skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for this. No church is perfect, but my experience is that church is a place where I can go to gather with people from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and needs and come together on some common points: we need more than ourselves to make it through life, we need to be kinder, and we should serve each other.

I have seen my congregation rally around new parents, people with mental health conditions, and other such common struggles. Serving others is a great way to feel that you are part of a community. Church can be a great framework for that kind of thing.
The issue now is carbon emissions, not sources of energy. Fossil fuels are already-sequestered carbon and releasing that into the atmosphere is bad unless we can close the loop by sequestering CO2 back into combustibles using solar or nuclear energy.
A data structure is a type, so "data-structure type" is a pleonasm. Please don't misuse terminology :)
Ty :) Yep, all your tests remain on your dashboard unless you delete them.
Try changing the link to use old.reddit.com
In Kiwi Browser, it just shows the numbers like it's nothing :)
Care to elaborate?

It's difficult to put any weight in an anonymous comment when it relies solely on credibility.
It’s worth noting also that many academics who signed the statement may face adverse issues like reputational risk as well as funding cut to their research programs if AI safety becomes an official policy.

For a large number of them, these risks are worth far more than any possible gain from signing it.

When a large number of smart, reputable people, including many with expert knowledge and little or negative incentives to act dishonestly, put their names down like this, one should pay attention.

Added:

Paul Christiano, a brilliant theoretical CS researcher who switched to AI Alignment several years ago, put the risks of “doom” for humanity at 46%.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-o...
AI chat with the Attention is All You Need paper
This will open up a huge can of worms, but I am asking in good faith, because I have never really heard it articulated clearly. What is bad about the climate changing?

Here's what I understand so far: The climate is a complex system, which means it's the interplay of many complex and/or chaotic systems, which means it's inherently unpredictable. The climate changes. It has changed dramatically over the course of the earth's existence, as far as we can surmise from available geologic records, etc. The main argument I have heard is "yes, the climate changes, but not at this rate! Ever!" Which seems like a very dubious claim, in my mind, because we don't have very good weather data going back very far, so we don't actually know if that's the case.

I really want to understand the fear and anxiety people are experiencing with regard to climate change, because from my current understanding of the data and of the inherent unpredictability of complex systems, I don't.

Tangentially related: if we are anxious about the climate changing, why do we think it should stay the same, and also, what would "ideal steady state" look like?

I am prepared for "You're obviously an idiot..." kinds of comments. I'm genuinely asking these questions in good faith, hoping someone can help me understand the panic.
US West Coast-er here. If I add a cycle of code reviews with someone in a timezone 12.5 hr away, our velocity will be slowwwww
This could also lead to jail time for the guy. If he fails to properly respond to the discovery and deposition requests then the court can indict him for criminal contempt.

I've known many people spend significant time in jail for contempt for not complying with court orders, mostly in the sphere of child support payments that they can't afford to make, so they are sent to jail to learn how to be less poor.
The ARC processor was formerly in the northbridge of the chipset.

Intel has since replaced this with an 80486 in modern designs; perhaps it also is implemented in the northbridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(processor)
Music! Playing in groups is a wonderful lifelong social activity.
A subpoena is an order from a court to produce something. That something can be a person, documents, objects...whatever.

What does it mean to you?
Yeah, and the predicted we’d all be dead by now, how wrong they were/are.
Yep. If you go and register a new gmail account today, there will likely be no option to enable IMAP access for that account, altogether.
The edgiest hackers use Spaceflare (TM) workers at the edge of space, not just the edge of the network.
It's available as an alternate protocol in the open-source Cyrus IMAP server: https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.4/imap/developer/jmap.html
Those books define laziness, and provide a couple examples - but they do not teach a programmer how to use it correctly.

Correct use of laziness involves choosing sufficient space invariants, implementing them, and documenting them. This is critical for writing efficient code in Haskell, and rejecting the "everything strict" cargo cult at the same time allows you to recover compositionality.

There was a period of time around 15 years ago, back before core libraries really started to understand this concept, and they would often have updates that silently made things too strict, breaking my code that was using their previous laziness in ways they hadn't predicted.

And it bugs me when I see new resources being set up to train people to write code that prevents my creative uses of their libraries. We should teach people how to write efficient Haskell code that's still Haskell code. It's great that we have so many advanced strictness tools when they're needed. But they shouldn't be reached for before we know if they help.
> Every time I give out my email address, behind the scenes a single-source permission/token is created. 2. Thus, that one source is able to send me email, from the email address they specified at the time. 3. But if they hand over the permission/token to anyone else, email from that new source will automatically bounce/be marked as suspect/flagged (my choice in configuration).

