skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's easy to criticize process, but many of the rules were written in blood with the best of intentions.

Respectfully, we already know this part. It's at the top of every single thread like this.

The more important questions are:

* Are all of these rules still necessary?

* Are any of these rules more obstructive than beneficial?

* Could any of these rules be refactored for a better benefit to obstruction ratio?

The problem will not be solved as long as every time it's discussed, it becomes a "should we have any rules or no rules at all" discussion. We know the vast majority were put in place because something prompted them. What's less discussed is how to fix it, or at least stop making it worse.
I think I just found a reason to use Twitter. This might be the best Twitter account I've ever seen lmao.
I don't know when they decided to do that transition but back when I tried rancher a few years ago (when they were transitionning from rancher 1.x to 2.x) it was a real bug festival. I think the only robust solution at the time was openshift which was well, k8s without being vanilla k8s.

Also most tools that were build to manage k8s cluster were nice to deploy a new cluster, not so much to upgrade a cluster so you would have to create new clusters every time you wanted an upgrade. It can scale when clusters and blast radius is small but can be complicated when it involves contributions from n teams.
For this reason when we were managing our own k8s cluster on prem, we were using kubespray which worked but upgrades were a multiple hours affair.
I am tempted to argue that this has been in the process of happening ever since the first episode of Red versus Blue back in the early (mid or late?) 2000s
I cannot speak for videogames, but I have a family member who was in the movie industry doing CG stuff, and it is already heavily outsourced to other countries than the U.S., particularly Canada, India, and Australia. I’ve been told that the movie industry is essentially dead in the U.S., besides having rights holders/production managers/etc.
Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
In all managed services all of that comes out of the box.

Ingress, lb, storage, network...

And I have my small setup running with all of it too. Took me a weekend to set it up.

Rke2, nginx ingress, classic lb in front, cert manager and everything else in argocd.
> In a sense, yes. HTML and CSS (with JS?) are the best UI creation combo anyone could ever design, because so much effort has gone into making websites look nice over the decades

Even with all that effort it has just recently surpassed the era of WinForms. How much effort is it to customize a date picker in web tech? Layouting was completely broken for decades, only now is it semi-okay. WebComponents are also a recentish development, but they are absolutely essential.

Also, how come WYSIWYG editors are not common?! They were everywhere.
I have written https://taoofmac.com for the last 20 years, and have spent the last year progressively using GNOME and Fedora more and more.

I use the WhiteSur GTK theme (https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme) so that I don't have to decipher the nuances of the standard GNOME iconography (some of it is... well, not as pretty, and definitely not as intuitive).

I love this setup, but if GNOME decides to keep breaking user themes, I will have to look elsewhere (most likely a different Fedora spin, although definitely not KDE).
First, I specifically said (emphasis added):

> There are people in that community -- people not working for a for-profit company -- who would, if they could, stop all AI research of any kind until we have rock-solid techniques to prevent an AI apocalypse. Most of those individuals have absolutely nothing commercial to gain from stopping AI research.

Dalewyn's response implicitly said that even these people have a financial incentive behind their arguments. At which point, I'm at a loss as to what to say: If you think such people are still only motivated by financial gain -- and that it's so obvious that you don't even need to bother providing any evidence -- what can I possibly say to convince you otherwise?

Maybe he missed the bit about "people not working for a for-profit company".

But to answer your question:

The question here is, given OpenAI's decisions wrt GPT-4 (namely not even sharing details about the architecture and size), what is the probability that it's primarily for the purpose of impairing competitors to extract rent?

With no additional information whatsoever, if OpenAI were a for-profit company, and if there were no alternate explanation, I'd say the rent explanation is pretty likely.

But then, it's a non-profit, which has shared a lot of data about its data in the past. That lowers the probability somewhat. Still, with no alternative explanation, the probability remains fairly high.

But, of course we have an alternate explanation: within the AI community, there is a significant set of voices telling them they're going to destroy the human race. So now we have two significant possibilities:

1. OpenAI are driven primarily by a desire to decrease competition to extract more rent

2. OpenAI's researchers, affected by people in their community who are warning of an AI apocalypse, are driven primarily by a desire to avoid that apocalypse.

I'd say without other information, both are about equally likely. We have to look for things in their behavior which are more compatible with one than another.

And behold, we have one: They withheld even mentioning GPT-4 for eight months. This lowered their profitability, which they wouldn't have done if they were primarily trying to extract rent.

So, I'd put the probabilities at 70% "mostly trying to avoid an AI apocalypse", 25% "mostly trying to make more money", 5% something I haven't thought of.

What would make #1 more probable in my mind? Well, the opposite: doing things which clearly extract more rent and also increase the risk of an AI apocalypse (by the standards of that community).

