skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its good to have somebody root for progress. A monoculture of doom cannot possibly serve us well. But if that advocacy is done in a poor way it only serves to highlight how justified the critical view of technosolutionism.

There are at least three areas where I find his world view lacking.

First, its not historically informed. There was another astonishing period of progress and it did not end well: the broader GreacoRoman period. It was arguably even more revolutionary as it cultivated the basic mental modes required for science. Yet that world did not land smoothly on an s-curve, it collapsed completely. Yes, collapse is an accessible end-state today as well. If it turns out we cannot learn from the disasters of the past we have every reason to worry they will be repeated.

Which brings to the second point. You cant separate the scientific and technological universe from socio-economic organization. There are countless ways one can mobilize society for a while (eg slave labor that frees elites for higher pursuits) but long-term stable progress must, by definition, be based on fundamentally fair and distributive societies that dont chew on themselves.

Third, there are objective, physical and biological constraints that limit progress. The universe and our planet dont owe us a boundless canvas for us to realize any bizarre mental construct or obsession. What is on offer is already vast, but it does not extend in all directions. Learning to identify the naturally available growth options will be key for sustainable development.

I also think he misunderstands the role of digital tech. It is true that its impact so far has been marginal, even regressive, and pales in comparison to the major breakthroughs of 19th and 20th centuries. But its true nature is really human knowledge augmentation, similar to the invention of writing, the invention of mathematical proof etc. If we could liberate tech from the psychopaths and the sick economic system that supports them, it could lead to a enormous boost of global ingenuity and productivity. The tech dividend is still to be seen.
> I also think it'd be great to live near people who are having children at the same time as I am having children.

This came automatically for us as our kids got old enough to go to school. You naturally meet lots of parents in your community with kids the same ages as yours, through school activities and extracurriculars.
The real history is often a horrible mess, narratives are built by carefully cherrypicking facts to support a worldview. This is similar to what happens to mass media - they don't need to lie, just present only those facts that support their position
I do not know if this is the reason, but when reading quickly thorn is very easy to confuse with p or b.
My Linux computer has the Caladea typeface installed. '&' in that is clearly `e` and `t` elided.

ed: See https://d144mzi0q5mijx.cloudfront.net/img/C/A/Caladea0.png
3D artists can also generate concept art easier and there are many models that can generate tileable textures.

"3D Stable Diffusion" doesn't exist yet, but some projects look promising.
I remember getting a rubber stamp set as a kid here in Australia, probably around time I started school in 1968. They definitely had an ampersand, dollar and cents stamp and even "No." (with the superscript o)
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As the article briefly mentions, these sort of Chinese police outposts have been discovered in multiple countries. This issue was also in Dutch news one or two years ago. Apparently China uses these outposts to police Chinese citizens (and maybe their descendants?) living abroad, with the goal of instilling loyalty towards China. The Chinese government may also pressure their family in China in order to coerce compliance. It's basically mafia tactics applied by a government in order to control people who have left the country.
Not everyone has to have some grand purpose. I work to earn enough money to do what I like, I'm not planning or hoping to make a heap of money. I would be perfectly happy living a comfortable yet completely unnoticed life.

In fact I think a lot of people my age (late 20s) are starting to feel like this as a reaction to the idea that anyone who isn't driving a nice car or going abroad several times a year is a failure. That's the impression I get from talking to people at work anyway.

You still get those status-driven people but frankly I feel very uneasy around them.
1. "optimizing the spend" is probably overengineering some insane Rube Goldberg machine which locks you in more and commits in engineering resources which could be spent thinking about moving to a different cloud / onprem

2. See 1. WAI
I swear to god from now on I will just assume anything named GPT (that isn't the official thing) is just bullshit.
These cryptomessenger-take downs happened in Europe and most EU jurisdictions work very differently from the US as far as admissibility and searches go. In fact in several of them (France, UK and Netherlands iirc) you even have to decrypt your own devices to provide evidence against yourself if there is a reasonable suspicion that evidence exists.

Actually there was a case some time ago very similar to your post office example: Someone was stealing letters/packages in a post sorting center near the Dutch-german border. Supervisors found a stash of partially opened/damaged/illegibly addressed letters and the suspected thief. Hand everything over to the police. Police opens all letters and reads them ostensibly to determine whether things are missing and where the letter is supposed to be delivered. One letter is from some german dude to some dutch dude asking for cannabis seeds. Oops. A few busted down doors later german dude is convicted, appeals on the grounds that it was obviously illegal for the police to just read his letter for no reason. Appeal denied - sure it was illegal for the police to do that, but he didn't get convicted based on the letter, but based on his plantation that was found during a raid.

