skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just have to get sufficiently advanced machine.

I love that my nearby store has one of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4n62Okcf50

Takes plastic and aluminium cans. Just empty a sackful inside and it automatically sorts them for you. Takes about 5 minutes for some 120l+.
Elinks -dump google.com
In a very literal sense, most countries and especially the USA, do have that pool of labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...
No one is uniquely positioned. Literally no one knows how powerful it will get.
yay -S clatd (or apt-get install for debian derivatives)

export YOURFAVORITEDNS=2001:4860:4860::6464

drill -t aaaa ipv4only.arpa @$YOURFAVORITEDNS

clatd dns64-servers=$YOURFAVORITEDNS
"The time to worry about AGI...well, was 20 years ago when Yudkowsky started talking about it"

He was far, far from the first.

Warnings about the threat of intelligent machines have been around for over 100 years. The first instance I know of is E. M. Foster's "The Machine Stops"[1]. which was published in 1909, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were even earlier warnings. They've been well worn scifi tropes ever since.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
What about Kmart? Are corporations not their own little centrally planned economies?

Or take the something like 90% of restaurants that fail within the first year. Are they not..?

You got to talk about the bath water if you want to talk about the baby
So is this related to Planet Earth? Perhaps I missed Our Planet I?
Single duplex DNA sequencing with CODEC detects mutations with high sensitivity
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This was part of a longer conversation. It's pretty long and it got confused pretty easily, so I had to correct it multiple times. It was an interesting experience in its novelty, but it felt like pulling teeth to get it to give me a move.

- It insisted multiple times that it was not a chess player. "As an AI language model" it's not physically capable of playing chess, nor does it have a personality, so it couldn't play chess but was able to be an "AI chess assistant".

- As is ChatGPT's default M.O., it was a wordy son of a bot. Giving me explanations which fields would be controlled and what pieces would be developed, and what not. Often analysing my move too.

- It repeatedly offered multiple move options, so I had to ask it for only one move every move.

- After my fifth move it couldn't come up with a good move, so I asked it to describe the board. It did, and it even drew me a diagram. The diagram was complete nonsense: it had 9 black pawns for a start. The description was okay-ish, but not good enough. I could correct that though, but it took two iterations.

I didn't get much further with it. It was completely confused about the state of the board and the possible moves. Still, it did know which game it was playing and more or less how to act with it, so I was still kind of impressed.

You can really tell that it is a language model, not just because it bloody keeps reminding you, but also by the things it does wrong and right. E.g. getting wordy analysis or legible descriptions, but ridiculous diagrams.

As another example: at one point it corrected me. I accidentally used notation in my native language ("Pg3") and it said that it was invalid but assumed I meant "Ng3". That was correct, it's clearly better at talking about chess than playing chess.
Usage-based pricing in the cloud is a blessing and a curse. To take best advantage of it you need a third party tool. At least, this is the thesis behind my current employer (https://vantage.sh).
Onward, Robot Soldiers? (2021)
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-outsourced-737-max-re...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
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So if I take (to keep things simple) a public domain image and apply various filters and other transformations using Photoshop, would you maintain that the transformed image can't be copyrighted? And if that's not your position, why would generative AI output (possibly including inpainting or outpainting) be fundamentally different?
My operating theory is that in app centric development the data store is a component of the application. As a result, much of the metadata that changes data into information (data with meaning) is stored in app code and config. Upon ETL to reporting, warehouse, lake, or the like, the app’s semantic layer is lost.
Nothing really.

What would you pay for?
> These are good points, but political solutions (by which I mean political changes within the system) are almost certainly never going to happen.

I don't think political solutions are impossible, but if they are then our government is incapable of executing the public will. I think the key to generate this type of change is to tell a very compelling and broad story about why the current situation is unacceptable. Discussing {history lesson} or {personal security risk} doesn't seem to be a strong enough narrative. A very strong narrative can turn public opinion and force action by lawmakers. Over the last 100 years there has been a number of examples of popular opinion becoming so massive that the political system has to do something they clearly did not want to do.