As you can see, I'm already convinced that profit is the default motive. What would convince me that in every industry, profit was the only possible motive? I mean, you'd have to somehow provide evidence that every single instance I've seen of people putting something else ahead of profit was illusory. Not impossible, but a pretty big task.

Hope that makes sense. :-)
Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month
But even if the first AGI does end up perfectly simulating a human (which seems somewhat unlikely), a human given the ability to think really fast and direct access to huge amounts of data without being slowed down by actually using their eyes to read and hands to type would still be dangerously powerful
https://archive.is/iqBHP
I also tried this out and the balloon example as well.

User: Barbara, Mary, and Harry had red balloons. Ted had a blue balloon. Sam also had a red balloon. How many children have red balloons?

ChatGPT (GPT-4): Barbara, Mary, Harry, and Sam each had a red balloon. That means there are 4 children with red balloons.

User: What about Ted?

ChatGPT (GPT-4): Ted had a blue balloon, not a red one. So, he is not counted among the children with red balloons. Therefore, the total number of children with red balloons remains 4.

User: Why do you think I asked my original question?

ChatGPT (GPT-4): It seems that you asked your original question to test my ability to understand and process information provided in a text. You wanted to see if I could correctly identify and count the number of children with red balloons based on the details given.

User: Can you explain what mistakes a simpler model may have made on this question?

ChatGPT (GPT-4): A simpler language model may have made the following mistakes when answering your original question: ...

I like trying these sort of puzzles and "gotcha" prompts and I've found GPT-3.5 and lower versions are indeed not hard to confuse, but it's much harder to find simple examples that confuse GPT-4. Often times GPT-4 will even be able to explain the puzzle and why it's interesting. I think this is part of why GPT-4 feels qualitatively different. I understand (roughly) how transformers work, but GPT-4 does seem to have some emergent ability to reason, at least in the sense of making short chains of logical inferences, and this does seem to inform text completions not just on these sort of puzzles. That said I do think there's real danger of overconfidence and over reliance.
The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb (2022)
Thanks! Looks like good work. I hope this idea continues to get traction:

> In some sense, we’re already living in a world of misaligned optimizers

I understand this is an academic paper given to nuance and understatement, but for any drive-by readers, this is true in an extremely literal sense, with very real consequences.
I'm excited to fresh install F38 Beta if only to provide the counterexample to this "transition is painless" statement.

Every startup, I need to "killall gnome-control-center" because it loads and hangs. (I also can't access "About" and a backtrace basically tells me I'm in a glib application.)

The default file manager gets wonky scrolling up with an MX Master 3. I replaced it with something else but now double clicking a zip file will open the terminal to my home directory.

Some apps (GTK or otherwise) need workarounds or "downgrading" to X11 because of using a 30-bit monitor: Room EQ Wizard, anything based on JetBrains, OpenSCAD, GIMP. That was a lie, Room EQ Wizard doesn't work at all after installation. No workaround to be found.

Anything related to codecs or graphics has been a headache---whether aptX, H.265, VP9, WebGL, ...

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If these problems could simply go away, I'd be a much more productive coder.
They give your boss a glossy report, which supports your boss doing whatever they planned on doing anyway
If people just wanted crypto for its utility they wouldn't give their money to exchanges in the first place. But they take that risk for sparkly returns.

Too many people want to have their cake and eat it too:

- Crypto separate from banking system but still regulated in the same way anyway

- Crypto as currency but still want juicy returns

- Crypto is decentralised but give their coins to centralised exchanges
I wish we would be more explicit here. What political beliefs are they being de-platformed for? Is it the lower taxes? Deregulation? Immigration policy? Which specific political belief is getting them kicked off of platforms?
ltt forum was down for 15 minutes due to everyone swarming the forum
That, or rename themselves to ClosedAI.
It’s either that, or they’re secretly incompetent and can’t compete with openai. They are behind
This lets you send from an established domain that google trusts.
Misleading title. "Crypto" is as much a factor as "sex work", and "sex work" (like "crypto") is not clearly described -- there are both legal and illegal forms.

Also no comment on the fraud/chargeback rate in Spank's transaction flow.
https://archive.is/4gwGh
here is a writeup:

https://www.slideshare.net/sebrose/rekursiv
So, what do you expect to happen? Cryptocurrency companies should just be allowed to run around doing whatever the hell they like until Congress, which is clearly dysfunctional ever since the Republican Party made it their mission to prevent the Democratic Party from doing anything ever again, manages to get some kind of regulation out? And how long do you expect that to take?

The only real alternative seems to be "no one is allowed to do anything with cryptocurrency until there are clear regulations around it."

