skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my frustrations is incompetent but nice people, but defined more like: can’t be trusted to not have their work checked but is adept at social games. When your manager, you cannot ‘just do’ anything they ask because it wouldn’t of been thought through, when your colleague, you can’t brainstorm with them or trust anything from them has been done to minimum viable. This requires people to push back, but doing so risks being seen as a jerk, and risks actually becoming a jerk if you one day realise how much of your time is babysitting.
But they play golf with your boss, they make friends with people (instead of working), it’s always someone else’s fault that something went wrong. Which is to say these people form cliques, and they gossip constantly to develop and maintain in and out groups. They play favourites something shocking too, and focus on the weaknesses of people they’re threatened by and point them out constantly. They seem nice, but imo I’ve seen highly competent but direct and mission focused teams be reduced to petty infighting and guarded position jostling in less than a month upon the hiring of just one such person.

Hey, am I, or we, actually talking about autistic traits vs narcissistic traits? Not sure. Wasn’t my intention going in, just wanted to point out that nice people have coping strategies too, and their incompetence might just be that they don’t prioritise trying to be good at their job and find their success in ways I personally find manipulative and toxic far more than someone being directly rude.

To reword the top comment: the incompetent destroy team morale, make good people leave, and paralyse junior employees and those lacking confidence/assertiveness. They may contribute to a friendly environment, but they burden others.
Jerks, as long as they are not so jerky as to be abusive, can at least contribute to a strong team culture by stripping away uncertainty and fluff and make less assertive but competent people want to show up and succeed.

Final reword: the need for jerks increases the more BS is in the system. A system with enough BS will produce jerks out of necessity.
It’s stayed low. France had 0.6 OD deaths per 100,000 people in 2020. The US had 27.9 OD deaths per 100,000 people.

In other words the US numbers are roughly 50x as bad.
Is anyone genuinely surprised about this? Really?
Wxcuse me, What? Are the financial exprents that predicted 2008 crash a year too early gullible?

We it's only a matter of time untill this type of fraud happens. It's just not possible to predict exactly when
That's not really true. 2kHz is a pretty big range to build a filter in (and with digital you can trivially sample at 192khz FFT and delete the high frequency data)
Yeah, it's an open secret nobody wants to ever talk about in these threads. The fentanyl problems in the United States are essentially a direct social attack by the Chinese on the US. It's basically intentional in every way that matters.
The statistical noise of opioid deaths is the depressing part?
Not only that, but stringed instruments have a lot of frequencies in the first millisecond, right at the attack, until the string settles into its harmonic oscillations. This is very noticeable on a spectrogram and gives each plucked/raked/bowed note its distinctive character.
We are not, but this AI drama is also the ultimate "whataboutism."

- What about if AI becomes AGI (whatever that actually means, it's not even clear)?

- Well, if that DID happen soon, which we can't actually know, well, what about if it tried to kill us all? (why? who the fuck knows, maybe it will chat us to death).

Meanwhile there is a very real certainty of catastrophic environmental damage that will decimate future generations, if it doesn't actually cause us to go extinct. And what do we get? People hand wringing over this ultimate what if, rather than signing every public statement document they can find to try to get an actual intervention on climate destruction.

I'm not talking (oh in 10 years maybe we'll have more EVs) kind of intervention, more like, let's get every country in the world to be off oil and gas in 5 years, not just for EVs but for almost everything possible, and where not possible let's use carbon neutral biofuel.
It's a huge problem here on the east coast especially in semi-rural areas (think like networks of small very poor towns and small cities). The general consensus I've gathered is that it's predominantly young white men, often very poor, who are struggling with adverse conditions in terms of gainful employment/education opportunities etc. As previously solid economies are crumbling around them.
Sad, this whole thing where companies train chinchilla optimal models has to stop - I'm always happy to get open source models but it would be great if it was useful rather than a benchmark.
That's a great explanation. Thank you!
And if the instrumentation is picked automatically by AI and it decides to add a fart sound.

