skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, no. I don't want merchants refusing to sell items just because they discover that they're not the lowest price.

I'm willing to pay a premium with certain merchants due to my confidence in their delivery speed and counterfeit protection (e.g., B&H). I wouldn't want B&H to refuse to sell items to me if they noticed other vendors undercutting them on price.

If Amazon was really trying to prevent the user from getting a bad deal, then instead of making the buy button harder to find, they should be saying, "Hey, you can buy from this other website at a lower price."

Also, I'm not talking about anything close to 5x pricing. I was charging a 15% premium on Amazon to offset their fees and higher return rate, and that got my listings suppressed.
"Imagine being the 21ct century equivalent of a 1940's US Marine on Guadal Canal who need to know some survival skills. ChatGPT-on-a-phone would be handy if you could keep the battery charged."

Would it not make sense to learn survival skills...beforehand?

I would much rather learn survival skills in a controlled environment instead waiting until I need them and then whipping out the ChatGPT enabled phone for help...

Also, I don't need to have an entire library of knowledge with me, when a simple book of survival skills would be more than adequate...

I think pretty much every military in the world agrees with this.
Openfire 4.7.5 release (stable) – Java XMPP Server
>> I've seen conservatives gloat about this as a huge win.

>> They see it as liberal men voluntarily limiting their future contribution to the gene pool, and thereby reducing competition for their own offspring to thrive and take control of the future.

> These are the same conservatives who complain that they ain't getting sex any more, and women are too up-tight.

Chances are you're just failing to differentiate the different members/factions of a loose grouping, so trading in useless stereotypes.

Or you might have data showing the same individuals are making all these claims and they comprise a significant portion of the "conservative" population. But if that's the case, show us.
It's understandable: opening the training sets would increase the risk of the hypothetical happening, so it's difficult to expect the first camp to advocate doing it.

As for "stealing", it's controversial if "stealing" is even happening, given the plurality of laws and opinions, so it's an even thornier subject to pick up if you have other things to worry about.

Let those in either camp fight for what they consider important.
Yeah they track quite a lot of bits of data for users. It's the very reason why most new users are found bemoaning how annoying it is to start posting on reddit.

It's your email, social account, ip/location, browser fingerprint info, search terms, information from their partners (ad networks, apps) and cookies, subs you visit, what you upvote/downvote/save/report, which page on reddit you're coming from/going to, etc. They use these to then determine blocks/shadowbans/counteract your votes and so on.

Has this resulted in a substantial quality increase on reddit? Oh absolutely not, you'll get chatgpt bots, people harassing you, completely unrelated comments, report abuse, etc. but they'll never give up that much data.
Reminds me of Cross Fingers, an early iOS game I really enjoyed

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cross-fingers/id337490369
Glad they are working on it. I've been using it recently on a couple of my projects and hugely prefer it to slack. The new user experience was a little rough on the previous version (somebody thought "stream events" was an acceptable default topic name, for example, which would show up under all of your channels) but for the most part once over the hump most people seem good with it.
> And there you go, it's over for open source AI. Our supplies will dwindle and we'll be far behind the 'licensed and regulated' data centers that are allowed these 'munitions'.

This is the endgame for the rhetoric OpenAI and its associates are espousing. They're positioning OpenAI et al. to be the Lockheed Martin of AI.
> Hinton has been exaggerating the capabilities of AI for nearly a decade. As one example, if we listened to him in 2016/17 we would have an even worse radiologist shortage than we do right now.

I can appreciate that. I haven't been listening to him for that long; having no idea what situation you're discussing, I'll take it at face value.

> My point is that we can worry and have the discussion without being alarmist and enacting premature regulation.

That's pretty reasonable. However, I will reiterate that this:

> it’s extremely exaggerated to think what we have today, or even what is known on the horizon, represents that.

is not what I'm asserting. It's the unknowns which are dangerous. We're inventing something new in almost every way imaginable. It's not like we're talking about a new theoretical steelmaking process which could upset the economy, we're talking about the potential to build a new life form with godlike abilities. Alarm seems warranted to me. Sure, it might not happen soon... but also, it might happen soon. Shouldn't we be trying to prevent it, or control it, before it happens?

> People assume advancements will continue to happen at their current pace.

I think people assume advancements will accelerate, actually.
This is basically just 'look at the cool young startup kids' with AI thrown in to make it seem new.
Parent engagement has a huge impact on how good a school district is. It isn't the funding. Poorly performing schools often get more funding.
From my perspective as an outsider, I have always been amazed by the use of papers in academic research as a means of communicating findings to the wider world. I find it problematic that these papers are often formatted in a way that makes them highly unreadable, with two columns and compressed text. In my opinion, adopting more modern methods of publishing research could greatly enhance the overall quality of research by making papers more accessible and increasing the likelihood of them being read.

