skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the most productive and inventive scientists and artists at the peak of Britain's power were "gentlemen", people who could live very comfortably without doing much of anything. Others were supported by wealthy patrons. In a post scarcity society, if we ever get there (instead of letting a tiny number of billionaires take all the gains and leaving the majority at subsistence levels, which is where we might end up), people will find plenty of interesting things to do.
It’s not going to stop, we’re on the rocket ship to eternal gains and prosperity now. Strap in, next stop is technological utopia !
Then you get hit with 30± minute hold times and random "accidental" hangups/disconnects
> Alas, Google has no customer service, so their developers shall be placed in the void until morale improves.

We had customer support for Google Fiber, and engineers could pair with a CSR to listen to calls whenever they wanted to. We were widely regarded as having excellent customer support, and of course, customers were calling us about our highest priority but most difficult to fix bugs.
It's not against intellectual curiosity to avoid flamebait. Based on your recommendation I wanted to give this a chance, but as it's hours of podcast without transcript that's unlikely.

"The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" seems to qualify as clickbait, it's title is intended to provoke, while reading the podcast episode summaries it seems to be well researched and interesting. I admit, I did not research it beyond the provocative title and that most other articles on the site are ideological flamebait.

It's usually not worth it. And this equally applies to publications with a left-liberal bent, like say the Washington Post. I appreciate the rec, though.
Perhaps we will be the new cats and dogs
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539517/novacene/
Not to mention Github for code.
Google is a large conglomerate (Alphabet). So a big heterogeneous federation.

If they managed this well, it'd could be much more long-lived than other corporations.

Google itself could loose steam but other companies, e.g. DeepMind, could fill in the void.

However, the founders seem not to care.
We already do; China jailed somebody for gene editing babies unethically for HIV resistance.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time, and regulate two things.
While we didn’t show a Touchpad module alternative, the Touchpad module does slide off, making alternatives technically possible. We’ll share documentation around this module as well soon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect

“In religious studies and sociology, the pizza effect is the phenomenon of elements of a nation's or people's culture being transformed or at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-exported to their culture of origin”
There was an article (I think I found it in hackernews) a while back about a study that showed 40hz having these restorative abilities.

I installed a frequency generator app on my phone after reading it. I also made a binaural tone generator tool:

https://numtel.github.io/binaural-playground/

From what I read, low frequency waves can influence awareness at different level:

1-4 Hz: Delta (Deep sleep)
4-8 Hz: Theta (Meditation/REM)
8-14 Hz: Alpha (Relaxation)
14-30 Hz: Beta (Focus/Energy)
30-100 Hz: Gamma (Maximum Awareness)
Funny, I have mentally filed him as a designated person who is consulted by media to offer opinions on tech despite having no particular claim to familiarity with said tech.
I get that, and I agree there is a lot to admire in such a culture, but how is it mutually exclusive with allowing progress in the rest of society? If you want to drop out and join the Amish, that's your prerogative. And in fact, the optimistic viewpoint of AGI is that it will make it even easier for you to do that, because there will be less work required from humans to sustain the minimum viable society, so in this (admittedly, possibly naive utopia) you'll only need to work insofar as you want to. I generally subscribe to this optimistic take, and I think instead of pushing for erecting barriers to progress in AI research, we should be pushing for increased safety nets in the form of systems like Basic Income for the people who might lose their jobs (which, if they had a choice, they probably wouldn't want to work anyway!)
The Machine Stops soon!
Sometimes changing your billing address to somewhere in California can solve this. CA has a law saying that if you can sign up for a service online, you need to be able to cancel it online immediately, and be able to do so through either a “prominently located direct link or button” on the website or a preformatted email that the consumer can send to terminate the subscription without taking any further steps.
https://ifuckinghatejira.com/
This is the single most American thing I’ve seen on this terrible website.
Now you have to make sure that the camera has line of sight to the barcode!
AI is literally the opposite of spice, though. In Dune, spice is an inherently scarce resource that you control by controlling the sole place where it is produced through natural processes. Herbert himself was very clear that it was his sci-fi metaphor for oil.

But AIs can be trained by anyone who has the data and the compute. There's plenty of data on the Net, and compute is cheap enough that we now have enthusiasts experimenting with local models capable of maintaining a coherent conversation and performing tasks running on consumer hardware. I don't think there's the danger here of anyone "controlling the universe". If anything, it's the opposite - nobody can really control any of this.
The macOS version of 1Password 8 isn’t on the App Store, presumably because of draconian pricing rules like this.
What sentiment are you talking about? Did I communicate my choice one way or another in my question?

I actually think in general private schools are better too. I have a child and I will not be sending them to public school and am considering the other options including private school, homeschool and unschooling.

