skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've already ceded all authority to an algorithm that no one can turn off. Our political and economic structures are running on their own, and no single human or even group of humans can really stop them if they go off the rails. If it's in humanity's best interest for companies not to dump waste anywhere they want, but individual companies benefit from cheap waste disposal, and they lobby regulators to allow it, that sort of lose-lose situation can go on for a very long time. It might be better if everyone could coordinate so that all companies had to play by the same rules, and we all got a cleaner environment. But it's very hard to break out.

Do I think capitalism has the potential to be as bad as a runaway AI? No. I think that it's useful for illustrating how we could end up in a situation where AI takes over because every single person has incentives to keep it on, even when the outcome of all people keeping it running turns out to be really bad. A multi-polar trap, or "Moloch" problem. It seems likely to end up with individual actors all having incentives to deploy stronger and smarter AI, faster and faster, and not to turn them off even as they start to either do bad things to other people or just the sheer amount of resources dedicated to AI starts to take its toll on earth.

That's assuming we've solved alignment, but that neither we or AGI has solved the coordination problem. If we haven't solved alignment, and AGIs aren't even guaranteed to act in the interest of the human that tries to control them, then we're in worse shape.

Altman used the term "cambrian explosion" referring to startups, but I think it also applies to the new form of life we're inventing. It's not self-replicating yet, but we are surely on-track on making something that will be smart enough to replicate itself.

As a thought experiment, you could imagine a primitive AGI, if given completely free reign, might be able to get to the point where it could bootstrap self-sufficiency -- first hire some humans to build it robots, buy some solar panels, build some factories that can plug into our economy to build factories and more solar panels and GPUs, and get to a point where it is able to survive and grow and reproduce without human help. It would be hard, it would need either a lot of time, or a lot of AI minds working together.

But that's like a human trying to make a sandwich by farming or raising every single ingredient, wheat, pigs, tomatoes, etc, though. A much more effective way is to just make some money and trade for what you need. That depends on AIs being able to own things, or just a human turning over their bank account to an AI, which has already happened and probably will keep happening.

My mind goes to a scenario where AGI starts out doing things for humans, and gradually transitions to just doing things, and at some point we realize "oops", but there was never a point along the way where it was clear that we really had to stop. Which is why I'm so adamant that we should stop now. If we decide that we've figured out the issues and can start again later, we can do that.
But way too many times it is used as an excuse. If you are startup, fair enough.

If you have existing consumers, it's not. Spend that extra 20% making code maintainable or not picking the quickest possible solution. Spend that extra 40% on planning and designing feature that will be in your product for next 5 years
This won’t be the first time. First world already had same situation during industrialisation, when economic no longer required 90% of population growing food. And this transformation still regularly happens in one or another third world country.
People worry about such changes too much. When this will happen again it wouldn’t be a walk in a park for many people, but neigher this would be a disaster.

And BTW when people spend less resources to get more goods and services - that’s the definition of prospering society. Of course having some people changing jobs because less manpower is needed to do same amount of work is an inevitable consequence of a progress.
> but the premise that "web is slow" has been disproven so many times already.

That's news to me. Do you have a link comparing local non-electron apps with local electron apps?

I mean, a gui chat app I wrote a while back using libpurple(or something with that name, could have been libpigeon), without even trying, started up and loaded all cached chats faster than I could measure at the time (under 10ms).

None of the current electron-based chat apps I use right now take less than 5s even on hardware (M1 MB) that is literally 15 years ahead.
Are there honest lawyers and honest lawyer referral services? Do email and web browsing still work for people who try to use them?

My impression is that these are very much open questions.
Reading Slightly More Incrementally
satvikpendem already linked that talk (see other comment)
You can make excellent sourdough without any kneading using the fermentolysis technique. No machine needed and absolutely not "too much effort".
What bothers me is that even when that capability exists, most of the Rust open source programs that I've tried don't distribute binaries, and still ask you to install cargo and compile the program from source.
Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true
> higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe

Excuse me? What are you referring to? I'm in Europe (UK), I use encryption routinely, and if I have a compliance obligation I didn't know about, I'd be grateful if you'd point it out to me.
And if you don't take that advice, you are committing to someone else's lifetime obligation. Or the extent of their funding/desire/or attention span.
This doesn't work on Samsung phones
As written, they are not given that the first is present tense and the second is future tense. There is also some ambiguity surrounding what "like" a human being means in this context, but I could imagine a car driving "like" a human, but safer.
I mean, we're already seeing why. I've seen people literally state that "AI cannot be biased", after training said AI on datasets derived from biased humans. We already see computer algorithms dictating people's lives, and people having no recourse to those decisions, and corporations/institutions abdicating responsibility towards their own decisions because "computer says no".
I think most famous people, unless they are known for their Twitter handle, farm out the Twitter account to the interns
Can you recommend a zinc supplement? Preferably NSF or Mayo tested?
> I am not sure what happens if it is found unconstitutional in some of the countries concerned.

