skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is absolutely possible to model a pinball machine very accurately with existing CAD software, and for much less money than that.

With GPU-powered physics, it might be possible to model this in real time. But if not, one could definitely run the simulations in CAD and export the results to a table (or fit to an equation) and use those in the game.

The limitation isn't technology.
I agree with you. I that's an excellent and specific proposal for how AI could be regulated. I think you should share this with your senators/representatives.
> It's like she's trying to say "hey, we've got it bad but at least we're not as backwards as those mOsLeM countries".

Nope, it’s not like that at all.
I was reading it thinking it sounds like a description of a narcissist/psychopath
I'm Dave Levin, one of the authors of this study. Happy to answer any questions!
> What's wrong with this blog post is that the author does not seem to have read any books at all on the subject,

Lol and you didn't read the blog post apparently
> many require high framerate / low latency.

But that's the thing, unless you are _recording_ audio, you can cache and pre-generate the visualisation before hand. FFTs even on 24 192khz 24bit tracks isn't that taxing.

Even visualisations don't have to be that low latency. So long as the audio tracks are in sync you'll mostly be fine.

For waveforms you can literally side scroll the visualisation. You're not going to be pushing more than 60-75hz which gives you 13ms per frame at worst.
OpenAI is currently registered as a non-profit, yet they're projecting a billion dollars in revenue in 2024, and they sell access to their APIs, which if their previous spending is anything to go by, means they'll see half a billion dollars in profit if we assume they aren't going to reinvest it all.

Some big assumptions.
Sports teams are always a bad deal. I didn't like it when we brought the Raiders here, I oppose bringing the As. Of course these things never show up on the ballot.
Why isn't it 100%?
Can this be a case of Simpson’s paradox? A movement will not resort to violence if there are non-violent ways for it to meet their goals. Violence is used in desperation so it would make sense that movements on track to not succeed would resort to it.
This sort of thing has been true for years and years.

In 1989, everything was supposed to become Object Oriented.

In 1993, we were all supposed to port to The Best Designed OS ever, Windows NT.

In 1996, Java was write once and run everywhere.

In 2003, XML would solve all our problems.

I forget when that maturity model forced all kinds of ceremony on us. Heck, there was a "Personal Software Process" that allowed hobbyists to weigh themselves down with meaningless documentation.

UML, spiral development, agile Xtreme Programming... Ugh.

I've always blamed this progression of false idols on IBM, Microsoft and consultants need to find things for clients to pay them for.
Just wanted to say - this looks great! Can't wait to try it out.
I think there was a related thread about this in recent weeks but I can't find it. Anyone?
I can't believe they still teach red-black trees. The complexity distracts so much from learning. Both AVL and weight-balanced trees are simpler to implement and easier to understand.
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You sound skeptical of regulation. I think being skeptical of regulation may be a heuristic that almost always works. (1)

I won't argue that the incentives for regulators aren't really messed up.

But I argue that AI is different from just about any tech we've ever created because of:

* its potential to destroy vast number of jobs faster than any previous kind of tech.
* its ability to destroy those jobs permanently and thoroughly. To not leave any space left where humans can provide more value than machines.
* its ability to vastly accelerate the development of many other kinds of technology, good and bad, and destabilize our already unstable society further.
* its potential, not that far off, to eventually think, make decisions for itself, and have its own goals which may conflict with humanity. All the existential risk stuff.

(1) https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
Accessibility is for everyone.
> JDSL was written by Tom. He’s a super-genius and wrote JDSL himself.

Famous last words.
> It was also way easier to build something impressive

Really? I'd imagine back then building a product was much tougher given the dearth of resource, low/no code tools and such.
as someone that has an arcade the prices for pinball games has skyrocketed since covid.

It was probably a better bet to put your savings into pinball games in 2019 and selling them now then the market.
I think this gets at what I meant by "widespread use" - if the results of the AI are being put out into the world (outside of, say, a white paper), that's something that should be subject to scrutiny, even if only one person is using the AI to generate those results.
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> basically, AI is someone capable of minimal criticism

That's not the definition of AI or intelligence

You're letting your understanding of how LLMs work bias you. They may be at their core a token autocompleter but they have emergent intelligence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
I thought this is because everyone else is interested in N3E while Apple is happy to book on N3B?
What does half pay mean? Half hours?
What about N times per (2N-1) game matches? so e.g. 4 times in a best-of-seven match?
The “fast path” for macOS exists. I don’t know what is happening in Qt-land, but if you want to throw pixels at the screen really fast, you can do it through Core Animation. You can feed it a buffer of pixel data.