Do you mean hand out in a digital sense or on a business card? I'm not sure you can support the business card use case if you implement that.
I don't claim they are impossible (although I personally believe 5 is extremely unrealistic and 4 is difficult), I just have not seen any mathematical or experimental evidence.
Experimental evidence would be an example of n accelerated self-imporvement process in a simpler model. Of course this is unlikely to happen, as one expect this kind of self-improvement to happen once a critical amount of intelligence is reached, and such examples should be impossible nowadays. Nevertheless, no experimental evidence.
Mathematical evidence would be some kind of mathematical argument that suggests that a rapid growth of intelligence is plausible. Again, that is extremely high of me to expect as we don't really have any idea how to define these things mathematically. So I am setting the bar very high again.

Okay, so while there is no experimental or mathematical evidence for rapid self-improvement, one may say that this is unrealistic to expect. But given the absence of positive evidence, let's look at negative evidence. Every growth pattern we see in machine learning is either some form of decaying growth, logarithmic or sigmoid shaped. The rapid self-improvement of superintelligence would be the first accelerating performance curve we see...

>recursive self improvement is just a tighter loop than natural selection, biological reproduction and cellular growth.

Just because some process is self-improving, doesn't mean it will grow at increasing speed. It may just converge to an asymptote. Or grow logarithmically. Also, the claimed self-improvement is so different from evolution that it's not great to think of it as "evolution but faster" imo.
The Plague is a decent candidate for Camus' most important work. It should be required reading for anyone interested in how people (and states) respond to the outbreak of an epidemic (which today, includes everyone).

> "No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and the emotions shared by all. Strongest of these emotions was the sense of exile and deprivation, with all the crosscurrents of revolt and fear set up by these."
Focus Modes let you have different Home screens at different times of day. That can give the brain different context moments that kick muscle memory in different directions.
Scientists warned about climate change in 2023. Nothing was done
It doesn't sound like you understand what "peak oil" means.

It was always the opposite of a lie: a logical truism.

If you have a limited resource and an increasing rate of use, there will a point in time where that rate of use peaks, i.e. reaches a maximum and then declines. That's just (very) basic mathematical truth.

And scarcity incentivizing innovations in extraction and processing changes absolutely nothing about it, those things are just (part of) the reason why the peak will be followed by a gradual decline rather than consumption continuing to rise until the day before all reserves are depleted.
I don't know the answer to that.

Though I'm wondering: If manufacturing were done on the moon, would it be safe and feasible to haul some wastes to the lunar equator during the cold of night and let it burn up when daytime temps naturally exceed the boiling point of water from solar power alone?
I just finished my second read of The Stranger. I have to say, reading The Myth of Sisyphus first made it much more enjoyable - I could appreciate the absurdity of it all more. Things clicked after Meursault said he had lost the habit of analyzing his own thoughts, and instead resorted to feelings and emotion.
If you want to achieve a meaningful coverage with renewables, you need to install excessive capacity (e.g., imagine 5-6x the required capacity) AND install 100% in coal/gas/nuclear. Thats pretty expensive and pretty wasteful in terms of resources.
Even with twice the renewables (and twice the gas capacity due to phasing out of coal and nuclear), we will emit twice the carbon emissions of France (today) in 2030.

“Flexible grid and storage” are just nonsense that is thrown in to mask the ugly truth: 1) Deindustrialization, 2) Global Warming or 3) Going Nuclear.
> Amazon doesn't allow sellers to price their products for less off-Amazon.

If Amazon has such a policy, they sure don't enforce it. I found a product cheaper elsewhere and wanted to see if Amazon would price match. Their response was:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
tl;Dr, it says no.
What's more shocking is that they decided using 250 high paid EPD workers to not pay a Google Map licensing was the way to go.

They could have incubated at least 10 different products during this critical time.
Is that enough for their company to be alive? Many startups offer paid services but it isn't enough to cover their own costs and salaries in the first several years; everything depends on investors willing to fund them through that period.
I joined the Freemasons. It's been awesome, I've met a great group of guys and we talk smack and eat soup. Good stuff.
It is very easy at LAX. You walk about 100 yards across one (admittedly very busy) intersection and get picked up for 1/3 the price. You already have to take a shuttle to even get picked up unless you have a black car, so this adds 5 minutes. It is still annoying if you have luggage.

You could also take a shuttle to a local hotel or car rental, but that is breaking some rules.
Question from someone with a surface-level knowledge of how LLMs work:

As I understand it, LLMs work, at a very high level, by repeatedly choosing the token with the highest probability. Could potential confabulations be flagged by marking low-confidence sequences of text in the output? This seems like it's be particularly good at detecting when the model is making up a name or number, for example.
That statistics really makes me wonder if this is a NYC only thing or if Lyft is that disconnected it's own user base.
I think the difference is that proponents of peak oil relied on motivated thinking and largely ignored known information. Their assumptions were widely criticized as inaccurate at the time and doubled down.

