skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do look weird to a lot of us. In excel, its trivial to fit a smoothed bendy line between points on a scatter plot. Because of the underlying math (taylor series) when you reach the end of your data points the line flings off into positive or negative INF.

AI super intelligence arguments have the same logic: the data ends so the interpolation now goes to infinity. This is such an obvious counter and these people know this math.
In which case the name is awful and the concept should be referred to with a different label. The point of those is to communicate meaning, if the very first thing that happens is this kind of misunderstanding that we have failed before we even started.
That’s a perfectly fine outcome. We already have that, since the incidence of psychopathy and mental illness is much higher than one in a thousand. A multipolar world with 999 well adjusted moral super intelligent AIs for every 1 problem case is a perfectly good outcome.

Bostrom et al are in fact arguing that near 100% of all intelligences will be unaligned by default and end up killing, enslaving, or otherwise neutralizing the entire human race.
I couldn't agree more with you.

I've had a bit of an ant infestation at a house I'm renting temporarily and I've been watching them and seen them do some pretty amazing stuff, intelligent stuff. Such as organize themselves in ways to solve pretty complex problems and even try help other injured or dying ants. These are ants, they're tiny little things.

Then I read the article here about killer wales destroying ships and other things they've learned, also the fact they get depressed when in captivity.

I couldn't agree more with you, and I also think it' why we should me more careful with the harms of our technological progress. It's not up to us alone to decide if we deploy some technology that destroys habitats, we should be equally careful when trying to "fix" habitats that we don't do a lot of harm as well.
Consider storing the data on Backblaze B2 ($0.005/GB/month) and serving content via Cloudflare (egress from B2 to Cloudflare is free through their Bandwidth Alliance).

(No affiliation with either; just a happy customer for a tiny personal project)
It's the wrong question?

This really simplifies down to the issues of how to deal with optional return types in general.

And the answer as far as I can tell is either use a language with adequate support for safe optionals or accept that whatever you do is going to be a compromise with a slightly sharp edge.

A list of length zero or one is sometimes a viable solution, but it's really just a hack sidestepping how long it took us to come up with a better solution than null.
I think his point is that even if we're technically in a simulation, we very likely do not have access to any exterior world.

Thus, in some sense, this is base reality "by definition" - that reality beyond which you cannot find anything else.

I don't agree, but it's a reasonable way to think about it (if that is in fact what OP meant).
What’s the real difference between what we think now, and if we knew for a fact we lived on a computer? Still feels real to me. I guess I would just go on with my life, what else could I do?
Insurance should be for actual cost of replacement minus a fixed deductible (by law). As it is, homeowners policies are unlikely to actually allow you to obtain a new home.
What role were they supposed to play? Social media platforms monetize attention and harvest user data.

I think they have mostly succeeded judging by the large number of people addicted to social media, or believing they have to use social media to stay relevant.
Does he still complain on twitter about women not finding his fedora attractive?
That's the chilling effect in action and the reason why mass surveillance policies are so undemocratic.
It was a war done because Cheney and Rumsfeld hated Hussein and justified it with bullshit aspirational nonsense that didn't work. It was out of charity in the same way communist revolutions are, and in practice it was an atrocity.
Productivity based on using speed is not sustainable.
> You'd then have to dispute a court order to recover it from your employer

That's not how any of this works. A company doesn't just send someone over to the courthouse to speak to the manager and get a court order to garnish some random person's wages over $20 in declined subscription charges. Lol.
As I responded in a sibling comment, this is the point where ChatGPT goes completely off the rails and starts fabricating responses. Temper your awe :)
I’m smarter than my boss, but he’s the one in charge. Why do you expect power to naturally be held by higher intelligence?
People who are really good at one thing are not necessarily good at all the things. Sure, they are likely better than average at a lot of things. But Stephen Hawking being brilliant at physics and sci-coms does not mean he is good at AI futures.
Biden, McCarthy have tentative US debt ceiling deal
I use a mechanical interlock like you have described and I actually prefer it to a more complex ATS. I like simple systems.

But you can, in fact, see when utility power comes back on if you have a "smart meter" - the LCD panel readout is dead/blank during the outage but is active and displaying once the power comes back on.

So we just peek at the meter every once in a while to see if PG&E is back ...
There is a quote from Eliezer in the linked article that I hope he is remembered by, because it's actually quite beautiful:

"Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted."

