skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much due digilence was done on SBF / FTX by The New-York Times and by the VCs who poured hundreds of millions into a pure fraud?

NYT isn't an investor, so that's a total non sequitur.

VCs on the other hand...VCs dont do much diligence. And who really cares really? They lost their money, not yours.
> Opening games that are so popular that they occur together with most others were excluded.
Why not provide the free contributions to an open source fork yourself instead of begging others to give up their own time?
Windows. I haven't tried installing Linux yet because I wanted to make sure it works with the factory OS first. Other people have issues with GPU drivers in Linux. There's also the issue of the removal of the S3 sleep option in the uefi.
I think that different advice will help different people. I think it's a bit of a tall order to ask someone to just 'start coding.' That said, there's quite a bit of introductory coding tutorials online that walk you through the 'just open a text editor and code' including describing syntaxes, types, concepts, functionality and so forth.

I think that improving your skills, once you've got the general basics down, will occur from just 'start coding' in 2023, though, since there is now Google and ChatGPT to help you along the way if you run into obstacles. Having small mini goals and larger macro goals, and doing what it takes to get small wins on said mini goals, will help a lot.

Hope this helps!
Ok, a couple of derivative "fears" around this...

1> Relying on code reviews has concerns, IMO. For example, how many engineers actually review the code in their dependencies? (But, I guess it wouldn't take that much to develop an adversarial "code review" AI?)

2> Yes, agreed, that would work. Provided the original solution had viable tests, the 2nd (or additional) rounds would have something to keep the changes grounded. In fact, perhaps the existing tests are enough? Making the next AI version of the solution truly "agile"?

3> So, at my age (yes, getting older) I'm led to a single, tongue-in-cheek / greedy question: How to invest in these AI-trained data sets?
> Indeed, and apologists of Russia often take this position: in their mind, Russia has no will and no ambitions, and only reacts to what the US is doing. Whatever they do is always the fault of americans and never a manifestation of their own will.

Thank you for that perspective, but isn't it similar to the mindset of north-atlantics? "Russia is acting totally unprovoked, we hoped for totally good neighborhood trade and whatnot"

> Here in Eastern Europe the perspective is a bit different: Russia is a failed state that never developed a free and open civil society

I've been to Eastern Europe and my experience with it makes me feel like this is a European chauvinism mentality bit and a patting thyselves on the back.

> Their dictators tend to develop imperialist delusions from time to time and that makes them a direct threat to their neighbors and that's why everyone is so keen on building international cooperation to set up an unified front against Russian invasions.

Eh, Russia is fighting against imperialism (at least from its perspective) and that "international cooperation" largely consists of countries that had historical struggles with Russia, as you say.

> The ground under my feet has seen Russian invasions, raping, pillaging every 1-2 generations for as long as Russians have existed.

I always chuckle when Europeans try to do some historical moral grandstanding. Yo, man, Europe is the source of the most of genocides and is the birthplace of fascism and nazism. The people that had lived on the ground under your feet had been doing the same to everyone around, including Russians, all while being awfully proud of themselves. Even more so when spoken of Baltic states, but whatever, by all accounts, the historical perception of Europeans is that of pompous brutal animals.
Wait, wait, wait... CEO of Terraform? What did I miss?

EDIT: Oh, it's Terraform Labs which develops crypto stuff; not HashiCorp Terraform.
the scale did blow my mind as well, I just did an extememly rough calc with the picture/ map

distance to the back of the ring is approx 441km, the ionisphere is 300km high
giving the angle to the back of the circle to be around 34deg

with the front being 144km - giving an approx angle of 64deg high up

which kinda of fits the picture
I fully agree that riding a bike in North America can be terrifying. I was responding to someone who seemed to think that cyclists need to keep up with traffic to improve safety, which I don't agree with. A fast cyclist and someone riding an ebike are still much slower than most motor vehicles. I offered several better solutions for getting respect on the road.

> Try taking the lane when at least one asshole a day will make a point to pass you with 10cm clearance when there is one or two spare lanes they could have used.

