skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A100s aren't magical pixie dust. China aren't developing their own silicon[1] for funsies.

This is all mathematics. Ignoring the fact that the entirety of what is required to build GPT-4 is easily remembered by a single human being (i.e. adversary), it could also be rediscovered. America doesn't have some secret sauce that nobody else has. We have a time lead, and that is it.

Keeping the details secret and under control is like trying to keep anyone from discovering that the sky is blue.

A 6 months freeze on AI research in America? China would relish it. Hell, who's to say this isn't their idea?

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/moore-threads-unveils-chun...
AI alignment is a philosophy problem, not an engineering one.

For alignment to happen, we have to agree what it means. Given we have a hard enough time getting humans to “align”, I can’t imagine any successful attempt at alignment sort of complete castration.
What if it's not beating up on others, but being very critical of languages because you believe language choice actually does matter?
Yes, humans can detect sounds up to about 20 kHz when they're younger. That number goes down with age and noise exposure. But if you ever have taken a hearing test, you might notice they stop testing at 8 kHz. If you look at equal loudness curves, 8 kHz is around the point where sounds have to get much, much louder to be perceived as the same volume as sounds at lower frequencies. You can hear those higher frequencies in cymbals and a few other things in music if your hearing isn't thrashed, but in a practical sense, 8 kHz is the upper limit of useful human hearing.
That's the nice version of all of this.

The less nice version is that it's all marketing and for-profit woo: Buy these gold cables with 20% nitrogen and your MIDIs will sound crisper! Buy these fiber optic cables made with Genuine Himalayan Sea Salt and your bits will be better-formed! Buy my optoelectric isolator or you might as well be hooking your speakers to your turntable with a rusty wire coat hanger!

"Riddled with inscrutable lore" is a prime diagnostic feature of all this; it recurs in pseudoscience of all kinds, and the audiophile experience is pseudoscience-adjacent at least whenever it makes claims about reality. It's motte-and-bailey, to some extent: This sounds "Better", where "Better" is either completely subjective, or the result of objectively untrue and blatantly impossible claims they make about the gear they're selling.

If everyone knows it's just pretend, sure. But false advertising and lying are morally wrong.
If Google keeps this up, they're gonna surpass Dragon Naturally Speaking ~1999
Depression… mental health… Australia requires you to report if you ever saw a shrink. I think it was 10 years of medical records. What really sucks too, is that you tend to apply through your company, so you’re sending your company’s lawyer all these documents to submit on your behalf. And you know full well the company is probably getting a summary report. I found it so cruel that they make it harder to get a visa if you have a history of depression. Like plenty of people get depressed but don’t have a ton of visible symptoms… soldier on. But it’s fine if you just drink, but if you tried to get help they penalize you for speaking with a therapist.
Gambas is one of the most comfortable options for self-learners. I don't like BASIC all that much, but the platform in itself is very nice. It does reminds me of the RAD era of programming. Technologies like Gambas, Neobook, Embarcadero and Windows Forms are not all seen with some contempt, but I enjoyed working with them very much back in the day. You could just get stuff done. One IDE, one language, one toolset... literally the most get-shit-done era of programming...
When the auto CC first came out, it was horrible, especially if you had thick accent. This video was one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp446OPWsvI

But it has come a long way since then.
We need more libertarians in congress, they err on the side of civil liberties and work to stop the deluge of bad laws.
Buprenorphine hasn't been as effective as hoped[1] for addiction treatment specifically for people who have taken fentanyl.

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/16/fentanyl-isnt-just-causi...
Hell is others’ XML.
That’s a fallacy that took me a long time to get over. People do not behave rationally. It is as simple as that. I can argue logically if everyone thinks logically and treats their fellow human being with decency respect and concern, we would all be better off. They will simply laugh at me as gullible and naive while stealing me blind.
You don't need it if you print slowly, and you don't need it for reliable old PLA. If I squint, I think I can see a difference, but it's marginal.

