skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably doesn't matter from a technical angle, but I speculate that Microsoft didn't properly acquire OpenAI because the former was concerned about reputational risk should ChatGPT or some other cutting-edge AI mass-product blow up in some way (and the awkward optics of "Open"AI becoming a M$ IP).

And it's pretty clear (from their own words) that regard for that risk held Google back in aggressively releasing such products.

Now that this phase is over, I expect MS to fully acquire OpenAI to better signal that they are committed to full-spectrum AI products, as Google is doing this week.
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What are your options for local Meetups? The tech focused Meetups in my area have a good turn out of people with a wide variety of experience. You have a good chance of meeting people who are approximately same age and experience level as you.
Do any of the named longtermists actually view humanity's potential above all else, or are they just prioritizing spending resources on avoiding existential risks?
I used to love stumbleupon, which kind of is a webring? (I had to look up the definition). I think the business model is just not as profitable in these days of engagement metrics
It was largely one word at a time, supported by a simple but effective visual. The Google one is just filled with text, so I had to pause repeatedly to figure out what it even was. They’re not comparable.
Might be reasonable as long as employers are allowed to fire employees for having long commute times.
> Valenzuela-Toro looked at the size and morphology of sea lion skulls collected between 1962 and 2008 in central California and now held at the California Academy of Sciences

"As the California sea lion population got bigger, so did the collected skulls", is what I read. I cannot find the method of collecting the skulls from the paper or the one paper I was able to read that this paper sourced.

If humans were hunting, poaching, or collecting dead animal skulls, there could very well be some influence on the size of the skulls from their desire to hunt/poach bigger game and or collect a bigger specimen than they previously collected/hunted/poached. If I was out collecting for grins and giggles, and I had a sack full of skulls, I would likely throw out the small ones to fit a bigger one than is in my sack or larger than what I have at home.

Another possibility is that they collected larger skulls because there is more pressure on the larger animals as time progressed in the study period, creating a larger supply of the larger skulls. On average, the animals may in fact be smaller.
Or reasons like the availability of gig labor, who you can pay less than normal employees.
It's not obvious to me. Aren't there things like air-aluminum batteries, not that you'd eat them, but that would be inert if you did?
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> With hindsight we now know that putting people on respirator was actually the thing that killed them - not COVID.

Do you have links on this? I'd love to know more.
Delphi is still being used. And by the way, there is really no reason to use the complicated state management functions even in a declarative UI pattern
I skimmed through the article and it kind of reminded me of „Transhumanism: The most dangerous idea“ [1] by Francis Fukuyama.

Turns out Nick Bostrom —- the founder of the „Future of Humanity“ institute and who is mentioned several times in this piece — grew out of the fin-du-siècle “Transhumanist” movement (I actually met him in 2000 in London at a European Transhumanist gathering) and I guess many people inside “longtermism” also happen to be “Transhumanists” in the broadest sense.

Fukuyama warned about the dystopian and self-destructive potential of Transhumanists accepting (and wanting) to change our human nature through individual technological modifications extending the human life-span and, ultimately, transcending us into post-human almost god-like beings. Now Torres warns us the same ideology (if becoming wide-spread) with its vision of human grandeur will marginalize the concern about present environmental dangers.

I think, ultimately, this debate boils down to a conflict of two word views. You either are techno optimistic or techno pessimistic. The former camp will perceive climate change not as a huge threat and present well-founded arguments why humans will most likely overcome the „climate crisis“ with their technology irrespective of the prevailing politics. The latter camp present (also) well-founded arguments why human technology will likely destroy our civilization and propose a life-style that is more aligned with nature.

If you take a step back, human technology has indeed improved our living condition massively: Never in the history of mankind so many people have lived so comfortably and also so healthily [2]. This is also proven by the fact that there never have been so many people alive at the same time. Of course, now we might face the consequences of our species thriving so well and multiplying in numbers. That does not need to be the end of the world though if we as human beings stick to the facts, act accordingly and don’t commit to an ideology blatantly telling you either the future is bright or dark. To live a meaningful live and help humanity to survive it is important to stay open-minded and regularly take a reality-check. That’s all I want to say as an old bloke directed at the younger generations.

[1] https://www.au.dk/fukuyama/boger/essay

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better
Would there be any demand for those gig works, if it had to pay comparable to full employment? And would that be a good thing?
No one ever got poor coming up with elaborate rationalizations and defenses on behalf of people accumulating hundreds of billions of dollars.
At least some Android devices have the same, it keys off your alarm if you have one set. My Pixel 6 Pro will also take advantage of chargers' ability to supply different amounts of power to not charge as quickly as it's physically capable of doing if it thinks I've put it on charge for the night.
Saying this:

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* However, one agency believes it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a laboratory that handled coronaviruses.

