skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I could provide another reason of “why I don’t want to give my phone up”, which is “fuck that noise”.

I don’t view the perpetual connectivity as a bad thing; I like being able to actively look stuff up immediately, I like being able to do something when my conversation partner inevitably has to use the bathroom, and I think the “phone bad” mantra is reductive nonsense.
> What principle do you have for defining self-improvement the way that you do? Do you regard all software updates as "not real improvement"?

Software updates can't cause your computer to "exponentially self-improve" which is the AGI scenario. And giving the AI new software tools doesn't seem like an advantage because that's something humans could also use rather than an improvement to the AI "itself".

That leaves whatever the AGI equivalent of brain surgery or new bodies is, but then, how does it know the replacement is "improvement" or would even still be "them"?

Basically: https://twitter.com/softminus/status/1639464430093344769

> To spell it out: yes, real things have limitations, but limitations vary between real things.

I think we can assume AGI can have the same properties as currently existing real things (like humans, LLMs, or software programs), but I object to assuming it can have any arbitrary combination of those things' properties, and there aren't any real things with the property of "exponential self-improvement".
WASM isn’t really even an assembly language, despite the name.
Cell phones are distracting, I go to shows whether they're banned or not, but I dislike them personally - I do not think it's disingenuous. Maybe I'm just old, but I expect smoke (or vape) at a show, it doesn't detract for me. Some venues do in fact enforce no smoking or vaping (security will give you the flashlight warning at one, show you the door at two). And that's nice too, but the smokers and vapers are at least usually watching and enjoying the show - phone people don't strike me as particularly engaged. As a performer, that'd bug me.

I think it's more a mixture of a belief that people are absent when their phones are out, that it's rude to the other audience members, and makes new sets less awesome for audiences down the line.
[0] says that an organization that literally cages minority children released an app that has racial disparity. That is not convincing evidence that state of the art systems are not colorblind.

[1] is an old article talking about then-obsolete algorithms.

[2] finds that, three years ago, the majority of the algorithms showed racial disparities. That strongly suggests that some did not, which means the technical part of this problem has been solved for years.

The big issue here is what the GP brought up. These tools will be used by abusive (racist or not) law enforcement organizations, and, because of the people using them, will likely be a net negative on society.

At this point, arguing the facial recognition technology is racist is like arguing police-issued handguns are racist. It is ignoring the core issue.
It sounds like her real career interest is being a major TikTok broadcaster (where she has more than 200,000 followers).

But that makes me suspicious of how she describes her experience. Seems like there's an "incentive" there to make it sound interesting/extreme/provocative.
Rise of Worse Is Better
Oral History of Gordon Moore
You could say the same about stealing physical books.
Unbelievable, have many times have you seen AWS explain an outage (or PII leak like this kind) as open source library bug? Have they asked 5 whys?
Why the bug was deployed into production?
Why there was not enough testing before deployment?
Why integration testing was only done with low concurrency?
Why standard release testing procedure is missing?
Why there's no synthetic traffic testing and gates before rolling to 100% in production?
I didn't even need to apply. It seems pretty good, though perhaps still not quite on the level of Imagen or Parti (both Google Research). For example, text still doesn't work.
they uh, say a lot of things and it’s incredible anyone repeats their claims verbatim. Truly a new journalistic low for CNBC.
Because people are not good at using the Internet or technology and just want to click on links.
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I'm not sure how you reconcile acknowledging the reality of companies not being able to make payroll for two weeks and also calling it a "canard" in back to back sentences. A "fake canard" would be a double negative by the way ;)

If you reread the thread and the context of what I was responding to it was the OP stating "It's not clear anyone would have lost anything at all ..."

Perhaps you are well-off but losing a pay check for couple of weeks has real consequences for lots of people.
Just curious: What kind of books do they read? On an ipad or something?
Racial inequality doesn't exist if you don't hear about it.
Ah, thank you. Replaced "copies" with "duplicates" in my post
I thought the IA only archives websites and digital contents, which are in danger of being lost? eBooks are seldom the only form of publishing, thus I believe there is always at least an archive copy of them. Making them accessible for all is clearly very controversial.
I'm not certain that is always true.

I, for one, would like to know a few things about flat earthers. Do they actually exist? How many of them really are out there? What arguments to they use to try and make their points?

