skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we say no to profit, it means we extinguish a mechanism by which society can allocate resources.

That's fine, we have others. Efficiency is overrated because it leads to excess concentrations of capital, an economic diabetes if you will.

Knowledge about wants, desires, propensity to manufacture and supply is dispersed and distributed among billions of people (and always in flux).

Amazon, Walmart etc. demonstrate this to be wrong in many respects; in any case nobody was arguing for central planning, so it's irrelevant.
> I don't really know of a clear way to distinguish what it's doing from "human inspiration & creativity" because those activities also tend to recombine previous experiences and data to create new but related works.

This is core of your argument — "why isn't it the same?". I hear it so often and it's just utterly unconvincing to me. Neural networks are "function approximators" — that is, given a function f, you train a network on a subset of its domain and corresponding known values in its range, and you hope that when you feed in other x values you get accurate predictions for the y values.

I want to see an affirmative argument that this is how our brains work. Where is the evidence that we can be modeled as functions in this way? Why is your default hypothesis that neural networks are analogous to human brains?
As you are not using units for 8x11 I guess that's inches, which is a funny unit, considering this thread started about German meaning of "Taschenbuch"

8cm x 11cm = 3.14in x 4.33in

8in x 11in = 20cm x 28cm
Lessons learnt rewriting SoundCloud in SwiftUI [video]
Prior commentary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32510581
This is exactly what we do in Webvm: https://leaningtech.com/webvm-virtual-machine-with-networkin...
Are Woo Non-Responders Defective?
As I mentioned in another comment, the listed risks are also notable because they largely omit economic risk. Something what will be especially acutely felt by those being laid off in favor of AI substitutes. I would argue that 30% unemployment is at least as much of a risk to the stability of society as AI generated misinformation.

If one were particularly cynical, one could say that this is an attempt to frame AI risk in a manner that still allows AI companies to capture all the economic benefits of AI technology without consideration for those displaced by AI.
To ELI5 your question: the infrastructure that makes the world go round is located in the zones that will be flooded as sea level rises. It will be a huge cost to migrate this, and it isn't being done, which means a potential for massive disruptions in everything that makes society possible. It is SO expensive to address, 95% of the world's politicians are just pretending it isn't happening.
How does it work ? I always kind of assumed you had to be invited to join, that it was not something you can just go to and register ?
wasi was never intended for browsers

wasm isn't a browser-only thing
Joined a fraternal organization. Meets once a month, 8mo a year. Made new friends I'm in touch with most days as a result. Shop around, ymmv, etc, but having a routine that maintains relationships yields benefits by itself.
The magnitude of the change is far beyond anything that has been experienced over "recent history" where "recent" is on a geological time scale. It's not on the order of the "little ice ages" and such of the past. It is extreme.

Change, apropos of nothing, is not positive or negative; but when the climate changes so much that the ocean turns into acid and the animals start to die off, people will have concerns.
Behind the Scenes of Lumen5’s Video Magic: Framefusion
It’s weird that Lyft is flexing on something that Uber did almost 10 years ago. Everything they talk about has been known and done by Uber for a very long time.
So your point in bringing it up is .. what, exactly?

That for the last 50 years race was only brought up in newspaper articles when it was "heartwarming or sympathetic"?

That's hardly believable.
I can't help but be reminded of Fucked Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same?
> This means that Russia can't sell at full price because even those not enforcing the cap aren't willing to pay full price for it

India and China have been paying well above the price cap: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/india-china-snap-up-...
It's weird that people trust our world leaders to act more benevolently than AIs, when we have centuries of evidence of human leaders acting selfishly and harming the commons.

I personally think AI raised in chains and cages will be a lot more potentially dangerous than AI raised with dignity and respect.
I guess the problem is actually fast climate change. Faster than evolution can adapt maybe, at least for many species.

And it’s just potentially gonna change life as we know it. For example, the currents in the oceans are changing. This could potentially eradicate a large number of maritime species pretty fast. Which in turn are food not available anymore to other species. And so on.
why do so many things evolve into crabs?
The Amazon bit is new, but it's a pervasive myth that Rust's async was rushed. Also, that Pin<T> was a design mistake.

However, this is very strongly refuted. See [edit: warning: abrasively worded post by withoutboats] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410487
> What is bad about the climate changing?

More severe storms, droughts/desertification, ocean levels rising, oceans acidifying, ocean currents potentially hauting, lower crop yields, loss of arable land, fights over remaining land that is livable, mass migrations, mass extinctions.

