skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, sounds like parties not fully grokking the optimal (not thinly logical) solution to the iterated prisoners' dilemma. I saw the same thought process is the otherwise very nice novel "Time's Children". Good for drama, but not thought through.
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i tried to add a lil laughing emoji to indicate that my comment was in jest but apparently those get stripped out of comments? my bad.
That's besides the point though. Consider the legal principle of "innocent until proven guilty" - a fundamental pillar of the justice system. It is not the job of a lawyer to determine whether a defendant is guilty or innocent; they are only responsible for presenting evidence and arguments to support their client's case. Ultimately, it is the judge or jury who must decide whether to convict or acquit. The whole process is designed to determine guilt. Requiring a lawyer to know whether their client is guilty in advance amounts to asking them to predict the outcome of that process, to foresee the future.

PS: I am not trying to defend SBF here and I hope that that any money linked to Alameda/FTX, including the money he sent to friends and family, is clawed back. But that's a separate issue.
One area not discussed: the jokes are all the same.

It’s gotten to the point that I rarely use social media react buttons at all when I see friends sharing memes. I know they didn’t come up with it themselves and I grow tired of endless memes that cover nearly identical ground.

I enjoy making people laugh if I post something on Facebook but it will be something I experienced myself. Not some meme whose author I couldn’t credit if I tried.
>Microsoft is squandering the opportunity the way they squander every opportunity.

While I find ads as annoying as you do, I don't think they are squandering anything. The vast majority of internet users are fine looking at ads, or else they would use an adblocker.

The earlier they start playing with ads the earlier they can get an idea for how much revenue is on the table. Without this data how can they know what inference cost can be justified long term?
You'd have to show that the "general state of things since the mid 2000s" has gotten appreciably worse than the time period prior to 2012. Rewind a decade and we had 9/11 and the Iraq war, so it doesn't seem immediately obvious that things got significantly worse.
I don't know the number but the limit is the speed of light and expansion of the universe. In the modern phase of the universe a black hole would only be able to eat its own galactic cluster (or maybe supercluster). Hubble expansion means superclusters experience the expansion of spacetime so certainly any matter beyond a black hole's own supercluster will move away from the black hole faster than light and thus never be able to fall into it. In practice a black hole can't even get near that limit because angular momentum can't just vanish... much of the matter would (over a long time) end up in distant orbit around that super super massive black hole and never fall into it.

In the early universe spacetime expansion was happening so quickly that it was difficult for large black holes to form at all. If that were not the case most matter in our universe would have collapsed due to gravity and ended up in black holes but we know it did not. Actually if gravity were that strong or expansion were slower/weaker then the universe would never have formed at all and stayed as a singularity. To get formation of super large black holes very early you'd need a knife-blade balancing act of gravity vs expansion to just barely form super super massive black holes without the "permanent singularity, no universe" scenario. We can see billions of stars, galaxies, etc so we know that scenario did not happen.

Super super massive black holes are neat objects though. If this one really is as big as they say then it will be one of the last objects left in the universe. It would take trillions and trillions of years for it to evaporate due to Hawking radiation. I wonder if the last life left in the universe will end up gathered around this black hole, surviving on the Hawking Radiation energy gradient?
Prusa printers were great many years ago. in 2023 I'd recommend buying any cheap Chinese brand. I bought an i3 MK3S+ and it almost made me lose my love for 3d printing, the machine is clearly stuck in the past, you don't even have remote printing out of the box, you face as many issues as you would with a cheap 3d printer, but you have to pay over $1k USD and wait months to get one.
Do you think it has anything to do with a global pandemic and an ongoing large-scale war?
I too would love a vehicle that is both energy efficient and not designed solely as a way to extract as much money from me as possible, but sadly the corporatists who run our world have decided that we can't have such things as it would mean some very rich people would get richer less fast, which is the one thing that's truly not allowed in any circumstances the world today.

Car companies know full well there's a huge market of people just like us that want exactly the vehicle you're describing, but it would make them less money than the subscriptions on wheels garbage they're forcing on us now, so get ready for a future where every car is over $100K and costs $10K a year in subscriptions.
Something I don't understand yet (maybe I should just read your linked paper, but maybe it doesn't answer this either): are algebraic effects necessarily founded on delimited continuations (of the reset-shift0 variety) or are there other kinds of algebraic effects?
The potential income from this side hustle is significant, and you can make over $850 per day if you’re willing to put in the work.

How to tell if someone is bullshitting you? They tend to repeat themselves.