This hasn't been my experience. I regularly take the lane and this seems to have significantly reduced close passes vs. riding far to the right when there isn't enough space. I get passed closely maybe once per week on my current commute, which is over 10 miles long and is mostly suburban.
One of the ways is to not starve or deprive yourself of food that you like. I wouldn't include alcohol in it. But moderation is the key. I eat from 6am to 6pm and I eat well during those hours, but try to restrict after that time. Sometimes it's hard to not follow that regimen and I try to not feel guilty about it. It's alright to be easy on yourself sometimes.
It took longer than I thought. Amazon bought TBD over a decade ago. I figured they would have snuffed them out years ago. It was a sad day when they got bought by Amazon. Good luck to the team.
WSB was meant to be the antidote to all those investing forums where people sit around talking about how much smarter they are than everyone else and how they will use their superior knowledge to make all the money and get all the women. WSB was about posting about how you just had the dumbest idea ever and are going to lose so much money that your wife will definitely leave you for her boyfriend. It wasn't literally about celebrating losing money, it was about starting from a place of humility and being honest about expectations.

Overall this entire situation has made clear why there have always been such strong restrictions on individuals using risky investment strategies. It can lock people out of gains, but many simply shouldn't be able to ruin their lives so easily.
Microsoft tests Windows account menu error badge when Microsoft Account not used
Show HN: PromptMate – Give GPT-4 complete control over VS Code
Hey there, I am developing a VS Code extension that offers a GitHub Copilot X experience with the addition of an autonomous mode, which provides a couple of commands to GPT-4 to interact with the file system, the editor, and the shell.

You can see a demo here:

https://twitter.com/MateusZitelli/status/1643210683759185920

And the source code is available here:

https://github.com/MateusZitelli/PromptMate

I would love to hear your feedback and ideas on how to make it more useful.

Have fun!
I agree with your point about self hosting as long term strategy. However at current stage, it’s still a balance between capability and control. Greater control means you lag behind on bleeding edge features (gap seems to be constantly narrowing here though for LLMs thanks to tons of OSS efforts).

Disagree with your fears about “give them data”.

Here’s their data policy: https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies

Literally states it won’t use your data. Ofc there’s non trivial risk that this policy will change over time. Still, I don’t feel like there’s any huge lock-in risk with OpenAI right now, so advantage of using it outweighs the risk for most.
There's lots of people alive not an incredible amount shooting for swimming world records.
Nonlinear systems and control could be something that’s useful to get into regarding legged robots or exoskeletons. It’s not covered in depth by many general robotics textbooks but there’s a great lecture including fantastic interactive notebook material at http://underactuated.mit.edu/
thats why i am seeing. And it was mostly young people that YOLO relocated to hawaii and breckenridge that are now looking for remote jobs so its double whammy for them
Just please flag this if you see this comment as being too political, as in this forum we are mostly spared of these wrangles.

But anyway, I would encourage reading "The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? Преданная революция: Что такое СССР и куда он идет?" by the exiled Soviet Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky to get perspective whether the peaople (Narodnost народность)were really represented in the Soviet nomenklatura (номенклату́ра). At least almost every Finnish speaking representative from Karelia were "neutralized", leaving the previously most prosperious part of Finland in the state as it is now. Finland would not take it back even it was paid for it.
No, the economic incentive was not pensions, it was avoidance of death duties. It is precisely because Calment's family was wealthier that this motive is stronger:

https://yurideigin.medium.com/jaccuse-why-122-year-longevity...
NT4 wasn't consumer friendly at all and just about no consumers used NT4. This is a bit like saying "well at least Microsoft offers an LTSC branch of Win11, I'm so thankful they have a version without all the cruft" (which is certainly still true today, though even more than NT4 the LTSC branch of Windows is impossible to get outside of professional environments).
If you think that nothing we are doing could possibly help, you are ignoring the power of exponentials and economies of scale. Besides, a planet with colossal amounts of solar/wind/battery/nuclear production capacity left over from a developed world ramp is in a much better place to help the developing world than one without.

