skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course this isn’t and wasn’t ever about TikTok. The same way the original Patriot Act was never really about catching terrorists. When a bill has broad bipartisan support you can usually be sure it is not in the interests of the people.

I am honestly a little surprised they named it the RESTRICT Act as opposed to something like “The Internet Freedom Act” which is more in line with how they usually operate.

The bill is overly broad to the point where they can basically ban any app or service for any reason, and they don’t have to tell anyone why they did it. It also includes a section I haven’t seen a lot of people talking about:

> (K) e-commerce technology and services, including any electronic techniques for accomplishing business transactions, online retail, internet-enabled logistics, internet-enabled payment technology, and online marketplaces.

“internet-enabled payment technology” to me sure sounds a lot like Bitcoin and/or other cryptocurrencies. So all they have to do is say that some Russian state actor used Bitcoin to transact and boom Bitcoin is illegal. You try to use it, 20 years in federal prison and/or up to $1M fine.

This is perhaps the most tyrannical/orwellian bill I have ever read. If this passes, Americans need to take to the streets and burn it all to the ground.
Yes. Self-host using this Ansible playbook has been a joy.

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

A top notch well managed Ansible setup!

It hasn’t integrated in a good iMessage bridge yet last I checked. Hopefully soon!
It's nowhere near good for Russian, though.
Funny enough, this is roughly the premise of the Mass Effect series
For me I was not a fan of opiates when I was in intense physical pain while recovering from surgery. I stopped early and that’s why I had so much left over.

However, it was an ideal drug for emotional pain in later years and I was extremely functional on it. Much more functional than I was sober.
They want their clients hooked. A few percent attrition for your SaaS product makes sense if you convert 50% more of your first month subscribers to annual.
if you had a major concern that you felt many people a) weren't aware of, or b) were aware of but not treating seriously, and you had the resources to voice your concerns in a major publication like Time, would you not do that?
I think I remember reading that languages can choose any point on the vowel diagram as a canonical phonetic expression of a vowel, even though a given language will only have a small finite inventory of vowels.

If this is right, one could interpret it as phonemes being digital (a native speaker can consistently transcribe them using a small number of IPA symbols), but (at least vowel) phones being analog (the typical frequency spectrum appearance typically representing a specific vowel could best be represented by floating-point numbers that are culturally chosen somewhat arbitrary by language evolution). Like /ɪ/ might be 0.82 closeness, 0.23 backness, 0.05 roundedness in some language, but 0.79 closeness, 0.26 backness, and 0.1 roundedness in another.

In turn, if that's right, I don't know how much variation there is among native speakers (from a particular region) in production of a given vowel (or how consistently and precisely children can learn these values). Presumably for recognition the brain rounds off somehow to the nearest vowel phoneme, kind of like picking the nearest point on the constellation diagram in digital communications demodulation?
Even with the right instructions, building weapons of mass destruction is mostly about obtaining difficult to obtain materials -- the technology is nearly a century old. I imagine it's similar with manufacturing a virus. These AI models already have heavy levels of censorship and filtering, and that will undoubtedly expand and include surveillance for suspicious queries once the AI starts to be able to create new knowledge more effectively than smart humans can.

If you're arguing we should be wary, I agree with you, although I think it's still far too early to give it serious concern. But a blanket pause on AI development at this still-early stage is absurd to me. I feel like some of the prominent signatories are pretty clueless on the issue and/or have conflicts of interest (e.g. If Tesla ever made decent FSD, it would have to be more "intelligent" than GPT-4 by an order of magnitude, AND it would be hooked up to an extremely powerful moving machine, as well as the internet).
If we consider an actually aligned AGI rather than merely generative AI, I would expect that this would be accounted for. And AGI could help to open up possibilities for intelligence amplification, which has gone by the wayside compared with all the explosive advances in AI. If humans have routes to continue developing in various ways, then we're not stuck sitting around with all our "problems solved."

Granted, that's still really nebulous, but I like the idea of it better than endless cosmic boredom.
Your linked article mentions that people are particularly accurate at remembering where they were: "We then went back to the 9/11 survey data, and we did see that memory was better for where than the other details. In recalling where they were when they learned of the attack, people were 89 percent accurate at survey two and 83 percent accurate at survey three."

I was in my car commuting to work, and very annoyed at what sounded like some kind of tasteless radio prank. I turned it off and only upon arriving at the office realized it was actually happening.
Laws like cash transaction tracking and other egregious violations of financial privacy under the guise of transparency? No thanks, keep that in the EU. Just further proof that it really is the people that voted for the patriot act, because so many supposed privacy supporters are willing to defend state surveillance where it benefits them.
You don’t want too many incompetent people in management. This will result in your competent ICs becoming incredibly frustrated, leaving you with only the incompetent remaining. Good luck fixing that.
Related in-law:

All about QBasic and QuickBasic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349516 - August 2022 (149 comments)
Mr Clinton is apparently Rossmann's cat, for others that don't get the joke.
You say Thailand has figured it out but 4% of Thais have used illegal drugs in the past year. Which is pretty close to the 5-6% of Asians in the USA who have used illegal drugs in the past year.