These are valuable things to know, especially on issues that mostly settled. They make you, the reader, better understand the issue and better prepared to deal with people you encounter who hold this belief. I'm not Neil Armstrong, I don't have the cache to simply punch moon landing deniers in the nose, I need some true facts to use when talking to one.

As a consumer of journalism I'm way more interested in stuff like that than simple sneering scorn about people who clearly believe "wrong" things.

When it comes to topics that I don't personally understand, perhaps wheat tariffs, I'm going to be way more likely to agree to the "right" answer when I understand both sides and can see how exactly it is that the "wrong" side is wrong. But the very minute I find out that the story is being spun by omitting certain facts or arguments, I'm going to assume the author is lying about pretty much everything.

Thus, neutrality. You've got to show me both sides honestly for me to be able to believe that what you're saying is actual truth, not just your "truth".
I really hope his casket has an Intel Inside sticker on it. RIP
- Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing

- There's a notice in there that 'orange pi' is registered trademark of their company but clearly stealing the pi thing from raspberry

- Finally they say that the pi is aging. I think they're missing the point of the raspberry pi.

This just kind of feels like a cash grab. The pi came out with the noble purpose of educating children in the UK with a computer that was so simple and cheap all you needed to do was grab a keyboard and a TV and you could learn to program.

They've accomplished so much more than what they started out to do.

It's just insulting to see something like this. If I wanted more power I could just get a NUC.

That said I have wanted to look into something like the pi but in a laptop form factor.
Where can I buy a 32GB model? Amazon only has the 16GB available for pre-ordee.
That “colleague” was Andy Grove, also a rather impressive person.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/664484-only-the-parano...

He got Parkinson’s and died 7 years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333402
Whatever AI wrote that article needs an upgrade.
No, because there is no such thing as "everyone complaining". Those are different user groups.

Docker Hub has little to offer to most commercial businesses. When we looked at it, it was hilariously slow and had basically no advantage over any other commercial registry. There was no reason to give our company dollars to Docker instead of Amazon or Google.

Docker Hub is pretty important to open-source projects, as there are very few providers who are ready to distribute large binary files for free without ads or even possibility of them. It was also pretty important to tech companies who use said projects but lack the resources to set up private registry and build docker images they need.

It's the former users who bring money to Docker, and it were latter users who were complaining. There is definitely some overlap but unfortunately (for Docker the company) it is not that big.
The need for prompt engineering is an indicator of GPT failing the problem, not succeeding at it.
I know, I find it strange that they didn’t make something better way sooner considering the ressource they had: scientists, computing, data, money.

It seem to me they prefered to keep it closed, away from the public, the questions, the risks.

If Google has AGI, or just basic AI with all the data they have on everyone, it’s a giant spying machine on much of the world and with a monopoly on web advertizing.

I think they had the golden goose and didn’t want to risk anything, just keep it going as long as possible.

What do you think? /Tinfoil hat off.
The core tool the FED has used to fight a crisis has been money printing, disguised in various forms. It keeps finding newer and newer ways to disguise it, all of which essentially keep kicking the can down the road.

The results from this strategy will keep becoming worse and worse every year, however. Unlike 2008, America is too politically divided, there is too little distrust in USD after the confiscation of Russia’s reserves, and there are too many alternate currencies and power centres for the US to still print away.
Mostly ignore the massive piles of hype and repetitive "AI is coming for us" anxiety posts. We may all lose our jobs or get mined for the iron in our bodies. More likely we'll look back on this in a decade the way we look back today at the hype and bullshit about quantum everything, nanotechnology, nuclear fusion, interstellar travel, space colonies, flying cars, supersonic passenger jets, and stem cell cures for everything.
Now that is a hot take.
My biggest fear is ChatGpt will do all the coding, and we’ll all be pushed further into being testers and QA. The end stage of development where a human eye is a necessity…

It feels like we are all about to become dirt poor at the expense of this system cranking out products as cheaply as possible.

That’s how it goes though
The distinction is not as clear nor as useful as some make it sound. For example, is my pickup truck "personal" or "private"? Or is it personal as long as I drive myself and my stuff around, but as soon as I offer to sell moving services to others, it becomes private? Or is it still personal as long as I don't scale the business to more trucks? What if my brother and I want to pool two trucks? What if I contribute the truck and he contributes the driving skill, but we are both part owners in the business? What if he doesn't want to take the risk of capital ownership and instead wants a steady wage? At what point does the truck stop being personal property?

