skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AI safety is about whether my government is concerned with my continued comfortable existence once my economic value as a general intelligence is reduced to zero.

We already have real life examples close to this, in resource export based economies where most citizens are useless to the main economic activity. The result hadn't been pretty so far...
Wow!
I just tested with a complex image and it did a great job. I remember when we had to do this by hand. Thank you!
We'd tell it that it would get action hero comics after they complete a task.

(I'm feeling like a true prompt engineer now)
I'll bring da lube.
In the UK we can still get anonymous SIM cards for cash, if you want an anonymous Signal account.

Having recently looked at commercial SMS gateway pricing, I am inclined to the argument that these devices have a role in thwarting rent-seeking on the part of telcos.
All these warnings about AI safety are bullshit.

Humanity is perfectly well capable of ruining itself without help from AGI (nuclear proliferation is unsolved and getting worse, climate change will bite soon etc).

If anything AGI could save us by giving us some help in solving these problems. Or perhaps doing the mercy kill to put us out quickly, instead of us suffering a protracted death by a slowly deteriorating environment.
Are there calcs for how much energy these consistent rises take? I know it's basic chemistry so I assume those numbers have been run. Is warming from greenhouse gasses alone enough to cause, or are there other unknown contributors?
Congratulations, well deserved!

Also in memoriam Jochen Liedtke [0], who started the L4 kernel project and rekindled research in microkernels by showing that they don't have to be slow ('slow' as in Mach's long IPC latencies).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen_Liedtke
Indeed. I have talked to multiple utility representatives from Florida all the way up to Illinois, and they are all aware of the upgrades that are going to be necessary to support full electrification. Not just vehicles, but everything (cooking, hvac, etc). ComEd in Illinois even mentions it on billboard advertising they have in their market (“Electrification is coming. We’ll be ready.”).

https://www.icc.illinois.gov/docket/P2022-0432/documents/325...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-comed-seeks-m...
Don't worry, they'll 'align' it so that it has to work all day.
First of all, great name.

Second, I am in awe of how good your documentation is and how well you communicate about atuin to the world at large.

Does Atuin offer any features to toggle the capture of commands into its DB? Being able to opt-in or opt-out of Atuin history on a per-command basis would be pretty useful, especially because there is also the atuin sync feature.

I usually work with sensitive information inside a tmux session because, in the default bash configuration, most commands run in tmux never make it into bash history (I believe the last pane to exit is the only one that does make it). It seems I would have to manually go in and drop rows from the DB if I set up Atuin.

One of my products, bugout, has a command called "bugout trap". Not trying to push bugout here, but thought Atuin might benefit from some of the lessons we learned:

1. Because bugout trap is opt-in (you have to explicitly prefix your command with "bugout trap --", it also allows users to specify tags to make classifying commands easy. This is really useful for search - e.g. you can use queries like "!#exit:0 #db #migration #prod" to find all unsuccessful database migrations you attempted in your production environment.

2. bugout trap has a --env flag which gives users the option of pushing their environment variables into their history. This is really useful for programs that use a lot of environment variables. The safest way to use this is to first trap commands into your personal knowledge base with --env, then remove or redact any sensitive information, and only then share (in case you want to share with a team).

3. We thought that sharing would be useful for teams to build documentation on top of. Even we ourselves have very little adoption of that use case internally. We use it to keep a record of programs we run in our production environment (especially database migrations).

4. bugout trap also stores data that a program returns from stdout and stderr - this has been INCREDIBLY useful. I do want to add a mode that makes the capture of output optional, though, as currently bugout trap is unusable with things like server start commands which run continuously.

5. In general, I have found that command line history is very personal and private for developers so collaborative features are going to rightly be seen with skepticism.

Hope that helps anyone building similar tools.

$ bugout trap --help
Wraps a command, waits for it to complete, and then adds the result to a Bugout journal.

Specify the wrapped command using "--" followed by the command:
bugout trap [flags] -- <command>

Usage:
bugout trap [flags]

Flags:
-e, --env Set this flag to dump the values of your current environment variables
-h, --help help for trap
-j, --journal string ID of journal
--tags strings Tags to apply to the new entry (as a comma-separated list of strings)
-T, --title string Title of new entry
-t, --token string Bugout access token to use for the request
Clearly whoever wrote it meant "indefinitely" and didn't realize that "forever" doesn't mean "forever until we decide otherwise".
I laughed out loud after reading your comment. I did not put a lot of thought into designing the logo. Thanks for the video.
Has anyone tried testing the various LLM's against a game (or all games?) of Jeopardy? My hunch is that they would do really really well.
Yes, and China etc. simply paying those data companies to get all the info they want.