* But, according to four elements of the Intelligence Community and the National Intelligence Council, natural exposure to an animal with the virus was the most likely cause of the outbreak.

"""

is the exact opposite of "probably natural origin" (in an article headlined "US intelligence rules out biological weapon origin" even!) is such a tortured reading of the text it has snapped in two: the interpretation is a limp, bloody, stump being dragged along by wild horses of motivated reasoning, while the text just sits there and stares in disbelief at the hole where its actual message used to be.
Ayep. Putting aside how totally, unnecessarily long this article was, trying to force slime molds to be relevant to the human condition is a ridiculous leap. Slime molds are incredibly cool. That doesn't mean they say anything about how people should relate to one another.
The trillion-year timeframe is looking at whether there are existential risks during the 100-year one we should try to avoid.
People are often saying that code LLMs do a good job for small greenfield projects but aren’t good for maintenance, where programmers spend most of their time. This study shows excellent performance for one kind of maintenance task.
>> As with "effective altruism", the whole thing seems like an exercise in rationalizing destructive behavior in the present.

The talk of long-term vs short-term harm does seem like what you say, but Elon wanting to colonized Mars is an example that isn't like that at all and his effort seems to have positive side effects.

I see this philosophy more as "I am so self important that I think I can positively influence the course of humanity over the timescale of the universe". The irony of thinking like that while talking about the insignificance of things like WWII is telling. Like dude, you and your philosophy are damn near irrelevant like the rest of us - get some therapy for your existential angst.
zfs set primarycache=none foo/bar

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Though this will amplify reads as even metadata will need to be fetched from disk, so perhaps "=metadata" may be better.

* https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/7/zfsprops.7.html...
The biggest complaint from open source maintainera is around freeloaders. People want projects and support for free, from primarily volunteer developers. Many toute the benefits without putting money where their mouth is. The open source community is more actively trying to figure out how we can support the creators, than it ever has been.

The question is about reframing how one thinks about their support of open source. The GP that is arguing that open core does not count as open source seems like the kind of open source user that wants it for free from volunteers without consideration for the effort and compensation that it requires and deserves. Open core is a valid way to build and support open source IMHO.
39 here. I'm significantly better than in my 20s. Much more knowledge and wisdom, a bit less raw brainpower.

But I know I can force myself through hard stuff (prolog, category theory, ML research papers) but only if I can kick out instant gratification for a while (reddit, hn, videogames).

I remember this week more than 10 years ago where my graphics card died, and had to go with this ancient card with zero acceleration, and no videogames. I was surprisingly productive that week.
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1. They were trying to create this virus in Wuhan

2. It emerged in Wuhan

3. The Chinese government made it impossible for independent parties to examine the origin.

> no evidence

I am not certain this was a man-made disaster, but you simply have no credibility making the statements you are making.
> Nothing I've seen from an LLM thus far would be winning any awards or get recommended by a critic.

What paragraph have you written that won awards or was recommended by a critic? I have none to my name. These are tools whose goal is not to produce something superior to what any human could ever write, it is useful merely to improve upon what a typical person would write.
Bear in mind (look for my other comment in this post), I'm no fan of the emerging DEI Raj, or frankly the New Racialism (that race is the root of all problems) that seems to be developing along side it.

But just like this article, its one side of a complex story - so when I show up and suggest people apply a filter for ideological bias - its just that, a warning that this content should be consumed with and awareness of the ideological priors of the people writing it.

I actually want people to reconsider their own priors - but I think that to do that, you need to have a good awareness of what those priors are - not just for you, but for the media you consume.

FWIW, I'm an ardent believer in Poverty being at the root of most issues, including most cases of perceived institutional racism, because Poverty and Race have become so intrinsically linked that Race is now a proxy for Poverty.
"Some jobs will go away, that's fine."

To whom is that fine? To the people going from $2/hour to zero it certainly isn't.

I honestly cannot grasp how some people can _forcibly_ remove other people's _options_ then pat themselves on the back as some sort of armchair savior.

Yes, for some people a bad option could still be their best option. What sort of moral superpower is that that enables you to forbid a contract between two consenting adults A and B such that A wants to work for X and B that's willing to pay X, but you as a C that just won't let it happen and is willing to use force to stop it from happening
A labor shortage can coincide with pools of unemployable workers, due to a mismatch between the skills and qualifications required for open positions and those possessed by a subset of workers.
You’re right, but the thing you’re right about is true for all software, not just Wordpress.