And even then, I make room for others to have different opinions on this. And I'm open to my opinion being changed as well.

I asked the OP the question because I'm interested in the reasons why they think it is better. They seem to have a lot of expertise or at least experience in this domain so I thought their answer would be educational and inform my search for alternatives.

You're reading so much into a simple question that does not connote any sentiment or opinion about one way or the other. But go ahead and continue being absolutely baffled by the conclusions you leap to.
The author keeps equating code review with pull requests and gated check-ins. This is a fundamental mistake.

Code review is fine and necessary. The problem is when a coworker can veto your own work, rather than just review it and offer helpful suggestsions. Pull requests are simply an artifact of certain version control systems that have somehow become pervasive to our entire software methodology. It doesn't have to be that way.

It's not a question of trusting in perfection. Of course everyone makes mistakes. But do you trust your coworker to not be overly pedantic and opinionated, to not get in your way and block your progress? You shouldn't necessarily trust that either.
Markdown for the Component Era
Twitter: On April first, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program
it's not because of CPRA
The author is only listing those items that have costs so there might be other educational activities that the children are pursuing.

Also curious to know if open university courses are not considered to be educational for teens.
I'm glad your child is learning valuable social lessons.

If anything, I learned how to appease people to fit in and make them like me at school.

It wasn't until the last 2-3 years (I'm in my thirties now) after on a startup for the past 7 years that I started to better understand, explore and comprehend my personal psychology.

It was until these last couple years that I learned that it’s not job to fix problems between people and that often it just makes things worse.
People are hardly restricted to governments to enact this sort of harm.

Power seeks power, and power exerts power. It does so through markets, through criminal organisations, through militaries (nationally-affiliated, mercenary, or any of a continuum of hybrid forms), and more.

Liberal democratic governments are at least in name and theory accountable to the governed, and even many less democratic forms still reflect the collective will of diverse groups within their societies.

The Max Weber dictum that's so often misquoted and mis-construed doesn't hold that government has a monopoly on force, but that it has the monopoly to the legitimate claim on same.

Weber, Max (1978). Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus (eds.). Economy and Society. Berkeley: U. California Press. p. 54.

<https://archive.org/details/economysociety00webe/page/54/mod...>

Yes, limit government, and ensure that it is lawful and legitimate (as opposed to capricious and corrupt). But don't eliminate it, as then all that remains is violence used without legitimacy or restraint.
I don't hate the current reddit visual design, I hate that the site is just completely broken and unnavigable unless I use old.reddit. Maybe this update fixes that?
> some games have the most complex and information dense user interfaces

Completely different audiences and incentives. Gamers game because they want to; most people use apps because they have to, to get shit done and pay the rent. Gamers are motivated to inspect capabilities in order to get an advantage, to solve the gameplay puzzle, even just to kill time; people are motivated to get the hell out of apps as quickly as possible and go shopping.

I don't care about the capabilities of MS Word, I just want to type some stuff out. I don't care that Outlook can read RSS feeds, I just want to send an email. I skip every single onboarding wizard I can skip, because I honestly don't give a shit about 90% of "features" out there. If people cared about advanced features, we'd all be using Emacs.

> many UI problems would be solved by Apps replacing meaningless icons with actual text labels

I don't disagree in principle, but the reality is that text takes a lot of screen real estate, scales badly, and most people think text-heavy UIs just look ugly. We could definitely have better and more meaningful icons though; the "material" anti-skeuomorphing bullshit has inflicted a lot of damage on the credibility of UX practitioners, over the last decade. The 90s in comparison were a dream.
"It lacks desires and the ability to operate in opposition to its programming."

Not really true, most AI is based on optimising some goal rather than following a fixed set of rules
it would likely take the form of just in time software.
How about "Standford's Orwellian Peace Against its Own Students"?

It's literally the title of the linked article. I don't think editorializing and changing titles to placate neo-Puritans is helping anyone. If you don't like the title, contact the author and ask them to amend the title.
> when used with common sense

I think this is the reason this piece and more cautious advices ("scare mongering") are delivered. What is common sense in this case ? You seem gt have a good sense of what's innocuous volumes and not going overboard. Does your neighbor share that sense ? (is it "common" ?). Do the people 20 blocks down your house share that sense ?

I'd argue for better or worse, very few things still stay "common" at a large enough scale without repeating the message often enough.
Maybe they planned to use the davinci-003 name for it originally, but then when GPT-4 took longer to make than they expected and a new revision GPT-3 came out first, they reallocated the name to that.
They don't have to be actions toward its own goals. They just have to seem like the right things to say, where "right" is operationalized by an inscrutable neural network, and might be the results of, indeed, some science fiction it read that posited the scenario resembling the one it finds itself in.