My experience is that this is extremely fast.
LLMs absolutely have a concept of ‘yellow’ and ‘paper’ and the verb ‘to be’. They are nothing BUT a collection of mappings around language concepts. And their connotative and denotative meanings, their cultural associations, the contexts in which they arise and the things they can and cannot do. It knows that paper’s normally white and that post-it notes are often yellow; it knows that paper can be destroyed by burning or shredding or dissolving in water; it knows paper can be marked and drawn and written on and torn and used to write letters or folded to make origami cranes.

What kind of ‘understanding’ are you looking for?
The Register is kind of known for this style of mimicking old-timey sensationalist headlines while having jokey but accurate content on the inside. In some cases it’s plainly wrong, but I give this one site an exception cuz I love their brand of humor.
> once the CCP believes they can do without Taiwan's semiconductor industry, they'll send in the troops

That's still a simplistic point. Will they not consider the practicality ot invasion?, like Taiwan beating them on its own, USA getting involved as promised, etc?

If not, then we'll likely have a war between major powers or they'll get to declare victory as with vietnam.
Not dubious, I just read your comment and it felt like I was reading satire. Even the cadence of your words felt funny.

Anyway, I’m not surprised. It’s a new market, everyone’s in on it.
See this is what confuses me, are Arcades not still fairly big in Japan? What do they play there? Old machines?
I agree that querying is where the real value is at, and Trustfall looks like an elegant approach.

While Taxi is all about documenting & augmenting specs, Orbital is the query engine (which is a bit similar to Trustfall) that consumes those specs.

Orbital's goal is to allow consumers to be able to query for data, without having to be aware of the specifics of the data sets / APIs / DBs, etc they're composing together.

IMO GraphQL does a nice job on the query side of keeping consumers away from the wiring, but shifts the obligation to middleware resolvers.

How data is wired together is ultimately an implementation detail, and one that changes.
If consumers need to know about how stuff is connected, they're subject to breakages when those details change.
Let them go at it, what's wrong with that? There are so few opportunities today for people to get ahead if they're not born into wealth. Why are people here criticizing startup entrepreneurs with an unexciting business idea and mostly profit motives, when people who do the same because it was given to them by their parents are never criticized?
> there are still many other benefits.

Too bad it's going away.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/utah-gre...
Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio communications
A local-ish distributor [1] of American pinball machines lists these: American Pinball, Bitronic, Chicago Gaming, Jersey Jack Pinball, Pinball Brothers, Stern Pinball.

€5,000-€10,000 (plus taxes) seems the going rate, up to €20,000 if you want some sort of "limited edition" (but aren't they all limited now?).

[1] https://www.shop.freddys-pinball-paradise.de/index.php?n=99&...
Counter point, there are already limited consumer protection laws with regards to algorithmic decision making in the United States. There are very few speed bumps to rolling out ChatGPT like systems for decision making - even if it makes bad decisions. It's easy to imagine that LLMs could be used to make decisions which are manifestly illegal simply by virtue of being black boxes.

That being said, regulating the producer of the LLM technology seems like the wrong approach compared to regulating the outcome. OpenAI asking to block new entrants is the surest sign I've seen that they don't believe their moat is all that deep.

In practical terms, Google got its initial moat because it would cost X dollars and take Y time to catch up to them. There were only 2-3 firms who could plausibly pursue this in the 2000s. The claim that AI firms will either become commoditized or that they will have to spend X billion per year in ads to maintain their edge is not unfounded.
Altman Concerned About AI Being Used to Compromise Elections
the fake contrived panic over the debt ceiling will be followed by the predictable fake rally that follows any kind of deal

this has happened how many times now?

retail traders sell on the worry, buy on the deal agreement

large institutions buy on the worry, sell on the deal agreement

for most people reading this comment, you may actually be better off with a collapse! you either get crazy inflation that burns away your debts, or you get crazy deflation that puts everything on sale
Because they have already dealt with zipfiles, but not with infofiles or appfiles or ninjafiles.
Bun does need glibc, but older glibc versions should work okay because of this: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/78229da76048e72aa4d92516...

We haven't implemented polyfills for everything yet though, like Bun uses posix_spawn and doesn't have an exec + fork fallback

Bun's dependencies otherwise are statically linked
> The reality is all these machines are basically PCs now, and where's the excitement from playing a PC based arcade game on a ~25" screen for 50 cents to a dollar when you could play it at home on your PC or your PC based console.

This is something that Michael Abrash hasn't really received proper credit for: he basically invented the model of using off-the-shelf PC components for videogames, which then spread to consoles and arcade games.

If it wasn't for Abrash's "mode x" we wouldn't have DirectX, then Direct3D, then XBox, then arcade games that are nothing more than personal computers.

