skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people saying it was the original wiki, but let me spell out what that actually means.

Before the C2 WikiWikiWeb, few web sites had experimented with making it possible for its users to alter the site's contents. Granted, there were many sites with messaging forums you could post to, and there were places where you could add review or contribute new content entries, but not anything I can remember where you could edit the fabric of the site itself. Sites back then were 'published' by someone who owned them, and any contributions would go through a moderation process before they would be accepted and published, so there was no immediacy to such edits.

The C2 wiki wiki web allowed any user to immediately make an edit or create a new page, and it the site relied upon its persistent history to roll back changes that the community deemed destructive. I remember feeling quite excited by the concept because it was so alien at the time -- that someone was willing to allow anonymous users to put stuff on a site they were ultimately publishing.

The C2 WikiWikiWeb experiment is what ultimately lead to the creation of Wikipedia: an encyclopaedia that could be edited by the end users, hence the name. (In turn, the WikiWikiWeb was named from the Hawaiian word 'wikiwiki' meaning 'quick', which alluded to the lack of any moderation steps in its edits.)
"Nurses, policemen and shopping clerks cannot afford living in the capital anymore" is a problem that transcends the US.

Prague is pretty tranquil and does not have any rioting. It also has a major housing affordability problem.

I believe the common denominator are the NIMBYs, who can very efficiently mobilize all sorts of environmental and other regulations to achieve their goal of ossifying everything.
I'm convinced that barring kids who are exclusively homeschooled, every kid has a way to bypass these restrictions either by themselves or with a classmates help.

Source: was a kid not that long ago.
To be clear, donations from a person to a corporate PAC, and subsequent donations by that PAC, were not affected by Citizens United.

Citizens United removed limits on “outside expenditures,” but disclosure is still required. Netflix reported no outside expenditures in 2020, for expample (also viewable at Open Secrets).
Do they?

You still have a little dopamine generator in every kids pocket, just waiting for another app that's not technically social media.

Conversely social media without constant access through mobiles would be far safer.
Self-destruction? The guy was murdered by an upset brother. How is that self-destruction?
I keep seeing "very low to low certainty evidence" - what does this mean? I read it as "there is an indicator of this, but it is so low signal as to potentially be noise.

If that is the case, it seems "it slightly maybe helps but doesn't seem to do much at all".
> As someone with ADHD, I have to disagree with people in this thread who believe it’s easy to get medication.

I agree. In fact I have many friends who likely have it that haven't been able to get medication.

I was "lucky" because I had a childhood diagnosis which really sped things up for me.

> Many of the steps you take to get on medication when you don’t need it seem trivial. To someone with ADHD, each of those steps is a barrier that they have a high chance of failing to clear because they “just forget” or “don’t follow up.”

This is truly a profound thought I hadn't thought of.

I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to just answer the first question on my ADHD questionnaire.

The amount of friction I had at just searching for help was insane.

If I compare that to me on medication though, I know that the quasi-"normal" experience of this same thing is "this is easy - just... do it?". In fact it's sometimes quite hard to have compassion for non-medicated me struggling to do a few chores while me on medication does the whole week of chores in a day.

> Needing to setup and coordinate appointments amplified by the regular required checkins, the monitoring of “steady use” in filling your prescriptions, on-again off-again potentially impacting your eligibility.

Yes, in the periods of time I've forgotten to take my medication I've missed many of these checkin appointments and was warned missing them could affect my eligibility.

> I don’t like being on ADHD medication because of the side-effects and the impact on how I communicate. So I frequently fall off the wagon. As soon as I’m off my prescription, the obstacle course starts over and I have to navigate it to get back on my medication.

I agree with this. I would give the advice of giving a buffer day where you take your medication because the first day back on for me (and probably others) is things can be quite overwhelming.

So one thing I try to do is make sure if I skip meds for Fri/Sat I take it Sun or Mon productivity will be affected by the jarring difference between medicated/not medicated.
Most of SPA websites today cannot be downloaded through httrack.
I don't think my political enemies need any kind of precedent to piss on my rights. If one doesn't exist before they take power, they'll happily establish it.
>1) Do you think that AI achieving superhuman cognitive abilities is unlikely/really far away?

I think that an AI, a "generalized" intelligence with a generalized understanding, capable of performing every intellectual task, and adapting to new intellectual tasks, that a human being can do is certainly far away.

>2) Do you believe that cognitive superiority is not a threat in general, or specifically when not embodied?

Personally, I believe that "cognitive superiority" in a general sense is not what makes a real threat on an individual or on a global scale in either case. When that is achieved, so to speak. We already have so-called cognitive superiority in specialized tasks in many cases. It sure as shit is not generalized, and it still can kill you on an individual level when you put it into a car or strap a gun to it. But it can't adapt, and it can't generalize.