I'm not saying that particular disaster is likely, but if lots of people give power to something that can be neither trusted nor understood, it doesn't seem good.
What is the advantage of using the ChatGPT Wolfram plugin over Wolfram directly? To me it feels like novelty rather than actually adding anything valuable. If anything, it's worse, because the data isn't quite guarenteed to always be correct. Whereas if I use Wolfram directly, I can always get a correct result.

This is missing the most important part of AGI, where understanding of the concepts the plugins provide is actually baked into the model so that it can use that understand to reason laterally. With this approach, ChatGPT is nothing more than an API client that accepts English sentences as input.
Also, it's pronounced neither "steen" nor "stayn", but "shtayn" or /ʃtaɪn/ in IPA.

(I was once hearing someone talk about privacy and how people like Tsucabuc are destroying it. I never heard about him but apparently he is one of the owners of a large social media company. Then he mentioned Facebook and I realized he was pronouncing Zuckerberg in German.)
I think it's not special. It's even expected.

I guess people think that taking that next step with LLMs shouldn't happen but we know you can't put breaks on stuff like this. Someone somewhere would add that capability eventually.
Because many private schools cater to the intellectually weak and spoiled. Why work hard when you know your grade is paid for and the teacher will never fail you? Just write your name in cursive three times for extra credit to get that A+, Timmy!
> is it always such a chaotic changing climate around it?

The old doc was like 10 years old, they just officialized the new one this week.

Create React App was the recommended way to build a React app for like forever but Facebook stopped maintaining it 2 or 3 years ago. The drop-in replacement is Vite.
I'm pretty sure they did unpowered gliding tests first. Since the shuttle was a glider, this wasn't a trivial systems test.
Lost? No. Simply check the account where the executives got their "bonuses".
Afaik, cya also lowers chlorine ability to disinfect. So it is balancing act. And since cya does not break down, one have to be careful to not overdo tablets and such. I switched to liquid chlorine for that reason
Using AcCElerate to solve goal misgeneralisation
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that's why they called the (backwards compatible) 32bit variant "CardBus", instead of PCMCIA32 or something.
You literally just proved it right
"US police" ???

Contrary to weird headline, this was Adams County Sheriff's Office, and I know that fact because the Afroman video is still on Heavy Rotation for me.
Has anyone tried handing loaded guns to a chimpanzee? Feels like under explored research
I cannot imagine a scenario where it doesn’t drop off.

The massive recent improvements in GPT’s performance are a result of giving the model enormous numbers of parameters and a wealth of training data. That’s it.

Surely this paradigm cannot scale up indefinitely. Moore’s law is moribund.

Are we going to build a supercomputer that encircles the globe just for the purpose of trying to make the biggest LLM we can?

Also, even we could scale indefinitely, there is no reason to suspect that an LLM with hundreds of quadrillions of parameters will somehow magically spontaneously become an AGI.

It’s tempting to think that the line will go up forever, but that just doesn’t square with reality.

Anyone whose response to this is something like “well, maybe all the brain is doing is just the same thing that LLMs do” is fundamentally underestimating the complexity of the human brain by many orders of magnitude.

It is the most complex system in the known universe and we do not understand it at all.

I am generally optimistic about AI, but to me it is the absolute height of delusional hubris to think that superintelligence is likely to somehow “fall out” of a language model, just as soon as we make one large enough and give it enough training data.

To come to such a conclusion reveals a failure to grasp the magnitude of the problem.
Almost every time i hear google now, i think of the book Dealers of Lightning and how there was an amazing product, but management just could not execute.
Coders are good at code. They are not good at running society, in fact they’re honestly probably worse than average
Sure, but I doubt most of the population will filter everything they read through ChatGPT to look for counter arguments. Or try to think critically at all.

The potential for mass brainwashing here is immense. Imagine a world where political ads are tailored to your personality, your individual fears and personal history. It will become economical to manipulate individuals on a massive scale
There are active home-schooling communities where kids socialize frequently, go on camps at least once a year. And catch up informally. Also socialize with other non-home-schoolers.

An issue with most criticisms of home-schooling is they are (sometimes) true, and it depends a lot on the parents.

However, parents home-schooling are often well aware of these pit-falls and compensate, do after-school sports for e.g. So common characterizations of home-schooling often highlight all the possible down-sides and overlook many of the possible up-sides.

While not being wrong exactly, it's an incomplete picture - people talking about something they have not experienced.
Stanford is an elite institution that others watch carefully. Administrators go to conferences & workshops to discuss their practices. They get promoted into positions at other universities.

Stanford is a leading indicator of campus life elsewhere.
Isn't that the premise of the Undercover Boss show?
A $10 million funded "art collective".

