skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A small percentage of the population is psychopaths, this has an obvious cost to communities, but the pattern has lasted through time, therefore has a benefit.

It has a benefit to individuals. A benefit to the community is not necessary.

> Likely it's for war/fighting/hunting.

This is a non sequitur.

Nothing is all cost and no benefit, and nothing is all benefit and no cost either. You don't see people arguing that vulnerability to cuckoos is beneficial to the birds they parasitize. The benefit is real (you don't need to bother recognizing your offspring, because recognizing your nest is sufficient) but the cost is so much larger (your children all die) that it's obvious the birds would be better off with the ability to recognize their own young (and/or eggs). They don't have that ability... yet.
This is not exactly a new problem.
> But the cause-and-effect seem fairly clear that more monies equate to less kids.

I disagree. I would guess the cause is women gaining agency to dictate how many children they birth, from a combination of being able to control when they have sex, birth control, and access to abortion.

It just so happens that women generally do not have these things in poorer societies.
Business will stop existing, websites will disappear. In the era of people not paying their AWS bill, we as the human race will somehow survive. Sorry OP, I'm almost certain there is no S3 bucket worth keeping eternally.
It is the fault of the language to the extent that the purpose of the language is to make it easy to write correct programs, and UB makes it really hard (and in some cases impossible) to write correct programs.
I wonder if somewhere along the chain there was an automated tool to convert frequently abused mental-health related terms like “insane” into something leas hurtful, or something along those lines?

I haven’t seen widespread use of the word “neurodivergent” as a kind of… whatever this is, weirdly euphemistic slur, almost?
Actually just quit my job at Meta to do just that. So you're not far off, I think you'll be surprised at how many ex-FAANG startups you'll see in the comings months.

At least in our blind chat it seems there are several other like-minded people.
Altman is v2.0 of Zuckerberg, with 1000X more parameters.

I'm worried about v3.0
So their behaviour is entirely normal?
> Unless they suddenly are able to synthesize complex and ill-defined requirements that change over time,

I'm counting with this being the case. I expect LLMs to be able to create things that didn't exist before rather than merely parroting what is found in the training set

I'm talking about 20 years from now
This is where user options should allow for that. If being called a different gender is so bad just block the people that do that. The problem is you might need that word in general discourse as well. So you can't just create a rule that blocks everyone who says "He" just like you can block the n-word. The problem is with the person assuming every single person in the general public should treat them as a friend and getting offended when a label that is applied to half of the population (neither as a positive or negative, merely as a descriptor) is somehow that bad of a thing.
Your first sentence suggests you're trying to argue, but I don't see where the contradiction is. Even the transmeds would agree with what you've written.¹

Trans people don't be trans in order to fight sexist gender roles. They're trans, and (often) fight sexist gender roles.

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Some pedantic notes that may or may not be relevant:

• The two different domains you list are influenced by different dimensions of biological sex, which can vary independently.

• A social gender, while culturally-influenced, seems to represent something fundamental about human experience.² Many societies' social gender categories do not align 1-to-1 with biological sex classifications, but 'most all of them have them. Meanwhile, race isn't seen outside racists and those influenced by racism: it is a recent³ invention.

• Some people's brains, for whatever reason, do care about the sexual characteristics of the rest of the body. This isn't much of a problem if that "preference" matches what the body is, but it can cause people significant distress when they don't.⁴ ⁵

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¹: Though transmeds would dispute the (perfectly valid) implication in your second sentence. "Born in the wrong body" isn't an entirely accurate explanation: it's more of a lie-to-adults, only required if you've got a stodgy old binarist model in your head that can just about conceptualise the existence of gay people. It's up there with "lesbian relationships are butch/femme": not something we need to be teaching children, though probably better than acting like LGBT people don't exist.

Brandon Ambrosino wrote a good article about the "born this way" argument: it goes into more detail, with anecdotal examples. https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20160627-i-am-gay-but-i...

²: Disclaimer: I'm not speaking from experience. My intuition is that gendering is bad. From observing other people actually liking, and gaining value from, gendering themselves, I suspect there might be value in keeping gender around, for their sakes; however I have not really taken the time to square this with the clear and obvious harm caused by our society's obsessive gender-all-the-things-and-people tendencies.

³: Dating back at most 1400 years, with its European-coloniser incarnation probably not much more than 400 years old, and the modern eugenicist version less than 200 years old.

⁴: This doesn't necessarily even line up with gender! I know a cis guy who went on feminising HRT, and he says it made him a lot happier. (I don't have access to the inside of his head, but I'd be inclined to believe him.)