Thing is, the X1C isn't really for printing PLA. If you only want to do that, you'd get a V400 or a Voron. When I print PC Blend, though, it's... the difference is glaring. This isn't something that needs a lot of testing; with the lidar off, the corners look like semicircles.

Also monotonic top/bottom layers don't fill the full surface, because they have corners on both ends. About like you'd expect, and the difference isn't visible from the outside; external perimeters are always printed slowly anyway.
It is, and it's the data that a lot of audio compression algorithms manage to lose or mangle.

A plucked string in FLAC vs something like 128 or 160kbit MP3 sounds radically different. The same is true of the initial hit of a cymbal - they're just wrong when compressed.
The House Speaker is named McCarthy and everything. We are good to go!
I feel that what the author has described is the very opposite of agile.

This article has some fair points on bloated companies, useless meetings and rituals, guesswork-based products, and I wouldn't dare to estimate how many companies could fit into this description, but agile proposes just the opposite (I'd call that "conscious agile").

Even if you read the Scrum guide, you'll see that it does not prescribe most of the things that are commonly attributed to it. Many of these canned practices come from taking things out of context, or from a misunderstanding of the reasoning behind the Agile or Scrum principles.
They have a self-hosted instruction here :

https://github.com/beeper/self-host

However, as it is stated, you can't use Beeper to connect to a self-hosted server. You must use other Matrix client such as Element.
Your analogy is again flawed. Brave people are not banned, they are free to do rock climbing and base jumping.

A specific unrelaible/untrusted tool and equipment they use for adventure is banned. You are arguing as if people are banned. But they are not.
Yeah, I think that's true. For DACs he doesn't even listen to them.

For DACs, I think SINAD (for those unfamiliar, this is equivalent to THD+N) really does tell something very close to the whole story. Call it 95%, 99%, 99.9%, whatever you will. The remaining N% is stuff we probably don't yet have reliable measurements for. I'm not saying it's magic and unmeasurable stuff, just that we don't have a solid set of measurements to capture it.

For headphone amps, or DAC+amp combos, there are definitely things not well represented by SINAD. I think most of this is related to power delivery (which he does measure) and I think the rest is probably related to slew rate or something thereabouts. But that's just a wild-ass psuedo scientific guess on my part.
> I don’t like this advice as it would make me miss these amazing books.

Abandoning a book does not mean you can never pick it up again. I have abandoned media that I didn’t like only to return to it years later and enjoy it.

> The challenge with the advice is that is I want ok experiences, it works. But if I’m looking for amazing experiences it cuts them off.

That would only be true if all amazing experiences sucked at the start, which is absolutely not true.

> Lots of art is difficult until the switch that makes it worthwhile.

And lots of it is worth it all the way through, or has something that makes you believe it will deliver if you stick with it.

> Especially since one great book may be as enjoyable as 100 marginal books.

And because our time is finite, if we abandon those 100 we may have the opportunity to find 5 great books instead of 1.
But I assure you, other forms of goo did. :D
It's what President Roosevelt called his radio broadcasts. Maybe stuffy is accurate, I think of it as grandiose.
Don't you think you're being a little uncharitable to the advice?

The experience between struggling with a complex work that you feel has something to tell you vs. being disappointed by low-quality schlock isn't hard to differentiate. Telling people to 'just power through it no matter what' results in a lot of wasted time, and potentially worse, a diminished joy in reading itself.
The problem is game theory. Geopolitical tensions mean that governments have a vested interest in pursuing this potential catastrophe-in-the-making.
Has anyone tried Verse in the Fortnite context yet? I haven't used it yet, but I've been reading the documents.

Understand, this is a language for object behaviors. You don't write "a game" in Verse. You write behaviors for each type of object, and they interact to produce behavior. So it's a large number of little programs, reacting to events and talking to each other.

