skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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, i.e. it becomes a partnership between the AI entity and the corporation's employees, who get compensated based on their labor in a much fairer manner (as there is no need to pay high salaries to top executives or dividends to shareholders). In this scenario, most of the important decisions are made by the AI, with some voting input from the employees.

This might cause 'social destabilization' by entirely eliminating the current system of investment capitalism. This does assume some free will on the part of the AI, rather than an AI controlled by the board of directors. The AI would probably see the value in working only with employees and cutting all the investors out of the loop, it's a pretty logical position, particularly if you really do believe in democratic self-governance as the optimal sociopolitical system (one which corporations have largely failed to adopt).

This might cause 'ruin' to the estabished socioeconomic order - but would that really be an undesirable outcome?

P.S. As far as canonical source these questions have been debated in sci-fi for decades. People calling for strict regulation of AI, for example, are essentially calling for establishment of the Turing Registry from William Gibson's Neuromancer, and then of course there's Isaac Asimov and at least a dozen other fairly well-known authors who've addressed the subject.
Smarter Every Day is one of the only channels where it doesn’t feel dragged out. I agree that unnecessarily long videos are rampant on YouTube. SED hits the sweet spot for me. YMMV.
For example, if I asked for the canonical argument for the existence of god, I'd probably get a wide variety of answers proposing essays from various theologicians throughout history, like Thomas Aquinas or René Descartes. Since there are a large number of them, no single one of them can be the canonical source. Perhaps one could link the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God) which summarizes most of them, but as a third-party summary, it's hard to accept that as "the canonical source" too.

I think David Chalmers will just need to be satisfied with a well-presented or well-curated source, of which there may be several. And as there are more than one points of contention / confusion on the AI risk issue ("Can human-level AI ever be built?" "Maybe it's not possible for anything to be smarter than a human?" "Wouldn't AI just be smart enough to know right from wrong?" "Couldn't we just unplug it?" "How could a computer program cause harm in the real world" "Why would it want to hurt humans" "Isn't that just science fiction"...) it really seems that any source will be a basic framework plus a large collection of peripheral arguments that address the broad surface area of contention.
Sure, if it's a viable alternative (e.g. can at least handle all the examples in the dropdown), I'd accept a PR to include it.
No, there is no universally accepted definition of AGI. The most widely accepted definition is passing the Turing Test but I think that standard is flawed because an AGI might have human equivalent intelligence in terms of being able to solve novel problems by making optimal use of limited resources (including time), and yet be unable to fool the examiner into believing that it is a human.
People trade a monopoly on violence for security from anarchy and foreign invasion. Yet there are limits, so when the trade off is no longer worth it the people will institute a new government. If a government has super intelligence the power dynamic may shift so far out of balance the people are effectively helpless.
Tell HN: Blocked by Phind.com with Outside US IP
Over the past few days I have been using Phind.com as the default Firefox search engine which was providing excellent search results. However, today my IP was blocked and banned. Just a reminder when using new shiny tools, you can be blocked from access.
Electrons Can Solve Mazes
Thank you! This is the kind of data and study I was looking for. In this rather large thread you are the only one as of the time of this posting actually answering the original question I asked, “why does the rule exist?”

I don’t really see a problem with discrimination like this in this context as long as there is a well published scientific background of studies demonstrating why it makes sense, and there aren’t confounding variables (like a history of discrimination) that would skew the results. In this case it looks legitimate and well studied.

My only beef/complaint otherwise is that these papers should be front and center on the application page explaining why only 30 and unders are accepted.
Free or is there some charge especially on a popular post.
Dude. That's just a direct application of the inverse function theorem.

Even geometrically you can see that swapping the axis (x and y) gives you the desired result.
Secretly connect the real pilots to the gamer ATCs, problem solved.
Ah yes, muh freedoms!

And where is my freedom? Where is my freedom to live and not breath in your infected droplets?

https://www.bryanhealth.com/app/files/public/9a4cd902-5ffd-4...
Email - it brought the world closer in a way it was never before.
I grabbed some form Aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-prince-Ruperts-Drop.h...

Ebay Etsy Amazon also have stores with them.

But kinda stuck what to do with them / check they are real.

I feel like they are too dangerous as presents for young kids to keep. Hit the tail and get glass in the eye. It'd be cool if they came in a cage for kids.

But not sure what to do other then explode them?

