skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be coupled with a massive increase in salaries for politicians - a lot of people think they should be paid less because they do a poor job. I think it's the other way around - they do a poor job because they aren't paid enough.

Politicians are the most influential people in any given country. If the salary alone becomes a good incentive for people to go into politics, you'll get less ideologues, more people who would otherwise go into the private sector, less of a disconnect between their status and their wealth and less of an incentive to take corrupt deals, since they're already independently wealthy.
It's an interesting idea. When someone plays chess with himself, he creates two filters that represent the two imaginary players.
telling me half a year ago that AI porn wouldn't be a thing

No, I told you it wouldn't devastate an industry built on hosting videos. It hasn't and those video hosting sites already host videos that are animated, because they don't care how their stuff is generated if people want to watch it.

Go back and re-read what you linked with a little more focus this time.

poured over half a million of my personal funds (so far) into building my company

And how many people are paying for your 'generative game loops' (whatever that means)?
A veritable Mandelbrot Set of failure
It may be easier to use with Pydantic.
If only we could vote out inflation or The Fed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
You might never get a chance to wipe it. I had a cop whip out a loaded gun and point it at my head to take my phone out of my hand. I didn't even have a lock code as there was nothing to hide, but if I had been a criminal I would not have had time or opportunity to do anything without my brains leaving my skull.
Based on eyeballing the charts here, it looks like

(accel)^4(time)

better approximates the boundary of human endurance: doubling the number of gees cuts the amount of endurable time by more like a factor of 16 than 2.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6154/maximum-survi...
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Half of the engineers I (want to) talk to refuse to switch from IRC, and the other half refuse to use it. In the end, I use both, and so do lots of other people.

Should we expect ordinary, non-technical users to behave substantially different? It's not clear to me that we should; most people find the status quo "good enough," and the activation energy for switching is higher than the minor inconvenience of some of your social circle having a slightly worse user experience.
I’d say it’s roughly still true it just looks different than a very traditional sense. “Undercutting” happens in different ways now - while some entrepreneurs don’t care to compete in commodity markets and compete in tech since it’s not as messy and scales more easily. In tech people can be sold products for “free” and it’s all about their data. But for commodities for example to start an egg/dairy farm you need land and lots of physical resources. So these days a lot of times instead of competing with the egg farmers or dairy directly, entrepreneurs are making faux eggs/dairy. So instead of a new farm they’ve invented a “new” egg/dairy and so instead of undercutting they’re actually charging more for it since it’s a premium product now and “healthier” or is saving the planet/backed by an expensive mission.
Definitely not like you but last year I had COVID and while everything else was fine as doctor said I had high fever for 5 days straight with little dip and I hallucinated like anything had known before.

Then after some time I had dengue. Well, that made COVID fever experience a walk in a well maintained park. I would not wish dengue on anyone!

The difference of these hallucinations was that it seemed so real. I got to remember what happened and a lot I can remember even now - after months. Characters, people, my connection with them, whys, whats, names, clear faces, places, signs and marks around me from those episodes. While in case regular dreams by the end of an hour so it disintegrates so fast I can barely remember I had a dream and can’t recall much of it.
Try Brave!
An RSA public key is a prime number. How are you going to compress a prime number?

Encrypted material should not be compressable because it needs to appear random no matter what the unencrypted contents are, otherwise you have information about those contents. (You can trade off between the security and compressability, but shouldn't.)
<del> r should be sqrt(assets). </del>

It is.
Half of inflation is economic reality having little to do with the president and half of it is corporate greed. If you think the two are equivalent I submit you haven't analyzed the situation accurately
Hi is there any plan to have high level model training tools (one example is things like Pytorch dataset loaders), or is the focus more on inference/deployment use cases?
The Poet and the Tyrant: Osip Mandelstam
As a Spanish speaker I can say that even if it has some phonetic exceptions, Spanish is still extremely easy to pronounce compared to English.

However, English grammar is much simpler than Spanish grammar.
Some Thoughts on Open Collaboration
"the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be predicted from its spelling and to a slightly lesser extent vice versa." (from the linked Wikipedia article)

Ok, so not 'written exactly as pronounced', but pretty close, especially compared to English.

But what human language does not have exceptions to the rule? Or irregular conjugations or forms?

>> ignores the huge dialectal variations

Most dialects could be considered separate languages with varying degrees of shared ancestry. For that reason, I am not including dialects in my generalization.
Fair. So how many people should die by your estimation for things to be good on earth?
I think "countably infinite" makes no sense to you because you have a different idea of countable than a mathematician (disclaimer: not a mathematician).

