skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I think the vast majority of the world "knows"? Poll people on whether they're happy with various chemicals being added or ending up in their food, and the overwhelming majority would oppose it. You might simply claim they're all ignorant. Run that same poll on whether people would approve of dihydrogen monoxide [1] being added to their food, and it'd be right up their on the chopping block for banning.

But I don't think trying to trick people proves much. Obviously things like diisononyl phthalate [2] is not just a scary name for an otherwise innocuous substance. It's a scary name for a scary compound that has indeed been proven to be harmful. Nonetheless people are consuming it in large quantities, and governments are remiss to do anything. And it's just one compound among many.

Companies making billions of dollars off these products (or other products that contain them) have far more time, motivation, and ability to influence or "influence" government officials than literally anybody else. Science can help somewhat, but it's also regularly coopted as a part of the same influence game. Grants, donations, first party science, and more gray-zone areas of influence are all perfectly standard. In any case, things like diisononyl phthalate have been proven harmful in countless studies. It doesn't matter.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diisononyl_phthalate
Fmr. Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the Consequences of an A.I. Revolution Amanpour
Choosing to build a giant home in the LA hills with a budget of $2M just for construction is the out of touch rich people thing, not the additional issues with the city.
> Forcing a change before the replacement tech is cost competitive will set us back and price people out.

Except it will never be cost competitive if we keep subsidising fossil fuels (jet fuel for example is heavily subsidised to make air travel cheaper) and continue ignoring the indirect costs of the CO2 emitted when combusting said fossil fuels.
Shared genetic markers underlying substance use disorders
Ubuntu has a release every April (e.g. 22.04) and every October (e.g. 22.10), but I do the same as you, only upgrading when there's a new LTS version.

Snap and Flatpak are two different things.
Plus the human brain and anatomy was ready for it

We have no idea how evolution "readied" a deeply complex organ like the brain over many thousands of years, then almost instantly repurposed it for language acquisition and generation. To further hypothesise that what it was "readying" was something that trains from data in a way similar to how chatgpt is trained from data makes it even more astonishing and until this is demonstrated it is more scientific to not accept this hypothesis.
In the UK, in the US it always had the more modern title from the time it released there in 1940. Not sure about content differences in the US version though.
Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd frontman falls into this group. It sucks. The guy who wrote so much about the negative impact of war. But then you think about how much hatred he seemed to have for his government and it’s not hard to see him falling for any narrative that supports that view.

It sucks. Humans just suck. Bigotry is just a subset of the same misguided reasoning that 95% of people seem to use for forming their opinions.
The news companies hardly have reporters anymore, and are often more than happy to pick up press releases companies create for them. It frequently seems to be a way to lobby for more police protection.
The problem is that normal people are easy to manipulate by people who know what they are doing.

All our history is pretty much masses of people manipulated to hate other nations so that ruling class / political / spiritual leaders can get what they want.

Do you think Germans somehow evolved to a different, mean, heartless kind of being before and during WWII? No, they were normal people who were manipulated by people who were somehow skilled in manipulation.

In my opinion there are only two things that can meaningfully save nations from sliding into darkness. One is teaching empathy to other people regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, occupation, upbringing, age, religion, class or nationality. And another is teaching history of the world so that people can see connection between what is happening contemporarily and some stupid things humanity has done in the past.
> 1. This is a very U.S.-centric view, not everybody has access to FDIC

Similar mechanism exists globally. Have a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_insurance
> Can you give an example a prompt that shows it does not have meta-awareness and meta-reasoning

Previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=usaar333#35275295

Similar problems with this simple prompt:

> Lily puts her keys in an opaque box with a lid on the top and closes it. She leaves. Bob comes back, opens the box, removes the keys, and closes the box, and places the keys on top of the box. Bob leaves.

>Lily returns, wanting her keys. What does she do?

ChatGPT4:

> Lily, expecting her keys to be inside the opaque box, would likely open the box to retrieve them. Upon discovering that the keys are not inside, she may become confused or concerned. However, she would then probably notice the keys placed on top of the box, pick them up, and proceed with her original intention.

GPT4 cannot (without heavy hinting) infer that Lily would have seen the keys before she even opened them! What's amusing is that if you change the prompt to "transparent", it understands she sees them on top of the box immediately and never opens it -- more the actions of a word probability engine than a "reasoning" system.

That is, it can't really "reason" about the world and doesn't have awareness of what it's even writing. It's just an extremely good pattern matcher.

> Can you give an example of a truly novel problem that it solves worse than a child? How old is the child?

