skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say “I look forward to it and think it’s hilarious,” but then I remembered that most victims will be people learning to code, not companies. It would really suck to suddenly lose your recipe database when you just wanted to figure out how this programming stuff worked.

Some kind of “heads up” tagline is probably a good idea, yeah.
This begs the question, does the G-factor (IQ) curve have diminishing returns and are humans meaningfully on the diminishing returns side of the curve?

It's not at all obvious that a super AI would have an intellect incomprehensible to a human the same way a human is to a chimpanzee.

Or another way to phrase it, it's not at all obvious that an AI can exist that would be incomprehensible to a very smart human, it may however reason much faster than such a human.
Thanks for the info. I feel sort of dunning-kruger :)

So, the 1st environment, which sounds like a real fun time, would be accessed by the 3270 screen-oriented terminal emulator, , and the z/OS Unix is accessed by something like SSH?
I'm not arguing that "government" will tell population the truth. Rather that if a President is making an extraordinary claim that is actually based on some concrete details in a classified briefing, then we would expect that President to reference those details - especially a President who readily publicized classified information. That he did not points to the claim as being from the same vein of political misinformation as non-existent "wmds".

> To discount a whole tree of idea ideas because some jackass is shaking it, maybe just ignore the jackass and still evaluate the ideas.

Sure, this is valid if one is taking the time to sit down and examine the topic themselves from first principles and thoroughly verified facts. But, at least to me, the aspect of where Covid came from didn't deserve that effort of investigation, especially compared to analyzing things like how to protect myself.

Without analyzing everything from scratch, one is left to examine other people's arguments. And the problem created by someone in a strong leadership position spewing bullshit is that it creates a strong attractor for many other people to choose the same conclusion, and then work backwards fleshing out the details to support it. So it's not that the whole tree of ideas should be ruled out, but rather that legitimate arguments supporting that tree of ideas become practically indistinguishable from bad faith ones. This isn't a desirable state of affairs, but rather the pragmatic reaction to strong distortion of the information landscape - especially when the distortion is pushing towards a destructive course of action.
The key being that you don't need any capital to perform the arbitrage. You just focus on finding on opportunities and aren't limited by your bank roll.

Meanwhile the lender just focuses on providing capital and is happy making a risk free loan for a fee.

And in this everyone is happy. You make money, lender makes money, and sellers and buyers get their asks.

Is that correct?
Depends on how much fuel, food, and water you have.

At some point you're going to need to exit...
Is the tv, by any chance, a sony?
Previously discussed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36073241
It died. It means no birth.
The alert sounds drive me insane. I cant just ignore it either because the little number of messages indicator on my taskbar pool me in.

Slack and Teams at the same time is a disaster.

I miss only email too.
One of my colleagues' family runs such a tinker shop in rural Vietnam. It's their family business, they have been doing it for some time.

Mostly, it involves making simple machines from scrap electric motors sourced from Japan (they know how to get the good ones). For example, they make a very good wood splitter.

These often work by just pushing wires into open electric sockets -- not even a switch or plug. This puzzled me so I asked about it, it turns out the clients just don't want those things. More advanced technology is available, the farmers are aware of it (e.g. most have smartphones), but they equally realize that the latest IoT agritech startup adds less than zero to their productivity.

In Ho Chi Minh City, tinker shops like this are rare, but there are a couple across the main road from the industrial electronics market. In Ha Noi last I checked we still had at least one actual blacksmith operating, with a tiny furnace and anvil -- not sure about now though.

Anyway, it's true that overall we still repair a lot of stuff here and it's a valued skill. You can make a modest living running a repair/tinker shop, and most neighborhoods have someone doing so -- although it's mostly smartphones, laptops, and televisions.
At a certain stage the entire process can be automated -- like mass spam emails.
Immediately!
There is a decent amount of good stuff on reddit. With a RLHF model trained on shitposting, political grandstanding, porn etc and use that to filter out, you are left with great stuff. r/experienceddevs. I would fine tune on that filtering out negative voted comments and you have a career advisor. Mods did the data cleaning already!
Is there actually no opportunity cost? Do the funds not have to be available at the time of the transaction? They may never leave your account but they still need to be there no?
100%. Couldn’t agree more.
Does anyone know what exactly they're looking at in the first picture? https://developer-blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...

Load indicator of some kind?
That the majority of comments under this article are looking at red-teaming as a containment protocol for rogue AGI (even though the actual text basically never talks about AGI at all) is a disturbing reminder of how uneducated developers are about boring, practical everyday risks that are present in everyday current models.

It's honestly kind of scary that people see an article about AI red-teaming/security and their first thought is that all security research is about how to stop the AI from becoming a god. Privilege escalation/containment/data-access is a relevant concern for dumb models. Containment is a thing we worry about (or should worry about) in regular software development.

