skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes exactly. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

Unfortunately, it can take a very long time for the organisation in question to be exposed and then reformed. Just look at the child-abuse within pretty much every organisation that had access to children. However, that doesn’t make the fight fruitless; organisations can be reformed and it’s worth it for society as a whole.

We just need much much stronger whistleblower protections.
Unfortunately no, I intend to continue working on it on my own and will be looking for effective ways to monetize it; once it has valuable features.
I was fairly upset with CBS' "60 Minutes" as I received a urgent message from one of my parents about the dangers of AI. It had such gems as:

Google CEO: "It's just predicting the next word."
News Story Narrator: "But it doesn't feel like that--"

Yes, because how it "feels" is certainly objective material for a news story. And my favorite:

CBS News Correspondent: "You don't fully understand how it works. And yet, you've turned it loose on society?"

I actually dug into Giphy for a Frankenstein GIF for that one ...

sigh

Really getting sick of Fear-of-the-Other ...
I wrote a bunch of C and VBScript in the 1990s that is still in production.

I helped familiarize a new employee with said code.

I wrote that code before they were born.
That screenshot is incredibly impressive.
It absolutely denotes difficulty. E.g. more machine cycles are needed to traverse the original expression tree that has more nodes.
What about if the gas lines have cold-related outages ?

Ultimately you need to be ready to be self-sufficient. I live in a cold climate and run my house on a heat pump, with an oil furnace backup, AND a wood stove with plenty of wood as a third layer.
Probably because it’s extremely affordable to train the smaller models.

If I had the gumption (and a data set) I could afford to spend a few hundred bucks to fine tune a model for shits and giggles and I’m just a Random Internet Dude.

I’m all for it, Any Day Now™ I have this idea I want to try and having these people do all this optimization work will probably make it affordable to attempt given I don’t actually know what I’m doing so there will be a whole lot of “yeah, that doesn’t work” going on.
Cutting workforce to boost margins is MBA management 101. Every exec does this, for precisely the sentiment in your comment: it makes shareholders think the CEO is a genius.
The USG can't put cameras in my house and promise not to look at the video unless I'm a foreigner. That's what this amounts to. Why anyone would defend this is beyond me.
It's so common that police have a special term for it: testilying

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-polic...
That really isn’t how it works. They hold less charge, but you can have more of them and weight isn’t really an issue. They can also charge more gradually, making the dynamics really different.

A battery bank at home can be a good solution to grid balancing, eg if power is cheaper during the day or night, or if you have solar. Water storage systems aren’t very efficient and need lots of space, but there are people who do it. You can also compress air into a cave. Batteries are just something that are cheaper and more space efficient than other solutions.

Centralized batteries work as well, though they don’t do anything if you have lots of grid failures.
Two New Linux Laptops, Sudo in Rust, Debian 12.0 – FOSS Weekly
My understanding is that H2S is toxic to nearly all plants and animals. Barring some massive technical leaps, I don't see how humanity survives in the worst-case scenario. H2S on the levels of the Great Dying takes millions of years to clear from the atmosphere. Rich humans living in domes would probably die of equipment failure long before the atmosphere became safe once again for human life.

The H2S in question is produced mainly by sulfate-reducing bacteria in the ocean, so targeting these microorganisms might be one way to stave off disaster. That would require massive bio-engineering on a scale never before seen in history.

Right now we're just crossing our fingers and hoping we can reduce carbon emissions and ocean warming fast enough, and that we don't trigger (or haven't already triggered) runaway warming feedback loops such as the clathrate gun hypothesis.
Can't count how many times I've played The Grid on loop.

This piece resonates so much with what the movie and soundtrack evoked in me.

I discovered Glass' works from it and love his discography.
Newbies get into loops by thinking the solution is simple when it's complex from their perspective and can go off rabit paths and waste time. Kind of like the opposite of overthinking a solution when the solution is simple. It's a writing linter.
I feel like you shouldn't be downvoted, it seemed like a genuine question with no snark.

To me, it's the flexibility, composability, automation, etc, like may have said in the thread.
I sure do and my house was very much a basic median market build but built by a smaller builder who only does 2-6 homes a year. An electric oven is far superior to a gas oven but I do enjoy my gas cooktop. It’s all in one like a standard range but is listed as a dual-fuel model. As an easy first step, we need to mandate the 220v hookup in all new kitchens and then phase out the gas. A simple building code adjustment would do the trick and putting the receptacle in at the time of construction is cheap compared to a retrofit.
I'm sure there is a physics professor somewhere just typing a homework for students to calculate the required turning speed for the last wheel to reach lightspeed on the outer edge and what kind of energy would be needed to spin all those wheels up (ignoring any friction, etc.) :)
“As weak as” means “as strong as.” But in your scenario, weakness includes failing to adequately limit political or moral liability internally.
Minetest is really just a base game and an engine. Look into Mineclone2, a minetest-game.

https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/
Eufy doesn’t force you to use their software — well, after setup. I have a bunch of Eufy C24 cameras deployed in RTSP mode.