Is there a global risk right now? No. The global catastrophic risk comes from human beings. Will there be a global catastrophic risk from a superior intelligence in the future? Mostly the scenarios are "the lights come on and AI does machiavellian shit and copies itself to everyone's smart phones and launches the nukes and mails anthrax to everybody. QED." so I doubt it.

3) Do you think we can trivially and indefinitely keep AI systems under control/"aligned"?

We can't even keep our infrastructure safe from the next solar flare. Personally, I think we have bigger fish to fry. Speaking frankly for unembodied: you just pull the plug. Just walk away from the screen and close your eyes. For embodied intelligence, I don't think there's actually X-risk or whatever. Hardware is expensive.

As far as an extinction risk, no. I don't personally believe that. It's overblown. We have better ways to destroy ourselves, and there are much more likelier ways that we'll be destroyed without invoking some intelligence of our own creation that subjugates and destroys us.
There are ample rea$on$ why non-American actor$ can do decent American accent$.

It opens up American roles for them. Nobody is going to cast Brad Pitt as a Brit, an Australian, or a Kiwi. He's a fantastic actor, but they're going to use the homegrown talent. So there's no incentive for American actors to really learn another accent. Instead, we get a mountain of non-American actors doing mostly-good-but-sometimes-awful accents because that's where the money is.
"I hope you come away with a new appreciation that trade-offs exist, there is no free lunch despite the implementation language or algorithms used. Optimizations exist, but you can’t optimize for everything. In distributed systems you won’t find companies or projects that state that they optimized for CAP in the CAP theorem. Equally, we can’t optimize for high throughput, low latency, low cost, high availability and high durability all at the same time. As system builders we have to choose our trade-offs, that single silver-bullet architecture is still out there, we haven’t found it yet."
That's a very good question. I will look into that. Still, all that social media junk also works on a tablet.
This sounds like entrenched interest trying to throw a wrench into something that can disrupt their business. DNA is already so easy to get from anywhere it isn't a concern anymore. Even the article said it, the entire vetting process is voluntary. There is just a single checkbox to verify you aren't doing anything illegal and that is it.

The current security measures are already effective enough. Vet the buyers' identity. These machines should only be sold to verified labs, not personal ones. And disallow reselling. DNA is not so scary without all the other stuff that allow it to turn into proteins.
Make drugs easier to get and start educating people more about it and let them choose.

It can't be that a doctor who can't look into you decide if you are better with it or not.

Abuse is real but gatekeeping is a real problem.

Kids is a problem and imature people are.

But also everyone above some magic line are absolutely able to get it one way or the other
The first thought I had at the release of ChatGPT is how people will react strongly when it doesn't match their internal bias / worldview.

Now I am curious to ask these "uncensored" models questions that people fight about all day on forums... will everyone suddenly agree that this is the "truth", even if it says something they disagree with? Will they argue that it is impossible to rid them of all bias, and the specific example is indicative of that?
What is the URL of Claude web UI? I somehow cannot find it.
Perhaps not intentional on the NYT's part, but I found the phrasing of "college graduates" deeply misleading: to me it implies a departure of younger demographics from cities, when the article is actually about college educated white-collar workers in the 40-to-64 demographic. In other words, the established family households to "empty nester" demographic.

In fact, the only mention of younger college graduates is in a wiggle phrase with no attached statistic:

> Younger educated workers were at first a bulwark against that trend, but have increasingly migrated away from these regions, too.

(The same can be said for the article's statistics -- it's misleading, at best, to limit the analysis to 2020 and 2021.)
>Such licenses are "practical and effective"

Effective for 10 years, to be precise. What then?

There's been exactly zero ZeniMax games announced for rivalling consoles after the Microsoft buyout in 2021 despite Microsoft telling the European regulators that it wasn't in their interest to withold games from other platforms. Hi-Fi Rush is exclusive, Redfall is exclusive and the PS5 version was scrapped, and Starfield is exclusive.
“ biggest GPT-powered e-learning startup will compete with higher ed - Stanford, MIT, etc.”

The higher up the content complexity pipeline you go, the more complex and correct the content will need to be. For this reason, the biggest e-learning AI product will disrupt the bottom of the market first (k-12) to replace legacy curriculum and assessment companies.
Makes sense if they don't need JavaScript for hn.
Where can I get one? I can't find it on Ali :(
Just wondering if there’s some lobbying by sugar companies involved here…
ADHD has been estimated to impact 5% of the population for years now. 4% of children and 2% of adults are diagnosed with ADHD.

That's under diagnosis, not over diagnoses.
My kids don’t have phones. They are the only ones among their peers who don’t have a phone. I told them they can get one when they write an app and get it listed on the App Store, not before.

