skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be. I was at a company that fired 1/4 of its employees, many of whom were engineers, and nobody has said a peep about it. As far as I know, there hasn't even been an internal broadcast E-mail explaining why a bunch of people just disappeared.

On the one hand, I find that disrespectful on the part of management. On the other, it allows job-seekers to remain quiet about what happened. If I'm not asked directly if I'm still there, I don't talk about it.
I couldn't believe they were raising $35 million rounds with a brand new embedding database that was open source. Then I poked through the dozens of lines of code and realized they had implemented the same DB I had.

LOL, much funny.
Elon Musk says his dog is now Twitter's CEO – as company's name goes to X
> but are now allowed to work with exponentially increasing functions, which standard Fourier theory (even the tempered distributions version) can’t accomodate.

So you can't take the fourier transform of an exponential? But.. it seems you can? https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Fourier_Transform_of_Exponential_...
The biggest contributor was death in childhood. Twain had made it past that. His conditional life expectancy as an adult was much higher than life expectancy
When the World Feels Wrong
From the above thread it looks as if piracy might actually be a more bandwidth economical option than streaming services. Spread the load of the bandwidth around a bit more. Download any time other than peak streaming hours to then watch, self-contained, during peak streaming hours.
Many hospitals screen older doctors (or all doctors) for their continued ability to perform.

https://undark.org/2020/06/24/mandatory-screening-older-phys...
The key is feeling attached to the goal by both appropriate or generous compensation, and camaraderie.

It can get tough without one or the other!
It's intriguing. GDP per capita comparisons between the US and Europe would suggest that almost all of Europe should have a lower standard of living than the US. However, this is not the experience of people who have lived in both places, principally because one needs a greater income in the US for the same standard of living compared to most of Europe. Perhaps this reflects over-valuation of the US dollar?

As to the Human Development Index, 2021 data places 13 European countries above the US as a whole [0]. This would be more in line with the experience of people living there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
AGI is a two dimensional space.

The first axis is intelligence, i.e. ability to reason, learn and synthesize, ranging from below-human, human parity, and super-human.

The second axis is cost. Ranging from high-cost (more expensive to run an AGI than a human), parity (costs the same as a human employee) and low-cost (much cheaper than a human employee).

Different points in this space lead to different outcomes. For example parity intelligence and low cost leads to a world where knowledge workers all lose their jobs. Whereas super-intelligence and high-cost leads to a world where government entities have huge amounts of power over us. Super-intelligence and low-cost leads to a chaotic singularity.

Currently we are hovering around far below-human intelligence and very low-cost ($20/month for ChatGPT).
It depends.

Usually I would only work weekdays during the day, except if there is a fire to extinguish.

Currently, I work on some exploration ticket that keeps me too curious to just stop during weekends/at night, so I do spend extra time. I plan to go back to a more regular schedule once this is done.
Since joins require knowledge of the underlying schema to get right, you probably want to expose database views rather than implement join syntax. Regular users aren't going to understand joins or get them right no matter how simple you make the syntax.

I wrote a report generator for end users that uses simplified syntax, and found it was useful to present a standard list of column names rather than the actual names, and to hide the joins altogether. Views can accomplish most of that, especially in a query-only application.
I think incremental training should be possible. When next model is much smaller and as an input takes latent state from the bigger model. Then training will be faster, those smaller models can be chained.

Another option is to have small re-trainable areas within the big model.

Of course ideally model should be able to work with some sort of "knowledge base", which can be updated daily. As a main, or additional data source.

As for me I'm looking for ways to increase productivity. Have ChatGPT Plus, and in waiting lists for GPT-4 and Bing. Neither solves big problems, but usually there are many small things which can be done faster. I would rather offload them.
Not even slightly. Because most of the reactors that shut down at 0-30 years were claimed to last at least 40.

Credulously believing the same lie again is just stupid. Especially when they are already uneconomic to run. All you are doing is wasting resources on stranded assets.
Yeah, the diagrams for Korean are what make it incomprehensible.

(a) No Romanization.
(b) No translation for the constituent words.
Off by over 5x:

- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released its 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 to Congress. The report found 582,462 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2022 (https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HU...)

- Largest college football stadium: Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601
(https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2018-07-30/25-big...)

- The population of Baltimore, MD is 576,498 as of the last census, so would be a closer point of comparison.
Large trucks do things like delivery food to the grocer next to your apartment so that you can live. The road is a public good. Sometimes the tax we pay funds something we don't really use, and sometimes we use more than our tax adds up to. If you have a better system, make it happen.
It’s a joke, but is it a functional one?