* The draft is now reserved for emergency use only. Previously it was used for Korea and Vietnam, which were more about global power projections than direct threats to the US.

* The role of the US Military is moving away from World Police and limiting itself to more directly protect American interests. Troop deployments are highly scrutinized by the public and impact Presidential approval ratings.

* Cannabis went from the poster child for war-on-drugs to essentially unenforced federally and openly cultivated/traded/consumed in large regions of the country. Rules on Magic Mushrooms, MDMA, and Ketamine are beginning to loosen to.

* The end of COVID lockdowns and mask mandates in the US was largely determined by grassroots actions instead of top-down decisions.
Who is telling you where to work? What profession you're in? Where you will eat lunch? Who you are allowed to associate with?

I order for it to be less confusing, perhaps the article could have said "government prescribed behavior in almost every aspect of life" and I claim the delta is not negligible.

Taxation is not theft.
Sure - but if you're rich enough to be able to fly without wearing a mask, maybe you spend the money.
> It always annoys me how people say Apple invented the modern GUI when stuff like this has existed

I suggest watching a video of how the Star worked and one of how the Lisa worked and then comparing the two to the way Windows, Macs, and Linux work today.

The Star paradigm of mixing the use of function keys on the keyboard with mouse movements is definitely not the way things work in the modern GUI.

For example, moving an icon on the desktop:

Star: Click icon you want to move with mouse. Press move key on keyboard. Click destination location with mouse.

Lisa: Drag and drop icon.
Prison labor != Political prisoner labor
As long ago as the 70s and perhaps earlier, the cybernetics community – people like Ashby, Conant, Beer – might have argued its non-viability (I choose that word deliberately) on information-theoretic grounds. The centre has neither the communication bandwidth nor the predictive power to control things for long.
> What's so good about having different documents/sessions in tabs instead of separate windows?

Different hierarchical levels that I can use differently to organise stuff in my mental model:

- Desktops/workspaces: completely different projects.

- Windows: different tasks within a project.

- Tabs: different documents/sessions needed for a single task.
Generally, that is very true. But when the bills start hitting, users absolutely do care and will go out of their way to avoid it.
The ultra rich have orders of magnitude more influence over politics, regulation, and private business than the average western citizen, so I would think that focusing on the ultra rich in one way or another should yield pretty substantial results.
PTO = Paid time off, apparently.
The west is trying to get rid of meritocracy not realizing the only other options that have been successfully implemented by humans are nepotism and discrimination.
Not really.

This is just surrounding yourself with digital sycophants who will always tell you what you want to hear and never inspire you to grow beyond this.

I'm sympathetic to the affected, but these things aren't configured to reduce your need on them over time. It's simping at scale that leaves users even more maladjusted than they started.
Yes, a terrible decision - but still a decision left up to any developer in a similar position - which, with the trend to WASMify things may well happen again in other projects, until it's better addressed at the source.

Honestly, it's so bad it makes me wonder if a bad actor could have had influence over such a decision in this case. Reports of Trust Wallet accounts being randomly pilfered without some plausible other cause might go some way to figuring that out.
A map visualizing the lexical distance between Europe's languages
Quite possibly some of the strategy behind this is to improve their staying powers.

If institutional investors hold bonds with 40 year maturity in Facebook they might be less inclined to invest in companies that might upend them.
I imagine an analogy of summer camp as that is my only way to relate as I'm in a rich country. I'm going to go to a summer camp not of my choosing and participating in activities not of my choosing and being bunked with people not of my choosing for the rest of my vacations for life and then when i'm about 80 years old then claim there is negligible delta from not having to do that. That last bit, I can't imagine.
If anyone is interested in learning more about how Walmart uses central planning today, here’s a Youtube video [1] of it (30 mins)

I would love for OP to explain why central planning seems to work so well for private businesses but has no such hopes of achieving any success for the public.

