skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruby & Ruby on Rails taking the top two spots for skills asked for is really interesting.
> I just hope it's already too big to fail at this point,

Too big to fail can easily also mean too big to fix.

Failure is often not the worst outcome -- at least failure creates space for a fixed alternative to arise in the space left open.
That it is called "technological singualrity" is already admitting our ignorance.

Singularities don't exist in the real world, in fact they don't really exist in the mathematical world either. The simplest singularity is a division by zero: 1/x is undefined when x=0. Black holes have a singularity at their core, but it is just a quirk of general relativity we know is wrong, but because we can't see beyond the event horizon that covers it, we make do with it for now as the model is pretty good otherwise.

The technology singularity is similar. Some models have a singularity, so we know these models are wrong and will fail at some point. It doesn't mean they are not useful, but they are limited.
I'd caution against drawing such conclusions from plots without error bars.
By that measure of intelligence even most humans, at some times, fail. Our brains misremember constantly, filling in details where information is lacking. One classic example are things like accidents and disasters. Accounts between people conflict, memories presenting events in an order that does not match that another’s memories, our outright fabrications. Dig up research on saccades and how our visual system does this on a constant basis, and can often be fooled as a result.

If knowing which blanks to fill in is a necessary condition of intelligence then all of humanity fails to measure up.

My point here is that very little is simple and straightforward. The concepts we use defy easy definitions. Our application of those concepts to artificial systems will inevitably do the same as a result.
If you consent to the sex, you consent to the aftermath of the sex too. Which in straight intercourse could result in pregnancy.

That’s the point, not whatever you were trying to read out of it.
Has anyone here tried to read that book (Superintelligence)? I found it impossible to get through it. The author drones on and on seeming to try to reach a high word count as some sort of academic pompous goal and takes so long to make a point that I didn’t stick around for the ending. Incidentally, I have a free copy for anyone that likes lots of words.
It’s challenging stuff! You have to remember to map and when to reduce! /s
I can't tell what "experimenting" means here.
Any public “tech” company should include stock as compensation for SWEs.

Startup equity is mostly worthless unless you get lucky.
I’m not gonna take this serious when they obviously couldn’t even sort the salaries by tech hub properly.
> you’d need to make it easier to choose to have kids. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be a priority in the US

This seems to be the case in every “developed” country

Society turns into a work machine that devalues having and raising kids

The US is particularly bad, but this is happening everywhere
> Unlike solar panels or wind turbines, which need specific environments to thrive, Air-gens could conceivably go anywhere, Yao said.

> Less humidity, though, would mean less energy could be harvested, he added. Winters, with dryer air, would produce less energy than summers.

also known as specific environments? specifically humid ones? which isn’t any different than sunny for solar, or windy for wind turbines.

there are differences, yes, but the similarity is that none of these are always available everywhere.

this is a new option.
interesting game. I like the old Rocksmith 2014 remastered game a lot to learn guitar. It also has some mini games inside, e.g. scale racer and other stuff. The main drawback of that one is that the note names are not really shown so you don't memorize it and have to actively do it yourself.

anyway, maybe you find some inspiration from that game...
Time for some rewatch! He was my favorite filmmaker, and he's a really good one. I considered his films a form of arts. I still consider them arts, but now I think that arts should not be boring.
I’m curious about this note - only one of the listed points has anything to do with self-improvement AFAICT (“Brain Surgery”). Even if LLMs are capable of compute-constrained self-improvement, why would you be open to dismissing all your other points? Would you be so willing to don the robes and beads?
So this person didn't get to speak at the conference, and they quit? But their technical contributions are still being added?

Did I get that right?
Yeah, and look at Valve now: TF2, all the half life games, Portal!

Edit: Steam and the Steam Deck!
Here [1] is an article that backs at least one incidence of your statement. Have ZeroHedge linked to Russian state controlled sites more than once? I ask because it also appears they perturbed folks for reporting on Hunter. The domain is auto-flagged and requires a vouch which I only do if the article is interesting.

[1] - https://nypost.com/2022/02/15/us-accuses-zero-hedge-of-sprea...
I think a significant chunk of people will say and believe that they're happy because they checked some of the life-milestone boxes that are supposed to make them happy.

How many people are going to choose to have a mid/late-life crisis because a survey made them wonder if they were truly happy with their huge, life-changing and nearly irreversible decision to be married?
See also https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/css/blend-modes
They stockpiled and exported food in face of a famine, the rest of your elaborations is conjecture.

