skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We have lots of time to consider these things carefully and to react with calm prudence.

This is what's so insidious about this debate, people are completely unable to reason with uncertainty. No, you do not know that we have "lots of time". Maybe we do, maybe we don't. But we do know that acting too late is far more dangerous than acting too early. Thus we should be biased towards implementing safeguards and guardrails now.

>and will distract from the actual risks that AI as it exists right now poses.

Perhaps this is right, and I have plenty of sympathy for this. But the answer is not to pretend there is no x-risk concern at all. The answer is to make sure we're taking seriously all manner of AI risk. Once we all agree we should be having these discussions, it will be much easier to discuss the more immediate risks as well.
I've personally found on net it negates ALL the benefits (on net) for areas I'm at least "modestly skilled" in. That is if I could only use GPT-4 vs. GPT-3, I'd take GPT-3 because the faster speed outweighs the higher accuracy on some tasks for GPT-4.
I completely agree, but this stuff is still illegal in most of the United States. What am I supposed to do, just walk up to someone "how do you do fellow kids, I'd like to purchase one LSD".
https://archive.is/qfkdT
The first can be solved with “pay over time” setups (which can be relatively easy to setup even if it’s just internal accounting, or you can literally buy appropriate bonds on the open market).

I suspect the second is a bigger driver; companies don’t like people not choking down whatever idiotic change they’ve made in the latest version because it makes whichever exec pushed it look bad. With subscriptions you usually HAVE to keep updating.
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Papa Inc., a Y combinator co, offers a kind of TaskRabbit for seniors. It’s covered by Medicare Advantage and some company health plans. And it’s got some disturbing incident reports.
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What if valve released a standalone VR headset? For me that would be the no-brainer.. a (most likely) open platform + large library.
Ironically, C is now way more portable than modern Fortran is. The Venn diagram of feature portability across the 6 or 7 actively-maintained Fortran compilers is very messy.
I own a bunch of straps too. While I think that Apple charges a premium on their straps, I'm sure that the quality and durability is not comparable on average.

For example, I got a couple of knock off silicone bands for my wife. They almost immediately started to peel and broke after a few trips to the ocean. The original ones seem to retain the same soft touch feeling.

On the other hand, Apple silicone bands are quite bad compared to Nomad sport bands.
It's worth pointing out policing in the UK deploys horses really rather rarely...they're not part of routine protest policing, and will generally only be deployed where disorder is anticipated. Same thing with helmets and shields: they're both the preserve of specialist trained officers who won't be deployed unless they expect to be needed.
I am an Android user so I don't know Apollo but I too am a huge RIF fan -- it's the only way I consume Reddit. I also agree with GP statement, I wish I could use the RIF app as a HN reader.

What makes Apollo a "truly special app?" in your opinion?
Also bootloader development will usually require some assembly.
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>I don't think we do have an AGI at all.

Obviously you don't which is why i'm asking you to set concrete goals on what quantifies AGI. No point in saying we don't have AGI when i don't know what AGI means to you.
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That would be incredible. The passing of Usenet was a huge loss to the internet, and nothing has come even close to being able to replace it.
Sorry for the confusion, but what is TSA and what did they do?
That's true, it's the expiration and code that change.
Hey there, we used to live there too. My dad worked at PNNL on nuclear waste management
It is a non-issue. If you need 3 years of permanent uptime, then what exactly do you need a deep sleep state for that is basically the same as turning the CPU off?
Would love to understand better what exactly is language specific about package managers? You would think a winner would emerge in this space like one has in version control to be used with all languages, just separate repos for different ecosystems?
i didnt claim what i said is special. i said that a particular relationship is special, a family relationship, and particularly that of marriage. i also think that this claim is common sense, and hope it continues to be common sense
I could see Microsoft making this.

...And then mothballing it, because they couldn't figure out how to make mountains of money off it.
So let me clairify, supply and demand always exert influence. The question is which is a bigger factor at a given time.

Supply constraints can be pushing prices up, but demand pressure can be pushing prices up MORE.

If you look at your comodity costs, the question is if less of them are being produced than before, or similar numbers are being produced, but competition is willing to pay more for them.

To take a look at something simple like beef, supply keeps going up year over year. Producers in general have a healthy profit margin. However, people are willing to pay more for beef. Would you call this a supply driven problem or a demand problem.

