skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article was dated April 8th 2022 over a year ago. A more recent article says that the U.S. stopped paying for them in September and SpaceX picked up the costs. Then in December they got funding from European countries. If Musk were “anti-Ukraine” he would have simply stopped the service. SpaceX is the sole internet provider for a vast part of Ukraine.

A Ukrainian official said:

"Musk assured us he will continue to support Ukraine. When we had a powerful blackout, I messaged him on that day and he momentarily reacted and has already delivered some steps. He understands the situation."

Boy, that doesn’t sound very anti-Ukrainian to me.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/starlink-will-se...

Crimea belongs to Russia. Russia invaded in 2014 and no one, including Obama, did anything about it. The entire world stepped back and let it happen. No one lifted a finger. You can’t go back and retroactively show your disapproval over something almost 10 years later and say “hey that shouldn’t have happened!”. The outcome of war determines who owns land, regardless of what people may want to see. People may say what they want about Israel’s right to occupy the Holy Land but I dare them to try to take it away through war. Israel owns the land that it occupies.
Happens all the time in my marriage and still going strong. Sometimes you just accept the way the other person is, doesn’t mean you don’t point it out to them in moments of anger. But not necessarily a relationship-ending signal.
guess everything depends on the context, however the context can be misunderstood.

The best way is to take a break, this makes it easier to evaluate the information in it's proper context.
You should keep in mind that octopuses don’t live very long. The intelligence they gain in their very short lives is remarkable. Add to this that they live in water and therefore can’t have fire and can’t have writing. It’s not just brain power that matters… I don’t know that humans are the smartest critter on the planet, we may just be the most learned and the most able to exploit our surroundings. It’s cool and all, but I really don’t know for sure that humans are “smarter” than octopuses, porpoises, or orcas. We’d need evidence that didn’t rely on particularly human stuff.
hosts file (modified) sourced from; Steven-Black - hosts @GitHub : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

cat /etc/hosts |grep -i 'jsonip.com'

0.0.0.0 jsonip.com
0.0.0.0 www.jsonip.com
Thanks for the link! That’s quite refreshing to hear. I didn’t realize the Affordable Care Act did so much more than ensuring availability of coverage and whatnot.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36094633. Thanks!
> When the researchers come in on Monday, the AI has become tens of thousands of times funnier than any human being who ever lived. It greets them with a joke, and they die laughing. In fact, anyone who tries to communicate with the robot dies laughing, just like in the Monty Python skit. The human species laughs itself into extinction.

I've given this topic a fair bit of thought as well and this is a legitimate use case. Laughing is the obvious one, but I recently ran down the rabbit hole on "Modal Logics" from Kripke, and I think his work is formal enough that it can effectively arm a model with the ability to generate ideologies, formed in language that is refined to create a fully entraining state.

There are only survivors in zombie movies, the real situation created by an AI formulating human ideologies would be much, much worse.
Exactly - if I can’t trust it (as has been my experience with 90% of queries) so that I have to still Google its answers to verify them, what good does it do? It isn’t really improving my productivity in a substantial way, or can indeed hinder it.

That said, my beef is not with its use for this purpose - whatever makes people happy and feel more productive, it’s all good and fun. The problem is when the CEO of a company like OpenAI starts talking with a straight face in his Congress testimony how this not-really-new tech has the potential to run afoul and enslave us (I’m heavily paraphrasing, obviously). That is the problem - this particular CEO suddenly feels entitled enough to make a giant PR stunt by using his official testimony to endow his product with the qualities it cannot possibly have - that is the problem. The blatant lies and deception is frankly disgusting.
Sure, but the idea that the overwhelming majority of people are homeless purely due to mental illness related issues just doesn't bear out. It's the same as "most homeless people are addicted to something", which also just isn't true.
>Even if they can be tickled into producing a new AI from scratch by the nature of an LLM it's going to be sort of the average of its training set

There's this idea that LLMs somehow end up as some sort of average of training data and it's incredibly wrong.

LLMs learn to make predictions for all states at any time. There is no average they fall into. GPT-4 is not some average of its training data. A "perfect" LLM will predict Einstein as easily as it predicts the dumbass across the street.
Do you have any specific reason to bring this up, or is this as plain an ad hominem as it seems?
I knew this was going to be Wall Street Kid.

Funny thing is the Sofel "X Kid" games (Casino Kid was the other) were very heavily rewritten from their original Japanese releases, presumably to make them less bleak to what was presumably a younger (kid) audience. If I recall correctly, Wall Street Kid's original Japanese story was more about a "salaryman" of below average financial success in an unhappy relationship that looked at day trading to get his girlfriend/wife off his back for not being successful enough to lavish her with luxuries.

