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We didn't break Microsoft up when we had the chance to and it cost us modern computing at a retail level. When the only other viable option is an incredibly expensive machine that comes with a different OS or a free version of an OS that relies on contributions and donations to maintain, there isn't any direction to go but down.

Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple.
Only after I witnessed how people treat my nephew, I realized how much I suffered from alcoholism of my father. I ended up with severe insomnia, depression, anxiety - disabled. Zero productivity. It is effortless for me to avoid alcohol. I don't mind having 'one' drink when people invite me, but I don't need it. Second last time I saw my father, before he died, it was so heart breaking that I almost collapsed on the ground from mental shock of just seeing him. Yes, alcohol is bad. But most people don't know why or how bad it is. Cheers.
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Rules? That sounds like a kind of Honor Rule since it seems impossible to enforce. I think it’s better to play with a time limit instead in order to make aids impractical. Of course in a duel or something you can just start the countdown after the first guess is made.
I'm curious on the data for the places with heavier alcohol prohibition. In particular, my understanding to date has been that the US is one of the more shaming of alcohol around. What places are there where alcohol is prohibited, that you are looking at?
I perceive current alignment theory as attempting to solve a paradox. The entire concept of solving alignment by aligning to human value systems is flawed from its premise.

We aren't aligned ourselves and exhibit unpredictable behaviors.

Further elaboration of the flaws in concept I've written here:

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Presumably the experts who feel differently about AI x-risk have similar disregard for your opinion. That you aren't persuaded by experts who disagree doesn't show anything.

Similarly, you think that x-risk dismissal among the experts you agree with is not self-interested - but it's not like the oil and gas engineers dismissing climate change risks would describe themselves as self-interested liars either. They would likely say, as you realize, "No, my dismissal of the concerns of other experts is legitimate!"

The thing is, it doesn't require a lot of expertise to understand that there is actually an enormous risk and "experts" denying that are simply burying their head in the sand. AI, I use the term expansively, is making huge and rapid progress. We are approaching "human-level" intelligence and there is no guarantee, nor even any indication, that "human-level" is an upper limit. Systems as smart or smarter than we are, that are not controlled for the benefit of humanity, are an existential risk.

There are two basic kinds of risk. First, an AI powered tyranny where a small number of humans dominate everything enabled by AI systems they control - every security camera watched by a tireless intelligence, drones piloted by perfectly loyal intelligences, etc. Second, that the AI systems are not effectively controlled and pursue goals or objectives that are incompatible with human existence. In either case the fact that the AI brings superhuman intelligence to bear means that humanity at large will be overmatched in terms of capabilities.

It is completely possible that neither of these scenarios come to pass, but the fact that one of the scenarios might come to pass is what makes the situation an existential risk - humanity eternally subjected by an irreversible dictatorship, or simply destroyed.

I'm confused about your first item that would convince you of AI risk, but I think the others should all be considered met by ChatGPT. Of course, ChatGPT isn't currently useful in developing new WMDs - but it is absolutely useful in helping to bring someone up to speed on new topics in many different domains. As capabilities advance, why wouldn't ChatGPT using GPT-5, or 6, or 10 be able to helpfully guide the creation of new and better WMDs?

AI isn't currently causing the problems you are worried about but certainly seems on track to do so soon. "Risk" doesn't mean that we are currently in the process of being destroyed by AI, but it does mean that there is a non-negligible possibility that we will soon find ourselves in that process.
The same benefit we get by using the external certificate authority to verify that I'm connecting to a certain website and not some fraudulent version of it.

To put it another way, the benefit I get by having my computer verify that I'm connecting to news.ycombinator.com and not some fraudulent website is so that I don't inadvertently transmit my account credentials to a scammer.

The benefit news.ycombinator.com gets by verifying a client certificate I send them is that they can verify that the user u801e is establishing a connection to them and not some scammer who happens to have my account credentials.

