skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't radiating it, end up hurting the creatures that live there ? Essentially mitigating the original reason for doing so ?
Is there another way to be European than by geography?
Mosaic offered non-tech people entry into the information superhighway (aka internet) which I would argue is the same as chatGPT offering non-tech people entry into AI.
The Moche River Valley in northern Peru was an unlikely place to build a city. Though barely 1,000 feet from the Pacific Ocean, the valley received less than a tenth of an inch of rain per year.

It's a lost civilization that existed for 500 years. The language is extinct. Archeologists are still puzzling some things out. There's little or no written records about them.
Higher ed has the same problem it always did with essays and outsourcing.

Some educationalists have called for normalising ChatGPT into the process as a recognised mechanism, demanding students show they thought about what ChatGPT said, where it was demonstrably wrong, where the output had points worth making.

You might as well ask what role essays play in education at all. There's a bit of "we're here because we're here because we're here" about Essay writing but that said, I recall being told Prof Hermione Lee "bit back" at students in the late 1970s who complained about their essay burden in a term, noting she'd been expected to write close to that number a WEEK.

Long form writing is a discipline. Learning it helps demonstrate acquisition of knowledge and critical thinking, as well as communication skills and arguably honesty. ChatGPT doesn't have to be antagonistic to learning, but it does beg questions. Just as 'why do we teach latin to scientists' became a real question in the 20th century.
> It depends on what is meant by 'ruin', doesn't it? For example, imagine an AI system capable of generating its own capital base via clever investing over time. It's plausible that a correctly configured and trained AI system could achieve this goal. Now, what if that same AI also started a new industrial corporation that had no shareholders or and no board of directors?

> Now imagine the AI does this in collusion with the employees of this new corporation...

> This might cause 'social destabilization' by entirely eliminating the current system of investment capitalism.

That particular scenario doesn't ring true to me, because it seems to assume that that "AI systems" that sophisticated could be monopolized by those weird partnerships.

I think it's far more likely, in the case of AI, that "the current system of investment capitalism" will have access to better AI systems of better quality than anyone else (except perhaps some militaries), because they the money to access the best resources (both equipment and talent).

AGI is most likely not going to be developed by some wizard in a garage, who will then have time to let it incubate and amass power outside of existing structures. Even if some wizard manages the first part, existing power structures will likely get there soon after, following the same prior work.
Punish the Hungry?
> This is what social media’s real damage is. It turned academic progress into arguable points.

If that is "damage", the problem must surely lie with academia, not with social media.

Academia's only raison d'être is to facilitate formal discourse. Wherever it doesn't do that, it loses its legitimacy. "I'm a researcher and you are not" is not an argument. In fact, I'd go so far as to claim that anyone who makes such an "argument" should be excluded from any future discourse.
>The idea that you can achieve cosmic justice should be abolished. There's no such thing.

I think abandoning cosmic justice is kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The problem is educational outcomes are tied to race and socioeconomic status and that problem cannot be solved by the school district (unless you could institute a kind of boarding school). That said, these administrators have arrived at a solution ("equitable" education) and are now gaming the metrics to achieve it at the cost of everything else. Worse still they race to pat themselves on the back on having "solved racism".

I think it has been shown over and over again that good educational outcomes start with parents (or more broadly community outside of school) and one group has had that community dismantled over and over again over several generations. In short, while I think it's a noble goal, it cannot be achieved by the school system and SF should have a more pragmatic approach even if the performance by race makes you uncomfortable.
I used to think the same about 1984.
Agreed. Love, shelter, food and support. Schools have kids 6hrs a day. Learning happens 24/7. There is no way schools can compensate for a bad home life. Progressive school reformers are blindingly naive to the impact that the other 18hrs of a child's day has to their performance at school.
That's what I think it should mean, but I see very few discussions these days where anyone uses AGI to describe something that is not superhuman and all of those other traits. So trying to use it as "general problem solver" which makes more sense to me also, is going to confuse most people.

Because almost everyone including top researches assume that once an AGI is a thing, it will quite rapidly become an ASI.
The price of every single good would go up, including all food - not just soda, diapers, toilet paper, toothpaste - everything.

Everything we consume is shipped and if the price of everything goes up the standard of living of everyone goes down. This would be a regressive tax that would disproportionately impact those who can least afford it.

This would be incredibly inflationary and hurt the poorest the most. Bad idea.
> Why would the exponent be equal to x/2 - floor(x/2) be equal to x/2 on the interval [0, 2)?

floor(x/2) = 0 on the interval [0, 2), so the expression reduces to x/2.

> And how does the graph of x/2 - floor(x/2) imply anything about the behavior of e^(x/2 - floor(x/2))?