Yeah ...
This is an example of calling someone out for a misstatement that does not change the meaning of their message, and so was probably not necessary to make.
As a drinker, these all sound like pretty reasonable requests for an official party.

I would like to raise a question here - how many of the participants at these parties are of legal drinking age?
Chase Bank (in the US) will list who has stored your card data and whether it's for recurring payments but unfortunately don't offer the option to disable/remove them
I just found this when searching for some old links on Nerf related stuff. This is very cool! I just discovered Nerf Studio and it worked great on one of my old photogrammetry projects. I am excited to see more progress in this space!
Honestly, all this sounds such an american, middle class thing: the public X is shit, and everything is up to the individual. I am not saying public education is great where I grew up, and I can definitely imagine doing what I wanted being better in many ways (anyway this is how it turned out to be in last classes in practice more or less), what I cannot imagine is my working class parents handling that situation, esp with like 5 kids, as they worked jobs that involved being in their workplace for 8 hours per day, and they could not get away with working for 1-3 hours on a laptop here and there and wherever the kids' activities were supposed to be.

But that is also not taking into account other things, like providing intellectual stimulation/mentors in areas where the parents are not experts/educated, which sometimes is not trivial. And while schools are indeed a hit and miss in this stuff, ime private tutoring is usually not a better choice (and adds up in the bill essentially). This could be solved in different ways granted a wide and strong social circle/community, but that is probably not what all this is about in the land of individualism.
The funny thing about this, when there is a public conversation about their practices or legislative process to stop it, companies (i.e apple, uhg, john deer, Facebook, etc) will cry floods of tears, claim they'll go out of business due, people will lose their job, to the extra cost of compliance. They'd rather keep disadvantaged customers rather than compete and deliver value.

All of this while reporting record profits, trying to pr spin this, and throwing more money than lost with compliance at lobbyists who will lie and financially influence to the legislators.
> > You can't trust the AI's code!

> Yeah, but you can't trust your own code!

Those are two different types of trust. The only overlap they have is that they probably both have bugs. Maybe I'd trust AI code after some really aggressively adversarial TDD and fuzz testing enough to have a tiny bit of hope that it's going to do the right thing in most cases. But for anything non-trivial I'd be worried about a bunch of other trust issues. Just off the top of my head:

- You know all those articles with terrible advice Google is always showing at the top of their results? Welcome to a world where those are regurgitated by a well-articulated, authoritative program, resulting in a long-term maintenance nightmare.

- An LLM is far too big to review for malicious content. And if it's being used by lots of programmers you can bet a billion it'll be a prime target for bad actors.

- The interaction between my brain and my hands isn't going to be shipped off to professional manipulators.
In many parts of the US, the most accessible (i.e. not as expensive) private schools are Catholic schools, dating back to a boom of Catholic immigrants who felt (and were sometimes right) that existing schools (public and private) were anti-Catholic. There are non-religious private schools in the US, but Catholic schools are everywhere.

Modern US Catholicism has, for a range of reasons, become very politically conservative (particularly in comparison to the Catholicism elsewhere in the Americas), and because Catholic schools are generally attended by the children of practicing Catholic parents whose conservative views shape their view of schooling, these private schools reflect those political views. As a result, if you aren't Catholic, many Catholic private schools are going to look like political and religious indoctrination.
We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.

System is totally broken.
This news excites me and scares the crap out of me at the same time.
We can't regulate specific things fast enough. It takes years of political infighting (this is intentional! government and democracy are supposed to move slowly so as to break things slowly) to get even partial regulation. Meanwhile every day brings another AI feature that could irreversibly bring about the end of humanity or society or democracy or ...
> Rails is faster for building an MVP. But it's significantly worse than a project built with a typed language when it comes to extending and maintaining.

I'm not sure that the academic work on software engineering really bares this out. Th Static vs. Dynamic debate is far from settled and increasingly looks to me like a matter of preference.
Depends on where you live. That may not be enough to subsidize your time and money with a commute to get there and back... or cost savings from not needing childcare or petcare
Why cant Wolfram train a rudimentary chat model in their own search box. it doesn't even need to be very knowledgeable, just know how to map questions to mathematica
Installing it is consent.
We're arguing about generic approaches and the 37Signals folks are making specific decisions about their very specific situation (their app, their staff having time or not, their budget, etc).

To be fair, they don't seem to be saying their strategy is for everybody but the audience thinks so? I think we're talking past each other, tbh.
Damm!!! I actually thought they shut down.
I still love it, after 6 years I don't really know what problem it isn't solving and I mean 10 versions later! Also keep it to yourself but RXJS, my old hatred is now responsible for some of the best code I have ever written as far as being proud is concerned.
Rocky V?