skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Kiriakou springs to mind a guy who leaked classified info mixed with a bit of incorrect hearsay to push an agenda.

Julian Assange leaked the DNC emails on behalf of Russian intelligence.

And even the guy who turned out to be Deep Throat admitted he did what he did out of pure spite over failure to earn recognition for his role in the crime.
For this type of product it's actually a pretty good model. Adam Wathan (of Tailwind UI) had a good podcast on this topic recently: https://hackersincorporated.com/episodes/lifetime-pricing-is...
I think it's an assumption based on the fact that we don't seem to be anywhere near the maximum amount of computing capacity that we could be using to train AIs. It might be just throwing more compute at the problem, or it might be that we are nowhere close to the ideal algorithms / model architectures, and AI will aid the process of getting there.

To turn it around a bit, what is your null hypothesis? If it's that AI will not be able to make more powerful AI, why do you believe that?

Given that there are two cases, and smart people disagree about which one we're headed towards, and one could have very dire consequences while the other is no big deal, I think it's reasonable not to assume that the latter is true without exercising a lot of due diligence.
30M. Started in middle school with BASIC. Being an introvert really helps too. I had no close friend, computer was more or less my childhood friend growing up.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10345734 - Oct 2015 (57 comments)

Orbital Mechanics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6228016 - Aug 2013 (1 comment)
Most of the functional programmers I know have a deeper understanding of OOP than the OOP programmers I know. For example, most of the OOP programmers I know do not understand covariance and contravariance (whereas just about every functional programmer I know has mastered them), even though those concepts frequently come up in the context of OOP. People who study programming language theory tend to gravitate toward the functional paradigm, but it's not because they don't understand OOP.
When someone says "we can regulate x, but we must act quickly," it's important to remember that the "we" they are referring to are often so poorly informed on the subject that the average house cat could outperform them if tested on the material and they are spoon-fed talking points by corporate lobbyists who pay their campaign budgets.

Harari is a scare monger making bank off promoting the pop-culture "Terminator is bad" caricature of AI.
I think though, I might have to find someone skilled in pigs? My thought, is they're the closest to humans?

And then, who wants to do it... even if they can?

I think it would be awesome, to have a skin on display in a cemetery. A marble construct, tower like, with a airtight sealed glass front, with my skin, it in all its fineness.
Semi related, but are there any good options for terminal rendering of HTML? I would be fairly accommodating of a best-effort dump of human visible body content.
You can do the projects (the autograder is public) and join a discord community of non-CMU people that are following along too! e.g., [0] for Fall 2022.

[0] https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/faq.html#q8
When people tried 3-bit quantization for 7B models before, it did not exactly go well in terms of detrimental side effects. Are you using some new quantization techniques that mitigate that?
If the accused wants to plead innocent even after confessing, isn't that their right? They're entitled to a trial.
Even as someone who grew up in a very religious household, I am still struggling to come up with a “steel-man” argument on your behalf.

Can you explain why you believe it is in poor taste?
Why would he be considered an important prisoner? Note that we as of yet have absolutely zero evidence he was doing anything for anyone besides himself and Ghislaine Maxwell. Everything everyone has chosen to believe about his massive pedophile web is based on hearsay.
That still doesn't make the 80486 a RISC in any sense.
> A build tool, that reads input files and writes output files, and nothing else.

If it wants to upload artefacts to a CDN it will also require network access.

> A CLI that interacts with the bug tracker, and needs to read the environment variables and do networking, but doesn't need to read the filesystem, launch subprocesses, etc.

Chances are the CLI needs to read ENV variables to authenticate or a configuration file and maybe even subprocesses to setup parallel processing.

> A serverless function that doesn't need anything but networking.

A serverless function will probably read environment variables as well or access a package.json file to read some context about the name of the package and it's version.

My point is that most programs will require all access enabled.
I would have found it useful in school. At work it got in the way.

Unless your kid is going to.play one of those perpetually out of tune instruments like the piano I wouldn't recommend it. I had a horn colleague that had the crazy kind of perfect pitch (he still has, but he is retired) and perfect metronome tempo and all that. He called it a curse.
If you take the AI component of this text, it becomes a wild trip. A storyteller telling the story of how storytelling can mess people up, and almost bragging about it.

AI hacked nothing. We've been doing it to ourselves for ages. This is just another way of doing it, from ourselves, to ourselves. We hacked every single kind of language there is. The AI just trained on that previous work.