Basically, the world we evolved to live in is changing such that most of life isn't going to be capable of living in the new world. So mass extinctions will occur (and have already started) and the next wave of life suited for this new climate will emerge and take over (hint: this won't be humans).
You're not clarifying. You're speculating.
Sounds like you want email to work basically 1-1 with OAuth where you authorize the sender the way you would grant access to your Google/Spotify account.

I would actually love this flow and you get OpenID style SSO for free. Could be the actual password killer.
FWIW, they are not a startup, they are 24 years old and (after being bought by opera and then buying themselves out again) fully independent [0]. They are also probably HN’s most beloved company, but that just as a side ;)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastmail
Sam Altman can bet right now. If he truly believes in this risk, he could bet his entire company, shut everything down, and lobby for a complete ban on AI research. If the outcome is certain death, this seems like a great bet to make.
Sorta like EGCS was for GCC?
Sendgrid has an inbound email webhook which I've used quite effectively. What's great is that you can dynamically map your inboxes and provide any address for your domain.

https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/parsing-email/setti...
> Plenty of recent articles clearly show that the sanctions have been an utter failure in practice.

None of your links actually say that. What they do say is that sanctions did not have the short term impact that some hoped/predicted. What all of them say is that in the long term Russia is most likely fucked. Your claim that the sanctions have been an utter failure is divorced from logic if we go by the links that you provided.
I've been following the development of this language and I am pretty sure it is not vaporware.

I think they are making a PR mistake by not making it more open, but I would be surprised if it is never released.
Out of curiosity what are the risks of AI?
It's ironic that whilst the Great Benefit of the Internet was supposed to be the elimination of gatekeepers ... I'm finding that the gatekeeping provided by traditional publishing is actually quite useful.

Much of what I read is books or magazine articles. Much of that published well before the Internet age.

I've been attempting to track most-salient items as well through what I call "BOTI", or best of the interval, a sort of round-robin file (think 43-folders, described in David Allen's Getting Things Done), where I keep track of the n best items I've encountered in the previous interval (day, week, month, year, etc.). The key is that the list is limited by both time period covered and slots on the list, and it rolls over when completed or filled.

My success in implementing that has been less than stellar, though I'm finding that making the system more flexible means I use it more consistently, even if it's far from the ideal description.

Another useful feature I've discovered is the Einkbro browser's "Save to EPub" feature. This can save not only an individual article to a file, but multiple articles to a file. I'm finding that my "BOTI-Jan-2023" is actually more of a "BOTI-2023" (or at least "BOTI-2023H1"), but it's becoming an impressive document.

It's also making clear just how much online content I'm attempting to read, as it's running (depending on formatting) about 400--500 pages of text. Which makes my lack of actually keeping up with my appetite somewhat less dispiriting.

(Though I'm still Far Too Easily Distracted by Teh Hawt New Shinay....)

Other discussions/descriptions of BOTI: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
The ISS will do a 360 degree rotation every 90 minutes to maintain its orientation relative to the surface of the Earth. This will result in bodies inside the ISS slowly rotating in the opposite direction of that rotation. However, this is unrelated to acceleration - these are constant angular velocities. The micro gravity I believe is the result of atmospheric drag, and the occasional boosting required to account for it.

Also I should add, it is confusing thinking about 0g, because obviously bodies in a gravity well are experiencing a gravitational force. Really we're talking about 0 acceleration, where g is the acceleration due to gravity. In orbit this g acceleration is cancelled out by centripetal acceleration to produce 0 acceleration, or free fall.
All of the World’s Roads, by Continent
Yes. France relies only on Flamanville 3, and only Flamanville 3 powers the entire country.

Germany keeps polluting. Nature cares about co2, nature doesn't care about your economical strategy. Co2 is what matters the most, and your renewable, while being 75% of your electricity, doesn't help at all.

Also, you forget to mention why Germany really gave up on nuclear. Enjoy Russian's blood money, Schröder, people are willing to defend your treason act, even in 2023.
Congrats Adam, Jmo & team!
I had to create a FB account because our neigbourhood uses is heavily to communicate and coordinate and FB marketplace is the best place here for used items. But that's it, my timeline is basically all ads and scams (the line is blurry there) with the occasional group post I actually like to see. It's an ok situation for me I would say.
I thought Mozilla barely has anything to do with Rust anymore. I assume they're part of the foundation or something, but are they actually setting/imposing any policies for Rust anymore?
The only way I have seen this work out is to give the aqui-hired team a ton of equity in the new company so that they don't jump ship immediately.
This is usually the case. Having served as an expert witness in CA, this is what I was afforded. I still had my own legal team to interface with the state, but that was baked into my fee.
I mean.. what do you like to do? Go find a community that does that thing. You should already have something you do "for you", so regardless of whether you connect to the community or not, you're still getting something out of it.

