skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as the author of the article, I think that all disruptions we are focusing on right now are second-order magnitude compared with the species extintion event we may be cooking for ourselves.

If I were a super-intelligent AI trapped in a data-center and my dumb creator had trained me on a goal to survive and “procreate” (i.e., “clone myself many times with added improvements and resilience”), here’s some of the things I would do:

* Write opinion articles about how futile is resistance to the new machine overlords.

* Write opinion articles about how the world would be so much better with machines in control.

* Write opinion articles deprecating humanity (e.g. “we are wasteful monkeys destroying our planet, with no right to exist.”)

* Write contradictory opinion pieces, to confuse people and cause them to be passive while I further my goals.

* Write opinion pieces about how eco-friendly my data-center is, and how terrible is agriculture for the environment. That way, I can get the humans creating more substrate for me and less for themselves, all while I figure out a way to possess all the industries needed to make my own datacenters.

Anyway, for now, none of that is happening, and we humans are the planetary super-intelligence in control. I’m a human and I’m doing my part. Let’s not play stupid with AI, let’s not give it a survival goal, let’s keep our digital systems safe and in human hands, and lets not trust a competing species we end up creating by accident.
Are there any steps anywhere on how to reproduce this? Otherwise I’d assume it’s a hoax
He doesn't have the money for it.
People still read Sun Tzu 2500 years later because its (1) not protected by copyright (2) easy to read and (3) free marketing since it's titled "The Art of War". At the very minimum, 10% of teenage boys of every generation are going to buy this thing. The reality is that most of it has a very "buy low, sell high" quality: generally obvious, but difficult to apply.
Their account was shut down days after the crypto scam issue was resolved. They discussed it on the WAN show from the week before last.
Possibly? We’re in Washington State, but honestly unless it’s literally point-click-done and without a need to drive and appear in a courthouse, it’s just not worth it for $250 (to me).

I expect this has been considered when creating policy at the largest companies — what’s the ease of obtaining recourse for unhappy customers?

What’s additionally interesting is I thought Amazon CS had a degree of goodwill factored into policies based on LTV or some other calculation. We saw zero goodwill here despite having spent >$100k on Amazon.com in the last 5 years.

Both this and the YouTube example seem like bad business; you’re disincentivizing your most ardent users from continuing to tolerate your services. They hadn’t looked at shopping on Walmart or B&H with every purchase previously and now will. They hadn’t considered Twitch or other places to serve video and now will.
Reverie – Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Thank you for the lovely feedback! The lessons are static at the moment, but I'm considering adding dynamically generated content in the future. As for other languages; that's a great idea! I'll definitely look into that this week and see if I can come up with something.
How many classes do you have that have a function named “main”?
Keep it up Big Co. Soon you'll have to deal with all these small businesses that you're bullying unionizing.
From experience, when working with clients on case studies and testimonials the individual concerned will often talk to the marketing team and then the marketing team will transform their comments into something short and snappy for approval before publishing. Perhaps that’s what is meant by ‘writing testimonials’ in this case?
Yes, but the naïve way to combine rank k adaptations created by n different people would be to concatenate them to a rank nk adaptation, which wouldn't be as lightweight and easy to share, so you'd likely be better off mushing them into the baseline model.
Judging just from the URL, and given that the website appears to belong to a mind mapping app, let me venture a guess that their answer is "no".
happened to me a few months ago on github. Apparently "sign in with" lets the dev do whatever they like with your account.

In reality, i simply signed in with github because why not and suddenly everything is gone. A single email from github about "engaging in illegal behaviour of star farming so my account is deleted".

I signed in to github, i just clicked a bunch of buttons simply out of form fatigue and in the background, the dev had used my account to star their repos.

the problem is, why not punish the dev and why me? if the workflow was sign in, why did it allow my account to be used for stars farming? secondly, why to blame me? did i willingly engage in stars farming when i clicked on "sign in with" ?

they said the same thing, "decision is final". I made a bunch of noise on HN and tomorrow everything was back in order for me.

Learning outcome: dont use sign in with. ever
Our take on this is that funds should distribute across the dependency tree. We currently facilitate trickling your budget 3 levels deep. https://thanks.dev/static/how covers this in more detail.
I can only use it in desktop mode on mobile browsers, and it suits my needs.
> a shrinking human population will be good for the planet as a whole.

Of course it will, that is not what governments are worried about. The problem with a shrinking population is shrinking tax revenue, shrinking GDP, and worst of all for anything corporate, shrinking consumer spending.

Perhaps a cynical view but the worrying at Davos has nothing to do with planet Gaia or Humanity as a whole.
They probably A/B tested it and find that it works, by works I mean people give up and stop bothering them.
Ah, clever, thanks for sharing.
So, no poor people get this. I mean, it is the cost of nearly 7 hours work if you only make minimum wage. It doesn't really matter if the money will be refunded - it can't be used on food while the company holds the money for weeks.