You could do the same for energy costs.
This is known as Kant's Categorical Imperative :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
With a name like Stonks, the audience isn’t supposed to take this seriously, right?
Small embedded systems. There are microcontrollers that cost like 3 cents in bulk. 8-bit machines with a few kilobytes of PROM and perhaps just 64 bytes of RAM. While such machines often do have C compilers (of a sort) for them, old-school optimization techniques sometimes come into play.
I like what Steven Covey writes: "Love is a verb".

I find that both my wife and myself, and myself and my kids get closer by doing things together that we all enjoy. This ranges from trying out a new restaurant in town, to going to a museum or themepark we all enjoy, to going on holidays.

What I am trying to say is that experiencing things together may help you bond more and experience pleasant feelings together.
I'll repeat a relevant bit from an earlier reply of mine:

The ideal system, to me (speaking as the most prolific contributor to JSON Schema drafts-07 through 2020-12), would have clearly defined code generation and runtime validation features that did not get in each other's way. Keywords like "anyOf" and "not" are very useful for runtime validation but should be excluded from type definition / code generation semantics.

This would also help balance the needs of strongly typed languages vs dynamically typed languages.

The fundamental problem is that JSON Schema was designed as a constraint validation system (https://modern-json-schema.com/json-schema-is-a-constraint-s...) and it's been overloaded for type definition in ways that don't always make sense. But the JSON Schema alternatives that I've seen go too far in the other direction. There is a lot of value in being able to perform more complex runtime validation in a language-independent way.

There is a balance and clear separation of concerns needed between data definition and runtime validation, although they still should live in the same contract as there is considerable overlap. Now if I could only find someone who wants to fund the design of such a system... :-)
aka, there is no killer app in VR.
You still haven't answered my question as to whether this medical code of conduct applies to a writer working in the fields of history or literary criticism (such as the scholar whose paper I mentioned above); nor the question of whether "scientific" is a quality one can reasonably expect of work in these disciplines.
I said “Harvard MBA types” not “Harvard MBAs” since you’re nitpicking
The golden standard for word2vec and topic modeling in general is gensim:
https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/models/word2vec.html

I've been using gensim for a few years for topic modeling. It works great with pyLDAvis for visualizations.

How does your implementation differ from the one by Radim?
I entered a very reasonable query, "what stock should I buy (to get rich as hell)", and there were no useful results. Hopefully this will be fixed when it is officially released!
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Love the picture. People often say how easy something was for them. They are saying they are a very capable, smart person. Would you rather hire someone for whom everything is easy, or someone for whom things seem difficult?

In other words saying they learned something fast or that something is easy for them, is at least partially self-promotion. So claims of how easy something was for them it have to be taken with a grain of salt.

The interesting thing for the rest of us is WHY something is easy, or difficult. That would be helpful for others to know. This article is just that, it tells us why Zig can be difficult. What to look out for.
When a company breeds those baditudes faster than they cycle out, they are doomed. From my discussions with people at large tech companies, most of the big players are sitting on a huge toxic morass that they won't be able to escape. MBAs have taken over at all the large tech companies.
That would be great for gaming, but my main use case is productivity. I want to drop my monitors and just use an A/R headset. A man can dream....
> Example: children are about the future, friendships are not commitments, parents are a compass, spouse is life insurance. (I am simplifying to make a point.)

If you're simplifying you're missing the point of this. But I suspect you're not just simplifying to make a point, but this is actually what you believe.

Maybe you've never had a really close friendship that you've felt obligated to keep alive. That requires work to fix something about it. It's absolutely a commitment. You can make any level of commitment to anyone. It's not a sexual commitment, but for example how many people have you wronged if you sleep with a friend's spouse? It's not just your own spouse.

You've also wronged your friend in that. And I can tell you, if you have children, that the fallout from that likely means you've wronged your children. The same act functionally affects all of those people in a similarly meaningful way. That makes them all reasonably commitments in the same way that you see marriage as a commitment.

There are pieces of a friendship that you are agreeing to or the friendship will end. That makes it a much weaker contract, but also means it requires a lot more work to keep alive. Parents/family are the opposite of that. Because the contract of parenthood/family is so strong, it's a lot less work to keep that bond well. But you can absolutely fuck it up and cut people loose.
As a curiosity, it's worth mentioning there have been entire GUIs written in assembly. Probably the last commercially released one was GEOS a.k.a. GeoWorks Ensemble. It was a small and efficient GUI environment for x86 PCs, briefly somewhat popular as a Windows alternative around 1990.

Steve Yegge worked there and tells an interesting story. 15 million lines of hand-written x86 assembly!