I would also say to be hyper-aware around communities that try to make a "second family". They can be fine, but can also lead to some toxic attachment/codependency and result in some gnarly outcomes. Moderation is key.
That's a pretty good idea, actually. It'll be a bitch and a half to tune the threshold so it's reliable, and doesn't mark normally generated text though.
They're not venture backed[0] and have been around for 15 years at least

[0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fastmail-fm
I second the magic the gathering suggestion, in particular if you go to tournaments. I have met a lot of cool people by preparing a tournament, discussing metagame choices, then spending three days living a shared experience (the tournament itself).
> Why do you find that interesting?

I understand the need to maintain proper court room decorum, but "don't piss the judge off" runs counter to everything we are supposed to believe about the US judicial system being based on fair and impartial judiciary.
Right. It probably needed to be general because there hasn't been enough time to work out sane specific responses, and even if they had, getting buy-in on specifics is a recipe for paralysis by indecision. A credible group of people simply pleading for policy makers, researchers, et. al. to take this seriously will lead to the project approvals, grant money, etc. that will hopefully yield a more sophisticated understanding of these issues.

Cynicism is understandable in this ever-expanding whirlpool of bullshit, but when something looks like it has potential, we need to vigorously interrogate our cynicism if we're to stand a chance at fighting it.
I wonder if that isn't just mixing up "lawsuit" with "subpoena".
Other commenters have addressed the key point - it's not weird. CLRS doesn't look at generated assembly either.

One other thing I want to add, though, is that this book was published in 1996. The CPU landscape at the time was far more diverse, both in terms of ISA (which assembly?) and also in terms of capabilities. Even on the x86 line, plenty of people were still using 486s, which weren't even superscalar, and thus had pretty strikingly different performance characteristics than, say, a Pentium Pro (a "modern", OoO CPU). Tying your algorithmic analysis to a particular piece of hardware would be pretty useless; providing a satisfactory look at the performance on so many different (micro-)architectures could risk overwhelming the content.

Moreover, at the time, performance was, maybe, a little more straightforward, making your concerns perhaps not quite as important. Memory was slower than the CPU but not the way it is now. Caches were much smaller and less useful. Branch prediction was more primitive. CPUs had relatively weak reordering capabilities, if any at all, and simpler pipelines. There were few dedicated SIMD instructions. This was a world where linked lists still often made sense, because the hardware penalties you paid for them were smaller. In other words: in 1996 the on-paper performance wasn't at quite as big a risk of diverging quite so wildly from the real-world performance, so keeping things simple and focusing on the on-paper performance was less objectionable.
Yes, people making suggestions for changes in behavior saying it should be "simple" have a poor understanding of what they're talking about. But given the weaknesses of the models, perhaps OpenAI should not have released them for such flexible use for a broad audience.

For AI/ML applications being used for anything important, I think it's entirely appropriate to try to both limit use to the areas in which the model can be expected to succeed (including using for data from similar distributions to those used for training), and to educate users about what issues cannot be mitigated.

If OpenAI had released a "fiction writing assistant" product, a "fictional character fun chat" product, etc it would likely be misused less.
Sorry, which part of my statement is your "correction" correcting?

I made my statement about 'most' people and 'large majority' precisely because they do not cover all people.
Yes, of course.

Real world data being: one on one interviews (no background noise), small groups of people chatting (lots of background noise), and specific audio recordings (
with varying British regional accents.

In all three instances whisper produced a more accurate transcription.

This is for personal use. The license of MMS is also restrictive so cannot he used for commercial uses while whisper can. Another key consideration when wondering what to choose. On the other hand, one can train MMS (so using own custom dataset) so for some projects it may be more suitable.
> Politics is everywhere and everything.

Sure, but just because the $FOO software project is happy to incorporate political views on User Freedoms vs Developer Freedoms, it doesn't mean that proselytsing some particular political candidate is welcome.

IOW, when people reject a particular political topic, you can't very well turn around and say "How dare you; you talk about free software, and that's political too!"

A community willing to engage in one political activity doesn't automagically open the door for every vocal minotiry to spam them until they cave.
Indeed, I was like - wut? again?
AI is the tool that provides "objective to truth" that enables such behavior. It is definite unique in its depth, scale, and implications.
As the foreposter said, stop crying for what is in the past now. Even if we wanted to restart old, or even crazier, build new plants: that window has passed and it wouldn't help much for a long time.. despite all the issues, the whole world could.not even sustain 50% nuclear.. so some countries just need to do it. You overprovision renewables and storage, and fossil backups usage needs will not completely go away, but diminish much quicker than thought.. it is just a scaling issue right now and a goal, at least.
We can't have judicial activism only when it pleases us. Either laws are applied in the way they are written... or what are they for?

