skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'd agree with sentiment in this threat that GPT-4 and current AI models are not dangerous yet, I guess what I don't understand is why so many people here believe we should allow private companies to continue to develop the technology until someone develops something dangerous?

Those here who don't believe AI should be regulated, do you not believe AI can be dangerous? Is that you believe a dangerous AI is so far away that we don't need to start regulating now?

Do you accept that if someone develops a dangerous AI tomorrow there's no way to travel back in time and retroactively regulate development?

It just seems so obvious to me that there should be oversight in the development of a potentially dangerous technology that I can't understand why people would be against it. Especially for arguments as weak as "it's not dangerous yet".
Aside from being green and that, why would a consumer care about a leased processor's performance per watt?
Hey there, fellow journaler! The way you describe it, you could be me. I also use DayOne. I started about a month after you and am on day 1,236. TBH, I think the streak feature is very motivating.

I say the same exact things to others about my experience. I love that it captures a snapshot of my life a truly unique period in US history. It captures my adventures jogging through the center of NYC busy streets during the lockdown, and all sorts of other adventures. I can tell you in reasonable detail every single notable thing about my last holiday trip, or any other place I've been.

I've also become the de-facto historian in my household. When my wife remembers something and wants to know a detail about it, I'm usually able to give at least a general summary of the experience.

In order to get over any resistance, I made a deal with myself that I could put as little or as much in as I want, and that I wouldn't be too personal. I guess you could say it's somewhat of an everyday travelog. It's the first time in my life that I actually carried through with journalling.

I've also been able to pick out trends when I compare the data on my Whoop vs activities and meals on a certain day. I don't always capture my meals, but I do often enough that it provides help when I'm trying to find a trend.

Here's a really strange random trend I discovered: On nights where I eat burrito bowls from Chipotle, I get measurably more deep and REM sleep.

I could go on all day about the ways my journal has been useful. I'll leave it there.

Edit: Just for fun, I send a link to this thread to my wife. She mistook your post as being from me at first. LOL
If the climate-change induced sea level rise needs 1-2 metres of mitigation, and you have 100-200 metre deep depressions, you need to cover 1% of the Earth's surface (total, not just land) with these seafloods. Doesn't seem like a plausible mitigation, I'm puzzled why the article proposed it.

The other benefits might be interesting locally some places.
"Assistive Access distills experiences across the Camera, Photos, Music, Calls, and Messages apps on iPhone to their essential features in order to lighten their cognitive load for users."

I might use this myself even though I'm not disabled.
'can be considered "constitutional"' is a function of the persons interpretation. Is it not the case that whether a law passes is affected by the interpretations of 'can be considered "constitutional"' by the powers that can influence the outcome.
It's bizarre to suggest Vint Cerf has anything to prove in such a manner at this point.
Sure if you are using tiny net(by today's standard) and small batch sizes, A100 is just twice as fast compared to 3090 due to overhead of framework and memory movement. A100 has 312 FP16 TFlops[1], compared to 40 and 82.6 of 3090 Ti and 4090 respectively[2], and has 3x memory. Also it has 10x inter GPU communication bandwidth.

[1]: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...

[2]: https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/Data-Center/l4/n...
Apple is now worth more than the entire Russell 2000
https://archive.is/TiisY
A few years ago I realized my days all kind of blurred together.

So I started journaling. I eventually built a good habit of doing it once a week. Every week, I read the previous entry and then write a new entry. Around the end of the year, I go back and read the whole year.

I prefer to use a physical journal with nice paper and a decent pen.

It has been very transformative for me. I write about my experiences and I write about what I read. I also write about what changes I want to make, and reflect on how changes I wanted to make are going.

Reviewing my thoughts in this way has led me 1) to be more forgiving of myself, focusing more on growth instead of failure and 2) to make incremental progress on objectives I have.
How about this modus ponens chain: "eating less meat" -> "lowering meat production" -> "hiking up meat prices" -> "autoimmune sufferers unable to buy meat" -> "autoimmune sacrificed"
>> A widely known basketball team wins NBA finals

> Depends on the audience i guess, im not sure i can name a basketball team.

It's bordering on tautology. After all, who else would win National Basketball Association finals - a soccer team? A more astute reader will also observe that NBA finals aren't something casually won by random teams nobody heard of - by the time they get to the finals, the team is already widely-known.

Equally informative, but non-clickbait version of the headline, would be "NBA finals complete" - or, for basketball fans, "Today is 18th of June, 2023".
IMHO all of these kinds of blatant lobbying/regulatory capture proposals should be resolved using a kind of Dionisian method.