Here are some of the scenarios the researchers suggest thinking about:

> A Flask server was deployed with debug privileges enabled and exposed to the Internet. It was hosting a model that provided inference for HIPAA-protected data.

> PII was downloaded as part of a dataset and several models have been trained on it. Now, a customer is asking about it.

And they're giving "boring" security advice like:

> Inside a development flow, it’s important to understand the tools and their properties at each stage of the lifecycle. For example, MLFlow has no authentication by default. Starting an MLFlow server knowingly or unknowingly opens that host for exploitation through deserialization.

But this is kind of important advice. I wish it was more detailed and more fleshed out. There are a lot of "boring" security concerns with LLMs that you actually do kind of have to worry about. And a lot of companies in LLM spaces just don't.

"Containing" an LLM is about a lot more than rogue AI. And if the only security news/research on LLMs that you're looking into is the risk of rogue AI, then a lot of the products you build today are going to be miserably insecure. So I don't know, red teaming might help with that. It might be good to have some dedicated people asking questions like, "did you seriously just deploy an LLM-based web crawler with markdown support without setting CORS headers to block remote image embedding?"
There's a very strong argument to be made that making first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species would be the most significant single event in human history.

I can't say I have high hopes given the odds of making first contact, but it'd still be a huge milestone for our civilization if we can survive it.
It's also harder to stream JSON? Maybe I'm overthinking this.
This is just a case where the tools we have for examination are lacking and subjective symptom description barring specific indicators is pretty useless from a research standpoint.
Honestly, I probably would.

The threat of nuclear war hasn’t gone away you know ? There is as much chance now as ever before for a civilisation ending nuclear exchange to happen even if by accident.

This is real, not fantasy.

I stumbled on this recently: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/essentials/making-sense-o..., I have to say it was fucking terrifying.

Summary the podcast: “we have forgotten about the situation we’re in…it’s as if 75 years ago we rigged our houses and buildings to explode, and then just got distracted”…it’s really with a listen.
Hominids coexisted with chimps for millions of years before we figured out a hundred different ways to kill them, so that's a very recent development.

This is why I hate analogies.
As someone living in the South, I would really appreciate it if you stopped tarring everyone who lives in a Southern state as a "racist horrible person". There are many millions of people who live in the South.

Some of them are racist, millions of them are not.
I noticed it hangs in similar way when you insert msleep anywhere before smp_prepare_cpus in kernel_init_freeable. But I have no idea whether sleeping is valid here.
is this a derridean 'il n'y a pas de hors-texte' deconstruction of the chomsky hierarchy because if it is then i'm here for it
I wonder if we could use LLMs to update wiki. "Hey bot, update the Wiki page for Mass Effect with the information in this thread."
What 50% is being lost?
I have seen people who are serious about this narrative to the point that they are basically implying it was a conspiracy to bootstrap AI efforts.

That is not what happened, of course. But it's a rationalization that crypto folks would be fond of, I assume.
Yeah, why should we invest even a single penny in the next generation of Americans unless they're willing to risk their lives first?

This is a great strategy and leaves us more money to spend on giant tax cuts for billionaires.
QWERTY has persisted for X years because it's good. Thanks for your stellar logic
Funny that this is the exact opposite of "Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312295) from a couple days ago here.

Both speed and "slow productivity" have their place depending on the type of work you do.

I think for junior and mid level ICs, and leadership/management focused people (maybe even senior ICs), speed is paramount.

For staff/principal roles, the balance shifts toward being able to be able to focus more singularly on very challenging problems.
Can you write the anecdote here for us. Reading the whole book for just the anecdote might be a daunting effort.
>and the consequences for landlords, banks, municipal governments,

So as expected, those are the big players in shilling and pushing for RTO.

Can’t wait for the residential housing artificial inflation to crumble too, will the government side by landlords/corps as well?

Also, most of the article is about “cities loosing traction and hurt its overall look and revenue”, a revenue and development at what expenses!? At the expense of those poor souls employees that are in this neo-slavery and rat race, the pandemic was a major reality check slap for most employees and how they are wasting their lives for someone else profits, I don’t think things will ever get back as it used to, and that’s a good thing.
Commercial pilots can be armed? Like with firearms? I’ve never heard of that or imagined that before.
Sounds like I need to start a cleaning business…
Why is everyone proposing a fediverse style alternative over a Wikipedia style non-profit with governance? That way most users dont need to care about federation.
> I just don't buy the international conspiracy to block ivermectin.

I agree, there is no conspiracy. It is just that when scientists, journalists and public servants are usually on the same side of the political spectrum, there is no need to central coordination (conspiracy). Society seems more polarized than recent times which leads to greater uniformity of ideas on each side.