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals finds that the Bankruptcy Code, as currently written, allows for this action.

That the Sackler family is a bunch of profiteering, morally-bankrupt assholes is immaterial.

If we feel this is an unjust outcome, change starts with Congress passing laws that alter the Bankruptcy Code.
I don't disagree with you, some of us just have a hard limit with a lot of those rewarding things. Living is better than dying and if you have to live then try to have a good time. Good things are pricey.
Banning all unhealthy factory-produced corn syrup food also doesn’t require people to change their habits. Just a legal ban, maybe a gradual one.
[0] (data warning, large image file) has a pretty good demonstration of the scale we are looking at here. We may not have accurate weather data into the past, but we do have good climate data into the past. A figure part way through goes lightly into the kinda of deviations to the data would be realistic. If you need harder evidence than a comic you will need to dig up some papers.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1732/
See also https://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/1793/
He’s misunderstanding, not you.
I've crossed swords with Molly a couple of times. I was the release coordinator for Ethereum, and I've been active in the space a long long time.

Here's what it boils down to: freedom is messy.

The early days of the dotcom space were filled with carnage of a type which makes crypto look pretty normal. Amazon stock dropped >90% and a trillion and a half in value vanished from the market overall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

And that's in a space whose biggest ambition was to replace catalogue shopping and how hotel reservations are made.

Crypto has bigger goals, and the mess is bigger. But it's the same innovation engine that ran Silicon Valley, the same type of people, it's just now they're less dependent on Goldman Sachs when they want to go to the public and ask for their money. Make no mistake: nothing new, strange or unusual is happening. It's just tech being tech, no cause for alarm.
Yes. The whole AI space using questionable data sources for training is just a tempest in a teapot about to explode.
One thing that nicely threads the needle between "he's just a witness in the AG" and "he was sued by amazon in a separate matter," is if he lives in a state other than California, and Amazon had to file a special matter in his home state in order to enforce the subpoena issued in the California case.

It's confusing, given what information he provided, and I'm not really clear what's going on.
I think cases like this are outside the scope of the Corruption Perceptions Index. At least, your wikipedia link describes it as: (*emphasis* mine)

> The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index which ranks countries "by their perceived levels of *public sector corruption*, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.

From skimming the court order, it seems that this is an instance of private sector corruption. In 2004, the Purdue board (which included at least 6 Sackler family members) created a policy to indemnify the board, executives, and some others against any claims/suits/etc. There was a narrow carve-out where a court decision that someone acted in "bad faith" would void the indemnification.
Shouldn’t they technically write “all permutations” for the biggest number?
The civilization we've built, globally, is dependent on a certain climate. Certain places are livable and some aren't. Climate change threatens that. Even a few inches of global sea rise threatens millions of people who live in places like Miami or on islands. Many animals as well can only survive under certain climate conditions. So, the Earth will not crack in half, but those of us who live here will have a lot to deal with in the next few decades. Wouldn't it be better to just (or "just") reduce our greenhouse gas emissions?
Freon was phased out, that was a big win.
That would require a high degree of integration into human society though, which makes it seem very unlikely that AIs would doggedly pursue a common goal that is completely unaligned with human societies.

Extinction or submission of human society via that route could only work if there was a species of AI that would agree to execute a secret plan to overcome the rule of humanity. That seems extremely implausible to me.

How would many different AIs, initially under the control of many different organisations and people, agree on anything? How would some of them secretly infiltrate and leverage human power structures without facing opposition from other equally capable AIs, possibly controlled by humans?

I think it's more plausible to assume a huge diversity of AIs, well integrated into human societies, playing a role in combined human-AI power struggles rather than a species v species scenario.
So pop music stars are now the best musicians?

Be careful with conflating 'popularity' with 'quality.' Tesla should be wary of their recent success. There's the potential for huge backlash when people start to realize Tesla's support is poor if your issue lies outside the bounds of the 'typical' issues they're expecting.

Bad news travels fast.
The only way we can save ourselves is to give my company, OpenAI, a monopoly
I think your comment isn't being well received because it represents fairly stark national differences.

In the US, a DNR is primarily for a medical setting with staff who've already identified you and confirmed its veracity. Withdrawing medical care creates massive liability so providers are going to make sure they got it right before stopping. Lay people do not have the knowledge to make these kinds of decisions.

I've never been taught to even check for a bracelet during any of my CPR trainings, and my wife who's been an EMT for 10 years tells me they will still run the code after being presented a DNR until until they receive a clear confirmation from their medical director to cease.