Interesting that two very different national legal policies have such similar outcomes among Asians.

Phillipines has experimented with allowing anyone to murder anyone else they suspect of using drugs. That hasn’t significantly decreased the rate of illegal drug use in the country. This is despite making payments to people to summarily execute drug addicts. Thousands have been executed across the Phillipines. I can’t find any evidence that drug use in the Philippines has decreased in the past 5 years.
Tokens can represent virtually anything in Ethereum
Shouldn't that be a thistle?
Ask HN: How did we go from wanting AGI to asking a 6 month pause on it?
I know the letter might be fake, but the overall tone seems to agree with the content of the letter. How did we go from desperately looking for a way to build AGI to a point that we plead everyone to just stop/pause achieving AGI level models? I understand the concerns written in the letter, but isn't the genie out of the bottle? How can anyone be sure that governments won't do it behind the scenes? Isn't AGI a first-mover advantage?
Not beating China so much as the ruling class cementing their power.
This bill went from being bipartisan to wildly radioactive overnight.

I am seeing sites from the entire US political spectrum, from far right to far left and moderates in between, techy and non techy, writing the same negative things about it.

Some senators (like Marco Rubio per his latest Tweets) are already distancing themselves from the bill.

I am still worried about another attempt... but I am not losing any sleep over RESTRICT. It is dead as a doornail.
I think the only solution is for the US to conquer the other half of Mexico that it didn't annex in the 19th century. Feasibility: uncertain.
Using the word abandon absolutely implies you'll never pick it up again.

> While all these words mean "to give up completely," abandon stresses finality and completeness in giving up.

per https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abandon

You may be using it hyperbolically, but if you go out of your way to clarify you don't mean it why use the hyperbole in the first place?

The point of this piece is that you should accept never coming back to things removed from your river - Buddhist attachment, etc.
The rich aren’t going to stop until all the workers are replaced and there’s no one left to buy the products that their companies offer. People have been retraining for centuries, getting more complicated workloads the whole time. Eventually there won’t be hardly anything humans can do that machines can’t do better.

The most merciful thing you can do for your offspring is to not have them in the first place.
That sounds like an incredible way to destroy:

- productivity
- output
- confidence
- your neck if you happen to be in charge
If we "pause" then only the good guys will stop developing Giant AI. The bad actors will keep going.
I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.
There can be more than one danger.
What happened to Nvidia's Ediff-I?
Looks like nvidia's Labs website was rearranged lately and broke all the links to the paper and the download for Ediff-i. But their own search bar doesn't show any results for it. Did it get erased?
I'm familiar with stats like this for other cities, but in my experience, it's common for those statistics to be misinterpreted.

Often these funds go towards housing people so they are no longer homeless, so you might have X people who are currently homeless, but Y people relying on that $1B to remain housed.

Because of that, it's inaccurate to divide $1B by X and then claim that's how much going towards individuals who are still homeless anyway, when it is more accurate to divide that figure by X+Y.
This is a national problem and needs to be addressed (and funded) as such.

The war on drugs has failed miserably (for it's ostensible purpose (to "protect" us from dangerous drugs).

We need to legalize and regulate them all, and make their abuse a medical issue rather than a criminal issue.

For those that have no desire or ability to quit, we can put them in camps and hand out dope to keep them sedated and "safe" from questionable supplies. If they want to get clean, they can have the support to do that but otherwise are effectively interned on work farms.

This is the cheapest, safest, and most humane way of dealing with this problem.
I’m familiar with Lingala and Punjabi, they have millions of speakers. The others might too.
Execute them? You sound like Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Regardless of intention, such an attitude will simply lead to existing biases seeping in, and you'll mostly execute the poor and the non-white.
They're obviously the same thing in Samsung's unfit pipeline but other vendors seem to separate touching image content and only fixing optical aberrations/denoising/tone mapping.
Vehicle speed is exponentially more dangerous.

20 mph is plenty reasonable on city streets.
How do we make sure no country builds underground chip facilities just for training AGI models? tbh, the genie is out of the bottle. I never thought the path to AGI would be so "simple": basically you take a 2017 paper and give it tons of data and see AGI emerge. It's fascinating.
What a heartwarming success story :) Username checks out!
Overtime more and more of the infrastructure that touches user data will be a sandbox like this: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/29/apples-ios-14-int...
That sounds... fine? It's like having a bill that says you can't join designated terrorist organizations or fund money to them, and if you try to use VPNs to cover your tracks or to send payments to them it's also punishable.
Why wouldn't I want my offspring to live in a world where dangerous, monotonous, degrading labor is no longer required to live?
How silly. Imagine telling Elon to pause development of all new rockets until people become comfortable with Starlink? Are language models really that scary?