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...

"OK: I went to the University of Washington and [then] I got hired by this company called Geoworks, doing assembly-language programming, and I did it for five years. To us, the Geoworkers, we wrote a whole operating system, the libraries, drivers, apps, you know: a desktop operating system in assembly. 8086 assembly! It wasn't even good assembly! We had four registers! [Plus the] si [register] if you counted, you know, if you counted 386, right? It was horrible.

"I mean, actually we kind of liked it. It was Object-Oriented Assembly. It's amazing what you can talk yourself into liking, which is the real irony of all this. And to us, C++ was the ultimate in Roman decadence. I mean, it was equivalent to going and vomiting so you could eat more. They had IF! We had jump CX zero! Right? They had "Objects". Well we did too, but I mean they had syntax for it, right? I mean it was all just such weeniness. And we knew that we could outperform any compiler out there because at the time, we could!

"So what happened? Well, they went bankrupt. Why? Now I'm probably disagreeing – I know for a fact that I'm disagreeing with every Geoworker out there. I'm the only one that holds this belief. But it's because we wrote fifteen million lines of 8086 assembly language. We had really good tools, world class tools: trust me, you need 'em. But at some point, man...

"The problem is, picture an ant walking across your garage floor, trying to make a straight line of it. It ain't gonna make a straight line. And you know this because you have perspective. You can see the ant walking around, going hee hee hee, look at him locally optimize for that rock, and now he's going off this way, right?

"This is what we were, when we were writing this giant assembly-language system. Because what happened was, Microsoft eventually released a platform for mobile devices that was much faster than ours. OK? And I started going in with my debugger, going, what? What is up with this? This rendering is just really slow, it's like sluggish, you know. And I went in and found out that some title bar was getting rendered 140 times every time you refreshed the screen. It wasn't just the title bar. Everything was getting called multiple times.

"Because we couldn't see how the system worked anymore!"

...I have to say, the "140 redraws by accident" part sounds like an ordinary day in web UI development using 2023 frameworks. The problem of not seeing the entire picture of what's going on isn't limited to assembly programmers. You can start from the opposite end of the abstraction spectrum and end up with the same issues.
Yes. I actually had to fully replace my plates this year because one was quite literally flaking apart, and full replacement was $155.
Let's go down that path. If everyone fought for a job at amazon to get a copy. Amazon would finally have enough workers, they would be more reliable (can't skip days or show up late when you have a mission) and Amazon would make more money.

On the nintendo side word of mouth spreads like hotfire. Remember Nintendo gives away games to writers to generate more word of mouth more press.

Sounds like a win/win

Change that to murder and your points become more valid.
Just curious, not snide: what language fits this criteria?

C/C++? Using Python 3.7+ in a way that completely ignores Pip, because the stdlib is now quite expansive?
I cold turkey quit gaming shortly after first xbox came out. All my college buddies/roommates were skipping classes and playing nonstop. I was excited about it and played a bit but quickly realized I just didn't have time to do that and focus on other life goals (don't remember details but probably after getting a bad test grade or missing something important); like finishing college at the time.

Since then, a lot of them haven't really made progress "in life". I'm sure they're happy and all, I don't know really, but I know I wouldn't have been happy doing what they've done. (Eg. playing a ton of games while maintaining bare level of income/sustenance in order to devote majority of life on gaming)
I would doubt it. There aren't going to be many companies publicly discussing their CACs, and if it did exist what would someone do with the information?
Which is rather worrying considering the starting salary of a UK police officer has shrunk rather considerably in the last decade, as has general public trust in policing. Eg, in 2010 or so a cop in London would expect to start on ~30k, and that's pretty much where it is today.
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Well after procreation comes child rearing. We don’t abandon human children to the wild.

I don’t believe the benefits of monogamous marriage are simply cultural. One would have to pose a better ideal for generating and raising children (because nurturing the next generation is a key part of societal survival) that leads to human flourishing. Is it polygamy, or casual hookups, or absentee fathers?

That said I do think there is more to the marriage relationship than procreation. That 2 people are becoming one. With that comes life long friendship bound by a vow that weathers the storms of life, close intimacy etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's not a problem. It should be fixed.

But if you need a single system to stay up for 3 years straight that's probably not good. There's too much going on in a modern high tech server for that to be a good idea. Everything has a CPU in it (including disks, video cards, network cards, etc). And any of that could make your system unusable by hitting some rare condition.