I found it crazy to run auto-GPT with an external DB over the internet, how can this be ever fast and efficient? (unless the dataset is humongous)
You could share the cool things you are interested in without hating on the things other people think are interesting, though. I'm not familiar with any of the techniques you mentioned and would be curious to hear - sharing them would broaden and enrich the discussion. I can understand having a pet peeve, but that's a matter of your preferences - not something anyone else did wrong. Additionally I think it's founded in a misunderstanding - we all get it that the designer left it in on purpose, that's why we think it's cool.

There's an important game design lesson in one of the defining features of this game being an artefact of the hardware that the game designer accidentally bumped into. That's fascinating. And happy accidents like that are still an important part of game design today.
The latter does not require any name mangling. Any function that is called, was first created by the programmer. You might not like it, but it certainly fits any C code that wants to interface with other languages.

Furthermore, I could only find this feature in the clang-compiler and references to it outside of the online-docs in gcc.
This is an attack on the node software afaict - basically causes it to burn some resource (unsure if it’s bandwidth or cpu time, I honestly don’t care beyond “not a cryptographic issue”) this costing a pile of money.
I think you're talking about ASI (artificial superintelligence). AGI just means that it's a general problem solver as opposed to a narrow AI. It doesn't have to be superhuman.
What’s your source for this claim? Something like 80% of Americans live in an urban setting. In no large city that I’ve ever been in can you go a day without seeing homeless people, unless you work from home and order all your food from an app.
I admit I’m completely out of my depth when it comes to this field — I don’t even typically care about AI — but Eliezer’s response looks really bad to anyone in research. Asking for a citable and thorough written argument is as basic a requirement as it gets.

To repudiate that request with “everyone has a different objection” is nearly unthinkable. And to David Chalmers no less!

I think podcast hosts, tweet authors, bloggers and live streamers sometimes forget that progress in academic fields comes from real contributions, and that public conversations (especially oral) don’t really do anything besides spread common awareness.
I'm guessing the library python-constraint is basically just brute-forcing all possible combinations, at least when a regular python function is used as a constraint? Barring some crazy introspection, it would have to, right? And if I'm right, I don't understand why you would use a library rather than just loop over x, y, and z the old-fashioned way.
The problem is that "the commitment to democracy" has long had huge disclaimers and asterisks next to it. If your democracy starts to get a bit frisky about nationalizing assets, suddenly it's going to become an "illegitimate regime" backed by "sham elections".

The US isn't a reliable supporter of anything but direct US interests, particularly in regards to private property. This means that it will always have a hard time having solid long-term relationships with peers of equal power, or maintaining respectful "we'll do X, you do Y" disagreements. We've gotten along with Europe and the English-speaking world because none of them really pose a significant challenge to the dance America calls. But we could barely make it through the length of WWII before deciding we couldn't coexist with the USSR.
The bigger issue is that isn’t just one government. And those governments largely do not allow free trade, especially historically. Only recently was a limited free trade agreement finally signed between provinces.

In the US, the federal government supersedes the individual states. It can come down heavy handed and say that trade between states is there to go nuts with. In Canada, the federal government is only an equal to the provinces and must stay in its lane. Matters like interprovincial trade is beyond its jurisdiction.
Yes, this is the kind of thing that also sucks in my experience.
> but it's all moot: this policy is already the law of the land.

no, I believe that is not accurate (see sibling comments) What is true is that some changes will take place, but what they are is not yet done. contact your representatives; cite this Bill
> leads to a world where government entities have huge amounts of power over us

Aren't we already there? Because power must be ceded to government so that it can govern?
Of course, though I surmise that he’s using “canonical” as a metaphor for “best argued” or “most robust proof.”

For example though The 1963 paper titled "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", is the canonical source of the Gettier Problem

That was less than 100 years ago, so definitely not classical. I doubt the time period is relevant to whether you’ve made the best/canonical argument on a topic.
It is a reaction to generations of black and brown students that have been uneducated and haven't been able to compete against anyone else. So, eliminate the courses and the testing standards.

It is because these brown groups were never performing at near the level of say Whites or Asians, that these policies are implemented. Eliminate any courses of distinction or difficulty, eliminate high standards that produce any outcomes of disparate performance. Flatten the overall strata of students by getting rid of opportunities of out-performance and differentiation.