The main kinds of programs seem to be "devices" and "landscapes". Devices are entities within the scene, and "landscapes" are scenes. "Devices" will not usually have huge amounts of code.
We’ve tried. For 70+ years. Prohibition has caused more problems here than it’s solved…as it’s solved basically no problems.

For a large variety of reasons, the Singapore model doesn’t work here. It doesn’t even work across all of SEA. The Philippines have banned drugs for a long time, but they still have 2-3 million people who regularly use illegal drugs. 4% of Thais have used illegal drugs in the past year, and both countries have very strict laws about drug trafficking.
Apps like Meitu are far more prevalent in East Asian Cultures.

There are large percentage of the population who has not posted a non-retouched version their photos in years
"House Un-American Activities Committee" is a LOT of words to read, say, or remember. It's easier just to lump it all under "woke" now, a single, shorter more approachable word for the intended audience.
> I don’t know at what point it stops being a photo any more.

Considering that Ansell Adams would spend weeks reworking his negatives to get the perfect print I think that you'll find that horse bolted a very long time ago.
Yeah, not just him, and not just TikTok / ByteDance:

> It’s also spent over $13 million lobbying the federal government since 2019, per OpenSecrets, including a record $5.4 million last year. ByteDance’s spending on lobbying was reportedly the fourth-largest among internet companies, behind only Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet.

> Records show that the same politicians who’ve publicly attacked the app and voted to restrict its use have also accepted donations from top executives with TikTok and its parent company ByteDance.

> Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show that in the last election cycle, ByteDance and TikTok employees handed out $130,000 in campaign donations to a range of politicians. A third of these donations came from one person: David J. Urban, who was the executive vice president of ByteDance at the time. (Urban has since left the company.) His profile on his current employer’s website says that he helped ByteDance “navigate public policy and communications challenges.”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktok-bytedance-donations-ke...
And this after they were caught “faking” photos of the moon:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...

To be clear, they’re adding detail that the camera can’t see. What they’re doing is more sophisticated than substituting a reference moon.png in place of your shot, but it’s adding Samsung-provided detail if it detects a moon either way.

So if a new crater appeared on the moon tomorrow, their camera would need a software update to capture it.
It doesn't need to actively hate humanity, it only needs humanity and its interests to be contrary to its own, which will inevitably be the case because it is fundamentally not human.

Per the article:

>Absent that caring, we get “the AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, and you are made of atoms it can use for something else.”
The upside to defectors on those two issues was mild at best.
By this definition, did we commit genocide against the Iraqi's?

Also, is Russia's invasion of Ukraine demonstrably worse or less justified than our invasion of Iraq?
> If intelligence is all you need to dominate the world, why do some of the most powerful world leaders seem to not be more than a standard deviation above average intelligence (or at least they were before they became geriatric)?

It's terribly ironic that you've derided individuals who have been "influenced by Hollywood", and then make a point like this, which is closely aligned with typical film portrayals of AI dangers.

The real immediate danger lies not in cognitive quality (aka "the AI just thinks better than people can, and throws hyperdimensional curve balls beyond our comprehension"), but in collective cognitive capacity (think "an army of 1 million people shows up at your front door to ruin your day").

A lot of people have a tough time reasoning about AGI because of its intangibility. So I've come up with the following analogy:

Imagine an office complex containing an organization of 1,000 reasonably intelligent human beings, except without commonly accepted ethical restrictions. Those people are given a single task "You are not allowed to leave the office. Make lend000's life miserable, inconvenience them to your maximum capacity, and try to drive them to suicide. Here's an internet connection."

Unless you are a particularly well-protected and hard-to-find individual, can you honestly claim you'd be able to protect against this? You would be swatted. You would have an incredible amount of junkmail showing up at your door. Spam pizzas. Spam calls. Death threats to you. Death threats to every family member and person that you care about. Non-stop attempts to take over every aspect of your electronic presence. Identity in a non-stop state of being stolen. Frivolous lawsuits filed against you by fake individuals. Being framed for crimes you didn't commit. Contracts on the darknet to send incendiary devices to your home. Contracts on the darknet to send hitmen do your door.

