skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of being edgy[0], it's that we don't have the faintest idea what it even means for an AI to be aligned with our values.

Closest we have now is following the intuitive ideas that generally work for most humans — giving positive/negative feedback for particularly good/bad answers, and asking nicely in plain language — but last I checked, the people who have made it their mission to seriously consider what it means from first principles consider this to be so unsophisticated they call it "pre-paradigmatic"[1].

[0] unless you're worried about minors getting access and learning what the swear words mean, which is a thing

[1] which was a bit over a month ago, so practically lifetime in AI: https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/disagreement-in-alignme...
Unfortunately many things in western culture that get close to mysticism are disregarded as hallucinations or random neurological firings.

Same goes with dreams and such. It’s the ‘religion of science’ defaulting to the ‘god’ of deconstructionism. Just hallucinations, nothing more.

I understand why, there’s certainly many things which were once said to be mystic, but ended up less so.

However, anyone who has done respectable doses of psychedelics probably agrees with me that there’s a bit more to dreams, NDE and afterlife than “random” neurological firings.
Abstract nonsense!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense
I agree with your larger points, but also arbitraging away price differences is valuable for a society. It feels like one of the big advantages capitalism has versus planned economies
I've been using GPT to have (insightful) educational conversations about Quake 1 source code: https://twitter.com/krychusamp/status/1649048047996014595

I always finish up by asking GPT to test my knowledge with a single-choice questionnaire. What I've observed is that the retention of the material is higher compared to "traditional" techniques. Perhaps the conversation style is more immersive, or perhaps focusing on specific knowledge gaps makes for accelerated / personalised learning.

There is of course the problem of accuracy, but I feel like it's often over-stated. Even if GPT is not correct at times, it often uncovers concepts and relations that paint a better overall picture for me, and lead me to better questions and follow up actions.
> I think this is a fractal in the sense that it is chaotic, has a color gradient, and could be on the cover of an electronic music album

I didn't know of this criterion
I think these happen because many genuinely don't see the difference. The amount of times abusive relationships are shown as something desirable, in popular media, can also not be a coincidence.
The voice filters, the cutesy avatars, a little too much for me. I think it's a bit better without audio.
I've been doing this 15 years and I've been dealing with second guessing or managers acting like we don't know what we are doing the whole time. The problem being the managers are MBAs who know little or next to nothing about software development. They don't like being told differently from whatever narrative they come up with and primarily solely focus on cost.

The company I work for considers themself a MSP. The parent company is a sales company selling non software products.

In any case, yeah it happens.
Use ChatGPT to Pitch Almost Any Idea
Presumably they are using some form of IP address geolocation. If that's as inaccurate in the USA as it is in Australia, they're going to have problems - a lot of the time it puts me in the wrong State.
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The continuing saga of the attempted identity, theft of Connor Tumbleson, now in podcast format!
Using FUSE doesn't cost you anything extra, but it doesn't make the underlying storage free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoglossy
Related, from 11 hours ago, 27 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35781637
> "Prompt injection" will always happen, because you can't fundamentally separate trusted from untrusted input for LLMs, any more than you can in humans

What evidence is there to support the claim that humans are equally susceptible to prompt injection as an autoregressive language model?

Humans literally separate trusted/biased from untrusted input every single day. This is something we teach elementary school students. Do you trust every “input” you receive?

Furthermore, as humans are able to backtrack in reasoning (something NTP does not inherently allow for) we are also able to have an internal dialogue and correct our output before acting/speaking if we perceive manipulation.

Your hyperbolic assertion also ignores the fact
Unfortunately, Tom's a lot more creativity and concept-driven than money driven. So the best strategy is probably to spend the money on some kind of near-C sublight vehicle and take a one-hour jaunt in it, then return to Earth in a year and see what's tickled Tom's fancy since you last saw him.

this solution may have side-effects that are left as an exercise for the Rocketeer.
In a country of over 300 million people it indicates a fairly low risk of death from covid for most of the population. Low enough that i think people could reasonably opt out if I they were worried about potential long term side effects from a first generation mRNA vaccine. I rolled the dice and got vaccinated, along with my whole family, but we didn’t need it. We had all had covid already with no drama. So I’m going to be pretty angry if we find out there are even mild long term side effects from it.
And Australia had as a credible proposal for its national anthem a bush ballad about a sheep thief that committed suicide when the police caught up with him.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda#Official_use.)
This seems to be arbitrary and completely open to interpretation unless you can predict which child is going to result from a "previous life". e.g. if you see a birthmark, then you can just make up what injury could have "caused" it and go looking for a suitable previous life to link to and thus "explain" it.

Also, I don't believe there's been any incidents of xenoglossy that have withstood any detailed examination.
As far as I remember, the controversy started like this: the person in question is called Scott Alexander Siskind (which he has said himself publicly in his first post on the new ACX).