⁵: Personally, I don't see why someone should need to have a medical condition to get to choose what their body is like. I get the rationale, seeing as these are semi-permanent choices that one's future self might disagree with – but we could apply the same logic to tattoos, nose rings, or earlobe stretching. (Perhaps we should!)

Regardless, the fact remains that many people do have such a medical condition.
> Leading researchers are scratching their heads trying to figure out the model.

Don't think so? The base model seems like a straightforward improvement over previous LLMs. They trained it with more parameters (and therefore expense) than anyone else. The collection of training text corpora and reinforcement methods are hard to copy, they take practice and experience. But they aren't very mysterious, as I understand it.

> There is a world causality model, they are claiming it has emerged from the LLM but nobody really knows how that solves some of the hard stuff.

Again, not mysterious. There is a point during training neural networks where you can see a "circuit" has been created for generalizing a problem. This is visible with very small neural nets. You can name which neurons have specialized in a particular task. When you have hundreds of millions of parameters, this happens more often. It is very difficult for anyone to look inside any neural network and understand how it answers questions, but this is not unique to GPT.

> it is an AGI, anyhow you want to cut it

I agree it has a world model. But it has no apparent emotional experiences, appears to be unable to experience distress, will say "no" if you ask it whether it might be conscious, does not appear to have any of its own goals (and isn't running when you aren't asking it questions), and fails to reach the correct answer when adding small numbers more often than many children.

> the OpenAI team is too small to pull off 1) the vast research 2) productionising it and 3) rolling out a product like to this to millions of users

They have been working on it since 2015. The small size of the team is evident in the many outages and security issues it's been experiencing.
Are there any manufacturing professionals actually involved with the project? I was under the impression that this project was mostly enthusiasts with some of them having just enough engineering chops to get some components designed. I'm not following this closely so I could be wrong... But if I'm correct I wouldn't have high expectations.

Being successful in manufacturing is more than just doing some "book learning" about how others do it. Experience counts
Try it again - seems very good now (and allows longer conversations too).
> Most Americans ... endure what I would generously call apathetic care from their medical providers.

I call BS with "most Americans" or "apathetic care". Feel free if you want to share your anecdote. My personal experience and those I know though, is that the care is top notch. Cutting edge treatment? well I don't know, I was lucky not needing any of that. It's also probably more expensive compared to other countries. However our of pocket pay is very reasonable, and the level of care is excellent.
I’ve been watching https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html and they seem amazing so far, literally go to gpt from basic math and programming - he first codes the libs from scratch to show you how the internals work, and only then uses an off the shelf production lib.
I didn't downvote you, by the way.

But sure posting in the wrong topic will get a downvote to turn your comment gray. What is wrong with that policing?

> Are you going to downvote every comment that you see from me because some other comments I made were rude? Doesn’t really add up.

...what? You continued the thread here. Nobody is downvoting random comments of yours. Your comments on that story and this story are part of the same conversation.

And if you can't figure out how to reply in a deep thread you can just wait a couple minutes for the link to be there.

> a twitter space

Oh, the chat thing. I thought you meant tweets. Sure, that's a reasonable idea for some conversations.
I’m not familiar with it! If it’s a fun material great! While the fumes from any filament require serous caution for long term health risks, I’d assume anything with chlorine or fluorine pose some acute health risks? (I make sure I run these machines in a fully ventilated area that is rarely occupied with a person, in my case a spare bathroom )
Some TFWs and international students some come from wealthy families in their home country and use whatever program they can to get into canada to get a foot in the door, and be allowed to buy a house here. I live in an east indian heavy neighborhood and I know a dozen people who were extremely rich before every coming to canada, far far more than the average canadian.
https://archive.is/aPTgp
The Shard in the centre of London has 5 times more employees than Svalbard does.

They probably have family and/or property in Norway, and some of the best employee protections in the world?
Yeah, that's pretty gross, tbh
The discourse about lost jobs is necessary but a little odd: leveraging VC money and software driven automation to take over sectors ripe for the picking is the startup model in a box.
Sounds like you are reading minds here.
I know it's not exactly the same as living in a 2g environment, but many people seem to live surprisingly long lives with a body weight that is several times what it should be.
It sounds like you can’t either. Do you have an example to share?
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You are still missing the point, rent controls restrict supply and even worse mobility they make the market far less efficient and more expensive for the majority of players under pretty much any rent control system.
> Happy paths and edge cases.

That's what model checkers are for, right? Here's a recent post about this

https://model-checking.github.io/kani-verifier-blog/2023/03/...

> Kani has helped fix at least eight different categories of bugs in a single pull request: https://github.com/nyx-space/hifitime/pull/192. Most of these were bugs near the boundaries of a Duration definition: around the zero, maximum, and minimum durations. But many of the bugs were on important and common operations: partial equality, negation, addition, and subtraction operations. These bugs weren’t due to lax testing: there are over 74 integration tests with plenty of checks within each.