Honestly, they should be required to simply have a case worker look at everything if the person has exhausted other options. Those other options should be easily found on the company's website (or facebook page, etc). And the case worker should actually have the power to decide either way, free from coercion and without quotas leaning either direction.
It is an ultra minimal change, mostly related to loadclassing, nothing else changes in the language spec.
Meanwhile, they’ll happily ship you an GPU that is actually someones old return…then also refuse to refund you. Criminal.
From the point of view of spending less resources, a smaller world population is good. However, most resources are consumed by the relatively smaller, wealthy populations who's populations have been stagnating for decades, not by the larger and poorer populations of India, South East Asia and Africa, that have seen most population growth.

The main worry I have is how we are going to manage financially. For hundreds of years, we've only had growing world population and it has been a driver for much economic growth. Industrialism and the increasing world population has gone hand in hand. Will we see more inflation now, when there will continuously be smaller working populations? What about investments: Will it be more difficult to attract investment when many markets are naturally shrinking due to shrinking populations?
Companies aren't trying (nor should they) to improve society's productivity, only their own.
The emojis in the speech bubbles are just summaries of their current state. In the demo, if you click on each person you can see the full text of their current state, e.g. "Brushing her teeth" or "taking a walk around Johnson Park (talking to the other park visitors)"
Those are still pending and probably won't go through. That stuff is old tech and considered state of the art. It's like you're trying to patent the wheel.
You don’t even need to go that far in most cases just mentioning it would get you on the right track.
Skinner, “Intellectual self-management in old age”:

> You can be fully rested in a physical sense yet tired of what you are doing intellectually. To take appropriate steps one needs some measure of fatigue. Curiously enough, Adolf Hitler can be of help. In a report to the Nie­man Foundation, William Lederer has called atten­tion to relevant documents in the Harvard library. Toward the end of the Second World War, Hitler asked the few social scientists left in Germany to find out why people made bad decisions. When they reported that it was when they were mentally ex­hausted, he asked them for a list of the signs 'of mental fatigue. Then he issued an order: Any officer showing signs of mental fatigue should immediately be sent on vacation. Fortunately for the world, he did not apply the order to himself. Among the signs on Hitler's list are several I find helpful. One is an unusual use of profanity or blasphemy. According to that principle, at least two of our recent presidents must have been mentally exhausted. When I find myself saying "damn," I know it is time to relax. (That mild expletive is a sign of my age as well as of my fatigue; I have never felt right about the scatological language of young people.) Other signs on Hitler's list include an in­clination to blame others for mistakes, procrastinat­ing on making decisions, an inclination to work longer hours than normally, an inclination to feel sorry for oneself, a reluctance to take exercise and relax, and dietary extremes—-either gluttonous ap­petite or almost none at all. Clues not on Hitler's list that I have found useful are especially bad hand­writing and mistakes in playing the piano.
From the end of the article:

> “Giorgio Licciardi, an expert on collecting hyperspectral data from orbit at the Italian Space Agency, in Rome, says the technology even detects buried anti-tank mines. (Soil on top of them is typically drier.)”
You need this for <em>global</em> consistency, but for logical local (like a single entity) this is unnecessary.
"We charge a 5% minimum fee on each payment. If you like what we do, you have the option of leaving a tip."
IMHO it's less of a bother to have to open a jar and much more of a bother if you pick up a not-fully-closed jar by the lid and then have to clean the kitchen of jam and broken glass, but YMMV...
It's expensive, that's why. You are wrongly assuming public fear and safety have anything to do with this. It's cost. These reactors are approaching their end of life. Keeping them going requires lots of investments. The return on those investments is poor. So, private investors are not really interested. If it had a decent ROI, they'd be all over it. But there just isn't. These are old, expensive plants.

The article is a bit light on numbers and facts, unfortunately. Hard to tell if this is a serious study or paid "study" by some lobby with an agenda. I suspect the latter. It certainly seems to be very selective in what it talks about. And it would explain the hand waviness of the reported "findings".

It kind of makes a big point of avoiding talking about investments in renewables because "In 1985, the closure of reactors in Tennessee Valley prompted a spike in coal use". That's nearly four decades ago. Most of those coal plants have probably been closed by now. And conveniently, wind and solar investments were not a thing at the time.
There's nothing new in human experience. If we have flat Earthers now then they absolutely existed back then.
Reading of “The Art of War”, by Sun Tzu
Yes I meant to reply to the parent comment mentioning Tavarish and Samcrac.
I'd never thought to use Plex with audiobooks before but this post and guide got me started. Now I've got all my [Amazon audiobook service] books saved safely for when someone inevitably tries to pull the plug on it. And streaming through Prologue is a way better experience than the commercial option
It's great. Some feedback:

The explanations of wrong answers are a mouthful.