If y = x/2 - floor(x/2) is periodic, then e^y = e^(x/2 - floor(x/2)) must be periodic as well, with the same period.
How a ‘Gold Mafia’ is looting Southern Africa, washing dirty cash
Elon was "reasonably expecting" they would be making over 100,000 trucks per year (which seems to be more than any other producer of Class 8 trucks in the US) around now: https://electrek.co/2018/02/08/tesla-semi-electric-semi-truc... .
Just a note on this, copyrights, like all intellectual rights, are useless if you don't have the energy and money to enforce it by suing the entity that's infringing on it. There's no way to enforce it unless you have a court order or verdic. It's just something to keep in mind when you decide to spend your time and effort on it.
Thanks. I only saw the time-lapse video, which doesn't look good because it's low-res and at night.

This still is much better.
Now it's at $100k!!!!!
I would LOVE it if proxmox supported docker (or podman) out-of-the-box. (I mean with docker/podman showing up in the gui, just like LXC containers and vms)

LXC is just a container, docker is much more than just that. It is a recipe (dockerfiles), it is sort of a social project sharing setup, it is like a version control system (the layered filesystem that only updates changes), it is a disposable dev container, it is a deployable runtime container, etc
I figured that since the scanners had that option, I'd just take it for starters and find out myself if the FHD version I'd process looked worse or not. It wasn't that much more expensive.

I also got the ProRes lossless format (345 GB) rather than having them compress it for a similar reason. I compressed it with ffmpeg on my computer and am pretty sure it looks fine with h264. If I do more of the I may still ask for ProRes, compress myself, and then discard the ProRes files if it works ok.
Did they just spell it with the abbreviations? Or did they pronounce 'megabytes' deliberately?
I didn't say "everything comes from everyone".

I said "nothing comes one person".

Ergo, there is no "what you create", at least in the sense of being able to point at something and say "I did that, it is my creation".

Sure, we may use this a shorthand for situations where the proximal effort came from one person. But it's just a shorthand, and should not obscure the deeper truth.

I'm not discussing the general thrust of TFA or the overall comment thread, just another randian and their simplistic ideas about how the world works.
> and compensation.

Is this part actually coming from artists? What’s the suggested amount(be it upper quadrillion dollars per second or $0.25/use)?

I think compensation as a condition is only assumed implied, that financial gains are artists’ motives and they actually live off that income. Rather, I see a lot of vocal oppositions to AI image generators that aren’t drawing for profit at all.

So, is the money going to solve it, or is it a wrong assumption, or is it that it will have to be settled by lump sums?
Interesting. By contrast, it's pretty rare for people expressing concerns about AI alignment risk to mention robots, let alone humanoid robots. Eliezer Yudkowsky usually offers the example of an AI emailing instructions to a biotech lab to synthesize a deadly virus.
So Xbox Kinect? Just joking, very impressive.
We used to call that kind of code hemoglobin, or hemo for short. Hemoglobin is a molecule that's barely changed over hundreds of millions of years, is extremely complicated and does one thing really well -- bind to oxygen and carry it around. Change one or two proteins and it stops working.

Another colloquialism for this kind of code is "happy fun ball". do not feed or annoy happy fun ball...
So I read the article, but my immediate question was, "is 11 000 a lot?"
There seems to be no reference to how many flights these 2 areas serve in a "normal day" so it's hard to know if 11000 is "all the flights" or "a drop in the bucket".

Plus the period in question seems to be "the summer", which seems to be "May to September". So 5 months?

NYC = JFK + LGA + EWR

DCA = Washington Reagan

JFK averages about 42000 flights per month for that period [1]
EWR around 24000 flights per month. [2]
LGA - Google says around 5000 flights per month
DCA - around 25000 flights per month. [3]

so that's 96k per month, or 480k for "the summer".

So 11000 flights is around 2.3% reduction.

I'm no aviation expert, but this seems like "normal variation" to me.
Linking this to ATC Staff Shortages seems like a bit of a stretch. (I mean sure.... if we need 3% more ATC staff....)

As a percentage of "all US flights" of course it's microscopic.

So 11 000 - is it a lot? Well I guess that depends on whether you're a headline writer or not.