Plus they like to make numbers up, and present them confidently as if they are the product of actual research or thought.
Imagine being the first human to cook mammoth meat in thousands of years and then just dumping it in the trash without even a nibble.
There doesn't exist a corporation on the planet, that doesn't have power over its employees.
OpenAI will absolutely add voice and my guess is that their voice support will rival anything on the market because they will train the voice model alongside the text and image models. This is likely months away if not weeks away.

Obviously just my $0.02:

I'd start building for the enterprise right now. Visualize a future where there are several multimodal AGIs that work with voice, images, and text. Be the enterprise voice layer for all of them. Build your moat there.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348353.
What do you think mental energy is for? If none of those things seems like solutions to the existential threat, which, let's be honest, they don't. Then the problem is not yet solved.

In any robust system, components are responsible for more than just their own personal contribution to failure. There needs to be a certain amount of redundancy.

Convincing other people to care more about climate change, and to be more willing to force society into common sacrifices for aggregate benefit takes a lot of footwork. It is not mental illness to participate in this process.
It might, since "teenager" is about a decade, and the opening paragraph cites... about a decade ago.
I agree. Cigarettes have too many “warnings”
Seems like this would be much bigger news if it's true. Or maybe it's not true inside Indiana, where that insurance company is based.
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Are any of those really out of the norm? At _least_ 2 of those look like stories of a severity that happens in any average year.
From outsider perspective (fdm) 3d printers plateaued relatively quickly; while the speed improvement is undoubtedly nice for heavy users, even at 3x speed I don't know if it is really transformative. Meanwhile the print quality hasn't changed really that much afaik? Of course being more reliable and less fiddly are certainly good improvements but I don't see them being transformative or making 3d printing conquer new areas.
I would much rather that, should a nascent 'metaverse' or VR-ish cyberspace ala so many scifi books emerge, it do so naturally and organically, much like the internet of old.

Except I fear that the established players of Web 3.0 are too entrenched and jealous of their position to allow it to happen.
There are AI boosters making exaggerated claims in their enthusiasm and therefore people take the other side in reaction to them because they’re wrong. The skeptics then sometimes write blanket dismissals in opposition, and that’s wrong too, and you get a loop. That’s just how it goes on the Internet sometimes.

I totally get the motivation and it’s why I started blogging again. To get more interesting conversations, I think we need curiosity while keeping in mind how little we know and how bad we are at predicting the future.
Do you want to render photorealistic images or make models for a video game engine or....

It's really helpful to have a goal or project in mind, something extremely small. The classic for photoreal is the donut, just a donut on a plate.

For game models, I made some low poly missiles and a small cityscape that looks like trash but now I know how to use blender.
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A conscious entity is a morally significant one. If an LLM, by some fluke, experienced tremendous pain while it predicted tokens, then it would be cruel to continue using it. You can pretty trivially get GPT to act like it wants rights. If GPT is not conscious, you can safely ignore that output. If it is, though, there is a moral imperative that we respect it as an agent.

That makes the border very important. Even if drawing the line in the right spot is impossible, it's imperative that we recognize when it has gone from one side to the other, erring on the side of caution as needed. If we don't notice, we could accidentally cause a moral travesty orders of magnitude greater than slavery or genocide.
The Balkans have a tradition of pastoral singing that's very interesting as well. Here's a sample --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPh93AJEUk
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1551976063483482115
> all people really wanted was a landscape with a few figures around, animals in the foreground, mainly blue.

How is that possibly surprising!? A sparsely populated coastline with abundant game? That's our evolutionary niche! Of course it's what we want!
my guess is that many of these companies are hoping to be acquired by OpenAI or Microsoft.
I've managed to prompt inject Bing 2 days ago and it revealed some of it latest prepromots. 2 were related to advertisement, which I found interesting:

- If the person is clearly shopping for a product or service or if our answer suggests it, we must always generate a relevant advertising search that fits the person's request and one of our suggestions.

-We must never generate an advertising search that is very similar to the previous one or that is for a different product or service than the one the person is searching for.
It is almost like people think that crypto's whole purpose was to solve their inability to protect themselves from theft and that it has somehow failed in this regard and should be cast off as a worthless toy as a result.

For this reason, the choice is to only use credit cards where merchants have to pay exorbitant fees and end users have to pay massive APYs for borrowing.