Most people I tell this to are impressed. The only time I got crucified was the last time I mentioned it on HN. This seems to be a particular bone to pick that HN users have.
From my understanding the evidence of gut biome modification is weak, and would require a large volume consumption.
Some NSS will cause temporary stomach upset if it’s your first few times consuming them. But I don’t think this has any long term impacts on gut health.
Some NSS are healthy for your oral micro biome (erythritol for sure).
We both know that's not the most charitable, good-faith interpretation of my comment.

I think I've made it clear that I have personal experience in this area; but if it wasn't, I'll add in a disclaimer: I've been diagnosed with ADHD as a child; I have taken and continue to take stimulant medication. I've been through the ringer, passed around from one mental health professional to another -- along with personal research and experimentation.

I do not like stimulants. I think they are useful for masking unresolved underlying issues, where necessary. Other times, I detest their usage as PEDs in the workplace.

I think there are better ways to "treat" ADHD. Unfortunately, many times one does not have the resources or information to do so well.

Currently I'm working through CPTSD treatment to resolve what is essentially a constant inability to relax or focus, or maintain a "productive" and "well put together" life, or not self-destruct every time things take a poor turn. If you're being treated for ADHD solely by stimulant medications, I would urge you to explore further.
It's worth giving it a try. I'm not a VSCode fan, but I only know that from trying it out. You never know.
Kodak invented the digital camera. Being first doesn't mean much. New competitors don't have anything inside the moat (their existing business) to protect and can move faster.
This conversation is not around murder, or data on murder, or pre-crime. It’s a very poor point. I struggle with how to incorporate partisanship into the dialogue. On one hand, it’s potentially useful for achieving reform. On the other, I expect that you’d be content to establish unfair policies that resulted in actual harm based on mere disagreement. The sense of justice is perverted. But sure, come on in and oppose surveillance and promote a broad definition of protest.
I know a number of people who moved from across the pond that actually do American phonemes fairly well. What gives them away are minor inflections and sentence cadences that sound a little off. Hard to describe, but it makes them sound like the are trying to speak to everything “as a matter of fact” and towards the very front of their mouth. For an example, listen to Freddie Highmore in season 1 of Bates Motel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35948854
Germany didn't lose WWII due to a lack of combat effectiveness among its troops.
This is simplistic: "AI operates by making high-probability choices". AI has parameters like "temperature" (GPT) or "--creative" (Midjourney) which can trivially steer the AI towards lower probability choices.

My guess is we'll end up with a 2nd "author" neural net to do highly "creative" work. The second net represents the POV of the author, its "life experience" and political leanings. It will choose lower probability options very mindfully, with deep meaning relative to the author.
The article is about the 40-to-64 demographic, not young folks.

(This isn't your fault for misunderstanding that -- the article's phrasing goes to lengths to imply otherwise.)
Innovation itself is a copycat process. It is always carried out by aggregating and using previously learned or acquired processes and tools.

The harder it is to copy the innovative process in a given domain, and the greater the number and magnitude of fundamental rules that gatekeep the definition of “success” in successful innovation, the harder it is to innovate in that domain.

AI is moving up the creativity ladder from low copying difficulty and low definition-of-success creative innovation to progressively more difficult and high definition-of-success creativity. There’s no reason to believe it will stop.

When you say AI can’t be creative, because of its predictive and copycat nature, you’re saying the same of humans. It just becomes a semantic argument with little substance. At some point, when AI makes a mind-bending discovery on its own, before making a mind-bending discovery every day, no one will be arguing over AI’s capacity to innovate anymore.

Footnote: The copycat nature of innovation is why it is so sequential. When copying is all you’re doing, it’s hard to leapfrog. All the prerequisites for an innovation must be achieved first, before they themselves are iterated on to push the innovative frontier. When a prerequisite is leapfrogged, it isn’t a true prerequisite, and clever use of ur-prerequisites proves to be enough to assemble the innovation. Clever copy and pasting is copying nonetheless. Even cleverness may be copied :) National, institutional, and familial cultures often systematize different types of cleverness, depending on their objective function. When they face an external shock, they often attempt to copy and internalize some cultural firmware from their opponents/other third parties, or modify their own firmware in the same way that they always do, just with a greater degree of urgency - another copy and pasted trope, with a cartoonishly concrete outline that Pixar can show you in a movie created using its systematized creative process.

Our most impressive and fundamental innovations are coming out of literal systems - university systems and corporate R&D systems, with rules, processes, and quotas. Even the diversity of Turkish cuisine is the result of systematized culinary innovation in the Ottoman imperial kitchen. Now pass me a plate of copy pasta because that’s the only kind of pasta that exists.

Here’s a scary thought: For millions of years, humans did nothing other than hunt, cook, sleep, draw stick figures, and communicate about hunting, cooking, and drawing stick figures.

