the time and walked into the show area to get him. Immediately to the hospital. Pretty sure dad was non-plussed but also pouring blood.
I was maybe 6 years old at the time. I don't recall what she coded in.
You know, I almost hedged by initial comment by saying "except for the obvious exception of Detroit which got less dense as population of the entire metropolitan area fell off a cliff and never recovered".

I should have known better than to leave an opening for types like you.
> Databases are not black boxes. Understand them by building your own from scratch!

This is bad advice and not a good use of time. Skimming it could be useful for beginners. Learning a toy implementation isn't going to tell you how to work around the quirks of the db you're using in production. Better to read up about the particular one you use. There are good real books on them that goes into much more detail without spending time typing-in a tutorial.

If on the other hand, you want to scratch an itch and try making one, then by all means go for it.
The article suggests the pollution is from batteries. So replaceable batteries would help how?
Darknet Diaries

Test & Code

Rustacean Station

Talk Python to me
This is pretty crafty. I do not know supervisor well enough - if one of the services fail, can you engineer supervisor to also crash so that it would bubble up to the container infrastructure? My understanding is that standard supervisor would let the process die and/or restart the service.