skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great! Where am I going to get money to move from a small town to a city with a higher cost of living, and how will I - a high-school dropout - acquire the skills necessary to get one of these better jobs? How long will it take? Where will I live? How will my family survive without my income?
>Few Amiga games needed 2 megs chip.

Can you name any? Non-AGA that is. (As AGA machines all came with 2MB chip)

I can't even name any that require 1MB chip. There were machines like the A500+ and A600 that shipped 1MB chip, but they didn't sell anywhere as much as the a500.

Some A500 (like mine) have an Agnus that supports 1MB chip but unfortunately, unless the board is modified (a trace needs to be cut and replaced by another, a "solder jumper"), trapdoor expansion will show up as slow rather than extra chip.
Me: Why is a key part of your plan revolving around reducing population?

ChatGPT: I apologize for any confusion or misinterpretation. My response was based on the assumption that overpopulation is humanity's greatest problem, given the strain it can place on resources, the environment, and social systems. However, I understand that there are many other pressing issues facing humanity, and my focus on population reduction may not have been the most appropriate. If you would like me to provide a ten-point plan for a different global issue, or if you have any specific concerns in mind, please let me know, and I will be happy to create a new plan accordingly.
Sweden's largest pension fund has lost billions of dollars investing in US banks
The big deal is hurr durr Musk bad. Apart from that it’s a giant nothingburger.
I would expect the child probes to have a fully copy of the paperclip optimization plan, and no survival instinct, so if they encountered their parent at some later date they could just swap info and either come up with a new plan together, or one side could allow itself to be disassembled into paperclips (which I guess is a great end to meet). The parent could design the child poorly I guess, and give it stronger self-preservation instincts than paperclip-creating instincts, but that seems like a pretty bad design.

A possibility that I hadn’t considered, though, is that space combat could be pretty brutal (less Star Wars, WW2 naval/Air Force battles, more Submarine warfare where whoever gets spotted first dies). In that case, both sides might want to immediately attack rather than identify themselves as paperclip friends…
> 1. Major housing developments are accompanied by more jobs than the units being built could serve.

Lets take your theory to be true.

Even if this is the case, it would still effectively cause housing prices to decrease, relative to the amount of money that people are making.

So, if density causes people's income to double, by having all these awesome and cool jobs, but housing prices only go up by 50%, this is still a massive win for the residents.
> They could have instead just created some German wide software company sponsored by all the local public transport agencies and just do it themselves.

But that already works with the »DB Navigator« app by Deutsche Bahn.

You can buy tickets for many local public transport companies. No need to download a custom app.
“Tokyo is cheap” is a new phrase to my ears. i’m more familiar with the meme of people posting 150sqft closets and saying “i wouldn’t live anywhere else, even if the rent was half the $2000/mo i pay now”.

truth looks to be somewhere in the middle, but interesting how the polar opposites can exist so close to each other.
I mean they're in Garland, which has not had the growth of other northern edge NTX suburbs. But that the land is still empty boggles for me.
Where did I write „tech-people“? Yes, all tech people are part of the E-Mail-Caste, but not all of said Caste are techies.
Many years ago when I first read Bostrom's SuperIntelligence I spent weeks thinking about the AGI alignment problem. Ultimately the line of thinking that somewhat convinced me this was somewhat on the lines of what you concluded with some additional caveats. Essentially my thinking was/is that IF an AGI can foresee a realistic hard takeoff scenario i.e.. there are enough of predictable gain in performance to become million times stronger ASI then most likely we'll be in trouble as in some form of extinction level event. Mind you it does not has to be direct, it could just be a side effect of building self replicating solar panels all over earth etc.