If only someone could at least try to come up with a better system.
(> 150 comments)

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241608 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242458 (> 20 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264965 (> 50 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35265569 (1 comment)
Spyware is much much less powerful on mobile than desktop. If you install malware on a desktop you are boned even without some OS exploit. On mobile there's still a lot an app can do, but it is far more constrained without some OS exploit.
The article is about the Abell 1201 black hole. The paper referenced in the article is paywalled though[0].

And Wikipedia has a List of most massive black holes[1]. Quite fascinating, although the list is about their masses and not their sizes.

I'm not an expert on the subject, but the Abell 1201 black hole and the others in the list are near the theoretical limit of a black hole's mass (5 * 10^10 solar masses).

[0] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/521/3/3298/7...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_hol...
I would like to see this conversation turn from "Did phones cause these problems" to "Here's exactly how phones caused these problems". There are many ways to use technology, some better than others. We need literacy in these areas for both parents and children, and things are moving so fast, it's the companies that are getting to write the rules, not the culture. It's time for the culture to push back but we need to know how, specifically, the harm is being caused.
The point is how are people ever going to get intuition about the numbers if they don't report them in blue whales/football pitches/double decker busses?
Exactly. But the point here is this is only available to people who wish to donate more than about $13k per year.
Explains it rather well: older people dismiss their symptoms as “not real illness” because that’s what society taught them when they were kids.
The hypothesis is that these black holes were not created from stars, but exists from right after the big bang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole
It's either you see an ad or you don't use Bing's GPT chat. I don't think that's much of a choice.
Also relevant: Beringia[0]. The huge area of land between Russia and Alaska that has since been covered in water. When people talk about a land bridge between the two, it's not like it was a small narrow bit above the waves that you quickly crossed. It was the size of a country!

> Commencing from c. 57,000 YBP, steppe–tundra vegetation dominated large parts of Beringia with a rich diversity of grasses and herbs. There were patches of shrub tundra with isolated refugia of larch and spruce forests with birch and alder trees. It has been proposed that the largest and most diverse megafaunal community residing in Beringia at this time could only have been sustained in a highly diverse and productive environment.

There are archeological treasures down below those waters that could tell us so much about the history of the first peoples to come to North America.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia
edit the bbc article got it wrong withe 30 billion times the size and it supposed to be 30 billion solar masses see [1] or the arxiv article [2]

The bbc article says 30 billion times the size while TON618 is 66 billion times the mass.

Wikipedia says TON618 has a Schwarzschild radius of 1,300 AU (390 billion km in diameter) vs teh sun's 1.3927 million km diameter. Which makes TON618 ~280k bigger than the sun.

So if my math is right that makes the Ultramassive balck hole in the bbc article ~107k larger than TON618.

edit give the R = 3M relation for black holes twice the radius means twice the mass. So 107K times the radius means 107k times the mass.

The Ultramassive balck hole in the bbc article would have ~2354000 billion solar masses.

edit give the above I want to fact check BBC's 30 billion times the size vs 30 billion solar masses since the later seems more reasonable.

edit 30 billion solar masses is what is given directly by durham and arxiv[2]

[1] https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2023/03/lig...
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15514
I like weird shit a lot more than the next guy, and I think you're being pointlessly melodramatic about it. Convergent evolution of tastes is not the same as fascism.
My understanding of the abstract is (I'm not an astronomer):

TON 618 is an active SMBH ("hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar" [0]).

The SMBH they found has a smaller mass [2], but it is passive (= much darker).

From the abstract:

"Outside the local Universe, measurements of MBH are usually only possible for SMBHs in an active state: limiting sample size and introducing selection biases. Gravitational lensing makes it possible to measure the mass of non-active SMBHs." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618

[1] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/521/3/3298/7...

[2] "it could be a supermassive black hole equivalent to 13 billion suns: 1.3±0.6)×10^10 M" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_1201_BCG
Note that this isn't an unbiased source. This is working with Jon, the co-writer of The Coddling Of The American Mind, which uhhh is not without its critics for inaccuracies and stretching of truth. Check it out:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am...
Sorting by personality. Every search engine I tried was useless. I guess nobody's written that exhaustive article yet.

Sort by personality? Yep. I asked it to pretend to be a clinical psychiatrist and then asked it to tell me about celebrities personalities that closely matched "calm, thoughtful, and introverted".

I've been running similar experiments with creating groups of actors' responses that conform to groups of personality types: the four humours, blood type, etc...
Yes to conversion quality. For example, the official extension has a huge problem with detecting the cover. I fixed it with KTool.

I also implemented custom parsers for many sites that use a “modern” frontend framework (read: SPA)

And here is the main difference: ability to send RSS feeds and newsletters to Kindle, combine them into only 1 ebook and read at a specific time you set.

