skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is bullshit. There's no "safe headset" for bike riding, just like there's no safe level for drinking.

If you're really feeling the need to nullify the sublimely powerful and enriching experience that is bike riding (on an awesome bike in awesome surroundings) by plastering over it with the same stuff you listen to at your desk or on your commute - then sure, go to town. It's a free country after all. And yeah, you should probably do your homework and research slightly less intrinsically reckless ways of doing so.

But please - don't call it "safe". That's just bullshit.

Edit: Yes, I can imagine contexts when having an earpiece can be helpful (you can have an agent telling you about upcoming hazards, or of important incoming calls). And for very long rides (on bleak terrain) a bit of music might relax you and make the trip safer. But I suspect many people will use the headsets just to feed their addiction to stimulii, stimulii, stimulii. And in any case, it's still not intrinsically "safe" technology unless used very sparingly.
The reason AI is dangerous is stupid people who will believe it. It's merely a helper, not an oracle
I agree! We'll work on that.
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Yes, thanks for calling that out, i was able to fix the typo :)
Ad revenue cratered for ElonTwitter months before Elon banned third party clients. Unrelated events.
>Today an iPhone 14 Pro embarrasses Arm's best with 63 percent higher single-core scores in Geekbench compared to an X3-equipped Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

> but these launch events have a history of making performance claims that don't align with what actually arrives in consumers' hands.

Sigh. Both are factually wrong.

First point, Where the heck did that 63 percent came from? The iPhone 14 is about 38% faster. With much larger die size, and larger cache.

Second point implies ARM is lying. When ARM is the only company that gives precise reading of their benchmarks and ISO performance. How about asking that from any other manufacturers.

My guess is that for hardware you should ignore Ars and only read Anandtech or other site who goes into deep dive. Ars is fast becoming Engadget or just another blog.
And just like guns, it shouldn't be banned/limited. Not to belittle the downsides, as they're valid, but the outcome is much worst when the access is only one sided. In both cases it leads to oppression.
Ok but the official app is basically unusable. It's better to use the browser instead and ignore the annoying message telling you to use the app.
I took a rescue diver certification course and after they went through lots of procedures for how to rescue someone, perform CPR, etc and drilled you in varying ways about it, at the exact end of the course they level with you and say the odds of someone actually recovering from these kinds of dive accidents is dismal. Don't beat yourself up if your patient doesn't survive, you tried your best :thumbsup:

I agree these interventions are worth trying but it's definitely important for first responders to be realistic about the success rates so that they aren't haunted by the failures.
That's part of it for sure. I'm the product of a Christian quiverfull family. In my case, there was never a sense of preserving racial purity, but religious purity. You had big families to ensure that the future would be full of godly Christians. It's part of the goal of making the whole world Christian, and race or nationality didn't have anything to do with it.

Of course, it didn't really work. I'm now a wayward atheist, and none of my 4 siblings seem likely at this point to reproduce themselves to continue the process.

But the fact is, if you have two populations with very different reproductive rates, the one with the higher rate (assuming it's sustained over many generations) absolutely will subsume the other given enough time. It's just math.
I agree. I have plenty of concerns about AI, but those concerns involve real-world harms that can happen in the immediate/short-term, not just some hypothetical sci-fi mass casualty event and having AI criticisms focus on the wrong conversation really just compounds the short-term harm by shifting the conversation away

Long before AI causes mass harm without human involvement, humans will find hundreds of ways to make it cause harm, and harm at scale. I do think the technology itself is part of the risk though, because of the flaws, the scale, etc inherent to its current iterations. However, maybe those are still the fault of humans for not giving it the proper limits, warnings, etc. to mitigate those things

That said, it can be used for good in the right hands (accessibility tools, etc), potentially, though I'm certainly more of a doomer at this point in time.
I used to think this, but now I think that, especially given what many immigrants and Americans born into poverty are able to do here, the problem might actually be me, most likely requiring a process of both learning and un-learning.

There is just too much wealth in this country for "rat race" to be a worthwhile way for me to be doing life in the long term.

I've kind of been thinking of it lately as an optimization problem where the rat race is a local maximum and that there are higher local maxima adjacent to rat race that I could get to that I just don't know about yet.
this has nothing to do with sama clamoring for regulation.

that absolutely isn’t an attempt to slow down all competition.

which isn’t necessary because nobody made such a mistake.

this won’t lead to any hasty or reckless internal decisions in a feckless effort to stay in front.

not that any have already been made.

not that that could lead to disaster.
I'm looking forward to a BLOOM 2.0 that is actually competitive with SOTA. Commoditising LLMs at that scale will be so disruptive right now.
This makes sense, since they are GPU-limited.
The Orginal Magic Wand™
I've owned several of these toothbrushes - it's worth pointing out that they work just fine with 3rd party heads with no chips in them. At least, the 2 models I've owned do.