I have them blocked from the Internet with logging turned on. I’ve never noticed them attempt to reach out.

Same with a bunch of Annke cameras, which are rebadged Hikvision cameras. Annke are cheap but pretty good quality cameras that do RTSP and all the other usual stuff. They never require their own app.
Democracy is inherent and implicit in a republic. And I think you're mistaken about "constitutional republic." That term really wasn't used much, though representative democracy and "democratic republic" were terms that were used more frequently.

The entire argument about the US not having a democracy but a republic really stems (in modern times) from the John Birch Society.
Spokespersons do newspeak so the C-suite doesn't have to. That's the whole point!
I'm having trouble understanding what this does. Does it let you compose models via a SQL-like syntax?
Straws should be avoided instead of making alternatives.
Did the idea of enchained symbols motivate the license for Scroll?

> Is Scroll public domain?

> Yes! Scroll is also 100% focused on helping people build internal or _public domain sites_ and everything is designed with that assumption.

As well, if each word is computable (Trubase), really no one could own the symbol, right?
https://archive.md/AOaHp
You make good points. The Titan fully realized, in my opinion, aspires to the ideal of the Warrior which I think can be valuable to cultivate.

You should check out this article: The Warrior and The Sage. I read it a few months ago, and it was meaningful in helping me understand how there might be more.

https://www.edbatista.com/2022/05/the-warrior-and-the-sage.h...

---

As a Warrior:

My purpose is overcoming resistance. Life is a series of battles, and the most important are zero-sum struggles that must be won.

My world is a battleground, an athletic field, a negotiating table. It's also, at intervals, a victory party, a hospital, a funeral.

I view others as fellow combatants. Some are allies, some are opponents, and sometimes they switch sides, which I must bear in mind.

I view myself with rigor. I know my strengths and maximize their advantages. I know my weaknesses and keep them hidden.

My thoughts and feelings fuel my dedication. I maintain an open mind, but also strive to convey my passion and conviction.

My goals are of paramount importance, in part because others are depending on me to achieve them. I'm committed to success.

As a Sage:

My purpose is learning and helping others learn. Life is a series of mysteries, and the most important can't be solved but must be studied.

My world is a classroom, a laboratory, a carnival. It's never just one of these things, and sometimes it's all of them at once.

I view others with curiosity, because I don't know who they really are. Even if they're my students, they may also be my teachers.

I view myself with amusement. I've learned enough to realize how little I know, and I discover my wisdom when I embrace my ignorance.

My thoughts and feelings come and go, as thoughts and feelings do. I acknowledge their influence while holding them lightly.

My goals are flexible, because I know I already have what I really need. I'm committed to a process without being attached to a given outcome
But how would you define fake and real thinking? One done by a human and a machine?
CRISPR-Cas-amplified urinary biomarkers for cancer diagnostics
Works for me. Firefox 112.
What I got out of this one:

1. scarcity is a forcing function for pop culture (true!)

2. AI will make new creations ubiquitous; bye, bye, scarcity (maybe true?)

3. without the forcing function, there's no more pop culture (doesn't seem so true at all)

While Godin is curt, he's not so succinct. And there's a lot of conjecture asserted as true. There's still some kernel of something interesting there, but honestly, it feels like I put more work into reading Godin than he put into writing.
It's not so much that I disagree with any of this so much as I totally disagree about the timescale. We're iterating on LLMs really fast, which makes it seem like AI as a whole is progressing at warp speed, but there's no indication that that pace is going to translate to the kinds of breakthroughs that would actually make AI an existential threat rather than a new and weird annoyance.

As far as GPT-4 already being a potential nuisance in terms of potential social disruption -- yes, sure, but it also has obvious potential benefits, and we seem resolved to total indifference about the way technology is shaping our society (viz. social media). I don't view LLMs as a step change in that regard.
It is being pushed very hard that the solution is to keep models under lock and key.

Is not the most major problem with maintaining a healthy society keeping the power of governments and massive corporations in check? How are closed source models supposed to be the solution? I simply don't see it, so to me it reads as propaganda from those powerful entities. Leaving the most powerful software to be only understood, researched, and used by the most dangerous groups is likely the worst thing you can do.
>For example, many people reasonably reckon that this new technology will put a lot of white collar workers out of work.

That didn't seem to be a problem when it happened to blue collars. In fact, you could say that it was deliberately legislated.
I play Minetest 2 with my kids and we have a great time.
https://archive.ph/G15B7
Good point. I refered to the code, not to the protocls.