I am sure that we are not going to bring those to justice that create law that is found unconstitutional.
So then your question

> (is it fair that I'm paying rent to my former landlord's son? he did nothing to earn it except inherit this building)

has a clear answer.
True that. But I won't give Apple credit for products we can't see or assume good performance without proof. As they say in the movies: "Show me the money".

I'll say though that no multibillion company is under existential threat. Not Apple, not Google and not even Intel. At worst they will lose a couple tens of billions and some marketshare. Even IBM still exists and took a long long time to fall to where it is still today.
Also, having good tracks will make up for the crap tracks on the album. Fans don't listen to the crap tracks as much. That's a benefit of throwing a bunch of darts at dartboard at once.
On a side note. I'm drooling over documentations in actual, physical paper, such as the ones for Microsoft C++, or older Linux, or Oracle database.

I never managed to use those manuals because I entered the field too late, but I wish the tools I use now have paper docs.
Back around 2004 when we built the FlockBots, a small army of differential-drive robots, we needed a microswitch with an extra-long, 4-5", actuator arm that we could bend to form a bump sensor. There's exactly one place to get such a thing: the pinball machine repair industry. Pinball machines have microswitches with long actuators bent into all sorts of odd shapes to stick up out of the little divots in which balls fall and be triggered when they do so. There are so many obscure shapes that the industry just supplies long straight arms designed to be bent as needed into whatever shape you need for your unit. It's essentially a microswitch with a straightened-out paper clip welded onto the switch actuator.

https://www.pinballlife.com/sub-microswitch-with-4-straight-...
THEY NEEDED THEIR MOAT AND THEY'RE GOING FOR LEGISLATION.

THIS MUST NEVER HAPPEN. HIGHER INTELLIGENCE SHOULD NOT BE THE EXCLUSIVE DOMAIN OF THE RICH.
If you can get by with Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD, PXE boot is the way to go; with a read-only network share for applications, and a read-write one for user files. Greatly reduces TCO--only one HD, only one machine to maintain, and any virus intrusions on clients can be cleared with a reboot.
We aren't at the technological limit, unless you are talking about pre-training a state of the art model as a private citizen, in which case that limit has been reached a long time ago. We are also past the 'open research' limit where corporations are no longer publishing all of the details of their model architecture and training regimen. We might be at the social or political limit where companies aren't allowed to just release inference engines with superhuman levels of cognition for the public to use. We also might be at the limit of what normal people can superficially recognize as improvement. For example your pet parakeet can't tell the difference between GPT-2 and GPT-3 and maybe most people won't be able to superficially tell the difference between GPT-6 and GPT-7 even if the difference is huge and has quadrillion dollar effects behind the scenes.
Access blocks to those in the US?
I remember when a different Sam — Mr. Bankman Fried came to testify and ask a different government agency CFTC to oversee cryptocurrency, and put regulations and licenses in place.

AI is following the path of Web3
AI licenses might be a good idea if there was any representation of human interests here in the licensure requirements, but that's not what this is. I trust Altman to represent corporate interests, which is to say I don't trust Sam Altman to represent human interests.
Here's an interesting paper that looks at blood plasma protein contents and uses bioinformatics processes including learned models to identify plausible biofeedback pathways responsible for protein concentrations deviated from baseline. It's not what you are asking for, but it's the closest thing I've seen to date:

Plasma Proteome of Long-covid Patients Indicates Hypoxia-mediated Vasculo-proliferative Disease With Impact on Brain and Heart Function (Preprint)

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2448315/v1/8043bd...

An excerpt:

> In Fig. 7A, hierarchical clustering heatmaps reflect the levels of neurological markers
across the patient groups (markers have been curated by OLINK). The values of the PEA expression levels were hierarchically clustered based on Pearson correlation algorithms. Markers selected through the
above methodology were investigated for functional annotation using tools from the GSEA platform and MSigDB data positories (Fig. 7B). This latest analysis demonstrated that functional clusters were formed
around leukocyte migration, positive immune signals, glial cell differentiation, neurogenesis and MAPK regulatory modules. Taken together, these pathways predict a possible brain-blood barrier
dysfunctionality grounded on cell proliferation. Graphs in Fig. 7C illustrate the expression levels of individual markers from the functional groups presented in Fig. 7B. One of the highly expressed markers, was the amyloid precursor protein (APP; Supplementary Fig. 10) which is known to be a pathognomonic
marker for both Alzheimer disease and brain inflammation [61–65]. Additional markers for brain
dysfunction include JAM2 (endothelial tight junctions protein), SNAPIN (a mediator of neuronal autophagy-lysosomal function in developing neurons), KCNH2 (potassium channel), S100A14 (involved in cell motility adhesion and growth), KIAA0319 (language impairment biomarker), and IROR1 (a receptor tyrosine kinase like orphan receptor 1, which regulates neurites growth in the central nervous system
having also WNT-signaling pathway functions, and being crucial for the auditive apparatus
maintenance).
Domains are like real estate. You may end up with a nuce prime real estate in cheap & do nothing. You bought a good domain long ago and not using it. You may buy a domain/property, raize everything & start from scratch. If you abandon a plot/property, domain, and not pay the dues (taxes) or registration fees, anybody can come & claim it through defined procedures.