At the time that Abrash came up with "mode x", there were basically two ways to play games on a PC. The first method was to use a PC that included a great graphics chip (like the Amiga), the second method was to add aftermarket cards. Neither method was ideal, because there weren't many Amigas in existence, and software developers couldn't maximize sales while selling software that required aftermarket hardware.
It's kind of ironic that stock Erlang/OTP has fairly crude tools for "spawn some async task" and deal with it failing.

Your options are

* Keep trying to restart it forever if it fails (by setting the timeout so low that it'll keep trying)

* Try a set number of restarts, then pass the failure higher up, potentially taking down the whole system if there are enough failures.

* Just let it fail and walk away.

https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.html#...

If you have something like a web site with a database, where 1) the database is critical to the normal functioning of the system, but 2) you still want the site up to let users know that "it's broken and we're fixing it", and maybe also send some alerts out, you might want something more like an exponential backoff or some other more involved strategy, which isn't shipped with Erlang.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230516122128/https://www.reuter...
ChatGPT chief calls for new agency to license AI systems in Congress testimony
No, it's useful for staying in touch with people and keeping up with their careers.

I don't know what "posturing" and "virtue signaling" mean in this context. And, self-promotion is one of the points of LinkedIn.
Sure, for enough money and with enough horsepower we could simulate just about anything you want.

For a freeware pinball game? Maybe not.

It's always a question of money and time.
A custom script that essentially reads /dev/urandom and feeds the hex seed to bip39tool from pybitcointools.
Be a good example of desirable qualities like emotional stability. Be a good provider. Encourage trying new things and support their interests but don't be unconditional and don't bail them out too quickly when they have difficulties. Be supportive but push them towards solving their own problems.

They will inevitiably rebel to one degree or another as teens, but as adults will revert to the model you provided.
Taxi was discussed 12 months ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31524950
You can run an RTX 3080 off anything with enough PCI bandwidth to handle it. Presumably the same goes for Apple's GPU. We could adjust for CPU wattage, but at-load it amounts to +/-40w on either side and when we're only testing the GPU it's like +/-10w maximum.

The larger point is that Apple's lead doesn't extrapolate very far here, even with a generous comparison to a last-gen GPU. It will be great at inferencing, but so are most machines with AVX2 and 8 gigs of DRAM. If you're convinced Apple hardware is the apex of inferencing performance, you should Runpod a 40-series card and prove yourself wrong real quick. It's less than $1 and well worth the reality check.
Star Tropics (A great, if quite linear, action-RPG for the NES) required you to dunk the actual game manual in water to solve a puzzle.
Sorta misleading. They can recover crypto only if they are somehow able to crack an encrypted file, coerce an exchange, or coerce the perp into giving up the keys.
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Even now, a little reading goes a long way. I have to constantly heckle my son while playing the new Zelda game - "hey, maybe that person is telling you something you want to know!"

I used to drive my own father crazy when doing computer stuff back in the day, though - clicking through menus at lightspeed and such. Guess it's karma. ;)
> Are physical machines supposed to have this tilting mechanic?

Yes, and "tilt" sensitivity can be adjusted. When I was a kid we called the machines that would tilt at the slightest movement "tight" and the ones you couldn't tilt without pushing them over "loose." The looser the machine, the fewer quarters you have to feed it.
Chip Manufacturing ‘Ideal Application’ for AI, Nvidia CEO Says
Because to eliminate non-sustainable baseload power the US electricity grid doesn't have enough cheap local energy storage, transmission losses are significant over inter-regional distances, and we don't have enough cross-continent transmission capacity.

Right now there's no sustainable source for baseload power. Perhaps SPARC/ARC will change that in 20 years, or perhaps continuing advances in energy storage will let us store excess energy while the sun shines and the wind blows and use that stored energy as reliable baseload power.

Wind power is really cheap. Electrical utilities are now comfortable with it and don't consider it an experimental technology. The profit margins are quite healthy. As soon as there's an economically profitable way to store 120 hours of regional electricity usage, most utilities will jump towards that over continuing to buy expensive fuel for their current baseload plants. Right now the marginal costs of natural gas and coal power are cheaper than energy storage, and the service / operational risks are well known and well-controlled vs. the scary operational unknowns of advanced energy storage solutions. Not talking about environmental risks; utility companies don't really give a damn about those, even if a lot of their employees personally do.
I mean, just like you can create 1-line python script that claims "I am an AGI" and have that fact be false, you can have ChatGPT tell you it has no explicit world model, while exhibiting behaviors that can only really be explained by it having some sort of model of the world inside it.

Fine-tuning is like a PR agent teaching someone what sorts of things not to mention on TV even though they may be true.
I'm saying more that it's "interesting" in an argumentative way, not that it's actually of interest about how this is about EY. It should be interesting to followers of EY because all of these traits are things that cult leaders do, and are things that EY does, because EY is (intentionally or not) running a doomsday cult. It's impressive how much reach he's been able to get, to the point where his ideas of control and morality have seeped into the most important technology of our time, but it's still a cult founded on shaky conjecture nonetheless. I think it's pretty clear if you are interested in AI who this article is about, although I do agree it should have been much more explicitely followed up with "Here's how EY is these things".