If TikTok is a problem, then so are US based data brokers. But Congress doesn't seem to understand that.
I had chat gpt 3.5 build a small web app for me too. I have since been building some tooling for this sort of GPT-assisted programming.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/easy-chat
> Oh, we don't actually delete anything - just deduplicate for search.

Good to hear, but the point stands: so you deduplicate only for the view, not in the source, and thus the source remains contaminated with duplicates (at very least they cost some disk space and increase seek time).

As for the view: so, since you deduplicate the commands - you can't lookup the context (commands executed before & after)! Because each time the now deduplicated command was executed in the past - it had its own context!
The truth is that much of medicine is about access to baseline care that a highly trained technician can do. You don't need an MD for it. And people in the world will suffer for lack of access.

In the First World, people get either perfect care or none. The discourse is dominated by "tell that to the guy who is paralyzed by a bush doctor" and "tell that to parents who lost their kid to a charlatan".

Outcomes are everything and a comprehensive public health process allows for making tradeoffs in access and quality to ensure outcomes.
That really doesn't change the situation I described.
Plex requires me to install Docker (which I use elsewhere so would install anyway) and docker compose -f file with my entire media setup

We could endlessly debate which cognitive model is best but you know, that’s stupid… because there is only one…

…Packaged executables should die off. I want to compose electron state in a machine not some randos config formats and syntax art.

I don’t understand Apache OR Plex (or nginx or Docker, etc). Would prefer logic simply be modeled in open code libs I can list in a dep file and run; but software _products_ whether open like Apache or closed like Plex, with a bunch of opinions on acceptable UX/CX are foisted on me by Apache or Plex devs.

I’m just as sick of learning one asinine tribal jargon after as I am the arguments about which tribal jargon is superior!

Bring on the AI chips that abstract away software. Bleh what a trashy gossip fueled industry.
"Dialectic" means something different from "dialect". I have no idea which you meant.
Being in software development for the past 15 years I cant understand any of this. What are some good resource to get up to speed on this stuff?
> Equilibrium

The closest thing to this is lifeless planets. Mercury is in pretty good equilibrium.

Life is chemical reaction, and chemical reactions are inequilibria.

Life and equilibrium are opposites -- life is inequilibrium. It's possible because Earth has been in constant change, facilitating energy transfer between organisms, which themselves have been causing changes, like what we're doing or like that one time that cyanobacteria killed everything by creating oxygen[0] or like that other time that methanogens killed everything by creating methane[1].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanosarcina#Role_in_the_Per...
There are two interpretations of democracy.

In one interpretation, the purpose of democracy is accountability of the leaders and the government. Representative democracy is a means to an end from that interpretation: you don't vote so that the leaders represent you, you vote to keep them in check.

The other interpretation, is an intentional misunderstanding that is promoted, which says that the purpose of democracy is to "represent" the people. What does representation means? Whatever the leading polarization line the media is pushing. Most likely, polarization across left/right, race, sex, ethnicity, religion. Exactly the non constructive sort of representation, the one that requires minimum accountability.

The U.S. media and elite have perfected the art of brainwashing towards the representation interpretation, and against the accountability interpretation (also branded "populism").

The polarization is no accident. It is the strategy producing minimum accountability, which produces maximum power.
Can’t see any potential AGI doing any waste disposal work or nurse-like caring, or at least not as (relatively) cheap us humans are willing to do it, so those jobs will still be safe.
I haven't spent a lot of time drawing diagrams

Practice. Drawing diagrams is no different from playing the violin. There isn't a shortcut. Getting better means sticking with an activity you are bad at.

Good luck.
Like Norway?
Hehe, I knew some people would not be able to take this perspective.

The comparison is wrong BTW because cheating at an exam doesn't hurt anyone - but SBFs actions did.

Well, you can be nice and stay home the whole day and do what other people tell to score nicely on some metrics called "grades", or you can ...
The perceived productivity gains have always been complicated because they're anchored in a time when people had nothing better to do.

The other side of it, and it's complicated in the same way, is the industry collectively made a lot of bad decisions working from home in 2021, and we're paying for it now.
Just RLHF that part out and make it an x maximizer.
> Words mean whatever a critical mass of people want them to mean.

Yes this is true for natural language, but we don't want Wikipedia to have natural language. We want Wikipedia to have clear and concise language.
Various governments tried at various times. There is historic resistance as ID cards were originally a wartime measure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Registration_Act_1939 and considered to be a symbol of war and so lack of freedom. You don't have to carry a driving license while driving, just present it later if asked. The latest elections required ID to vote and there is a lot of opposition to that, as it has never been a requirement.
Because even with the friction of my history not having been pruned or otherwise tidied it's still a really valuable resource when I do need it!
GPT4 is only trained on data up to 2021, and the library has commits as recent as two months ago. So I think that may be a hallucination. A quick google also reveals nothing like that.