So, as a general rule, it usually doesn't matter how or why police knew about something, if they have solid, physical evidence at the end of the day, it will not be thrown out just because some constitutional rights were ignored along the way.
>That said, there are bad scenarios where we just get so dependent on AI that we voluntarily cede control to it, little by little, and then things go wrong once it's too late.

You have to get rid of the idea that an AI will start doing something that we don't explicitly tell it to. Sure, in the future it will be possible to accomplish same tasks with AI that would take multiple smart humans to do. There are still limits in place though.

>And you don't have to fully simulate reality to be really, really good at achieving your goals. We don't fully simulate every particle on a spacecraft, but we get them where they need to go, because we have simplifying models

Yes, because we have found patters in non chaotic systems. Not all systems are like that. Why can't we predict the stock market? Stephen Wolfram talks about this, its a phenomenon called computational irreducibility, meaning that some processes cannot be simply just estimated with a mathematical formula, and furthermore, these processes can arise from very simple rules.

The point that Im trying to make is that your warnings are absolutely empty. Its equivalent to those people worried that LHC was going to punch a hole in our universe. There is zero information right now to base any worry of an advanced AI.
I'm getting The Da Vinci Code vibes.
same boat here, actually worse

if it's of any consolation, you probably won't find anyone to marry if you have no friends...
If youean Obsidian, Heimdall on Linux is a pretty excellent alternative, you just need to be specific about which partitions you're flashing
Post office would be a much harder legal sell given it's a federal entity with plenty of precedence against that.
My experience is that both of these tools do something for aligning partitions or file systems that a regular right click+format won't do. I've had SD cards fail to boot in a Raspberry Pi because of these small details.

I don't think they do anything that other formatting tools can't do, but they do make the alignment much easier by defaulting to the right options.
>Vista was an universally loathed disaster, but users took it because where else to go?

Who? "Nobody" used Vista except eg schools.

Same with 8

Maybe for me it feels diffetent maybe thats country difference, but the windows migration felt like: xp 7 10 ... 12?

People were using xp and 7 as long as they could

>In windows XP, microsoft learned their users accepted some abuse,e.g locked theme engine, plastic default theme

No idea what you are talking about, what do you mean?
Corporations can be regarded as AI agents with misaligned goals. In a bit over a century this has resulted in damage to the climate and Earth's ecosystem that is threatening the survival of our civilization. And that's just slow, badly optimized paperclippers so far.
The fault of journalists here is turning up the heat and spinning this in terms of identity politics as usual, when that controversy only exists between a small number of people. If they cared about truth more than controversy they would see this. But airing grievances is popular these days.
Why should it be impossible to think of a brighter future? Maybe humans should be living like gods, not worried about diseases, the environment, etc. Maybe humans should strive to become the dominant species in the universe? Why should the current "protestant work ethic" (in a Max Weber sense) guide us - hedonism might also have something to each us.
Its not a matter of it being useless. Information compression and lookup is a fundamentally different task than reasoning, which GPT models can't do.
Glad we changed a disagreement to an agreement ;)
Same here. If you believe the following research (which I do), the ability to perform complex reasoning is likely to be from training on code:

https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tr...

I think it's essential to increase the quantity of code tokens.
Was the article changed? That word is nowhere on the page now.
Hm, I wonder if the obvious faults in the picture generated by Dalle-2 were interpreted to be advanced and creative photography techniques.
What I had in mind was to make the output of a natural language parser into symbolic semantic representations (the folks at CYC have such parsers) an additional part of the training data set of the LLM.
Agree; I'd actually theorize that the parent's comment has cause and effect backwards - when church is something you're compelled to attend, you overcome the heavy lift of having to load the family up into the car, drive, find somewhere to park, and attend services. And once you're there, conveniently, you're surrounded by people with at least one thing in common.
Yeah, it's just Fox. Not official crime statistics.

Or even Wikipedia: "The American city of Baltimore, Maryland, is notorious for its crime rate, which ranks well above the national average. Violent crime spiked in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015, which touched off riots and an increase in murders. The city recorded 348 homicides in 2019, a number second only to the number recorded in 1993 when the population was nearly 125,000 higher."

In context, the UK, with 65+ million people had like 700 for 2022, or around 60 times less per population...
What form of "AI" are you looking to avoid?

Do you want to avoid the company engaging with AI? (Maybe because you don't want your searches being used as training.)

Do you want to avoid LLMs answering your search? I have not seen that widely adopted at all.

Depending on what you consider "AI" the answer might range from all of them to none of them are using AI.
> Heroku was pretty much the only option for a newbie like me to get started with web-development

How, exactly? What happened in 2018 that somehow made it impossible to just host a website?
In a not very big town in Northern Europe, I cycled past Digital Equipment offices on my way to school. They had such a huge work force all over the world, and sunk into the ocean almost without a trace.
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A new Telegram bot for buying TON. Video showing use case.
If this "protected area" even exists [1], both dd(1) and this thing seem not to touch it. So no difference here.