Of a horse.

Underwater.
this + fish...if someone installs them via installer rather than building from source, is that a security risk? Meaning, is fish so powerful that a compromised version of fish could scrape / intercept GPT comms and either prime GPT networks or disturb them?
Getting this [1] into the hands of all the kids out there seems like a good start. And of course getting the "yeah, just use it if you're even a little worried your friend can't breath anymore; it won't make things worse"

"Don't take drugs" is a good start but reminding kids that they're playing in hardcore mode only goes so far -- even the good ones get unlucky or make bad decisions...

[1] https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/3924952-fda-appr...
Big fan of ASR and former HeadFi member (back when they actually had a sub-forum dedicated to measurements, data, and science). My only 'criticism' (and it's primarily directed at older reviews) would be Amir often using SINAD as a single metric to determine the quality of a product. I'd guess this was intentional, as a means to address how "convoluted" (aka batshit crazy) the hobby had/has(?) become, e.g. how you feel about your $1k audiophile switch is of no importance to anyone other than yourself.
of course I'm not talking about pugs. I mean dogs, average dogs, as a model for wild animals our hunter gatherer ancestors might have hunted long time ago.

Again I'm not saying it's "literally" impossible. Just not feasible. Actually, chasing an animal worth hunting to exhaustion sounds more like a feat of strength someone would do as a rite of passage. Something you could do once in a lifetime, rather than a reliable source of food.
> It's not that dealers know their drugs will definitely kill customers, it's that they don't know what's in what they're selling and they're smart enough to know not to ask questions of their suppliers.

Same difference. Why do the suppliers think it's smart to poison their product?
I don't get how this works. Do the files that are imported have css rules defined? Am I supposed to then use those classes in my app? What about apps that not greenfield, do I need to replace all my classes with the ones that mirrorful exports?

Also is there an integration with bootstrap, and if so how would that work?
If Yudkowsky believes Israel's brand of preventative saboutage to be unethical, why does he advocate for exactly that style of measure to be taken against data centers in this very article?
The US military makes this work by running everyone through standardized training and exercises. Few companies do that. Historically, IBM and the Bell System did. Not many others.

The military definitely standardizes the details. Anybody who's
been in the military knows this.
Here's the US Navy/USMC guide to formatting correspondence and memos.[1] They use Times New Roman. (Upgraded in 2018 from Courier New.)

Consistency in the details means that the failure modes are known. This is a big help when you have to bring everything you need.

[1] https://www.marines.mil/portals/1/Publications/SECNAV%20M%20...
People don't seem to understand that some people are intrinsically motivated to create things, and don't need to be incentivized with money. And that in fact, when you set out to make money by creating things, the results are shittier, because you're setting out to make money, not to create things.
The bill applies to only to financial transactions ("covered transactions" in the bill) and holdings ("covered holdings"), there's nothing in it at all directly regulating access to data or websites by individuals.
Let's imagine that I, without acting as a business, took income for work and then paid other people to do the work. All of that income would get double taxed, not just the profit. Corporations get a huge tax benefit compared to individuals. Imagine if you could deduct cost of living from your income tax.

Also a lot of that money only gets taxed the second time as capital gains, so while it's taxed twice it's two very discount taxes.
I had always just assumed there was no such thing as a scaffolding warehouse and scaffolding just stayed where it was until it was needed elsewhere.
The Machine Stops, rather than Terminator.
A Manhattan project on AI Alignment, if started now, might still succeed in time. Therefore, the compliance between parties needs not be long-term, which is indeed unlikely to happen.

China, which is the country outside the west with the highest (engineering) capability to train something more powerful than GPT-4, is very concerned about domestic stability and they also do not want an easily replicable alien tool with many unknown risks. The risk that GPT-4.5 & Plugins will cause massive rapid job displacements is reason enough for them proceed cautiously.

