skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And all these "diverse" information streams come from heavily censored information silos and black boxes. There will be a three-tier information economy: The government / agencies at the top, because they collect and train on data indiscriminately; the regular consumers that are okay with / unable to escape the data pens they are shepherded in; and the outsiders, creating new content in walled gardens with often strict policies enforcing zero tolerance for AI generated content.

Most of what the "elastic feed" implies has been possible for a while now, for people that can program. It'll all go awry when it's introduced at scale to people to whom it'll be new. Similar to how online anonymity used to be a hard rule and now is frowned upon.
Some do. Personally I think that LLMs will hit a ceiling eventually way before AGI. Just like self driving - the last 20% is orders of magnitude more difficult than the first 80%
I’m guessing the salinity of the water might affect the pressure?
The bit about ubiquitous Nepali-owned restaurants makes me nostalgic for living in Japan. They may not be authentic but they are great for lunch. Typically, at lunchtime, 2 small curries, naan, salad and a soft drink bar is ¥800-¥1000. And it’s served instantly.
Every ten meters pressure raises by one atmosphere. So I'd say it's just a coincidence.
Definitely on Mastodon, was on Twitter before that.
The Laundress Recalls 800K Fabric Conditioners for Containing Carcinogen
The point of the police in a society is that they have a near-monopoly on armed force, and therefore criminals can't hope to win by escalation. In a world where the US has by far the biggest military, it can to some extent arrogate to itself the role of a police force, which raises the issues you suggest.

WW2 is not this situation, and it's an anachronism to analyze it as such. Pearl Harbor was followed by a string of other US defeats. For a while, it looked like Japan would set up an empire from Alaska to Australia. You don't have the luxury of deciding to hold back in a situation where all your efforts might not be enough.
I also listen to podcasts and audiobooks... while walking and taking public transit to work. No difference.
Counterpoint to that: if you can work remotely you won’t leave for a company that requires your butt to be in a seat in the office.
I think a lot of this stuff is probably just a coin flip, because we just don’t know.

I find it odd, however, when people, who seemingly accept an ASI will be developed, focus the downside risk on extinction of us as a species. Sure, that’s a risk. You know something else an ASI would likely have the ability to do, (or at least, one of its progeny)? Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why is the downside always focused on paltry, meaningless things (relatively speaking) like extinction of life on earth?
Oh wow! I’m happy to read that!
Virginia Norwood, a pioneer in satellite land imaging, dies at age 96
Assuming we take this at face value, once you have a lot of money power becomes appealing - and control over a very important player in the AI space is that. The original vision of openAI was democratization of that decision-making process, the model now is - these guys are in charge. Maybe that's altruistic, because they're the smartest guys in the room and they can mitigate the downside risks of this tech (... not fucking AGI, but much more like the infinite propaganda potential of chatGPT). I'm more a fan of democratization, but that's not a universally held opinion in sv.
Bitcoin’s negative impact on the world is 1/10th that of freon. AI risk people’s predictions sound like they’re writing bad Terminator fanfiction.

AI has real dangers completely dissimilar from what people describe. It is very good at creating clickbait, misinformation, and persuasive material the unsuspecting might not immediately see. Phenomenal for scammers and propagandists, the same way as the internet
Ironic, isn't it? The party that hates taxes the most is also the most aggressive in the pursuit of disenfranchisement.
I'm pretty sure the PineTab-V is real, although they might keep it developer only until software support is better.

Last year they announced the PineBuds with the unicorn shtick, then actually shipped them.
I think the show Silicon Valley does a good job of portraying that transition.
It’s interesting how the Eric Drexler influence clearly colors a lot of apocalyptic AI stuff, in fiction, and on Less Wrong.