This could have been a nice piece about how we need to be less inclined to believe in stories and be more skeptical, but I guess no storyteller wants to write a story about _that_. Instead, they blame it on the machines.
There's a few terminal browsers like w3m, browsh and links that should work for many basic HTML pages.
My Favorite Technical Interview
Interesting. I can’t seem to find any information either way about distillation removing them.
"team leaders", self-employed and small informal business owner could easily fill that number. One just need to be a self-starter, sociable and have an organization to manage
Some companies provide free non-commercial versions for learning e.g. Houdini and Nuke. I wish more companies would do it.
>> We can still regulate the new ai tools, but we must act quickly. Whereas nukes cannot invent more powerful nukes, ai can make exponentially more powerful ai.

I dropped in to comment on that bit too. You've described it well already, but I'd still like to add:

.. hypothetically, in the future. To be fair, in principle then it seems perfectly feasible that a sufficiently much more advanced nuke might invent an even more advanced nuke too, hypothetically, in the future.

Not really to detract from the rough direction of the argument in the post though, because despite the hype, imprecision and questionably declared speculation of the sort you pointed out, I think he's basically right to be concerned about the hazards of throwing even current and imminent "AI" into Humanity's communications and cultural evolution.
genuinely, the fact that you're even considering this question as a signal for hirability is depressing. even if it's a useful signal, it sends a bad message.

my first exposure to programming was college and it was incredibly discouraging for me to discover that many of my peers had been programming for years; i felt like it was hard to 'compete' with my peers simply because my parents didn't encourage me to work with computers when i was a child. ironically, i ended up doing well on exams and getting a minor teaching position because i didn't have self-taught bad habits and could explain the coursework better than those who already 'got' the concepts from prior experience.
I like busybox bash (especially on Windows) which is very much not bash.

Busybox bash does not implement arrays, for starters, which is a deal breaker for many scripts.

The Windows kernel forks processes about 10x slower than Linux, so these tricks have real performance value for POSIX-family shells running there.
Right now? Not true to any extent, no.

But it's not exactly "blatantly incorrect assumptions". It's more wishful thinking. (The "self-improving, exponentially more powerful" AI is currently the only hope for an AGI - except that there isn't currently any realistic hope of a self-improving, exponentially more powerful AI.)
Not necessarily. People "not being logical" might simply mean that their decisions are emotional. Emotions are not logical, but that does not make them random or wrong. There are still reasons for emotions, and frequently there's a large degree of truth to them as well. They often do exemplify bias, but that's why there's more than 1 person on the jury, and why attorneys are allowed to disqualify jurors, and why a good attorney will try to get a jury panel that is at least representative of the population if not favorably inclined to her client.
In New Hampshire, state reps and senators are paid only $200 per two-year term.[0] There are also more reps (total, not per capita) than in any other state. Reps end up representing <4,000 people on average--a number someone can actually represent.

And they have to consider every proposal.

You know what the most common decision is? "ITL," or "inexpedient to legislate." In most cases, no, there really shouldn't be a law.

Is it the best system out there? Probably not, but it certainly solves some of the commonest problems.

[0] https://www.vnews.com/Upper-Valley-state-legislators-push-fo...
i was playing the soundtrack in my home until my flatmates asked me to stop "because it is scary"
Bluesky Overhaul: the UI enhancement browser extension
It sounds plausible that one in ten people are leaders, although I don't know how you could measure how many people would report a crime if they saw it occur.
That seems like something to tell the Judge. I don't know how it works, but were there any replacement Jurors? I think the Judge should be able to disqualify that person from being a Juror.
We make both Whisper and GPT-4 available in https://reflect.app
You're making up the notion that the "main cameras" failed. We don't know which camera it was. And again, the investigators said they could clearly see all approaches to the cell in the recovered footage.
RPG16: A simple texturepack reminiscent of classic RPGs
What are your thoughts on big vs small govt?
When you're in the mood for some anger towards DuPont, check out "Dark Waters" (2019) too. The cinematography, acting, and pacing are great — my favourite DuPont rager so far.
But lithium only makes up 11% of EV batteries
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1203083/composition-of-l...
As a big fan of the show I'm curious how you know this. Do you have more information on the edition you own?
Definitely understand the pre-job jitters and anxiety. I felt that a lot prior to my previous job and the impostor syndrome was heavy. Here are a couple of things that helped me:
1. During onboarding, keep a log of important things you learn and people you can contact about certain topics. Be sure to understand how you can seek help, where you can seek help, and who you can talk to.

2. Understand that they picked you after the interview process which means they see the potential in you. Instead of thinking: “what if I don’t live up” why not reframe it as “what can I do to live up to what they want and what I want for myself”
3. Set boundaries clearly and utilize tools to help you do this: for example, schedule off slack notifications after 5 pm, let your coworkers know hours you’ll be online and how quickly they can expect you to respond during work hours and that when off work you won’t respond, plan stuff deliberately after work so you’re busy and can’t answer anyways

You got this! Feel free to message if you have any other questions
Police often manipulate or coerce people into making false confessions. 29% of DNA exonerations in the US involved a false confession.

https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...
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Sorry i guess i misunderstood. Okay the incrementalness is not the thing. The thing is more, the injustice, the unevenness so to say. Well, I think we should not try to solve the injustice problem and the environmental problem with the same measures.

