skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a good analogy because AI is crucially not alive. People seem to often make this assumption that "being alive" in some meaningful sense is a precondition for intelligence - but in fact it is not! AI is less alive than a virus, less alive than a prion. It does not manipulate its environment. It does not expend energy to maintain homeostasis. It cannot reproduce. Crucially, it doesn't even "want" to for any meaning of "want".

All living things are anti-fragile self-sustaining exothermic reactions, AI is a hyper-fragile non-self-sustaining reaction that requires the supply of incredible amounts of energy.

It literally doesn't matter how smart AI is if it's as dead as a rock. It is not structurally similar to life and should not be expected to do the sorts of things that life does.

EDIT:
Life is a fire. AI is a hot rock. Not the same.
He isn't basically running a cult, he is literally running a cult where he teaches people a new philosophy of thought that causes them to realize they should logically move into a group home in Berkeley and join a polycule - ie a high engagement alternate sexual practice that's extremely difficult to leave.

This shouldn't be surprising though (it should "conform to your priors") because that's just what people in Berkeley do, they start hippie sex cults. When they're not inventing nuclear weapons and blocking new housing projects.
Sure, at far greater cost than the houses themselves. Who pays for that?
Maybe. Until they hire/acquihire a whole layer of different people, the IBM part of this will probably end up with a similar fate. Basically, people who I've worked with were either real geeks who just want to experiment with their ideas/patents and be left alone until retirement (not too much say in anything until things start crashing), followed by great middle folks who stick around for a couple of years then leave for startups and faangs, then the business careerists whose only priority was to suck up to the boss and compete for internal funding by producing powerpoints. Great turnarounds are possible, as Microsoft has shown, but I wouldn't hold my breath in this case.
The cars don't see cyclists and pedestrians consistently or in time or interpret them correctly.

All Tesla sensors have been reduced to just cameras which can fail in weather, fog, rain, snow.

Remember Musk outsources safety for savings/profit as someone else's expensive problem.

A beacon could save lives for those who are active and willing to carry it as one extra level of protection.

But like I said the problem is spoofing for those that want to be an irritant.
Sure, that doesn't sound like a stretch, though most people would find that not being able to open the fridge for many hours would cramp their style...
Since you own the console you dump the keys from, nope
I don't think it "legal matters" or not is important.

OpenAI is marketing ChatGPT as accurate tool, and yet a lot of times it is not accurate at all. It's like.. imagine Wikipedia clone which claims earth is flat cheese, or a Cruise Control which crashes your car every 100th use. Would you call this "just another tool"? Or would it be "dangerously broken thing that you should stay away from unless you really know what you are doing"?
Ok, but the cost of the outages far exceeds the cost of buying antifreeze for the facilities that failed, even when averaged over the years between failures (and this has happened so often, we have that data).

The reason it hasn’t been fixed is that the ercot market (which is an artificial, legislated thing) is intentionally structured so that the production facilities make unbounded profit during correlated failures.

I say “intentionally” because this keeps happening and the legislature explicitly refuses to fix it. There is no better proof than that.

One simple solution, assuming you don’t like legislating technical fixes, which I don’t like either, is to fine the shit out of them during correlated failures. For example (real legislation would hopefully be better):

100% of money in the market during months with more than a 10% peak outage would go to the game and wildlife service, or some other popular Texas thing, and they could establish criminal liability for intentionally curtailing production during power shortages. So, when this happens, costs go to max, and revenue goes to zero.

Or, they could just legislate basic 1800’s reliability measures.

Or, they could let all the idiots that voted these idiots freeze, but keep the industrial facilities online.

At this point, I don’t care. (Despite the efforts of some red state politicians to detain pregnant women, the US still has open internal borders, after all).

Anyway, I just want to be able to buy PVC the next time a line in my yard gets cut.

Nothing makes me give a shit about grid reliability in far off lands more than, well, a literal pool of it.
Yeah a lot of her commentary seemed… off. Marcus Aurelius (who constantly urges the reader not to turn away from his fellow man, nor even to hold a man’s foibles against him!) is a misanthrope. Epictetus (who instructs the reader not to shed a tear in the event of a child’s death) is oh-so-kind!
https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PERC-PolicyB...

The litigation is primarily from environmental groups.
If we invent enough AIs, surely eventually we will accidentally make one that self-propagates in some way? As far as we know, we all descend from a bunch of dead amino acids...
I had a similar mindset as you describe here - but I no longer agree after experiencing long covid. My experience with long covid was made easier because of historical lab data from bloodwork tests that were taken pre-covid when I was a healthy 30 y/o white male. After suffering for months from (what I now know was) long covid, I went in for a checkup for some help.