The game itself is very 80s bubble culture with a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor given the situation you're placed in. In the North American "Wall Street Kid", your fiance's (Prisila) car breaks down at one point, and you're forced into the scenario of having to buy her a replacement car. It alludes that she was driving something fairly normal. Your options?

* A Ferrari 328

* A Porsche 911

* A BMW 7 Series

* Some other car I forget, that might've been an entirely normal economy car.

Yep. Possibly from a malaise-era Ford or a Chevrolet straight to full size executive sedans or ultra-luxury sports cars! If you, "cheap out" you disappoint your fiance. The point is if you disappoint her too many times, she'll break up with you (or if married, file for divorce) which is an immediate game over. Again, this goes back to the original Japanese story line where the day-trading protagonist is constantly being goaded by his girlfriend/wife into buying her luxuries to keep up appearances, as well as meet your father's benchmarks for your success.
I'll agree with this... I had one dumb/obstinate nurse who mis-measured my height 4 inches below my real height... claimed it was that I'd gotten shorter... 2h previous a seperate facility measured me at the real height.

that height is showing up again on my charts. Last 2 visits they measured my height and said, huh chart is wrong, I told story, they were like "we'll fix it". Still not fixed.

She also wanted to put me down in the system as a smoker as I had been in smoking resturants.
You could copy an existing terminfo entry and remove the colour.

Or use an existing one like ansi-mono
It's not just the discovery of a new and pleasing sightseeing that will engrave the memory in your brain, also the company you were with, or what happened during that visit, especially if there were funny or crazy anecdotes.

That's why I noticed that traveling solo never brought that much joy, and meeting people in some hostel or tour group was a poor substitute than going with friends who you also happen to share something in common with.
Your analogy is sound but your conclusion is not. There are many home owners that live by the shore that can’t purchase flood insurance from any provider. Similarly with life insurance, if I die engaging in certain risky behavior, it voids my insurance policy.

The purpose of insurance is to socialize losses. But if a few participants in the insurance pool engage in outsized risky behavior, that’s not fair to the rest of the pool that chose significantly less risky decisions.
>We know from theory that the physical limits to computation are high. So we could keep doubling for decades more before we hit some kind of fundamental physical limit, rather than an economic or political limit to Moore's Law.

Huh? Haven't we already hit close to the end of Moore's Law, and are compesating by adding cores (which is a different thing)?

And aren't we also pushing near the physical limits regarding the cpu nanometer race?
It's like that for most employed physician practices and a large number of group practices but if you can find a solo practice (i.e. a practice with one doctor and maybe one or more NPs), odds are they will be pretty decent.
If you have a fireplace you don’t use you’d do well to have a flue inspection before you light a fire in it though. If there’s a birds nest or something up there or cracked masonry or - in an older house - creosote deposits that could catch fire? You’re gonna have a bad day when you light up.
There is very likely no line that would apply uniformly between people or even the same person in different states of stress and health, regardless of the exact criteria you are optimizing for. Some people find even coffee to be too much at times. But at the end of the day amphetamines have some pretty scary and dangerous long term documented effects especially if the person goes without sleep for like periods of time. It’s not as bad as meth (to the best of my understanding) but both are amphetamines.
"Drugs I use are fine, but I don't use are evil and horrible."
> Until we stop this madness

How? You were given a result that was concerning, and rightly wanted it investigated. You needed the test and the test cost money. How do you opt out?

I live in a country with a better (though still troubled) system. I can’t see how you fix the US system, even in hand waving terms.
This is one of the reasons why I hate the whole simulation argument. It doesn't make a bit or byte of difference if it's true or not. If in theory you could escape or 'abuse' the simulation there's no way for us to divine the intent that it is in fact an exploit or something intended by whatever is running the simulation.

It's a thought terminator. It's a way to seem smart while not being smart at all.
It wasn’t just the 2021 outage. Ercot fails the same way every decade or so.

Also, that outage knocked out something like 25% of global PVC production for about a year, which interfered with basic infrastructure projects globally. You can’t build modern drainage or plumbing without PVC. Without drainage or plumbing, you can’t build buildings or repair roads.

Also, it was totally predictable, totally avoidable, a bunch of people died as a direct result, and the last N times this happened, they did nothing to fix it.

(Fixing it would involve winterizing their production facilities, which over half the planet has done every year for over a century.)
This was a fun rabbit hole to go down. Magnesium does not seem to be present in radioactive fallout, there is more Manganese than magnesium from the data I was able to find online. Further NOX, the chemical combination of oxygen and nitrogen is a serious pollutant by-product of nuclear explosions indicating nitrogen seems to remain largely elementally unmolested by the blast. Finally, looking at the calculations it seems to fuse nitrogen nuclei in any kind of meaningful number would require atomic detonations with heat in excess of tens of billions of degree, while real contemporary explosions produce only hundreds of millions of degrees.
The reason why regulation is going to fail is simple. AGI is the supreme bet, the Gamble to Resurrection. Faced with death years to decades from now or a chance at amortality. Which would you choose?