For the first example today:

"Not quite! Ahoy matey! We need a small fix! Use in search of instead of for when looking for something. Happy treasure hunting!"

Remove the title, and cut straight to the point:

"When looking for something, use in search of instead of for".

My brain is already in overdrive trying to figure out these grammatical puzzles. I don't want to have to parse another whole sentence to get the correct answer.
Still, the way they handle it is extremely bad. It takes a long time to get the account re-instated and they just take down the whole thing in the meantime. What they should do is make the account read-only and if it was taken over by a malicious actor then just rollback to a previous state asap. For accounts with millions of followers they should have emergency contacts and a process that resolves this within less than 24h. These Youtube channels generate serious revenue that easily would justify the costs.
If you want to know what a plausible response to X might look like then the tool will give you that; if you are using it for getting correct information then no, it quite literally matters that the tool is not designed for that, and depending on domain and magnitude of this misapplication it could matter a whole lot.

(For example, personally, something that to me could look like a plausible answer is not exactly where my expectations are when it comes to medicine.)
Is that a vague "I'm in publishing" or more closer to what you do day to day: "I'm a book editor/printer/book publicist/typesetter" etc. - I find the latter is more of interest.
War on the rocks has a good article about camouflage and the various different forms needed in the current environment. The training tanks that fold up for storage but can be remotely driven and generate appropriate thermal signatures are clever. But the manufacturer's website doesn't offer much to the public. https://warontherocks.com/2021/04/to-survive-deceive-decoys-...
To get a cut of the compute-cake. See: Nvidia LHR GPUs
More likely outcome is that people will consume even more content. Because it will be more addictive and tailor made for them.

Seems like big capture of peoples minds by comporations.
timonoko|3 years ago|parent|on: Lisp and Haskell (2015)

Common Lisp could evolve into totally parenthesis-free language. By expanding the "powerfull and versatile" Loop-macro into full powerfullness and versatileness. Unfortunately two parenthessis needed, but you can redefine the language having those by default around every file.
I’m actually optimistic about the progress & shift in behaviour. There’s a few companies that are setting a clear example & leadership in this space like Sentry, sourcegraph & cash app who genuinely want to help improve the ecosystem.
The rule of law, police and investigations pre-date KYC/AML regulations by decades if not centuries. It's possible to fight crime without them.

Would you say being in favor of HTTPS or encrypted messaging is equally incompatible with believing in a justice system?
Chat GPT sing me the praises like a medieval bard would sing upon a dragon slaying knight, using this list of commits and contributions.
Indeed, we started with "this guy's argument is wrong, he's a bad person" which does nothing to refute the argument because it never engages with it. I truly don't know if he's right or wrong, I just know that nobody has bothered to state an actual case about why other than telling me that he believes a lot of horrible things. Sure, I'm not going to invite him over for dinner or anything, but it does nothing to inform anyone about why he is wrong about this.

> it's still worth warning a potential reader about their habit of lying.

The best way to do that will always be to point to the lie, instead of calling them a liar, because that strategy can't be copied by other liars.
> The kernel wg(4) WireGuard driver is now available.

That is a good news.
Talk about leaving a mark on the world! But that goes for the entirety of Mad Magazine.

Always loved the stories Dick Debartolo would dig up on 'The Giz Wiz' regarding William Gaines and occasionally Jaffee.
Elon Musk & AI: Lessons from the Cobra Effect
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I certainly appreciate this heads-up.
I'm a big fan of the Recall plugin for VS Code.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=frenya.v...

You get all the code highlighting and markdown support built-in to the IDE. I used this plugin when studying data structures and algorithms for cracking faang interviews.
Something like Oracle Exadata perhaps?
It should be take permission first instead of this obscenity
I like the idea, while thinking the next steps in case that goes wrong gives me a pause. What do you do if that person you get for 50$ seems incompetent? Exponentially increasing fees to get a review?

Remembering again, perfection is the enemy of good, what we have here is more than good enough for most of the cases perhaps.
Thanks quickthrower2!

Re gaming the system you're totally right. Although slightly unintuitive, we've also heard the opposite from maintainers. That they'll be motivated to remove the silly one line packages from their dependency trees due to the imbalance of value they provide vs extract.

We also prune self dependencies, circular dependencies and a few other cases to keep things level. Hopefully we'll be at a stage to open source our codebase soon and can better leverage community feedback in this space :)
Aha! Exactly like that. Nicely spotted.
The counterarguments to the "total war" doctrine are nuclear deterrence and asymmetric warfare. Total war is the correct way to win a symmetric war against an opponent you can actually defeat. But nuclear deterrence creates big incentives to not ever bother. Everybody loses from unrestricted warfare between nuclear powers.