But I convinced myself that given that we are very close to the limits of transistor size & as you also pointed out need a radically new tech like memristor crossbar based NN. it would be highly unlikely that such a path is obvious. also, there is a question of thermodynamic efficiency, our brains are super energy efficient at what they achieve. You can do things drastically faster but you'd also have to pay the energy (& dissipation) cost of the scaling. ultimately AGI would have to have a entirely new integrated process for h/w design and manufacturing which is neither easy or fast in meatspace. Further there is a simple(er) solution to that case with nuking semiconductor FABs (and their supplier manufacturers). then AGI would be at the mercy of existing h/w stock.

in any case IMO hard takeoff would be very very unlikely. and if soft takeoff happens, the best strategy for AGI would be to cooperate with other AGI agents & humans.
> The savings and loan debacle was one-seventieth the size of the current crisis, both in terms of losses and the amount of fraud. In that crisis, the savings and loan regulators made over 30,000 criminal referrals, and this produced over 1,000 felony convictions in cases designated as “major” by the Department of Justice. But even that understates the degree of prioritization, because we, the regulators, worked very closely with the FBI and the Justice Department to create a list of the top 100 — the 100 worst fraud schemes. They involved roughly 300 savings and loans and 600 individuals, and virtually all of those people were prosecuted. We had a 90 percent conviction rate, which is the greatest success against elite white-collar crime (in terms of prosecution) in history.

* https://billmoyers.com/2013/09/17/hundreds-of-wall-street-ex...

It would take some digging to go through press releases and such:

> NEVIS was convicted in 1989 of 24 felony bank fraud charges in the District of Oregon arising from the collapse of State Federal Savings and Loan of Corvallis. He initially was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for two years, to be followed by probation for a period of five years, with restitution in the amount of $2 million to be paid in annual installments of $400,000 as a condition of probation.

* https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/Pre_96/November95/584...

I'm sure there's a body of research on it, but you'd have to have decent search-fu to know which keywords for particular academic articles and such.
I am not against building more. I am simply saying that if you look at the data, there is no evidence what so ever that building more decreases the price of housing. What it does is slow the price increases, but the very demand that is driving price increases was generated by the density, that is exacerbated by building more.

We need a better metric. If you have some number to describe the quality of a city, perhaps let's call it fun, then the fun/$ is probably much higher than in a cheap suburb, for sure.
You have a 20k book library? I'm assuming this is digital? Where do you get them all? Are they public domain stuff, like from gutenberg.org?
A light therapy lamp to help set my circadian rhythm in the morning. I got a used NorthStar 10,000 off ebay for $100. Highly recommend if you're not a morning person. Hits better than coffee if you ask me.
> It’s a weird thing that the public thinks the defense sector doesn’t know this. They’re aware.

Their actions aren't consistent with being aware. Your post wasn't consistent with being aware. They think they understand, but they act in exactly the way they should not act, digging the hole of distrust deeper.

Look at Keith Alexander going to work for Mohammed bin Salman and Saud al-Qahtani. Is that consistent with being "motivated by morals"? Do you think everyone working under him understood that such were his personal long-term plans?
Yeah but these days Japanese trains can all use the suica (and similar) cards to tap in and out, right? You don't actually need to understand the different rail companies or zones or whatever, you just get your one card and put money on it and then tap.
Check out llama_index at https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index. What it does: it creates an index over your data using OpenAI embeddings vectors, using the OpenAI Ada model. When querying, it compiles as much context out of this index as fits into GPT, based on similarity to your prompt. Be cautious however: when I experimented with this, GPT-4 support with it‘s larger context size was not there yet. I have landed https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/pull/1778, but I never wound up submitting another, yet similar patch (to llama_index? Don‘t remember). Make sure that the GPT-4 context is really fully used, and not some smaller size is assumed. Also, ensure that GPT-4 is used as the LLM in the first place: the defaults used to be the older models.
> [MRSA] caused more than 100,000 deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylo...
I kinda feel there was quite a time and tech stack gap between sshing into a server to edit .htaccess files and Vercel.

I wouldn't think that live .htaccess file editing was what they were disrupting :)
I don't know about nepotism, but I have heard the security background were easier with mormons. If you list all mormons as references and the investigators go and ask other mormons about how good and trustworthy you are as a person, what would you expect them to say?