My personal view of this is that Marxism doesn't really have much to say about organizations below a certain scale, and what it has to say about larger scale orgs is that they are icky/alienating. Everything else is more about trying to verbalize the ickyness than to explain anything substantial about the org mechanics.
It’s very, very simple. So long as China continues to ban US social media companies and search engines, whatever reason they have for doing so is a valid reason for the US and other western countries to respond in kind and ban Chinese social media companies. Not just from a military or security standpoint but also an economic one.

If TikTok is “not a threat” then neither is Facebook and Google. End of story.
All of the food consumed anywhere has to get shipped in because of globalization... Because that's the most efficient thing. And golf courses only use 4 acre feet of water for each acre of golf course. In the grand scheme of half a million acre feet of water that Vegas takes from Lake Mead, it sure is efficient given how worried it makes people who don't even live there.
The reason they had to make money was because Musk pulled his donation. They would've continued as a non-profit if not for Musk. He pulled it so they needed to find a way to get enough money to survive.

He is the source of the issue you're complaining about, not the victim of it.
You can also just print out "I voted" stickers and wear one every election day without going to the polls. Stickers are such a low authority document.
Presumably you too can get your tweets excluded from the wayback machine. They're your intellectual property, you control what other's do with it.
The local radio station played the PBS news hour even though it’s a tv show. It works that way too. My drive schedule changed so I’m not sure they do anymore. (WGBH Boston)
Capitalism is based around bad decisions being punished, which didn't happen in 2008 because of the bailouts. Nobody went to jail, nothing extreme enough was done to actually enforce cultural changes in the finance industry, so of course having the same problems occur was inevitable. Adding to the problem is that the economy is actually going to get less efficient on a fundamental level due to the geopolitical situation with Russia and China, plus the after effects of all the Covid restrictions and stimulus that distorted the economy in many ways.

Living standards are going to drop unless the AI hype is real and AI actually manages to improve productivity dramatically

also laughed at this line from the post

>While there is tremendous uncertainty, given that the banking sector drives credit creation and subsequent economic growth

bankers really think they are the drivers of growth, that's how you end up with all your manufacturing in China. These people are clowns
That seems very reasonable! Thank you for testing it, I’ll give it a try on some of my own repos soon
My house got burglarized and my work iPhone got stolen in addition to oddly a cookbook in an opened Amazon box on the counter. It seemed so dumb in retrospect... at least after I spent a day or two turning over my place looking for it (blaming myself for losing it) before reading in the press that a 40yr old got caught in the act robbing 10 houses in my neighborhood. He just went in and grabs whatever he could see then leaves quickly, and I happened to leave my iphone on the counter that night.

I never got it back but I also realized it was basically a useless brick. Is there any value in stealing an iphone/modern android these days? They are so locked down what's the point?

The only regret I had was I didn't turn on "Find my phone" because I'm so privacy paranoid but at least the password was a much more complex alphanumeric one than most people's plus w/o an icloud backup (pre-2023 before it became encrypted).
Try to keep the group small. Let's say 10. It's very difficult to work with a group that have so many different ages and levels if it's bigger.

If they have their own Arduino, it may be a interesting option to use the C like language that Arduino has.

It's not about preparing them to a job directly, one semester is not enough in spite the advertising of bootcamps . It's about helping with the initial steps that are sometime very confusing.

They must install the compiler and guess where to write and how to run the program. and learn what the error message says and how to fix it. Even some tricks like using Google Translation to read the answers is Stack Overflow is not obvious.
I once got the opportunity to ask Gordon Moore a question, “what is the equivalent of Moore’s Law for software?” His response, “number of bugs doubles every year”. Great man.
AI-Con Artist
Agreed, and right from the get-go (the first section on "Addressing AI Fallacies"). Cherry-picking failed predictions (from a far less sophisticated era) makes for a catchy-sounding argument, but has no merit on the nuts-and-bolts discussion of whether a generative model can really compete with what a skilled human does, in the big picture sense.

It was a pretty sad write-up, overall. Literally ChatGPT itself could do better, per one of its answer to a variant of the same question:

“It is unlikely that ChatGPT or Alphacode will replace programmers” because they are “not capable of fully replacing the expertise and creativity of human programmers...programming is a complex field that requires a deep understanding of computer science principles and the ability to adapt to new technologies.”
Chart assets instead of prices and you’ll see it.