See above. 7. All sorts of custom theory of mind problems it fails. Gives a crazy answer to:

> Jane leaves her cat in a box and leaves. Afterwards, Billy moves the cat to the table and leaves. Jane returns and finds her cat in the box. Billy returns. What might Jane say to Billy?

Where it assumes Jane knows Billy moved the cat (which she doesn't).

I also had difficulty with GPT4 getting it to commit to sane answers for mixing different colors of light. It has difficulty on complex ratios in understanding that green + red + blue needs to consistently create a white. i.e. even after a shot of clear explanation, it couldn't generalize that N:M:M of the primary colors must produce a saturated primary color (my kid again could do that after one shot).

> True, but you can let it use output tokens as scratch space and then only look at the final result. That lets it behave as if it has memory.

Yes, but it has difficulties maintaining a consistent thought line. I've found with custom multi-step problems it will start hallucinating.

> To the contrary, the trend of increasingly large transformers seemingly getting qualitatively smarter indicates that maybe the architecture matters less than the scale/training data/cost function.

I think "intelligence" is difficult to define, but there's something to be said how different transformers are from the human mind. They end up with very different strengths and weaknesses.
This study [1] makes a strong argument that the two are not correlated. Specifically, zero patients of a sample of 144 patients suffering from this strain of cancer also tested positive for HPV-16. Admittedly the cells were tested from cultures collected between 2005 and 2010 at the near start of this trend - it would be interesting to see if that holds true for more recent cultures and across more varieties of HPV strains.

[1] https://infectagentscancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...
You can ask the bot to flesh out the code and implement new features (roughly) in seconds. For example, if you have a notes app, you could ask the bot to write code that integrates it with existing calendar apps, and it'd take less than a minute to get you close.
Woah, I thought I was the only one who attributes films as documentaries.
I see this repeated often, but if you load any 3D game side-by-side on C64 vs Spectrum, the Spectrum is significantly faster. I don't know why, but can only guess there must be optimisations availing more of the Z80's Mhz vs the 6502's.
But now that the second mortgage is so much more expensive, fewer people will be able to do it right? More specifically, previously you could borrow against the increasing value of your home, at a low interest rate, to fund the next purchase. This is what everyone on the investment side was doing. With neither of those factors true any longer, it seems this scenario will be less common.

At a higher level, I think this is what the transfer of wealth looked like for the past decade.
It gives me pause to realize that the GOOG has been my internet, my video clips, my wallet, my phone, my operating system, my cable TV alternative that costs arguably more—

and now it finally wants to commit to our eternal friendship!

I’m a fan in general, techno-optimism is the only fun way to be.

But for your consideration: once upon a time, the GOOG only had 400 emoloyees too. And Jeff ran a bookstore in the PNW. I wonder every day. What is the future of OpenAI and this largely unseen goldrush?

Edit: full disclosure, and an employer! It was a while ago. But I do wonder sometimes already if google and jeff bezos are my real parents. Now there’s a new player!
What part of having something strapped to your face all day while on Zoom calls sounds amazing?

As someone who spends all day on zoom calls this is the last thing I want.
I don't understand how any court allows this interpretation to exist. If a state deputizes a person to act against the rights of others, that person is acting as the state, and should be bound as the state is bound. Otherwise the state can abrogate all limitations on its powers by deputizing people or companies.
Ummm, they are? See Balaji's million dollar bitcoin bet.
I for sure celebrate every single death of a russian invader and will not apologise for it.
Money market funds swell by over $273B as investors pull deposits from banks
Check out the temperature docs in the API reference manual: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions/c...
We don’t have national business registration either.
I hear your point, and I wonder what the stats are on livability of these vacant homes. Cause I bet the other side of the spectrum is true too: luxury units that just sit there because the price point is so high.

But beyond that, housing as investment property alienates people from the natural reward of caring for housing. We ought to be leaving into and communicating peoples' natural desire to make home livable. Instead we rip people from it, we punish people by forcing them to switch apartments when they're perfectly happy.

So many people effectively live in in slow motion life long exile.
I don’t know about Germany, but in the U.S. it’s almost exclusively people who have established a group identity which demands that they recognize the Biden administration (and generally the American left) as the foremost evil in the world.
Doubtful? They basically invented transformers
A slight correction: FDP is the fourth largest power in Bundestag with slightly more than 10% votes it got in the last federal elections, and what is happening here is not called taking the goverment hostage but a governing party excercising its influence using the instruments given by the parliamentary democracy.
Confidence in the previous election generally falls along partisan lines, where those who supported the loser are more skeptical than those who supported the winner. You're probably familiar with Republican skepticism about 2020, so I'll point you to the numbers on Democrat skepticism about 2016.