Would you be willing to bet on p(doom) whatever it might be when p(amortality | AGI) >>> p(amortality) during your lifetime? I personally am willing to place such a bet, and I would hazard a guess that decision makers don't come to their positions without similar sentiments.
https://archive.is/iGya2
Equal, no. Shine a big spotlight and announce "piracy done simply here", yes.
Related:

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257025 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

Superintelligence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217372 - Feb 2021 (7 comments)

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499973 - Nov 2018 (248 comments)

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240811 - Dec 2016 (580 comments)
The ACA doesn't require insurers to cover annual check ups at 100%. Only certain preventative measures are covered that way.
I mean your comparison is weird, in one line you create a bucket what are the permissions exactly? Why is there no region?

Edit: after reading: "Generated automatically from intent", well it's a red flag for me.
I work in healthcare and attended on COVID wards when that was a thing.

One perspective to consider is resource limitation as how it affected individuals and their families.

There are folks who would have died in the peaks due to resource limitations and public policy smoothed this out. Even post vaccine, I know someone close to me who ended up in ICU with COVID.

They would have died if it was earlier because there was not enough resources. Even if there wasn't formal triaging that just meant it was dumped on care providers without the support of policy.

To you and the others here: look, I'm sorry you missed a funeral or your parents missed the birth of a grandchild or whatever, but please appreciate that for every one of you out there there is someone out that is thankful their spouse or mother didn't die. The lack of empathy has made me lose faith in a big part of society.
Source filtering can definitely be done more cost-effectively, quite dramatically so. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/19427 has a lot of details and citations on various processes that achieve this. Just to give an idea of the different scale - they quote a few simulations showing $55/ton on a 300MW coal plant (capturing 60kg per second) and $35/ton on natural gas power plants - which means your bill for total decarbonisation would be under £500 for the year.

The only issue is that, ironically, source capture is a limited resource. Once that 60kg/s worth of cheap carbon offsets are bought up, the next person has to buy offsets from a slightly more expensive source capture setup. Eventually all the output of all the power plants will be captured in this way and you have to start capturing from smaller sources like vehicles. I don’t know the state of the art in automobile exhaust capture but I do recall the math on a basic temperature swing adsorption system for diesel trucks that relies on waste engine heat to avoid performance penalties and could capture 90% of CO2 emissions. A full tank of diesel emissions is roughly one ton of CO2 and you needed something ridiculous like ten tons of adsorbent to capture that. (I am sure it is possible to do much better.)

It probably makes sense for ships, maybe for trucks, probably not for cars, and I can’t see it ever being sensible for aircraft.

The nice thing about direct air capture is that it provides a simple economic limit. You don’t need to figure out how to do carbon capture on a plane, you just capture it from the air after the fact.
That site's definition of "judicial hellhole" seems to be approximately "place they think is too easy for plaintiffs in personal injury or consumer protection lawsuits".

For example, a big part of why they ranked Pennsylvania as a top judicial hellhole is that the venue rules for medical malpractice lawsuits was changed from "must file in the county where the alleged injury occurred" to "can file where the alleged injury occurred, where the doctor lives, or where the provider operates a hospital or office".

Some reasons Georgia is #1 are a big verdict against Ford in a suit saying F-250s have weak roofs that greatly increase the danger in a roll over accidents and a state Supreme Court ruling allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Snapchat from an accident where someone going 107 mph (they were trying to generate a post using Snapchat's Speed Filter that would show over 100 mph).
I think it’s more about peace of mind, unlimited really means I won’t wake up tomorrow with a $10k bill, as it happened many times (not to me) on AWS and the like. That is the disgusting practice the big cloud providers like to impose, for no apparent reason but to keep you in their roach motel and pay up. Disgusting!
That's the feeling I got. What is the point of continuing to service existing customers, including paying for the agents who no longer have any new business to sign, if they aren't ever planning to reopen shop?

Do you know what kind of legislative changes they're hoping to make?
I wonder if historically governments were ever controlled by the people. It seems democracies that can somewhat control the government are extreme outliers in human history.
https://signaturesolar.com/shop-all/batteries/eg4-lifepower4...
I think it is a slippery slope to say that freedom of movement trumps all other rights. No one has the right to kill me and my children just so they can exercise their right to go wherever they want whenever they want.
Please don't snark or flamebait or name-call on HN. You may not owe $celebrity or $billionaire better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Or maybe it was done as a joke. Maybe the speed of light is some cosmic punchline. Maybe it was a lazy programmer and they decided to go with a small int.