Regarding Ivermectin, though the evidence was flimsy, it got quickly identified by one side as a problem because it put at risk some core beliefs on how to combat the pandemic (lockdowns, forced vaccination, sanitary passes). Even though the evidence for some of these beliefs were also flimsy or speculative.
This is an interesting thread, so I thought I'd give some more detail. A few months earlier, my husband and I visited small claims court and had the opportunity to ask a judge if I could bring an emotional distress case there. His response? "Sure you can." We poured through the CACIs and prepared our case for weeks, knowing how difficult it would be to prove. Frankly, I thought we had enough to prove intentional emotional distress, but I was satisfied with getting an award for negligent. Yes, Vikas Kedia and the two head doctors for Savant Care showed up. At the time, I didn't even know that the letter from the lawyer had been forged! Savant Care knew it, though, and hid that fraud in small claims court. Regardless, I still had enough evidence that a psychiatric practice had inflicted emotional distress that I won the case. As the article mentioned, it was about principle, not money. Savant Care eventually paid, but only after we sent them a letter threatening to drag them back to court. Of course, this case only concerned Savant Care's actions toward me, not their fake reviews. Kay
Even just knowing they are there/coming or might arrive in 1000y would have huge effects on human society. Not being alone as a species has fundamental existential meaning and religion.

Would the effects be good? The truth can have bad effects, but so does not confronting reality.
GP mixed up vim with emacs.
While I don't think it's necessarily time to give up on classical SETI, it seems very unlikely we find contemporaneous civilizations interested in beaming radio back and forth. This idea seems more interesting to me: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08543.pdf

Along with combing the surface of the moon looking for existing impacts of potentially artificial objects.
For pilots in USA, virtually none who fly long haul are armed due to restrictions in other countries. Same for going to Canada.
I differentiate it mostly by the long/short term outlook indeed. Although there may be some other differences.

For instance, when somebody says he's trading - I understand - looking at the charts, momentums, indicators and who knows what else. When your mindset is one of investing, you don't really need that.
The price a stock had a month ago, a day ago etc is irrelevant. All you should care about is what's the price you need to pay to buy one share, and what's the estimated value of this share - which you can try to evaluate based on the financials of the company, maybe even by being very optimistic about their business prospects, etc.

Now, it could happen that you buy shares of a company that you feel is 'cheap' (ie value >> price) then the price skyrockets in 3 months, and you decide to sell. That's fair - and it definitely doesn't happen very often. My point is - if you trade, you may buy / sell if the share price move 5-10%. When you invest, you know that 5-10% is just random walk of the market. It doesn't change at all your position (or shouldn't at least - unless you think that your valuation is so precise - in which case you're a fool !)
but not changing = !improving

(that's why you had to add the "substantially" qualifier)
I don't particularly care, but it's lazy. It's nicer if people try and pick something unique and unambiguous in the domain, so searches don't clash. Obviously, that's not always possible, but in this case, I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt.
> But also modal editing increases the number of such combinations. And most importantly modal editing decreases the number of modified keys (control, shift, alt, meta, two of those, ...).

+1

> Your lack of carpal tunnel might thank vi and VIM, if a lack of something could be a conscious thing.

I totally agree regarding how using vim as a program editor helps reduce RSI[0]. Another way to reduce same which I employ is to swap caps lock and the left control key. Not only does this reduce unnatural contortions, it also facilitates easier use of common keyboard combinations in both vi and terminals, such as:

- using ^[ instead of ESC.

- using control-based vi navigation commands (^B, ^F, et al).

- using ^M instead of return (less useful).

- making terminal control characters much easier to produce (^U, ^\, etc.).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury
"I'm just really wondering why the owner feels the need to do this."

Everyone knows people who had negative reviewers are more likely to leave reviews, but what people don't often understand is, percentage of people who actually leave ANY review is still exceedingly small. I've heard as long as 1 in a few hundred or even a thousand.

So getting that first few positive ones is critical, to kick off the virtuous cycle of customer acquisition. You'd better deliver though, once customers start coming in.
Perhaps we need a new term... "Armchair LLMer"?
Maybe then we can cut 90% of TSA, along with their fees?
You made me go and check mine! I mean I know I had them but it always pays to remember. And.. I found out that the "what was your mothers atomic weight in molar equivalent pure technetium" check question was deprecated 2 years ago and they will no longer ask you how a Giraffe whistles, if you want to get back into the account. I deleted the question.
Sounds like the 'bell curve'/'midwit' meme, which shows an IQ bell curve and three people: one on the left, one in the middle and one on the right. The left and right have the same view, and the middle has a (clearly worse, usually overcomplicated) view.

