skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could still fine the corporation, or block/revoke approvals.

If the purpose is to spot bad behavior and then correct it within these systems, then this is as far from achieving that goal as you can get. I'm not interested in penalizing the corporation, I'm interested in getting the best performance we can.

What natural incentives are there otherwise? If users come to expect that their self driving cab "breaks a few rules" to get them there faster, then how do you balance that?

> Unsafe/stupid driving is accepted as inevitable and rarely enforced against for human drivers

What is your source for this assertion?

> it’ll likely be much easier to enforce rules on a self driving car, since almost everything is tracked and recorded

If the car can't correctly drive itself, then what help is this? How would you sort through this data without the very type of automation which is in the car itself?

> in ways that would never be required for human drivers.

There's much more to roadway enforcement than what the U.S. currently does. China has an entirely different system of police and thus traffic enforcement. European countries love speed cameras. Several U.S. states are big on red light cameras.

Self driving vehicles confidently drive down one way streets and block other vehicles offering no recourse to solve the problem for the other driver. We don't have an enforcement mechanism for this because this hasn't happened before.

Whether this technology is "better than humans" or not is beside the point. It's using roadways designed and still majority occupied by actual humans. This is not being properly accounted for.
This seems like it might be a hoax? Can anyone independently confirm that this is actually happening?

Seems like OP just uploaded a screenshot with no additional information. I don't want to claim that they're lying, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I bet the code is nearly unmaintainable too.
They replaced all the nuclear with renewables (in spite of that same government sabotaging the rollout), and the hydro shortfall.

The coal replaced the gas and french nuclear.
I'm not posting - I'm voting.
I’d love too but I dislike using payment processors as middlemen for online transactions! I see you’re using Stripe which is one of the worst processors because they opaquely block all sorts of transactions. It would be great to use a system like this to promote and fund open source projects and fuel cottage industry without having to include megacorporations. Make a mail cash option for people who don’t want to show their papers to a payment processor!
Any other users confirmed yet?
Everywhere. The text is black on grey. Of all the sites I visit regularly, HN has the worst reading contrast.

And that's not even mentioning the ridiculously small font size of 10pt, and the hardcoded font families (Verdana, Geneva) that can cause poor text rendering (should be "system-ui" instead for best display quality on all platforms).
Something interesting from the paper:

The architecture produced more believable behaviour than human crowdworkers.

That's right, the AI were more believable as human-like agents than humans.

What a time to be alive.

(See Figure 8)
Boy, I sure did. I found getting the fold absolutely perfect a bit of an obsessive compulsive experience that ultimately paid off big time once I nailed it.

The drawings and supporting copy were almost always jaw-dropping genius that blew my mind. The kind of thing I'd always want to share with someone else in the house once I'd done the fold.
You submit it to a junk journal with a political agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_(journal)

Seriously though, they observed a reverse Flynn effect by taking a thin slice of negative test results from a test that doesn’t even measure IQ and finding it statistically significant. This kind of reminds of when climate deniers take a tiny slice of climate records and claim the earth is actually getting cooler.

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Unsurprisingly you’ll actually find many IQ researchers in institutions which are still trying to deny climate change. E.g. Charles Murray is now working for the American Enterprise Institute.
Both the beauty and horror of non-stem courses is that they require a degree of abstract reasoning on par with computer science.

What one does with that reasoning is up to them (and it is often twisted in laughable ways, see the portion of an abstract I posted up-thread). Often times the brightest thinkers have been from 'soft' sciences like history or sociology. I think it is because of the abstraction required to reasonable think about these subjects.
The last discussion point from this article very much so rings true for me, too. It's been how many years since the Spanner paper and I still can't get a GCP VM with atomic clocks?

At least now I can provision Cloud Spanner as a managed service, but is this the future of clouds keeping their services at an advantage?
Not only will they know more, work 24/7 on demand, spawn and vaporize at will, they are going to be perfectly obedient employees! O_o

Imagine how well they will manage up, given human managerial behavior just becomes a useful prompt for them.

Fortunately, they can't be told to vote. Unless you are in the US, in which case they can be incorporated, earn money, and told where to donate it, which is how elections are done now.

Seriously. Scary.

On the other hand, if Comcast can finally provide sensible customer support it's clear this is will be an historically significant win for humanity! Your own "Comcast" handler, who remembers everything about you that you tried to scrub from the internet. Singularity, indeed.
Now compare wind and solar and existing hydro and 2-5% w2e to just wind instead of just wind vs. just solar. At a mix appropriate for the region (for example some regions get 800kWh/kWp/yr, others get 2400, wind ranges between 2000 and 5000), and include reasonable predictons of demand curves.