It's made me very sad to see extremely smart people, who I once looked up to and really found very interesting (you're included in here!) fall victim to the irrational fear of AI spurred on by Eliezer. You can create as much literature as you want, and you can create as many hypothetical scenarios as possible, but it's not going to change the fact that dedicating your life into controlling AI so that you can "logically" justify your own life is nonsense.

It's not that I don't get it. I just disagree. I don't think AI will create a science fiction horror show to end all of humanity. I don't think AI will cause humans to stop being humans. I don't think AI will create the end of the world. Yes, I am not 100% sure. There is a 0.01% chance of this all happening. But that doesn't mean that we need to pay attention to it just because multiplying 0.0001 by 1,000,000 yields a big number. I think basing your morality and existence on trolley problems and mental experiments is abhorrent. And no, I can't give you an exact spelled out reason as to why. Do I have to justify basic human morality?

You're an extremely smart person. I love your blog posts, and I love the depth and time you put into them. It's incredible how disappointing it is for me to see you become another "rationalist" obsessed with a fantasy of AI doom.

Edit for your edit: Someone who is wealthy and has nothing to lose quitting his job to join the cult of AI doomerism is, in no way, proof that AI xrisk is meaningful. You're using someone else coming to a conclusion as a reason you are correct. I trust you are smart enough to know why this is awful logic.
But then why have TLDs at all?
Some indies still make arcade games - Killer Queens comes to mind, and I'm pretty sure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge got a full on coinop release. Of course, Japan still puts out all manner of new machines with all kinds of creative gimmicks (especially music-based, or arena fighters), but they're rarely available stateside and they might not always be the vibe you're looking for, if you're trying to scratch a 90's nostalgia itch.

https://sternpinball.com/ continues to make modern (awesome) pinball machines - I'm fortunate enough to work for a company that stocks a couple in breakrooms. They also usually have a big presence in the floor of California Extreme (https://caextreme.org/) which is totally worth checking out if you're in the Bay Area in August.

Edit: For a little bit more to search on in terms of Japanese stuff - https://arcadeheroes.com/2023/02/10/new-arcade-games-for-jap...
OpenAI, IBM Urge Senate to Act on AI Regulation After Past Tech Failures
I agree, and that's really my point. Let's not pretend first means anything here. Apple let notifications be a disaster for way too long (and it's still bad) and Google can't make a bluetooth stack to save their lives.
> You do? What are you doing to those poor machines??

I... legitimately have no freaking idea. I do nothing to the machine, the fan bearings start to fail. I open the screen too many times, the bezel starts popping off and the hinge cover breaks due to that. And the ethernet cable was always loose in the port and trying to fix it eventually resulted in the port snapping off. And the charger barrel is so cheap that the metal coating scrapes right off the moment it ever rotates, causing it to stop being conductive. I think the main thing that was actually my fault was the keyboard because I think I drove a screw into the PCB and cracked it during one of my repairs (you have to remove the entire heatsink assembly and repaste the entire machine in order to get at the fans).

> I don't have a good handle on what you consider to be a "slow" machine, but most people that I know aren't really that fussed about having the fastest possible machine.

I started considering my laptop slow when it started taking a couple seconds to alt+tab. Sometimes it would even skip as if I pressed Tab twice when I really didn't. That kinda stuff annoys me so much because I need to be able to switch tasks really quickly. But I don't know if that's how decade-old machines really perform, which is why I just said "slow computer".

I guess by "slow" I really meant "unresponsive" where it doesn't react quickly to your inputs. That's what would annoy me the most from a computer.
> a 17 year old is a child and cannot meaningfully consent

Careful with broad assumptions.

That's not true in most European countries, for example.

> And Minsky sure as hell knew that Giuffre was young and not on equal footing with himself.

So what?

Madonna is only dating guys that are at least 30 years younger than she is.

Anyway, sex between Minsky and Giuffre was never proved and, most of all, what Stallman said has nothing to do with it, he simply said that if someone send a girl to have sex with you, she's gonna act as willing and will probably lie about her age. Ans that it is pretty ridiculous that at 17 years + 364 days you're considered a child, but they day after you are free to become a sex worker. People should not jump from being kids to adulthood just because the law says so, they should go through different phases of increasing responsibilities and agency.

At my age it's difficult for me to tell 17 years old people and 27 years old people apart They look the same to me. A few times I've asked aren't you too young to drink/smoke? and they were over 25 and got pretty offended by my question.