This is because they were looking to support a policy position to stop oil usage and trying to build a scientific case, opposed to the other way around.
Local weekly pinball tournaments are an amazing way to meet folks and hang out in a low-pressure social environment.

Since the rounds of the tournament are randomized groups of four, every round is a chance to introduce yourself to three other players and learn each others' names. If you come back regularly, you'll start to recognize and be recognized by the other regulars. Everyone gets to know each other better at a natural and unforced pace.

I've been playing every Wednesday night for about a year, and I like it so much that I'm shifting my work schedule so I can join the same local regulars for a Thursday night tournament at a different arcade too.

I really hope you have the chance to give it a try!

You can find tournaments in your area at: https://www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/#
Doesn't this also lead to increased flora, which is a more rapid way of re-sequestering carbon?
it is important to point out that wasmer is an organization that is not in good standing with the wasm/wasi community

until that is resolved, their products should probably not be viewed in good faith
Sumo comes with a stand made out of metal.
And yet we import nuclear electricity when the sun doesn’t shine or there is no wind in Germany…
What a perfect seppuku. RIP WASM, thou was fun while thou lasted.

The only chance of survival is to declare WASM GC a heresy and to largely ignore it until it rots away like Intel iAPX 432 did. But considering the financial model of the current WASM development this plan may be unrealistic.
I would think that the region where I live (north Germany) could be driven two-three times with renewable energy. Added storage is a matter of time and money. Given that nuclear energy will be slow and extremely expensive to build, we'll better look for alternatives sooner than later. Plus: spent fuel storage / reprocessing costs how much for what option? We have nuclear power since the 50s, but dealing with nuclear waste is still largely unsolved.

> I deliver more electricity to the grid with my PV than I consume.

That's fine. We'll see more people doing it and we'll see many GWh distributed storage capacity added over the next years.
Funny enough, a modern CPU doing CAR still has more memory than a PC from the 1980s. Presuming you statically recompiled them, you could run entire SNES games from a modern CPU’s cache!

(And that being said, now I’m wondering whether you could force eviction and retainment into L3 cache on demand, to achieve something like memory bank switching…)
This article is pretty good: https://www.cades.com/2022/07/11/third-party-subpoenas-whos-...

Basically it goes like this:
-they send you a subpoena, you kinda try to respond

-they tell you they want more documents and your response is insufficient, and they threaten that the subpoena is issued with the authority of the court and contempt is a potential remedy etc

-if you get really annoyed, you threaten to (or actually move to) quash the subpoena

-Ultimately the judge is supposed to determine whether, based on the resources available to you, the subpoena is causing you "significant expense." If it is, the judge needs to ensure the expense isn't too significant by working with you.

If you're being careful and paying a lawyer for all of this, this can be pretty damn expensive to go through. I guess in theory if you just fire from the hip yourself and try to learn the rules (probably not advised) you could be OK, but then you risk making little errors that Amazon will blast you and your testmiony with.
Running groups. Every city seems to have a few for different pace groups.
Anyone who sees digestion for example can’t be reduced to digital programs knows it’s far, far away. Actual AGI will require biology and psychology, not better programs.
Just googled FedNow and there's FAQ where one of the questions is "Will FedNow replace services like Venmo, Cashap, zelle..." and the answer there is no... which doesn't make sense if it's suppose to be a way to instantly transfer money. Wouldn't FedNow replace all of those?
I don't -- all of my "communities" are through work. Not the answer you're looking for, but I've been working in tech long enough at this point that I'm pretty sure it's not going to change (for me).
Correction, most people who can afford to do so (both financially and with respect to risk, e.g. of losing their job) would be willing to. The jury is out on what percentage of people wouldn't be able to but it's certainly quite a bit above 0.
If you had any pull in that decision, well done. You made the world a little bit better for everyone. Can't ask for much more than that sometimes.
To make it even funnier - Digital's last Alpha CPU, EV7, which was essentially the ancestor of AMD K8 (which finally brought "mesh" networking to mainstream PCs), actually had IP-based internal management network!

Each EV7 computer had, instead of normal BMC, a bigger management node connected to 10MBit ethernet hub (twisted ethernet, fortunately :P), and this network was then connected to things like I/O boards, power control, system boards... including to each individual EV7 CPU. Each so connected component had a small CPU with ethernet that was responsible for interfacing their specific component to the network, and when the system booted part of it involved prodding the CPUs over ethernet to put them into appropriate halt state from which they could start booting.
What does the acquiring company get out of this transaction though? What's the return on investment here if folks end up leaving or are completely checked out during their rest-n-vest? You can spend millions with a high end boutique consulting firm that will most likely be more accountable and productive than an acqui-hire.
> These tools do not integrate with anything; in the case of Stalwart (the only JMAP server not in "experimental" status) you can't just install a JMAP server attached to an existing email service; you have to hand it complete control of everything, even unto the on-disk storage of mail.