We should, as a society, offer help to people who are caught in the cynicism trap, because we could still have all those things Eliezer sees as our better selves. We just have to spend more time focusing on being on our better selves and less time giving up on each other.
The real hack is having friends and family in the medical field. You can skip the chicanery of medical “intake” and diagnosis outside highly specialized conditions, get advice without extortionate bills or misaligned incentivizes, and they can help you get appointments with specialists/tell you who’s the best to see, even write you rx’s directly.

I recently had an infection that, due to being geographically isolated from my typical medical network of friends and family, resulted in $1k of bills after insurance for something that was essentially routine and which I would have been able to treat myself if I had the ability to get medicine without an rx.

The general public who don’t have the scientific/medical literacy to self-serve and lack the network to get treatment without going through the formal process are getting fleeced.
The comment was already "dead" (hidden by default for low score) by the time I saw it (I have the "showdead" setting enabled, which enables users to see and second-chance review dead comments in case they think they might be "vouch" worthy) and it's generally not advisable to interact with the content that caused a thread to be flagged/dead here, beyond
the second-chance reviewing. As a note, it takes many flags and downs combined with a lack of vouches and ups for a comment to reach and stay in flagged+dead status. Well, that or a moderator action, but you'll usually get a comment and/or email from them in that case.

In general though, what you say is true - the community guideline is to respond to the strongest plausible interpretation you can come up with and engage with that rather than downvote/flag, if you can. I've found sometimes, if my comment was deaded as being particular poor taste or flagged out as blatantly against guidelines, I might not get any responses as to "why" since many consider it obvious or have a hard time coming up with a constructive way to respond. Sometimes they are right, I look back as simply having woken up on the wrong side of the bed with the problems being truly obvious the next day. Other times, to counter this occasional lack of feedback when it isn't obvious to me, I take to editing (or self-replying if the edit window is closed) a genuine note like "My comment is being taken poorly, could someone take the time to explain why as I didn't mean it to?" often gets genuine responses. You seem to have found that out on your own as well, albeit here in a separate thread, and that's why I apologized for not realizing you were looking for feedback.
There was plenty of discussion of the DNC crowning Hillary. I'm pissed about it to this day. What's your point?
I back up to both rsync and Hetzner. Both have reasonable costs and rsync has given me good long term discounts too without even asking.
The cities are built in flood prone areas, and we got hit with hurricane-level gusts like a dozen times this winter. Also, earthquakes exist.

If you exclude everything in an area with those issues, there will be very little left to insure in California.
If I'm being 100% honest, I haven't seen the movie in more than a decade and I barely remember it, outside of the general "not liking it" feeling.

If it shows up on Netflix or something I might give it another go; it's not rare for me to like a movie more on a second viewing.
That’s exactly the point
What's wrong with Indian working hours?
Yeah that's a good suggestion for that use case. I was thinking a bit more along the lines of 2 other use cases:
1) If you have a file locally and want to send a link to friend/family member (yourself or even some random person on the internet) for a 1TB or 1MB file to download, but for it to be optionally password protected to download.
2) You want to set up a package/script to automatically download a file when started (NN weights for example) and for the download to retrieve like IPFS torrent from everyone who has that file (I.e. is running the package).

The system in (2) works ok for downloading a Dockerfile that points to an IPFS file if you put the link there; however, a considerable number of things don't fit the suggestions in (2), such as not automatically becoming a seeder of that file when downloaded or when running the package. There is also a great amount of opportunity in making the process of uploading files to IPFS much simpler. One example for the code idea would be something like git hooks, such that any time a major version of a git commit was made, a set of files would be added to IPFS for this type of distribution.
Ultimately a 'plug-n-play' package to add in a specified way e.g. setup.py would be the best way to get something like that going. Then perhaps a simple program like synching or miniserve that operates on top of that functionality would allow for something more like (1).
Fair enough! You've definitely given it the college try and I won't criticize that!

Out of curiosity, is there anything in particular about it you didn't like or was it a "just not my thing" kind of thing?
I'll be that guy for a moment.

Extrapolation not interpolation, proceed with downvotes.
Like a good neighbor
“Atlasean task” sounds like a Jira ticket.
This one actually was prescient,

"Data Hunger

As I mentioned earlier, the most effective way we've found to get interesting behavior out of the AIs we actually build is by pouring data into them.

This creates a dynamic that is socially harmful. We're on the point of introducing Orwellian microphones into everybody's house. All that data is going to be centralized and used to train neural networks that will then become better at listening to what we want to do.

But if you think that the road to AI goes down this pathway, you want to maximize the amount of data being collected, and in as raw a form as possible.