Most probably redirecting resources spared Germany 2 atomic bombs since it allowed for a defeat before they were needed, but that is also conjecture.
I don't think that is necesarily so. If it's only one among thousands then we could use the others to fight it.
Not just religion but maybe Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I was also turned off by that book because I found his writing to be bad and that he did a bad job of making the case as a result.

I think the underlying arguments themselves though are good.
Which appears to be one of the underlying cultural flaws in the community to begin with. "Everyone sucks here" is a common situation because bad behavior is often a product of bad project culture.
It's not clear to me it even was a threat; the context of that comment is entirely unclear. It's possible the couple just asked what could be done about the situation and the council responses with "well, we could put preservation order on it, but you'll be on the hook for protection then".

Given the later "it's their property and right to do with as they want" comment, I think something along those lines is more likely, but hard to be sure.

The reporting on all of this has not been of stellar quality.
Because its kinda frowned upon for a man to bail and leave the mother and children to fend for themselves.
I saw that too and my first thought was how old is this article?
I think Musk is good at choose great lieutenants who believe in his vision. As a person he has turned into an awful individual. Lots of awful individuals have been great at business and running corps. I don't actually think he's all that talented as a day-to-day CEO
I imagine there's a bimodal distribution at work here: wealthier couples could choose to get married in a traditional ceremony (which is often an economic flex as much as anything else), although in such circles prenup agreements related to divorce-related division of wealth seem increasingly common. If you're going to have a prenup, why get married at all? There are issues related to end-of-life-decisions but the living will solves that problem. This is where 'changing social values' apply, in that non-married living arrangments don't lead to social ostracization as they might have in the past.

The other side is simply economic - getting married and raising a family is an expensive proposition that many people (at least in the United States) can no longer afford, and there's no real social safety net that ensures medical care and quality education for low-income families - so raising a family in poverty is not an attractive proposition. There's also good evidence that birth rates track economic recessions pretty closely:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/04/06/us-birt...

This economic factor seems universal, as the high cost of housing in China is associated with a decreased marriage rate (although unequal numbers of men and women related to the now-defunct One Child policy is another issue):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01400-4
Why is it so ridiculous? There is sexual activity that doesn't result in reproduction (massive shocker, i know)
I’m actually a born portlander also (thanks to Tektronix). Since Portland isn’t really on the coast it should be ok, right?
Isn't every amusement park in the world built upon land on which people used to live? They don't build them out in the desert, do they? Well maybe Las Vegas.
I see so the further into the chat set the darker… thanks!!! It looks really great as a logo when my side project starts up!
The difference is dogs, cats, rats, and people all have a much more recent genetic ancestor, so it’s not a stretch to imagine they have similar brain structures that allow for dreaming.

All those Disney movies with singing fish and the like has lead to anthropomorphizing and assumptions that are still being reckoned with scientifically.
They were saying that it's uncommon for a single developer to specialize in both iOS and Android
My post didn't try to get to the root cause of the famine, only to observe that the article is deceptively worded. In other comments I talk about the root causes.

The Bengal famine was indeed at least partly man made, but the men who made it were the Japanese and German dictators who were trying to take over the world. Lest we forget the Japanese were attacking India at the time, as well as interdicting shipping routes, and had occupied the regions that would normally have been able to export food to Bengal to relieve famine. Britain meanwhile was being bombed on a daily basis and was fighting for its own survival. It is absurd and offensive to the British to blame them for a famine worsened by a war they didn't start, and which if they had lost would have certainly led to far worse catastrophes in India.
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Yes because everyone would have died of starvation, problem solved right?
You don't normally needs a CoC to do the right thing, you need a CoC to justify doing the wrong thing.
This is really surprising, but also interesting to hear. I think there’s a lot of societal pressure to both get married and to have children, especially in the south, where I’m from. Thankfully, my family never pushed these on me.

I’ve been with my wife for 13 years now, and married for 8. It’s been an awesome experience for us, but I know neither of us considered marrying any of our previous partners. If we hadn’t found each other, I’m not sure I’d be married at this point. Marriage in and of itself should probably not be a goal. It’s contingent on finding someone who you really want to be married to.

Having kids is the same way. It shouldn’t be the default, it should be the thing you do when you truly feel it would add value and meaning to your life, and be worth the tradeoffs you’re making. I hope that society moves more in the direction that both marriage and having children is something that you can choose to do, or not, and there’s not an implicit judgement on you for failing to meet norms that honestly don’t work out for the majority of people.
> Jatts are predominantly farmers

So are most Marwaris (Jodhpur region), but a subset of Biradaris migrated east to work in commerce.