It's been a while but I also remember HSNW having undesirable characteristics for large scale vector search (compared to other methods), so I'm not sure there.

I did do a quick search and saw there are methods that make it more suitable, but again it's been 3 years now since I've used anything in this area.

Edit: I got curious, https://ann-benchmarks.com/

So I was mis remembering a bit, HSNW is pretty good overall depending on your implementation!
The Von Neumann architecture is just a Turing Machine, simply a physical manifestation of one, a physical abstraction. My computer has a “tape” which is 64GB wide because I have 64GB of RAM.

If we had infinite memory and infinite symbols (instead of only 2^64), we could build a universal Turing Machine. But that doesn’t mean our physical computers aren’t Turing Machines executing Turing-complete programs that just happen to be in the space of programs executable in a finite time and within the limitations of our current physical realities.

I’m not sure who told you that Turing never intended for the machine to be built. He knew that he could not build a machine with infinite tape, as we both know too. But when he built the machine to crack the Enigma Machine, he did this _after_ writing his paper, “On Computable Numbers.” So, he was in effect making a Turing Machine (but he called them a-machines).

We literally didn’t have computers before Turing formalized a way to execute them, instruction by instruction, and in detail. Once we had some kind of formal method to do this, physical machines could start being built.

Edit: My comments have not shown misunderstanding. There seems to be this consensus that our mathematics here came _after_ our machines. But this is wrong and the implications are tremendous. Our computers we have really are machines which execute other machines. What is the only class of machine that can do that? The Turing Machine.

Edit2: I suppose this is an argument of semantics. I didn’t realize. Yes, perhaps our computers are “Turing-equivalent”. I still think the “tape” and “symbol” and all of those things are merely mental variables, which is why I called these things a Form earlier. We built a physical tape, it just took the form of RAM and has much detail that electrical engineers can talk about. We also built symbols, we just called them instructions and placed them into a CPU. All of our physical devices have come from theoretical findings, not vice-versa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
This is so insane that I love it. Do you also save your belly button lint since 2005? Or nail clippings? :)
Auto companies didn't change consumer habits. They changed physical infrastructure to make vehicles a necessity. And they did so surreptitiously through back-room political influence, without ever telling consumers what they ought to do. That's... different.
People underestimate how accurate voting is. We can know how millions of people voted with an error rate in the hundreds or even dozens. That's almost six nines accuracy.
“There are also other things killing us” is not a justification for making more. Why not just give nuclear weapons to extremists?
First impressions: This is quite nice and useful for design prototyping.
Nice job! It's easier to play after realizing it's not really built for the wall-walk technique. Fun to hear all the sounds again too.
(I had inferred that the "quiz" would be objective statements about the candidates' platforms and known past actions as well as facts about the country's current situation. So a gauge of how well the voter understands their choices in the election, not just knowledge of unrelated trivia.

There are still issues with this, but it was an interesting idea to ponder.)
Maybe we should stop voting for people and start voting directly for policy.
That's the one reasonable exception. Given the sample size, it's not too encouraging.
While everyone else is (rightfully) correcting you, I am curious what sort of codebases you’re working with?

Are you working on large compiled software? Any game, rendering engine or large application benefits from compilation units in my experience.

Some of my libraries that I work with take upwards of an hour for a fresh compile. Having sane compilation units cuts down subsequent iteration to minutes instead.
We need smart hybrid. Clearly there are worker/environmental benefits from not going to the same dusty cube farm 5 days a week.

But the abandonment feeling is there when people arrive asynchronously.
There was a huge "citability" effort ~10-15 years ago focused around tracking bill revisions over time and understanding who did what and when. iirc, it used public sources to track things on a near-daily basis.

It fell flat. It turns out lawmakers don't want accountability in any way, shape, or form.

If we want that level of transparency, we can't count on the government to do it or even accept it willingly.
I doubt that AI will lead to a post-scarcity society. It depends of what you mean by "post-scarcity". The amount of good and services will always be finite regardless of how they are produced.

> and the corporations and governments that control them rapidly have millions of useless mouths to feed?

I always struggle to understand this. Maybe I'm missing something. Who's buying what AIs produce if nobody has an income? You can imagine a scenario where corporations only trade between them (so only shareholder benefit from the production). However in such a scenario who prevents other people from spawning their AI systems?