First because afaik the progress in nanotechnology has not been particularly fast over the past 40 years since his big book came out, and second because it really seems like it is only tangentially related. In a world with highly advanced assembler mnt, seems like the world could end in a way akin to a serious chemical accident accident, few computers involved. But the assumption is AI will certainly create nanotechnology, where humans have so far been unable to? That’s less like AI risk and more like, one smart research lab risk.
25% sounds super disappointing from a laymans perspective and not very "revolutionary" in the grand scheme of time and space.

Can't wait until AI will be able to iterate advanced engineering designs in simulation space at incredible speed.
> America is a society of disparate cultures, regions, communities, and outcomes (often in the same cities)

There are cities in Europe with histories spanning thousands of years, but were apart until only 30 years ago. There are countries with multiple ethnicities, multiple official languages.
Indeed, certain properties of CRDT are invariable to network state. However, it is worth pointing out that in ops-based CRDT “implementations”, you deal with local ops case differently from remote ops case. That is, while the properties are invariant, how you produce them are different.

So I was on a my quest to understand the “essence” of CRDTs, not just understand them to be able to practically use them. Atomic broadcast and Raft were easy enough for me to wrap my head around (although quite challenging to implement). But not CRDTs.

I found common statements about CRDTs that they ensure ops to be commutative to be superficial. A slightly deeper characteristic was that ops-based CRDTs are just causally-linked ops (aka causal tree). But what about state-based? Finally, when I realized CRDTs are dual-consistent and that’s what makes any data structure a CRDT, that was a moment of epiphany for me.
How is that a recommendation algorithm? The point of the "recommendation" part is to show you things you wouldn't normally see.
The irony in this statement is that LeCun is a huge LLM sceptic.
Definitely true, my hope is that we will be achieving new things previously beyond our reach. Judging from things like Star Trek we have a long way to go.

The question is whether we remain in the driving seat and as OP said, how the gains will be distributed.
The ambiguity of “advanced socialism” is problematic for any meaningful debate, so I apologise for that.

I was meaning something closer to “we have the resources and technology (in this advanced era), just not the wisdom or political will”. The actual nature of what could be provided is up for debate, but if we’re looking at mass unemployment in 2 decades’ time, perhaps it’s a conversation worth having again.
People who cook were exposed to it.

People who like soccer were exposed to it.

People who like working on electronics were exposed to it.

Rarely does anyone do stuff independently. You saw someone else do it and that’s what got you into it. It has never mattered that libraries existed. Libraries are mostly for researching something that you’ve already taken an interest in. A library is literally massive.

If you and your parents emphasized cooking, then that’s good. But you know, a really rich family would expose their kid to everything while a poor one wouldn’t. And what you get exposed to determines your life’s path, so that’s how the cookie crumbles.
UK joins trans-Pacific trade bloc in adeal likely to boost GDP by less than 0.1%
> Their impact is already beyond novelty.

Do you have some examples?
Reinstating an Iconic Error Message
> but it is Docker-based and I am already like 10 versions behind and I am too lazy/scared to learn how to upgrade it without destroying the Universe.

You should be scared, the other day I messed a completely functioning miniflux docker by upgrading it. It's been so long since I set it all up that I lost the incantation necessary for the setup or the will to look it up, just went ahead and I'm using newsblur again. Sigh.

I'm getting old and loosing the will/patience to selfhost.
My mom worked a split-shift (3 hours in the morning, and 5 hours in evening Wed-Sun). My dad was in the army and was deployed to far-away lands for a significant portion of my life between 8-16 years old. My mom hired a couple of "minders" - but the first one made a baby in our bathroom with her boyfriend, and the second one did nothing but watch TV and sneak some shots of whiskey between TV shows (on the three networks then available).
Long story short, I was left to my own devices a lot. My mom tried to make dinner for me - but sometimes (being a growing boy) I was just really hungry - so chef-boy-r-dee pizza was a staple - at least until I learned that one could phone in an order for pizza and have it delivered! Now we were cash-poor, so when wanted spending money, I'd have to go house-to-house to ask if they needed their lawns mowed. I'd get somewhere between $5 or $10 depending on the lawn size and would use the money for pizza delivery once or twice a week.
Pretty amazing to think about it - a kid between 10-15 years old being left alone for hours a day and having to go house-to-house to mow lawns for extra money! (let's not forget it was the 70s so things like bike helmets, seat belts and non-smoking areas didn't exist either).
Kioxia, Western Digital Debut 218-Layer 3D NAND: 1Tb TLC with 3.2 GT/S IO Speed
Ask HN: Slack Privacy Product?
Is there a Slack alternative where the server doesn't have access to your data? Bonus for open-source.
Ask HN: What communities builders made the most amount of money
Hey,