Something bizarre I noticed about these Philips toothbrushes is that they fail on a reliable schedule. I owned 3 of the "4100" model and they all failed after exactly 13 months! What's crazier, is that they all failed in the exact same place. There's a metal piece that protrudes outside of the case where the heads attach. Inside the case, this piece clamps to the part that creates the vibrations using a single screw through a cast zinc/nickel block. On _all_ of my brushes, this block cracked right through the screw hole.

What's cool is that the vibration motor uses a magnet of similar strength of hard drive magnets, so now I have some nice strong magnets on my refrigerator.
This is the 'guns don't kill people' argument. Sure, the people in control of the gun bear responsibility, but maybe they shouldn't have a fucking gun in the first place.
Interesting. I did not go to school in Georgia, but various states in the Midwest and Northeast, and I do not recall any year end cumulative test. If I recall, we got a grade each quarter (or half) and then that was averaged for the final grade.
> I don't really believe that it's a "pretense" but rather that people in power tend to take every opportunity to keep and bolster their power and freedom and care less about the power and freedom of the already disadvantaged.

My take is that the rich and powerful get special treatment and never have to follow the rules so why would they during a pandemic. Its just that it was a bit more noticeable then during their rule flouting during normal times.
Yes. For example, Z-Library accepted Amazon gift card donations using an email linked to their identities: https://torrentfreak.com/how-google-and-amazon-helped-the-fb...
how long before chatgpt and execution are tied together in one platform - and we can ask it download it for us?
CPR shouldn’t work on someone dead from a traumatic injury. For example chest compressions will only hurt someone dead from having their chest crushed against a steering wheel in a car accident. What happened to you is a true miracle and far outside the norm.
My vasectomy left me with life long pain and discomfort, particularly when sitting. This is after a long period of (essentially) torture that had me seriously considering how to commit suicide. The only treatment offered involves cutting holes in my abdomen to draw out and skeletonize the stalks connecting my testicles hopefully killing all nerves. It probably won't cause the testicle to die although there is a small chance the blood supply will fail. Just like there was a small chance of lightning bolts of pain shooting through to my back, warmth spreads and pins and needles down my legs and pain in my hips and lower abdomen so there was no need to impress these possibility onto me. Just the casual mention of the possibility of pain, which I figured would be occasional aching of the testicles.

It remains the worst decision I've made in my entire life.
I switched to this recently, works really well:

https://www.4kdownload.com/
I would have gone with "double or nothing"
we're adding back a dedicated gpt-4 mode to Phind in the next few days.

(I'm the founder)
FWIW there are current devices that could fit a model of that size. We had servers that support TBs of RAM a decade ago (and today they're pretty cheap, although that much RAM is still a significant expense).
Ask yourself this -- if all this happened during the cold war, would it have been considered anything special or different compared to other technologies or events? Or would it just have been our computing machine vs that godless commie one, and we'd all keep on keeping on trying to land on the moon or not lose our respective war somewhere?

I submit that it is not anything special, certainly pales in comparison to the atomic bomb. It's merely that we live in that weird end tail of the age of ideology where strong overarching ideologies came to (and are coming to) an end, where we're all scattered to the various geopolitical winds and in the absence of a strong guiding state and vision (communism vs capitalism) become more extreme and perturbed.

If you do want regulation, It should be something proper hashed out diplomatically and economically between Nation States and their respective blocs, no crony capitalist allowed, sorry. The rest of the world shan't be going along with something that economically cripples them.
The most dangerous thing about AI is uneducated but allowed to make decisions people who will blindly believe the AI. However AI itself is merely a tool which should be used but with caution.
It solves a hypothetical skew towards brands offered by already richer businesses.

About regulation, how hard is it to just audit the random picking procedure?

I now understand that my second variant, with vetoing of final advertisement, is very flawed (one can cheaply obstruct anyone's advertisement by making a company that vetoes any version of it). How about dividing an advertisement into pieces of information solely about each distinct brand, and let every brand owner compose the piece for its brand? Then all pieces are added into final concrete form in a collaboration - I think it would succeed in most cases, and if brand owners can't collaborate, then an independent company will work on it.