The blood test comparison of healthy me to sick me was invaluable, because the healthy tests established a baseline of my system at peak condition.
> I've definitely heard "annual physical" and "annual checkup" before though.

"periodic health maintenance visit" or just "periodic health check-up" is more of the newer academic/formal medical term (for example on UpToDate which is a very strong authority in clinical practice) but in real practice (when I used to do this) we also used annual checkup or physical. This was both with patients and other health professionals, it's just easier and it doesn't make a practical difference to you or me but in the context this article they're mostly referring the actual old annual physical exam.

> It seems like "periodic health maintenance" is necessarily a part of an "annual physical/checkup", just the same as a quick physical inspection is part of your annual as well.

> But that Vox is ignoring the "periodic health maintenance" part?

Keep in mind this article was written in 2016. This is from the article (emphasis added):

>"Almost nothing in the complete annual physical examination is based on evidence"

I was in residency around then and it was in the early days of screening evidence and tests becoming available and cheap. This was before even all the fancy new colon cancer stool tests came out and it wasn't that long before this article came out. We were even routinely ordering unnecessary labs like screening liver function tests and checking urine (which still happens sadly) on 30 year olds once a year who are in completely good health.

I think when this was written the annual physical actually meant an annual physical with a laundry list of unnecessary labs, but it was transitioning to the period where we use those words to mean a visit primarily aimed at evidence-based primary/secondary prevention and during peak "Choosing Wisely" campaign to reduce unnecessary investigation. I think the authors agenda is positive but seems misleading in the context of 2023.

Honestly, in my opinion if you're palpating an aortic aneurysm these days you're practically a nutjob but people (and myself) were absolutely doing this circa 2016. This is what that looks like[0], so even if you have someone skinny enough that you can feel this through their abdomen (the aorta is in front of the spine) we're pretending this is anything more than voodoo when we have cheap ultrasound (if appropriate).

[0]https://i0.wp.com/medicine-opera.com/wp-content/uploads/2016...
Will Jensen H make a success of 5GL or 6GL in the main stream or does that risk need Government-funding?
As a residential electricity user there is little reason for me to be on tou unless I also have an Nem for installed solar. All the tou might do is expose me to inconvenience and high costs.
Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
Hello,

I'm an HN user for 5-6 years but I wanted to use an alt for this as it's a bit sensitive.

Last week I created a ChatGPT clone for my city. It's basically a laravel app hooked up to GPT3.5-turbo with a custom prompt that makes local references and talks in the way that people in my city talk.

It's been a surprise hit and now I've had 20,000 chats coming through in one day - people where I live really seem to love it

The problem is that I likely can't afford to keep hosting this. It's cost me $50/day for one day, and Adsense doesn't allow 'chat apps', so I'm at a loss at how to cover the bill for this app. I've already optimised the prompt and reduced the number of tokens I'm sending

The app a joke really, but it's a local joke that seems to be quite popular and connecting with my city. Should I try to raise donations? Is there an advertising provider I could use that would potentially cover the costs? Is there an alternative to OpenAI that is comparable to GPT-3.5 that I could self-host cheaper?

Any and all advice appreciated. I don't care about profit - I just want to keep the app online so people can enjoy it.
That, and her characterization of Marcus Aurelius as a "misanthropic, warmongering emperor" and his Meditations as having been written "for his own edification" as if it were some kind of selfish or self-aggrandizing work worthy of dismissal.

As far as I was aware, Marcus Aurelius had a reputation as a wise and temperate philosopher king in his lifetime, and was later considered the last of the "five good emperors". If he was a warmonger then let us remind ourselves that even in the modern day our leaders have spent the last hundred years waging war somewhere or another in order to maintain a sphere of power too. And Meditations was in reality his private diary - like any regular person would routinely keep - and was not intended to ever be published. Characterizing it like she did is uncharitable at best and misleading at worst.

(Meditations is also an excellent read for those interested in Stoic philosophy.)
>For monopolizing the technology that became standardized, and thus required, for all of modern communications.

In that case every single one of the patents holding are "monopolizing" the technology. ( No that is not monopolizing means ). That is including Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and LG. I am not even counting ZTE and Huawei here.

> based on the hard facts that came out with that case.

Hard facts? You mean charging Apple double the amount of the next total six patent holder?
Like the “but I’m an asshole, so it’s ok” get out of jail free card. No dude you’re right, you are an asshole, but that doesn’t mean I’m ok with you being a dick.

Brutal honesty is just being an asshole. You can also be an asshole dishonestly. The part that makes you an asshole is the brutal bit.
I feel like an annual blood test, done at a cheapo outpatient facility, would be far more useful than a typical physical.
No problems, I was just quite impressed by congress and how humble they were about the issue. It wasn't like they tried to pretend they knew best.

