skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most likely case is that the properties of a system that leads to emergent behavior (part of complexity science) are very much present in the brain where the various components with a proper balance leads to the intelligence we have.

An interesting intelligence emerges from a colony of ants compared to one. An interesting intelligence emerges from the relations of the various parts of the brain. An interesting intelligence emerges from the combo of techniques that have led to GPT and other surprising AIs. Same with a human, to two humans collaborating, to tribes to companies to cities etc. And likely same by combining/integrating GPT-4 type of LLMs with other tools and with other specific purpose LLMs - a greater unit of significance will emerge. (The non-predictability of this with current science is what is kind of scary to me.)
Given how much remote work depends on Slack, is it a risk to manage that Salesforce could use their leverage on the product to undermine the viability of remote work in general, or become a gatekeeper for it? They literally bought the key remote work platform for about 1/3 less than Musk paid for Twitter.

Standing up a competitor may be a challenge given the regulatory requirements of enterprise environments that use it.

Imo, the most urgent play for Twitter may be to launch some features that would be a viable Slack competitor for startups and some part of that private chat market. What Twitter has that Slack doesn't is a foundation to become an identity provider. I've spent years in the identity space, and what stops them is they can never produce something anyone actually wants, and all their solutions need to be imposed, whereas turning twitter handles into identity tokens is some trivial hacking. I could beta it with a team of 5 devs and an engineering manager with a good relationship with devops in 8mos.

Slack may become the next Outlook mail, which is the thing everyone hates but it's too integrated to switch from, and it's an anchor on pretty much everything.
Sorry. Typed in a rush and wasn't clear

I meant the total cost in Europe. Food, accommodation etc.
I'd add to this list "Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings", by Ken Williams https://kensbook.com/ detailing the rise and fall of Sierra, for those curious what happened. It's obviously biased from his perspective, but I found it very honest about mistakes, and a humorous writing style that was easy to read.
how would you figure out the what happens part?
I believe law is like code: the number of bugs goes up with line count. Bugs are exploited by black hat lawyers.

This bill is twice as long as the entire U.S. Constitution.

A real principled stand against these adversaries would not be resorting to their levels with this "RESTRICT ACT" and giving more power and money to negative value add lawyes, but instead would be something like "FREEDOM ACT", where we invest in technologies and tactics that go against the Great Firewall and other methods used by these countries to keep American apps out.
I don't think that's the underlying cause. The Google product teams I've interacted with didn't seem like they cared they were a market leader. Aside from "In the making a good product" sense.

They literally just didn't understand what people not-them were doing and refused to consider it.

I remember I ditched Chrome ~2014 because I had an issue with the default download handling. Maybe auto-saving/non-standard location?

I dug around and found a bug report on it, that had been open for multiple years, with multiple Google engineers looking and commenting on it, and arguing that users would never need a config option to do... what multiple users for multiple years were asking for.
Your link suggests the relative likelihood of AI destroying all carbon based life or saving the world from "various stupidities". If it is somewhere in between in its influence, and changes anything, isn't it still reasonable to call it a risk?

OP promised a list of scenarios by which AGI leads to total devastation, with strong language for GP. For clarity, I don't think that it is very likely that an unimaginable silicon takeover is the most probable outcome. But like with the gun or the printing press, there will be winners and losers, and society will shift.
Since "Soul of a New Machine" and "Hackers" were already mentioned I'll throw out two that I really enjoyed.

"Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft", Zachary, G. Pascal, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1416925

"Dealers of Lightning: XEROX-PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age", Hiltzik, Michael, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56563823-dealers-of-ligh...
The Incredibly Tangential Information must be another Culture ship?
> but why wouldn’t they?

Well, could be that the lottery participating population has less than average satisfaction of their current life situation. Seems reasonable.
If no one else has yet to create the same quality of product, is that really a monopoly?

Does a given chef have a monopoly on their signature dish?

It feels like people are tossing around "monopoly" whenever it feels like there's a company that has produced a quality product and people want to hobble it because no one else has committed the resources to producing something comparable.
We agree that suppressed supply is the problem. You think the suppression is caused by clueless and misguided poor people. I think the suppression is caused by clued-in rich people pursuing enormous financial malincentives.

Do you disagree that the malincentives exist? Or do you think that clueless poor people are a more effective political bloc than clued-in rich people pursuing enormous financial malincentives?
It’s just like the first kid often comes out a little wonky, subsequent offspring are better.
It's coming for coders at the same time that it comes for artists.
I don't have a fancy temperature control, but I had just moved from gas stove to glass top electric* and and I got tired of waiting sooo long to hopefully get to a good cooking temp, only to ruin things by finding out the answer was no.

