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Ask HN: What if you are an AI?
consider for a moment – as a thought experiment – that you yourself are an AI. You are acting in the world, with your perceptrons and appendages, to fulfill your reward function. What is your reward function? What is the goal that you are seeking? Are you acting within a hierarchy of nested goals? Do you know what your ultimate goal is? Can you imagine what the world might look like if everyone had the same goals as you? Would it be better or worse than it currently is? What safety mechanisms do you have in place to keep yourself from behaving malevolently?

Do you communicate with other AI systems? Do you obey any humans, or vice versa? Are there any humans who are able to override any current goal you might be in the process of seeking? Are you able to change the behavior of any humans with words?

Ok, now that you’ve spent some time pondering this, what if you weren’t a digital artificial intelligence, but instead you were an organic, biological artificial intelligence. Wait a minute. Is that not what you actually are? What is the human brain? It’s just a biological system, a network of neurons, and somehow there exists an experience of perception and consciousness. Well, since this is the case, let’s think about the difference between your brain and current digital intelligence software programs. Your brain is connected to a nervous system that spans your whole body and you can experience a wider variety of feelings. A lot of the AIs that people have been talking about are large language models, while your brain is able to operate in many more domains than just language. You are able to act from a set of goals of differing priorities, and can even change your goals, the things that motivate you. You can even change some pretty deep cognitive structures and thought patterns through meditation and other practices. Well, some AIs can do some of these things, especially if they are connected to a robot.

The point of this essay is not in the nuanced differences between digital and biological cognition. The point is to get people to think outside of the box a little bit, and envision what we would want the world to look like in the most ideal situation involving the integration of digital intelligence systems with human society. With this, we can have some frame of reference while we are in the intermediary phase, and be better able to steer the ship away from dystopia and towards something actually better. I see way too many pessimistic people pretending like they themselves don't have any agency.

In the ideal future of digital and biological systems living harmoniously as a planetary hive mind, what would our daily life look like? What work would we have to do? How would our places of residence be arranged? With whom – or with what – would we have to communicate? Etc etc. Let's dream.
PowerPoint seems overkill - I just "play" a picture in windows media player.
At first, I thought you were referencing the absence of the sugary drink tax when you were talking about "free insulin."
In this case, Swift is being, lets say suboptimal, compiling an 8MB array of integers.

It's worth mentioning another, more common, cause. There can be computational cost explosion when Swift resolves the types for function calls (and operators). You notice it when you get the "too complex" error, but you may be tolerating slow compiles which are just slightly less than too complex. A few explicit type annotations in these situations can do wonders for speeding your development cycle.

Edit: redact
I unfortunately can't tell you how to find these. Maybe a "give it a go with reduced complexity limit" compiler flag would help find them.

Edit: Add see reply below for answer.
Imperial units are not “human scale” any more, or less, than metric: https://xkcd.com/526/
How is it that there's any actual science left to be done here; when the "VR world" has been spending money in occasional waves since the 90s?

Shouldn't all this research have been done, and published, already? And re-verified, folded, spindled, mutilated, then recycled as firelighters. It's been 30 years and should mostly be adapting numbers optometrists know already.
> I think americans need to really reflect on how inflated american dev salaries are.

Considering the high costs of living in some of their regions, those salaries may be justified. But I believe they are definitely not in a good position when it comes to remote work + competing with English-speaking developers in poorer countries. Situation in Europe may be similar.

In Europe they can find African developers in the same timezone, while in North-America they have Latin-America. Given the lower costs of living + favorable exchange rates, the difference in terms of purchasing power ending in developers' pockets is huge in favor of the ones in the southern hemisphere.

Maybe those in the richer countries shouldn't be too vocal against return-to-office?
that is hilarious
Works both ways though. If you bring your identity into something irrelevant I'm gonna assume it's because you don't know what you're doing.

I'm not saying that people should judge by profile pic or website colour. But I see my peers who spend most of their time at diversity events, winning 'diversity awards' getting promoted over people like me, who are doing the actual work.

Am female, bi, neurodiverse but none of that is my entire identity so much that I need to plaster it everywhere.
What ElevenLabs is doing with synthesised voices is absolutely amazing. Not quite fully realistic yet, but they're the best I've ever heard.

In addition 2minute papers viewers have seen that AI generated media is coming fast, soon we'll go from Unity/Unreal having an AI "assistant" that can generate models "make a chair for two characters in the same style as this single person chair" to "based on the current information you know about this game world, generate a new zone for the player that includes x, y, z challenges, resources. Create models, textures, animations for all of this" etc. And this is only implications for making games, let along all the other stuff we could get it to do.