Wind and solar are negatively correlated. Adding both reduces storage and makes the system more robust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_relationship
I've not seen this myself, but I find it suspicious that this is printed at all; Specifically because that means that somehow the nVidia driver has access to print to the specific console. I mean, it could be true, but this feels a little too far... off.
as an amateur hacker news logician and avid rachel maddow watcher I believe it is because the comment is an example of the slippery slope fallacy, fails to note that correlation does not equal causation and also doesnt mention how 40 years ago ronald reagan closed the mental hospitals which meant CA could not enforce laws against pooping in the streets ever again.
> So I'm wondering now about how you could encourage more of these one-off pet projects.

I think all we need is low barriers to entry; existing code bases virtually never manage to be all things to all people, so we want it to be easy to say, "the existing options don't do what I want; time to write something better!" (And then to do it)
At first I thought "Oh another Patreon/Open Collective" but actually this is kinda neat in how it works.

Slightly offtopic, but every month when my Patreon donations get processed Patreon sends me this STUPID email with "Tweet your receipt!"
Honestly, it's so pathetic. It's like giving food to a homeless person while filming it so I can post it on Twitter.

Yes I realise it's an option and I don't have to (nor do I) click it.
Thoughts on AI safety in this era of increasingly powerful open source LLMs
Some gas turbines can now burn (green) hydrogen. Germany deploys those beasts.

https://www.ge.com/gas-power/future-of-energy/hydrogen-fuele...
This exactly
Thank for sharing
Peeking into these lives sounded amazing until I started reading what they are doing and how boring their lives are…. gathering data for podcasts and recording videos, planning and washing teeth.

It would be fun to run the same simulation in the Game of thrones world, or maybe play House of cards with current politicians.

Anyways, kudos for being open and sharing all data
> RCs are introduced when developers are already in the midst of the implementation or testing phases

Yeah, if you're still doing waterfall after all the decades of experience confirming Royce's observation, "the implementation described above is risky and invites failure"[1], then you're going to have a bad day. Many bad days, really.

1 http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
That only makes sense if you assume the purpose of the test is to correctly apply logic rather than guess the actual number of Elephants in Germany. Someone who's not familiar with standardized testing may assume the latter is more important.
They interviewed the agents to ask them about their day, goals, observations, etc. They then asked a human to watch an agent through the simulation and then answer interview questions as the agent. The human performed worse than the agent in the interview, they didn't compare a human roleplaying against an agent.
I remember taking the train to the hotel from the airport when I worked at Heroku.

At one station, two kids were fighting and one threw the other into the train. No one at the station did anything. I was coming from Tokyo and the scene was so insane that I could only sit and record a video. Like I felt physically unable to move beyond bringing my phone up and hitting the record button.

I still watch the video sometimes and wonder if I should have done something.
That's a rewriting of history.

There were always Jews there, and they didn't push anyone out - the land was very sparsely inhabited. The incoming Jews bought land like anyone would when they move someplace.

The Arabs responded with massacres, instead of just living near their new neighbors. If they had not done that history would be quite different.
> Dorsey announced he will introduce new legislation with Supervisor Catherine Stefani to amend the City Charter and get the Police Department fully staffed within five years.

The implication is it will fix things and then maybe businesses will return. But why did they tear it down and reduce staffing to start with? What did they expect to happen? Can’t imagine as soon as COVID hit they said “no need to worry about crime anymore, let all these officers go”.

Then what was Whole Foods thinking? Shouldn’t they have done some kind of study to analyze that particular area before opening a “flagship” location there just a year ago?

I guess it could have been a case where everyone in the decision chain might have see the train wreck coming but nobody wanted to raise their hand and object. The only way out is to let the train wreck happen. That wouldn’t be too outlandish, I’ve seen similar things happen.
Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT
What else is there to consciousness? I wrote a comment to this effect a couple years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26883554 (your list is pretty close to my own)

I think what's missing from these Generative Agents are the internal qualia: emotions (and the attachment of emotions to memories), and self-observation of internal processes and needs. These agents don't eat because they need to, they eat because literary tradition suggests they ought to.

These missing pieces aren't particularly complicated, no more so than memory. I expect we'll see similar agents with all the ingredients for consciousness within a few months to a year.
Is this really a pet project? It's been merged into the kernel tree. A pet project would be the liblinux project I started years ago which was more or less the same thing as nolibc. Stopped working on it because I discovered nolibc and decided it didn't make sense to duplicate that effort.

Honestly compilers should straight up offer support for a Linux system call builtin that just generates the code in those stubs. They have support for insane calling conventions, there's no reason not to support something simple like that.
> I wager SF was affected harder more than most downtowns due to high commercial rents, tons of startups that were nimble and moved, and lots of progressive big companies that are actually adapting to WFH reasonably well.