Some Jatts

> No Jatts or Khatris were in Kolkata.

Bullshit.

Aroras have always had a decent sized commercial community across the region that was formerly the Bengal Presidency. I know a couple Aroras who's families have been in Kolkata for over a century at this point (rice trading).

And some of the southern Jatts in Rajasthan were called "Marwaris" by the locals in the east (Marwari being a linguistic/regional denonym, not a caste based one). Shouldn't have listed Punjabi Jatts - just waking up.

Also, the Bengal Presidency wasn't only Kolkata - it included a number of other towns and cities that had commercial needs (hence why the communities above entered that segment).
I'm guessing this is more to do with declining birth rates than anything else.

Much of the value of marriage is to enhance the child's claim to both parents' wealth and income. If married, it's much harder for one partner to tap out of parenting, in financial terms
The human mind is nothing but software. I’d definitely be interested in hearing a convincing argument that computer software couldn’t run self-replicating machines. One very convincing point to me: computers are already made by machines, just with a modicum of human involvement.
Some of it, yes, but definitely not all of it. Don't pretend they had to pay 250k. It wouldn't have cost more than a couple hundred just to paint over it.
If you have the time you could read the religions’ foundational texts (Bible for Christianity, Quran for Islam, etc.) before commentaries on them.
Christianity:

The Swerve - Greenblatt

The Kingdom - Carrére

Both very much in the sense of historical development of the religion.
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Hmm - TIL that Power of Attorney is not automatic for spouses (although I imagine it is set up practically by default for most people who get married, and the laws differ by state).
(https://www.google.com/amp/s/estatelawatlanta.com/do-spouses...)

Seems like something folks would care about? It's adjacent to the "When I die, who gets my stuff?" part of the marriage contract which I remain convinced is the real reason governments need to be involved with marriage contracts. I also know a lot of folks who would rather their S.O. make medical decisions for them if they're debilitated than, say a sibling (especially if they're estranged).

But yeah, this doesn't explicitly prevent you from assigning power of attorney to an unmarried partner, of course.
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“SJW/woke” as an epithet is a right wing trope. Can we not do this please?
I think it has more to do with the decline in religiosity in the US.

Why get married? Typically there’s a wedding. That’s a ceremony involving you, your partner, both partners’ family and friends, and a religious and/or civic authority. You’re throwing a big party saying “we are committed to each other”.

When you’re very religious, this is required to become partnered and accepted as an adult in the community.

When you’re not religious, this is an incredibly expensive way of getting a bunch of other people involved in your relationship, which has a 50/50 chance of ending despite the life vows.

For some it might be beautiful. For others, there’s just no real point to it.

Personally, I’d be interested in a ceremony celebrating a commitment to cohabitation and partnership that sheds the baggage of a wedding and marriage. Something like a domestic partnership housewarming party.
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CGA font were never re-programmable, Hercules (after a certain version) were.
Not sure what you run this on and why its $50/day but sounds like a lot.

Convert your server cost to a pay as you go model. You are currently paying even for time when your server is idle.
Containerise your app and run on something like AWS Lambda which has a pay for what you use model.

- s3 is cheap for storing your model data and as long as you are just reading that should be fine.

- AWS Lambda has 1 million free invocations per month in free tier.

- Post that you pay $0.60 per 1 million requests

- AWS stack is just an example, you can easily use GCP Cloud run or any other equivalent service.
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This can be Applied to not just Apps. But many other places, and not just Project managers but politicians, civil servants, purchasing, sales, marketing, operation , they all work for their own self interest. Along as it doesn't rock the boat too much.

As Steve Jobs said:

"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
The World's Religions by Huston Smith
For completely unrelated reasons, I got into Rust this week again for the first time in years. I had to write a small bit of code that went really fast, but have sworn off C. It was really really fun, and I want to write more rust! (Though I don't get to write much code these days)

I'm actually really glad to see this sort of stuff be aired in the community, and I hope it strengthens the Rust community and makes the language stronger. I really hope that Rust gets greater adoption. The syntax with lifetimes is a bit painful, but everything else is really amazing for making super fast code when needed.
The higher paying jobs skew heavily to stock, especially at FAANG. As you get more sr, stock grants can be 50-80% of comp. So looking at salary alone massively understates comp.
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In BC, Canada, there is no practical legal difference between marriage and long term cohabitation. Not getting married and living together is rather normal, and comes with the same risk of financial segmentation and alimony or child support.
You could construct a telephone numbering system where the sum of two 'real' numbers could be dialed to start a three-way conference call. That would be.. amusing, to some subset of users.
The only real value I can see with democracy is in being able to pull the lever and get a new set of dice to role if things go bad.