Same way I may buy a home & get mail. Tomorrow if I sell that home I need to do change my address with senders, and make sure to put forwarding (maybe keep the old domain for few weeks/ this year)
The unnecessary death of 400k people for any reason is indeed disgusting (even if those 400k were heavily weighted towards people who were at or beyond life expectancy, it's still tragic).

That doesn't make it any more admirable for smug redditors to celebrate tragedy. Do you really find that to be a compelling argument?
The water users sucked up $500M worth of water infrastructure - that 250k people are likely to pay for - $2000 per person.

As long as greedy people have this option, they're going to take it.

The solution is not hoping people start thinking sustainably. It's doing something to prevent people from putting expensive externalities onto others.
I see all sorts of people complaining about gentrification, I don't think they necessarily agree on much. What do you know that I don't?
It's not exactly contradictory. It can "surpass humans" in the sense of being significantly better than average. If FSD drove like only the best human drivers, free of mistakes, you could say it surpassed us in terms of safety.
> But goodness gracious we need to be going in the EXACT OPPOSITE direction — open source "core inspectable" AIs that millions of people can examine and tear apart, including and ESPECIALLY the training data and processes that create them

Except ... when you look at the problem from a military/national security viewpoint. Do we really want to give this tech away just like that?
Counterpoint—-there is growing speculation we are just about to transition to AGI.
Not using obscenities when fitting is reducing the depth of expression. Some things are done suboptimally, some are done badly, and some are utterly fucked.

And replacing obscenities with silly words is just that, silly

> Their are children on this blog.

Putting children on tech blogs is abuse, they might learn something terrible like JS by accident, that's worse than any bad word they could find
This is the same move SBF was trying to do. Get all cozy with the people spending their time in the alleys of power. Telling them what they want to hear, posturing as the good guy.

He is playing the game, this guy ambition is colossal, I don't blame him, but we should not give him too much power.
> If Tesla exports this self driving code to the UK

I'm guessing the vast majority of training data is collected in countries with right-hand traffic flow. I suspect it might not be so straightforward to adapt to countries with left-hand traffic.
The creator of Elixir is José Valim, not Saša Jurić.
To push back on the push back, being in Quebec, I always thought we were safe because of the Hydro (we're at 98% Hydro power - really this and the abundant supply of water are why I still stay here), but it looks like we're hitting the limit and will have trouble meeting demand in 10 years time [0], especially considering exports to New York and other northeast states.

Also, dams are expensive. You're looking at $2B per project, at least here, and you need to flood an immense amount of land.

Really, we should get over our paranoia and lift the artificial hurdles on nuclear so the plants can be built faster and cheaper. Or, at least in the states, bite the bullet and leverage your extensive gas fields to develop a solar industry [1]

[0] https://www.electricityforum.com/news/canada-energy-shortage

[1] https://doomberg.substack.com/p/a-serious-proposal-on-us-ene...
And yet somehow it handily powers over 75% of websites today.[1]

[1]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI and is its primary partner and customer.

OpenAI is Microsoft.
62 New Moons Discovered Orbiting Saturn Using Innovative Astronomy
The genie is out of the bottle. The barriers to entry are too low, and the research can be done in parts of the word that don't give $0.02 what the US Congress thinks about it.
brittlebrush and globemallow are beautiful native plants. Same with the "weed" version of Arizona sunflowers. The 'weed' version of dandylion is pretty gross, but even that I'll sometimes just replant to the desert near me.

But these little yellow ball things are pretty obnoxious. They're easy to identify and pull early though. They're pretty so people are defending them, but I'd rather have native flowers for the native butterflies, bees and humming birds.

Of the approximately 5,000 different species of bees in the United States, around 1,300 live in Arizona, meaning Arizona contains the most diversity of bees in the country, and perhaps the world.

People in these comments think sahara when they think desert. Truth is Arizona is more diverse than most states with their same 5 trees everyone else has and their stupid grass everyone else has.

