skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey,

What you can do is to use caching and embeddings. Embeddings are like X,Y coordinates (except with OpenAI it's 1500 dimensions not just two). You use embeddings on any type of text. Here you would embed user prompts and store answers. And what this means is, you would be able to get X,Y for "best restaurants close to the museum", "best places to eat" etc.. If a new user comes along and mentions food and museum, it's likely to rank highest for "best restaurants close to the museum". I haven't done this and idk if possible, but you could try to then check if this is "close enough". If it is, then you can probably return the same generated answer for this user. You can also embed answers and see if that has better result.

Process:
1. When user asks a question, you embed it and search with it.
2. If similar prompts exist; return the answer from the most "relevant" prompt.
3. If no similar prompt exists; generate a new answer, and store it to be associated with the prompt.

This might decrease quality, but maybe in "enough" cases, it does just fine.

I'm developing tzap.io that uses some of these techniques, join our discord if you want to get in touch: https://discord.gg/88xDVYbPVB
Slight twist I learned from my wife: MoSCoW lists - Must, Should, Could, Won't.

The "Won't"s really tie down the boundaries of the system. If your PM is smart they probably won't call them "Won't"s, much more likely to bunch them into a column labelled "Phase 2".
> all your children and N levels of parents get banned too.

This never works. Like black SEO, where the competition deliberately does "forbidden SEO" things just to blacklist you.
Well, when you're a hammer everything looks like a nail, so I suppose when you're a primate researcher, everything looks like a primate. Probably helps that we are actually primates.
My experience with doctors and daycare is similar to Hattmall. Keep them home for 24hrs if fever. No doctors note. I’m in Minnesota.
Which is why in other countries, such as the UK, the NHS will look at the potential for preventing disease/extending QALY based on peer-reviewed evidence, the risks of harm and overall cost-effectiveness before then coming up with a model for the whole population when it comes to screening which targets patient demographics most likely to benefit. The following conditions are pro-actively screened in this way:

- Abdominal aortic aneurysm

- Bowel cancer

- Breast cancer

- Cervical cancer

- Diabetic eye screening

Patients with early symptoms of e.g. skin cancer can get moles checked out free of charge, and the yearly dental & vision check will screen for conditions like oral cancer and glaucoma.

The harm of something like a yearly colonoscopy in the general asymptomatic population would far exceed the potential benefits.
I see similar behaviors in multiple online "tech savvy" communities. I tend to minimize the behavior to "they don't know how to handle an online community and behave in a very childish way". It seems we need to recap what OSS communities have learnt from decades.
> people should be in a position to report issues they discover in the course of their lives

What does this mean? Which issues? How many thousands of diseases are there?

I have a friend who has low level of energy, everyone was calling him lazy his entire life. He thought thats just how life is. He cannot compare how it feel to be him with how it feel to be someone else.

I convinced him to see a doctor about this at the age of 25. First doctor didnt take him seriously, didnt want to do any tests. The complains are very non-spesific. maybe you are lazy, maybe you are depressed.

After weeks of fighting the medical system he discovered that he had a digestive issue, which led to low level of iron and low level of enegy. His entire life he was suffering from an easily treatable problem.

Imagine he treated this at the age of 12, how many sports did he miss out on, how much academic achievement was missed, maybe his career and life trajectory would be different.

A friend of mine struggled with back pain for 3 years. He coupst find the cause. It got so bad, he thought he'd become disabled. He left UK and went back to Romania to have support of his family. Suffenly in Romania he started getting better. Turned out it was vitamin D defficiency.

I started taking Vitamin D agressively, 2,000 units daily, 5 times the recommended amount by the NHS. After taking it for 6 months I went private and did a first vitamin D test in my life - my level is 1/3 of normal.

So how doea one know what is normal, if most people gp their entire life without ever doing a full blood test
y'all won't turn heads anywhere anymore, but fixin will.
Good point. Even from a purely selfish perspective, I would think that being universally loved would have more utility than a few more millions in the bank.
>it doesn’t have any underlying model of the world

Citation needed.

ChatGPT doesn't have an explicit underlying model of the world separate from its language model, but it is unclear that this is necessary. It would not be an original philosophical position to say that language, properly understood, is definitionally a model of the world - otherwise it would be incapable of expressing anything true or false about the world. Words are concepts, they are defined in part by a web of relations to other words, this structure mirrors reality with some finite but significant fidelity. By this reckoning, GPT4 has dozens of models of the world.