Every piece of software out there has exploitable bugs sitting in the code just waiting to be found. Software is, fundamentally and essentially, insecure in that it is built by humans who make mistakes. A static HTML site does not protect against this since it’s still being served by a flawed software stack. Nginx has undiscovered bugs; Linux has undiscovered bugs. For sure.

But from a practical perspective, anyone running a site just wants to keep the bad guys out today, by resisting the intrusion attempts they directly experience. And for the vast majority of Wordpress sites, that is achievable with correct file and directory permissions, strong passwords, and prompt patching.
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Or government policies if only the correct party was consistently voted into office.
The period of 1 day of transmissibility before symptoms is the exact same with influenza virus. Influenza, very famously, was not transmissible enough to cause a pandemic at all, ever, and totally does not continuously circulate throughout the entire world to this day.

Oh wait.
Not to defend pg specifically, but do you think your insulting him here has more value than what people get from his "vacuous prose"? I think ChatGPT could output something like your comment, too.
> Nah, I’ll use python or other proper languages, thanks.

Python is no more "proper" than PHP as a language.

In fact, they're both identical as far as footguns go.
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Very true, it's why I really like deno for server side since it's trying to plug that gap with a nice out of the box standard library. Client side it does feel like something like lodash is the new jQuery and just mandatory to use everywhere.
> The MBA's took over the technical companies and fucked everything up, but we're just supposed to keep doing the 'right' thing? NO. Fuck them, we should get ours.

Yes. That's what Christ teaches. We live in an unjust world and we make it better by holding our moral ground despite the enormous pressures to sell out.
Well, be careful what you wish for.
Fighting against environmental destruction (including global warming) is longtermism. We need to pay some price now, but IMHO, it is worth it. The opposite is myopia - like setting a house on fire in the winter, so it will keep us warm.

What's risky is not the long-term thinking but the weights we put on real now vs the virtual future. We run into fanatism if we put all weight on our beliefs against what is here and now. Be it killing nonbelievers and heretics for the promise of eternal happiness (or preventing God from sending a calamity) or sacrificing people for one or the other secular ideology. I like the following quotation:

“Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Was it hijacked by the rich and powerful? Well, as any ideology. No, they don't believe in that nearly as they say. Compare (not much to contrast) with invading a neighboring country as it is pagan.
Social spending should be the responsibility of government. Minimum wage, like price controls, is another form of stealth welfare, with the responsibility imposed on unaccountable third parties. It would make more sense for governments to redistribute wealth directly. Minimum wage is effectively a tax on low value labor, which is obviously inefficient.
Oh the irony of issuing stern warnings about imminent loss of human thinking ability ... in a tweetstorm
an extreme example of this would be "well, would there be any demand for slaves if you had to pay them? would that be a good thing?"
Good one easily verifiable by payroll as well because the checks showed up.
Maybe something like gitolite then?

https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite

I've not used it personally though, so no idea how well it works in practise.
> But the linked-to article says the exact opposite, that COVID was probably a lab leak.

No, it does not. The article lists the opinions and results of several different organizations, and some of them think a lab-leak is possible OR even likely. But most think it was natural. That article is just very awful and disconnected written. Probably generated by some AI?
Sea lions mostly eat smaller fish, shellfish, and molluscs. They don't usually go after halibut and salmon.
I don't know, if you get hired at a factory and show up but refuse to do any actual work how does that go? Termination for refusing to work is a thing
This thread nerd-sniped me into looking up the exact definition of the dimensions. Neither standard gives the formula used to obtain the specified sizes (for A4, precisely as above, ±2 mm). But what's interesting is that we can tell from the rounded values that it is _not_ the geometric sequence that the stated principles imply,

x(n) = 1000 * 2^(-1/4 - n/2)
y(n) = 1000 * 2^( 1/4 - n/2)

y(0) = x(-1) = 1189,2 would map to the 1189 mm long side of A0 and short side of 2A0 in the standard; y(1) = x(0) = 840,9 to 841 mm; and y(2) = x(1) = 594,6 to 594 mm -- inconsistent with any common rounding scheme. This also rules out evaluation of the recursive form with intermediate rounding, and/or starting with the approximations 1,414; 0,841; and 1,189 as written in the standard.

Instead, a form that _is_ consistent is:

x(0) = 841 = round(1000 / sqrt(sqrt(2)))
y(0) = 1189 = round(1000 * sqrt(sqrt(2)))
x(n) = floor(y(n-1) / 2)
y(n) = x(n-1)

Which makes sense - once A0 has been calculated, only halving and doubling are needed to determine the other sizes.