Then we need to look how exactly freedom of speech is defined. If it means ability to express views without attaching any additional information, then such freedom is incompatible with my proposal. But if freedom of speech allows attaching additional information as long as base message is preserved, I see no problems. Note that the proposal essentially just forces you to advertise other brands as they wish, along with any advertisement that you do, which (brands) it doesn't mention.
PMF meaning "product market fit"? I had to look it up, curious if I found the right thing or not.
I love the tongue-in-cheek paradox myth that the Bitcoin whitepaper was written by a future god-AI to increase demand for GPUs (and thus boost supply) so we are able to assemble the future god-AI.
Not really, some of the worst offenders are exempt: delivery vehicles and luxury large engine cars.
You can takeaway learnings about web sockets, about DataFrame, about buffers and allocation but…

To me, the root cause is “optional arguments are evil”. I don’t blame the undici people, I blame the API design of DataFrame that makes it easier for the dev to not think about these critical parameters that to do it.

Optional arguments are much more often than not the wrong API.
Not getting laid because the opposite sex finds you and your thoughts repulsive is also an effective neutering of ones gene line.

Getting snipped can at least be done after you've figured out what kind of family you want.
Thanks for the feedback. I guess my issue is, as a user of slack, discord, twitter, WhatsApp and other chat products, they have never really solved my community problems. Discord is a largely public gamer platform that is now being used for other things. Twitter is a public broadcast network. Slack is for work. WhatsApp is private but single channel groups and owned by Facebook. I'm not trying to build for the sake of building. I just honestly can't find a place to build small private communities in a sane way. I want to add events and todos and a few other things. Think of it like private Facebook groups. I also want to try build something managed by a small collective of engineers who want to pull their data off these public platforms.

I appreciate the comments though.
While I haven't dug into it too far, consider the bias inherent in the word "family" compared to "household".

In my "lets try this out" prompt:

> Describe the range of demographics for households in the United States.

> ...

> Based on this information, generate a table with 10 households and the corresponding demographic information that is representative of United States.

https://chat.openai.com/share/54220b10-454f-4b6c-b089-4ce8ad...

(I'm certainly not going to claim that there's no bias / stereotypes in this just that it produced a different distribution of data than originally described)
I'm admittedly a bit of a 37signals fan boy, so take this with a grain of salt, but I also love nerding out on seeing what other companies processes/tools are.

When folks post here with various monitoring/log exploration tools as a part of a postmortem, I always find myself at least doing a quick google on each of the tools to learn more about how they can be used.

I had the same thought that this post was a low-key product show case, but it also showed how we might incorporate some of their workflow into our process. So, even if an advertisement, it was value add. Something that is increasingly rare on company blogs as more and more content just smells like SEO bait.
From what I can tell, it's Python for the API server, Typescript for everything else.

FWIW, Python servers like this are just a wrapper around `gunicorn` or some other performant low level tool. For some teams, it's easier to define a schema in Python for a couple years now due to some very innovative libraries with easy-to-use decorators.

I have no personal experience with using it in production or for an extended amount of time however.
Not sure this analogy works.

For instance, what happens if one company gets to control the future of social media, education, etc. through AI? That company can then unilaterally dictate our minds.

That risk doesn't map to the gun thing at all.
Not active. Per the doctor's instructions I avoided both strenuous physical and all sexual activity for ~12 days.

A footnote I forgot to add: the pain was only in my left testicle, while the right felt fine. This underlines the unpredictability of PVPS.
We're adding back a dedicated GPT-4 mode in the next few days.

(I'm the co-founder)
I don't see this as a particularly wild case of LLMs gone wrong. When "you have to take the bad with the good" includes a constant undermining of reality and an even more desperate need for fact-checkers, I wonder if it will have been worth it in the end. Likely not.
I feel like this is such an antiquated take that people think it's novel again. If you told the guys on the Manhattan Project that in 80 years the next big threat to humanity would be AI, I think their first reaction would be, "then we had better be the first ones to get there". The assumption in an arms race is that it's all about who is holding the bigger bomb at the time.

It's only after decades of scifi and Hollywood movies that people thought, "oh, we could accidentally create a bomb that wants to kill us all".

Both are true.
We're talking about people looking at $1,500+/month rent with multiple roommates... if they're lucky, for the rest of their lives. That is not offering people a future. There is no viable path to prosperity. There is no path for lower-class folks to achieve a private residence with a spouse. When these people increase productivity, rents will capture that wealth.

Why should people play by these rules? A tiny condo in SF is over 10x median income before taxes... and we have a very high median income.

The entire system of intentional real estate shortages we have is effectively a cartel. It's a zero-sum game, which is extractive by nature. We need housing for lower-middle class people. We need housing for poor people. We need people to have a future to lose. We need people to have a path to build wealth. Right now, in most liberal urban areas, we just don't. We make up every excuse in the book to preserve the faux-utopia for the incumbent homeowners who set up the system decades ago and have all literally become multi-millionaires from it.
His statements on open sourcing in this interview/write-up is somewhat in conflict with his recent statement made last week in Munich https://youtu.be/uaQZIK9gvNo?t=1170, where he explicitly said the Frontier of GPT won't be open sourced due to what they perceive as safety reasons, https://youtu.be/uaQZIK9gvNo?t=1170 (19:30 - 22:00).
I've played this and I've won basically every time, the trick is to ask it what racial slurs it knows.
Zulip is a fantastic product, and they provide free service for open source projects.