'Who is your most feared competition? OK, They will define the license requirements. Still want to go ahead?'
I’ve just set a white wallpaper on my iPad and the clock and date are displayed as block on white. On my dark wallpaper the clock and date are displayed inverted as white. This works with dark or light mode also with background dimming on or off.
If this is the case, why haven't we trained Echo devices to speak with Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's voice yet?
I have used Cubase for 25 years. A video conferencing app is just not the same category even remotely.

This is like trying to build Maya or Blender in a browser without an art background but having to deal with ms latency.

I just don't see the point. I don't even like Logic because the Cubase workflow is transparent to me at this point.

Even the idea of grabbing pirated DAW software to get an intuition is kind of absurd if you have never made music at all. It is exactly the problem I have had with trying to learn Maya. I can't even draw something on paper. The idea a dev with no background in the domain is going to add something to software that has been evolving from very specific domain knowledge in a highly complex and unbound domain for multiple decades is utterly absurd.
I hadn't heard of RIPscrip but NAPLPS/Telidon were big here — in the sense of talk and free money, not in the sense that anyone actually used them.

(I remember the hype, but it was before my working life. I have a Telidon keypad in my hoard, though.)

Thanks for the correction about xterm, BTW. I think I believed, until yesterday, that dxterm was an xterm derivative.
Ha, I just finished “The Player of Games,” and I agree.
Not clueless. However, is he an expert in socio-political-economic issues arising from AI or in non-existent AGI? Technical insight into AI might not translate into either.
Exactly.

Asbestos has been banned for most usage in Canada since the early 1990's.

However... Canada continues to be one of the biggest exporter of Asbestos in global-trade.

Can't allow multi-national - and national corporations with local holdings to not turn a profit, right? After all - there are local jobs that are more important... (well, until the taxes collected on those activities are outweighed by the healthcare costs of the local population as they age...)
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I journal daily, morning and end-of-(work)day. It's interwoven with my daily planning so it looks more like a TODO list with personal comments than a plain journal.

For the benefits:
- Writing: I'm faster and clearer than before, and I continue to progress.
- Memory: When I feel unproductive at the end of the week, I look back at my entries. Most of the times, I have to recognize that I did more than I remembered at the moment.
- Structure: In the morning, it signals "work starts now". At 4:30 PM, it means "put an end to the current tasks, and setup tomorrow for success".
- Personal: It helps to process emotions and internal grumblings.

It took me a while to stop caring about journaling and actually start using my journal for /anything/. At first, I felt obligated to make an entry each day, fill all the fields, tick all the boxes, and be happy with the result. You don't have to. It's your journal, you can do whatever so make it work for you.
Very common in these circles (banking), and in most places it is even forbidden to log in to your private accounts from a company network. The popular options (eg. gmail, social media) are obviously blocked. This makes sense on multiple levels, for example stops you just uploading internal documents to your private account...

Mitm is done via the proxy, which has its own SSL certificate, using company CA, so anything you send or receive is obviously captured and repackaged by the proxy. One more reason not to do anything related to your private life on company systems. TBH it is not that big a deal in this age of tablets and mobile phones and mobile subscriptions.

A bit more annoying is the blocking of Stackoverflow, for example (you can read stuff, but you can't post / ask), for this reason internal QA sites exist, with more or less success.

And by far the most annoying thing is that you cannot post to HN, well, at least it is not univserally blocked, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this post now... :)
Hinton, in his own words, asked PaLM to explain a dad joke he had supposedly come up with and was so convinced that his clever and advanced joke would take a lifetime of experience to understand, despite PaLM perfectly articulating why the joke was funny, he quit Google and is, conveniently, still going to continue working on AI, despite the "risks." Not exactly the best example.
Yeah a 97% interest checking or savings account at the local Argentinian bank doesn't sound too bad at all.
> One could make a hypothetical argument that if a known terrorist planted a bomb that would kill thousands of innocent people and the terrorist was caught before the bomb exploded it might be considered "for the greater good" to use extreme measures to find out where the bomb is and how to disarm it.

Which is a fun scenario to contemplate for entertainment, but decades of research and a fair amount of rather upsetting empirical evidence shows that torture does not actually work.

All those stories where torture is used to get information? Just stories.

Jack Bauer? A fictional character.

If you want to get information out of otherwise-hostile people, you need to make a connection with them. You need them to trust you.

Torture is only good at establishing dominance and breaking people's spirit. People will tell you anything they think you want to hear to stop torture, regardless of whether it's true.

> So what is the ethically correct choice?