With REST/JSON mostly you write code twice – server implementation and client implementation. If you add new platform (say, iOS), you write new code again. So for each new platform you maintain separate code => not cross platform.
Yes, it's hard to imagine Karpov losing this match.
> As burners can get crazy hot, that probably means I'd call teflon unsafe, unless it broke down at 2000F.

That seems a bit... unrealistic. Not even cast iron is usable at 2000F.
I agree; all instructions should be the same size in classic RISC.

The quantity of instructions is not as relevant.
Sure.

Let's meet again on this site in about 7 or 8 billion years, maybe 9.

I'm sure it'll become crystal clear.
Can you give those four strategy/theory combinations referred to as selective breeding? I read the linked doc but didn't see it in there.
Hey, why so negative! Lobbying is a hard work requiring coordination, expensive lawyers and tons of money. It's the only layer of protection for the society from a thoughtless legislation!

/s
Ok, so there's self improving, where an AI tries to make itself smarter, and then there's just exponential improvement, where an AI does one or more of the following, with or without a human in the loop:

* acquires money through legitimate business and buys more computing power to train a smarter AI.

* acquires money through illegal means and does the same.

* designs a more efficient model architecture or training
process that results in a smarter AI.

I don't know how far away from this we are, it's very hard to predict. I do predict that at first we'll see mostly things where a human is directing the AI, but there's selective pressure toward not having a human involved, because someone who just sets up an AI and lets it loose is going to have a thing that reacts faster and can work 24/7. Irresponsible businesses that let their AIs run rampant are going to make more money, and be able to afford better AIs. It's the same story that has played out again and again over history, Moloch (1) pushing us to do the selfish but harmful thing by rewarding those that do it.

Remember that exponential curves seem pretty slow at first, and it can be hard to tell when you are standing on one. It might be that we're still years away from exponential self-improvement, but I think it's worth taking seriously as a possibility. Even with just humans designing AIs, the amount of effort required has become exponentially less as we got more compute, designed better libraries and tools, people published research and copied it and built on it. We can't predict exactly what or when the next step will be, but I think it's just as reasonable to assume that the curve of this progress is exponential as it is that it's logistic.

[1] <https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/>
>plastic straws were a rounding error on a rounding error of plastic waste.

Not as a percentage of “outrage”. We know who pushes for this stuff, and for some reason they just keep going with it.

I’m pretty convinced things like straw ban are a test to evaluate the demographics of “true believers” out there.
To be fair, this is neither done in LEGO, nor has it anything to do with googol.

But you're right that there are many similar machines. I've seen them in two different museums and it's always great to make you think about time and "infinity".
I wouldn't expect they are rewriting their user agents to announce their company. You'd get a regular user agent if they were using a regular browser.

It feels more likely that they are gathering stats on tech writers and weblogs to see who they might want to invite to Substack one day. They could hide this with a fake user agent, but have chosen not to.
I like the way the mineyest ecosystem is progressing. I am a huge fan of Minecraft and we turned it into a family thing running our own server. But the take-over by Microsoft feels like a pain and I really dislike that since the move to Microsoft I now have to grant my teen daughters access via a family page.
Great way to further disincentivize the most talented people from choosing a career in government.

I'd any day pick somebody whose highly qualified, experienced and generally 'intelligent' but somewhat corrupt over someone who "chose" to serve the country because he couldn't get a job in the private sector or is strongly motivated by his ideological beliefs but has no clue what he's doing.
Just did a little "research" on op, it tingled an array of other red flags
Thanks for the rabbit hole! If the wikipedia citations are reliable, you might check all three of:

Christopher Vecsey. The Emergence of the Hopi People, in American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, American Indian Religions, 70 (Summer 1983).

Harold Courlander. The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in their Legends and Traditions, 201 University of New Mexico Press, 1987

Susan E. James. "Some Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult", Journal of the Southwest (2000)

In particular, the wiki article [1] cites the first to claim, “Hopi mythology is not always told consistently and each Hopi mesa, or even each village, may have its own version of a particular story” which would presumably provide ample opportunities to walk in the gray area between quoting and creative translation you mention.

In addition to that angle, the Palo Verde nuclear plant broke ground in 1976 [2] so it’s not ridiculous to think that the public might have been concerned and discussing it around 1972 when some of the first film was taken. No citation there but not would be another avenue to investigate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_mythology

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...
Facing Imminent Homelessness, Gagoot Developer Seeks Project Funding
This repost is to update my situation. My "imminent" homelessness has become "actual", as I am now living in a homeless shelter in Philadelphia, PA. I merely exist here, as it is difficult to get any useful computer work done. I feel as if I am slipping further, potentially soon reaching the point of no return. I hereby reiterate my above call for assistance, to get myself back to some semblance of normalcy, so that I might be able to make progress on GAGOOT.