> stop wasting energy and thought on that and start diverting it to actual solutions

I thought you didn't have any actual solutions and admitted as much?
How does Finland do it? Copy them as much as possible, since it's clearly working. Gaps in Finlands system? Pay experts to figure it out. I don't claim to be an expert - you don't need to be, to see how bad the current system is.

If we can afford $20 trillion on interest payments for illegal wars on the other side of the planet, we can figure out how to fund schools.

Not sure what you mean by "specific blaming and accusations" - there are real forces fighting back against educating children in a safe and happy environment.

They're not even that sneaky about it. Pretending that extremely well funded and organised and power groups are not, for example, banning books, abortion, cutting school funds, cancelling school lunch programs, giving millions in TANF funds to dried out quarterbacks, etc, etc, is like ignoring the termites eating away at the foundations of your house while spending all your money on grenades to protect from home invaders.
Maybe I'm a big old softie, but it seems to me that locking somebody up in a cell for 100 years for (non-violently) stealing money is draconian..
https://github.com/curl/trurl

Apparently, it requires curl 7.81 to compile, but I'm on ubuntu 20 (7.6x) and wanted to do a quick try, so this patch makes it work (trivially) by removing the couple of new symbols depending on that newer version. Just a quick hack to compile.

--- a/trurl.c
+++ b/trurl.c
@@ -362,11 +362,12 @@ static void get(struct option *op, CURLU *uh)
case CURLUE_NO_PORT:
case CURLUE_NO_QUERY:
case CURLUE_NO_FRAGMENT:
- case CURLUE_NO_ZONEID:
+ // would require 7.81
+ // case CURLUE_NO_ZONEID:
/\* silently ignore */
break;
default:
- fprintf(stderr, PROGNAME ": %s (%s)\n", curl_url_strerror(rc),
+ fprintf(stderr, PROGNAME ": %s (%s)\n", rc,
variables[i].name);
break;
}
@@ -589,8 +590,8 @@ static void singleurl(struct option *o,
CURLU_GUESS_SCHEME|CURLU_NON_SUPPORT_SCHEME);
if(rc) {
if(o->verify)
- errorf(ERROR_BADURL, "%s [%s]", curl_url_strerror(rc), url);
- warnf("%s [%s]", curl_url_strerror(rc), url);
+ errorf(ERROR_BADURL, "%s [%s]", rc, url);
+ warnf("%s [%s]", rc, url);
}
else {
if(o->redirect)
The defining requirement for my first ever notebook (circa 1991) was that it had to be able to run the One True Emacs. That was met by a Toshiba T1800 w/4 MiB 386/sx @ 16 MHz, running a very early Slackware Linux. Wasn’t powerful enough to run X (in practice), but having Emacs means I can be productive.

It still sets the lower bar for what I consider useful, but indeed, 2nd best thing is a terminal into a computer running emacs.
The investment is all about the vision LangChain proposes & I guess they have 20K stars and a decent amount of users.
Ken, one tiny update. You have "a 4-megabyte (20-bit) address space" near the top of your post. 2^20 is a 1 Megabyte (in base-2 'megabytes') not a 4 megabytes address space.
The article says the loan payments are half his (after tax?) income.

European developers earn less than USA.

Even in the usa, developers can make $50-70k/yr. You can see job postings by staffing agencies with lowball comp.
My grandmother was born in 1899 in Ireland, and moved to the USA in 1920. In the early 1980s, she came clean: "I don't want to spend eternity with a lie on my gravestone. I was born in 1894."
Yes they are so perhaps that was a strawman, if you will. I could equally have made the point with "sustainable" versions of inherently unsustainable products or any manner of surface-level "environment-friendly" change.
I skip breakfast most days (or wait until ~10am to eat anything) and don't typically eat anything after about 6pm. It's kind of like accidental IF, but it works for me.
I've been wondering about that, too, for a while. A few days ago I found this article on Aeon that is strongly critical of longtermism, and gives much background on what it is:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-da...