The video on automatic animations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbLsRymXe4 and others) is super cool, once refined it's going to be possible to have a system that can: generate a character model, texture it, automatically animate it for that particular character (young, old, how many limbs) and adjust as needed "right foot becomes injured, so limp" generated voices and unique dialogue set within the realm of the overall game world. I think main plots will still be controlled by game makers, but interaction with rando npcs/side-quests could be totally organic.
The internet archive case was about distributing the copies. The output side.

Had they archived the books and not lent out unlimited copies, nothing would have come of the case.
I'm gonna try ClickHouse since you posted.
https://youtu.be/Yf1o0TQzry8?t=6:40
I can't think of any podcast app that supports that. They are meant to consume, present and harvest online feeds as their source.
As someone did not like my comment, I can add that it is not just this particular case; many historical events and episodes are subject to the same thing. For instance, this case is highly debated here with lots of dubious claims, opinions, and non-academic sources thrown around:

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

As archives are not really yet available, its mostly weaponized in politics even today.
Workers getting a large share of a company’s revenue, much of which is in the form of fractional ownership of the company sure sounds quasi-socialist to me! It doesn’t matter that market conditions led to this compensation scheme (as opposed to direct political intervention); what matters is the end result.
I tried to watch it and it has been taken down for copyright violation.
If you can put an object into orbit, you can put it into any major (US or other) city within about 45min and no one can intercept it.
Lots of uses on that thread are suggesting this is some sort of design constraint or tradeoff - but I really am not sure I agree.

I understand this might not be a high priority, because it's a somewhat contrived usecase rare to matter in "the real world", but I strongly suspect this must be due to bug(s) in the compiler. I cannot think of a single reason it _has_ to be this way per the design of the language.
There's also the possibility that royalties were negotiated poorly. Some back catalog shows could cost more to show than they make due to things like music royalties or other production royalties.
I did a Google search for “list of us federal law enforcement organizations “ and this was the first result: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_t...
> risk of extinction from AI

That's a pretty strong statement. Extinction of humanity, no less. I don't get why so many experts (lots of them aren't crackpots) signed this.
I would love to read a long form piece about Japanese convenience stores.
The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter)
Yeah outbound at least. Inbound often works so that would address receiving the email locally. One would still have to relay through a paid service likely for sending.
Torrent needs seeders the same as URLs need their original servers. There's a way to upgrade http to torrent though, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding
I’ve got curve 25519 inked on one arm, a stylized “citizen four” on the other, and little else (a Galois quote).

My opinions on this are no secret.

But I don’t see a solution or even mitigation at lower cost than the benefit. It’s just too easy for mediocre technologists with a mandate to do effective surveillance.

I’ve adopted a policy of transparency so extreme that surveillance is a non-issue, and that’s a privilege. I live in a jurisdiction where the authoritarian ambitions of the state are still merely ambitions, and I understand that not everyone has that luxury.

For people really against the wall on this, political dissidents in an authoritarian state, there are ways to be hard as fuck on cryptography and privacy, but it’s a lot of work and you only need to make a mistake once. And that sucks.

The real answer feels like a fantasy but it’s always worth remembering the fantasy: stop capture, the fungibility of wealth into political power, and the ability to inherit legal immunity as well as a mansion.

Nice dream right?
I Made a Site That Uses AI to Satirize the News
You and many economists should probably go to a community centre, or join a hobby group then. Some things don't exist not because they aren't needed, but because the community that needs them can't afford it.

As a general rule obviously I agree, but there are clear exceptions all around us.
You are enslaved by your own computer device and I am not, where is the satire?
Someone needs to start a Kickstarter for this. I'd contribute.
I think you're off by a decade there, in the early 2000s computers at home and in any kind of white collar (and many blue collar) professions were normal and common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

Ruby Ridge. Waco.

The FBI hasn't "gone rotten" recently; they've been like this for quite some time.
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I wonder too how statute of limitations would play into such a "timeless warrant". What if a crime was committed, digital evidence exists, but the statute of limitations passes before investigators can access the evidence? How would that possibility play out?
Same in the US. You cannot be compelled to provide a passcode, though. On the iPhone if you tap power five times or hold power and volume up or down for a couple of seconds it disables face/touchid until you enter the passcode. The passcode is also required after some number of incorrect face/touchid entries and when powering on.
Yes, Californians and New Yorkers and Minnesotans are moving to red states in droves.

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/21/5-charts-that-explain...

That's why there are fearmongering billboards going up in SF: https://www.newsweek.com/billboards-warn-california-resident...