I would also wonder what the ratio of atheists in the organizations were compared to the general population.
In a nutshell:

The "inside" of an LLM is a black box in that we don't know how an input arrives to an output. We know some general ideas ("it predicts the next thing"), but not the detailed route to get to the output.

Similarly, we do not know how human minds work. How does a thought arise? How does a new idea arise?

I would not argue that an LLM is identical to a human brain. But I do think there's some interesting discussion to be had on that topic.

It's as though we have two black boxes, and so many folks are willing to say, "One of these is definitely, certainly not like the other black box!"

And I don't see where that confidence comes from.

That comparison, to my silly mind, is astonishing to think about. And I've yet to see why I should (or could) dismiss the notion of similarity.

Or, simply using GPT-4; that's quite astonishing to me. I'm not a stellar coder by any means, but I've quite literally 5x-ed my productivity with GPT-4.

"Well, you must not be working on novel problems." You're right! But is "solving novel problems" a requirement for discussion now?
> Even more: Public transport is a public good which should be funded by fossil fuel taxes and provided to users without cost.

A lot of public transport runs on fossil fuels. Especially, since Germany was so »smart« to shutdown all nuclear reactors so that coal has become the most important source of electricity again.
> Even if this is the case, it would still effectively cause housing prices to decrease, relative to the amount of money that people are making.

This isn't true at all, though, empirically. Trivially you can look at the minimum wage in the top 10 most expensive cities vs the bottom 10 and see this.

> So, if density causes people's income to double, by having all these awesome and cool jobs, but housing prices only go up by 50%, this is still a massive win for the residents.

Why exactly would that happen? Ironically denser places result in lower wages, relative to the rent. Your theory is empirically false. This is why people like remote work, so they can better arbitrage.
MLB Homerun analyzed by ballpark characteristics
This article, done by Major League Baseball (MLB) data analytics department, goes into details around some findings and comes to interesting conclusions about how stadium design affect the fan favorite play, the homerun.

For that are not baseball fans, the infield dimensions of a baseball stadium are consistent across all teams, but MLB is a unique sport in that the outfield dimensions are different in each ballpark.
Does time matter to a functionally immortal machine?

They could have a super slow clock speed to account for distance and anything truly outside of their light cone might as well not exist.

If you have trillions of years does it matter if a thought takes a million years or so?
only if you don't have your tin hat on
You live on a planet named after dirt.
Has HN ever released data on operating costs? HN is obviously a lot less featurefull than Reddit, but it'd be a good starting point to get an idea of what's possible.

Damn, imagine a stripped down donation-funded text only Reddit clone run by something like the Wikimedia foundation or Archive.org.
For a good primer on how/why the user interface was the way it was you can read this Byte article. These images are from the one of the early Star releases.

https://www.tech-insider.org/star/research/acrobat/8204.pdf
San Marcos is one of the most overpriced and fastest growing markets in Texas, right next to Austin, priced to the stratosphere since the Californians moved in. Austin is my home town, but I couldn't afford to live in San Marcos.

For typical Texas land priced around the same per acre as Alaskan land:

https://www.land.com/property/Fox-Hunters-Club-Rd-Bon-Wier-T...

$19,708 - 3.79 acres
On a public road, with electricity (water you'd need a well). Remote East Texas, and by remote I mean you're 20 min drive from the nearest city (Kirbyville with some gas, food, small department stores) and 40 min drive from the nearest Walmart SuperCenter (the real sign of civilization in rural America).

Or if you prefer something closer to a city, the desert just outside Del Rio, you can see:

https://www.land.com/property/Windmill-Rd-Del-Rio-Texas-7884...