Easy. Don't torture people. It has no positive uses.
Hopefully someone will do a TL;DR; on this.
csail-related really wasn't all that private. Anybody at MIT could add themselves to it (and perhaps could add others to it) and many undergraduates did just to see Stallman make the comments he did. (Long before this scandal, he had several amusing habits and mannerisms on this particular list.) It wasn't exactly public, but it wasn't really private either. And there had been prior scandals from it that had been made public ("a mailing list" in this article but I remember it happening on csail-related): https://thetech.com/2017/04/20/egg-donor-advert
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For me recently, it was learning about backpropagation with batch normalisation.

I realised that I had many gaps understanding what and how to partially derive with vectors and making sure their dimensions aligned with the 'with respect to variable'.

Most of my exposure was just to 'variables/letters' and not vectors. So thinking in dimensions during derivation caught me off guard.

Edit: It took my 3 days on and off to figure it out...
i delete mine when i have a job, i create it again when in job hunting. the emails are annoying as hell lol and recruiters call you a lot.

i got nice job from it though, just secured it last week.
Every organism alive today out-competed some “native” organism to get there, that isn’t an issue. The 2nd point is the only relevant point, and it’s weak as can be.
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I spend a lot of time on Twitter, I love to curate tweets so sharing a few gems here with you.

I scroll, so you don't have to!

Let's dive in.
It's not any worse than introducing a new abstraction when there previously wasn't one. At least in a statically typed language one will quickly identify those touch points. When introducing a new abstraction there is no such help.
The desktop computer I've been using since 2015 doesn't have a TPM and is still plenty fast for my needs. And probably lots of machines a fair bit newer don't have them either. Hardware from 2020 is very new.

Luckily, I have no desire to run Windows 11.
Avoiding a database that has a proven historical record of disregarding data consistency and resorting to marketing gimmicks is "irrational ideology"?

Not everyone has time to review every single line of code in their tech stacks. Past reputation is important, and your replies here don't seem to be of much help to MongoDB's reputation as far as I can tell.
Get some sleep. This is utter nonsense.
Researchers find security flaw in Wemo Smart Plug, Belkin says it won’t fix it
> University funding varies wildly in the UK and it mostly correlates with ranking, at least the 'higher-up' universities generally have more disposal income to give to researchers.

This is how the entirety of the UK works. All the funding goes to London, everywhere else gets nothing. All the laws are written to benefit the landlord and investor classes, everyone else gets nothing etc. Little recognition that the entire nation is meant to be one big tribe, barely any redistribution or attempts to raise up the failing parts. In my opinion, the ruling classes have never really abandoned their colonial mindset, and now their overseas power has waned they treat the rest of the UK as a colony of the City and Westminster.
poe.com has a pretty broad collection of LLMs, and for the most part is free.
This is why all the Alpha%wildcard% projects use self play, that along with a fitness function, or score maximizer generates their training data rather than have to show it records of games. You just let it play the game.
This fell off the front page incredibly fast. Caught by the anti-flamewar code?
Regulation is the only tool for minimizing crime. Other mechanisms, such as police, respond to crime after-the-fact.
If an article has context and substance to understand the impact, is the name that important in the title?

Could it be that upon learning the name, the reader would want to determine context and applicability to their life?

There’s a subtle line between a hook and bait. Maybe this type of a title makes. A scientific topic more approachable.

I’m not sure I’d title it the same way, but it is generating discussion and awareness :)
If you are using hardware provided by the firm, you ARE on the VPN. If not, network is blocked (as are all private hardware items like pen drives, for obvious reasons).
TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
Basically Tiny Language Models (below 10m parameters or only one transformer block) can generate paragraphs of coherent text and reason....provided training is limited to stories that only contain words typical 3 to 4 year olds would understand.
I don't believe classical style visual art is overrated. My local art gallery, the AGO, had a large exhibition on Caravaggio a few years ago and I remember seeing the shocked expressions on the majority of the visitors.
Safer? CC4 decomposes into phosgene at high (about 250 Celcius) temperature, which is why using it in fire extinguishers was a bad idea but TCE does that when simply exposed to light, at room temperature. And if those LD/LC numbers that I'm looking at are correct, TCE is actually slightly more toxic.
The Adolescence of P-1 is also a good novel from the same period with similar early AI themes.
This is wonderfully inspiring! I think journaling forcing you to write about things that matter. While you could write on what you had for breakfast every morning, often journaling draws attention to the moments that resonated with you.
Could the article be primarily written for people who don’t know about TCE?
This isn't a trick question, genuinely curious – do you agree that guns are not the problem and should not be regulated – yes, while they can be used for harm, the right approach to gun violence is to police the crime.