In his previous work as a psychiatrist as a hospital, he went by Scott Siskind (which seems to be the name he uses with family, on identity documents etc), whereas in rationalist circles and his old blog SSC he went by Scott Alexander. He has explained why it is a problem for a psychiatrist to have a known identity beyond the usual "blank slate", that his clients can project onto. Indeed, his real name being associated with his online one led to him having to leave his former job (albeit more "by mutual agreement" rather than "fired" as I understand).

It seems that the NYT, despite having a "real names" policy, is more than willing to bend it when it is convenient to them (for example they are more than happy not to mention birth names of transgender people even if they haven't gone through a full legal name change process). But they weren't willing to do it in this case, just referring to "the rules". The cost of this was that Scott lost his job (although he now makes more on Substack than he used to as a full-time psychiatrist), and the benefit ... I really don't see what benefit there is for NYT readers to know the surname of Scott-the-psychiatrist, when the article was about Scott-the-rationalist.
> The derived object has to be substitutable for the base object

That's polymorphism, and isn't part of the definition of inheritance. Otherwise, inheritance and polymorphism wouldn't be separate concepts.
How so? The eventual winner didn’t win the Candidates and the Candidates winner was crushed two years ago.

The whole thing is already hard to take seriously usually with the whole wild card thing and the format being criticised by approximately everyone.
As a brazilian kid that did not spoke english in the 80's (just like 99% of the folks down here), Born in the USA was a huge hit simply because it's catchy as hell, the melody is a pop rock masterpiece. I sung this song for over 10 years without having any idea what the lyrics meant other than the guy was born in the usa, and it was still a great song. Now that I'm fluent in english, to tell you the truth Springsteen is a very mediocre song writer, his lyrics are what a "very deep" preteen would write if he wanted to sound good to his middle school crush, the evil maaaannn, the government is baaaaaad, I got my motorcycle, I am a simple guy that work with my hands.... Man, finding out the lyrics for most of his songs was almost as bad as learning the lyrics for Midnight Oil songs after years of singing a lot to their hits.
The question is if the regulation and intervention is for the greater good, or is it because someone in the CCP took a bribe or saw an opportunity to steal the company from the rightful owner.
Meh. None of those are enough to create a full service and it gets exponentially expensive the more your services consume.

I honestly don't understand how anyone can build on those expensive offerings.

You're essentially working to pay those expensive service providers.

Maybe it's convenient, I'm not so sure about that, but it's at least 2 times and the more traffic you use up to 10 and more times more expensive than regular servers.
Mobile phones cannot be reliably geo-located by IP as that depends on the datacenter serving them, which can easily be out of state. Usually the only half reliable part is the country which doesn't work in Europe when it comes to roaming (it uses the host country regardless the location).
The Banana Equivalent Dose is a misleading and incorrect because it has an implicit "over a lifetime" in its definition where instead it should be "until potassium level returns to normal". It is the lifetime dose one would be exposed to if the body didn't replace old material with new and instead stored the banana forever.
Stone-hearted researchers gleefully push over adorable soccer-playing robots
Or my favorite:

package Foo {
use MooseX::Extended;

sub do_stuff ($self) {
# do stuff

return $self;
}
}

my $obj = Foo->new;
$obj->do_stuff->do_stuff;
Not all radiation is created equal, and the delivery mechanism is very important.

Breathing in material emitting an otherwise harmless amount of alpha particles (essentially a helium isotope particle stripped of electrons) is very harmful. Those ionizing particles get into lung tissues and since they’re charged and have a lot of mass they can do a lot of damage in a local area. Internal doses are orders of magnitude more harmful.

Radiation is generally safe, but there are types of radiation doses that are very harmful. It’s less about the radiation level and more about what kind, how it’s delivered, and over how long a time span.
> If you told the banks that you will protect their business regardless of what corrupt, stupid or greedy behavior's they practice... what do you think they'll do?

That's not what the FED is doing though. They are protecting the depositors not the business. The equity holders are getting completely wiped out and most of the employees at First Republic Bank are probably going to lose their jobs so the business is definitely getting screwed.
>>Such a bad take.

Agreed - never liked the author, met him several times in person - he is as fake as fake can be, and is real passion in life is self promotion.

The article reeks of elitism.
Binary Data Version Migration
What does it rate-limit based on? If it's just IP address then I doubt that'll do much good as it won't stop any spammer worth their salt and yet could affect large groups stuck behind a NAT device.
Indeed, that was my argument for renting your company housing instead of buying it.
This assumes that IBM is not serious about trying to replace jobs, but is trying to make a strategic 3D chess move. I'm very skeptical that this is the case.