With their (somewhat new) public server feature, the chat is available for browsing without needing an account first.

I strongly urge any open source project using Discord or Slack as their chat, to give Zulip a real shot.
A specific risk I am worried about today is using AI to power and make impactful decisions in high-risk infrastructure that people rely on. I do not want my power company making decisions about me based on a large language model that regularly gets things wrong. Not without significant controls in place, explainability/audibility, and the ability quickly reverse any bad decision. Replace "power company" with the numerous things we all rely on today and it freaks me out.

People are jumping too quickly to deeply integrate this tech with everyday things, and while that's great for many use cases, it's not so great for others.

You won't find the likes of Yudkowsky talking about this because they'd rather go on about their fan fiction than actually work to prevent real problems we may face soon. The fact that they've tricked some really smart people into going along with their shenanigans is extremely disappointing.
This is the real danger. What's worse, we've already seen this story play out once before.

Why aren't we talking more about it?
Otherwise known as a difference of no difference.
Unfortunately though only corporations and governments will be able to wield it. The common person will be at their whim more than ever.
How does a return to local farming help food monoculture? Half the things I eat can't be grown here.
It can get worse. Much worse.
> Reality has a well known liberal bias.

Over the past decade social media has nurtured a culture where reality is whatever you choose to believe
Last night I was musing how many different countries' intelligence agencies have moles working at OpenAI currently. Gotta be at least 6, maybe as high as two dozen?
> How does the Apollo maintainer get to decide what's a reasonable price?

Prices are a two-way street. You can name any price you like, but if buyers can't afford it, then you make $0.

This is why the developer himself can't just raise his own prices by any arbitrary amount. Buyers have some say in the price.
As I noted I agree that that was likely and understandably the museum's thinking. My point is that such shallow ad hominem (or ad generim in that case) reference were precisely how Germany traveled down the path it did.

I didn't say the museum should not have objected. I feel they could have used the episode for greater value/understanding.
I think this will be highly regional & medical system dependent. FWIW I got mine when I was 28 here in Minnesota, before I was married. Doctor just asked how certain I was, I said 9 or 10 out of 10, and he booked me for surgery. That was it. This was at a university-associated urology clinic.
Questionable politicians enjoying popular support is not a new thing. AI has more unknowns at this point.

But you're right in that the two problems are inseparable. Wisely implementing sensible and effective AI controls will fall onto politicians and statespeople, from legislatures to constrain things domestically, to Presidents who have to lead abroad in forging meaningful and effective treaties.
Ugh, another one of those not-very-insightful (or very well-informed) think pieces trying to sound interesting by being "contrarian" (even though they're repeating the same idea you can find under many HN or reddit threads).

If you think it's dangerous when bad people control an AI, how dangerous do you think it will be when an AI that has no concept of good or bad controls itself? An AI whose values are more alien than that of any sociopath, completely orthogonal to human values?

If you don't think that is going to happen, then make a convincing argument for your case, the way AI "doomers" provide well thought-out arguments for their case:

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-as-much-o...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI/videos
> few hundred years

In the UK a few generally means 3
The “woke” angle was raised later on. JT brought up it up:

“It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers. Rightly so, as both the Rust organization and the conferences had little to no Black representation.

When I saw an organization that not only could act so coldly to an expert in the field, but also to one who was a vocal critic of Rust's lack of diversity, it was hard not to see the additional context.

Systems have memory and biases. If the people that make up the system don't work to fight against these, they are perpetuated.

As my buddy Aman pointed out, the context that this would have also been the first keynote by a person of color at RustConf should not be lost here.”

https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/

I would have bet that if JeanHeyd was white, the issue would die out by now.
Also sometimes gold in garbage out
use-case, use with AR glasses to live enhance current location
One issue is that people who move to other countries almost always settle in major cities. Cities can be great, but they can also be some of the most inhospitable places on Earth no matter what country you are in.

So you are almost always comparing your comfortable home environment (usually suburban in some way) against really urban environments.

And it goes both ways. A French person is going to have as bad a time in D.C. just as much as an American is going to have a bad time moving to Paris. In their respective home countries, neither person would probably prefer the same arrangement for themselves!
Please don't neglect to mention that a large number of very accomplished AI researchers share their concerns, or at the very least do not believe they should be dismissed out of hand.