Now, it's true that a) this is hardly a universally accepted opinion, b) humans certainly have extra-linguistic mental models of the world as well, and c) actually existing linguistic models of the world are all riddled with flaws and ambiguities (see for example everything that has ever happened). But it's also not a bonkers opinion that GPT4 is actually doing something similar to what it appears for all the world to be doing. Newton's 3rd Law of Discourse states that every hype cycle must be followed by an equal and opposite deflationary hot take, so here we are, but is any of this true? LLMs are just overgrown auto complete, ok, and humans are just bunch es of molecules. There are serious limits to the utility of reductionism as well.
Well, it existed for quite a long time before drama started, it was just one or two episodes, and was relatively short-lived. I haven't heard anything about Linux in that regard for quite a while, but Rust is in the news regularly. Linux kernel also has a much larger community.
Rust is supposed to help keep the programmer from shooting themself in the foot, but lately the Rust community/leadership keeps shooting itself.
In addition to urgent care clinics, every doctor I've had holds a few appointment slots open for same-day or next-day visits. I just have to call them when they open.

Just checking my doctor's group, they have multiple appointments available for new or existing patients in all 7 of their locations around Austin as early as Tuesday - and that's probably only because Monday is a holiday. The only caveat is that you have to accept whichever doctor is available, rather than selecting you PCP.

I know it's a big country with a lot of variability of experience, but this has been the case everywhere I've lived.
Why would they feel compelled to make that threat? lol
If nobody cared then why did someone make such a big deal out of the talk making them uncomfortable and therefore needing to downgrade it. It obviously did matter to more than just the speaker.
I'm not really interested in arguing about the who is worse scoreboard.

I just want America to become less like Russia not more.
To be clear, did you have any trouble figuring out the correct answer in the motivating example in the article's introduction?

I'm asking because sure, a human programmer might well get tripped up by a name swap if they had missed the swap, or forgot it, but when presented with a short test of three lines like the one in the article's motivating example, the majority of human programmers would pass the test easily.

That's what the experiment is testing. Three short lines and a question. The LLMs fail it. How often would humans fail it?

(Note I think the experiment is not very informative for other reasons, but I'm specifically pointing out that most humans would pass the test anyway).
Scrawl-canvas 2D canvas library – proposed roadmap
Because some of these new Web APIs look scary, particularly if/when they start to include HTML <canvas> elements ...
or you know, just pick up the cat and put it in the box.

I've yet to see what would be global news: "it's impossible to put this cat into a carrier"
> That never happened.

Even left-wing Guardian admits as much, you can find easily find other sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...
The West offered the "Partnership for Peace" program at the beginning of the 90s a distraction simply because they didn't see Russia as partners, but as defeated enemies. Even if we concede for a moment that this promise never happened, lots of people, among them Joe Biden, admitted back then that this would be a move that Russia could never accept. I think Bidens words were it would create a "vigorous and hostile reaction".
You can of course claim that this does not justify the invasion, but then you basically say Russia can never have legitimate security interests that run counter to the west.

> The narrative that NATO promised never to accept Eastern Europe (and broke that promise) was invented much later

That has been claimed often but proven wrong by the cable leaks.

> His infamous lecture that presents a totally warped view of the world

This is just a generic ad-hominem. If you have substantial rebuttals, I'm eager to hear them.
The TAG link referenced in this article outlines how they use a fully updated Samsung device as a honeypot. At the time, even a fully updated device wasn't protected.
> Valve could have decided to ignore Nintendo with ~ no liability. They decided to just do whatever they were asked, and that's not surprising given they initiated contact in the first place.

They most certainly would have had liability in this situation. Once informed by Nintendo that they consider Dolphin a circumvention technology, it is highly likely that in any future lawsuit a court would find Valve liable for knowing distributing a circumvention technology.
> The urgent care doctors always prescribe antibiotics, even though the most likely cause is viral

This is irresponsible, tackling AMR is a WHO priority and local guidance (e.g. NICE, I don't know about the states - is it ICER? the CDC?) should reflect this and steer away from "just in case" antibiotic prescriptions.
That’s basically all my annual physical is with my PCP. Short chat, referral for lab work, 2 minute phone call when they get the results.
And why is core 0 magical on that machine?
> Checkups save lives. It's a bit ridiculous to speak of needing evidence for that.

This is a silly attitude. Maybe you should do some salutations to the sun god Ra if evidence isn't significant.

> Catching cancer early is of great importance. Hence the yearly breast control checks.

Breast cancer screening isn't annual (in women or men).
I agree with you, though I don’t know if it’s really exporting to be writing about it on a personal blog or even an American news site like this one. Note the anthropologist take was adopted in 1998; things have changed a lot domestically since then.
They actually speak to this somewhat (rting + acknowledging someone else's commentary on the issue mentioning the same) on Twitter. If you view their tweet history and linked tweet, you'll see that they speak a bit to the sorry state of representation at these conferences in general

https://twitter.com/__phantomderp/status/1662511693136637952

I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, to be clear, but in my mind, leaving the burden of pointing out inequity to victims of it isn't great either. I guess a less problematic approach would be reaching out to that person directly to see if they feel like that's what happened, and how they'd like others to respond if so
What are they sinking about?
>well, it doesn't necessarily imply that

It doesn't prove it, but it sure does imply it.