B0 is even easier to memorize: 1000 mm x 1414 mm
>But the linked-to article says the exact opposite, that COVID was probably a lab leak.

Also incorrect. All that article really says is that we're pretty certain that it wasn't a genetically engineered weapon.

The majority of the intelligence community believes it was species overspill, but with low confidence.

A minority of the intelligence community believes it was lab leak, with a moderate level of confidence.

The best you can really take from that is there wasn't conclusive evidence available either way at the end of 2021.
They are considered to be self-employed. If they're earning more than £1000 a year, then they need to file a self-assessment tax return with HMRC, and if they're earning more than a certain amount, perhaps £12500 a year, they will need to pay income tax on those earnings (plus national insurance).

Do most gig workers actually do these things? I have no idea.
> I do value the species over the individual

Not so far into the future, people probably won't even be the same species. Even back a couple hundred thousand years, we probably couldn't mate with our ancestors. Does longtermism place value on making sure future people are genetically similar to us?

Species don't seem that important to me, in the long-term, as they are all quite ephemeral.
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similar feedback: I gave the linked video a watch, liked what I saw, went immediately to the App store to buy it - ready to spend $10, maybe as much as $20 - saw the subscription and left.
Does anybody know of major efforts to use cutting edge LLMs to read through medical/scientific literature and come up with new insights from it? Preferably open source, but closed projects as well. Of course, there are copyright issues and you might run into the tension between paid journals and open access science. The technical challenges would be interesting, though, and this seems like an incredible use case for AI to make novel connections that build on exiting literature. Not necessarily because it’s “superhuman” intelligence, but rather that it can “read” through vast amounts of text at a clip no human can.
In some circles queerness is cool and in others it is reviled and, indeed, still dangerous. That isn't hard to understand. I know a lot of queer people who were beaten by their parents, kicked out on the street, harassed by landlords, whatever, still.

It is frankly bizarre to say gay, nonbinary or trans people are "worshiped." It seems like around 40% of people actively oppose the normalization of queerness. Anti-queer laws are being passed all over the place in the country. This doesn't seem like a culture that worships queerness to me.
Late reply, I was wondering that but also, at least in the US, they tend to have older folks and retirees so that it may skew the stats. I really don't have any data on it, just speculating.
Ah. I did not see that you meant to emphasize the negative vs. positive voltage. It's true that it's negative, but given that phones are polarity independent, it doesn't really matter. I was expressing the voltage as an absolute value.
I constantly remind myself to stop using absolutes on the internet, yet I still do it.
This doesn't even remotely make the case that "longtermism" is dangerous.

It appears to be just one more of the many, many "philosophies" people talk about while they go ahead and do whatever the hell they want anyway. It does seem particularly transparent about it, but that just makes it relatively dumb, not dangerous.
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yeah, and if you want scientific validation that nonbinary humans really exist and really are nonbinary, there’s endless evidence from human biology which is far more relevant. a fanatic who refuses to acknowledge that science is not going to be swayed by a footnote about slime mold.
On the first point - why not indeed? Why ban unproductive work?
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I have ample experience with typed languages like C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, AS3, Swift, etc.

Maybe I just have exceptional memory but I rarely encounter a problem that would have been solved by using TS.
I live in Minnesota and the sun just came out in the beginning of May. I feel like I haven't felt real sun exposure since maybe October of last year. Let me tell you, I definitely take vitamin D supplements in the cold season!

As an aside, I also drink Mushroom Hero tea all winter. Love that stuff.
I can't for the life of me understand the personality cult of Sam Altman. He gives off sociopathic vibes, and looks (probably thanks to plastic surgery) creepy.
I'm not really a fan of ChatGPT, I think it's overhyped and oversold, and very fundamentally limited.

But I also completely disagree with his take, it's too broad and sweeping.

Offloading some cognitive load does not suddenly make people stupider. It just means that their focus can go elsewhere. Nor do tools that abstract away some processes.

A good example is driving. Does a manual transmission require more focus and thought? Sure! But that's focus and thought that can instead go into paying attention to surroundings. Same with having a GPS. Not having to think about the layout of the city, or how to use a map, just leaves less distraction and cognitive load.

Another is programming. Having high-level languages instead of having to write assembly does not make programmers worse. It just means that instead of having to worry about byte alignment, structure packing and nuanced cache details - they can instead focus on providing more features and functionality to the end user - which is a good thing!

ChatGPT at its best will be like those two examples. Something that removes some existing load and lets us handle higher level, more abstract problems.
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