For every rule, there will be people that break it, does that mean nobody should follow that rule?

Also, for every form or quantity of pollution, there are heavier forms. The jet owner will say that the old-aeroplane-collector or a war in a neighboring country pollutes more.

My point is, following that kind of reasoning, it will be almost impossible to take any action.
Probably a bad, or irrelevant, question to ask I agree, but I don't think most people who learn to code early due to parents proving an opportunity. It's more likely you have an interest in it, or that it means something to you. Merely being introduced to coding isn't necessarily going to motivate a young person to pursue it even if they're very bright. I'd actually posit that most people would be turned off by coding because it's so anal and tedious. Today there are other reasons for people wanting to learn to code: basically publicity.

Personally, I learned Basic from a RSTS/E BASIC-PLUS manual at age 9. At the time I was interested in mathematics and would go to the local library to read up on it. When my older brother came home with a printout of a simple program incrementing a variable by one and printing it I was pretty confused, since "A=A+1" doesn't make sense mathematically. When the assignment was explained to me, that you could automate mathematics, it was the most incredible thing I'd ever seen.
For something like that, you’d want to use fortune(1) with a Bible fortune file, e.g.

- KJV: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fortunebible/

- NIV: https://github.com/optio50/Bible-NIV-Fortune
>ai can help us in countless ways, from finding new cures for cancer to discovering solutions to the ecological crisis.

Can it?

"Storytelling AIs", i.e. LLMs, are not autonomous. Their goal is to predict text. They predict text. They are predictors.

So, in the article, we casually drop the claim: "AI can make exponentially more powerful AI." Is it feasible for a predictor to run in a loop and exponentially improve, by itself? No. Is it potentially feasible for a predictor to run in a loop and generate outputs that may be used by a human to further improve its own outputs, or Rube Goldberg'd together by a human to steadily improve predicted outputs in general or for niche? Yes. But exponentially, and realistically, no. Hardware constraints, architectural constraints, performance constraints, monetary constraints, correct?

Let's go back to fear, for a second. Nukes cannot invent more powerful nukes, but a nuke can cause a "Buck" Turgidson can nudge an organization or machinery in the direction for more powerful nukes. LLMs can potentially produce the output to feed into more powerful "AI" in that way, with a "Buck" nudging it. But that's with the assumption that the predictor's outputs don't reduce performance. Can the predictor spit out a novel description of some architecture that may be used by a human that is "exponentially" more powerful? Unlikely.

After re-reading the article, perhaps the joke is on me, because I detect some vague satirical wit. But when someone wants a government, the elected congressional or federal body in which elected individuals are knocking on dementia, catatonically voting on party lines, and are still figuring out email, to regulate for some vague idea of "safety" for some "AGI" entity they cannot even define, I smell bullshit. Not to mention, regulatory capture. Maybe that's the real "death of democracy."

We've been through this over the past few years. Hysteria leads to regulation and government intervention, leads to large corporations to be able to plug their nose and survive via acquired capital, and/or use their resources to comply with the bureaucratic bullshit, while smaller businesses die, people lose their life savings, income inequality grows, a generation is set back for the rest of their life: we're worse off and outcomes are not improved as per the original goal of the regulation, in the end.
Speed Is All You Need: On-Device Acceleration of Large Diffusion Models
Teflon itself is safe to use as long as you don’t heat it too much

The problem is, people make mistakes. All it takes is a crying child, a burned pot, a mistake in cooking (not thinking about it), and you've hit the wrong temp.

And then the pan is dangerous, leeching, trouble.

The whole thought about the approval was "Well, people can be trusted to not let a pot get too hot! And to know 100% to throw it away if it does!".

Right. Trusted. In a country with warning labels like 'coffee is hot' and 'water is wet'.

Edit: my point is, the above means "teflon isn't safe for home use". Engineers know, also, to have safety tolerances. For something like this, I'd expect the 'danger zone' to be 2x the max possible heat a consumer could apply by accident.

As burners can get crazy hot, that probably means I'd call teflon unsafe, unless it broke down at 2000F.

This is how we can approve things safe or not. Not "trust people will constantly monitor how hot their pan got".

Just as an aside, I was at a hotel the other day, and someone was trying to put buttered toast in the hotel toaster!
I merely brought 2 examples and I can surely bring more, but this is not the same as in general being able to draw a clear line on the topic.