In 2018, 66% of Democrats [0] believed it was "definitely true or somewhat true" that "Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected president." Moreover, in January 2017, during the certification of the 2016 election, Democrat legislators made objections to votes from more states than did Republicans in January 2021. [1]

[0] https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-democrats-object-mor...
It's not very clear what your organization wants to accomplish, or how it wants to go about achieving it.

https://semut.io/making-open-source-truly-open.html Makes it sounds like a consultancy of sorts.
They will also need security forces / killbot operators to keep the masses at bay.
Worth noting that both Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl accepted some editorial changes to their own works when they were alive, and in the latter case I think he was involved personally. The Oompa-Lompas were changed from being dark-skinned ("He's made people out of chocolate!") to being orange-skinned, and the original title of Agatha Christie's "And then there were none" was considered too offensive in the US even in 1939.
and why is leaving something that will last so important? You don’t take your legacy with you either, no?
Yeah, but constructing morale-boosting urban legend such as Ghost of Kiev is a bit different, than Russians trying to imply that Ukrainians are nazis who will systematically destroy own cities to make Russian saviors look bad. Don't you think?
The truth is overwhelmingly one sided. It’s not close, at all. Ukraine is not a flawless actor but that isn’t an excuse to completely disregard the magnitude of offenses.
>Is backwards compat a thing on osx?

There was a time when it was --- there was a "Missile Command" game written for the 128K Mac which still ran fine in the Mac OS environment running the last version of MacOS on PowerPC machines:

http://www.mrob.com/pub/comp/missile20.html

and the previous version of Rosetta was for running PowerPC apps on Intel machines (and before that it was for handwriting recognition).

and I've always regretted that Macromedia Freehand didn't get re-written so as to run for longer --- that's one of the reasons I've pretty much switched to a Windows machine (using a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, which replaced a Book 12, which replaced a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10, which replaced an Asus Vivotab Note 8, which replaced a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110, which replaced an ST-2300, &c.) I use a Wacom One w/ my MacBook, but it's just not the same.
Very interesting. Can you please elaborate or give a TLDR on the linguistics angle here?

Does it have something to do with grounding or implicit knowledge/ connotations and context?
> All these countries applied to NATO, but it was NATO that accepted their application.

As an eastern european, I hate this rhetoric. Some country feels threatened by Russia, joins NATO, and this is presented as NATO bullying Russia. The country that joined, its citizens and their will is not a subject in this discussion. The country is a thing, discussed like you would discuss a nuclear warhead or military base - it's just a tool the powerful use for their means.

How about you consider what the sovereign people want and stop thinking about them as political playthings.
I think you're confusing politics in 2023 and politics in 2035.

The point of the ban is to focus people's minds (in particular car manufacturers) on transitioning to BEV vehicles, inducing a synchronized movement in that direction and promoting economies of scale. It gives companies building charging infrastructure and supply chains some confidence there will be a large market going forward.

In the event that it isn't practical, or is economically damaging, to ban ICE cars in 2035, of course the ban would be delayed or modified. It's not like the EU is going to damage its industry or economy in blind pursuit of a commitment in 2023. They say a week is a long time in politics; never mind 12 years.

Now that is not to say that it won't happen, quite the opposite. I think people will lose interest in ICE cars much earlier than 2035. What is overlooked in the debate today is that BEV cars will be much cheaper than ICE cars i the long run.

ICE cars are very complicated mechanical machines. BEV cars are much simpler to build and use less parts, and the parts that remain are more likely to be standardised and built at enormous scales, pushing prices down. It's quite likely, at least for the lower end of the market, that there will be a standard drive train (battery + motors + management systems) around which a variety of car shells are built.

People point to the high costs of BEV cars, and inputs like lithium, but they only help the transition. It's much harder to invest in building products that are cheap than those that are expensive. High prices promote investment and new players and in the future it creates more production which brings prices down.

It's handy to think about the BEV industry like you think about the technology industry, it's got a lot more in common with that than the ICE car industry. In 2035 ICE cars will be dismissed as obsolete by 99% of people and buying one would be like installing a spinning hard disk as your main drive instead of NVMe.
It always seemed to me that F-35 is an advanced replacement to F-16, which excelled in networked and multi-role operations.

Of course, by now the networked operations are in use by other aircraft too, just F-16 and F/A-18 operate at the very tip of the multi-role.