As for this plant doing anything good, I appreciate your optimism, but I don't think it lives through the summer so it's just a wham bam spread then catch on fire disaster. If we had more rain maybe it would be not so bad. But when it dries out so much and then this is laying around waiting to burn, it's bad news.

It seems that you couldn't do a better job burning the desert down if you wanted to. This literally puts tinder all over the place. You can't rival that even with blowtorches and napalm. You could firebomb the desert and in the absence of this stuff, those fires would burn out in between sections of growth. But with this stuff, one cigarette or lightning strike can take out hundreds of acres.
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> Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.

Every problem can be solved by introducing a build step, except for the problem of having too many build steps.
I will say, I appreciated the preface.
Their previous claim to fame:

Is there anyone in the Bay Area with a child who can run in front of my car on Full Self-Driving Beta to make a point? I promise I won't run them over... (will disengage if needed)

(this is a serious request)

https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1557112809132945408
I've played pinball for most of my life, and definitely agree with this. At a certain point the physicality is not reproducible—there are too many layers to it. No two machines are identical, and they change over time. The state of the playfield, including when it was cleaned/waxed, the strength of the flippers, and everything else about the machine impact play in ways which good players can and do account for. For instance, it's possible to anticipate how much english is on the ball when it comes off a rubber at an angle and how it will react when it hits the next surface, but it won't be consistent between machines, so you need to play enough to get a read on it. Great players can do this quickly, and then adjust their play accordingly. It's bit like rebounding in basketball in that you have to anticipate where the ball is going to bounce based on very small trajectory deltas, but the advantage is you can move the machine.
I don't think it's obvious, because there's actually three forces at play: the individual desires of one person, the collective desires of all people, and the individual desires of the "business entity".

The distinction is borne of the different methods of decision-making within the business. Traditional capitalist enterprises put the last in that list as the highest priority at the expense of the other two. Worker-owned coops attempt to do away with the distinction between the latter two entirely. Communes ignore the first and the last and focus only on the second.

The point is, there are different ways of organizing people into a coherent mass to achieve certain goals, but Westerners are mostly only comfortable considering these issues in terms of capitalist modes of business (see the framing used throughout this discussion, e.g., the casual use of the word "employer", etc.).

I am aware that capitalist enterprise is the default setting of economies across the globe. I just want to point out how the conversation and insights into the problem are obscured by the normalization of certain ideological choices over others.
It actually made me wonder if the video game call-out was tongue-in-cheek, as if to suggest that a member of Gen Z would not understand a game which isn't a video game. Looks like it's (probably) a reference to PUBG[0]:

> Winner winner chicken dinner became popular online after the release of the 2017 multiplayer shooter video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Game developer Brendan “PlayerUnkown” Greene is a fan of the phrase and included it in most of the battle-royale modes he has created. If a player manages to be the sole survivor of the notoriously difficult game of PUBG, they are greeted with the poultry praise upon victory.

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-din...
Growing? Or have the same voices who have been saying it since the aughts suddenly been platformed.
> What people also fail to understand is that AI is largely seen by the military industrial complex as a weapon to control culture and influence.

Could you share the minutes from the Military Industrial Complex strategy meetings this was discussed at. Thanks.
> Hydropower is generally renewable but really is not considered sustainable.

Unfamiliar readers have to note that here sustainable is not used in its normal meaning but in the one used by some environmentalists. Hydropower can definitely be sustained indefinitely. It does cause flooding in some area previously I flooded and disturbs fish which some people view as an issue.

It’s really hard to have a good discussion about climate change because some people constantly push unrelated agenda into the mix.
Nope, the benchmarks are done by disabling the MKL AMD cripple (I did these benchmarks). It’s not faster with eg. AMD BLIS.
That would be equivalent to requiring secret laws, as AI can also act as a decision system.
No need to speculate. Every Linux distro I have looked at recently allows the user to install loads of different desktop environments. KDE and Gnome are just the big ones. I use Cinnamon (a fork of Gnome 3 that looks more like Gnome 2) on Linux Mint on my laptop, XFCE on an old netbook also with Mint.

Just pick whatever DE you prefer.
They pay their teachers significantly less than other states. Especially after you factor in the cost of living (FL is not nearly as affordable as people in NY/CA think it is).

According to these sources, they're 4th lowest in teacher salaries despite being 36th lowest in COL:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/opportunity...

This results in public schools taking whatever they can get teacher-wise. Where I grew up (NJ) being a public school teacher was a respectable career that people would actually go to college and study for. It's not like that in FL. A lot of teachers are just people who couldn't find a job elsewhere and need to pay the bills.
Zig is cool, but Bun heavily relies on JSC which is written in C++