This has social and political consequences. Populists haven’t started popping up across the western world for no reason. Half the country feels priced out of basic dignities like housing.
Are you aware of how that case resolved?
Option 3:

* If you're that concerned about perception you're not going to make it far in startup land
GPT 4 gave me this answer:

In this variant of the Monty Hall problem, since all the doors are transparent, you can clearly see what is behind each door. This changes the nature of the problem entirely. The element of uncertainty, which is present in the original Monty Hall problem, is no longer a factor.

In this scenario, if you pick door No. 1 and see a car behind it, you should stick with your choice, as there is no advantage to switching. If you pick door No. 1 and see a goat behind it, you should switch to door No. 2, as you can clearly see the car behind it.

Since you can see what's behind the doors, the probability of winning the car is no longer based on conditional probability, and the original Monty Hall paradox does not apply. Instead, your decision is simply based on your observation of what's behind each door.
I personally don't think it's necessary, but the Blockchain creates an effectively irreversible collectivization of the work: Removal would also undo whatever other work was committed.

It's kind of like cryptographically amortized hostage taking... Erase my book, and the pickle ball championships NFT gets it...
...without relying solely on short term memory.
That’s one of their problems. But if you’ve visited the real problems are very apparent, and they start with their form of highly corrupt communism and hostility to the outside world. It’s not getting the attention from the west because the government is highly insular. Being the most efficient route to China and between Vietnam and Thailand makes it very strategically important, and China is probably more responsible for the state of Laos than anywhere else. It’s very much in their interest the west has no toe hold there, and that it stay effectively a vassal state dependent on their patronage.
Wow 12 billion and it was 6 years ago? Where does the time go ... I thought I remembered when one video just reached the 2 billion or 4 billion mark, or 2^31 or 2^32, and it was newsworthy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_vi...

Now it looks like there are 10+ videos greater than 2^32, and Baby Shark has blown past that
All that leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt shows is that the US most likely participated in the (failed) negotiations for a new government with Yanukovych
as the president and a opposition candidate as the prime minister.

It isn't, however, a proof that the US somehow caused the protests to happen. How would that even work?

On the other hand, there's a mountain of evidence for Russian military involvement in 2014, including Putin himself admitting that.
> except with plastic bottles rather than pipes

That alone is a big problem. And water utilities aren't run for profit. Or if they are, they're heavily regulated.
> - Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing

It'd have taken you two seconds to check that. No, it's not the first Orange Pi product.

> The pi came out with the noble purpose of educating children in the UK with a computer that was so simple and cheap all you needed to do was grab a keyboard and a TV and you could learn to program.

That's great and all but as a hobbyist who can't buy the Raspberry Pi in part because of production allotments to commercial integrations, it rings a little hollow.
Ah, I stand corrected, then. Thanks!
I hear ya bud, and I think you have the right take. This will ultimately vastly improve the lives of quite a lot more people than if it never happened. If we survive the coming years of turmoil and AIs or social unrest dont destroy the world, we are looking at post-scarcity future of so much plenty that the powers that be would have to do something particularly obviously evil and nefarious to keep that wealth from spreading to everyone. As the cost of mass production of basic needs, housing, etc etc all drastically lower, the excuse for why they're not being spread gets more and more ridiculous - even as people's individual power lowers as they become redundant. (Though reminder: the current chess champion is a human with AI assistance, not a pure AI. Humans copilots may still be semi-relevant a while longer!) Wealth Inequality might very-well still skyrocket, but overall this should still uplift everyone's quality of life and effectively allow for mass retirement - even in the third world, eventually.

IF we make it through...
Party and alcohol restrictions have been normal for years for universities that are paranoid about liability - which seems to be most of them in the US. A disconnect is that alcohol is illegal for under-21s, which includes many/most college students.

Then again this is also the school that fired its mascot (a student) for carrying a sign that said "Stanford Hates Fun" - thereby demonstrating the sign's accuracy.

But the greater issue is hostile and punitive policies which exacerbate student stress and depression. The pandemic was handled particularly poorly, and university policies compounded with isolation seem to have greatly harmed student mental health.

A possibly positive change is that universities seem more willing to acknowledge student suicides, and to allow students (and faculty and staff) time to grieve. Perhaps they are worried about potential liability.
I don’t know if it’s the newspapers or economists I dislike more but I am pretty sick of watching these people incorrectly predict everything for the last 15 years and then turn around and say they are right when ONE thing sort of looks like the thing they kind of predicted.