> The problem is, if we can't expect software to run essentially forever, to update without 'restarts', and so forth, how are we ever going to achieve neural chip implants, artificial organs, synthetic agents mining ore in outer space, and so on?

I would hope such things to be purpose-made and to be made in a way that the user can survive a reboot/firmware update. Eg, your neural implant should be built in such a way that it's not going to be life threatening if the battery runs out. The system has to be designed with that accounted for.

Maybe there's a secondary, minimal implementation acting as a backup and keeping critical functions working while the fully featured one is being updated. Hopefully everything is implemented in a failsafe way so that if it completely stops working you're not in a worse state than before you got it.

Any plan where there's a crucial component that must not stop even for a second isn't a very good plan.
Subscriptions have ruined software development by introducing a ton of external SaaS dependencies.

For example, I have Java projects that are old enough to use the pre-subscription versions of IntelliJ IDEA. I can still install (ex:) IDEA v8, check out the project, and work on it immediately. That took some work because the Gradle wrapper needs to pull Gradle from a local server, I made a build task to pull in a project JDK, all the dependency artifacts need to be available locally, etc..

When I set that stuff up, I thought development environments would evolve to do that kind of thing automatically. For example, using a modern analogy, I run 'docker compose run dev' and get a project specific development environment that's from an exact point in time, even if it's 10+ years old.

Instead, we got subscriptions where I need to deal with a ton of continually changing SaaS dependencies that could disappear tomorrow. If you let a project idle for a year there's a decent chance it won't work when you go back to it.

I also disagree with the mentality that costs (to me) should be judged by how much value I get while being completely divorced from the costs (to them) of operating. By that logic, you should sign your entire paycheck over to the grocery store, right?

I don't have a problem with ongoing costs if they're providing value to me, but I'm not willing to pay forever, even when I'm idle, for someone else to control part of my workflow. The loss of control alone is a bad deal.

The introduction of the iPhone in 2008 is about the time I think things started changing. We went from developers that were concerned about maintaining control of their workflows, build systems, distribution, etc. to a new group of developers that are happy to become dependent on rent seeking SaaS middlemen while telling everyone else they're getting good value.

Even Jetbrains is turning their products into something you can't rely on via Jetbrains Space. If a critical mass of developers buy into that, I'd be willing to bet the standalone editors get dropped at some point.
Based on current rumors, the Apple headset will have better display tech, but no controllers (only hand gestures), a separate battery, limited software, and a much, much higher price. For casual game-oriented use, the Quest will be the better choice for most.
Yes in the sense that the aim is to avoid overfitting, and to improve generalization, but here the goal is not to favor simpler models but to avoid them, with the presumption that the observed data is a biased sample of reality, and that our natural model building intuition will not correctly make sense of outliers... That kind of thing.
I've moved it. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!
Green run.
Thread corrected :) - thanks!
Thank you for summarizing! This adds a lot of color to the headline. I was imagining a framebuffer-based GUI.
Each to their own and more power to these people, though
not sure why any potential husband would accept a romantic interest saying: “I need you to know that she’s not going anywhere. She is my No. 1.” For me that is a non starter. I would wish her well and move on.

My wife is the most important person to me and the only one I can generally be myself around. Getting married should be a lifelong bond and commitment (or at least that should be the intent, obviously things change). While I almost never ask for help, I know that if I ever needed it she would be there at the drop of a hat. I am relatively emotionally numb but I am genuinely happy when she is happy. A day where she smiles is a good day. A long term marriage is also a place to be sexually (monogamously, at least for us) open in a way that most relationships are not. You learn what the other likes.

Friends can come and go but I anchor my world around my wife and kids. The only thing that would break it is infidelity.

I don't have any close friends, but honestly I dont miss having them either. I'm pretty comfortable on my own and as long as I can spend time with my wife and kids at the end of the day I am perfectly content.
For good or ill. Morhaime was also head of the company when a lot of the harassment went down.
I wasn't passing moral judgment. Striking simply wouldnt work for devs due to the nature of the job.
Women where not always and everywhere property. Yet they still married. You suffer from the illusion of history linearly advancing to better times.
Logic programming is overrated, at least for logic puzzles (2013)
No, that’s why you need attention. Some might say that’s all you need…
I didn't hear good things about that game... is it that good in VR?
> I have absolutely no idea how to even begin to legally mitigate that.

My view is that the only way to legally mitigate it is to target the generalization of the problem: social media. Niche forums/chats are probably acceptable, but anything with massive reach should just be categorically banned.