And then, filters of credentialism at elite or high level institutions drop standardized tests as qualification for enrollment. What results? Massive increase in brown student admittance [0], particularly from low-quality schools into high quality universities. Who loses the most? Whites and Asians who would have had opportunity through advanced course selection and standardized test over-performance. But both the courses and the tests are being eliminated.

Does any of this help brown students become smarter? Of course not. But "Browns hurt the most, Whites supremacists victorious" is absurd. Look beyond the first level.

[0] https://www.takimag.com/article/low-grade-fever/

"Last week, millions of college acceptances and rejections were sent out to high school seniors. While the 2023 data won’t be available for some time, using 2022 numbers we can now begin to assess the impact of 2020’s dual body blows to higher education: the “racial reckoning” and the Covid-excused Not So Great Reset in which standards were lowered and policies made lazier and stupider."

> There aren’t any Republican boogeymen you can blame for this damage these policies have created.

Kind of a non-sequitur, this is obviously a massive left wing disaster, but the mainstream right is at least guilty of being so milquetoast in not hammering this nonsense harder, and many of them make the silly mistake like you of only ever saying a thing is bad if it harms Browns. No one ever sticks up for the Whites or Asians. The overall policy is an egalitarian disaster that aims to limit outperformers from advancing or being elevated above the broad masses of lowest-common-denominator "education". It's a leveling-policy. Democratization of education in the worst way.
No, nobody misunderstands them. The recommendations leave out time entirely. People aren’t misunderstanding them, they’re just overly simplified. That’s why they’re bad. You are correct that you can do lower temperatures for longer, but FDA guidelines don’t mention this.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2011/05/25/cooking-meat-chec....

“The safe cooking temperature for all poultry products, including ground chicken and turkey, stays the same at 165 ºF.”

These are the same guidelines you encounter in the restaurant world, however in packaged food production you submit your recipes to process authorities who actually do consult time/temperature charts. But for restaurant and home guidelines they assume (not incorrectly) that it is basically impossible to ensure the restaurant or home chef cooked the chicken until the coolest part was at 145 for 2 minutes or whatever TF time/temp is needed to get the required salmonella reduction.
So, so I'm going with a rusty knowledge of a computer engineering course from years ago,

> a map of which "global decay timescale" fits your data best

What do you mean by this?

> -- since each "slice" is itself sufficient to fully describe the time series

But each slice is multiplied by an exponent.. which, okay, becomes a convolution that lets you recover the original function
“Make it easier” is not a product strategy
In terms of corporate speak and PR, that's actually a blunder. The second phrase is basically "yeah, we did it". Very weird, unless the courts have explicitly told them to say it.
Who gets to decide that?
I will now use my annual quota of one HN joke:

S: We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

L: But aren't the snakes even worse?

S: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

L: Then we're stuck with gorillas!

S: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

(This joke is about net metering.)
You can emulate partial function application.
You also always need to supply some kind of "this" if you don't want your data to live in static memory.
That's why immigration is so important
This is what social media’s real damage is. It turned academic progress into arguable points. Your research degree and countless lab hours is equally valid to my two-second no-research hot take, and if you’re not on board with it then you’re swarmed.
To outsiders, this dogmatic 'exceptionalism' appears revolting.

My 2c.
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.

Part of the problem is that people don't understand that there can be a difference between general purpose and "living conscious digital superbeing". Somehow if its general purpose then in their minds it automatically is just like a person but also godlike. And that means that people can't admit that any AI is general purpose.
You can't possibly predict the outcomes with any accuracy. This is total speculation.
Yeah I’m sure they exist and LeBernardin has them but they have to be extremely uncommon. The sushi restaurant industry just has to be reliant on that step taking place at the distributor level or even somewhere before.
Do you have any proof that it can't be done? Because otherwise you are making an opinion.

It's like saying that people can't fly. Maybe we cannot do it with wings, but we do it nonetheless.

But we have only started this age of more and more knowledge over the last 100-150 years, and it is logarithmic and the curve is getting steeper and steeper with each year. Who knows what will be possible in another 150 years? As far as I'm concerned, I'm 100% convinced that by 2050, you'll be able to put your brain on a chip and we will use robots and inhabit robot bodies to travel around, just download our program into the robot's body.
There are very few medical centers where there are 100s of simultaneous clinic visits. During the pandemic a lot of providers did home telehealth.
Even 100s of simultaneous telemedicine visits don’t take much bandwidth compared to HD video streaming. Also from a QoS perspective - these are still terminated on the public Internet.