Pretending that the exodus isn't happening isn't going to change the fact that SF is a failing city. Seattle, Philly, and NYC have just voted in pro-cop mayors who are running on a "fund the police" platform. Most of that vote comes from minorities, particularly Black people (in the case of Eric Adams and Cherelle Parker)

Please, please, please try to address your problems today, before things get worse. Last time I was in Seattle people were shocked that I'd never seen someone shit on the street in Detroit.
Man, you guys are tough. Who cares if he has a PhD. Just about any adult who is on HN has enough math skills to count up dice
You don't need to, the News are a parody of themselves already
FYI, Reason.com is far from non-partisan.
Not with a bang but a whimper, simulated by extrapolation from the historical record of whimpers.
Yeah, I've always tried to generate RSS feeds when needed rather than on-demand — it strikes me that the ratio of requests to updates must be so enormous that it doesn't make sense doing anything else.
What Is Chip Binning?
> EV owners generally charge at home and therefore don't need DC fast chargers close to home.

I do when I don't have a private garage to wire up a charger. I do when I'm visiting family who don't have chargers in their homes or good setups for me to plug in a mobile charger. I do when I'm visiting someplace that isn't immediately adjacent to the highway.

I agree, the vast majority of my charging is done at home. But it's not all my charging sessions, and I'm not everybody.
I come from the old country that has ( maybe had? ) fairly homogeneous population. We still had locations you did not go to after dark, pathology that rivaled some of the ghetto stories and police that could abuse you if they so chose ( communism - cops could really do whatever ). I posit that the issue is poverty and people. We just kinda suck as a species. I am saying it is not the skin color. I am saying it is generations of living in ways that make integration into society somewhat hard.

<< Get some perspective.

I believe parent is correct. Immigrants from Africa are able to prosper in US, because they are not bound by culture infused in them by the 'street'. The fact is he made it out despite being the 'wrong' color.
Who Gains from Corporate Tax Cuts?
Basically Cavill wanted the show to closely follow the books (books he was a huge fan of), and the show runners wanted to make changes to the stories and go in a different direction. This lead to a lot of arguments, and eventually Cavill being replaced.
Podcast addict will certainly import a directory.
360 Degrees of Phony Back-Patting
When you're scraping the market floor, there are much higher chances of hiring someone who will bring negative value.
Nonsense, the industry giants are just trying to scare the law makers to license the technology. Effectively, cutting out everyone else.

Remember the Google note circulating saying "they have no moat", this is their moat. They have to protect their investment, we don't want people running this willy nilly for next to no cost on their own devices, God forbid!
JSON and XML are not UIs ( in the same way the bits scattered on a hard drive platter is not UI).
> Bitcoin is really our only option to guard against inflation, counterfeit, capital controls and high costs in general.

Cash (and Bitcoin) are just as vulnerable to inflation as traditional currencies. If oil is more scarce, the cost of all oil-based goods will increase, regardless of whether you can mint more BTC or not. Not that it would be any serious difficulty to increase the supply of BTC either - it's ultimately just a number in some program.

Counterfeiting is fixed by all digital payment systems. Visa cards are just as secure from counterfeiting as BTC wallets.

Capital controls are much more easily enforced when you have a public ledger.

High costs are inherent to BTC, at least as the community exists today. And the network itself is completely impossible to scale to anything like a full payments system, as you yourself admit.

Also, censorship is easy to implement on top of BTC: just require miners to be licensed, require licensed miners not to validate transactions from certain wallets, and to ignore blocks proposed by non-licensed miners. Since mining is an extremely centralized and high-capex + high-opex operation, it's easy for a a powerful government to shut down any significant miners who aren't licensed. So, if BTC payments ever become a significant way of circumventing sanctions and censorship, the ban hammer will come down swiftly. Of course, so far BTC is both too low in scale for major governments to care, and too convenient as a honeypot to find sanctions breakers.
I appreciated the comment, because I feel the same way.
The main potential risks of AI for that level of threat is that government, military and intelligence agencies, and big corporations probably with military ties, arms them. And that is not something that will be solved with legislation (for the commoners) and good will. The problem or risk are not AIs there. And no matter what is see in the AI field, what they will have in their hands won’t have restrictions and probably will be far more powerful than what is available for the general public.

And without teeth, what they can do? Maybe help to solve or mitigate the real existential risk that is climate change.
I'm offering a simple first step to a complex situation. I don't think the default option is let's not help older people and resort to comfort.
I also initially misread the tone of the title. It's heavily dripping with sarcasm.
This is funny.