[1]: https://youtu.be/xuBrGaVhjcI
agreed.

full disclosure: I’m a bitcoiner.
My biggest concern for military use of AI is how incompetent most military contractors are. These huge companies employ an army of not-very-good engineers whose primary purpose seems to be to over-complicate projects. Imagine the same teams that make planes which need to be hard rebooted every few days, now they're making advanced AI to dynamically target and kill people.
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Walmart is literally a market. No one is forcing you to buy things at walmart or work at walmart. No one is telling you which goods you will get and in what quantity. Substituting in the face of scarcity is encouraged on the micro scale. The power of markets is allowing individual consumers to change their consumption habits in the face of scarcity/abundance.
That's pretty much the only real value though is what someone is willing to pay for it.

To quote the Prince of Egypt "A lake of gold in the desert sand is less than a cool fresh spring, and to one lost sheep a shepherd boy is greater than the richest king."

Ultimately the value of something is what someone is willing to assign to it, nothing has inherent value as far as humanity has been able to determine or agree on, so instead the market allows everyone the freedom to value whatever they would like at whatever they would like.

But if you have an alternative way of reconciling the water diamond paradox I'd be interested in hearing it.
Government programs are cancelled all the time.
Still wondering when my IPv4-only ISP will consider starting to offer IPv6 service.
It might be "centrally planned" in the most technical sense, but it's a bit of a stretch to compare a government's leverage over a market by threat of force to a private entity planning what to do with the property it owns. How is it meaningfully distinct from an individual (or a family) doing financial planning around their assets?
It was not exactly appealing if husband and wife keeps getting different vacation for years and can't go on vacation together. Bribes would fix that though.
Is Your Company as Strategically Aligned as You Think It Is?
A private chef is about a order of magnitude cheaper than a private jet.
That works for particulates but not gasses like carbon monoxide. You’re better off having the best filters you can get supplying fresh air constantly rather than constantly recirculating stale air.
That's not how that works though. It would be like me calling XMPP a cryptocurrency.
People with money are basically cutting the line. This is acceptable because generally nobody really cares about the poor- they don't vote or influence society very much. Don't have lawyers and they rarely call a senator.
You will see a backlash against public healthcare because it would mean a rich man is treated according to his medical needs.

You're on the waiting list BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE NEEDED IT MORE.
But I'm a Google developer I'm worth more to society!
Who decides that? A death panel.
Marx kind of borrowed that from the Bible.
You can cache function results yourself in Python if you want to - my implementation also sums up the tokens used by the calls to the functions.

Influencing optimization isn't possible using regular Python-based custom SQL functions though. I think you can influence that stuff in SQLite if you create more complex virtual table functions, but those aren't exposed through the regular Python sqlite3 module yet.
Don't leave a person in the car.
You are asking the wrong question.

"Do you have a sufficient understanding of stock markets?"

For most people that's a "yes". They know what stocks are, what they represent, who the big players are to buy stocks on your behalf, and can be assured that the money is going to get to the right place.

This is just not the case for crypto (yet), not remotely. Tons of tech people hardly know how these things work.
One discussion that gained traction, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13998867
In the stock market there is a long history of regulatory protection of unsophisticated investors, starting with the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. The whole point of these acts is to protect unsophisticated investors so they can invest in the stock market without fully understanding the details of how it works.
Stab the guy behind the curtain ?
The system doesn’t run on its own. You are talking about people making decisions about price or competitiveness.

Luxury things are expensive, yet people buy them anyway. In fact they buy them because they are expensive.

Let’s not pretend that price automatically triggers actions on people.

We choose.

Let’s choose to use AI to make the world a better place.

Let’s not use AI to create more inequality.

It’s a choice that people will make.

Let’s choose better this time.
A tempting analogy, but I think there are too many crucial differences to put corporations forward as a model for central planning.

For a start, corporations are very small compared to states. Even Walmart, the world's biggest employer, is less than 1% the size of the US by headcount.

More problematic is that corporations plan to maximize profit. That's it. It's a comparatively trivial optimization goal compared to the multitude of ways of valuing things that exist in wider society - and yet, corporations still frequently fail to be profitable. OP's example about the wedding ring is a case in point. Walmart's Finance department would value that for its raw weight in gold only.