I'm just wondering what the business case is for building a large community, and which ones have managed to generate the largest sum of money
This cap is much smaller, 100x was for initial investors. Microsoft took every single penny they could to get 49% stake.

If they won’t do AGI, they won’t go over the cap with profits and all drama is for nothing - so saying it’s fake cap is not right.

Please somebody correct me if I’m wrong.
I don’t know everything about him but from what I do know, I would put Bezos in the “not just luck” very lonely camp. I think his Day 1 work and iterate every day idea is just that powerful and real and he really did it instead of talking about it. Even though he says he won several lotteries to get where he is, I’m not so sure.
Create your own free internet using simcard, magnet and coil
Cam across this on youtube. Wrap aluminum foil around your inactivated sim card. Put coil and magnetic on top. Free 5G internet. This is bullshit, right?
Getting a little passive aggressive there dang.

I hope people do read that, and the context. There's nothing banworthy there, at least from me. Not unless you're a big fan of tptacek running roughshod over people, as you yourself admit he often does.

You also claimed to have "asked me to stop" - which you didn't.

And when I asked you where you said that you didn't reply.

And when I emailed to ask nicely to be unbanned, as you requested, you ignored it.

So... Yeah.
Copilot. For that matter, TabNine several years earlier, even when using a low parameter local GPT-2.
Generating Content Using Artificial Intelligence Is Cheating, Says ChatGPT
I would argue biking distance isn't the problem in suburbia, it's biking safety. My rather spread out suburb is about 8 miles across. That's less than an hour for any cyclist and a fit cyclist could do it in half that time. The trouble is that most of those miles are on 45 mph stroads with either no bike lane or a thin stripe of paint for protection from cars and it's full of debris most of the year.
Attention Mechanisms and Transformers: A Humorous Guide
It’s so wonderful to see all the artsy people get automated out of existence after claiming that software engineers contribute nothing to society. The only downside is that even more of them will now be living off of taxpayer money than before.
I've done this in the past but stopped. The problem is there are no atomic transactions in Dropbox. If two people are pushing changes to a repo at the same time using only git, it's not a problem because git understands atomic transactions. But if that repo happens to be in Dropbox all hell can break loose because the various files inside the .git directory are not being synched atomically.

A git repo in Dropbox can appear to work okay with a single contributor where that contributor is only working on one computer at a time. But as soon as you add a second contributor, you very much should take Dropbox out of the process.
> Unfortunately, doing anything in the terminal is, if not a struggle, something very new to most beginning programmers.

Ah, but the terminal is also the territory where the low-dependency, instant-gratification, just-get-coding tools live.
The API is fine and quite flexible. There are things that are very annoying (hello deploying updates from sandboxes to the production instance), but the APIs work, are generally well documented and have lots of options to generally get what I’ve needed to get done done.
> UBI will pretty much be a requirement if AI lives up to the hype and doesn't hit a sudden wall in improvement again.

I've always read about UBI in the context of a national system. Any speculation on how UBI works with an international world order?

What happens to the countries without AI companies?
I mean, most non-founder company CEOs don't have a significant % of total equity and they still have control over the company.
It wasn't entirely in jest. See this article, published a short while later:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

And more recently:
https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
Elon Musk has killed Twitter – so what should replace it?
https://archive.is/Dfn8B
LLMs that actually work.