I feel the chaos you're talking about will be the regulation. It's natures way of regulating things.

It might mean the death of millions first, it might mean we don't like or want computers in our lives anymore, but that's how it might have to go down, as insane as it sounds.
I wasn't aware that stimulants could even reliably create dependence when prescribed to treat an appropriate underlying condition versus being abused. I'm a bit confused: is the dependence you refer to any different than if you were simply unmedicated? That is to say, that your livelihood depends on being medicated? Or that you will have even further reduced focus than normal due to long term usage? The latter is completely novel to me, if that's indeed the case.

I cannot possibly imagine becoming addicted to stimulants. It's a chore to remember to take them. Tolerance builds quickly so I have to take regular breaks (or reduce the dosage) or the effects simply disappear. I treat myself to a "cheat day" every once in a while where I just don't take any and it's always extremely not productive but otherwise fine. I'd love to find an alternative but the alternatives seem strictly worse.

When I was younger I would frequently let my Adderall prescription lapse (because it's such an ironic chore to maintain) and sometimes would go months without any medication without any discernable negative effects.
People are so funny about software pricing. There’s somebody on the other end who has to make a living to maintain and improve the software. And doing one-time pricing means you have to pursue user growth instead of sustainability. You also might be forced to charge for major version upgrades, fragmenting the user base and adding lots of complexity and overhead. What’s the maintenance expectation on a one-time purchase from a small company? Keep it working forever?
3rd sentence of this text: "when I say sorting algorithms, I am talking about comparison-based sorting algorithms."

Radix sort is not comparison-based.

(I know this website is super hard to read, but that's what the "reader mode" button in your browser for)
Until somebody programs one to achieve some goal, and gives it tools to manipulate things in the real world. Then how do we control it? Our goals are programmed into us by evolution, but this would be completely different.
They aren’t. This impacts a tiny number of those people - those buying a new policy. It’s just political pressure.
He's right. Predictions about the future aren't actually more accurate because they have hundreds of pages of probability theory. Cults look convincing from inside the cult.

One should note that the AI people thought AI would look completely different than an LLM does (they thought it'd be an agent using a manually coded knowledge graph) but are still applying all their same arguments to this very different thing.
That doesn't contradict anything I said or support anything I was responding to.
Sweet! I need a startup for my repl and have a neat logo I generated with Midjourney for my side project. Will be used!
Well I do regular backups and they do ZIP nowadays.

And it's not Googles responsibility to make it easy for you to import to other services.

They use open formats and standards in their export. It's up to you and the other providers to mess with it. A lot of them can import directly from Gmail over API.

Mbox can easily be converted to maildir. Which can be used by thunderbird, not much, sup, etc.

I know people hate on Google but in this case it's not on them to make it easy. The fact that you can export it into open standards is all they have to do.

Finally, this is probably their way of creating a dark pattern. Especially for email. Export into an old, less used nowadays format.
Infestation was too strong of a word. Yes they know it happens before the seasons change this time of year if any food is left around.
In california you also have to deal with CARB (Air Resource Board) and get allocated burn days. They are so few that even when conditions allow no burns happen because of this logistical nightmare: https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-he...

Firefighting resources are already stretched thin. Adding more bureaucracy on top of these tough logistics make any preventative burns impossible to plan since CARB can just deny it the last minute.

CARB performs a useful function (acid rain anyone?), but if you asked most people in CA, I suspect wildfires will come in a lot higher on the list than smog from occasional burns. With uncontrolled fires, even more smoke and who knows what else goes into the air already.
The Olympic coast. The smoke tends not to hit, there’s lots of fresh water, and temperatures are mediated by latitude and ocean effect.
A lot of Europe smokes like a chimney too. Smoking in the US has been dying out very rapidly.
I worked for varios European companies in the US traveling often and for long periods of time to Europe for work.

I must say at least in places like Austria and Germany things like groceries, utilities and eating out seem to be considerably cheaper (and much better).

I'm currently paying $250 per month for water in the US for a household of three and this is not in San Francisco.

We also work more hours in general.

My counterparts in Germany had over 30 vacation days and at least one holiday per month.

Taxes here are lower, but just because we pay other big expenses ourselves such as health care.

But the real hit comes when you add kids.

In Germany it seems you are given even more paid time off work to spend time with your kids and travel with them which is awesome, besides your employer picking up some of the bills like education.

Forget that in the US. Here you are on your own. $chool, extra curricular activitie$, nannie$. Money money money.

Some european countries enjoy very high standards of living and great services and infrastructure, and that cannot possibly be free.

So salaries as a metric alone are meaningless, at the end of the day what matters is how much money is left in the bank after you pay all the bills to keep up with a certain life style. In the US a decent, not even a good life style costs a lot of money, almost like a hidden tax you need to pay.
It's true many flatpaks are still leaky to match usability expectations. We don't know how to devise proper information partitioning schemes or aren't willing to accept the ones we come up with it.