Imagine a scenario where there is a standardized format for academic papers, where the conclusion is explicitly derived from specific data and accompanied by confidence intervals. This standardized schema would enable easier referencing of other papers and easy incorporation of additional data through features like autocomplete. Implementing such a system could potentially reverse the trend of academic papers that use excessive and unnecessary language to appear more intellectually rigorous, even when the actual information being conveyed is limited.

By embracing these changes, we could create a more transparent and efficient research environment that promotes clearer communication and enhances the impact of academic findings.
> perhaps AI will be generally intelligent

Does AI have to be strong to kill everyone? I can imagine scenarios in which it could be fairly shit, but good enough.

> please for the love of god, let's only consider that scenario what it actually happens.

Not a great philosophy to guide planning.
Replace the term "superintelligence" with "God" in that FAQ. Do you still buy the conclusions?

"A God is a mind that is much more intelligent than any human."

"Go programs had gone from “dumber than children” to “God” in eighteen years, and “from never won a professional game” to “Godlike play” in six months."

"God has an advantage that a human fighting a pack of lions doesn’t – the entire context of human civilization and technology, there for it to manipulate socially or technologically."

"A God might be able to analyze human psychology deeply enough to understand the hopes and fears of everyone it negotiates with."

"Humans instinctively balance thousands of different considerations in everything they do; so far this hypothetical God is only balancing three (least cancer, quickest results, highest probability). To a human, it would seem maniacally, even psychopathically, obsessed with cancer curing. If this were truly its goal structure, it would go wrong in almost comical ways."

(Oh, god, there's my personal bugbear: "bigger brain size correlates with greater intelligence". You know what else correlates with bigger brain size? Hint: I'm 6'5"; how much smarter am I than someone 5'1"?)
> Apollo also had a lifetime tier that would have to go away, because it was priced without knowing that future costs would be so much higher.

A “lifetime” purchase for any app is always a bad idea and is a Ponzi scheme. Mobile apps always require maintenance and updates.

Now of course I understand that he could have never predicted such a price increase.
oooof... I really need to finally move my self-hosted servers (email/etc) to such risc-v mini-computers namely away from the non-royalty free arm.

I have a too big TODO list.
What concrete definition of “significantly better than humans” are we talking about?

The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled was 1.34 in 2020 in the US.

Would 0.134 be a significant improvement?
Google will only remove specific URLs, not entire sites/domains. Even if every copyright holder with content on TPB sent a DMCA notice to Google today, new torrents -- at new URLs -- would pop up tomorrow.
> The question is which economy is being hurt more relatively speaking.

2022 GDP growth:

* Germany +1.9%

* Russia -2.1% (according to Russia's agency)

Yeah, evidence absolutely points to European economy getting hammered while Russia is better than ever.
Seems to me just better to entirely stop supporting the public api than to make the costs so ridiculously high. I mean then you're _still_ supporting it, yet you've basically scared almost all customers away. Charging a ridiculously high amount seems maybe like the worst approach of all.
In this vein, I highly recommend the RP-1 mod set for KSP1, which introduces (among other things) ullage and engine start failures, launching from a realistic Earth. Really gave me a huge appreciation for the difficulty of achieving orbit.

https://github.com/KSP-RO/RP-0
old.reddit.com is streets faster, but I’m not a fan of the UI and realistically they're gonna discontinue it at any moment
But who will obsess over bezel sizes?! I need to know about the bezel sizes from Ron!

At this point it would almost be a good idea to bring Peter Bright back to replace him. Almost...
Inflection upon the substrate of existential being.

In our case, that substrate is most likely the neural microtubules.

Human consciousness is a composite of many sub-scopes competing for dominance as the singular coherent perspective of awareness we are all (mostly) familiar with.

Cognitive consciousness is a form of bio-technology, and like any technology there are various approaches with differing strengths and weaknesses.

Consciousness itself however works like a sieve. Push information into a scope, the information of the scope constructively and destructively interferes, and “some process” pulls the product back out, replicating the “information” through the nervous system (producing the higher level neurological and behavioral responses we identify with.)

This whole process works chaotically, as each one of us must struggle with the terrifying uncertainty of existence, or in a refined strategic way (usually influenced by a prior generation’s aspiration for fullness of being.)

This “magic” of this process is such that cognition is non-linear, scopes may entangle and enhance resolution (similar to holography), and is incredibly energy efficient for the crude gelatinous brain technology which we as humans inhabit.

A dumb quantum computer might be more “conscious” than a smart algorithm, yet the qubit is a dead end (the quantum domain is an analog sieve, not dependent upon spin characteristics.)