It feels like it has become trendy for everyone to worry about everything rather than to look to the future, be creative, and explore all of the amazing uses and problems that we can start tackling.
Alignment is necessary for AGI, but not always for narrowly scoped AI for specific purposes. However, it may be completely ineffective in that capacity.
* Note that your stats are probably made up, but even considering your numbers.

> The US has 20 times the per capita death rate from drug overdoses than Bangladesh.

More people are rich enough to buy hard drugs in the US.

> It has 30 times the opioid addiction rate of Singapore.

Singapore is a city not a country.

> We have been liberalizing our drug policies for the last 20 years

No you haven't. You can still go to jail for weed in many states in the USA.

> . In that time, the number of annual drug overdose deaths has increased by a factor of five.

Driven by the over-prescription of opioids by pharmaceutical companies like Purdue.

> I used to agree with you a decade ago about drug policies. But the math clearly has proven me wrong.

So murdering a random drug mule is the correct solution.
It would be a lot more effective to regulate the things that make TikTok dangerous, rather than banning TikTok itself. Facebook, instagram, twitter, and a number of other social media services are guilty of the same behavior and I'd really prefer none of them have the ability to affect us the way they do.

Ban algorithmic ordering of content. Make a strong privacy policy that makes it impossible to track and/or collect data on you without opting-in. Make the opt-in text and prompt default to no, with the language of the opt-in and the buttons standard. Require ads to be prominently labeled, and require users to be offboarded if they break advertising laws.

The real problem is that the aim of these bills isn't to protect us. It's to harm China, and to sneak in changes that gives the government more ability to access our private data, or to block encrypted communications.
Unilateral terrorism seems like a great way to get the rest of the planet to unite against you, which is why he advocates for data-center bombing only in circumstances where earth has already coordinated to establish an international order banning them.
If you are looking for a Linux distro, here is my recommendation. If you have the freedom, pick something that is independent + community driven(CD)/community oriented (CO) like Arch Linux(CD)/Linux Mint(CO) or which is not independent and depends on another distro's packages/infra but is still community oriented like Linux Mint or Elementary.

It's not some tinfoil stuff. Community oriented or driven (entirely community driven like Arch) always listens to the community. This snap and flatpaks wouldn't happen in the first place.

Use Linux Mint if you don't have time to initially set it up. Else use Arch Linux if you have initial time and patience to read. Arch is not scary like community is bad. There is a wall of text and it is intimidating. It needs time like a couple of days when you do it for the first time. But it is just about RTFM.

Flatpak and Snap are unneccessary abstractions which adds a hell a lot of bloat and for what? To make a point release distro work similar to rolling release. Nothing else. So just use a rolling release distribution like Arch or OpenSuse Tumbleweed (which I haven't used but have been hearing good things. Especially since last week here in HN).

But but, point release is bleeding edge and unstable!

NO! They are stable versions of packages and not development streams.

We seriously need to clear this confusion between a Linux distro's stable, testing, unstable repos and upstream's development branches. These two things are completely different.

When you say for eg; Firefox v222222.1 with a serious security patch is in testing branch for your distro, it means it is not tested with YOUR distro which did some hacks to make it work cos it is a point release and froze your package for a point release. *AND NOT BECAUSE OF THE UPSTREAM DEVELOPMENT BRANCH HAS BUG.* Majority of the time, it is fixed already in upstream. And even if it is a bug which is new, your package needs to be an important one. Otherwise you will have to wait till your next point release update or version bump before receiving the update. This backporting and picky patching on point releases is creating a huge amount of unneccessary overhead on upstream because hacks/patching differ on each distro.

Use any rolling release, Arch, Open Suse Tumbleweed, PCOSLinux, Void or a point release which uses unstable/testing branches (which ever is closest to upstream) like Debian unstable (Or whatever is being the distro's repo which is closest to upstream stable versions) which is essentially closer to upstream.

These are for desktop users. AND NOT SERVERS. FYI.
https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/tree/master/langchain...

Model would probably take that description and write python code to compute the answer.
Elon has signed that letter :P
It would be really, really hard to kill the bacteria and Archaeans that we've since found hiding deep underground. They're long way down and would barely notice.
Heh I think that’s the reason for JS undefined too
Looking at the alleged proof on your GitHub page (https://github.com/dankearney/collatz/blob/2dd21babd5fbced73...):

> As the cycles get longer, the nearest power of 2 actually trends further away. Why? https://mathoverflow.net/a/116960 explains this nicely -- powers of 2 and 3 cannot be close to one another as powers get larger. We need a power of 2 to be close to a power of 3, but that is not possible.

