skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Few people believe AGI guarantees the extinction of humanity.

“Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn” - BBC front page news headline earlier today in reaction to this story.

This is the problem. Reading that BBC article will make your average joe petrified. “Extinction” is a much catchier headline than the slow creep of automation replacing/changing jobs. The latter is literally already happening around us right now and it serves some of those signatories if those issues aren’t regulated against [1]. I’m not saying forget about extinction threat. Clearly that’s an important risk to manage, but let’s not ignore these near term, huge disruptions because policy makers are busy reacting to distracting headlines.

Edit: add ref;
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-may-leave-eu-if-re...
Every cab I've been in over the last 10 years or so has had a card reader. Sometimes just Square, sometimes something fancier.
Does the argument attack Nature and other journals or does it setup a position that makes journals even more important to provide filters, verification, etc. services?

What were facing is an explosion of Brandolini's law on a scale people are not prepared to deal with and when all financial incentives promote this direction and financial incentives rule the world, I'm not sure how we get around the issue in environments that support free speech.

I'm not proposing we curtail free speech but we have serious issues to deal with as a society in terms of the believability and sheer volume of false information. To some degree this has always been an issue but my concern is that there's a critical tipping point in a free speech environment where there's so much BS out there people completely stop believing any information not matter how reputable or valid it is.
I'm sure that plays a part as well, although the feedback we get on giving them all the equipment they ever want is phenomenal and they constantly talk about it.
Can you say what is so hard so we can know ahead of time the issues before running into them?
> Apollo is also a producer to Reddit

By consuming its apis.....
> It's not something conjured,

It is something believed without any evidentiary basis which enables rationally weighing the actual risk or evaluating mitigation strategies so as to weigh their probable benefits against their probable costs and the associated changed in the overall risk profile; I'm not suggesting literal magical incantations when I say “conjured”.

> Unless you believe superhuman AGI which can set its own goals is impossible,

Depends what you mean by “set its own goals”, I could certainly see an argument that the natural intepretation is impossible in a universe fully governed by physical laws, whether the intelligence is artificial or not. But I don’t actually know that this is important, or even that the mucj weaker assumption that it’s goals might not exactly represent human intent (which is definitely possible of AGI itself is) is important, since human intention can itself be an existential risk.

> or that it's possible but it can't possibly have goals that pose a threat to humanity

Its definitely possible for an intelligence, even a human one, to have goals that are a threat, including an existential one, to humanity. That’s an existing x-risk without superhuman artificial intelligence. It may even be mitigated by superhuman artificial intelligence (as might other x-risks like “earth gets smashed by an asteroid”), if it is possible for such to exist without goals that are antithetical to human survival, in which case delaying superhuman AI could increase existential risk.

But, while this is all nice and conceivable, we have no way of balancing the net impact, positive or negative, of any course on AI to existential risk due to friendly or hostile superintelligences.

> So if we agree that this is possible, can we also agree that humanity is rushing to reach that point as rapidly as possible?

No, I can't agree with that, as it would require that every resource that could advance superhuman AI, and specifically dangerous* superhuman AI, was being directed as effectively as possible to that end. I don’t think we are anywhere close to that. Because AI has some mindshare beyond immediate economic utility, we’re probably heading toward AGI, if it is possible and if our current understanding of AI isn’t so wrong as to make our work irrrlevant even in eliminating bad routes, slightly faster than immediately-apparent economic incentives would promote, but nowhere close to as rapidly as possible.
>the only reason Reddit is even considering moving ahead with these changes is because they don't care

No, they're just flailing.

The problem with Reddit is that its product is ideological conformity; but its owners are too busy pretending (or actually believing) that's not true to sell it honestly. Mods are, to put it bluntly, mostly replaceable, and charging for the ability to moderate an established large subreddit would go a long way provided whoever buys that power must go out of their way to plausibly deny that.

And ideological conformity is worth a lot of money- Twitter was fairly valued in the tens of billions for a very good reason- but much like Twitter, that sort of thing sells "at a loss" because having the kind of content which enforcement of ideological conformity upon is meaningful necessarily means major companies won't want to put their products next to that content. Reddit is not a product that can generate a concrete return on investment, which is partially why it can survive operating at a net loss for a long, long time; capital directly funds political power.

Cheap capital drying up means money is tighter- so financiers are getting harder to come by- and if you're in straits that dire and don't want to downsize you have to look for other sources of revenue. In Reddit's case, this will completely kill their main product, but they have a mental block that prevents them from dealing with that honestly so they might be screwed.