Beyond that it seems to be mostly mythology and nonsense. You either have smart good rulers or you don't. At least if we don't they only have so much time to do damage and we try again.

The idea democracy gives people agency over their future I would put in the category of mythology.
> How can intelligent people not see this kind of thinking leads to the worst of social divisions?

Intelligent people do see it. It’s typically people that have no actual direct value to contribute but still want to score points that focus on all kinds of secondary topics.
One thing which is often missing or just left implicit in two-way communication is the self-referential aspect:

How are you talking to yourself?

Most people have a hard time tuning into this part because self-talk usually starts in early childhood and by the time one can be made fully "aware" of it, it has already faded into the normal background noise of being oneself, so it rarely gets openly interrogated. The self-talk doesn't have to be sophisticated, it can just be a constant pink noise of: "This is just dumb." ... "I'm miserable" ... "It's my fault" ... "I'm not worthy of love" ... "I'm disgusted by myself".

And, here, I'm still very polite with the wording.

Of course this inevitably bleeds in how you communicate with other people and especially the people in your life you really care about. If you never cultivated to encourage yourself, be kind, patient and forgiving toward yourself at some point you can't sustain the illusion (e.g. "nicest, loving ... person") and eventually it will leash out.

There is a solipsistic aspect in communication worth exploring: I often find that communicating with one another openly and freely is also making one aware of each other's (hurtful, embarrassing ...) self-talk and can make way for the kind of primordial empathy buried deep in oneself and by extension make it easier to fully connect with the feelings of other people.
Do you have power of attorney in a medical emergency?

Also congrats on building a relationship that has lasted.
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I think I agree with you. Here's an interesting thought, the first Game of Thrones book came out 27 years ago.
Jaroslav Pelikan wrote a five-volume series on the history of Christian doctrine. It is short on sociology, but long on creeds. Really I don't know enough about other religions to make suggestions.
Inkjet as a technology doesn’t stand up well to intermittent use due to ink drying out. I think a lot of consumers buy a printer and use it rarely (idle for weeks at a time). In my experience using an inkjet this way leads to dry ink clogging the head. People don’t easily forget technology letting them down when they needed it.
The method, which is guaranted to work always! And you might even see the ink level.
Yes, so one could either make the argument of why don’t projects like this «just» do that? Or the other way around.
Full disclosure, I usually do not involve myself with large groups -- so my views are likely to be a bit more innocent/naive.

The past that I lived in was comprised of people you personally knew; not anonymous membership in a large organization or group, where you could never hope to know everyone on a personal level.

There was very little opportunity for people to be unchecked dicks to one another, because you saw everyone consistently and could easily notice when something was going on.

Perhaps this is an unsolved issue about scaling human communities?
This is like a modern day version of "they're a witch!", with the towns people rallying behind to burn them at the stake.
the primary cost would be the OpenAI GPT-3.5-turbo API, which is ~ $0.002 per 1k tokens
I don't care how they scale it. They obviously have versions of the model and can go back to a previous version.
California does in fact have the highest poverty rate of any state when you factor in the cost of housing (which why wouldn't you?). The census bureau calls this the "supplemental poverty measure" and you can read about it here.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
> I don't but the ongoing war is for more land

I don’t think more land per se is the objective.

> As planned it's worked and USA has no answer to that problem

What problem is that? I don’t think US pays that much attention to NK.

From that perspective US has been much more successful than China. The existence of Taiwan as an independent state is a much, much bigger issue for for them than NK is for US.

> I'm just trying to say that strongest country wins no matter what.

Wins what? We’re not living in a grand strategy video game.
If it’s not possible then yeah, there’s no risk. I just don’t find the arguments that it’s not possible very compelling.

We’re constrained in all sorts of ways because of biology, natural selection, energy, etc. I find it unlikely we just happen to be close to the max threshold.

If something can think a lot faster that’s already a major shift and it seems likely to me that would only be part of it.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James
so, as you assume the existence of malvolent non-thermal effects: would you be so kind and point out their mechanism?

And also, if there is a mechanism: what do people do to verify that mechanism? There should be a way to verify that without self-selected human populations and crappy papermills as cited by you.