You misinterpreted the MathOverflow answer. Quoting its result, "At least half of the powers of 2, in a density sense, have a distance from the powers of three of at least one fifth of their size." Notice that it does not set any bound that applies to all powers of 2. Therefore, your assertion remains unproven.

For an explicit counterexample, let's take your n = 1000000001. Let e = 10439860591 and o = 6586818670. Then, 2^e ≈ 3^o + 2.796·10^3142711177, but (3 + 1/n)^o ≈ 3^o + 2.206·10^3142711189. Therefore, 3^o ≤ 2^e ≤ (3 + 1/n)^o, contrary to the strong form of your assertion.

Also, you have not proven the nonexistence of sequences which diverge to infinity.
> I don’t know about trans kids as I don’t have any direct experience with that but I can’t imagine it being an issue any more than any other city.

Well, its Texas, so the AG’s opinion on gender affirming care as child abuse and Governor’s order to the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families for such care [0] have effect (while it has been challenged and enjoined in some specific cases, the Texas Supreme Court struck down the statewide injunction against investigations based on the rationale in the AG opinion and Governor’s orders, so only those families currently in litigation are protected from further CPS action while it proceeds without new litigation.

And then there are the enormous pile of anti-trans bills filed by the majority party in the Texas Legislature this session and currently pending. Not all of them will pass, but some of them seem pretty likely to.

> I’m often disheartened hearing tired tropes about Texas just being rednecks, klansmen, and bible thumpers. Yes, they do exist, as they do in California or Oregon or New York. But they are not anything like common.

And yet, your state government – legislative and executive branches, with the judiciary a little more mixed – is consistently, on multiple different issues, at the tip of the spear on right-wing culture war issues nationally for many years. Which suggests that those types of people you don’t want to be associated with are more common – or disproportionally politically influential – in your state. That is very much not the case in California or Oregon or New York, as much as you would like to pretend that there is no difference.

[0] https://texaslawhelp.org/article/transgender-youth-cps
So Facebook/meta gets a monopoly on manipulating public opinion and subversion?

They need to be regulated and reigned in just as hard as TikTok.
Nuclear weapons haven't even been around for a century yet and we've already had multiple extremely close calls that were adverted by sheer luck, in one case a Russian officer openly disobeying standing orders. The Russian invasion of Ukraine still has a non-trival risk it will eventually turn nuclear.

Looking at nukes and trying to use them as an example of our ability to control existentially dangerous technology is mind boggling myopic.
I think it's fine.

The lawmakers aren't evil mustache twirling villains, they're trying to create a law and they wrote it as sensibly as they reasonably would in their circumstance and people on the internet are blowing it way out of proportion.

Blowing things up like this is a thing the internet, America in general, has problems with. The TTP, If you remember that one, was another one that people absolutely tried to crush and it turned out it was actually a really good idea that we should have been part of.

The reaction to this is scarily similar, and it's going to be resulting in a similar loss if it gets shut down.

In all hopes they buckle down, put down some revisions to neuter some of the more egregious things people are complaining about, and the law passes with those extra protections.
No, the reality is that there are many more incompetent nice people than competent jerks, and management is not the factor. My experience has been that despite the few jerks, 98% of the people on every team and every company are nice and well-intentioned. Then within the huge majority of nice people, there's always some who just don't move the ball forward, no matter the task put to them. And they sit on the same team with others who do get good (or great) work done. It's the manager who is now incompetent because some people can't ever get out of first gear?
The key is to provide Autonomy initially within well defined bounds. As the person grows in his/her job, slowly the boundaries are made looser so that the person has a greater area to play in. This is an innate need in Humans i.e. nobody likes to feel "controlled".

Edward Deci's Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation is a great book on this.
"millions of speakers" and fewer than "0.1% of the world" are not mutually exclusive claims
ChatGPT and Large Language Models: What are the implications for policy makers?
(PDF) A discussion paper targeted at policy makers that examines the potential societal impact of ChatGPT and other large language models, circulated by the AI Researchers Association (Aotearoa New Zealand)
I actually disagree with you because world leaders want to "stay in power", if you convinced them enough that the only way to do this is for you not to have an AGI, I think they'd make sure you don't get an AGI, amongst other things.
Since it's unconstitutional for bills to target individual people or companies, they are never mentioned by name in the text. This is not some sort of conspiracy.
If this was a democrat, would you still give the benefit of the doubt?

I simply can't trust the word of a politician that's arguing in favor of the company that bribed them.
If you keep taking HN threads further into political/nationalistic flamewar, we're going to have to ban you. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362421.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Imagine complaining about an an optional ai upscaler doing ai upscaling things. Literally shooting himself in the foot and crying from the pain
Why are you in favor of a TikTok ban?