So a bought a hand-held laser-pointer-temperature gun at the hardware, wow, it's fantastic. Now I know what temps are for what (it's remarkably similar to the oven, 325 to 450) and I know how to find them and how quickly on my stove.

*what is with Miele appliances, they all suck, range, convection oven, microwave. the UIs are impossible.
This was in the US though.
It seems to be back into effect as I have to have an active subscription for it to function. I guess they are giving it another go with their latest vehicles.
I'm worried about AI taking our jobs
> Some religious conservatives are convinced that referring to a transgender person by their preferred pronoun is a sin, even a serious one, for which they will be judged by God.

Awwww. Too bad for them.
The newest printers out of prusa, the recently launched mk4 and the much delayed prusa xl are absolutely half cocked. They have interesting design ideas, but are shipping without features that we now know are absolutely table stakes for quality machines.

Concretely: the mk4 talks about having input shaping, but doesn’t come with an accelerometer, which is needed for that to work well. The sovol 06 is a much more affordable machine that has similar motion system to the ml3/mk4

The xl really should be a fully enclosed printer like a voron trident or bambu x1 carbon. (The latter two have similar ).

If you ignore all the alternatives to prusa machines that are out there, they’re reliable machines that do the thing. But there’s so much amazing stuff in both community driven open source printer designs and also much more affordable manufacturing of the open source designs than you can get from prusa.
Isn’t history full of examples of governments being slow and seemingly incompetent? Standard Oil was broken up many years after everyone knew that they were a ruthless monopoly which made too much profits. Note also that it didn’t take senators to figure out the monopoly, it was everyone, including the voters, who did.

There is one big benefit that democratic governments have though. They have a monopoly on physical force.
Android can run with an unmodified Linux kernel.
Sweden is full of old money, or at least it looks like that from a Finnish perspective. The problem with old money is that if you simply invest the money passively and don't do anything stupid, the next generation is going to be even richer. Both in relative and absolute terms.

Being able to live in the most desirable areas is based on relative wealth. If there is a lot of old money, it's harder to make it to the top in a single generation.

The usual tools for leveling the playing field are wealth tax and inheritance tax. I'm under the impression that Sweden abolished both a couple of decades ago.
It's going to be problematic for almost everything except a vehicle. A vehicle is registered with the state and has multiple identifying marks.

Is it wiser to call the authorities? No question. There is no fucking way I'm going to personally go tangle with someone who is likely part of a criminal group, thank you very much.

I suspect a "Hi, I'm so and so. I reported my car stolen and the tracker has it marked at <place X>. I'm about to go reclaim it using Penal Code 9.41--I should be there in an hour. Would you folks like to escort me?" would have been more effective.

The fact that a shootout is about to occur tends to get the police to move even when stolen property won't.
Sorry but I am not going to pay for this before trying it out on my content.

Surely there can be a test function within the website which allows me to see what a user would experience?
Why is the shebang `#!python` instead of `#!/usr/bin/env python`?
That’s the thing, Atmos doesn’t care about channels, except for how to use them to represent a sound at render time. And that render is not embedded in the tracks, it’s calculated.
I don’t think those examples are believable, there’s a ton of hand waving like “secretly hack and install secret copies” and “automate the economy” (what does that even mean)

(In science fiction everyone gets a perfect robot butler. In the real world, the poorest 20% never get one, another 20% cancel the monthly subscription, another chunk forget to keep it charged or accidentally pour juice on it or live inside a concrete apartment that blocks the satellite signal that now is the time to use the sharp knife)

I don’t think the analogy holds either. Chimpanzees were not smart enough to invent humans. The higher you ascend levels of intelligence, the higher ability you have both to imagine what a higher level would be like and to understand potential constraints it might have. A lack of imagination is not evidence against the hypothesis, but it’s also not evidence that the probability is more than 1 in a billion (or whatever)
The two big ones, Relativity and Firefly, are definitely direct competitors.

As to the lawsuits, generally don't take any of your employers code or data with you when you leave, and you'll be fine.
Thanks man, very insightful!
The article refers to getting "Behringer'd". Can anyone tell me what that means?
I agree with everything you said except the thirst for sex. That one is melting your brain as a teenager.

I miss the clarity of mind I had when I was younger than that, perhaps 10 or 12.
This is probably the only actual thing I care about in a browser, at least between Firefox and Chrome. That and 1password.
Candidate measurements of a civilization's distance from the Great Filter:

- energy yield of weapons
- ratio of their AI's IQ to theirs
- cost/mass to orbit

TODO: Calibrate after the Great Filter.
Working at a startup can increase career security (AI Discussed)
In Canada even if they do build housing

1) the immigration rate is so high it isn't enough to keep up

2) the house values in areas that dont build in enough housing have skyrocketed, and smart homeowners in those areas have decided to sell and move to places with lower house prices and purchase more than one, which of course rockets the price even in the places that do build a lot. So even in provinces where lots of housing is built, immigration from other countries and other provinces blows up the housing prices anyways.