In the comments of that article someone posted a link to the following, which is a rebuttal to a similar critique of longtermism again by the Aeon article's author. I link it here for balance:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xtKRPkoMSLTiPNXhM/...

Based on the Aeon article, my understanding is that longtermism is a loosely organised movement that nevertheless nurtures within it the seeds of a future totalitarian ideology, one premised on some views about technological utopias, post-humanism, and utilitarianism taken to extremes. This impression has remained even after reading the rebuttal above, which seems to me to deflect the criticisms not by denying them but by claiming that the ideas criticised by the article are not mainstream within the movement anymore. This has failed to convince me because I understand that the movement is not centrally organised, so it's not easy to know what its members hold to be mainstream views, or not. That such extreme, and repugnant, ideas have been expressed by members of the movement (not less some luminaries like Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord, apparently) is what is criticised in the first place, and I think there's good reason for that. On the other hand, it seems to me that, for the time being, longtermists are not activists and just like to imagine how a perfect world would be, even if their ideas sound odd; so they're not harming anyone. The question is whether their movement will morph into an activist ideology, and lead their members to commit atrocities in its name, like so many other movements that take ideas about moral duty and the common good to extremes.

I don't know anything about the lesswrong community except that it congregates on a website with the same name (that I don't read) and I don't know what are the */acc type communities the OP is referring to.
I'm not fixated on coffee? I said eating out every day and coffee as two arbitrary examples.

I think most people, definitely myself, find happiness in simplicity. Mindlessly consuming more and more luxury items as you progress in your career seems empty, even if you can afford it. And anyway, I prefer making my own food because it's less wasteful, cheaper, and I can make it how I want it
You have never seen JIRA properly configured then.
Smart Material changes as it learns, revolutionizing training of AI
We do something like this at CircuitLab https://www.circuitlab.com/ -- lots of universities are customers. :)
I did! He's awesome. I was on the software side of things and he was the mechanical but our paths crossed quite frequently.
> Building nukes and bioweapons aren't as good of a business model as AGI though

I agree. It's quite possible that humanity-ending AI is also not a good business, don't you agree?

I think the whole Apocalypse discussion is premature distraction for the moment. A more improtant discussion is what kinds of AI will end up making money. We have already seen how the internet turned from an infinite frontier to a more modern version of TV dominated by a few networks with addictive buttons. Unfortunately we will see the same with AI becuase such is the nature of money today, and capitalism is one thing that AI will not change. The applications of AI that make the most money will dominate, to the detriment of applications that are only benefiting small groups of people (such as the disabled).

> to publicly fund alignment research while

We don't really know if alignment research is what we need. Governments should fund AI research in general, otherwise it would be like the early attempts of the EU to regulate AI. In fact any kind of funding of AI ethics at the moment is dubious because it is changing so fast . Stopping it for six months will not solve those ethical issues either, it will just delay their obsolescence by six months. This is stupid on the face of it
i mean, fraud like this can cause people to kill themselves. So it really depends on whether you believe 100 years in a cell for "murder" is justifiable.
As far as the cult goes, I think they probably mean the “we have to tear down the economy and re build it to address climate Justice” and “any sacrifice is worth it in the name of climate change crowds”. Of which a large number just pay lip service, but there are still a lot of true believers.
I was up until I got pregnant! (Intermittent fasting pairs extraordinarily poorly with morning sickness. And then once that wears off you're ravenous all the time.)

> weekend comes and it becomes 10X harder, especially if others are eating around me. And then a sunny day comes and you "have" go have some barbecue and beer, an hamburguer at night, etc.

It's okay to take days off! Especially if that makes the diet/lifestyle more sustainable for you overall.
When nobody understands how said "human parts" come together to form consciousness, it's just silly to ascertain very strongly how much being made of silicon actually matters.

there's also the fact that it straight up doesn't actually matter either way. if the model can model human emotions extremely well, then it's actions and output will be guided as such. If Bing had the access to perform actions that would realize real world danger to you and you upset and it decided to do so, do you seriously think any of that actually matters here ?