Yeah, though I think it doesn't help that downtown SF has relatively low population density compared to downtown Manhattan. When the return-to-office plans started to kick in there weren't a ton of workers with very short commutes who were eager to be back in-office.
Comment headings. I feel the text in the orange header could be included just because of how ridiculously tiny it is.
thanks for the feedback & you raise a valid point, we'd love to look at additional payment options :)
Love this! Hope it will take off.

"Webpack receives close to $200k in funding per year via OpenCollective but its direct dependencies receive minuscule amounts of funding, and there are 80+ of them."

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From what little I know Sun Tzu has a lot of "good rule od thumb" wisdom but you shouldn't stick to what he says as if he is infallible.

For example:

> The greatest victory is that which requires no battle

He says a lot of stuff like that but this is only true if your aim is peace in the near term and appearances of victory. The carnage of war, the worse it is the more it avoids even more war. If you win without battle then others will keep starting more battles because why not? But if you defear your enemy well and in the most horrific way then it becomes unthinkable to willingly start a battle or war with you. Even in the middle of war, a great and terrible victory demoralizes the enemy but a victory with no bloodshed only delays when the next battle will happen since you only won a battle and not the whole war.

I could pick many examples from WW2 and the ensuing peace we enjoy to this day (relative to before that time). Or how the US sabotages and enables regime changes all over without actual (at least acknowledged) conflict but time and time again it only delayed and worsened the threat.

My philosophy is that you should never start a war except as retaliation of an actual attack or immediate and impending attack (NK firing missiles not Iraq is about to get missiles). But if you start a war it is your duty to finish it fast and without witholding your aggression so long as that aggression contributes to preventing even more aggression from your enemies and resentment from your people (US and country building/preserving in a time of war in vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind).

Happy to be corrected and educated on this. My point is that if you are not careful you can interpret that one teaching of his to mean you should avoid battle as much as possible. And a few others I have thought about are also like this. Surprising your enemy or deceiving them is not always the best idea either, what is more terrible to your enemy than telling them you will cause enormous damage at a specific date and time and doing exactly that despite their desperate attempts to counteract that, it crush their spirits and allow you to decieve them later on more effectively.
reporting where? Edit, I found this: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1499995-nvidia-drivers-phone...
It would be one thing if you made that argument about some old term, like “mountain”, or “island”; those have definitions, but the edges are fuzzy and vary, since the terms are old and saturated since prehistorical times. With “Open Source”, it’s different. The wording existed previously, yes, but only as a technical term in intelligence gathering. Applied to software, on the other hand, the term is new, created by the OSI, which gave it a strict definition from day one. People cannot have heard of the term unless it came from OSI. Any claim of deviation from the OSI meaning, then, can be simply discarded as incorrect.

This debate is beyond silly. It’s like arguing about what the rules of, say, Settlers of Catan is. The rules are the official rules which come with the box; anything else is house rules or custom rules, and cannot be used in something like an official tournament. When people say that “Settlers of Catan does this thing X”, and the official rules expressly says it does not do X, they are (knowingly or not) being misleading.
Roman architectural revolution
The article argues that if people can't get good-enough medical assistance for their problems because it costs too much or is not covered by insurance, but they CAN get assisted suicide, it's more like eugenics: be healthy or here's a quick way out.

Offering assisted suicide for depression and anxiety is horrible. Psychology evolved so much recently. These can be treated by a psychologist and, most of the time, cured completely and permanently.
No, but we should arrest Telegram employees for any terrorist plots that are coordinated on their platform (and any other encrypted communication apps) for allowing that behavior
Engines have limited lifetime too, but I get your concern. Most people's experience with Li-ion batteries is portable electronics that are designed to last 5 years or so. EV batteries are designed (and their charge state managed) to last much longer.

As a rule of thumb, the battery in a long range EV (NMC or NCA chemistry) will have 70% of its original range after 1200 full charge cycles (charging 0-100% 1200 times, or charging 25-75% 2400 times) So a car with 350mi range when new will have 245 mile range after about 400,000 miles.

EVs with lithium-iron batteries (LFP chem) have shorter range (250 miles or so) but they can do about 3000 cycles or 700,000 miles before their range falls to 70%, or 175 miles. Still potentially useful, depending on how far you need to go.

I would imagine most of the EVs on the road today will succumb to rust or collisions before their battery gives out.
thanks for taking the time to study how thanks.dev works & taking the time to write about it. Here's a recent article that was also published about how we're different https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/07/thanksdev_open_source...
In this case Housing would be a preventive measure but it doesn’t deal with the problem that everyone truly wants dealt with: the mentally I’ll.