It might have been difficult relative to the infrastructure at some hospitals - but that is to my point that hospitals in general are not very demanding bandwidth wise and I would be a bit surprised they’re more than a rounding error on the Internet2 in general - especially compared to all the academic research involving large models and just video streaming in general that blew up during the pandemic.

I’m curious if the GP was speaking from some firsthand experience or is just making some conjecture.
That's exactly the problem! I don't want to see them, but the algorithm refuses to ask me.

If they think that the length of time I spend on a post is 100% correlated with the amount that I want to see it, they really don't understand people at all. It's an embarrassingly shallow model of how how humans behave.
Ask HN: I'm looking for a challenge. What problems do you have?
Looking a problem that I can work on and would like to time box 2 weeks to an MVP.

What challenges do you have and how much would you pay per month?
If you're a dev just make a static site. There's really no point in using something like Next for a blog.

Either Astro or Eleventy are my choices these days.
Yep! Can confirm I saw it at $10k earlier today as well.
Why run docker in lxc when you can run lxc directly?
to be honest I can't be 100% sure about that. But each BSD OS is run differently. AFAIK the source of the base of each one has always been open.
It'll never get old or become poor advice :)
Japan's prosperity did not stem from agriculture.
Just as Murdoch's lawyers can SAY he isn't an officer of the company and only has an honorary title, When it comes to filing in the court they had to be more directly honest that in fact yes, he did hold an office in the company and yes, they had therefore misdirected Dominion's lawyers when it came to deposing Officers and detailed statements.

So Musk can SAY his dog is the CEO, but unless the case law admits the animal as a nominee and some process to determine their functional ability to act in line with company law, I suspect it's more than the ASPCA which is interested in the legal basis of this statement.

Normally the problem occurs when Animals are left assets in wills. If Musk is contemplating pre-death, and this is a tax dodge, I think he's been poorly advised. If its just 420 smoke, he's been poorly advised by his dealer.

Musk likes to crack jokes. As long as they're understood to be jokes all well and good. When he doubled down on "pedo guy" I think I started to realize what he says, and what it means, and the consequences for him, for everyone else can vary depending on the circumstances.

Sky is in the entertainment business. If they can find a way to patch Markle, Lizzo, and Liberace into this story, as well as beat up on the left, they will. The Northern Territory News is a better source of factual reporting, "Elvis is alive on the Moon" included. With added Crocodiles.
And yet the same people say that protectionism is good for the economy.
It's very bizarre, but it points to some oddities and out-of-spec behavior I can't explain myself.
I think the downvotes are thinking you are joking about peoples’ english proficiency, while I assume you just mean there is a large Hispanic population in your town.
> FBI for example has max age of 36 unless you have other experience.

I learned about the age limit right after I missed the cutoff. I'd been watching the TV show "Numb3rs", and thought I could do some good.

(Today, local housing costs preclude doing good, anyway. :) )
Oh interesting, I didn't realize that. I will try to look into that sometime (or would accept a patch if anyone else wants to).
yes

the whole os is one address space
This just happened to me. I setup a Marcus account and have had 10s of k locked for weeks because it’s apparently suspicious that I want to transfer it to an account other than the one it came in from. The rates don’t even beat any money market rates in a brokerage account so I struggle to see the purpose of these high interest cash accounts.
Nothing is a perfect free market. One can still reap the benefits of free markets without them being perfect.
Define canonical, but the encyclopedia is a great start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...

Fascinating that even Turing had considered the possibility.
I'd posit that the number, $x, is beyond reach realistically.

Sure such a number exists but it's probably not worth the conversation if it's astronomic.

In my case, there is no such number: either the requirements cannot be met remotely in which case the occupation is novel and uninteresting to me or the employer is unwilling to let me work remotely for equal pay in which case the lack of respect is mutual. Outside of exigent circumstances there simply is no such number for me.
> Your research degree and countless lab hours is equally valid to my two-second no-research hot take,

But you don't understand, I did my own research
The “two comments above this one” you reference didn’t exist when I made the original comment
Too easy to run afoul of the ADA and anti-discrimination laws in the US. I have refused to take nonsense tests like the Myers-Briggs, objecting by citing the ADA, and still got offers.

IQ tests do measure something, referred to as g, but it's far from clear that predicts job performance. When CEOs and politicians have to take IQ tests and get some minimum score maybe I'll play along.