This analog sieve is capable of every nuance of experiential perception humans are capable of experiencing, yet it is our neurological biotechnology which perceived and propagates these “signals”, creating both limitations and characteristics of human experience.
Not unless they reach escape velocity, although that might not end well for the mouse either.
That first link is a gateway to a whole level of insanity I had no idea about.
You could say that about math and the inevitable discovery of linear algebra, industry and thus language models.
Three 0-Mile Tesla Roadsters Found in China Were Meant to Be Reverse Engineered
I'm glad that zulip exists, though I was only mildly impressed by its threading model. The complexity of dealing with threads doesn't magically disappears with it, instead of specific discussions being organized as one-off sub-channels or as unlabeled chains of cited/related messages like on other protocols, you end up with channels followed by their seemingly infinite list of short lived topics turned clutter after a while. That does help delineate threads compared to e.g. slack (which everyone agrees is the worst in this area) but it just feels (to me) like reading more channels (because the "main" one is no loger practical as a "common"/"neutral" place).

I think I'm just old school and prefer the raw simplicity of things like IRC where there is no assumption of threading: you'd just go about quoting exactly what you want to respond to, which is just enough context to connect the dots. IMHO there's no silver bullet: all the alternatives have their pros and cons and there's universal value in simplicity.
I'll be using Teddit until they decide to cut RSS feeds too and then maybe I'll be able to cut out this black hole from my life. It's eaten so many hours of my life...
That software exists to automatically apply changes to code doesn't have much bearing on software being able to introspect and decide what changes to apply, but maybe I'm moving the goalposts. The infrastructure exists for programs to edit their own deployment, what I'm doubting is that the software will have any idea of what can be improved without a human-in-the-loop.

Compiler optimizations are a counterexample, could be called automated self-improvement -- but it's to do the same thing with fewer resources, what I'm looking for is a reason to believe an optimization could go the other way, have more capabilities with the same resources.
Oops, cut off the quote too early, it was in response to "Is it possible that someone at your university was tricked?"

The list is real and it is part of a LEED standard. Technically it's compiled by ACEEE and just referenced by USGBC, but it's a real thing and not trickery.
When someone does bad things to you with a gun you know about it. When bad things happen to you because of AI, chances are you won't have the slightest clue. In this it is far more similar to PII abuse, where many of the worst things remain well outside your awareness.
Sounds as preposterous as putting cars and nuclear power plants on the internet for dubious benefit, but here we are.
> At the end of the day, they are still your users and you might learn things from the other apps.

but those users don't see ads on 3rd party apps. they already know what all they can implement to improve user experience. they just wont, willingly
It seems Google's tech can't keep up with the scale of the Internet anymore. It simply doesn't index a very large portion of the Internet now.
Not to victim-blame, but which subreddits? I pop into new subreddits from time to time, and I don't know that I've ever been banned from a subreddit in my accounts 14+ year history. I'm also less sympathetic if the bans were because you posted somewhere like the_donald (I can't think of a more timely controversial sub) vs somewhere innocuous like r/gaming or r/technology.
how many Toyotas do you see where they are marketed as having autopilot?
Yeah, API arms race is definitely the next step. I’ll put up with reduced functionality or just stop using Reddit on mobile.

Worst case scenario is just web scraping Reddit and serving up to 3rd party clients as read only.
>> Being decentralized means no single party controls it

I suggest you have a look at how many people are allowed to merge bitcoins PRs in github
I think it is less intuitive to non-iOS users... Android has "swipe up to unlock" and there isn't really a UI element.
Early cars, such as the one in the article, used MobilEye's technology for "autopilot". Tesla only integrated their own ui with that technology until the partnership ended and they built everything from scratch.
Bashar al-Assad managed to find a vendor, no?
The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl
AI Wall of Shame (Politico)
> One can only hope there'll be a watershed moment like the one that killed Digg.

I think a critical part of the Digg exodus was that most people already saw Reddit as a clear #2 in the space. When Digg fucked up, there was an obvious place for everyone to migrate to. I don't see that right now. Facebook isn't cool anymore, Twitter has a large number of people who won't use it because of Elon, Mastodon isn't mature enough to gain casual users.

Bascially, the problem I see is that if people leave reddit, there isn't an obvious place for them to go? TikTok maybe? I just don't see an Pepsi to Reddit's Coke.
I think it's almost entirely emergent based on how the incentives and pressures of self-selecting subreddit membership intersects with the upvote/downvote system.

An interesting and notable thing in this context is how for any given interest represented on reddit there is actually an entire ecosystem of subs. There's the main one, the decade-old mod schism one, the "circlejerk" parody one, the "True" one that takes itself more seriously, the more recent schism that allows slurs, the one for memes about the interest, a few to many for various subdivisions or specializations within the interest, various vestigial zombie schisms and misspellings that may or may not just redirect to one of the others.