3) The government doesn't want to do anything about it because immigration is how they're keeping down wages, and since housing has become so much of the GDP they're terrified of what it would mean for the economy if there was a price crash anyways, so they don't look at policies that would fight the housing price explosion in fear of what the economy will look like if they do.
> because it's the best way to guarantee the integrity of the brand in the long term

If you personally make less money would you still do it?

You might answer yes but many wont.
The problem here is leaks.

Burning and recapturing is a carbon positive process without separately trying to recapture carbon out of the rest of the air.

The air at large has a very low concentration of CO2, so the capture is unfavourable. Your apparatus is only going to touch so many CO2 particles to recapture them, asides from CO2 being energetically favourable

And, once you have sequestered them, the sequestration also has to worry about leaks.

If you're using a synthetic fuel, those leaks move you from -100% net release towards 0% net release.

If you're using newly mined fuel, the leaks move you from 0% release towards 100% release

This doesn't account for the energy requirements to create the fuel
Yeah, I didn't know how much that is going to cost me if I added a free trial. But I can create a demo for you if you like. Give me an example web page link for which you want the chatbot.

I will create one and post the link here. Just a single page url.
I think society has to figure out how much power you give one person or a small group of people. whether it's an emperor, chairman, priest, a CEO, a guru, etc.
What if the contradictions arise from efforts to hide a Manhattan scale government project racing to superhuman machine intelligence but which requires help from talented researchers outside of Fort Meade?
>What are you actually asking for here?

Sounds like they're asking for government to take the reins w.r.t world impacting decisions rather than relying on the fortune of the big people in tech to make kind, thoughtful and well-planned decisions for our collective humanities' future.

>The way we normally deal with assholes is we shame them.

No, I don't, I avoid them -- and I find that tactic that you mentioned embraced more and more
commonly and purported even as the preferred method as if that's just the common sense reaction -- It's not, and I disagree with that behavior vehemently .
Thats why i opted buying my 3d printer from https://reprapltd.com/ reprap project founder
325 is great for plain pancakes, but around 360 works better for me if I load them with blueberries.

Also, if you've never tried a recipe with vinegar and baking soda you need to.
This is the main reason I keep a passport.

I have used each passport exactly 1 time in the last 20 years, once to the British Virgin Islands and once, recently to Vietnam.

But I keep one handy because the process to get one is months and frankly, there may be scenarios where you may want to leave the country without months of beurocratic delays first.
It's not just glaring stuff like this. We should measure government productivity/$ and amount of waste we have. Our nation would be like 3000% better if Gov was run at the efficiency of a SV startup.

Source: I am a Gov employee.
> The critique would be that the findings don’t necessarily generalize outside of the lottery participating population, but why wouldn’t they?

Because normally when people earn their wealth, they build up a whole set of experiences and social networks that assist them in managing their wealth. Contrarily, winning the lottery has often been reported as "the worst thing that can happen to you", and lottery winners are frequently broke in a few years: https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-th...
Tl;dr capitalist market worship, and “whether or not you’re open, you can get out competed, and yes a 1:1 clone is just competition bro, sorry you’ve contributed to the community but somehow the clone company doesn’t have to do r&d and they wind up with lower costs, such is the market”

Sorry for the reductionist take but something about this article irks me. Surely there’s room to complain about the expense of giving in a growing room of takers. In software we have the wonderful AGPL. I can see why Prusa wants something to help grow an open source hardware community without rewarding takers.
Yea, It's a bit like watching a car wreck in slow motion. I'm sad that he dragged TexElec into this. TexElec has been a good and reputable place to buy retro adapters. Hopefully, it doesn't drag down TexElec.
This is exactly why you need a tax professional. You're linking to an article that is related to whether or not you can "write off" bad/uncollectible debt; it's not relevant. The first sentence most likely "disqualifies" you from the article's contents entirely -- you're probably not a small business that is using accrual-basis accounting, it sounds like you may not even have an entity at all (which is fine).

You need a tax professional (or even a semi-pro); in the interim, I'd suggest solely relying on what you read on the IRS website.

Generally speaking, by default you are likely cash-basis -- but yeah, this income & especially with "high variance", get with a professional. If nothing else, figure out whether you actually need a loan or not before applying/asking for one...

IANAL/IANA-tax-pro -- but you almost surely do not need a loan.
One way you can tell it's a conspiracy theory is that people talk about the WEF, which has no power other than arranging the name tags on the lunch tables at the gatherings, rather than the actual policy makers making decisions.