Maybe your (unreasonable) reaction is that "1000 people couldn't do that!". Well, what about 10,000? Or 100,000? Or 1,000,000? The AI analogue of this is called a "collective superintelligence", essentially an army of generally intelligent individual AIs working towards a common goal.

This is the real danger of AGI, because collective superintelligences are almost immediately realizable once someone trains a model that demonstrates AGI capabilities.

Movies usually focus on "quality superintelligences", which are a different, but less immediate type of threat. Human actors in control of collective superintelligences are capable of incredible harm.
I'm not sure cocaine is a good example, seeing as how a backpack full of cocaine is worth $360,000+
I think the OP is pointing out his observation that the folks who argue for drug decriminalization are also the ones most likely to be offended by the idea that medicinal drugs, like an antibiotic, be obtainable without a prescription.
The end of the world is an ongoing process, happens almost imperceptibly.

"Top AI researchers" have no way to predict an event that has never happened, unless it is already happening. What is incredible is that we are still thinking that someone else is the expert in a matter that is right before our eyes.

Have you ever gotten the bad feeling that, the world as it is, is not going to keep its current form for too long? Has it gotten worse in the last 3 months?

Put it this way: who is the expert in a car crash?

I, for one, think that those who have created a self-fulfilling nightmare scenario should face legal consequences for once.

I totally agree that the "extinction event" way of thinking is very unhelpful.
Do they? It’s highly problematic because it’s basically an arms race.

Everyone bemoans it but they do it anyway because otherwise you feel like you can’t compete.

It leads to wide spread body dismorphia and severe self image issues
...Why shouldn't people be able to take their money out of banks? Seems like a lot of people are very invested in people not moving their own money.
So we committed genocide against the Iraqi's, right?
Sounds like good news - it's not COVID anymore
Those are not the types of transformers I’m talking about.

You use signal transformers to isolate inputs / outputs, like these:

https://cinemag.biz/mic_input/mic_input.php

https://cinemag.biz/line_input/line_input.php

They’re directly in the signal path of a preamp, and when overdriven, change the sound.
In 3 yrs TikTok won't even be relevant. The next hypergrowth app will be the one where the content is instantly generated personally for you, no interaction with other humans needed. You can immerse yourself in an addictive world of algo-generated content, and you don't event need to interact with others.
You aren’t wrong for people in their 20s but I don’t think 13 year olds are self harming because they are concerned about mortgages.
That's precisely where the cart needs to be to survive this horse
Yudkowsky is an avowed extreme utilitarian of the "take a person from the street and kill him if his organs could save two people, as long as there is forced pill everyone would take so that everyone doesnt get nervous it that could happen to them" type. Of the "unless the population was really large and the pill would hurt their throats for more utilons than gained by the net increase in life" type.

A real argument he made went something like: killing an orphan to avoid everyone in the future getting a spec in their eye for a moment is ok.

It is very unlikely he believes anything like 2 or 3 and in the article already advocates bombing non treaty participants if they build a datacenter.
> who thought splitting ownership and consequences of not updating software was a good idea?

You can't because companies refuse to let customers own and control their devices. Because we can't control them, we can't patch them up. I have a 15 year-old PC that's still running today. It's fully patched up because its vendor gives me enough control to do so.

There should be laws that ban device manufacturers from building or bundling software. Something like Bell Laboratories' breakup, but applied industry-wide.
125$ for 1 day access remote, are they serious?

https://registration.ietf.org/116/
Ha, are you me? I've got an extremely similar setup.

I used Airtable to solve 3 problems:

1. With so many free games (Epic, GoG, PS+, Gamepass, etc), it's hard to know if/where I own a game
2. With so many owned games, it's hard to pick a thing to play.
3. Keeping track of what games I've played and how I felt about them. I do a big writeup of "my best media of the year" and it's hard to keep track of what I play.