Those benefits are lost if either the server or client sends a self signed certificate, because there's no one who we can use to verify the authenticity of the certificate. The reason using an external CA is not needed on the server side is, in my opinion, because the server is the one who's handling the account creation, so it doesn't need an external authority other than itself to verify whether the certificate is valid. If the server just accepted a self-signed certificate, then how does it verify that the certificate is valid?
Yeah, working on these systems and seeing how brittle they are and how they're actually built is sobering. I guess from the outside it looks like a few geniuses geniusing with unbounded upside, but from the inside it looks like a hard hacking and hard work that will definitely hit hard limits.
You'll never pry my Retina MacBook from my hands, and I love my original USB-C LG 4K, but I've really started to like my 42" 4K TV that I have been hah g the last two years.

It was $300, the color isn't perfect, it has a little glare, it can be choosy when it comes to ports and cables, but having such a large desktop is great. It's a large enough screen to run at native resolution.

I'm interested in things like Apples 6K monitor but the cost and the fact that it's only really work with my Mac, as well as not giving me that much usable space, make it an easy decision to not buy.
If we don't make this illegal, then I believe copyright is dead. If you don't want your stuff to belong to the AI that wins the race, just don't publish it anymore.
I don't want a personal review, I want a code reviewer.

"Trusting" someone means normalization of deviance, where bugs slip in.
>shut their doors

Yes, that’s usually what happens if they don’t have family to take over the business or employees to sell the business too.

>business owners just wouldn’t start businesses.

Maybe in the VC world but those aren’t small businesses are they? Are people really starting restaurants and yarn shops solely so they can sell the business later down the road? Or is it because they have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to build a business the community is lacking in.

It’s hard to believe you honestly think people only start businesses so they can sell it later on.
I agree all day long. A lot of the American malaise has its roots in congressional institutionalized incompetence (perpetual grandstanding and fund raising with no end goal beyond that) that gets fixed in courts or through executive orders.

Congress is far and away the worst of the three federal branches.
Just today we had a call with devs that wanted to run k8s (managed by us) on client's stuff (when we generally got few VMs and cranky security guys any time we needed some traffic passed thru).

To run app that's like 3 containers with services, a queue, and a database. Took a second to explain that overhead, added management, and sheer paperwork to run it on client's infrastructure is absolutely not worth saving them like... a day or two making a bit more complex deploy script.
If anyone is on a high refresh rate screen and wants to see the difference side by side, https://testufo.com is a nice comparison.

In most browsers it will go up to whatever refresh rate your monitor runs at, including 144 or 165 hz, probably 240 but I've never owned one of those.

I have a hard time believing that anyone with functional eyesight wouldn't be able to see the difference between 60 and 120, but I can definitely see not caring enough to spend the money just to make scrolling and cursor movement smoother.
If you don’t consider power price arbitration a “power plant” when even the US Department of Energy does, then I’m not sure how to bridge our gap.

Meanwhile, here is a Tesla subsidiary project https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-08/tesla-is-...

Tesla is also constantly vertically integrating. The writing is on the wall. If you’d rather not see it, then ok, that is your prerogative.
Thanks a lot for you notes! Building a wrapper around ChatGPT I couldn't hold myself back from some self-irony, thus "yet another". Contexts do seem very useful for myself and the most interesting feature for the paying users I've got so far, so maybe you're right that I should out this feature front and center for this app marketing.
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This scam has been going on for a very long time. I remember a friend of mine at work in ~2002 getting a letter like this, it could have even been the same scammer, claiming the same unpaid bill.
A human copying your copyrighted material breaks the law. Doesn't mean they can't do it, but at least it's illegal.
Very cool!

I experimented with writing tiny bits of similar code in Common Lisp and Swift, so I understand the large amount of effort you are putting into this. Thanks!
The instructions do say:

> Each day, a random location is generated, along with five photos within five miles.

So the pictures are all within 53,000 feet of each other (10 miles). Note that the random location is just some point, and probably not in a town or city.
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As I understand the article, knowing which tasks to include in the 80% that you do, and the 20% that you ignore requires some active analysis.

So the active analysis is effort you have to expend until you know which part to do major effort.