It could also imply a few other things (like what you suggest). An observation, after all, can imply several alternative potential explanations.

I'd say though that "they wanted to play around" is a weaker hypothesis than "they had performance constraints" (as one is more universally applicable, and would apply to all kinds of simulations run, whereas the other depends on a specific choice of the simulation creators). Plus we see more constraints than the "speed of light".

>or perhaps in their universe, there is no light, and they wanted to play around with the concept?

Btw, "speed of light" doesn't have much to do with light (it's just the example upon which the theory was made). It applies to anything massless, all kinds of electromagnetic radiation, and so on. The real meaning of "speed of light" is the speed of causation propagation, or the speed of information propagation if you wish.

So unless their universe didn't have causation either, and everything happened "all at once", they'd have the same kind of limit (regardless of whether they had light).
> The cheetah has no such problem

So why are cheetahs "On the Brink of Extinction, Again"?

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/cheetahs-b...
I've been processing this for a long time. Many years ago my goal was to get enough money to be financially free allowing me to focus on personal projects, travelling or just enjoying the free time.

Some time has passed and my current line of thinking (it could change) is that I want to continue working, creating value for the world. Have a good financial position to be able to choose what I want to do next, maybe taking some time to work on something I think could be valuable or taking a lower paying job but with high potential or that gives me more autonomy to manage my time and tasks.

And thats the line of thinking I'll pick to answer the post question. I'm working on putting me in the position of doing almost the same as if I was financially free.
What a lovely person that they took the time to find the painting and then donate it. Very selfless!
One interesting scenario I've heard is that of the "ascended economy", where more and more economic activity is simply to provide inputs into things that other businesses need, rather than what humans need.

Like, a mining company produces steel, that is used to produce mining trucks, that is used by the mining company. Factories produce silicon, that are used to make solar panels and chips, for power and computing for the AI-run mining trucks. And at the root, AIs run everything, just trading money back and forth to buy the things they need and keep working.

It's just a human economy, with the humans gone. Pointless economic activity.

The question is, what's the path from here to there? Well, it probably looks like a multipolar trap, where every company has an incentive to automate more. Humans try to stop or slow it down, but companies with more AI can hire more lobbyists and get things done. AIs are smart enough to think of all the things that could slow their business down, and get rid of obstacles in the same way humans do. There are probably still lots of small, inefficient human owned businesses, but fewer and fewer over time. (We've seen this trend for a while already!)

I'm hoping a massive backlash would stop this -- but if it's coupled with short-term increases in living standards for people, I think it would have a lot of support, until things start to go really bad, but by then it might be too late, if AIs have control over news media and telecommunications and can stop dissenting humans from coordinating any sort of rebellion.
> I feel that's more on the UK/Irish medical system

I've had no issues getting a referral in the UK system, though I appreciate some people do struggle. Hell, I've had to actively turn down the offer of a referral when I felt like the problem would be better dealt with in primary care.
The rule didn't have to be followed before it existed.
If anything the opposite. There is a double meaning in my words. The stereotypical Israeli has strong opinions on almost everything. Freedom of thought goes hand in hand with freedom of the press and a general love of freedom. Otoh they feel that the international media is strongly biased against them and don't fairly report on the palestinian conflict. For example take a look at the resolutions passed by the UN Human Rights council. It's hard to come to any other conclusion other then it's been weaponised against israel.

Also bear in mind Israel crippling vulnerability to organised terror whose leaders cruelty know no limits and view every jew as a legitimate target. Especially in a freedom loving society this is intolerable so every step is considered in fighting this menace.
“I wonder why more wealthy don't do things…”

I wonder why so many people want the wealthy to do more things to make the world a better place when the United States has a GDP of $23 trillion dollars.

Everyone wants to pay little taxes, have a cheap gallon of gas, and tax the rich to solve our problems, while kicking the can as far down the road as possible.

How many problems could have been solved with $32 trillion

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2023/04/25/the-natio...
IME I've truly let go if something bothers me less over time. My SO and I were taught to bring things up immediately. Yet that led to (what seem to me) a torrent of complaints that felt very one-sided.

My guess is there is a balance. Where little things can be overlooked, yet if they accumulate then it's best to talk about them at the point it's clear they can't be "let go". Ideally before things have gone on too long.

Having a qualified, independent third party can also help provide some perspective. Of course all this assumes there isn't evidence folks are just petty and manipulative. Compromise does take two and ideally both will feel there is an equal amount being sacrificed or gained by all.