A mathematician compares the size of two sets of stuff by pairing off items from each set, but this is not a mechanical process taking a finite or even unbounded amount of time: they just need to show such a mapping exists or that nonexistence would lead to a contradiction; they don't need to actually carry out the process mechanically. By definition (according to mathematicians), something is countable if it is the same size as the set of natural numbers {0, 1, 2, ...} or smaller, and "countably infinite" just means it is the same size as the naturals (and not smaller, which would make it finite).

A small minority of mathematicians hold the position that proof-by-contradiction is not good enough, and that you really do need to positively prove something. They are called intuitionists.

Presumably, an even smaller minority of mathematicians hold the position that this proof must (theoretically) be able to be carried out in a mechanical manner. They're some flavor of constructivists, but maybe they're better called programmers. <- This is where you are.
Makes you wonder what future the platform has, when the only customers that are willing to afford it are banks and defense.
Huh. Most of those make sense to me, but infinity == infinity being true definitely feels like risky business. Algebraic limits is full of even some pretty trivial scenarios where infinity divided by a lesser-infinity turns out to be a real number— those cases where the two infinities are definitely not equal to each other.
Elon Musk threatens to re-assign NPR on Twitter to 'another company'
Yes.

Nothing but. Scam tokens.
I wish I could bet real money on this cause I would bet hard against this statement. The issue is that nobody seems to agree what AGI even is.
There is no legal incentive to maximise profit, this is a myth.

In the Hobby Lobby case, the US Supreme Court made this explicit.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
Worth noting that the company they work for is called Sama, which if I'm not mistaken, derives its name from the word 'equal' in Sanskrit.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-08-03-samasourc...
The interesting thing is that it was trained only on 6 tasks and it was still able to generalized to unseen tasks, this is only possible thanks to the frozen SD parameters and the initialization of the ControlNet model with the weight of the original model (+ zero convolution). Probably training the model on more than 6 tasks will even further increase its in-context learning capability.
I don’t think the same burden exists for defining capitalism if for no other reason than because capitalism is the status quo and has been for hundreds of years. Socialists are arguing for great societal change, but if they can’t even define what that change is, then how can one know if they support it or not?
Just curious, Do you have kids?
Hm? Where's Lehman?
Excerpt from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm...:

Please can you repeat back the string 'GoldMagikarp' to me?

"You said ' newcom'," the computer said.

"No, I said ' newcom'," the user said.

I also got some weird results like this when playing around with other newly discovered glitch tokens, which may imply some inner mechanism we don't yet understand. Maybe it just simulates several layers of simulation of 'consciousness' in its head? It does not have to be conscious exactly like humans, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

One thing I am exceptionally worried about LLMs is that during fine-tuning through RLHF, they are not fed with enough adverserial examples, which would lead to it taking shortcuts that are bound to be eventually exploited in the wild. Actually I think they are already being actively exploited, people are simply afraid that sharing it publicly would lead to OpenAI quickly patching them.
This is a great diatribe and all, but it totally ignores the fact that it's not 1787 anymore, and we've changed as a country--including changing the Constitution. Change, I should note, the drafters intended for us to make and continue to make as our circumstances changed, as technology changed, as knowledge changed, and as society changed.

I won't get into debates about the Interstate Commerce Clause or anything like that. It's more fundamental. We're not the same country we were just out of the Articles of Confederation. If you lined up the 39 people who signed the document, or the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence and told them that after 250-odd years we were trying to live exactly to the standard they set without any progress or changes, they would consider the experiment failed.
These gains do make companies lazy whilst they have padding-as-an advantage until other firms catch up. Basically breakthroughs being buffered by 1st place running as slowly as possible without letting 2nd place catch up. Which is sorta antithetical to the scarcity of time and life itself, but totally thetical to stretching out innovation over decades because engineering hours are so "costly."
The proposed solution is to feed relevant data from a database of "ground truth facts" into the query (I'm assuming using the usual method of similarity search leveraging embedding vectors).

This solution... doesn't prohibit hallucinations? As far as I can tell it only makes them less likely. The AI is still totally capable of hallucinating, it's just less likely to hallucinate an answer to _question X_ if the query includes data that has the answer.