(The only other, more remote, possibilities outside the west are Japan, South Korea, India, and Singapore but they all share similar concerns regarding social stability and can be negotiated with.)

Companies in these countries will follow regulations, if any is enacted.
For what level of information?

Are you referring to the discussion content of HN, source code of start-ups, business and start-up knowledge, or ... ?

The first thought that came to mind reading your title was "a Wiki".

Reading the text ... your goal seems rather less clear.
1) It's just a lot harder from the legislation's perspective.
2) Other social medias are mainly profit driven, any negative social impact is mainly side effect due to misalignment of incentives. But TikTok is much more likely to intentionally act in a malicious way, so I think the risk not comparable here.
Without the browser, JavaScript wouldn’t even be called JavaScript.
> But limiting one particular method to disperse speech is not limiting free speech as a concept; this entire argument is silly and just poisons the entire discussion.

Could you quote from the article where this argument is made?

I see these arguments:

1. Banning TikTok is similar to what China does. What China does is bad.

2. It will harm Republicans to ban a popular social media app

3. The act gives the executive too much discretion to ban modes of communication <- Main argument
It’s been blinded. Other actors will train AIs without such blindness. That’s obvious, but what is more nefarious is that the public does not know exactly which subjects GPT has been blinded to, which have been tampered with for ideological or business reasons, and which have been left alone. This is the area that I think demands regulation.
> Unfortunately excessive retouching/filtering of digital photos has been a significant problem in East Asian cultures and that is spreading elsewhere quickly

I'm not sure why you think this was something that only happened in "East Asian cultures" until now?
Funny, but people sum not multiply
I’m aware. Most American cities which existed prior to 1950 had that and could have it again if the city leaders chose to stop subsidizing private car travel over everything else.
I worry that we've replaced the American understanding of austerity, rationing, community, and hard work necessary to survive the next decade with a fig leaf of cries of national security.

If you're still in the later camp, when times get tough you're more likely to be first to the black market. First to burn your ration card. I see all kinds of firsts in the future for such folks, none of them America.

Good riddance.
Interesting. I wish it covered error handling.
Oh, it's about time. Maybe they can make it stick when nobody else could.

I would just love to see winches and stuff at 48v, a whole lot of things would just be dramatically less awkward.
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> You only had one? How can you pretend to know a brand with 1 model?

Because it is also a common sentiment I've heard from others, on X1s. But also because it was my experience

> FYI, of the modern thinkpads, only those from the X1 series are good.

I'm sure if you research thoroughly and are lucky it xan work. I'd rather pay fir a company that fully backs Linux on the hardware.

> TBH the nano is so great that I've moved from Windows to Linux on the desk(lap)top in 2023 :)

I'm glad you did, welcome! (I've been running Linux since the 90s. :) I'm glad it's working for you, but I'd suggest it's a poor strategy even if it's perhaps an acceptable tactic.

> Look at the comments from your own link, from actual users of Clevos who are trying to politely say it's not as good as claimed.

Yes, because Clevos are not System76? That's rather my point. They're the people who bought Clevos and discovered the hard way that they're different in very salient ways.

> There's a lot of astroturfing from linux related brands on sites like HN.

Astroturfing? I've talked woth these folks and have used their hardware since the late to mid-aughts. Saying they're contradicting their claims, and they're saying up front they work for System76.

It's like claiming a RedHat dev is astroturfing when they say how the internals of the distro work. (And I'm highly sceptical of them having the disposable cash to splash out to hire astroturfers!)

> tweaked fan curve is nothing to brag about, when they have components not even working like the fingerprint reader.

It's not just a tweaked fan curve. The firmwares are entirely different.

The reply about the fingerprint reader sounds reasonable. They don't have nearly the leverage of Dell, Lenovo, or Apple to get the ODM to do what they want. This sounds reasonable (and not my own experience.) They're a small shop, in no small part because people keep showing Linux on Windows computers.