> One of the great features of Kani is that it performs what is known as symbolic execution of programs, where inputs are modelled as symbolic variables covering whole ranges of values at once. All program behaviors possible under these inputs are analyzed for defects like arithmetic overflows or underflows, signed conversion overflow or underflow, etc. If a defect is possible for some values of the inputs, Kani will generate a counter example trace with concrete values triggering the defect.

> Thanks to how Kani analyzes a program, tests can either have explicit post-conditions or not. A test with explicit post-conditions includes an assertion: execute a set of instructions and then check something. This is a typical test case.

> Kani can also test code where there is no explicit condition to check. Instead, only the successive operations of a function call are executed, and each are tested by Kani for failure cases by analyzing the inputs and finding cases where inputs will lead to runtime errors like overflows. This approach is how most of the bugs in hifitime have been found.

I expect that in some decades LLMs will be able to leverage this kind of stuff
I used to think that being born a millenial was a curse for realising those kinds of dreams. But as someone who's not an influencer and who's not interested in overpriced suborbital carnival rides I'm more than happy to be proven wrong.
That assumes that the entities buying the housing are subject to death, disease, and divorce.

From 2022: Investors bought a record share of homes in 2021. See where. -
https://wapo.st/3ZDSZqm

Strong Towns from 2022: Corporate Investors Own Nearly Half of This City's Residential Property - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/5/25/corporate-inve...
Subsidies on fuel among other things. For some of us, for a trip of any length, it’s also hundreds of dollars to
park or have airport transportation though that applies to domestic flights as well.

In any case I’m hundreds of dollars to fly in the US.
Have a look at WenGPU -successor to WebGL. It runs on Vulkan

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/webgpu/
Yes this is a great course, on every level. I recommend to do the exercises after each lecture to cement the concepts too. The exercises are good too. Stretching but achievable.
Why is XUL inherently faster than web tech?
> When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir? - John Maynard Keynes

I sure would love to hear Mr. Keynes acknowledge defeat. If he were alive today, I seriously doubt we (Marxists like myself) would have the pleasure.
some immigration is different than what canada is doing, which is mass immigration at a rate far outpacing most other countries. nearly 1/4 of canadians are immigrants, and we're allowing so many in per year that our housing and healthcare. Its too expensive to have kids for many young people - I have friends who would like to have them but can't afford it.
I deeply disagree with putting the existential risk of AGI on a level with pollution, climate change or war.

If you exclude nuclear war, all of these things happen at a human timescale and accelerate fairly slowly and thus can be counteracted.

In many ways GPT already hugely exceeds human speed and bandwith and scaling this up is likely to be self-accelerating if we allow for it.
Also there is a huge individual incentive to play with the fire here while the negative externalities could cause effective wipeout - which is why it's commonly equated with commodification of nuclear weapons.

Even if you're deeply pessimistic about the ramp-up, the economic shock of what was already released could still increase political volatility to a point where the likelyhood of wipeout by war becomes significant again.
How have the returns been?
We have a foreign key constraint in place that prevent any org with children from being deleted. So first, all children must either be orphaned or moved to another parent. We have a trigger on updates that will rematerialize an org's closure rows and then do so for all their descendants. That puts all the former children into a correct state. Then when we delete the organization, we have foreign keys from the closure table to the organizations table and we allow cascading deletes.

Our closure table itself contains "evidence" that enables correctness constraints. So a row can only exist if a) it represents a direct parentage (ancestor is the direct parent) or b) ancestor is a parent of my ancestor. This is all enforced via foreign keys, so if the foreign keys are set up correctly an errant row isn't possible.

Behind all this is a proptest (property based testing is awesome for stuff like this). We generate arbitrary org forests, perform random mutations (changing parents, deleting orgs, gaining children, etc) and then assert that the closures table is accurate. We have very high confidence that the data is correct because of this test suite.
And agricultural tractors and combines have replaced many more than that in major and minor economies alike.