Those were humans with the same brains as us (if we met them we’d think they’re quite stupid - which is a testament to how much of our intelligence is embedded in learned processes).

Is GPT-4 really that far off from their level of intelligence and creativity? This is not a rhetorical question, and your answer has direct implications for your own intelligence, because, again, you have the same hardware.

Raising a caveman to be smart is an easier problem to solve than raising a monkey to be smart.
True, but comparing a domesticated animal in a feed lot to wild animals doesn't really track.

Comparing hippo deaths in captive populations, like in zoos, ate more comparable to domesticated farm animals.
Valley talk is generational it was at its peak from 82-90ish with Clueless.
I hope that they will respond with their own high quality sources and demonstrate how they reach their conclusion. Then maybe some commentary on why they believe their conclusion and sources contradict yours or how it changes their opinion.

I hope.
It's not. This is a moral panic piece.
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Use alternatives sugars while drinking kombucha? Balance it out?

Probably best to just skip them altogether.
Saying that only people with ADHD should get ADHD medication sounds similar to me as saying that people who are shit at sports should be allowed to use exogenous testosterone so that they are able to compete. As far as I've understood, ADHD medication works the same way whether you have ADHD or not. In my analogy, the only difference between sports performance and ability to focus is that we don't call bad sport performance a "Muscle Deficiency Disorder" because we lack renounce the idea that everyone should be able to perform at the top level in sports.
You must mean added sugar, right? Or do you really eat no fruits, nuts, etc?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there other ways that diabetes is caused with bad diet, aside from eating a lot of sugar straight? I imagine artificial sweeteners could have an effect of not significantly changing one's diet enough or compensating in other ways.

I'm sure people who put the effort in other areas of their diet with NSS, will see results. But people who see NSS as a cheatcode to continue their habits might not see results.

Framing NSS as a way to not change habits and continue to enjoy various treats might obfuscate the mechanisms for losing weight and cause weight loss to not occur.
You ever hear of French New Wave or glitchcore?
There's no reason to think this would have worked. To quote Jared Diamond, only 14 of 148 large herbivorous mammals have ever been domesticated because they need very specific traits to be domesticable - pleasant disposition being one of them that hippos lack.

Is there any evidence that humans have ever succeeded in domesticating hippos?
Bring back the flip phone.

Got a kid, give them Motorola.

Job done.
Solar and storage get cheaper as they scale because they are highly iterable simple technologies with low consequences of failure. Solar has gotten cheaper by 15% compounded over the last 30 years. Batteries are getting cheaper by ~20% per year for the last 20 years. This trend is likely to continue.

Nuclear does not enjoy the benefit of scalability because it is complex, highly regulated, and the risks associated with failure are large.
It was a wiki that didn't try to separate the content from the community that created it, so it was more like a forum where people could more or less agree on how to summarize a thread.
Stevia (and many of these substitutes) are full of erythritol, which is recently in the news as questionable [0].

Some of them even market themselves as things like 'Monk Fruit'... but erythritol is the first ingredient [1].

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Sweetener-Erythritol-Sugar-Fr...
Ehhhh, much like children it really depends on the dog.

I have a counter surfer at home, and we tried the negative reinforcement, time-outs, loud noises ect, and all it did was give her food aggression where she never had any before.

Training leave it and removing opportunities for her to steal worked out way better long term. Now if she finds a chicken bone or something on a walk I can just take it from her when before when she’d do her damndest to hide it.
This post is a culmination of a trend I'm been seeing where LLMs are made synonymous with AGI. AFAIK you can't use an LLM to drive a car.

In the context of this thread, I don't think Google could sell more ads with an LLM which is why they sat on this technology. It disrupts their current business, while being more expensive and harder to monetize (charging a subscription to consumer is worse than a monopolized ad business charging hundreds of millions to corporations).
Thanks!

We are really, truly, and seriously committed to building a device that with support from Home Assistant and other integrations doesn't leave any reason whatsoever to buy an Echo or similar creepy commercial device. No compromises on cost, performance, accuracy, speed, usability, functionality, etc.

We're really looking forward to getting additional testing and feedback from the community on speech recognition results, other integrations, etc. It's just two of us working on this part time over the last month or so - this is VERY early but I think we're off to a good start!
You have an inalienable right to express any view on abortion in the US, regardless of merit.
That last part scared me! I tend to have ADB debug over USB always enabled on my phone but I'm not in any way enabling debug over wifi now I know this.
you haven't been on the tube, have you?
It seems like the average consumer of diet sweeteners is already likely to be overweight, diabetic, or have other ailments. This article seems highly sensationalized. For the average person, the risk of sugar impacting blood glucose levels seems far riskier than any side effect of a NSS