It's trying to divine some sort of intention behind things we inherently can never know.
Very unsurprising.

Relying on AI sophists like ChatGPT for legal work is still just as risky for normal users and even for legal experts. The difference is, these legal experts are more qualified to carefully review and check over the outputs than the average joe / jane trying to 'replace their lawyer, solicitor, etc' with ChatGPT.

I keep emphasising this importance, and to never fully trust the output of LLMs such as ChatGPT, unless a human has reviewed and checked if it is hallucinating or bullshitting. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091468
This simply isn’t true. If every single person had stayed fully locked down, the pandemic would have stopped in its tracks.
Well, then again you seem quite proud of this "summary".
The flip side is that they sometimes genuinely want to help. As you say, be respectful.

My elderly neighbour (who I saw maybe twice in a decade) had her daughter visiting, and the daughter came by and suggested I might like to change the dressings on her mother’s ulcers because I’m “used to looking at gross stuff.”

I’m a radiographer. I’m pretty much useless in every situation unless someone has a a high field magnets and wants pictures.
I liked Solaris well enough, but in the end it was far less interesting than say the better Star Trek episodes.
I use Github Copilot Chat for the same which works with vscode directly. Any advantage over that?
I think that the bigger issue is that we're masking societal dependence on stimulants by pretending that they're medicine (yes, sometimes they are) and not just uppers.

There's never a chance to resolve any issue with having an honest objective conversation.

Beyond the fact that our society doesn't like those conversations in general, you're never going to have the conversation that needs to be had in this particular case as long as legislators are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry.
Thanks. It will not.
When I rewatch Solaris I always skip the first 30 minutes or so (the part on Earth). Makes it a much easier and less slow watch!
Ha - let's freely dispense amphetamines to all, it'll surely help the economy!

Edit: We're talking about amphetamine based production being non sustainable - by comparing with tea and coffee I imagine you mean that we should expect people to take amphetamines to the same extant they take other stimulants (ie: to wake up, to work longer, to focus, etc). We shouldn't expect everyone to be on stimulants, we should lower the workload.

This has been a problem for years in academia and in medecine - people taking amphetamines and cocaine to be able to compete in their field. Without talking about expectations in other fields - I've seen my fair share of cocaine and speed in kitchens and in service - I don't think it's sustainable.

If you need speed, the workload is too much for one individual. Speed is not a long term solution.
Exactly, and also you get to actually understand how it all works together, unlike a bunch of proprietary APIs that only tie you to their particular platform.

(for those not on the same page, I’m talking from a position of substantial experience with all 3 major clouds)

Plus, these days the maintenance burden of the OS layer is really heavily overstated. With certain self-updating open-source container OSes one doesn’t even really have to think about patches and all that ancient crap.

The real appeal of the big players in my mind is only in one use case - scale. If you need 10k servers for heavy “big” data processing like in genomics or ‘AI’ (whatever that means), only then they start to be indisposable. Otherwise, the considerable burden of training all personnel on proprietary APIs is just not worth it - it literally costs less to buy and configure your own system (or a traditional VPS or dedicated server). Cloud architects ain’t cheap!
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. The free food and snacks provide a quick and easy source of calories, which enables employees to quickly and reliably replenish their energy stores on site. I'm sure less obese nations have companies with cafeterias of their own for the same reason.
The important part about current ai craze is that it’s the first realized approach that somewhat resembles all the theories, fantasies, and bull shit about it.
Can it eventually lead to superintelligence? it seems like it’s stepping in the right direction - and we’ll know soon enough if it’s another dead end (possibly even within few short years… which is a great leap from time scales of decades until recently)
> As far as I can tell he thought he was doing the right thing at the time

That’s what he said, that’s not necessarily what was actually true. I no longer believe him given his subsequent actions.

> Surely the support for his actions indicates to you there are people out there who would have done what he did

If you’re suggesting that there could have been genuine patriotic whistleblowers, I agree. But Snowden’s actions have proven he’s not genuinely patriotic but a supporter of a genocidal regime.

> to me being a traitor has connotations of deliberate intent to do harm due to some kind of external loyalty

That’s not what the word means. Betrayal of country can occur for any number of reasons, for instance ego or greed are often involved.
Medical tourism. Give the money to the airline industry instead, who have a more competitive market in terms of price.
Right, I am speaking more about close relationships where they’d offer help without you even having to ask, not some long-lost friend that you only ever bother when you need their medical opinion.
Great explanation. But to be clear to those who don't follow:

SIMD is supported by Java out of the box but the optimizer might miss some opportunities. With this API it is far more likely that SIMD will be used if it's available and on first compilation so performance should be improved.
Because no one deserves the onus of the opt-out, least of all the colorblind.