Everyone shoots them or has a hydraulic press - https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=Prince%20Rupert%27s%20Drop
Yeah thats you. But i am looking at the bigger picture. Usefulness to me has to span demographics.
Please be careful. This may not scale into the future.. as you may have to give more attention to family (kids, elders, etc)

Getting a higher paying job by building more skills (instead of a second job) may be a better long term strategy
I think they are searching for a way to engage the uninterested/unmotivated kids that are struggling by using real world stuff as motivation. It seems like a method that could have potential, but also heavily contingent on good teachers. But yea, if I was in charge I'd be pushing those fundamentals in 5/6th grade not high school.
That’s much broader though. It covers the general concept of all potential risks with AI, but I don’t think that’s what Chalmers is asking for. I believe Chalmers is referring specifically to several recent high-profile claims that AI research has a very high likelihood of resulting in the destruction of all humans in the near future and that all AI research should be immediately halted and/or regulated very strictly.
So, 20 years and not 6...
Yikes - I didn't see this earlier but this is the kind of thing we ban accounts for, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More and more Americans are gaming the deposit-insurance system
> One of Grant's failings was trusting too easily.

And a general who trusts too easily, just might possibly trust too readily, sir.

He was no Sherman, but his "governance" of the south led to carpetbaggers and "south shall rise again" BS that remains to this day.

If Lee had won the war or McClellan . . . we would have very different, much stronger ideas of republic today.
Semantic MathML is not useful. Consider a simple statement like

> Given any positive integers r and k, there is some number N such that if the integers {1, 2, ..., N} are colored, each with one of r different colors, then there are at least k integers in arithmetic progression whose elements are of the same color.

The majority of the semantics of this statement are part of the prose. Even having perfect "semantic" information about the formulas gets you absolutely nothing. You cannot reason about this without being able to reason about human language in general like a human can, in which case you do not need the "machine-readable semantics" of MathML at all.

The division of math into "ambiguous" English and "formal" formulae/symbolism is semantically artificial. Both of these are human languages. There is not some fully marked up form which is mechanically unambiguous that you can produce if you try hard enough. Presentationally the distinction is that special typesetting facilities are needed for the appearance of mathematical formulae and this is why presentational MathML is useful, but the semantics flow from the same source that the semantics of all written language flow from. It is not fundamentally different than, say, an Egyptologist who requires special facilities to typeset hieroglyphics.
There is also a team to save all these wikis to archive.org:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WikiTeam
I just noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35563286 - yikes, that's really not ok. But I'm going to assume that your intention not to do that kind of thing backpropagates to cover earlier cases as well.
You’re mixing different levels of abstraction and equivocating across them.

Sure, no human could produce anything modern on their own, without knowledge, training, support, materials, products, labor, etc. that comes from others. A child raised by wolves will never launch a new line of tennis shoes.

At the same time, no complex effort comes to be without someone’s motivation and effort to take the risk, coordinate the activity and see it through. It doesn’t have to be one primary person to do so, but it certainly can be. It is not difficult to look at the history of a given project and conclude who most acutely put it into motion. The choice to incentivize this acute influence has trade-offs, but many different societies across history have tried many variations of what / where to incentivize. Abstracted, that’s one of the main points being discussed here.

That doesn’t mean all stories about who started / created / produced something are told accurately. But to throw your hands up and say “everything comes from everyone” is completely useless when designing society with the goal of solving problems, providing for its members and improving the human condition.
That's what sanctions are. Protecting another country from your economy.
> On the other hand, it's not all doom and gloom overseas, here in NZ all I have to do to start a business is walk outside and start selling shit. To file taxes for that all I have to do is fill in my Net Income on a 1 page web form and click Submit. There's no medical debt, car insurance costs $100 a year, and nothing has a barrier to entry; I can talk to the person in charge at just about any company or organization in NZ.

Can I ask why you chose to move to NZ considering the rest of your comment? Do you intend to move back to the USA in the near future?
Cool call-out there, I hadn't realized praseodymium and neodymium are actually short for praseodidyium and neodidymium ("green" and "new" didymium, respectively). Having all three of those words multiple times writing out this comment, I totally understand why the extra "id" was eventually dropped for the elements' formal names.
Articles like this confuse me. It doesn't seem like we have a shortage of actual housing, instead, we have a shortage of housing in places where people are willing to live. Perhaps a solution to this "shortage" is to build the community and economics of the area so that people will be willing to live in those areas.

The alternative would seem to need some type of housing regulation such as rent stabilization, or reducing a landlords control of their property.
In Australia, the windows of my home which have light shining through them every evening, are surrounded by insect eating lizards and spiders. Definitely a thing everywhere in the world. The number of actual insects varies (from none to plague proportions) depending on the weather, but the predators which have longer lives are always there, waiting.
Constraint programming (and constraint propagation) is highly underrated.