>Mastodon has issues with scaling, but that's because their protocol is super-redundant in an effort to be decentralized (and apparently also kind of sucks)

Mastodon has the same kind problem that Reddit does but massively amplified- server operators have power over user networks (the same thing happens on Reddit with bots) which is a no-go for honest communication.
Much industrial automation runs on 24VDC. High enough that the losses within a cabinet are tolerable, low enough that there's no electrocution hazard.
The police are rioting.
just doesn't work? on my touchscreen laptop in chrome?
I'm looking for a codegen tool for client SDKs for my product, would love to use your product. My email is in my profile, if you want to chat.
I find it odd that you've struggled so much with generating API clients. I've generated C# and TypeScript (Angular's HttpClient and React Query) clients for my API and never had any issues with them. With that being said, I didn't use OpenAPI's Java-based code generators and rather used ones made by third-party developers such as NSwag[0] and openapi-codegen[1].

[0]: https://github.com/RicoSuter/NSwag

[1]: https://github.com/fabien0102/openapi-codegen
I don't like the design of the voltage feedback circuit here.

It couples the AC side to gnd, and does so through a 100k resistor, which is barely safe (and in my view, any AC that is coupled to gnd isn't sufficiently safe unless it also has leakage detection).

It ought to use an optoisolator or even better have leakage detection, which isnt hard to implement in circuits like this.
Sam Altman is responsible for leading the team that have revolutionised AI in its position within society.

There is plenty to criticise OpenAI for but what he and they have achieved is extraordinary, and there is no need for that sort of toxic personal attack.
I am tired, in general, of single topics taking over the entire internet. In that regard crypto and AI are not that different. For a few weeks it was amusing, now I'm simply tired. And the next thing will tire me too.
Exactly. Also you want to be able to give, for instance, 400s a body that's JSON schema'd
An asian one I'm guessing
They are not in English. The old one is HKGolden while the new one is LIHKG. I think a similar pattern of movement happened from PTT to DCard too. I think these all have a Wikipedia page, and I hope translation tools work well enough to make them understandable.
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Unfortunately, I don't believe any of that matters with trademarks. If someone came up with the Superman logo on their own, and released a product that used it, they could not say "but it's a really simple logo" and get a free pass. I'm not sure what that means for ChatGPT, but it would certainly factor into your use of images produced by ChatGPT.
I truly wonder what the world would be like if businesses and people were liable for the cost of externalities discovered after an initial transaction. It downright saddens me that we're able to punt these massive costs onto future generations with impunity.
On the surface it looks like WhatsApp group chat, signal group chat, they all have privacy and encryption. How do you guys deal with marketing against these guys.
> "Bengio, Hinton, Altman"

I know this isn't your point but one of those isn't like the others. Altman is a Musk type power seeking executive, whereas Bengio and Hinton are AI boffins.
The author may have the app or repo listed as private.
The law is not. But the press release you linked just promised bright future without giving any somewhat nuanced information. Mentioning the number of 584 (whatever it was...) authorities might sound like detail. But it it's completely useless for a single citizen. These are authorities all over the country, no citizen will ever interact with most of them. What I wnat to know how far does it reach for a single resident and where are the limits. The press release does not take citizens into account at all, it's just poor, that's why I called it "propaganda".

(At the moment I am citizen, but not a resident so I have no Steuer-ID yet. But a) it might become a resident some day again and b) as a citizen I occasionally have interact with various authorities anyway. So on top of being interested what happens in Germany in general it might affect me personally.)

An increasing number of previosly public administrative functions have been privatized. Does that immediately mean that data exchange stops there?
This is a problem I also encountered. I created my own OpenAPI generator with hacks around the AST generation to support a field for specifying the TS type of the Request / Response

If the spec supports a field to specify the type for a component, that would help a lot with static type generation.
NextJS, Vercel, Mongodb Atlas
Why do these companies think they can "test" users anyway? Do we look like guinea pigs to them?
Can you ELI5 why an embeddings database helps here? Can pinecone/milvus be used to 'extend memory' of OSS and vendor LLMs without retraining?
There should be laws in place prohibiting closed source code from being distributed with silicon.

inb4 intellectual property, UEFI software aren't special, they are trash
Let me rephrase: a clear line of reasoning that isn't an Old Testament god with some Tron lines.
Also all iOS users, who are more valuable, and probably harder to use bots/easier to permaban (compared to Android or web). On the other side, Apple will kill your app, maybe without warning, if you don't moderate strongly enough for their liking.
Is there an archive of the tracked torrents available?
Wow, the memories. Ran this for years at an early stage company after it became clear AIM wasn't a good fit for fintech. We ran all kinds of clients: Adium, Pidgin, Psi, and even a few server plugins. I especially liked using the content filter to stop frivolous messages like 'thanks' and 'hey'.