Basically, I couldn't define this clear line in a law. And I am not sure, anyone can.
my concern with using chatgpt is PII. If I host the LLM and set it up that it doesn't record any of the interactions besides some weird meta data and sign that in a contract i bet a bunch of my clients would like to use my LLM. especially if I can train it on internal documentation that they can't/won't send to a big third party like chatgpt. im one throat to choke and i already have their PII so i think its a good fit.

without getting into too much detail my job supports business to people interactions. my use case is training the LLM to assist the business agents. if it can give real time information that's helpful to the agent while causally listening to the conversation thats a pretty big game changer. also i want to use it for staffing decisions since it can view historic data and make recommendations for the future.
It can select text from images. It uses OCR.
OH, I didn't realize you meant human taxidermy. I believe that's not allowed except for science/education purposes such as "BODIES" and "Body World" exhibits: https://bodyworlds.com
Advanced Amiga Architecture (1992)
> What's the excitement about getting it almost running on a phone about?

You get to decide what is appropriate or not.

It works offline.

It can be used to by applications without the having to use an external service.

This can be important for a number of applications (I am thinking about open source games and the modding community right now, but it is just an example)
Accessing Deleted photos requires FaceID since pretty recent. Perhaps it should require a passcode instead.
If I can't find even the juristriction I'm entering a contract with I usually bail. I wish at least the payment provider would force sellers to reveal the name and address on the checkout page. Neither on the website or the checkout page it's even clear if '$' is US Dollar. On the checkout page it's not clear what currency my credit card is billed with!
I completely agree with this and i believe lots of innovation in meta is happening here. The biggest reason for VR not taking off is the VR world at present looks funny and old like 90s video games and headset is heavy and clunky.

This can change completely if they can increase the resolution of headset, make them 3x lighter and with jaw dropping graphics created by generative AI streamed from cloud.
Same.

BTW, I purchased the discounted "sponsored" version that shows ads but employed a minor "hack" to turn off the promotional messages.

I also don't purchase any ebooks from the Kindle store (which makes those promotional messages particularly pointless and annoying) as there are plenty of legitimate sources that provide DRM-free ebooks in standards-compliant EPUB format that I can back up on my own computer in perpetuity, and transform into Kindle-compatible MOBI files on demand for transfer to the device via USB.
A high school near where I lived at the time (southern New Jersey) created a mural in the cafeteria inspired by, and titled, Koyaanisqatsi. And this was in the early 90's well after the film had been shown in theaters.
What Makes a Power “Great”?
I think there's a much simpler and more historically universal reason: murders go up in bad economic times. Inflation is high, inequality is increasing, people are losing or have lost their jobs, and who has suffered this seems pretty random, particularly since other groups (like software engineers in 2020/2021, solar installers in 2022, tradespeople in 2023) are doing just great. All this makes people on the losing side very angry. Some angry people kill people.

There was a similar spike in murders during the 1970s and early 80s, and during the 1920s and Great Depression.
"We can apply more compute power" is something very different from "exponentially self improving". Assuming that "exponentially improving" will show up if given enough compute power is very much not a null hypothesis.
A Fresh Perspective on Forecasting in Software Development
There are multi-million dollar homes and a school facility built on top of (parts of) the EPA Superfund site near the old El Toro MCAS in Irvine. Another set of million dollar homes nearby was built on top of a nursery that was founded in the early 1900s. In both cases, residents are warned not to plant edible fruits or vegetables directly into the soil.
Sure, and in another three years you'll be saying the same thing about go because the introduction of genetics has changed everything. Java went through the same thing with the transition of java 9, introduction of lambdas, etc. Python went through 2 to 3 in the same time period. C++23 is in the works, and many parts of the ecosystem are just now getting support for 11.

I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist, or that's certain parts of the ecosystem haven't experienced more churn than others. I am saying that "js churn" has been a meme joke for a long time, and has been old for almost as long.
proxy could be at play, I'm just speculating like you about the nature of the log entry
Comparing Vectorized Huffman and Range Decoding vs. RANS
How are you guarding against prompt injection attacks, e.g. either in the queried data, or in untrusted query parameters?
> the latter [results] in the absurdly skewed prison population the US is known for.

This is not supported at all. I assume you're talking about racial demographics of prison population. It's a complex historical and socioeconomic problem, biased juries may have some role but it wouldn't be on the top 10 factors.
Who builds it and who runs it? SRE team topologies
The way to understand A.I. might be as an "extension of man", per Marshall McLuhan.

"Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement."

"To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine."
> Similar for `sed` which is often only known and used for "replace string a by string b in input" use cases.

Sed has at least the vi users who may know ex command from the vi command mode. Awk needs to be learned for itself.
Hellgineers Development Retrospective