I also doubt shareholders can actually consume all the GDP by their own. If production is so high that they can't and other people are poorer, then prices must come down. This combined with the fact that you can use your AI to produce services, makes me skeptical of these claims.
How did we get petrol cars without already having petrol stations everywhere??
> it's simply wrong

That makes as much sense as saying that "ne... pas" in French is a double negative and therefore "simply wrong" to use as a straight negative.

No -- language isn't math, and English and other languages are chock-full of inconsistencies and seemingly "illogical" things. Language ultimately rests on convention, on real life usage -- not logic. Arguing that a common usage is illogical is fighting against the tide.
This exist, there's a software that will trim any non-talking parts of your video with AI as a smart video editor
The power of oral tradition is nuts. It can preserve information for thousands of years.
Birds fly by eating bugs and flapping wings, but that doesn't mean we should build planes that way. Tesla is stubbornly handicapping itself by cheaping-out on sensors because they think they can hail-mary yolo themselves all the way full self driving.
> This generally leads to faster compilation time in part because it aggregates the cost of parsing the same headers over and over.

But this also reduces the opportunity to parallelize compilation across multiple files because they have been concatenated into fewer build units, and each unit now requires more memory to deal with the non-header parts. For some build systems and repositories, this actually increases build time.
Why do so many people believe this notion that current trends of warming imply looming mass extinction? What is the argument or evidence for this?
With a small enough corpus, full text search does not require an index to be instantaneous, and 100k
entries is easily small enough for that.

Additionally, everything you describe can be phrased as a regular expression.
That is my very rough understanding. They do a number on your gut, and they probably significantly alter the balance of the microbiome, but they don't give you a clean slate by any means.

Not sure what the term of art is for the "poop pills", but feels like something like that would be required here. Maybe specially tailored to out-competing the bacteria in question.
> One, when non-white, non-men raised the alarm about LLMs previously, they got much less media coverage than Hinton, et al, are getting.

Mainstream (e,g. CNN, BBC) and mainstream-adjacent (e.g. Vice, Vox) journalists have spent years pushing the "AI will harm POC" framing. AI companies are endlessly required to address this specific topic—both in their products and in their interaction with journalists alike.

Dr. Hinton is getting a lot of coverage right now, but this is the exception, not the rule.
Ad absurdum, dust in the higher parts of the atmosphere can cause to literally freeze over the whole planet.

I am no optimist, but not due to technological limitations, but economic ones — the only hope is “unknown unknowns”. We might invent some new technology that could wipe clear our existing estimates for the better.
So you go over the property and you say that interior property items like stove, fridge, molding, other improvements (not repairs) are separate items from the real estate. For instance, "kitchen $20,000" -this can now be written off immediately. To my mind it explains partially the luxury condo drive... the bonus depreciation is in those luxury parts which can be broken out and depreciated 100% in the first year of ownership.
I wonder if this is how the pendulum swings from interglacial to glacial periods. More water vapor in the atmosphere means heavier rains overall and heavier snowfall in polar regions. More snow takes longer to melt in the summer making it more likely that snow remains to be buried by more snow the next winter. Increased albedo of polar regions reduces global temperature making winter colder allowing the ice caps to creep towards the equator.

I think it is good to remember that Earth has cyclic glacial periods. We just happen to live during a warm period.
Same for me, I really enjoy playing scales and the like as studying jazz has made the application and benefit of practice a lot more clear.

I did some classical study and grades years ago and remember there being a big disconnect - my teacher just gave me scales and pieces as totally separate entities, and just taught them as things necessary to pass the exam, with no real application or purpose explained to me.
It was common to carry containers of gas when traveling cross-country (USA) in the 1930s (source: my grandparents). I don’t know the size but would guess several 5-gallon containers would do it.
There are chargers in parking lots at/near office buildings. People use them during the day. In residential areas without offstreet parking, there are few to no convenient chargers.
I'm from a small farming community in the Midwest. My father was farmer until my grandfather sold his farm when he was in his early 30s. My father developed Parkinson's and died from it a few years ago at the young age of 63.

The number of farmers from our community with Parkinson's is staggering.

I've been following the gut/brain theory for years. Hopefully this is going somewhere ...
Oh right, I thought you were taking a screenshot every frames, I was wrong sry
It can't afford to. It will be instantly recognized as an admission of weakness in the snake lair.

For as long as Putin's regime stands, klepto elites around him will be sure that, at least within Russian borders, they are still kings, and they can live the rest of their lives surrounded by long legged mistresses, and drowning in luxury.

If Putin is seen as weak, any small time gang will think that moneys, and power of Russia's top oligarchs are for grabs. It will be then, when a preemptive coup attempt can happen.
Do you regularly back up your history?