[1] (https://jfkairport.net/statistics/)
[2] https://ewrairport.net/statistics/
[3] https://www.mwaa.com/financial-statistics/reagan-air-traffic...
My pleasure! I think there are just so many obscure ones that they wait for people who care to come along and fund them. I guess it works ok, as long as we come before the films degrade.
That's why a firewall I own is in-between my ISP provided equipment and my computer.
I've just talked to a host: he says the commission is variable where the more you pay the more they promote
Apple BKC in Mumbai opens for customers this Tuesday
"Monadic" here means being able to handle build steps that build build steps. The fundamental operation for a monad is `join :: Monad m => m (m a) -> m a`, which merges two layers of `m` into one. A hypothetical `Build (Build a)` (not literally in the paper but giving you the flavour) would be a build which describes how to build a build which describes how to build an a. If your build system was monadic, you could "squash" those two builds into a single one by building the inner build step, loading it somehow (maybe restarting your build system, like `make` does, or Nix's import-from-derivation feature), and then following the new build instructions to build the `a`.

Where does this arise in practice? If you had a `build :: Build x` and a function `f :: x -> Build y` that described how to compute new build steps from that `x`, then mapping `f` over `build` gives you a nested build `Build (Build y)`. This is like saying "Okay, suppose I know how to build `x`. Then since I can make a `Build y` from `x`, I can make a build that makes a build that builds `y`". If the build system is monadic, we can use `join`; this map-then-join pattern is packaged up into Haskell's "bind" operator: `(>>=) :: Monad m => m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b`, which does something equivalent to mapping the second argument over the first, and then joining the result. `(>>=)` is used in the desugaring of `do`-blocks, of which there are a few in the paper.
When banks fail do they broadcast the fact beforehand? It's always a "shock" when a company fails.

Just recently Virgin space (or whatever it was called) closed its doors. There wasn't a public debate beforehand, it was just announced. Sure insiders knew about it but not the broader public.

I'm not implying that spaceX is going shut its doors but it even less incentive to be transparent than a governmental organisation.
idk, I like it. Even from 16mm source I feel there is a meaningful difference.
Exactly. But it is unclear if there is intrinsic language knowledge somehow encoded too (which is what the OP is implying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590091)
> Families face a "nightmare of workarounds" to get their high-achieving children on track for advanced math, write Rex Ridgeway and David Margulies in a San Francisco Examiner commentary.

Families in Palo Alto recently won a lawsuit against PAUSD, [1] which was denying students credit for courses taken at other institutions (mainly community colleges, IIRC). In Menlo Park, we deal with similar issues; I recently wondered to myself how much I could have taught my kids in all the hours that I have spent talking to the school/district about allowing students to receive advanced learning. Other parents with less time and more money opt for private schools. Those with less time and no more money simply resign themselves to the situation. It is shocking how hostile schools are to what used to be common sense: letting (or, gasp, even encouraging) all students to learn.

1: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/03/03/judge-rules-h...
Why must "college level" be uniform in all subjects for all students? Vast majority of math (algebra, calculus etc) are of little use in most careers (even quantitative ones). So why must the society strive for equal outcome in a subject that is of questionable use? Why not prepare kids instead for something thats actually useful for a job?
The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared (1999)
I've used the CLPFD library, really quite cool. It fits very naturally into a prolog program.
Failing to understand compound interest leads to a lifetime of poor financial management.
where do we draw the line what's "basic"?
They literally said it out loud. I had spent the last 7 years on a fast university network, and had never paid for internet before that. I honestly believed that they were going to deliver the speeds they claimed.
Pareto principle. 80/20 law.

80% of x is caused by 20% of y.

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80% of the sales come from 20% of the salespeople.

80% of the music played comes from 20% of the composers.

80% of the crime is commited by 20% of the people.

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And not only that, out of those 20%, the 80/20 law still applies. of the 20% of the people who commit crimes, 80% of those crimes are commited by 20% of the people. And of those 20%, 80% of those are caused by 20% of them.

Same with wealth, music, whatever.

That's why, no matter what, most of the wealth will always be owned by a very small number of people. You can take all the money away from the wealthiest people, and in 50 years, the top 20% will own 80% of the wealth again. It will be a different 20%, but still, 20% will own 80% the wealth again.

It's also if you have a company with employees, 20% of the employees do 80% of the work. So you do NOT want to lose those 20% of the employees who do most of the work.
We have two friends whose kids are in two different Seattle middle schools, and the anecdotes we hear are not going well. One middle school was considering getting rid of advanced courses entirely.

We're in East Renton, which usually follows Seattle, but they have kept honor courses. In fact, honor courses are encouraged to take, open to everyone, and from what I understand, no one is rejected (possibly only for the first year). I like this approach better than 'algebra for no one'.

Yes, the better school districts are east of Seattle, and this is why all those homes are retaining their skyrocketing value.

>> Asking higher income parents to risk their children's future is a lot.

We're not wealthy at all, so if the Renton school system follows Seattle, we're not going to waste our child's future on crap education.
It's simple, extortion, theft and murder. Like any Mafia.