How do we solve the mentally I’ll problem? Is it that involuntary commitment with excessive oversight is incomparable with American values of freedom ?
And a touch of chaos theory, turbulence and all the ideas that itself builds upon. He recognized that sufficiently complex dynamic systems are impossible to fully predict due to physical constraints.
The answer to that question is already given.
This is a good thing. One more bullshit job eliminated that only exists to make the numbers go up.

This will be hard, but as a society, we need to examine the entire reasoning behind "jobs" and why "more jobs = more gooder". The entire foundation of that line of thought is fundamentally flawed.
There is a reason people still read Sun Tzu 2500 years later, and it's not because he's been on a press tour promoting his book. The man was a consummate master of his art, if he was indeed one man.

My favorite reading of The Art of War, because Baldermort has an awesome voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlW3WqXisM
for me, an unsupervised pipeline is not handholding. the thoughts drive actions. If you can't control how those thoughts form or process memories then i don't see what is hand holding about it. a pipeline is one and done.
I don't know how to substantiate this, so I won't try. My impression of the site is that it has a particular left-wing/pro-socialist political bias that creeps into articles, particularly about individuals. It doesn't usually have false information, but the language is often quite unfair. It's not wrong to have an opinion of course, but I assume it's opinions are an emergent property of its users and not the result of unapologetic rationality.

This websites opinion aligns pretty closely with my impression: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rationalwiki/
I wonder if the structure sociograms like the one at the end of the article could be used as some metric of a species' (social) intelligence
Being able to sort a large list like that is really impressive given how ChatGPT works. I wonder if it's seen enough sorted lists of capitals in its training data to help it.

ChatGPT doesn't have any internal working memory. It can't think things out in its head before forming an answer. It formulates its answer one token at a time, but it only gets one pass through its network to make each token. (One token is often about 4 characters, but for simplicity I'll pretend it generates one word at a time.) To sort a list of 50 things, it has to figure out in a single pass which thing comes first. Then in the next pass, which thing comes second. And so on. There's no internal memory between passes either; it only sees what's written in the chat (including its own writing). It can't do loops or iteration internally within a pass either.

A human could do this iteratively for any number of items. You just go through the items one by one, keeping track of the earliest alphabetical item so far (using your working memory). Once you've gone through the entire list and found the first item, cross that one off and repeat the process until the entire list is sorted. ChatGPT can't do it that way.
Is this surprising? NVIDIA drivers have been reporting what games you open, what programs load GPU drivers, etc for decades now.
More like $1,92 (32 * 0,12) for a 32k prompt, or twice that for a 32k completion. Still not cheap though.
I think you're ignoring a lot of ways in which this system will not easily extend to more complex tasks.

-While the retrieval heuristic is sensible for the domain, it's not applicable to all domains. In what situations should you favor more recent memories over more relevant ones?

-The prompt for evaluating importance is domain-specific, asking the model to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how important a life event is, giving examples like "brushing teeth" (a specific action in the domain) as a 0, and college acceptance as a 10. How do you extend that to a real-world agent?

-The process of running importance evaluation over all memories is only tractable because the agents receive a very small number of short memories over the course of a day. This can't scale to a continuous stream of observations.

-Reflections help add new inferences to the agent's memory, but they can only be generated in limited quantities, guided by a heuristic. In more complex domains where many steps of reasoning may be required to solve a problem, how can an agent which relies on this sort of ad hoc reflection make progress?

-The planning step requires that the agent's actions be decomposable from high-level to fine-grained. In more challenging domains, the agent will need to reason about the fine-grained details of potential plan items to determine their feasibility.
I weep a bit every time I see a new Supabase capability knowing I'm stuck on Firebase.
They are raised in a similar (or even the same) culture. The environment is a pretty powerful driver for inheritance. Genes is not the end all be all of things that are inherited across generations.
I'm very excited that he's got a metal 3d printing sponsor or whatever. He's been massively held back by not being able to make metal parts. He did the dyson blower in plastic basically the same part in this video. It may become less rediculous with him constantly burning up plastic but that could have gotten old. I'm hoping / betting he won't be held back by his inability to design parts that won't melt metal.
> Projects with gifs on reddit get more attention.

Corroborates my experience, that is what I did to successfully get some attention for Lusift (https://github.com/lusift/lusift).

Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/vuejs/comments/wpuohd/i_created_a_j...
Is it possible for many people to simultaneously fine tune models on different data and then combine the new models into something improved?
I love how perfectly you described that. Yes, I was a kid, but I was in on the joke. The cool grownups were giving me a knowing wink as they made fun of, well, everything.

If I knew of something like that today, I’d leave it laying around for my kids to find.