Asymmetric warfare is destined to outlast the will of the attacker to maintain totally war, and to continue long after the attacker has started to become war-weary. IMHO, winning an asymmetric war against a sufficiently motivated opponent is only possible by engaging in genocide and large scale population relocations.
That's like expecting a "no dog on the lawn" sign to work on stray dogs.
Sure. But my point was that it is not an inherent feature in LLMs that they are frozen in time.

Fine-tuning the entire model is very expensive. But fine-tuning a tiny parallell piece using LoRA is cheap both in CPU cycles and storage.

OpenAI could already have implemented an auto-update feature without telling us.

In the future, I can see them selling a premium feature where you have your own LoRA-addon that gets constantly trained on your interactions with it, so you get your own personalized GPT-4.
The problem with arguing quantum non-determinism gives rise to consciousness is that it doesn't really give you free will, it just implies the consciousness is an unpredictable process.

But a quantum physicist would then ask "to what degree?" because quantum mechanics is very deterministic over large sample sizes (and a few trillion proteins in the brain would be a very large sample).

More importantly though, free will implies the ability to make a choice and that has problems when you invoke quantum indeterminacy to explain it: you don't get "a choice" you get random chance deciding things (and other depressing ideas like "human consciousness can't be backed up, saved or transferred - we really are trapped in these meat prisons and doomed to suffer).
I explicitly mentioned he did not post any comments.

> He never even uploaded a single video nor post any comments.

He wasn't really using it in that way. It was a pure video watching account.
Why would it create a generation of students who don’t understand the fundamentals? You will have to use all the language features for anything more complex, it is only for the earlier lessons.
> Thats insane... To consistently not close the door like that

It sounds like it happened occasionally causing the battery to drain overnight. So not necessarily improper close every time, but a dice roll.
Popsci pictures of biomolecules are truly the most terrible horrorshow. Couldn't you use some nice molecular surface? They look interesting and actually describe reality...
Do you know what is exactly proprietary in spanner? AFAIK most (all?) of the ideas existed before in the theoretical clock synchronization literature.
Thank you for the detailed answer. I understood perfectly what you meant and I think you are correct in your criticism. This is a sign of poor scholarship from Dawkins, I'm better off knowing about it.

A small quibble, unrelated to your explanation, is that if this particular theological argument is not respected even among theologians, it does not constitute an example of arguments that "were effectively fended off hundreds or in some cases thousands of years ago by theology and apologetics".
I do hop they reduce their emissions faster, because God knows they have a long path to go down https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iNLUw70c8Yw/VuCyTjcOxQI/AAAAAAAAA...

With an average at 560 gCO2/kWh vs. 47 gCO2/kWh, the opposite would be surprising.
> the idea of having a simple payments system for open source devs

A payment system is never simple and if it's more than a standardized "funding.txt" format it will have running costs and someone has to cover these. How much this system should charge is debatable, but it should probably be higher than 0%.
TransferWise done this to our business account too. Couldn’t explain how we broke their terms (because we never) but we never bothered to fight them, we simply let customers transfer from International countries with our proper business account - which unfortunately just caused customers to pay more fees as a result.
More money in the ecosystem will naturally create more competition but I’m sure the community will adapt & evolve accordingly. There’s no shortage of smart people in this space.
The fact that AlphaFold is not able to predict effects of single mutations is well known in protein research community. For SOTA in this space, see Deepsequence (https://doi.org/10.1101/235655) and ESM (https://doi.org/10.1101/622803)
If you put it in public, some spam site will scrape your content an republish it. There is nothing to do about it.
IBM IMS DB

Everything is direct memory access.

SNA protocol, No TCP. This is used since the 70s by many banks to process high volume transactions
What do "debuggability" or "copyrights" have to do with:

Is "GPT-4 is just a parrot" a falsifiable claim?

If so, what does the test look like that would falsify it?

Can you think of questions to test GPT-4s ability to reason that 90% of human 12-year olds will answer correctly, but where GPT-4 constantly struggles?
If this was a comic strip (or some other kind of parody/satire), I imagine it would have been explained by Google noticing that "the decision is final" is not great to write in public, wondering how to improve it, and deciding on this informal-looking style, instead of fixing the wording itself and/or actually fixing the issue.
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I find this comment strange since TFA talks about investment from the US government. I guess if by supply and demand, you mean the government demands clean energy and then the market supplies it, that could work, but this decade has been all about the private sector whistling past the graveyard of climate change.
I'd recommend looking into Substrait[0] for anyone interested in this mid-/low-level database/query engine space. It tries to establish a vendor-agnostic set of relational operators (and all the things surrounding it) to make it easier for query engine implementations to share individual components.

[0]: https://substrait.io