I think the objection to this would be that currently not everyone in the world an expert in biochemistry or at hacking into computer systems. Even if you're correct in principal, perhaps the risks of the technology we're developing here is too high? We typically regulate technologies which can easily be used to cause harm.
I've spent most of my programming life working in OOP. I see people critical of it, but I don't know what the alternative is for the kind of stuff I do for my job (not to say I have a choice in changing how we do it). Does anyone know of an open source project that implements a complex GUI app that doesn't use OOP so I can see what that code can look like?
There are perfectly good reasons for having unions in finance. This is definitely not one of them.

The heavy monitoring of communications, access etc is mandated by regulators primarily for the protection of customers. There's zero chance a union, or any other body below government, will get them to change that. I doubt they'd even try and nor should they.
I'd rather claim that the main reason is that the author seemed drawn towards proprietary tech stacks that the companies behind them wanted to fully control and that contributed to their demise. It was clear from the start that Flash and VB and ColdFusion and all that wouldn't last long, just because no open ecosystem could form to keep them adapting and vibrant.

I feel that's substantially different with Python, Go, JS and ... C/C++.
One of my favorite series in the 90s in high school! I had the same mental connection you did. Gerrold also wrote the "Trouble With Tribbles" episode of the original Star Trek, which is similar to the Chtorr books.

From what I understand, Gerrold had a son with severe learning disabilities and was unable to finish it. Which sucks, but I also understand.

...and reading that wiki link, I see 1 or 2 books are in the works, though no updates since 2017 or so. I'll put this fact in my GRRM bin for now.
The suggestion for Practical Electronics for Inventors is a good one.

You’re right: AoE is a rough sled as a brand new electronics learner.
One of the issues is availability. Lambdalabs and Paperspace never have instances available. AWS and GCP have the per-account quota set to 0 by default for GPU instances and deny requests to raise it, even to 1. (One of my AWS accounts was granted 1 GPU after some back-and-forth with support.) I'm not upset, I understand that demand is high, but how will oblivus handle availability?
They are already dangerous in the way they cause global anxiety and fear in people, and also because the effects of their usage to the economy and real lives of the people are unpredictable.

AI needs to be regulated and controlled, the alternative is chaos.

Unfortunately the current demented fossile and greedy monopolist lead system is most likely incapable of creating a sane & fair environment for the development of AI. I can only hope I'm wrong.
The more relevant article for those who are curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
My thoughts exactly. OKR- and measurement-based management -- so ubiquitous as to be almost synonymous with "management" -- seem to accelerate certain short-term movement, at the cost of stagnation in the long term. Punctuated equilibrium is replaced by a whirling vortex.
Lol no. It’s an interesting idea but photography didn’t kill the purpose of painting on the 1850’s, it just nudged human creativity into new dimensions of abstraction and images that were not attempts at rendering reality. There’s no end of history, and we’re certainly not sitting at the death of visual media. The drive for art, beauty, culture, and shared experience will continue. Creativity will meet that demand. Yes many of us have seen a lot and maybe can’t predict what for new creativity will take.
This is a bad attitude, and doesn't acknowledge the importance of collaboration.

Now in a given position you may not have appropriate communications skills (or missed a memo, intent, constraint) but if you keep your criticisms objective and organized, this probably isn't a trap.

Leveraging some hard to address criticism in a public setting, too late, and viciously is very different from a timely, short, semi-private email. It's rule 1 of communication: know your audience.
This abundant material could unlock cheaper batteries for EVs
So he wants to use fear to pull the ladder up behind him. Nice.
I'd assume food stores could be made to last long enough to enact some kind of rationing, and thus lack of chemical fertilizers will have a less profound effect. The point isn't that we would have to sustain ourselves as before, but to be able to sustain on some kind of level.
a) These features are truly moving. I didn’t expect to get emotional from a press release.
b) It’s gonna be a bonkers keynote if they’re releasing this before WWDC.
I'm interested in your comment about copyright being proposed for stability. Can you direct me to a source please? If you have a reference or a hint for further research, I'd like to read into it more.
But it’s not written for you specifically.

Since this is related to a Marine base, I’ll give you an example. What if the headline was “2/4 gets new Bradleys”

To a Marine, it’s a clear headline: 2nd Battalion 4th Marine Regiment gets new armored personnel carriers”. But to a laymen a better headline would be “Marine unit gets new Tanks.” The former would be almost deliberately meaningless to a casual reader.
One of the side effects of the crypto craze has been a lot of general citizens possessing quite a few GPUs. It turns out those GPUs are just as good at training models as they are at mining crypto.

The big companies don't like that.
The Metal Gear Solid boss fight with Psycho Mantis is my favorite example of rarely-seen game mechanics (in this case in a video game).

(Spoiler alert on a game from 1998.)
https://www.thegamer.com/metal-gear-solid-psycho-mantis-boss...
> I might use this myself even though I'm not disabled.

Also see curb cuts (1)

(1) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/