[1] Never heard of it and I've erased and recreated partition tables on SD cards multiple times with no "bricking"; maybe it's a feature of cards supplied with "encryption software"?
You can already run it on your browser with webgpu https://mlc.ai/web-llm/
More Europe anecdata:

I live in a small town of around 2000. Within 5-10 minutes walking I got: a restaurant, a cafe, a grocery store, pizzeria and kindergarten. Within 5-10 minutes of biking I have: public library, another grocery store, two bars and a restaurant. Public transport is readily available to take me to the neighbouring hustle-bustle (pop. 600'000) within 35 minutes. So my town is 50 times smaller than your Spanish example but it is perfectly possible to have all these services at this scale as well!
Yep. AT&T home ISP and AT&T cellular.
Maybe search for "how do search engines work"
Which shouldn't be a surprise. If you aren't suspected of doing such things, you are just a number in the void.
The US has the second most CO2 emissions [1], and roughly 28% of that total comes from transportation [2]. That means our transportation emissions are higher than most countries' total emissions. Reducing that number by 25% would be the equivalent of the UK eliminating 100% of its emissions.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/270499/co2-emissions-in-...

2. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...
Reading "A founder's guide to expanding your confort zone" instantly set me in my disconfort zone
The article doesn’t claim it’s evidence-based - that’s just the HN headline. The latter appears to be basing that claim on the use of ACT, which is considered an empirically supported therapy.
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If you think about it, Transformers were basically a way to just generalize convolution - instead of a fixed kernel shape in the sense of image processing, you now have a learned kernel arbitrary shape. Big advancement in terms of what they allowed, but fundamentally not really a new concept.

While these things represent a fundamental way we store information as humans, these have very little to do with actual reasoning.

My bet is that Hebbian learning is going to see a resurgence. Basically the architecture needs to be able to partition data domains while drawing connections between them, and being able to run internal prediction mechanisms.
I had the same response. Gpt-3.5 couldn't do it.
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> They needed a water supply for cooling, and there aren’t many natural lakes in the midwest.

Not contesting your actual point about situating the plant, but the midwest has more lakes than any other (similarly sized) region in the US, and particularly with the Great Lakes has access to the largest surface freshwater resource in the world.

https://teddit.net/r/MapPorn/comments/gu3ve3/number_of_lakes...
I think the bigger problem is that you can predict what a letter is from its position regardless of whether you can read it.
1GB per hour of high-def video? Which encoder are you using, that sounds really good.

...Actually, now that I am looking up some actual data it does look like many formats come in lower than I expected for an hour, though I don't know whether those formats are:

A) Free to use, and

B) Full HD (1920x1080, what we in the EU call HD) video losslessly compressed.

My back-of-napkin mistake was looking at a random 1080 video, seeing it was 2.2GB for 24 minutes and extrapolating from there.

Let's see, Apple Animation (which I don't know whether it's free, but it can compress losslessly) comes in at 597.2 GB/h of 1080p video. I can't find numbers for VP9, but it is patent-encumbered. I can't find numbers for Lagarith, but it is GPL, although as a fork of HuffYUV it's optimized for encoding speed rather than storage.

Well, according to Wikipedia, lossless compression can achieve up to 12x compression, so let's call it 80GB/h (I'm back-of-napkining again, bad habit I know), so 640TB/y?
That's kinda why I like living in the suburbs now. My commute into the city is ~30 by transit. But I have a garage to tinker in (recently added a 3d printer to the workbench), and I store my car there for driving beyond the reach of the transit system.

Though I will admit, I do miss being able to walk downstairs to one of many bars, have a few drinks, maybe end up at the local greasy spoon, and walk home. Can't have it all, I suppose.
On the main website you can use the "query features"-function. It even returns roads first and shows their name if its set.

In the Organic Maps-app, in osmAnd and in MagicEarth long tapping on a place returns the nearest street name or address.
> KV.JS is a fast…

What makes it “fast”? Is there an explanation or comparison?
> 640K ought to be enough for anybody
You can change your DNS TTL to let say 5 minutes before you move to new IP. You can change it 3 days before the movement(?).
I use Safari as a daily driver because it tends to have a low impact on my machine. Whether Apple has the stomach for competing with Google directly after these changes remains to be seen, Microsoft threw in the towel after all.
I've switched to thinking consumerism is more of a problem than capitalism. Capitalism is just the producer, if what capitalism produced isn't consumered, certain things won't be produced.