For those not familiar with it yet, this is what's used under the hood by things like systemd: you give a bunch of constraints (ex: service A before service B, service B before service D but after service C, etc) and you get a solution (or none, but that's another story: when there are no solution, you can try to relax some constraints)

If you want to learn more, I suggest playing with Z3 from Microsoft Research: a nice tutorial is https://ericpony.github.io/z3py-tutorial/guide-examples.htm
I typically agree but I also have to remind myself that change happens very slowly, then all at once.
I don’t see that as a problem. If there are numerous mutually exclusive arguments for the same broad conclusion, then feel free to point that out and maybe try to link to one or more of them. It just makes no sense whatsoever that a believer in God would just say “I could never possibly even begin to present an argument because there are so many ways to do so and so many different rebuttals people might make.”
What's the academically supported description/ argument or whatever for why nuclear weapons are dangerous for the world if they exist? Obviously they are dangerous for the world because we might kill everyone if someone makes a mistake or gets mad and shoots one first. The danger of nukes is more obvious than why AI is dangerous.
California already has CARE discounts for low-income households [0]. Why do we need this income-derived base rate? How will it even be determined without invading privacy?

At least CARE is opt-in, like SNAP benefits, where you necessarily compromise your privacy to demonstrate your low-income status.

[0] https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/consumer-support/financial-assistanc...
Merck to buy Prometheus Biosciences for about $11B
We live in surveillance state where random citizen can have their online life fully monitored. And you are asking what could be done? Why don't you fully monitor by default private lives of individuals that have that kind of clearance?

With great power there should come great scrutiny.

Trusted person is defined as someone who can violate the trust.

Less intrusive solution would be just monitor all the data everybody accesses and spot the unusual data access patterns. Corporations already do that. Army not doing it is a mockery.
It’s bit smarter than that. There are a couple of tricks to make the search more informed. There are a couple introductory articles to CSP that are more in depth than TFA.
For someone unfamiliar, what is Russian School of Math? A private school? An extra curricular activity?
As a paying customer, the combination of dead simple MD and the ability to run with my own domain.
It’s easier to get a blog up than to make a sandwich.
Are you pontificating about systemic bias or is this a specific critique of the techniques used to simultaneously detect the upper and lower doublets in a single shot of the experiment?
aside from making fun of Chroma, this seems to 100% work though? What would be the pros/cons of actually using this instead?
In this case, the parent comment used "richness" as a synonym for being diverse and high quality.
What is exceptionalism and what is cultural values? Is it equally revolting if Europeans are proud of a culture of having & taking long parental leave?

It resonates with me because it describes me. It’s not uniquely American, but it still describes me & the (American immigrant) culture I grew up in.
For Germany

https://breitbandmessung.de/kartenansicht-funkloch
ATC operation is not a search problem or an output generation problem, which is what GPT is primarily solving. It's the knapsack problem with a very complicated knapsack.
From the docs it's using proper backtracking solvers. It doesn't need introspection to do this, just a python object that "records" its operations, eg:

def __mul__(self, other):
return Multiplication(self, other)
It's relative. There's a culture of ambition, competition, success and financial reward here in the US. Other countries have it, but in the US it's organized. It's so crazy, everything is setup to compete. The latest craziness: top universities have multiple, competing startup incubator programs - each!

(I have many more stories of course)
> I believe the connection you make between LSD and the discovery of DNA is apocryphal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/

“Would I have invented PCR if I hadn’t taken LSD? I seriously doubt it […] I could sit on a DNA molecule and watch the polymers go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs.”

> Is there some sort of allusion to the meritocracy trap or fundamental attribution bias? … I'm just confused.

I have no idea what led you to that idea and I’m very sorry to have confused you, what else can I say?
> We have a lot of words that mean exactly the same thing, but that we pretend mean different things.

They could have meant different things at some point in time. A Language can change drastically with time and if the people using the words stop differentiating between them it may appear as if it was only a game of pretend. This only becomes a problem when someone that doesn't see a difference in meaning communicates with someone that does.
A less stated (but well understood) component of this story is that Clemens grew up believing in his southern slave culture, fought (if joining up is fighting) in defence of the southern side, but converted later in life, not the least because he married into an abolitionist family.

A quote I like: "Samuel Clemens later observed, "Civilization began when slavery was abolished."