They are on GPT-4 and no one else is close to GPT-3.5.
Like all cults, they will take the sentence ”you’re being a bit extreme” and respond with ”oh so you think there’s no danger at all?” I love the fact that the top response is by that Yudkowski guy ”oh so you think it’s not the end of the world? Then prove it!”

It’s just a bunch of people trying to feel and look better by attaching themselves to something and then trying to convince others that they are that something. Yes, there are dangers; no, LessWrong is not the right place to discuss them.
Are the plugins using GPT-4 or 3.5?
I've had kind of the same problem in the past. For me I built a cookiejar textfile generating chrome extension, because it turns out most relevant tracking or session cookies are on external domains or oauth provider domains. [1]

You just need to copy/paste the generated text content to a cookies.txt and you're set, so it worked for my workflow in the terminal.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/me-want-cookies
Which is a very large leap, because he fails to factor in pressures that could cause societal collapse, where the technology would be pushed far enough out of reach that nobody would be able to use it.

Digital minds have an off-switch, and digital have-nots could still have axes and guillotines.

But that's beside the point that encoding something has complex as a single human neural system requires several orders of magnitude more computing power than we've yet deployed in totality. Just the "parameters" of the human neural system would be in the 100s of trillions. A single neuron is more complex than most entire neural nets we've built.

We'd have a long way to go, and that's just assuming everything about consciousness and awareness is strictly mechanism.
PicoCray: A system for running distributed code over multiple PI Picos
Real Engineering's video today likely causing resurfacing from Jan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxgyz_avQM
Also, restaurants are competitive, wages are low, and barrier to entry is low (no required credentials), so they naturally lean more immigrant heavy.

In the US a lot of professionals end up taking menial jobs because their credentials do not transfer to the US.
Not like in Hollywood movies, but yes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4

https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/mzgtmmTKKn5MuCzFJ

Look around alignmentforum.org or lesswrong.com, and you'll see loads of people who are worried / concerned at various levels about what could happen if we suddenly create an AI that's smarter than us.

I've got my own summary in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281504

But this discussion has actually been going on for nearly two decades, and there is a lot of things to read up on.

EtA: Or, for a fun version:

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
She is competent in many areas but obviously not in tech.
> Love the people, love the country, but Golden Curry's bright warning red "EXTRA HOT" is not bloody hot at all.

I chuckled at the basis of your comparison being a globally commercialized instant product.
I agree it’s worth looking at the history, and to not repeat its mistakes, though at the same time this is a new situation, and it will continue to be new into the future, so sticking to heuristics may not serve humanity as well than being open-minded on the policy front.
Once I figured out that cooking is mostly optimizing water while hitting the desired through-doneness and char points, my food markedly improved. Everything about low and slow makes a lot more sense then!
I made an app for running t5 locally - compiled version allows you to run without installing anything.

https://capsizegames.itch.io/chat-ai

https://github.com/Capsize-Games/chatai
Existing bike lanes in the us need a serious overhaul. One of the standard designs runs along the dooring areas of parked cars, and right turning traffic is allowed to cross over it at intersections. The mobility scooters I’m familiar with seem to top out at a brisk walk speed on the other hand. That sort of speed differential is a recipe for danger as the roads and bike lanes are currently built in north america.
did you read that paper? it is absolutely terrible, the method section is a mess, the statistics are probably wrong, and there is very little actual natural science behind this.