I know which one of these I would prefer, given only these choices, and it's definitely not the one that enables massive fraud and grifting.
"How did this make it into production" is what I've felt every time I've had to use metro apps since Windows 8 was released.
or it could be the same sim swap story all over again
This quote is taken out of context and is perhaps not a charitable meaning of what the author means. Here's the whole paragraph:

> Lanier doesn’t even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that it is actually intelligent, and that we could be in competition with it. “This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities.” He says comparing ourselves with AI is the equivalent of comparing ourselves with a car. “It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”

The author, Jaren Lanier, is a reasonably accomplished technologist, with some pretty groundbreaking work on VR in the 80s. He is most certainly aware that humans have been surpassed by computers in many ways. I think that line is arguing semantics about the word "intelligence" and clearly he knows that computers do many things far better than humans.
Kubernetes is a poster child on open source and transparent development.

And it pushed the needle tremendously.

I'm lost on how you can compare this even.
My favorite Accenture story is when they charged Hertz $32 million for a website that never went live. Wonder if they will perform better with a smaller headcount.

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/10/case-study-hertz-acce...?
Ah darn, wish they'd blogged about this a month ago. We just built the same thing https://www.flipt.io/blog/generating-the-flipt-go-sdk.
What's not clear based on the article alone is the employee location of these cuts. Accenture is very big on using non-US labor for just about everything they possible can for (my assumption) lower cost of labor. If these cuts are coming to higher-cost-of-labor countries then it would be wise to look closer if they can to shift these jobs to India/similar (which is again is playing into their human capital model).

source: former Accenture employee
> When Boston Robotics gets a robotic runner that sprints faster than a human, then what?

It enters the Olympics and automates away all sprinters? Or it becomes self-aware and decides to eat all the humans?

Or more likely, it gets sold to the military so they can have one more kind of drone that runs on land instead of flies through the air.
If AI generated CSAM is poisoned by actual CSAM in the process, wouldn't that extend to AI generated art being poisoned by copyrighted work in the process?
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Scientists Solve the Mystery Behind the Oumuamua 'Alien Spacecraft' Comet
Google employees should ask Bard how to fix the stifling bureaucracy at Google.

Then they should ask it how Google can effectively build a technology whose success will inevitably kill their company’s main source of profits. (Search)
No, I've switched most of my knowledge keeping to Obsidian (including plain old copying and pasting links into a list). I sacrifice some fidelity to gain centralization, and it's all version controlled on GitHub, so I can edit it from any browser.
Not sure if it matters to you, but I believe SpankPay was created for digital sex-work payments.

I know this a touchy subject, but I think their hearts were in the right place back in 2018 when we met.

Please let me know if there have been any allegations since then and I'll amend my previous comment.
Finally, the gameplay of a Michael Bay movie combined with the story of Super Mario
The Flywheel Effect
That an AI will have some kind of output is obvious, it doesn’t mean that you can predict what that output will be. It’s like saying that you have solved physics by saying “something will happen”
Traditionally, legally, when a private businesses monopolizes and aspect of life, they take on some obligations of government, like "town squares" inside shopping malls.
There is the widest variety of deep cultural experiences, events, and food next door to you than anywhere else in the world. You never have a reason to drive, but are still in the US; no traffic jam, instead reading hacker news on a relaxing subway ride or walk into work. Retail businesses are no bullshit fast and efficient. Every type of job opportunity surrounds you. It's the safest comparable city in the US.
Auditing and compliance, IT services, software development, cyber security, supply change.. They are a jack of all trades, master of none.
We May be Surprised Again: Why I take LLMs seriously
> because they like odd spelling like that

The founders parents fled from Austria during Nazi times. In Austria we speak German. The English word "recursive" is "rekursiv" in German.
Agreed, games like God of War, and the sequel Ragnarok cemented this for me.
10 years is a long time. What is that pen?
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. - Stalin.
Can you elaborate a bit more on why are you preferring standalone commands instead of going all-ansible?
I was considering switch to ansible module for myself but I'm hesitating, I feel like this could produce quite complex, intricate setup since docker compose itself has many specific stuff like .env files, .env.local files, docker-compose.yml environment specific override files, environment variables and many more so I have mixed feelings when thoughts about intertwining it with ansible arrives.
EPA’s PFBS Toxicity Assessment Did Not Uphold Commitment to Scientific Integrity
Well there's a headline ive been reading since the 90s.

What seems to have changed is that the stories were presented back then as a way for video game makers to tap into larger audiences, and to benefit from being in the good graces of the film industry. These days it seems to be a story about a Hollywood past its prime seeking to maintain relevance by partnering with game studios.
I suspect that gp meant that, for a lot of things, regulation is ineffective and costly.
Does it support multiindex columns?
Hollywood movies have become open propaganda as a platform for beat you over the head messaging. They want the broad audience but they chase them away at the same time when they see the films. It makes people cynical and reduces interest over time.
> This is a great example of why electronic voting is important and can help secure democracy.