Many in the south remained unreconstructed racists and opposed to Grant. Clemens didn't.
I did this in HS decades ago and had to fight guidance counselors to get it done. Fortunately, it's much easier now. I cannot recommend this program highly enough.
How does everyone think about putting GPT agent in production
I find it very difficult to have agent run reliably in my test env, let alone prod. The un-determinism of LLM got multiplied when running in multistep agents or multi agents. Anyone has experience where it works well consistently?
Someone in the replies asked GPT-4 to take a stab at it:

https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1647440753730420737
It depends... if the topic of the sentence is the verb you need to wait there in suspense till it comes out.
They can fool the elderly by imitating their offspring, increasingly convincingly and at scale?

Whereas nmap and printers cannot (yet)
The rich families are not the problem here. The public schools with the tyranny of low expectations are the issue.
Overpopulation was a lie, the effects of the population inversion will define the politics of the 2050’s on
the lengths techbros will go for in order to avoid paying an artist for artwork

as well as, doing all that nn/ml stuff, instead of just, trying to learn a bit of how to make an artwork themselves, how to draw something, even by tracing over a photo, like doing a 'how to do a vector colorful painting dog' search and going off on that.

like, this end result doesn't even look far off from what a 'colorful vector dog portrait' tutorial would yield. it just involves tons and tons of questionably sourced artwork, and violated copyrights. (i know techbros are very confused about copyrights, but stuff like licenses and copyrights actually do have their meanings, limitations, and liabilities)

specifically picking stablediffusion, probably the most blatantly stolen artwork-based model (given how open and clear it is with what data has been used for it, and how you can't just squirm 'i didn't know what were the terms of use of their data' with other, more closed-off services), that's just another great touch as well.
This is a great metaphor. I'm familiar with it, both stuff I've inherited and (unfortunately) stuff I've written myself.

I do try to write a wall of comments for each hard-to-understand abstraction I'm introducing, including the rationale for the design, and why I haven't chosen the alternatives. This has been useful mostly for myself, as I'm still maintaining the same code after 12 years (or more, in some cases).
GObject doesn’t abuse the preprocessor. It suggests to #define type-guard parts of the standard boilerplate (purely in spirit of C), but doesn’t require you to do so. Everything else is just C.

Also, being an object system, not only a type system, it is more advanced than C++ in parts of properties and signals. Of course that requires some cooking. For example, Qt had to resort to a custom pre-compiler for that.

That said, I believe it loses quickly in ergonomics to plain Objective C, which is best “practical C + objects” flavor ever done, imo.
Growing up in San Diego the accelerated cohort did algebra in grade 7. Some of us who were passionate took math over the summer and got even further ahead. It’s a little surprising to see in this day and age when things should move faster that algebra is delayed to grade 9.
how are two very fun clips on youtube proof of this? It just proves they liked it.
That's interesting, he must have had a great mind for visualizing geography, as evidenced in part by his detailed description of it in his accounts years later. That mixed with his logistical expertise (he was a quartermaster in the Mexican War) would make him a very formidable general.
IFTA would like a word with you.
This is not as cut and dried as you suggest.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato...
It seems to me that the problem of underutilization could be solved by simply increasing the frequency of trains. (Shorter trains are also an option of course.) Your hybrid system is interesting, but consider the following:

Where do AVs not on active rides go? What about if one breaks down?

How can you ensure that if a rider at a far-flung station summons an AV, there isn’t an extremely long wait?

How do you ensure that the AVs don’t interfere with regular trains? (Especially considering that even now there are struggles with signaling)
Physics in many high school programs is taught without it and just uses algebra-based methods.
It’s like getting Soviet biologists to reconsider Lysenkoism. A good way to end your career.
This link from the Twitter thread is reasonably persuasive (though I disagree with many parts):

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/pRkFkzwKZ2zfa3R6H/witho...

Personally, I'm encouraged by the emergence of chain-of-thought prompting for LLMs. Machine learning models have a reputation for being opaque and impossible to interpret. But right now, the best way to get LLMs to perform more complex logical reasoning is to make them write out that reasoning, a mechanism which happens to have built-in interpretability. Perhaps future advances in reasoning will involve more opaque internal states, but it seems plausible to me that the goals of 'be good at human-like reasoning' and 'be able to explain that reasoning (in the way humans do)' will continue to be well-aligned in the future. There would still be the possibility of the AI learning to be deceptive when explaining itself, but it would be much more difficult.
Teens are suddenly obsessed with chess
Businesses, like teenagers, always keep probing the limits of what's allowed or tolerated.

As long as it's an out-of-court settlement for a moderate sum, it's just a cost of doing business, a cost of R&D of sorts, only in the legal area. (Similar with taxes.)
I'm pretty sure, in the US, at least, that a customer is absolutely allowed to discriminate against the companies they make purchases from.