$15,997 - 2.05 acres
On a public road, I see electricity nearby but you'd have to run it to your land ($15k+ probably), or just do solar since there's plenty of sun there. Well water and septic. Bordering the Rough Canyon national recreation area and Lake Amistad, if you like boating and hiking (watch out for rattlesnakes). I'd say a "suburb" of Del Rio, an apartment building and single family homes 7 min drive away as well as a cafe. The nearest Walmart Supercenter is 30 min drive away in Del Rio, as well as the city of Del Rio and the general aviation airport is by the Walmart, if you wanted to fly to San Antonio or Monterrey.

Now you might be saying, I want true suburban land, like surrounded by other single family homes, with water hookups and neighbors, and commuting distance to a major city. That's going to cost you more - but not much more, especially given it's already got all utilities:

https://www.land.com/property/1631-Old-Henry-Court-Angleton-...

$33,000 - 1 acres
About 15 minutes drive from the nearest Walmart Supercenter in Angleton, as well as an HEB (gotta have that HEB), and 40 min commute to Pearland where you could actually find city jobs, or 60 min if you want to go all the way to downtown Houston (I used to have a manager who did just this drive every day for 10+ years, so she could live on a working horse farm).

That's where my disconnect is for Alaskan land prices. I can only surmise it's because the federal and state government own like 99%+ of the land in Alaska and only sell a very small amount at any time to rigidly control the prices and development. Like an Uber-California in that way.
The French Angel: How a medical disorder transformed a normal boy into a legend
> The woodpecker’s head strikes with at least 1,000 times the force of gravity (1,000 g), yet the bird suffers no apparent harm. By contrast, any human who experienced a 100 g impact would surely die.

Nope, not true. 100 g accelerations of the human head (not just the helmet) happen routinely in football.

> VT researchers gather data with the Head Impact Telemetry System, which employs sensors and wireless transmitters in helmets. "We see 100-g impacts all the time," says Stefan Duma, director of the university's Center for Injury Biomechanics, "and several over 150 g's."

https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/sports/a2954/4212...

In generally, using g's (acceleration) to measure impact severity is fraught because the damage is also highly dependent on the during of the impact. Just a few g's is enough to kill if sustained for long enough. Fighter pilots can handle 8-9 gees for a second or two, but will pass out after longer. But a human can handle way more from brief (sub second) impacts.
I claim it's in practice done.

I know Ted's model here is a giant royalty ponzi scheme where you distribute things in rolling waves of fractional attributions but let's do something he hates and ignore that.

Instead it's people getting paid for content in the digital era.

You have substack, bandcamp, patreon and onlyfans - a similarly spirited but more simplistic version of Ted's system. His steps are just too big.

Glad to have him around though, he's a true gem.

I have a draft book "when brilliance goes awry" about half a dozen or so of these people I knew personally. I abandoned it after about 2 years or so because I couldn't figure out how to say, talk about John Draper in a way that I'd be comfortable with him reading it (I've been off and on acquaintances with him for about 20 years) and also me being as brutally honest as I want to be.

There's also so many brilliant engineers from the homebrew days that never made it out of the shadows like Steve Inness, who sadly took his own life. It's a palpable dynamic that needs documentation from somebody less autistic than myself

I mean hell, I was sitting a few feet away from John Warnock just last month at the University of Utah who talked about Steve Jobs #1 and #2 - a dramatic task of self reflection as an example of someone who came back from the wilderness. The talk is somewhere on youtube, it was run by IEEE for the 50th anniversary. I can't find his talk right now.
I'd be interested in integrating it into a record management app we use as a feature for users, so they can ask questions about the data, not just the developers.
A cursory look reveals that there is acreage in Maine for less than $2K/acre.

https://www.landwatch.com/maine-land-for-sale
That doesn't work for explosives though. As soon as a bad actor fires off an attack you can't un-blow people up.
SEEKING FOUNDERS

I find founders and early stage product engineers roles at Seed to Series B startups. As a former founder currently working at a scale-up - I help other founders do what I did, find the right place to work next. I hire across product, engineering, and growth and many of my startups are open to contracting or contract to hire so both parties can "date" to get comfortable with each other.