If those in power are against change, I wouldn't want to have to put my trust in electronic voting if I was hoping for change.

I was left with the impression that it is the paper records in this story that led to the unravelling of an attempt to forge the results.

Long live paper ballots.
You can argue that it's the RISC approach, to some extent.
To be fair, he brings up an interesting analogy. From the article right after he says this, he follows with

> It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.

He has a point and I believe his point is that it's a different type of intelligence. His view is more nuanced than how you are trying to frame it.
I understand where you're coming from, but I didn't mean it quite that literally. More like, in the same way that compilers fundamentally changed how we program by adding a layer of (deterministic) abstraction, natural language assisted by AI could add a new (non-deterministic) layer of abstraction to programming.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

And the release notes are on https://release.gnome.org/44/
Usually those aren't the same engineers that manage the racked stuff in a datacenter and those that deploy the appps.

Last time I was working on prem, we would just buy a new 2U hypervisor server once in a while. Apps were all running on VMs anyway so the complexity was not seen by the same people. Storage were a multiple years deal. The biggest issue was storage estimation and paying from day 1 a storage that would be used fully only on year 5. But I don't think it was that expensive, just an accountability gymnastic comparing to a pay as you go system. And hyperconvergence was kind of meant to solve that although I didn't really had the chance to experiment with it in virtualized environments on prem.
> Docker is covering up the fact that we don't write deployable software any more.

We do. It's just software now is a container image, and Docker is a development tool like Make.
The PTO my french teams have is incredible. The taxes they have to pay (about 50%) is horrendous.
I think it's fair to say that it's considerably more complex than a single (or say 2-3) linux VMs. I can see that managed kubernetes would make things simpler. But managed kubernetes is also just as expensive as other managed solutions (more expensive for small projects).
> By spot checking just a random 100 votes are correctly tallied

How do you do that? I think the only error you could detect is when the tally has fewer votes for a party than what’s in that sample. If so, a fraudster could report 100 votes for every party, and add the remaining to whatever party they want to win.
Aren’t really large batteries still a fire hazard. I remember when they even became issues for Boeing Dreamliner planes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Boeing_787_Dreamliner_g...
Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
...and then the people who were pissed at Facebook and Twitter went off and made their own Facebook and Twitter because making a website has very little in the way of barriers to entry.

Financial services is a very different arena.
David Hundeyin is a deceitful, lying criminal, so don't bring his "Content" as any kind of evidence.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/controversy-as-oxford-terminates...
Agreed. Alternately renaming it to something like "Overview" or "Home" might better match new user expectations about what will happen when it is clicked.
> Could they please implement an option to view the raw HTTP request in the alert window,

This would be very, very hard to do well. First, for anything that doesn’t use standard libraries for TLS it’s simply not possible. And for things that do, you’re putting this software in a phenomenally trusted position. And then actually maintaining and using a deny/allow list based on something more granular than host:port will be so high that it’s a 0.1% of users type feature.

Negative RoI
Yeah, Elm solves all of those problems through its purity-enforcing compiler. It's a shame so few people know about it.
The US design was a bit more than that. It was designed, first, so that the entire system had strictly limited power. Second, it was designed so that within the system, there was nobody who had power that someone else could not block. It was very much not a "dictator" design.

For example, the President could appoint the cabinet and judges, but the Senate has to approve them. The president could negotiate treaties, but the Senate has to approve them. The president could veto a bill, but Congress can override it. And so on, and so on. That's not a dictator.

The president has been moving closer and closer to a dictator, though, because Congress has become more and more useless. They have become so tied up in political trench warfare that they can't actually govern. They often can't even pass a budget, which is their most basic job. So the president rules more and more by executive order, which is very much not the way the system was supposed to work.
It's not that it's smarter, it's that it's faster. If I have to choose between a larger quantity of code or higher quality of code while keeping the time constant, then I'd prefer the former.
This virtually never happen with the cloud.
> One more thing, it feels like open source systems and UIs are developing at a glacial pace these days, either the tools used to develop open source software are sub-par or maybe there is a lack of people working on it and effort put into it. So glacial that in the age of AI, a grid view is somehow a notable feature. There seems to be less to be excited about these days and I have given up expecting great things.

The glacial pace of the whole Wayland vs. X11 situation has nearly put me off desktop Linux completely in the last few years.
Can you give some context why do you thing that a company that sell aluminium foil and storage bags is fundamentally bad ?