Additionally consumerism is something that we all can influence with our credit cards. Capitalism is largely controlled by large nameless corporations.
> and all ads should be blocked

I can feel with your sentiment, but don’t see a practical way to do that.

Define “ad”. Is “read more in my blog” an ad? Is “see Foo’s blog at …” an ad? “Read Foo’s excellent blog”? “Read more here” in a blog entry?

If you say “when it is paid for it’s an ad”, how do you detect that? And what is “paid”? In a webring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring) people reciprocally ‘pay’ each other by providing incoming links, thus all gaining reputation. The difference with a citation ring (https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2022/03/23/citation-stati...) is subtle.

And for true ads, would you want to block a starting blog author from promoting their work online?
Some people want to be forced to socialize - others find ways to socialize with those around them. And others only want to socialize with copies of themselves.
I like to think they were.
And? Our brains aren't just doing the exact same things all over, we have centers focused on certain tasks. For example we have[1] neurons that do addition and some others that do subtraction.

Our brains are limited to using neurons as building blocks, but why should an AI be limited in the same way?

[1]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220214121241.h...
Or maybe find a co-founder. Of course learning is always good. I'm in the same boat so I have no idea which one is best.
But what if the search engine has GMOs in it? And maybe it's powered by nucular!
It's right there in the law:

"A reservation of use in the case of works which are available online is effective only if it is made in a machine-readable format."
This is a 5 year old video about how search works. They are already talking about using machine learning for ranking wich is kinda like AI depending on your definition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVV_93mBfSU
Medicine is evidence-based but they won't hand you a bunch of studies before surgery.

Providing evidence helps but isn't a necessity to call something evidence-based.
I live in a small town in Poland and when I was a kid, my whole street was a community. My parents were friends with all the neighbours (some less than others, but still). My mom used to host "coffee time" every other day around noon were women from the neighbourhood would gather for an hour or so to gossip around coffee - of course me, as a kid, just lingered around them.

All the kids on the street hang out together, playing games, kicking some soccer ball, going to the woods, etc. People on the street were so close together that it was possible to organize "cleaning the street" events from time to time where everyone would gather up with their gardening tools etc and we would just go through the whole street, cleaning up overgrowing grass, cutting out weeds on the forest border, etc.

I must say, looking back, this was a wonderful time and a GREAT environment to be raised in. I think that being a part of a small community like that is really important for mental wellbeing.

Unfortunately, all of that pretty much died along with my mother and grandmother. Other elderly people on the street died as well, the community loosened up, new people moved in and I rarely see them or know their names, they are not interested in random chatter on the street (at the rare occassion you ever meet them outside the house) and I don't have the courage to pick up my mother's wonderful idea of "coffee time". A bit of a shame, but I'm still trying to get to know the people around my place. The way things are going here in Poland, I might need to pick up Duolingo and launch some Ukrainian course though :)

Anyway, just venting
because they were not integrated in the operating system [1] and/or the OS were not sandboxed.

Also, app stores did not exist, app stores do scan software for malwares, they are actually antiviruses on the cloud.

but it's an opaque anti virus, not under the user's control, apps could be rejected for whatever reason, so today chaos is only hidden under the rug, but it's actually worse then it was before.

Nobody back then said: "my grandfather should not use the computer, he's in danger", also because if someone owned a computer back then they probably knew how to operate it, today that's not true anymore by a large margin.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/comprehensive-securi...
Practice generating traffic.

An example could be a blog. Start with 1 article and promote it.

This is something you could do today, then you'll have an idea what it's like to do marketing.
Thanks. I was hoping there was a way to manipulate the DOM on the client before it is rendered, but this seems to be impossible with JS. Currently, I render various things during page load with NodeObserver. It mostly performs well on modern devices, but it can get sluggish on very large HTML pages (like 5MB+ of HTML code), so it looks like I have to resort to infinite scrolling with automatic unloading.
I don't think they are easy to reason about. They're non-trivial to explain, and to figure out how to make best use of them requires quite a lot of modelling, usage projection, etc, to figure out how many of each type to buy.

The lowest priced options also require pre-purchasing, which ties up cash. They're rarely worth it for a business with typical cash flow.

From a cash flow perspective "it just gets cheaper after 3 months" is very straightforward, requires no usage projection, and not a lot of modelling to figure out eventual prices. The fact that it's not opt-in also means that more businesses will get the benefits, so many don't use the reserved instances because they don't have the capacity to figure out how best to use them, or worry about giving up the flexibility.
Do both, pick a few very small ideas that you can build and learn to market, don't treat these “the idea” but more as training grounds for yourself and keep them small and self-contained. These could be products that already exist, in fact that's probably preferable for learning.