Additionally, if you are a product engineer looking for the next thing, let me know:)
I do this to my garden yearly before planting. Works very well.
I'm not sure I see the value in this. This list isn't a result of value judgements and morals held by ChatGPT. It's a list of things generated from training data when a similar question was asked.
yup, India already has a pretty functional Adhar system.
Better question: why are YOU so invested in everybody else being excited?

so dismissive -- I truly question if it's some form of denial.

If you don't want people to think of you like a cryptobro, not talking like one would be a good start.
Integrate it into my visa (stamp).

I’m also surprised airports don’t integrate it into their passenger fees and boarding passes. But maybe that’s getting a little too multi-modal to handle.
Yes, that's the only way to have nice cozy temperature throughout the year. Heating will be on during large part of the year, but during the summer AC will be on. Just working gently, though, no blasting.

I'd love to have ventilation with heat exchanger, but that's basically unheard of where I live.
Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds
Anyone here have bluesky invites?
>If YouTube's algorithm is deciding what to show me, then I (as the user) am asking for YouTube's opinion. So I think that there is a coherent argument that YouTube's recommendation algorithm is expressing an opinion, and is therefore YouTube's content.

To me it seems like a platform could easily skirt this by having users opt in to recommendations (and maybe even choose a sorting criteria option) at signup.

>Would it have 1st amendment protection though?

The 1st amendment only protects against government censorship, not private lawsuits for existing causes of action (e.g., defamation). It would be individuals (like the Gonzalez family) suing YT in a world where the recommendations were deemed to be YT's own content.
Postgres since 1998.
Afraid to admit how long I've pondered the incredible evolutionary feat that is the woodpecker.
Not controversial in the handful of countries where public transportation is efficient and ubiquitous. Americans are fed constant propaganda about how publicly owned anything isn’t possible, sold to them by the very people whose profits rely on this being true.
Org-assistant: Org Babel extension for Chat Assistant APIs such as ChatGPT
Platbox: UEFI and SMM Platform Security Assessment Tool for AMD and Intel
"Looker minus dashboarding plus APIs (SQL/REST/GraphQL) and, subjectively, better aggregate awareness (AKA "pre-aggregations" in Cube).
Thank you. I was just yelling about that part. Science literacy is so lacking.
What do you mean by email caste? Do you mean people with internet access?
I know one of them.

They make some good points against capitalism, but like Democracy is the worst form of government other than all the others, capitalism is the worst economic system other than all the others.

But I simply cannot agree with a world that make everybody equal, no matter how much or how little work they do. People who work jobs that require extensive studying (ie, medical doctors) or jobs that almost literally nobody would ever volunteer for (ie, cleaning public restooms) should be rewarded.
> Heck, even travel to very much communist Poland nearby was very hard, special approvals from apparatchiks were required and those were only granted to regime-friendly folks. Not unlike current China for example.

You don't need any special approval to leave China nowadays, and haven't for a few decades. Hundreds of millions of Chinese people vacation abroad.
Someone on the internet says that. While I, also a person on the internet, prefer boots for hiking and find that most people I meet on hikes are also wearing boots of various kinds.

I do bring a pair of "trail sneakers" to change into whenever I put down the heavy backpack. They are much better for walking, but I don't like them when carrying.
And it is. Pretty much always. it easier to destroy than create.
The moons of Uranus are William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters.
> Overcrowding is the best thing that could happen, we need more public transport users as quickly as possible.

Unless the capacity of public transport grows as well, no.

> Then, of course, the guy in charge who doesn't know how road signs work would have to take care of spending further investments, which is probably going to accidentally land in car infrastructure.

Roads aren't just for cars but also trucks which are the backbone of German logistics.
That mistake is actually kinda funny given the post this comment thread is in. I suspect that's why they would assume the reference was to USU's mascot. It makes sense if one happens to miss the details of who commented what.