But, let's say it is. It might play well with investors, but the idea that it's going to spur regulation or legislation to slow down AI development seems optimistic at best. That assumes a government and elected officials who are looking out for workers and not the investors who are going to be giddy about this.

In the U.S., at least, government has been actively trying to suppress wages and maintain higher levels of unemployment. Why would this spur any action to slow down AI?
What about simply Functionalism?

Brutalism is indeed overused and has a clear meaning for architecture that really do not overlap with these "guidelines"
All anecdotal and hard to verify definitively.
I fear "Project Treble" may reduce incentives for vendors to upstream their drivers. Are there efforts to mainline it or the drivers currently using it?
Thanks, that one points to the bioRxiv version of the paper which is freely available while the news piece submitted here links to a paywall.
Obviously this won't affect the billionaire oligarchs and politicians, only the regular working people.
> The World Travel & Tourism Council reports that the travel industry generates between 8% to 11% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions—much of which comes from transport and a lot of that, from aviation.

Does anyone know what actual percentage of the total this represents? From the article it sounds like "2-3% of the world's green house gas emissions", which is not nothing but not particularly huge either.
Yes exactly it is obvious. The article attempts to address this by saying this effect is not the full story, which seems highly unconvincing to me. His argument is stripped of density, Manhattan is just another island like lots of islands in Maine that didn’t end up having very expensive real estate. But firstly lots of islands (eg Martha’s Harbour, Long Island, which isn’t really an island but close enough) in the area are significantly less dense and have very expensive real estate so I don’t think that argument bears any scrutiny at all.

In general his thought experiments with data in the article just seem completely handwavy. “Imagine if I added 5x more houses to Oakland”. Well we can imagine that but we would likely be wrong about what would happen so it didn’t prove anything. Besides anything the most likely outcome would be you would have a lot of empty houses.
Good walkthrough on your setup. I enjoy seeing how others setup their linux environments for development. There is so much individuality that oozes through to the surface.

I was on the vim train for a long time, but recently switched to doom emacs (emacs with vim keybindings) and I don't think I can go back. I still maintain a neovim setup for adhoc editing if I want to changes something quickly from the terminal.

Thanks for sharing!
If (big if) this is true, then good.

If (again, big if) society is interested in tackling climate change then individuals should be willing to pay the true cost of their actions.

But I suspect neither statement is true.

Airline executives will raise prices because they want more revenue. Rich (in the global sense) people in the developed world are in love with $20 toasters from halfway around the world and $99 flights to a beach that will be underwater in a century.

Ignoring the cost of our modern lifestyles is a big part of how we get by.
> The International Council on Clean Transportation predicts that it might cost as much as $1 trillion for decarbonizing the industry and that ticket prices will have to rise as much as 22% by 2050 to foot the bill.

By 2050.

Inflation alone will probably cause prices to double by then, and we're in the middle of a very unpredictable period of technological development (thanks to AI, etc.,) so I wouldn't worry about an estimated 22% price increase that's nearly 30 years away.
Doesn't this mean that most programs you might want to use with the FUSE API won't actually work? They'll do fine for a while, until they try to seek, and then they'll get an error?

Or is there a large group of programs that only ever write sequentially?
I don’t understand the why anymore. More than 2000 years ago, we understood that we must be a sum of parts and that kind of idea yielded the atom. We applied the atom to many kinds of structures to discern their nature. Now, atom means some scientific particle.

We simply have more things to name, but still constantly run into things we cannot name yet. We think this will end but it will not. If our universe is ever expanding, how can it?
Instead you get arbitrary bias without multiple sources you can check. If there is a shitty source that comes up in a normal web search, I can skip it and go to the ones I know are better. How do I do something similar with ChatGPT? Am I supposed to ask it multiple times to average the randomness that's applied to the conversation? Is the average even what I want? There's a ton of garbage information on the internet. If it outweighs the good information on a certain topic, isn't ChatGPT on average going to be giving me bad info?
Same. Except I need a browser, internet access, as well as a GPU and large screen for games. If only I didn't need a smartphone for this.
Shiny for Python is now generally available
This is great news for VPN providers.
If reincarnation is real, I guess the afterlife faces a crisis due to the impending demographic crash here. The lines of souls awaiting reincarnation are about to get real long, as lots of people die of old age without people having children to ensure a fast return.
> So why does plastic, or waste paper for that matter, need to be recycled?

I researched what it would take to acquire our own plasma gasification to burn plastic among other waste streams for a true zero waste footprint community. It turns into a very complex system to prevent undesirable particulates like dioxins and furans from dispersing into the atmosphere when burning plastics, especially mixed plastics streams. The inert vitrified glassy rock has a far lower economic value per kg than if the plastic was downcycled into manufacturing feedstock. The maintenance on the systems was intensive and expensive, so between capex and opex, a community already consciously downcycling plastics back to feedstock would have to be quite large (>10K) before a plasma arc with heat co-generation plants would be economically prudent.