> Now if you are curious, invest a few hunders in a used thinkpad and see for yourself.

I could, or I could keep buying hardware that is for Linux, with support. I think my time is worth it.
> "we are managed by power we can not control" sounds like a step up from here, since we corrupt the things we can control.

I think it is a very high risk gamble. At least some of problems that are described by alignment theory seem to quite interestingly resemble human problems. Meaning the more sophisticated the AI system, the more it seems to reproduce human behaviors of deception and cheating to resolve goals.

For example: https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/emergent-deception-optimizat...

The more advanced AI becomes, it begins to look more like an uncomfortable mirror of ourselves, but with more power. We think of ourselves as flawed, but possibly some of those flaws are emergent within some laws of intelligence we don't perceive.
so what, we can't ban any apps that allow you to send a message or are considered social in some way?
https://archive.is/V1bnN
It was valid in every other instance so what makes this one different?

It’s almost like humans have some built-in tendency to step back from the edge and not cause their own extinction.

And no, AI isn’t the same as an asteroid barreling towards the earth where you can point to it and also reference the dinosaurs and say things might not turn out so good this time.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35360081> (90+ comments)
If I'm following this correctly, they asked your opinion and then were dismissive of it "because you're socially awkward." If so, they're the assholes.

Surely, they knew you were socially awkward before they asked.
No but we can step back and have some healthy discussion about what is actually important to us as a species and go in that direction, at least the majority of us need too.

Where do you think wars with Russia, China etc are going to lead us? They're going to leads us to death.

Maybe you're right that it's impossible to think about human thinking evolving to something more intelligent and from here on it it's war, being angry at each other via social media algorithms and eventually, the paper clip optimizer or a biological / nuclear accident. I don't believe this has to be the case though.

We think that we're making intelligent systems that are based on our current line of thinking? That honestly scares me the most.

I guarantee if social media algorithms were optimized to spread messages of peace and understanding, the world in 2023 would be a much less scary place. It could be that simple.
For my sci-fi story (alpha readers wanted; see profile), I used Whisper to transcribe an interview of a Malawian President. From there, I created a vocabulary comprised of only the president's words, which I used almost exclusively when writing his speech.

The results from Whisper are incredible, with very few mistakes. Though it did get Nelson Mandela's first name wrong (transcribed as Nesson). What's more, Whisper finished transcribing a 60-minute audio stream in 20 minutes on commodity hardware (T1000 G8 NVIDIA GPU). Broadly, here are the steps I used:

* Download and install podman.

* Download and install git.

* Download and install curl.

* Open a command prompt.

* Run the following commands to containerize Whisper:

git clone https://github.com/lablab-ai/whisper-api-flask whisper
cd whisper
mv Dockerfile Containerfile
podman build --network="host" -t whisper .
podman run --network="host" -p 5000:5000 whisper

* Download MP3 file (e.g., filename.mp3).

* Run the following command to produce a transcription:

curl -F "file=@filename.mp3" http://localhost:5000/whisper
I'm not necessarily saying you are wrong here in the case of fortnite, but do you have data to back up that the average fortnite player is an adult? It seems like in general it tends to be wildly more popular with younger people, generally kids and teens - although i don't have data for this either, just based off what I've personally seen.
It's not simply because "they can," but that the towns and cities get built so that things are distributed and not served comparably by bus lines. For example, in my median-density medium-sized city, by USA standards, my grocery store is 16 minutes away by bus, but 5 minutes by car. A coffee shop I'd go to is 29 minutes by bus and 6 minutes by car. Things are much worse for where >60% of Americans live too...
You're right and OC is wrong. My Nexus 5 from 2013 could take decent single exposure night sky photos (after post processing the RAW images). The Google camera now just automates most of the manual work (adjusting exposure/sensitivity, stabilizing, aligning and stacking multiple images, post processing) see https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/11/astrophotography-with-nigh...