Another "social studies" pre-determined study, hopefully wont make it past review
Yudkowsky, to begin with
Is it an end-to-end test, a regression test, or an acceptance test?
The contradiction I noticed during his Lex interview was him talking about being attacked by Elon Musk. He said it reminded him of how Elon once said he felt when the Apollo astronauts lobbied against SpaceX. Elon said it made him sad. Those guys were his heroes. And that the wish they would come visit and look at the work SpaceX was doing. I found that comparison by Altman disingenuous. First, he didn’t seem so much sad as he seemed angry. At one point in the interview, he said that he thought about some day attacking back. That’s not at all how Elon had felt about those astronauts. And second, why doesn’t Altman just invite Elon and show him the work they are doing? Wouldn’t take more than a phone call.
Stop asking the market to look after collective interest. This is the job of the government. The ultimate effect of virtue wanking CEOs and corporate governance is to deceive people into thinking democracy is something that can be achieved by for profit organizations and that they can forsake the formal binding of collective interest through law.

It's nice if people are nice but it is not a bulwark of the collective good. It is a temporary social convenience. The higher that niceness exists in the social order, the greater its contemporary benefit but also, the more it masks the vulnerability of that social benefit.

It matters if Sam Altman is Ghandi or Genghis Khan in a concrete way but you, as a citizen must act as if it doesn't matter.

If AI poses a danger to the social good, no amount of good guy CEOs will protect us. The only thing that will is organization and direct action.
I find OpenAI a bit sketchy, but this is an overreaction. The only difference between OpenAI and the rest is that OpenAI claims to have good intentions, only time will tell if this is true. But the others don't even claim to have good intentions. It's not like any of OpenAI's actions are unusually bad for a for-profit compnay.
This is very good news for my purposes, thank you!
And it goes way beyond Persian influence.

vindaloo ~= Portuguese vinhalo (wine/vinegar flavored)

Southeast asian ingredients introduced via trading empires based in South India (i.e. nutmeg).

Tomatoes, chilies, potatoes, all pre-Columbian American products introduced to India by the Portuguese.

Tea (from China by way of the British)

Coffee (introduced even earlier than tea via the Arab trading networks via Yemen during the Ottoman empire).

Some things are actually bidirectional. Biryani, the Mughal/Persian rice dish emerged after rice was introduced to the middle east in ancient times, probably via India, and it came back in the form of Biryani.
Why are Indians getting taught about Indian food?
If time isn't real, but space is - how real is spacetime?
Pkgs.org – catalogue of repositories and packages for Linux distros and Unices
Sounds like you have some work to do!
Ask HN: Privacy-Conscious GitHub?
Is there an alternative to GitHub where the service doesn't have access to your files?
>"I know that it's frustrating, but please do not take matters into your own hands," said SAPD public information officer Nick Soliz.

They don't know that it's frustrating, because if a police vehicle or police officer's private vehicle were stolen it would be top priority.

This will continue happening until the police take property crime seriously. This bloodshed is the (entirely predictable) outcome of their negligent inaction.
George Orwell in his writings about the Spanish Civil War complained bitterly about the recent loss of any sunset of shared objective truth and how cheap local newspapers would write entirely fictional battles, which, to the readers back home would be taken as true.
They already basically tried this with GPT-4; while it did some interesting things, it failed to take over the world:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/opena...
I've done a few acquisitions, one of them they just couldn't believe we only wanted some ip and not their vision no matter how explicit we were. I think it's hard for some people to see themselves that way, everyone is the hero of their own story as some say. another it was a lot more obvious, esp after who we didn't keep. But I still spent some time at the pub with their leads talking and trying to pivot them mentally.
The metros being faster always is dependent on your destination being favorably connected to the lines you are near. Take a random a to b in any of those cities, and I’d say the car is typically going to be fastest. Here’s a random trip across tokyo, which at the time of writing takes 50 mins by car or an hour and 38 minutes by transit.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q17EFxjLKd85PYRv6?g_st=ic
Sadly, despite my browser extensions not detecting anything I could whitelist or temporary disable, I cannot solve captchas - I'm getting locked in a loop
> In a distributed system, the absolute value of the time is important

Only for a co-variant data cohort is total temporal order necessary for correctness. It doesn't need to be system wide. Distinct (data independent) process groups can be partially ordered.

There really is no such thing as "now" outside of a shared frame (or intersecting frames) of observation.