It reinforces the idea that we have to retain as much data, and conduct as much surveillance as possible."

Edit: And this one too, "In the near future, the kind of AI and machine learning we have to face is much different than the phantasmagorical AI in Bostrom's book, and poses its own serious problems."
People drink coffee and tea around the world. Where’s the line, really?
> going to great lengths to make life harder for the people digging through trash for a nickel a can.

I hate this bleeding heart crap. As I said before, If they went though it and CLEANED UP after themselves, I woulda turned a blind eye or maybe even set the cans aside in the future. These assholes made me spend my Saturday morning cleaning up trash scattered all over my front yard. You're damn right I'n not going to life a finger to help them.

you ever stop for a second and think that maybe there's a reason no one respects them?

PS: all for expanding the social safety net and creating programs to give people who want a leg up but I have no sympathy for people who Choose to be homeless and be a permanent drain on society. SF already spends more money per capita on homeless than students. enough is enough.
> I don't know what to say, if these are the intellectual references of our brightest minds, makes me terrified that they're all children mentally.

It is part of the fear - human intelligence is extremely limited. That could easily be representative (although to be fair, probably not).

Reasoning about the future is really hard and usually everyone who makes predictions is wrong. So far we've been fine through pretty much every challenge. That being said, "we'll survive this" is a statement that is only false once and this one looks pretty serious. We might be dealing with a world where human intelligence is economically uncompetitive for the first time in recorded history.
It's about the libraries usually, ui lib are all made in c/c++ and those "natives" langage have better integration with it ( ffi ).

For example calling C from Go is doable, but it's not encouraged and sometime a bit slow.

On the other hand Go and Java are trully multi platform and it's well supported and usually easier to do than other native langages.
It wouldn't have been needed. Nor was the one we did have. The huge amount of fear in March 2020 resulted in evidence of that*: Cell phone tracking data in the US showed people were staying home about a week before a single lockdown started. The lockdown orders had no effect, no additional people stopped moving around, and movement started creeping back upwards only a few weeks later while the lockdowns were still in full effect.

*I've looked for this over and over since then and haven't been able to find it, I get the feeling it might have been taken offline.
Tesla superchargers bypass the onboard AC/DC convertor already.
In my experience, I would say most people have problems with exactly this.
They don't even think about the possibility of noise/interpretation in the communication.
and they never stopped to think about it the way you did.
The possibility of a seizure is mentioned.

Here's my crazy guess. He was either constipated with ink or was getting irritated by the parasites sufficiently to panic him into trying to expel them with an ink squirt.
Yep, this is what the system has created. There's little incentive to stay within that career path, and nobody is helped by the fact that healthcare administrators and staff shortages are forcing doctors into 3 minute visitations that establish little to no connection with patients. It leads to so many "my doctors are idiots who couldn't figure out my condition" situations that are rarely caused by lack of education (not that there aren't any closed-minded doctors), but by lack of cohesiveness of the entire system. Healthcare urgently needs to go back to being a continuous process, not a series of tech support tickets.
>due to wildfires and rebuilding costs.

Why are rebuilding costs so much higher in California than other states?
This sounds like a delusionally extreme take, as if there is no in-between or nuance. You're either a victimized superhuman who never gets ill or a chronically ill scumbag with no regard for your health? Hardly realistic at all.
Deductibles are fiction for home owners insurance in California. After each of the recent natural disasters, the permitting departments dragged their feet, causing years of delay before homeowners could rebuild.

At the same time, the disaster created a construction labor shortage, and the price of construction increased 20-30% between the insurance payout and permit approvals.

Stricter regulations are required. In particular, it should be illegal to block permits for equal or improved structures, and the insurance companies should be on the hook for the total cost of reconstruction/buying a new home up to the day the homeowner moves in (minus deductible).
While we're on the subject of whether animals dream at all or not, I'm here wondering if, considering things like aphantasia, there are humans who don't dream.
> For a LLM, it is to generate plausible language.

LLMs are not being sold as delivering only plausible language. Is it the craftsman's fault when the salesman lies?
https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#POST
> Can you prove that?

Yes. One can easily construct a conversation where it is obvious that ChatGPT doesn't understand.
> To that I say - if you're so much smarter than an Octopus, then make yourself look exactly like a rock.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit
Friends and family need to be off the clock too, be respectful if anyone chooses to do this.
> People walked out of their appointments having been told they had a condition they might not have known about before. But those additional diagnoses didn’t seem to save lives. Knowing about a particular condition didn’t, in these studies, correlate with better health outcomes.