Also I would recommend avoiding faith based counseling. IME their faith often taints their objectivity and generally pollutes both their advice and critical thinking skills. Even for couples who are of the same faith it can be helpful to get help outside the bubble.
You're missing an important bit of knowledge about Stephen Hawking.
I visited Venice for the first time last August, and did not really smell anything stinky.

My wife is extremely sensitive to smells. Neither did she.

Is there a particular time when it’s stinkier?
Cool project! Was thinking about something similar since we tried an embeddings index on HN titles for our demo (hn.curiosity.ai), and was really impressed with the results. If you want I can expose an API for you to use too
Yes the idea is false and contrarian and the article puts under checkup everything undoing centuries of medical science. But OK, it's against the mainstream thinking bruh
Or misinformation. Or phishing. Really, any type of moderation is one of the biggest ongoing challenges for a small operation like this.
Numbers taking US accountancy exams drop to lowest level in 17 years
20% seems very high. I also thought their food was a byproduct of the meat industry, maybe that's the reason? It's 20% that no one else would eat anyway?

(I'm being pedantic but that'd suit my narrative, I'm mostly vegan and I'm easily annoyed by people with pets)
Not sure if "chat apps" are banned, but try checking out nitropay?
30% of what? What studies?
https://archive.is/bcoZb
Spray painting some's house without their consent is not 'artwork', it's criminal damage.
I keep saying that what we are currently living through is a surprisingly accurate reflection of how democracy began. In the city state of Athens, all free men had the vote. The definition of "free man" just happened to exclude approximately 97% of the population.

Our governments have since figured out that you can merrily hand out the privilege, as long you remain in control of what is allowed to be put on the vote in the first place. I'm not alone with my view, btw. Lessig has made the same point in his "Country of Lesters" talk.[0,1]

0: https://www.politicallawbriefing.com/2013/04/a-lester-whats-... (overview, writeup)

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g (recorded talk)
That's true and relevant, but doesn't prove much. What's the big plan, what's the next step in the plan?

Maciej's larger point is that the AI faces tons of very difficult problems in escaping its physical constraints. It's simplistic to wave hands and say "the AI is super duper smart and will have no difficulty hacking all computer systems, inventing and manufacturing swarms of unbeatable nanobots, etc. without being detected or resisted".

It seems to me that the core conceit of AI doomerism is that sufficient intelligence can overcome all barriers with some plan that is so smart, people would never think of it. This is much less plausible than believers take it to be. In mathematics alone, it is very easy to come up with a problem that the collective mathematical ingenuity of the entire human race is helpless before for decades, centuries, or longer.
Hey! We did some texting on https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm without issues(*), that was around 150K lines of code.

And it works great, I wish I knew more domain details about twitter to be able to really leverage it, but it quickly finds parts of your system and how to build features like "removing echo chambers from the-algorithm by recommending posts to a broader audience that is likely to have opposing views and interact with others."

I think one of our users tried indexing their internal code on about 200k LOC.

The outputs are however limited to 4k or 8k depending on what model you use.

*(initial indexing might be slow and re-indexing might need to be disabled)
What an absurd claim and article? As someone in the UK I estimate it was would cost probably a less than a couple of hundred for the paint, supplies, and ladders. Probably less if they bought the paint and did it themselves.
Cool project! I was thinking about something similar since we played with an embeddings index model on HN titles for our demo at hn.curiosity.ai
If you want I could expose an API for you to use on the extension
Yeah, seeing how bad the rebuttals are to superintelligence e-risk really does make me feel like we’re doomed.

They’re frustratingly dumb, I’d like to see some good arguments or steelman but they’re honestly very hard to find.

Ultimately it seems like there’s nothing most individuals can do so just live your life as you would and hope the timeline is farther out than it seems.

Worse than the Cold War nuclear risk imo, at least in that case it was possible for humans to stupidly build thousands and then decide not to use them (and it’s relatively easy to restrict uranium access/control the development of nukes). Not really the case with superintelligent AGI.

People have a bad heuristic for what tailrisk exists. They think extinction talk is impossible or crazy. We won’t get the opportunity to mess up and try again in this case.

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
There's a lot to be said for open source ISAs like RISC-V. But it's a lot harder to create a top of the line open source microarchitecture implementing it that's competitive to closed source designs. A Linux kernel developer can make changes and test them several times a day for a cost in electricity measured in cents. An equivalent build/test cycle on a CPU core is going to be north of a month and a million dollars. Simulation helps but to optimize speed and yield you really need to build the chips and due to physical effects that's a process with much weaker abstraction barriers than software development. So I'm skeptical that we'll ever have cutting edge open source microarchitectures.
If Banksy painted a seagull on any house within miles of me, the homeowners associations would be calling for a paintover the next day. I’m slightly jealous that they at least get to be in the drivers seat of deciding what to do.