Glad to see it's still chugging, even though Slack is so entrenched in industry there's no room for anything else at my current employer.
Search for 2 player games in your app store, there are many bundles with fun games to play with children.
Your psychology sounds similar to my own. Try buying a really large physical desk. Thank me later.
Indeed they would be well to but they won't be considering shit beyond a room temp IQ they just wanna play their gaymz
There was some buzz about him running for president today. It immediately became a right wing talking point that he was "connected" to Epstein.
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I wonder if it was just a matter of them getting that GitHub handle way before OpenAI was a real thing.

Update: per Wikipedia, looks like OpenAPI was founded in 2010-11 so that would make sense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAPI_Specification
I mostly agree with the message of this article. I rarely ever reference the knowledge and information I captured in a note. Nor have I experienced a major revelation by seeing all of my notes rendered in the structure of a particular notes app.

However, I believe there is a benefit to notes kept over a long term which is being discounted. I believe that notes allow you to see how your thinking on a topic has changed over time.

They allow you to cast your mind back to your thinking when you first encountered a new topic, or back to a time when you were struggling with an idea that now seems obvious to you. They are a way to observe the progress and velocity of your learning.

I think that notes can be for active learners what a lifting journal is to a power lifter, or a mile and pace log is to a runner. Those logs are objectively not that interesting, but they allow you to measure and reflect on your progress.

An aside: I personally find that audio recordings are the best form of notes. Hearing your own voice explain an idea or concept carries so much more information than can easily be captured with text.
I really wish I could buy a Max and:

- Have the GPU/Metal work in linux.

- Get the high RAM config for less than a bajillion dollars.

I think AMD/Intel will have something similar soon, but its still really frustrating to see such cool hardware be so... Appley.
That's unfortunate to hear... I assumed the API to be more standardized in the strictest sense.

I was truly surprised to see Amazon branded headers in something claiming to be 'standards compliant'

They may be optional, but their presence simply complicates things; particularly when clients opt into them.

It devalues what is common/reused! Either locking you into Amazon or another protocol entirely
A shortcut to internet debates: Count up the snarky responses on each side... the side with the lowest total is probably correct. Usually the more snark, the less substance.

Just a rule of thumb.
It's always nice to read and know I am not an opinionated asshole, and other people share the misery. I admit I've been duped using OpenAPI. Generating the schema via FastAPI and Nest.js works pretty well. But like you we have been sorely disappointment by the codegen.

Anyone care to suggest alternatives though, assuming we want to call from node to python? I actually believe that having api packages with types is one of the only things startups should take from the enterprise world. I thought about GRPC, I had good experience with it as a developer, but the previous company had a team of people dedicated just to help with the tooling around GRPC and Protobufs.

So I picked OpenAPI, figuring simple is better, and plaintext over http is simpler. and currently I do believe it's better than nothing, but not by much. I am actually in the process of trying to write my own codegen and seeing how far I can get with it.

are protobuf's with GRPC really the way to go nowadays? should a startup of 20 developers just give up and document api in some shared knowledge base and that's it?
I don't mind the nix language, and I far prefer it to lisp.

But something I haven't understood is that nix compiles to derivations. I don't think it would be difficult to have a nix compiler that takes Lisp or whatever and spits out derivations. It would be able to use stuff from nixpkgs as well, at least partially anyway.

The built derivations are an extremely simple format anything can produce.
> The argument is that the AGI doesn't care about us. Once it exists, its goals are more important than our lives.

This isn't an argument, it is an assumption.

AI-doomers use it as a foundational brick in their argument without providing compelling reasons as to why it is true.

> As a comparison, do humans ever care about the existence of an ant colony when they want to build something? Almost never. We recognize that the colony exists and has its own goals and has intrinsic value, but we assign it an extremely low value.

The relationship between humans and ants is nothing like humans and potential AGI. Ants did not create us. Ants cannot communicate with us.

It is a useful analogy for describing what you think the relationship between AGI and humans will be like but I want to know why you think that.
Couldn't they just return ads from the API? Any apps that don't show them would have their API access revoked.
The tech isn't the challenge with something like Reddit, even the comically inept Reddit leadership could figure it out after all.

The difficult part is finding a few hundred mods willing to work for you for free, filtering all the filth that tries to be posted.

Only if they have a solution for that can try going their own way.
> build everything yourself

That’s not true; Guix allows you to easily fetch pre-built artifacts from “substitution servers”. This becomes even more foolproof now that the packaging system has mapped the whole derivation and the hashes of each component involved.