So this universal dynamic crosslinker is a welcome advance if we can use it to create upcycled feedstock in bulk. I see burning as a last resort; we should want to preserve the embedded energy in materials as long as possible in circular use and use the least possible increased embedded energy into them when transforming them again. It is much more economically efficient modeling the use pattern in this manner.
Original scientific paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216268120
However, anyone who has done respectable doses of psychedelics probably agrees with me that there’s a bit more to dreams, NDE and afterlife than “random” neurological firings.

Why would that be the case? If anything, it seems to me, taking psychedelics will teach you that tiny amounts of chemicals can drastically alter how your brain works, especially how it perceives the world.
My personal conspiracy theory: most "cloud services" are just... bad.

VMs and disk space I understand completely, having machines on-prem is too much of an hassle and the price isn't that bad. But for stuff like this, managed services, databases especially, you're just getting scammed.
That sounds like a very reasonable regulation to me. I couldn't tell you how regulations pencil out in general for taller buildings but the higher you go, the higher the percentage of the floor plan consumed by things like elevators.
and better thing is those critical systems are built with a robust mindset. things don't fail randomly like they do in JS land.
> We think this will end but it will not. If our universe is ever expanding, how can it?

Heat death of the universe?
It was called Occupy and it got shut down with extreme prejudice and we're still living in the psyop environment that is a response to it.
Cool!

Similar idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35630451
Come to think of it, I have been bitten by something like this before. I used the (mostly) single-developer project clojure-android to build an app and had no good options when bit-rot set in.
I lived in Ulan Ude, a predominantly Buddhist town and province of Russia near Lake Baikal. Lots of people, when asked their faith, would say "shamanism". But that was a cultural hint and misnomer. People would practice their religion out in the woods or travel to the large Buddhist temple outside of town because most public officials and the Russian Orthodox church did not allow for Buddhism practices in town.

When I was in Omsk I listened to a man testify that the Russian Orthodox church was good because Father Oleg the local priest had a man killed because he was trying to collect a debt on a member of the church.
To be poor in the United States or Europe is just becoming horrible. First of all nothing works anymore. Washing Machines are designed to use as little water as possible, so your clothes don't get clean like they did a few decades ago. The gas stovetop range is replaced with electric, so it takes 20 minutes to boil water. Toilets are low flo, which is just disgusting. I'd say soon the average Chinese citizen will live a better life than their western equivalent, not having to deal with sin taxes "For the Climate".
There is an internal memory, but it's very short lived, like a register in a traditional CPU architecture. It's like a CPU disconnected even from L1 cache, let alone RAM.

I like to think of consciousness as not the substrate, but the information flowing through it. Not the H2O molecules in a river, but the current. We're like eddies and swirls in mountain streams, our thoughts are the patterns of flow, not the unmoving rocks that set them up.

In this sense, when an LLM like GPT produces output, it's like a loop that has been cut, a single pass through what would be a circular process in a human brain. It can take a fixed number of steps from a standing start, but no more. This is because there is information flowing through it, transformed step-by-step. It just doesn't recirculate, it always exits after a fixed number of steps.

Think of an unrolled for loop that always exits. It takes a few steps, which look like a loop, but can never actually iterate.
It's a final upload to the cloud, with checksum checks...
Obviously the risk here today is that ChatGPT isn't a trustworthy teacher, but the concept is of course absolutely riveting and obvious to everyone, which is why ChatGPT blew up on the first place. Iron out the kinks and I think it's going to be an incredible asset to humanity (not necessarily this particular LLM).
Right now we have 4 items we can basically recycle.

Glass -> fairly straight forward to recycle
Metal -> fairly straight forward to recycle
Paper -> depends and very water intensive but kind of OK and not totally terrible if it is just burnt. But nearly as all over the place as plastic.
Plastic -> All over the place and dozens upon dozens of differing types rules regulations and depending on your local area how much is actually 'recycled' (a lot less than you think)

Then on top of that we are to reduce, reuse, recycle. The manufactures have skipped the first two steps and blame us for it.

Plastic is the worst of them to recycle it has the least recyclability. I have seen estimates from anywhere for 5% to 10% of the total plastic stream. Then customer shaming and deceptive tactics to make me feel bad for this. The bottom line is plastic is the worst for recyclability yet we use it for a good portion of our containers. We are worried about plastic straws and yet a good portion of the food I buy comes in a plastic container. Instead we should be putting pressure on the upstream to give us containers that they and we can reuse.
Small nitpick on your site. I added an item to my basket, and the value that appears next to the basket link is (0) instead of (1): https://i.imgur.com/AB8Xjqb.png