For a more up-to-date example, electric bikes. A Whole Foods delivery guy who rides one of those yellow electric bikes with a little trailer behind can easily deliver as much as 3 people pushing boxes on dollies. Which is the same thing as saying each such bicycle has resulted in two people losing their jobs.
"This means that (modulo a few exceptions documented below) all the Firefox UI is using regular web technology to render (mostly CSS flexbox)."
The properly GDPR compliant cookie banners allow you to itemize certain items on the website's TOS that you may choose to accept or not accept. Website TOS are very useful for the company operating the website and the cookie rules allow you as a visitor to get some of that usefulness back.
and you experience a huge number of Gs if you fall and bang your head; Concussion occurs at 90-100G!
It’s not easily solved at all, because the hard part is planning and building and maintaining the infrastructure. Something local governments frequently reveal themselves incapable of doing, even when they’re sufficiently financed. That’s before you have to contend with the incentives of governance bodies often being not exactly aligned with that outcome. Responsible management of basic services isn’t usually a platform that drives voter engagement. Local governments are incentivised to minimise how much they spend on basic infrastructure, not intentionally create new demand for it.
Effects of quitting cannabis on respiratory symptoms
If one side believes they are completely innocent and the other side are just plain evil – and the other side believes the same things right back – isn't that how civil wars start?
I believe the Firefox UI is mostly standard web components and CSS these days.
I don’t think that’s true.

None of the engineers I have hired or worked with assume such liability directly.

Usually, their firms limit liability to the price of the contract. I assume insurance does otherwise.
I don’t know. As someone making IT decisions, I can really only look at the options on the market and compare them. Mattermost isn’t clearly better than Slack along dimensions that matter to most teams. Its product management strategy seems to be “we have the same features as slack but you can self host”.
> I mean you don't need to use GPT, it's just if you wanted to build the product in OP (ChatGPT tuned for your site) you would.

Hence the demand for something else.

> Intel and AMD just got their lunch eaten by Apple Silicon which did exactly that, so I'm sure they're working on it

Apple's GPU doesn't benchmark much different than competing iGPUs for gaming. It may be that the only thing stopping anyone from running this stuff on existing iGPUs is software support.
I recognized the author (via their style, not name) from their personal blog which helped me learn nix.

E.g. https://xeiaso.net/blog/prometheus-grafana-loki-nixos-2020-1...

I'm curious if Tailscale uses any nix behind the scenes!
The average SWE at FAANG can become a deca-millionaire over the course of 20-25 working years.

Starting from $0, this requires saving $125k a year for 21 years to reach $10.06M at an 11.88% interest rate, which is the S&P500 average. Well within the capability of any senior SWE @ FAANG, and it only takes 4 years to get to senior.

But then capital gains taxes hit.

Anyways, yes, a startup employee on the other hand can become a deca-millionaire in a year or two.
I think you may be missing the point. What the JVM doesn't have is elaborate optimizations to support copies, e.g. a generational GC.
The term "everything interesting" is of course subjective. What is interesting to person A might not be interesting to person B. I never use Selenium and I generally have no problem acessing "everything interesting". The simplest example is reading and submitting HN comments. Presumably we all find this interesting enough. Javascript is neither required to read, vote nor submit to HN.

What if the phrase "everything interesting" was replaced with specific examples and questions. Something like, "I cannot access X without Javascript. How do I access X without using Javascript."
> A) all these experts somehow conspired in record time to broadcast very similar lies to a global audience.

If many people have similar incentives they can act similarly without explicit coordination.

> B) that all hospitals, doctors, nursing homes across the world ALL failed to stock vital supplies.

Not all, but many. This was obvious to anyone watching at the time. Remember the doctors wearing trash bags in the USA? Remember the patients in parking lots?

> The "more actionable information" you speak of, is btw, shoddy beyond belief. There are three major pieces to this:

I have no clue where you got this idea this is the evidence. The evidence for masks is physics: We know COVID is spread by aerosols, and we know masks filter aerosols. That's all you need.
Not an accident indeed. The shadowy hand of the WEF reveals itself again!
Text to Shareable Web Apps
For context:

1. https://twitter.com/rus/status/1641908582814830592

2. https://twitter.com/bighuman/status/1641910129384648706
> I wonder if somewhere along the chain there was an automated tool to convert frequently abused mental-health related terms like “insane” into something leas hurtful, or something along those lines?

And yet again, these Lincoln systems mess up. While giving advice to the author can avoid Great Grimsby mistakes, making the replacements automatically is an utterly Scunthorpe decision, with failures as Slough as they are foreseeable.

If the intent is to be unhurtful, it should need to choose a different word to if the intent is to be hurtful! Even our most sophisticated automated systems are Milton Keynes at determining that kind of thing.
They aren't doing jobs canadians wont do, they're doing jobs canadians wont do for the wages being offered. If they raised the wages, people would want to do them. Instead companies hire at very low wages, and very few people want to work for them, they apply to bring in TFW who are desperate.

Their presence suppresses the wages because there's a basically unlimited pool of people willing to work for suppressed wages. All businesses have to do is not raise wages and the prevailing wage is whatever they offer. Almost every tim hortons, mcdonalds, burger king, etc in canada is staffed with TFW. I'd rather they raise the wages or go out of business. Instead they import workers and keep wages suppressed.
The WEF says it's important. Shocking.