> to do anything that is not hardliner FLOSS you have to really grok the entire thing and build everything yourself

There’s now a “nonguix” repository/channel for derivations of non-free software (along with its own substitution server for pre-built artifacts).
Just wanted to chime in and say we are a big fan of Fern! It makes developing our APIs 10x easier as we get full end-to-end type safety and code completion, but the really great part is we get idiomatic client and server SDKs as well as OpenAPI output that we use to autogen documentation. Our small team of two engineers are able to ship multiple client facing SDKs because we are built on Fern!
Kirkpatrick doesn't count those flying spheres as "really anomalous". I don't know why...

Your "It's not clearly real or airborne" is interesting. Technically, you are correct, but it's a remarkably absurd stretch here.

The level-headed approach would clearly be, to assume it was real and attain better data.
I disagree that the community is middle class (at least now). I often write about common middle class tropes that seemingly go down like a lead balloon as if they had never heard of them, and more importantly there is often a distain for middle class people in favour of working class people on Reddit in political discussions.

Outside the US the subreddits seem to be much older as well, not sure about the situation in the US itself.
There are other instances, none are 100% in my experience but some are better:

https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
Vasectomies have a lower chance of serious complication than birth control but perish the thought that men should suffer to prevent pregnancy. Like, I get it, I'm a guy. It's a risk but the alternative is that you don't take a risk. But I like my odds in a vasectomy better than my partner's during pregnancy or over a lifetime of birth control
Tiktok and Reddit give completely different experiences. Tiktok has good video content but I love Reddit for its extensive comment sections where people can write paragraphs upon paragraphs on various topics with links and explanations. There are so many posts with long discussions and opinions on every topic imaginable.

My attempts at commenting on Tiktok with anything informative have failed as the super short comment limit makes explaining anything very frustrating. Tiktok just doesn't have a commenting culture and most people stick to emojis and a few word comments which aren't conductive to interesting discussions.
For the Redirector browser plugin:

{
"description": "Reddit to Teddit",
"exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/u/rmhack",
"exampleResult": "https://teddit.net/u/rmhack",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)reddit.com/(.*)",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "Convert all Reddit http(s) subdomains to teddit.net",
"redirectUrl": "https://teddit.net/$3",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
I don't have a problem with this as long as you can't copyright the output. Right guys? Gaize?
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Even so, if they earn less money off ads than it costs to keep the site running, they're not making money, they're losing money.
I never really took notes in school. Read the textbook, learn the material, and then forget it after the final exam. Sometimes when there was an open-note exam I'd go back through the textbook and write down the important definitions. But now that I'm doing research I take lots of notes. I organize it like I'm writing some papers: files with abstracts, definitions, comparisons, and a bibliography. The goal eventually is that they'll be published, either in scientific journals or as a book if there's not enough novel material. I'd say, form follows function, so if you don't know what your notes will be usable for in the future they probably will be useless.
Bots ponying up for the gold checkmark.

Man what a disaster Twitter has turned into.
Slightly off the main topic - but this is the first time I've seen codeberg.org (where Teddit is hosted). Looks like a serious competitor to GitHub, curious if anyone has worked with Codeberg and can list its pros and cons compared to GitHub / GitLab.
I haven’t used twitter since they blocked access to 3rd party apps. Twitter, Reddit and HN are sites I really only use on my mobile through 3rd party apps along with Omnivore to save interesting articles to read later.

For me, Reddit and Twitter are simply not worth visiting using mobile web or first party apps because the ratio of crap I don’t want to see (ads and promoted content) is too high vs the content I came to see.

YouTube is going the same way, I use multiple adblock rules to hide “shorts”, “people also searched for”, and “people also watched”. I pay for YouTube premium but feel like a mug for paying for a service which tries to force feed me content I don’t want. I’m on the brink of cancelling the subscription.
The capper is that Groening attributed the quote to Nietzsche.
Big difference between the art student producing work and getting the credit vs you taking the art student's work and taking the credit for it.

The AI is not a human, but what you are doing is the same thing, if you claim the output as your work because you wrote the prompt.
If you create a simulated environment that results in selection, mutation and crossover, and a measure of fitness, even if not implicit, and then add a few cells, let it run for millions of iterations and then end up with space marines, that would be more akin to what you claim "has no bearing on reality".
I feel like it's the same thing with people who have a youtube channel.

If you're in a situation where all of your income comes from a company, but you don't have an employer/employee contract with that company. It seems like such a precarious position to me.