Duh...
I am guessing a lot of these diagnoses require lifestyle changes (instead of med) that the patients wont do, e.g. pre-diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity etc

But it would be wrong to say that these visits are a waste.

> Annual physical exams can “do more harm than good”

Key word being "can", one can say this for literally for anything. They chose one bizarre case that led to expensive follow-ups and a bleeding during the procedure. Most annuals likely dont lead to any follow-ups at all. Let alone follow-ups for a possible aortic aneurysm.

> “I'm not sure you need an annual visit to the physician. You're very unlikely to have any serious diseases that haven't shown symptoms.”

A disease does not have to be life threatening to show symptoms and even life threatening diseases (e.g. certain cancers in women) can have no symptoms until you are beyond the point of no return.

Sometime a person has "symptoms" that they think is a part of life and would never go to the doctor for if not for an annual physical. e.g. I personally know people who have had serious vitamin deficiencies found out through annual tests which they got after many years. Their "symptoms" were lack of energy, focus, hair loss, mood swings, sadness etc. Something most people probably wont go to the doctor for. A few months on high potency supplements and their quality of life changed considerably. Would this be classified as a "serious disease"?
Why? What's wrong with Mosfilm?
It's a certain axe to grind that the post-Enlightenment academy has had from the beginning with virtue ethics: if we are to be utilitarian, or act according to the Categorical Imperative, then our duty is to attain omniscient knowledge for our own good. Acting within norms to attain virtue, as Epictetus would have it, is out. The way in which it's out changes according to which norms we want to critique, but the rhetoric of the article follows from there, and it's easy to turn that against the article itself by criticizing the norms it prefers(broadly, post-structural feminism) as a virtue signal.

Wilson has also translated and critiqued Seneca, according to her wiki article. So I would see this writing as the next entry in a career-making exercise.
> no one bashes PG&E

your head is out of the sand for the first time in years and you use your first breath to espouse things you have no clue about lmao
Also coca and khat leaves in different parts of the world.
Sadly, this seems to be the case. Which means we the people, have lost control of our government.
Interesting months coming up, indeed.
The public thought got fixated on the VM style simulation. Consider another idea. The baseline reality is spacetime that can form any configuration with any number of space and time dimensions and everything in between. We live in the 3+1 layer, which doesn't exclude the existence of other 3+1 layers, just like one flat valley doesn't prevent the existence of other valleys. Those who know how to work with that spacetime can create arbitrary worlds, e.g. a toroidal 4+3 world. These world can be connected to each other in strange ways and transition between them may or may not be possible. Some local spacetime can be nested into bigger soacetimes with different configuration.
> If there were a few studies, and it's overwhelmingly successful, why do you think it's difficult to find the results?

The internet is big and I just didn't look for it very long.

> I bet, showing great results on a group of 100 people, would get more investments into this experiment.

You'd think so, but policy is often penny wise and pound foolish. I think the biggest obstacle is that "free money" just doesn't fit in our culture very well (or maybe it just doesn't fit human nature).
I'll admit I don't understand insurance in CA specifically... But I have a decent general knowledge of a lot of insurance concepts from a past partner.

Your naive guesses look to me to be on point.

Another thing to consider, at least in the case of 'Replacement Cost' (What it would cost to build a house with similar features) versus 'Actual Cash Value' (What the house was worth on the market.) In the case of 'Replacement Cost' there is the issue that any changes to code must be factored in (i.e. a house built in 1980, may have wiring/plumbing/etc that had been grandfathered in but could not be approved as a new build today.)

Increased risk of catastrophe is also a result of the root causes of massive losses from wildfires not being addressed at a government level.
The central planners have done it again!
Discussed earlier: State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California[0] (76 points, 92 comments, 12 hours ago[1]) - the OC Register goes into more detail/history than this ABC stub.

[0]: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/26/state-farm-says-no-new...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36094633
> One of the biggest lies in modern society is that voting some how reflect the "will of the people"
So much research proves this to be false, I am surprised people still assert it.

As the joke goes, democracy is the least bad system we have tried.

I’m not sure where you are but there are places that do it better than others, and while shitty situations still occur in the better systems, chucking the baby out with the bath water would be a mistake.

Back to my point though, I can’t see any disagreement with the idea that US voters are picking old senators to represent them. Why is this happening?
If you liked A Hidden Life, you should definitely give Mirror a watch. I think you'd enjoy it!
Same, that's configurable though, and 1mb sounds like nginx. It's a lot higher on many other web servers including Apache.