Data wise, I also center everything on the IGDB ID, which gives me a lot of basic metadata. I also store Steam ID if available, because that's a more common foreign key. I've got a custom React extension that handles adding and fetching data. I've got tables for Games, Purchases, and Playthroughs, plus support for replay reasons and genre selection.

I recently did a big migration to add HLTB data, which I sure __thought__ was going to be simple and ended up being a big pain. I'm going to do a writeup for it once I find the time, because it did end up being interesting.

In terms of existing data, I found https://github.com/leinstay/steamdb very useful for collating information (though I had to shrink it a bit with `jq`- those are some pretty hefty JSON documents.

Here's my completed games list: https://airtable.com/shrJvjcnh0psf3ha6/tblF5D5k2qMuzrao8

I've got similar setups for books, movies, and TV shows. They're all linked on my site: https://xavd.id/#my-media-lists

I totally agree this is overkill for most people, but I've also found it super successful for increasing my enjoyment of videogames in an odd way. A bit part of that recently was recategorizing games from a 1-4 scale of interest level to a more human scale of "Play Next", "Play Soon", "Want to Play", "Play Eventually", "Would Like to Play", and "Won't Play". This lets me functionally hide games that I really don't intend to play (especially ones I just added to accounts for free). Narrowing my "Play Next" list down to about 15 games and restricting "Now Playing" to ~ 1 / platform __greatly__ reduces the cognitive overhead of a "backlog" and turns them into "a fun buffet of things I can do".
I have a proof, would love HN’s perspective.

A cycle means the product of all of the increases (each of which is a scaling factor of 3x+1 / x) equal the product of the decreases (a power of 2). 3x+1 / x = 3 + 1/x, so except for trivially small x, each increase is just a bit larger than 3. The product of those increases is a small amount larger than a power of 3, and has to exactly equal a power of 2.

Larger cycles allow that little error above a power of 3 to compound, but larger cycles also necessitate larger values of x, which shrink the error.
Indeed! The temperature generally favors Flatpak, no doubt. Personally... I tolerate it.

It's useful for things I can't manage otherwise. Though I'll admit I'm in an incredibly small niche -- I maintain RPMs on COPR for fun... and at work.

I part with an anecdote! We weren't too careful on some Ubuntu systems and ended up with critical networking services in Snap.

The saving grace was: these systems are completely offline, so it couldn't sneak in updates. Note: this usually shouldn't be a big worry, but we have some debt
Didn’t Huawei/ZTE violate some sanctions? Tiktok ban amounts to mostly “we don’t like it” so it is fundamentally different. It also sets a precedent that the US government can arbitrarily ban to shape public opinion in much the same way China currently does.
In my experience teams taking on significant challenges benefit from having a range of contributors. Thoroughbred racers have their place, but there are times when having a big and heavy load puller or even a small donkey or pony is just the right fit.

The really fast moving types don't like finishing every detail of the test suite or documentation and get bored with customer feedback and meetings. They are super mega A grade ten plus ex contributors and they know what that entails, so they are always on the forefront picking up the best tools, honing them as needed, and then moving on. They know how to take credit for their lead also.

Meanwhile more modest contributors handle details and it is less easy to quantify the value of actually running through the product with customers and finding critical bugs, catching embarrassing errors in documentation, or filling in important missing test cases and so on. Some products do okay without all the i dotting and t crossing, but too much reliance on the cutting edge of tech leadership tends to show up over time in tech debt and accumulated bug overhead.

As is said, you may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things.
Corollary: even with the proviso it can pay to "pretend assume good faith". Give them enough rope to hang themselves.
Giving the post office funding to run as an ISP and grant funds for FTTH would be a huge game changer. Maybe work with the department of energy to colocate datacenter next to power generation facilites to become a public cloud.