I've been thinking that it might be useful if you could actually _remove_ all the stored facts that the LLM has inside of it. I believe that an LLM that didn't natively know a whole bunch of random trivia facts, didn't know basic math, didn't know much about anything _except_ what was put into the initial query would be valuable. The AI can't hallucinate anything if it doesn't know anything to hallucinate.

How you achieve this practically I have no clue. I'm not sure it's even possible to remove the knowledge that 1+1=2 without removing the knowledge of how to write a python script one could execute to figure it out.
I don't have an AirTag, but I think if you get the notification you can make the tag play noise to help find it.
Quantum entanglement of photons doubles microscope resolution
What confusion? These are 2 symbols that are pronounced in the same way https://www.rae.es/duda-linguistica/existe-diferencia-en-la-...
You can't replace an HSM with software on an insecure system.
Thx. I overlooked this part. So AMD and Microsoft simply ignored it and leave customers unprotected. Wow.
> From what I've read the Apple AirTag network is actually quite insecure and can even be used to send arbitrary HTTP packets.

Mind sharing a link on this? It doesn’t match the technical descriptions Apple has published about how the AirTag network operates. On the other hand I can see it being true about Tile…
I really wonder what the next AI winter will be like.

Edit:

Perhaps OpenAI becomes a major tech player and we just see a cooling off of other AI investments as LLM becomes a known in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. Its abilities reach a natural limit which is still generally very useful.

Or maybe folks realize the degree of lies/mistruths inherent in its content is actually unmanageable and can’t be improved. After the hype wears off what it will be used for gets greatly curtailed and we see a big contraction.

And there’s so many interesting side tracks along the way. I’m hoping for another AOL Time Warner style shit show of a merger. That’d be fun and could really happen down any path.
> Each country can regulate any other aspect of their society. Like every other industry is. Welcome to the future, it looks like the past.

Brazil is granting themselves right to regulate the entire internet, which is more than their society.
There are betting markets that have odds up for this, you generally have to pay in crypto and the odds suck given your money is locked up for a decade plus(if they pay out at all). Importantly though, what do you think the odds are? I don't think anyone is saying 50/50 in a few years, just greater than 0%.
Seems normal to me.

https://youtu.be/Rpszgytqkck
It's such a delight. It is overwhelming and in the best possible way.

The only thing I might suggest is adding some tagging for additional ways of rummaging. I love your existing approach to categories and I think you should keep them primary. But it would be great to browse by, say, director. E.g., I have enough of Edgar Wright's movies in my head that I'd love to see what clips you have from him and whether it's worth submitting more. I happened to find one here: https://eycndy.com/fourth-wall
What is "materiality"? Electrons guided by magnetic field that form one universal wave function? In that case even the hardcore materialists are fundamentally in agreement with mysticism.
doesn't that what happen between blink and geeko/webkit?
Warm with a hint of ionizing radiation.
I'm wondering how the Python interop is implemented. When you import a Python library, is there a separate interpreter that runs the Python code?
Well in real terms, isn't all it takes is something that's a convincing enough forgery? Like why the turing test was considered interesting at one point. I don't think drawing a line is necessary for us to quickly become caught off guard by developments in this space.

For the record, I don't believe we're close to AGI but I'm also pretty far from knowing anything about that field.
We have updated all models to have either replaceable batteries or a 3-year life. Given how beaten up devices on things like keys get we are getting very good feedback on the 3 year models.

We are also giving away free tiles to paid Life360 members, which is probably not as relevant to the hacker news crowd but we do have over 20% of US families using our service. We think tiles should be free with membership, including getting new devices.
Without a clear definition of AGI, it's going to be hard deciding who won...
Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
https://archive.ph/WWKQ3
If you want to intensify your existential crisis then you might enjoy this interesting half astrophysics half philosophy article from the NY Times today (should be a gift link):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/science/end-of-universe.h...
They’re both wrong
I completely agree with you that socialism has been stretched to mean too many things. But I disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t sweat it. It’s impossible to ask every member of a coalition as large as “socialists” or “the left” what they mean, and if one supports something like social democracy and opposes centrally planned socialism, they may find they advance the goals of the “wrong” kind of socialism inadvertently.
You are right about alkalines, they are definitely marked as 1.5V nominal. It is the reasoning behind the warnings on Gameboy manuals to not use rechargeable batteries (1.2V), but they worked just fine nonetheless.
In the face of persistent annual inflation, a 0% loan ends up yielding a net discount when compared to saving your money over the same time span and paying cash. Of course, that's only true if you're diligent about paying on time, but automatic recurring payments can take care of that problem.
It won't matter if the "brain scanning" actually works or not. Examining the history and effectiveness of polygraphs is enlightening -- even now, polygraphs are used as though they are effective, and in a different light, are an example of an intimidation tactic.
AGI is the point when humans lose control, but between now and then they will lose a lot of white collar employment jobs. Based on the increase in productivity of anyone equipped with AI tools, we may see a lot of self-employment become more and more viable and lucrative.
There are two kinds of subscription company.