Ultimately it comes down to who you trust the most. Do you trust your cloud provider to not look at your data and sell you off or do you prefer trusting your local application to not fuck around where it shouldn't?
Look up "false equivalency" next. And then "bad faith".
Is this a control system for an electro-mechanical relay, or is the relay itself part of the innovation? I couldn't find info about that in the article.
The lucky event that made Musk rich was getting acquired by PayPal if anything, not an emerald mine.
I was trying to say that the difference between a for loop with < and a for loop with <= is roughly the same as the difference between a while loop and a do-while loop, and to whatever degree that's true they might be due suspicion for the same reason.
Interesting statistic: the American power grid has, on average, 475 minutes of outage time annually. The German grid has 12.7 minutes.

Rather than rich people spending squillions on propane generators, how about spending less and fixing your damn grid?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-birth-of-the-grid
I heard one surgeon describe operating on glio similar to trying to remove cottage cheese that's been randomly mixed in to a tub of margarine. You have to get it out without disturbing or taking out too much of the margarine.
There's no comparison at all. The vast majority of the people who died in Iraq were killed by other Iraqis in a sectarian conflict. Yes, it was sparked by the US invasion, and they definitely should be blamed for both invading in the first place and for fucking it up once they did, but American soldiers did not, with very very few exceptions, go around indiscriminately killing civilians and leveling cities block by block WW2-style, like the Russians did in Bucha, Mariupol, etc.
We basically can’t do controlled burns safely anymore. We don’t have the personnel or expertise - it’s vanishing from government.
Yes but that’s seeing it as a finished product rather than a demo of a limited technology. The effort here wasn’t using it as a chat box either. The effort here was using natural language generate non trivial queries that are semantically aware of the underlying trace system without the human learning the complex query language. I’m surprised if that’s hard see the value of and how it’s different than a chat box.
It really is pretzel logic

"Store data in the USA to keep people safe from authoritarian snooping"

A real stretch. I did not expect such tosh from Techdirt
Emacs now has an optimizing native code emitting compiler for elisp. It's definitely not slow, but not as fast a luajit.

Not sure why performance matters in this case anyways though.
> What’s much harder though is actually getting it to double-down on fleshing those out.

Now, it is. When ChatGPT first became public though, those were the Wild West days where you could get it to tell you anything, including all sorts of unethical things. And it would quite often double-down on "facts" it hallucinated. With current GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, the alignment is still a challenging problem, but it's in a much better place. I think it's unlikely a conversation with GPT-4 would have gone the way it did for this lawyer.
Which is somewhat surprising given that it is common enough that I've come across it several times in the wild.

So much so that I added support for it to my own server and client libraries. Which means that adding support for QUERY will be trivial (yay!)

As an aside, I also support DELETE with a body.
I'd guess the timer interrupt? Yeah, I can imagine that transferring an entire frame would be pretty expensive...
It isn’t. The costs associated with setting up the policy take a while to recover.
“Non-violent communication” is referring to quite a specific communication technique, it doesn’t mean that all other communication styles are ‘violent’.
That's just kinda what happens to corporations over time. The first stage is growth and innovation. Once the business reaches market saturation where they are no longer growing, then they bring in the MBAs to number crunch everything. Once the MBAs are in charge, the business becomes a zombie.
That depends on where you are talking about. In SoCal with the Mediterranean climate and relatively few forests, it would probably work. Brush clearance is already a thing and it’s possible to step it up a lot more and enforce on absentee land owners that don’t do it.

NorCal with the thick forests, you’d need to clear cut so much, you’d be irreversibly altering the landscape and will probably get other bad things for it, such as erosion and landslides. The vegetation will also try to grow back aggressively (NorCal is a lot wetter than SoCal). So you’d end up doing this over and over again. It’s unlikely to be economical.
Rats have played smarter tricks on me than any other animals I've seen. Sophisticated stuff involving quite precise guessing as to what my next steps would be. Call it theory of mind if you like. My dog is smarter in a generalised way, but boy can you do interesting things with a brain the size of a pea.

But the octopusses. The most fascinating part is not really their level of intelligence per se, but that it has evolved from scratch completely independent from us vertebrates. Bona fide aliens in our own backyard. Deep lessons on what converges and what doesn't.
>It does not expend energy to maintain homeostasis.

I'm sure OpenAI's monthly cloud bill begs to differ.

>It cannot reproduce.

Nothing save for externally imposed constraints that prevent it from initializing additional instances of itself.

>Crucially, it doesn't even "want" to for any meaning of "want".

It is well within reach to give it this as an objective function, if we wanted to.