Each of these will have elements of its own culture and history and jargon and in-jokes, but drawn from the same pool of subject matter and all in some way referencing or revolving around the biggest one, even if only in opposition to it. All will share some mods with at least some others and most users will frequent more than one of them.

What you end up coming up against is identity. Each sub needs a reason for itself to exist and so members create that meaning by enforcing the norms, referencing the jokes, and socializing new members into the history and protocol. HN works exactly like this too btw; it is culturally a subreddit, even if hosted elsewhere with slightly different game mechanics.
Can't agree more and has been what I've been saying from the start. There's no need to imagine risks that could happen. Reality is much more banal and sinister as it is.
Well I generally find it much harder to remain attentive when using an autopilot. I assume I'm not unique in the regard (i.e. it's an "autopilot" but technically you must pay as much attention to what happening if you were driving yourself. What would be the point of such feature? Well.. obviously companies obviously bring this up when something bad happens and not in their marketing material).
Now I am imagining a conversational AI exclusively trained on transcripts from Halo matches, scary.

That said I have always felt like AI (and adjacent) has been lacking an appropriate amount of snark - when I take a wrong turn I feel like the GPS voice needs a bit more 'learn to drive dumb###' and a little less 're-routing'.
The Camera Restricta from ~2014 prevents the user from taking pictures of over-photographed scenes:

https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/camera-restrict...

Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221405
This is off by probably x10 or more.

Dozens of people using it daily for coding and conversations and review in a month might be a couple hundred bucks. All day convo, constantly, as fast as it can respond, might add up to $5.

Not sure what kind of convo you're having that you could hit $10 unless you're parallelizing with something like the "guidance" tool or langchain.
likely never. I had written a script a while back to easily download youtube video transcripts. In the past, I've been able to use ChatGPT to debug the script and improve it. Now if I ask any questions about the script the response is "this goes against YT ToS and I can't help you"
somebody's debunking is another's occultation intended to improve the efficacy of torture-based techniques used to train non-existing secret agents and other sorts of slaves.

but this is just fantasy, not real life; by science.
Christ, I make an offhand comment about a trivially minor frustration I had a few months ago and I come back to find that I've summoned the Spanish Inquisition.

I never claimed that it's impossible to buy a non-connected set of bathroom scales; all I said was that it took me "far too long" - by which I mean I wasted maybe five to ten minutes deciding which bathroom scales to buy because the first few ones I looked at turned out to be overengineered piles of Wifi/smartphone-ready bullshit that I didn't want. Looking on Amazon UK now, I see several "non-connected" scales in the search results, so I'm not sure why I found it so difficult last time, but my memories are what they are.

This is, of course, as trivial of a first-world problem as they possibly come, but it felt vaguely relevant to the current discussion, and it's part of a general trend in consumer electronics that I constantly see people on HN complaining about. Sorry you found it so offensive.
I wonder if with RISC-V there is a chance for all the chips on a motherboard's "backstage" to all use the same ISA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36127543
Let's check back in a few years during the next boom cycle when Musk takes it public again.
What's your point? The target market of Julia is mostly scientific, not general purpose computing. That market is almost certain to have a smaller representation on HN. I'd actually contend that for a language with such a targeted to have 25 pages of results HN supports my point rather than debunks it.
How do your projects “automatically show up in a dashboard”? And where is that dashboard? In Obsidian?
Stopwatch with a Spiral
> Yudkowsky's take on AI safety is to tech companies what greenwashing is to the auto industry and oil companies.

The most useful of fools. Yudkowsky acts, speaks, dresses and looks like the most neck-beard of neck-beards. He wears that cringey trilby hat in podcast interviews.

I've often thought that the popular promotion of people like Michale Moore and even Noam Chomsky works in the favor of those in power. Choose the ugliest, most boring and laughable opponents and then allow them to speak while just rolling your eyes and giggling. It works even better when they are speaking sense since you can demonstrate you are allowing legitimate dissent.

I wonder if Chomsky ever suspected that his own promotion and fame were the result of the establishment using his yawn-inducing academic tone in their own attempts to manufacture consent. Can you imagine someone who is obsessed with the Kardashians being caught dead agreeing with Chomsky, Moore or Yudkowski? And then consider if the number of those who are swayed by such superficial appearance are the majority or minority and how that effects democracy.
For many queries, Google offers more of a "ready-made" solution e.g. from a StackOverflow post or blog.

When looking at the offline documentation, I know that I am looking at a supported version (not something ancient or much newer than what is deployed in production) and that I am looking at the "authorative" answer i.e. the "real" docs not some third party comments.

When the program I am developing is expected to run correctly even in the presence of errors, it makes a lot of sense to me to consult the authorative documentation rather than "the web" which rarely covers all of the possible corner cases.