I'm sure the iPhone is just as capable
> Foreign adversaries have learned exactly how to weaponize our free and open internet against our own people.

The way you weaponize the network against a populace is by censoring it. In this regard, Congress is the one doing that.
I'm WAY more distrustful and scared of the US government than the Chinese government.
Your experience is in urban areas that are predominantly liberal. You realize that in rural areas people are discriminated against regularly or even killed for being a different color?

In case you need a refresher of an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery
It's literally in the title with and first highlighted paragraph. "We're going to be just like China and ban speech we're afraid of" is hard to interpret as any other way than "this is limiting free speech".
What's crazy is that the big government solution to this was to build a wall at the US-Mexico border.
I'm curious what the floorplan was like?
If everybody's convinced by AI safety arguments, then the game matrix changes and the dominant strategy is to just not do it. You lose if anyone does it including yourself. It works for the same reason that nobody sets off a giant cobalt bomb and kills the planet.[1]

Our unfortunate situation right now is that we don't understand the physics well enough to really be confident of consequences.

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/...
Well by definition the illegal fentanyl isn’t coming from legal drug companies. But believing it has always been illegal fentanyl seems somewhat ahistorical. It wasn’t that long ago that Purdue Pharma, the Sackler Family, and other pharma companies settled for billions of dollars for their role in the opioid epidemic. It hasn’t always been cartels and China.
> In theory the massive amount of compute needed to train and run these at scale could be tracked/regulated similarly to how nuclear refinement facilities are

It seems likely there exists a fully distributed training algorithm and a lot of people are thinking about and I suspect a coordinated training network, perhaps with a reward system, can hopefully be created. Lots of GPUs out there and we just need to figure out how to coordinate them better and shard all the training data.
what about firefox ?
You just described Idiocracy and I thought it was pretty good.
Sure but it wont be completely one-sided.
Authoritarian, mendacious and unpredictable. Controls a lot of resources (i.e. space launchers, satellites with unknown capabilities, robotic vehicles, supercomputers, propaganda machines). Considers himself above the government.
The Iraq invasion was not morally justified and an idiotic decision to boot. But on the evil spectrum, invading to annex/colonize a territory is far worse than invading a dictatorship, deposing the dictator, and giving power back to the native people.
Newton's Commonplace Beginnings – Scribbles on waste paper
C/C++/C# are indeed often used for game programming but when it comes to gameplay logic scripting there's a lot more options. Lua, blueprint, lisp, angelscript, unity's graph language etc..
Something people in this thread are missing, is that this doesn't have anything to do with the process of taking a photo (unlike the moon issue). The "Remaster" feature is part of the Samsung gallery, and you can use it to "remaster" an existing photo in your gallery.

Obviously, adding teeth to a baby is insane in any situation, but it's not like you're taking a photo of a baby with no teeth and then seeing teeth in the photo.

I've used the Remaster feature a few times on outdoor shots and it generally does a good job of fixing a bunch of issues with a photo and enhancing details etc.
GPT-4 is still not dangerous. Given the rapid progress trajectory though, GPT-5 and later which may be developed in a few short years could very well be, esp in the hands of a smart sociopath. (History shows there are many who could cause real-world harm. Imagine them armed with a 24/7 agent with expertise in dozens of fields.)

See these predictions of AI in 2025 by an OpenAI insider and a former DeepMind research engineer:

“I predict that by the end of 2025 neural nets will:

- have human-level situational awareness (understand that they're NNs, how their actions interface with the world, etc)

- beat any human at writing down effective multi-step real-world plans

- do better than most peer reviewers

- autonomously design, code and distribute whole apps (but not the most complex ones)

- beat any human on any computer task a typical white-collar worker can do in 10 minutes

- write award-winning short stories and publishable 50k-word books

- generate coherent 20-min films
“

Source: https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1640568775018975232