Whether the networked use could remain operational in a conflict against technologically advanced enemy (with saturated ECM and comparably aggressive AA systems) is not yet proven. Also with addition of drones, the whole air-dominance becomes a tough objective to attain.
Beer since this is like a testing platform for then
"thinking" and reasoning can be done by toddlers with a dataset a fraction of a fraction of the size that even the simplest language models are trained on.

I don't understand this thinking that it's x because it looks like x(thinking, artistic creativity, etc.). I can prompt Google for incrementally more correct answers to a problem, does that mean there's no difference between "google" and "thought"?
You mean like going from harmless incandescent light bulbs to poisonous mercury filled CFL bulbs? That was really stupid move.
It's pretty interesting that kremlinbots have recently started posting raw HTML links (<a href="...">). It's like they're working off a script and can't be bothered to make even slight changes to account for the fact that HN doesn't support HTML input.
So what?

We translate books to different languages all the time, or edit original works for reasons of clarity with modern day prose.

Just label the book as edited in the forward and there ought not to be a problem, right?

The reason for this edit is similar to that of a modernization: to make it more accessible to a present day audience.
Paul Krugman famously said in 1998 that "the growth of the growth of the Internet will slow drastically [...] the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s"

I am going to go out on a limb and say unless headsets change profoundly they will have limited impact on most people's daily lives. I'll have to remind myself to come back in a few years and check this post.
Reddit: r/singularity, r/machinelearning

https://old.reddit.com/user/pro_RazE/ Posts a weekly round-up of advancements in the field.
At some point the photo cameras or mobile phones are going to automatically include such denoising features (since it's an artefact of the photo capture, not a visible element) and then people would still call it "#nofilter"
Wasn't the leap from GPT-2 to GPT-3 bigger than from GPT-3 to GPT-4?

Like self driving cars, the leap were enormous until they hit a wall and we still don't have full self driving
May I ask how old your daughter is? It's concerning regardless of age, but if she's ~17 than I can see how this came to be, vs. if she's ~12 then I need to update my mental model of the world.

Also, did she ask about plastic surgery, or did she express interest in getting plastic surgery?

I don't mean to pry, I'm just more surprised than I (apparently) should be and would like to fix my gap in understanding.
Rome also survived a lot of things.
Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence
"Putting it to sleep" is where a lot of details matter. Different MCUs don't have parity on what sleep states and options they offer and what they mean in practice. Often there are complex tables where certain wakeup schemes are only available in certain sleep states, and to extract minimum idle draw you need to know what you're doing.

The Arduino framework currently offers only minimal abstraction over this. If you use Arduino on an esp32, you have to reach into ESP-IDF API to dial in the details, e.g. set up ext1 wakeup and disable the RTC memory explicitly if you don't need it. Betting this is the same here at launch.

Arduino here is introducing two versions of the same product with widely different BOMs and not addressing this matter at all.

I think it'd be a great enhancement of their productization effort if they started explaining power envelope, showing improvements over time, standardized an API (derived from actual use cases) etc. This would add value over the raw chips and datasheets for their audience of beginners looking for ease of use. Without it this is just throwing some random new breakout boards with the same layouts over the fence - a very crowded market - and banking on ecosystem effects without evolving the ecosystem and tackling new aspects.
The Spirit of the Contract
A lot of what you are describing is regional issues for costal cities. My specific comment was pointing that {Base land + Materials + Labor} is very expensive, and while addressing these fees and red tape might be important, it's not the whole cake. I was also targeting a more modest experience.

In Texas it might be $40k land (varies by size and location), $250k for construction ($115/sqft * 2250 sqft), and maybe $50k for utilities/landscaping/driveway/permits etc (varies by taste and location). So $350k for a house in a state with a $70k median household income. With a 20% downpayment and a 6.5% interest rate this median family for a median house would spend 1 year salary on the downpayment and over a third of their gross income on the mortgage. If they had a typical amount of debt from cars, credit cards, or student loans their DTI would be too high to qualify.

EDIT: To my original point. Saying "Build more homes" is an oversimplification. Homes are largely priced such that they equal {Land + Building value}, and new homes are largely priced at { Land + Construction costs + reasonable margin for developer }. If you want to build more homes, look at how building can be cheaper. There are some clear low hanging fruit you are describing in your LA experience, but even where the regulatory environment and labor costs are more reasonable the numbers don't crunch well. Let's have conversations about how to reduce the cost of producing housing. Getting cost low enough that the median household income can afford new construction would absolutely drive up the number of homes being built.
I am against subsidies too. That just illustrates why subsidies are bad.
> “And then you turn around and you beg for a dystopian UBI government”

You seem to have mixed dystopian and utopian.