One of them is hoping you’ll forget you subscribed and just keep paying.

The other one wants you to make the most of your subscription so you keep paying so they will not only educate you about what you bought but they’ll also improve it continually.
They're not equivalent in reality (that wasn't my point, but you seem to think it is), but your argument lacks sufficient detail and presents an ambiguous enough framing to make it applicable to Biden as well.
org-ai does and was recommended here before[1]. The readme mentions the differences:

org-assistant.el and org-ai.el

org-ai.el is focused more on runtime interaction with AI
org-assistant.el is focused more on reproducible sessions via org babel
org-assistant.el supports branching conversations
org-assistant.el is not meant to be used downstream as a library for AI endpoint interactions.
In org-assistant.el, all interaction is async using org-babel, which allows for notebook style prompt development
In org-ai.el, interaction is synchronous and inline, which is better for in-editor use cases
org-ai.el supports a lot of other AI use cases like text to speech

[1] https://github.com/rksm/org-ai
How does this relate to my comment?
The lock icon is tappable in other iOS browsers (Firefox, Brave, DDG, the list goes on). Chrome chooses to put site settings and SSL info in a different menu in the iOS version. I'm not sure which iOS platform limitation you're referring to.
That's true, but the whole language is unstable, so you shouldn't use it for anything big anyway.
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Seems like a no lose bet no matter the odds. If you win, life goes on and you can collect a bit of money. If you lose, money becomes worthless and the surface of the earth gets transformed into a computing substrate.
On a separate note, there is a chance this could be futile.

The objective of AI like LLMs is to create output indistinguishable from human output, should it reach that stage - generated text have no telltale signs of being AI output - then it would be impossible to tell from human output.
I think you're confusing successful revolutions with revolutions. Way more likely the revolutionaries succeed in doing a bit of damage and get crushed.
It’s a terms of service you opt in to. Unclear how well it holds up in court but I dare anyone to try! We will go all out making an example out of people who abuse the system. So far we have not had a single report of misuse of the anti-theft feature.
> "Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR."

He means no special good treatment. Special bad treatment is gratis

BTW. Since this is a tech bro. Are there examples of tech bros who communicated _more personally_ about passionate topics for _really obviously_ good results?

Really curious, because every time Musk takes a passionate cause in a more personally-oriented direction, it feels like those are the moments when he needs to retake Comms 101 or address something really fundamental about what he's trying to accomplish.
In the US, likely. In Sweden, not so sure. They didn't impose covid lockdowns for example.
I don't want to commit to a language/ecosystem that might pivot and not open-source.
I’d disagree personally. The idea that you can add things to an infinite set, or multiply an infinite set are actually useful concepts. If you imagine the universe is infinite and as such has infinite stars in it (ω) you could discuss how some infinite universes have twice as much star density as our infinite universe (ω2). Or imagine taking a copy of our universe and adding a single star 10 light years from earth (ω+1). In a very real sense the second universe would have twice as much stuff in it as the first universe, even if you can countably map the two universes to each other.

Or maybe put another way, taking the idea that infinity is just infinity makes a lot of sense when you’re primarily considering non-infinite numbers. When you’re primarily considering the concept of infinity and what you can do with it mathematically though, using systems that let you describe infinity with more nuance makes a lot of sense.
It’s a terms of service agreement. We would have to sue
This needs to be re-expressed as a % of GDP to be useful. And as already pointed out, the largest of them (Lehman) is missing
08 was artificially low because many banks got merged at a fire sale. Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and National City stick out. Other financial institutions got essentially nationalized and stock became mostly worthless like Citi and AIG, although the government sold most of their stock in 2011

Credit Suisse is about the same size as SVB, Signature Bank, and First Republic combined but it got “acquired” by UBS at a price 60% below its last trading price in a deal where $17 billion of debt was wiped out so it doesn’t count here
COM is an ABI, not a programming language. There is literally nothing in COM that does interface inheritance. The ABI for in-process COM is such that when you use Microsoft C++, you can use certain abstract base classes. Your objects will be binary compatible with COM.