But even more worrying, corporations have a magic tool for maintaining order and efficiency: firing people. States can't do that, or at least, not states that you'd want to live in. Corporations are rigidly hierarchical. Corporations are not democracies. Imagine human rights as implemented by the HR department. Scaling up corporate processes to manage a whole country would result in a terrifying dystopia.
This is actually interesting. If you get you finance news from twitter and reddit you would actually assume that the claim/lie about "50% reduction of Google's stock price" is true and that FAANG is about to collapse along with the rest of the S&P500 and the petrodollar has gone to 0.

Why is that?
Pretty different tbh...
In a nutshell, yes, the judges of the Texas federal district courts financially benefit from the volume of patent cases heard before them.

One of the Texas federal judges' sons was a patent litigator and the judge did not recuse himself from his son's cases. Another judge owns a hotel and restaurant near the courthouse, and litigants would eat there in an attempt to curry favor. A third judge worked for a patent firm before becoming a judge and refused to recuse himself from cases involving his former firm.

There's a reason that patent trolls favor these Texas judges, and it's not because they're competent at the law.
School damages your brain
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from noninvasive brain recordings
> In the West, what you do when you leave the office was and is your own business. In the USSR, it was everyone else’s.

Is this actually true? In Germany at least, vacation from work is not truly our own time. We are legally required to use it to relax and restore our capacity for future work. Few people probably see it that way, admittedly.

Of course, there is still a huge difference, but it's awkward to view everything through that us-versus-them lens.
This approach, which is an apparent centerpiece of the debate, has a major flaw:

> "Assuming that individuals rationally assessed the marginal utility (or simply the benefit gained) of their decisions, the economy could be modeled as a system of functional equations. Using mathematical formulas, these equations could be solved to address imbalances in supply and demand and steer the economy toward equilibrium. In a way, neoclassical ideas suffused socialist rationales for economic planning with a kind of mathematical and scientific authority."

Look around. Are individuals rational in their decision making? Are the crypto boom and bust cycles rational? Was the housing market rational? Was the dot-com boom rational? Take away that and there's no longer any foundation for the 'mathematical and scientific authority' - and then, neoclassical economics becomes as nonsensical as Lysenko's 'blank slate' model of plant breeding in the Soviet Union was.

In practice socialist ideas and capitalist ideas have value in different contexts. A good balance can be found in John Kenneth Galbraith's work, such as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Capitalism

There are a couple of basic concepts, such as the fact that markets fail miserably to provide optimal outcomes when there is no real competition ('natural monopoly' situations such as roads, water supplies, electricity grids, fiber optic trunks, etc.), and that business interests as well as labor unions conspire to control prices and wages. If the business interests or the labor unions get the upper hand, you tend towards authoritarian control of the facist or communist form, respectively. The optimal solution is thus a balance of power between competing interests.

Over four decades of neoliberal economic policy in the USA has upset that balance and made old-school state socialism much more popular with the general public than it was previously, as Galbraith warned about:

> "...private decisions could and presumably would lead to the unhampered exploitation of the public, or of workers, farmers and others who are intrinsically weak as individuals. Such decisions would be a proper object of state interference or would soon so become."
They claim a net windfall of $2.6B, with projected $2B in future costs associated with the takeover. So in some sense it cost them negative $2.6B; in some other sense (if those cost projections are accurate), negative $600M.
How is the gold certified that I’m not going to receive a gold plated coin with the inside made of fools gold?
What exactly does your experience include? because Texas is ranked 9/50 in terms of most affordable electricity at 11.36c/kw. Admittedly cost of electricity is not the strongest of arguments because there is a lot that goes into the cost - such as weather and natural resources available. But its a really week argument to use Texas electricity costs when they are among the most affordable in the nation.

edit: source = electricchoice.com
chatgpt summary?
> It is impossible to assign value to something in any prescribed way, as the value of anything is determined by me.

It's like Insulin. It may only be worth $5/vial to drug companies, but it's worth $100/vial to consumers who don't want to die.
In the early 80s, my dad bought a Heathkit oscilloscope, and we assembled it together.

My father's in his 90s now, and I think he still uses that scope!