To that end, I am offering to produce a detailed white paper, to be delivered in four weeks, to any investor (or group of investors) who is/are willing to make an upfront token payment of $5,000. After delivery, the paper will remain private, for a short while, maybe a week or two, to give the investor(s) a time advantage to decide whether they are interested in making a real investment. If not, then I will publish it, so I can use it as a basis for some other funding approach for GAGOOT.

I realize that this proposition is unusual, but I find myself in an unusual situation, and so I am brainstorming unusual solutions. Also, if you are in or near my city, I am willing to meet in person. Thank you for your consideration.

By the way, speaking of "brainstorming", I am reminded of 1983's "Brainstorm". Here is a fascinating article about the film.

https://popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a25654064/sci-fi...
Seeing this post/thread brings back some good memories!

Am happy to see Phillip Glass is on Bandcamp. I found an old cassette copy of Koyaanisqatsi kicking around but also just got a digital copy of the soundtrack there; happy to support a living artist.
That’s correct! You can compose multiple models in a single query to set up useful AI pipelines.

Here is an illustrative query that chains together multiple models:

-- Analyse emotions of faces in a video
SELECT id, bbox, EmotionDetector(Crop(data, bbox))
FROM MovieVideo JOIN LATERAL UNNEST(FaceDetector(data)) AS Face(bbox, conf)
WHERE id < 15;
Careful, are you saying that Japanese-ness is genetic or cultural?
Who else wants to believe that the current CIA Chief and the then Deputy Secretary of State, just took a meeting with a guy, scratch that multiple meetings without knowing anything about him? These people are in constant danger of being honey trapped, recruited, entrapped and they take the usual measures that are commonplace in dealing with strangers but all these fell by the wayside with Epstein.

The exact same script can be repeated for the person who is now Goldman's Chief Counsel and was the counsel at the White house. He was making her travel arrangements and we are told they are just casual acquaintances.
This is fine for historians, if any are studying this. What practitioners need is help in picking a model. For a given task, what are the best models, and what are their trade-offs?

If there were a database of model benchmarks, type of task represented by the benchmark, dataset used, and other salient features like number of parameters, etc. life would be easier.

If none exists, and one were motivated to create one, what's the best place to crowdsource a relational database?
saw this some time ago:

"Spinning a Lego wheel Over 100,000 RPM!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHPXTd4xd0

it was posted on HN too, but no discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653532
you are saying that those who benefited from early exposition to computers are better programmers but a company should somehow ignore it because it's unfair
I can probably also recreate a grill burger in a microwave, even complete with burn marks somehow. But the real thing is inexpensive and easy to use, so why should I jump through the hoops? Also I have to wonder how long Spotify is going to exist or carry the albums I like. I can still play records made in the 80s with no issues.
Not sure if it makes sense to argue around analogy.
Social status is literally the stated premise of the new blue check.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to argue here. It was, in fact, a huge problem from a humanitarian perspective and the state of rust belt cities is a shining example of what happens when we ignore these forces. We, as a society, hung those people out to dry and the current batch of workers doesn't even have the meager protections afforded to some factory workers by their union affiliation. If it was deliberately legislated for, that's a really great example of what we should not do in the future.
> I posit, thats exactly the people you dont want in govt.

You want highly competent people in government. If generally they can make significantly (e.g. even 10x or more, I'm talking about upper management/CEP level position of course) in the private sector more often than not they will do that. The public sector will be left with the leftovers.
This article features some of the longest sentences I've read since Meditations.
I would expect most transport emissions (and costs to the individual) are local, within their city not within their country? Does this actually accomplish much beyond bragging rights and a slight bump for tourism within the country?

Edit: Not to suggest this is a bad thing, just wondering if it actually has a tangible effect.
How many years worth of slop is there? Can it be estimated?
There is a Tensor Lite implemenation but it might not be maintained?

https://github.com/usefulsensors/openai-whisper
I suppose you could avoid bringing the mission control teams into the conspiracy by feeding them perfectly faked data for the whole of each mission. All you’d need is another huge team of engineers and their support staff to generate all the faked data, and hope the Mission Control teams never saw any discrepancies and figure it out. Problem solved!
discussed three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851200
Is it RED?
And yet there are entire sub-threads all over this forum every week with people voicing a preference for Microsoft over Apple for development work. This was my point.
Hardware, software, consulting, research
It seems to me this technology could be used immediately, before any scaling up, by placing mobile units at farms to produce ammoniated water, any concentration of which would lessen dependence on fossil fuel-manufactured ammonia. The only need would be for the locally-synthesized ammonia to be cheaper than ammonia fertilizer bought and transported to the farm.
I would expect selective breeding of animals to coincide with domestication with no lag. Ancestral humans were innately familiar with animal breeding because they practiced it with humans first. They would understand that strong parents give rise to strong children and weak parents often give rise to weak children.

On the other hand, the reproductive interactions of plants are less apparent.