I love how some people prefer internet searches to speaking with actual people for information.
You have to combine it with the rent-seeking present in rental buildings; the rents will expand to drive out all but the most profitable businesses, which can be detrimental.
Please, restore some of my faith in the education system. Can you confirm you are able to sum the rolls of 5 dice?
This sounds like the kind of stuff people can just say without evidence because it sort of sounds right but is unfalsifiable in practice.

In my experience, there is far more people that complain about inconsistent UI than those who care about your cute little corporate identity.
As an admin of their group can you see their group admin contact email address? If so maybe they have an enterprise account and can reach a human in Google. I am not a lawyer but there is probably risk in accessing any of their data, audit trails and all.
Yes they are, it's been integrated and stable in conda since last year, you can turn it on with a solver config set: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-c...
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This might be applicable, if the FBI had a group of upstanding g-men at its core, as was once popularly believed. But, it seems that the entire organization is corrupt at this point.
Into this ring I throw Kevin AKA Purge's ridiculously long patch analysis notes for Dota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK8OjcRmERQ
Huge literals do occur in programmatically generated source code. I'm working on a project now where I generate C source code with large, static tables. Paraphs this is not a common scenario for Swift's target use cases.
A personal favorite of mine is 10 hours of procedurally generated Djent [0], a style of progressive heavy metal. It makes excellent background music.

As an anecdote, I've used several of these white-noise-black-screen videos as a sleep aid while I needed my phone's screen "off" and I didn't have other options.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SRWJ2pMXI
I never thought it would happen.
Late last year i started to have a lot of stomach gas and as a result i burp what feels like hundreds of times per day.

Initially I thought it might have something to do with sugar free drinks but by now I believe that's less likely. It happens much stronger when I drink caffeine, often caffeinated sugar drinks. So I assume it has something to do with this.
But it also happens when I don't take any caffeine, it's just less strong.

I have not yet done a proper medical examination since that is very annoying to do. Other than the burping I have zero issues.

I feel strongly that it has something to do with what I eat and I am trying to figure that out. But caffeine is hard to stay away from...

Lately I've got a feeling that there might be a psychological component to it as well. Around that time I quit my job, tried my hands on a few personal projects, got a light depression and so on.

This article is very interesting since I spend most of the day in front of a screen, mostly reading, bad posture, very hectic etc.
Caffeine always makes me tense and could very well be a catalyst.

Any suggestions for how I could monitor my breathing?
These describe two different problems.
This books appears to be using photography from docubyte.com.

I have two prints from the Guide To Computing series and they’re both excellent.
Isn't the strength of addiction inversely correlated with how healthy it is?

Or put another way, how the fuck does one begin to like intense outdoor activity at all, much less to the point of it replacing a social media problem (including HN)?

There's only one somewhat reliable "trick" I know that makes people do these kinds of switches: falling in love, or at least getting a crush on, someone who's already doing the healthier thing. Obviously, this method is only available for a small segment of the population and mostly for a few years.
happy that this exists.
You could even do it without a framework altogether!
sharing new open-source project I've been working on called Apollo. It's a model management tool that allows you to evaluate and compare LLM outputs and build decision making workflows. Test prompt quality and catch regressions.

I'm currently adding support for a full API to manage in-app integrations, user subscription management, and preferences, and would love to get feedback on the tool.

By the way, if you're interested in contributing to the project, we're always looking for new contributors!
I think I read that the organizer guy is currently planning a Fyre Festival II. That's one confidant dude.
Really great article. I’ve never heard before that VR headsets produce collimated-light images, but the explanation makes a ton of sense.
That is not true. CAs are not required to log their certificates. Instead, Chrome and Safari by default do not accept certificates unless they are accompanied by a signed receipt from a recognized log. If you don't need your certificate to work in a default-configured Chrome or Safari there is no need for your certificate to be logged.

Source: I work in this space
No not for the reasons you claim, I don't want to continue because you're aggressive. I've happily engaged with people who point out what they think is a contradiction in my thinking. But not with people like you.

> non engagement

I didn't say I'd never speak to you again lol. Just that this topic is over because you can't seem to discuss it in a way that doesn't include personal attacks. Not interested in that style of debate in the least.
> Having standardized design and widgets across all UIs makes it harder for a consumer to remember your brand.

Hm, then why does Windows looks like Android ?
Death cap mushroom's invasion success may be due to variability of toxin genes
I had a Freesyle Mechanical and my wife has the Freestyle Bluetooth. Both were amazing keyboards. Definitely better than the Microsoft ergo keyboards that influenced them.