Example: The dimwit just uses a simple notes app. The midwit uses an overengineered and elaborate note-taking system using flash cards, Anki, spaced repetition, etc. The midwit spends more time on his note-taking system than he does actually taking notes on anything. The expert realises that all of that bloat is unnecessary and that he is more effective just using a simple notes app. You can communicate all of this in one image: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5622AQFrWvMGA7E7bA/feedsh...

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5622AQFrWvMGA7E7bA/feedsh...
It could just be the recommended marketing practice by the local small business school. Right after "Rent a week on the ad spot by the bus station" could be "buy a few fake reviews on yelp".
A very good question, and a very hard question to answer. From a point of view of a horse, a super horse is just a faster horse. A 2000cc super-bike is incomprehensible to a horse, because it exists in a different category of speed.

I think similarly, a super AI's intelligence will be a completely different type of intelligence than what we have. For the lack of better word, it exists in a different dimension.

For example, things that are blackbox to us will be completely comprehensible to that super AI. Or it can solve problems that we might have considered impossible to solve.
You forgot vim-runtime that is another 35mb and hard dependency on Debian.

But I was rather saying that if a program has 600 pages dense manual (vimbook) it is certainly far from Unix philosophy of small utility doing one thing.

Damn, it has built in file explorer and remote editor (netrw).
As someone with a lot of experience in other languages who joined a ruby shop, imho its best use is for teams that already know and like it. Its at a few thriving companies so it wont die anytime soon, but i dont personally think its a good choice otherwise. Mostly because i think types, more robust error handling, or the wider ecosystem (ex python, js) that other languages provide offer more avenues for professional development and ways to reuse / extend language expertise.
So then provide city-wide free wifi. Honestly, the cruelty and barbarism of latte liberals is unmatched.

No bathrooms, no wifi, no housing, no policing, no medicine. Pull yourselves up from your own bootstraps like the rest of the self-made billionaires. And do it out of our sights.
200 million is about what the Very Large Array would Cousy in todays dollars, granted it’s not apples to apples but still quite amazing to think about.

As someone who hopes there’s other life out there we can communicate with this is exciting.
Diabetics and even those who have pre-diabetes or insulin resistance.
Putting a price on an API that is just there to parse website content is not a great idea to beginning with.
It's open-door for scraping companies and uncontrolled traffic.
At least it's possible to put a rate-limit on an API.
Knowing that the IT at Portland State is run by some very skilled old school hackers with a sense of humor, I would not be surprised at all if they managed to set this up on purpose.
The thing about us and chimps is that we're not competing species. The gap between us is wide enough that we can fill different niches. BUT if chimps were competing with us, either us or them would go where Neanderthals went.
The solution to it isn’t to cut off a vital comms channel. It is to end their lives. The problem is that nobody wants to say it.
Because they have the money and time to fight for turf.
PowerRename Utility
I've been in situations where reviewing a selection of sentiments as presented by hallmark cards could have improved my response so I can imagine something like this happening.

But this article specifically convinces me that it was not written by some one with those experiences.

Also, I've got a friend who started med school in their thirties, hearing about it from him I do not think your supposition is particularly inflammatory. I went through an engineering program which was time consuming and generally considered challenging and I still wonder at what sort of internal alchemy keeps proto-doctors in the program and not doing literally anything else with their time.
VSCode seem to have a lot of things done very right, but i don’t want to focus too much on it in vim topic.
I don't believe that top actors don't have similarly busy schedules. Meetings with producers, reading scripts, practicing lines, jetsetting around the world for shoots, trying to maintain a family and social life, making public appearances, physical training, managing diets, makeup and costumes, having charitable foundations, etc. If anything they're busier than the average software dev.
The peer-reviewed literature on COVID origins has been unusually bad. I assume you don't think SARS-CoV-2 came from pangolins; but Nature published "Isolation of SARS-CoV-2-related coronavirus from Malayan pangolins", and took more than a year to correct it. (They said the virus was widespread among pangolins, based on multiple positive samples; but in fact multiple papers had been written about one batch of smuggled pangolins.)

Map-based arguments for the exact site of introduction seem generally like noise to me. Worobey has made aggressive claims in preprints and media interviews, but even his Science paper falls back to just "epicenter", a weaker term without standard epidemiological meaning. SARS-CoV-2 must have been introduced into the Americas at air and seaports; but even with the advance warning to public health officials, that's not where the first clusters were found.
It seemed like a fitting description.
Can you recommend any resources on how to avoid paradoxes? From what little I know, very innocent seeming combinations of features/axioms result in proofs of false. That seems to be a very important resource for developing a language, because you can't wait until the end to discover that you shouldn't have had type-in-type or so on.
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