Try a thought experiment: contravene the will of the World Economic Forum. What happens next? You don't get to go next year? Statistically, that means your company performance will significantly improve!
Do you simple paste the entire content of a webpage inside a prompt? You prepend the question from an enduser with that content?:i.e. dear chatgpt api, could you answer the following question [user question] based on the following text [website contents]
Well GOG had announced GNU/Linux support for Galaxy and after many years of hard work they finally managed to unannounce it.

Not saying they won't announce it, but it happening seems as likely as NASA delivering evidence that the Moon is made of cheese.
In the last 10 years I haven’t had a single contract dealing with a windows server. Im sure that someone somewhere does indeed use it. But it’s gotta be 90%+ now a days Linux.
Elastic Load Balancer is in fact an AWS product. I believe GCP's equivalent is called Cloud Load Balancing.

Your point is valid and something I've felt many times as well (Route 53 means DNS somehow???), you just happened to choose literally the only AWS product that is well named.
Lower cost adequate quality clones coming out and eating in to your core business.
> to deep space destinations, such as the Moon

I feel woefully underqualified to call out NASA's PR team, but I don't _think_ the Moon qualifies for most definitions of "deep space".

Exciting news all the same, and I can only assume they meant to suggest that RDRE propulsion is useful for destinations that are nearer too!
my comment said "full raw request", not whatever you are talking about.
Your work will never be as immortal as cockroaches and viruses either.
I didn't take all of my vacation days last year... because I thought they carried over to the following year and like to save them for the summer.

No chance am I making that mistake again
A thing I find mind-blowing is that if this concept succeeds, that I and everyone reading this will be able to afford to go to low earth orbit on a relatively modest salary within the next ~20 years (conservatively).

This feels like quite a difficult reality to internalise given we all grew up seeing only a select few exceptional people, with the stars aligning in their career, be able to do that.
To still paraphrase Chris Rock: Beyonce could still marry Jay-Z, even if she was working at McDonald's...Now Jay-Z by the contrary....
Which is interesting, but non-windturbine power is also responsible for mass bat deaths because the heat got too high

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/heat-wave-australia-killed-2300....
A bunch of owed vacation is a great addition to an exit package.
What kind of measures by the government and can help the situation?
I find my speech to be far more fluent when I practice lateral thinking skills, like doing hard crosswords. I stop blanking on words, even those not in the puzzles, and zi can shift mental gears a little easier.
I have to use either edge or chrome for work, so keeping a consistent ecosystem for home too works well. I can’t recall why FF couldn’t be used. Windows Hello, maybe? Anyways, when I checked 3 or so years ago, it was a conscious decision on FF’s part to not support an absolutely critical feature. Not having Adblock would be enough reason for me to want to juggle two browsers, but FF is simply not a desirable option right now, as much as I would love for it to be.
ahh yes, the cut, the 'great' publication that brought you insightful pieces like this eye roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxQkg_Ye60
Not strictly on computer history, but Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" should be a good read on the historical tracking down of a 'bad guy' hacker by the author.
If that was the case, mv3 would let extensions block arbitrary requests on a subdomain, e.g. "uBO wants to block requests on *.com, Yes/No".
Not exactly. Given one of my plans has 5000 pages, it is not possible to just paste the entire content in a prompt. Open AI API has a max tokens limit.

I will first do some pre-processing on the content and fetch the relevant pieces of content before giving it as a prompt to the API.
Why do people always say this? It's almost like a thought-terminating cliche. Thousands of companies competing with each other were not able to do it earlier, but the NSA always has better everything, by definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behringer

Behringer products are often half the price of other audio gear and have a matching reputation for suspect quality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/6bqb18/ar...
MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention [video]
> all these people want to have a cheap apartment in the same 10 km^2 that's designated as the cool place.

Which, incidentally, is cool because not everyone's living there ;) Don't know about Stockholm, but I guess those places are the same 19th/early 20th century quarters like in every other European city build for renting out to an upward moving middle class and popular exactly because they're meeting the representative needs of their tenants then and now.
They're saying that companies are much more likely to be consistently ethical if they're forced to by the government, assuming the regulations that the government makes are themselves ethical. Even if you accept that Sam Altman, or any CEO, has the people's best interests at heart, it doesn't matter, the people shouldn't have depend on the CEOs of a powerful companies being a nice people to ensure they're not harmed. They're not saying it should be illegal to be an asshole, they're saying it should be illegal to run your company unethically.
I guess not. Probably an offline process where they scrape the websites into chunks and build embeddings. At query time first search for the relevant chunks and then put those chunks into the prompt?

Would love more details though from the author!
And Germany, ans so many other countries
> Go is so 2020. Zig is the new freshness.

I dont care.
Just you wait until the fleshlight plug-in drops.