Read some Michael Hudson and you can start to understand how the empire was built.
Why does google only offer a single search product? Why not specialized indexes and engines? I'd pay to reliably find the excerpt of technical doc I'm looking for, good examples, etc. And not just from the public web, partnerships with technology companies so that their documentation is easily consumable.
Test scores aren't decision making agents. Are you thinking of a person?
I mean, I assume OP is talking about a handful of bugs, not inventing DDT reincarnate. We probably kill as many if not more everytime we get on the highway in summer, location depending.
I have a hard time believing above average students (with parents with parents without engineering/science degrees) could take linear algebra and multi variable calculus at university rigor along any other courses they are required to take. Sure, maybe at Paly and Gunn there’s enough to fill a 20 person class, but those are still pretty steep courses which require math majors and not math education majors.

If the students are prepared enough for those classes, what’s the point in keeping them in High School anyway?

I had a strange experience where I had a bunch of AP courses lined up my senior year and then moved to a place which did not have nearly any of them. In hindsight, I should have really pressed for direct enrollment to college instead of faffing around my senior year in “communication skills”, AP english, and “Economics” - all three required by the school district but mostly useless.
If you look at the breakdown of that 7/10 rating, test scores are 9 and “college readiness” an 8, while “equity”, whatever that means, is 4, which is what pulls the overall rating to a 7. This rating is not really a measure of the quality of the school.
> The Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms prohibits anyone to treat you differently because of your language or accent

https://www.cdpdj.qc.ca/en/your-obligations/prohibited-groun...

Any human rights tribunal in Canada would agree. The law in every province is the same. It goes the same way in a lot of places beyond Canada. A person cannot fully control their accent, and the way they speak is closely tied to their ethnicity, background, nationality, disability, etc., and stigma and prejudice about accent is not permissible. If the employee can communicate effectively, then discrimination on the basis of them sounding slightly weird, is illegal.

Whether the law corresponds with reality is a different question. Such discrimination is widespread in practice and hard to enforce.
No it's not. The title of the article is "existential risks ..." meaning risks that could end mankind's existence.
> Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left. —KRUG’S THIRD LAW OF USABILITY

I don't know. So nowadays I open a typical web page of some framework or cloud service, and what do I see? Stock photos, generous whitespace and inspiring slogans. What does the product do? What problems does it solve? How does one use it? I suddenly have to think really hard to infer that.

I completely ignore the landing pages these days and head right to the documentation.
Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.
The third world is not an infinite factory of human flesh to patch societal issues that the developed world can't be bothered to address. Birthrates in the developing world are mostly at or below replacement already.
I hadn't heard about OBC being unpatented, but then the Wikipedia pointed me to this email to the ietf cryptography forum: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/qLTveWOdTJcLn4HP3...

So... yes... it looks like OCB is no longer encumbered.

I am curious why GCM was hard. Hard to do without side-channel leaks I can understand, but 800-38D seemed straight-forward.
Failure rates dropped after the district dropped the end-of-course exam.

That'll just create students who think they're great... until they experience the real world.
>That's because you can't find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set. If you can't find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak

We have some countries where it is explicitly legal to train AI models on copyrighted data without consent, and precedent in the US that makes this a plausible outcome there as well.

Could you explain what portion of copyright law you believe would cover this argument? I'm not a lawyer, but have a passing familiarity with US copyright law, and in it, at least, I do not know of anything that would support the idea you're proposing here. How would you even assign copyright to the "old" artists? How are you going to determine what percentage of any given generation was influenced by artists X, Y, Z?
Other than telehealth, we also use the bandwidth for remote desktops/apps and lossless high-resolution radiographic images. While one might expect this traffic to occur over local networks, many hospitals have multiple sites and partnerships that are connected over the internet. So, for example, one might operate the hospital's apps while sitting in the library at the affiliated university.
Good set of things to secure after making sure access of people leaving the company is properly removed and everyone is trained in phishing attacks.
I have no prob with outside US IPs (even with several different VPN)

I suspect they block you since you are using it as a default: I did it too but realized is a total waste of (their) cpu and (their) money to use it for dumb queries, so I removed it as a default and use is only when I do really need it's (great) results

If I am seeing it correctly my advice for Phind will be to communicate/educate users :)
Some prominent AI alignment folks are thinking this issue, or at least something very similar from what I can tell: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WwsnJQstPq91_Yh-Ch2XRL8H...

It's an interesting read. One possible outcome of trying to train a super-intelligent (but not necessarily malicious) AI to explain what happened in this theoretical vault is that it learns to simulate what a human expects based on the prediction of the end state, instead of what the human actually wants to know.