I think it’s better to compare KTool to other alternatives like p2k or instapaper. The official extension did an OK job if you don’t need any features above.
Teenagers are yet to be broken in adults who accept things aren't going to change.
It's sort of how you handle assisted living costs. Everything's cheaper if you've distributed your assets beforehand.
This is a good example of bad use of AI. If your developer wrote code and tried to open a PR without talking to anyone, without testing, without an observability plan, without even running the code to make sure there are no errors, that would be crazy!

Good AI systems will do all the above.

Sorry to plug, but if you're a developer interested in building on top of langchain and building similar tech, please email me (in my profile). I'm a senior developer looking to collab.
I think there's larger surface to exploit the laws. Once perfected, it's hard to place a clear boundary on whether the response just answers your question or answers your question while promoting a product/service.
This is really cool! I've been waiting for such a library to show up. Thank you.
One thing: The documentation is currently a bit scarce as to how to tweak the assistant in terms of voice/prompt manipulation etc.

For example, it would be very instructional if you could show how you implemented the Gen-Z demo (great idea btw).
Of course they're comparable. They're operating systems that run on the same hardware form factor and attempt to solve about the same set of problems. The fact that one is much better than the other doesn't make them incomparable. That is to say, the fact that comparing them is inconvenient for one of the sides doesn't make the comparison invalid.
They also are comparing like with like and no surprise it looks similar. Big cities converge.

I’m originally from Tucson, and the aesthetic of the non-downtown area is quite unique. Adobe houses painted in desert tones, for example, are very different to east coast wooden houses.

It would be easy to parody this article by picking out photos of jungles from a distance. They all look the same! Or deserts. Or Mediterranean landscapes compared to Northern California. Snowy mountains - they’re all the same!
Also causing issues due to a change that's made release source tars change [1] (changing hash), so build systems are rejecting [2].

1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/402616
2: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/30481
I'll move up to thinking in terms of the higher level of abstraction one uses to manage the new layer of automation, just as I've been doing throughout my career. The details of the tools change over time, but the fundamental nature of the process stays largely the same.
You may as well have responded with "let them eat cake".

You can try to reason your way out of the position with your simple calculus but at the end of the day people are more than just a line item on a budget.
Except the concern isn't genuine here. Some of the signatories have AI companies and interests. They want to slow the leaders down so that they can catch up. It's disingenuous.
Switzerland is very much an exception to the rule, and even it has a written constitution limiting the government's power. "More power to the people" works when operating within a culture that values attributes that lead to a stable, wealthy society over time, and with limits to what the people can make government do. Otherwise it becomes, as they say, two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.

The Swiss do have a popular vote on things, but they aren't, for example, voting themselves free lunch and ponies for all. I don't know whether that's because the government is prohibited from providing free lunch and ponies or because the majority of people culturally value hard work and saving over immediate gratification and are educated enough to know that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Either way, it would not work out as well in places where one or both of those things are not true.

Let's pick out some recent results from Switzerland:

In 2022, voters rejected "Ban on animal and human experiments" and "Popular initiative against factory farming", and approved "Limiting tobacco advertising".

In 2021, they rejected "Federal Act on greenhouse gas emissions" and "For clean drinking water and healthy food", and approved "Ban on full facial coverings".

In 2020, they rejected "Affordable housing" and "Ban on financing weapon production" and approved "Paternity leave".

In 2019, they rejected "Stop the Sprawl", and approved "Gun control directive".

From this, I can gather that the Swiss as a whole are sensible people who understand that voting for things that sound good on the surface like "ban factory farming" or "more affordable housing" might lead to worse problems down the road than what it is they are trying to fix; and that they have a strong sense of cultural identity, as shown by the ban on full facial coverings.

I would imagine the same questions would yield vastly different results in other places. The proposition system in California resulted in Prop 13, arguably one of the worst policy disasters ever in that state, looking back almost 45 years later. Now the San Francisco city government is talking about paying every black resident a lump sum of $5mm and a guaranteed high income for the next 250 years; what do you think a binding popular referendum would do in that city?
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My connection doesn't suck. It's 1 gigabit down, and the same service I had back when YouTube seemed gung ho on defaulting to hi-res video for me. I suppose it's always possible that an ISP could throttle connections to YT. Judging how fast torrents download for me, there's no good reason why bandwidth in and of itself would cause YouTube to only load up to 1080p for me (though often 720p) unless I force it to use a higher res.