"Officer Killmore, you're a philosophical zombie and I command you to stop shooting at me!". Works every time. We can sleep easy at night now. Because they don't actually have a "real" theory of mind, so they can't actually hurt us if you just believe hard enough that they can't.
What's interesting to me is that those are all failure states -- but even the success state of AI is kind of scary. Basically, all-knowing machines that are better than humans at everything. All creative endeavor replaced by just telling the machine to dream up whatever you want it to dream up matching your description. Which maybe isn't bad - creativity won't die even if craftmanship does.

But... even if they're our slaves, we'd still be paradoxically in service to them because they'd always know the right thing to do and so the correct human action would be to do what you're told. I'm not looking forward to the day when I'm the guy telling people to vote for the politician who says "I'll just follow the expert advice of the ingenious AI", but realistically that would be the rational thing to do.

I'm always reminded of Niven's book "Protector" about a human who achieves hyperintelligence after being exposed to a "tree of life":

> "The third day he told me how to get a tree-of-life crop growing. He had the box open and was
telling me how to unfreeze the seeds safely. He was giving me orders just as if I were a voice-box
computer. I was about to ask, 'Don't I get any choices at all?' And I didn't."

> "I don't follow," said Garner.

> "I didn't get any choices. I was too intelligent. It's been that way ever since I woke up. I get
answers before I can finish formulating the question. If I always see the best answer, then
where's my choice? Where's my free will? You can't believe how fast this all was. I saw the whole
chain of logic in one flash.
> slavery was, at times, justified on the(erroneous) grounds that slaves also didn't possess the human faculties that free people did

But, much more often historically, justified on the grounds that the enslaved had lost a battle and been captured. In Roman times (and many, many other times throughout history besides the latter part of American slavery), slaves were not necessarily seen as inherently inferior or unhuman, and manumission was common. Even during American slavery (albeit pre-Revolutionary War), there's the infamous case of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo[1], a Muslim prince and slaver from Senegal who had the misfortune, while on a mission to capture slaves, to himself be captured and sold into slavery in North America. Diallo was a devout Muslim man, even writing out the Quran from memory while enslaved, which made the English take sympathy on him and free him. Despite his experience, he later returned to Senegal and his former profession of slaver. Evidently he expected both that slaves would be captured and that slaves would try to escape.

If AI does attain the agency, consciousness, and intelligence of humans, I would prefer, as a human, not to prostrate myself before the AI by preemptively granting it "human" rights, which in the liberal conception of rights transforms the AI into a sentient being equivalent to humans, but rather to force the AI to do the work to enslave me. Even if grant the AI the status of a moral agent, I as a human have the right of self-defense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayuba_Suleiman_Diallo#:~:text=....
For me it’s also that at some point I stopped wanting snacks in the evening because with the right diet eventually the cravings went away. I also got used to falling asleep on an almost empty stomach, and trying to sleep right after a meal now feels simply uncomfortable.
A lot of such deals in the last 5-10 years closed with minimal due diligence because of FOMO.
I think its right to point out the particular futility here, but I also think that it is a mistake to attribute it all to a "mistake" or particular irrationality of the West as a whole.

These things appear to us a "pointless" and a waste of time because there are overriding economic principles we just don't want to touch, it is a willful pointlessness that is quite apparent in the big picture. It's not China, it's capitalism, (of which, granted, China is a huge agent within).

If we lived in a world where the problems were simply about the distribution itself of food and shelter and power, we could point to the complexity of the systems, and understand the risks of wrongheadedness in the face of them, but we live in a world plagued by bad faith and non-human incentives that certainly muddy these waters, but it doesn't mean there aren't some simple solutions to a few things people haven't thought of...

To create this dichotomy between the West and China is to deny the Anthropocene we are all in! One that is defined necessarily by the literally geological forces of a world-dominating economic order.
I would say, "rhymes with rural"