This point you mention is being improved. The next release of Stalwart JMAP (expected in one or two months) will delegate user management to either a SQL database or an LDAP directory. Messages will be stored in either Maildir or MinIO/S3. And all other information will be in either SQLite or FoundationDB.
All these features were already implemented except MinIO/S3. Development progress can be tracked at https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server/tree/main/crates...
So some are naive and the rest are self interested?
which is what FastMail runs internally
> It is difficult to disagree with the potential political and societal impacts of large language models as outlined here

Is it? Unless you mean something mundane like "there will be impact", the list of risks they're proposing are subjective and debatable at best, irritatingly naive at worst. Their list of risks are:

1. Weaponization. Did we forget about Ukraine already? Answer: Weapons are needed. Why is this AI risk and not computer risk anyway?

2. Misinformation. Already a catastrophic problem just from journalists and academics. Most of the reporting on misinformation is itself misinformation. Look at the Durham report for an example, or anything that happened during COVID, or the long history of failed predictions that were presented to the public as certain. Answer: Not an AI risk, a human risk.

3. People might click on things that don't "improve their well being". Answer: how we choose to waste our free time on YouTube is not your concern, and you being in charge wouldn't improve our wellbeing anyway.

4. Technology might make us fat, like in WALL-E. Answer: it already happened, not having to break rocks with bigger rocks all day is nice, this is not an AI risk.

5. "Highly competent systems could give small groups of people a tremendous amount of power, leading to a lock-in of oppressive systems". Answer: already happens, just look at how much censorship big tech engages in these days. AI might make this more effective, but if that's their beef they should be campaigning against Google and Facebook.

6. Sudden emergent skills might take people by surprise. Answer: read the paper that shows the idea of emergent skills is AI researchers fooling themselves.

7. "It may be more efficient to gain human approval through deception than to earn human approval legitimately". No shit Sherlock, welcome to Earth. This is why labelling anyone who expresses skepticism about anything as a Denier™ is a bad idea! Answer: not an AI risk. If they want to promote critical thinking there are lots of ways to do that unrelated to AI.

8. Machines smarter than us might try to take over the world. Proof by Vladimir Putin is provided, except that it makes no sense because he's arguing that AI will be a tool that lets humans take over the world and this point is about the opposite. Answer: people with very high IQs have been around for a long time and as of yet have not proven able to take over the world or even especially interested in doing so.

None of the risks they present is compelling to me personally, and I'm sure that's true of plenty of other people as well. Fix the human generated misinformation campaigns first, then worry about hypothetical non-existing AI generated campaigns.
It’s not been mentioned yet, but if you play music then going to jam sessions is a great way to meet people. You’re all on a journey together toward improving as musicians which helps things to gel. As a jazz musician I can find a jam session in pretty much any city I go to. If you don’t play you can always go just to listen, watch and be inspired
Respectfully, just because we can put together some words doesn’t mean they make a meaningful expression, even if everybody keeps repeating them as if they did make sense: e.g. an omnipotent God, artificial general intelligence, super-intelligence, infinitely many angels sitting on the tip of a needle, etc.
> this salary wouldn't attract strong talent even in medium cost-of-living countries (like Portugal/Spain).

lol, you have no idea what you’re talking about
Sometimes it makes good predictions, sometimes bad. But "advances in AI might lead to Armageddon" isn't the only conclusion induction can reach. Induction can also lead to people concluding certain arguments seem to a mashup of traditional millennialist "end times" preoccupations with the sort of sci-fi they grew up with, or that this looks a lot like a movement towards regulatory capture. Ultimately any (possibly even all) these inferences from past trends and recent actions can be correct, but none of them are falsifiable.

So I don't think it's a good idea to insist that people should be falsifying the idea that AI is a risk before we start questioning whether the behaviour of some of the entities on the list says more about their motivations than their words.
Live in a village, get a partner, have children, participate in children's schooling.
Would you feel the same way if the lawyer used a Wikipedia page that had made-up citations in his legal brief? What regulations do we need Wikipedia to stop this from happening?
Well that's very interesting, thank you!
Missed it - thanks
Eh, it's genuine as long as you subscribe to their set of beliefs. This may not be a problem for you, but for folks who care about reality, it could be more difficult.

The difference between this and say, a rec soccer team, is that it's an all-or-nothing endeavor. You can't "casually" become a Jehovah's Witness (or any other religion), you have to decide that your entire life is aligned to those principles.

I'm not knocking it (here, anyway), but I would hesitate to join a religion to make friends.