This means to me the analysis can be helped by specialized processing, indexing, and filtering to minimize analysis done during all the runs. The trade-off of these specialized steps must be over-all more efficient than just doing the active analysis every time.
Yeah, it's interesting because the commentariat are overwhelmingly angry that they can't sideload on iOS, that people buy iPhones because they have better things to do that sysadmin phones and lightbulb (as an example).

The weight of HN opinion is relentlessly hostile to people who think their devices should be more like toasters and less like MIT labs circa 1984.
I think the change could be as limited as a change to the parser. You could also enforce hygenicity (limiting scope only to places where it is asked for) by requiring it to be

const @"..." = @import("my_operator.zig").add;

For example. Then in the code the parser transforms

(a ... b)

to

@"..."(a, b)
It's pretty easy on mobile but the photos are often bad quality. They were probably taken in late 00s/early 10s, submitted to Wikimedia and never really updated with modern cameras.
I'd agree with you. I think people who use those sorts of displays frequently could tell the difference between 60 and 120hz but 120 vs 144hz seems way too close together.
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The top part looks really bad to my eye at least. Would totally buy it if didn't look this ugly
About 5.5 years ago, I bet a friend that in 5 years you would be able to:
1 - enter a car
2 - type in an address that is far away, and then
3 - the car would drive to that other address and the passenger could just go to sleep, and
4 - this would be safe.

Six months ago, I did not think that we had reached that level of reliability, so I paid my friend.
While that is true it can still be a good thing to use on a non-perofrmance critical path instead of adding a dependency on an external library.

Maybe it shouldn't be there and some better thing should be there, but given it exists ... as long as one is aware of alternatives using it is fine.
If we knew how specifically this would be built, then it would already be built. That's really the only way we could know if something would work - if it has, in fact, worked. As is, there are only ideas and possibilities.

The trajectory that AI is on signals risk. AI capabilities are increasing, approaching human level, and nothing suggests AI capabilities will stop there.

If you agree that a super intelligence - i.e. something smarter than humanity, could destroy or dominate humanity (either by itself or in collusion with a small number of humans) and you agree that we don't currently have a plan to prevent this from happening, then it seems to me that you also agree with AI x-risk.
I also bought one of these, but ended up returning it.

The technical aspects of this review are interesting, especially the wide range of machines tested. I finished writing a review of my own[0] a few days ago, which is less technical but goes into some other aspects of the monitor.

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I use Autohotkey a lot. Version 2 is tilted heavily towards functions and objects (it began life more command based) so it's more friendly to trad coders now.

Not everyones cuppa tea but it's the language of choice for cheating at games. (Rust is coming up strong though).
I doubt it would have remained as popular if it weren't so versatile, but people were quick to discover that it helps them to feel relaxed and warm. It elevates their mood. It promotes honesty and camaraderie. It has uses in the preparation of great tasting food and flavorful drinks. It works as an analgesic. Low doses help with sleep. Large doses help with trauma and grief. Long before people were doing research on cancer and steatosis people noticed that alcohol made them feel better and it was widely believed that it had a positive impact on their health. People also tended to see it as more of a moral failing when people's lives were ruined by addiction (plenty of people still fall for this trap today).

More recently we gained the ability to look into the long term harms and balance them against additional benefits we might get from alcohol like the antioxidants, the increases in HDL cholesterol, or the decreases in blood sugar, some of which may improve our health, but I suspect that as long as alcohol increases people's likelihood of having fun, dancing, singing, and screwing, it'll probably stay pretty popular.
You forget that their real business is ads.
You don't get it. It doesn't matter how many times you have to do X, Y, or Z in Windows. The first time any one of them is needed the entire "non tech savvy person using their computer to get things done" program comes to a complete halt.
> are meant to

Maybe review scores ought to be an aggregate of the opinions of people who read the book, but that's not what they actually are. They're an aggregate of how people feel towards a book (for any reason). Such reviews might even be against the rules and guidelines set out for reviews; reviews ought to follow the rules but that doesn't mean they will.

The utility of review scores derives wholly from how they actually work, not from how they're meant to work. So devalue them accordingly.
You’re both right—a better world emerges, when we each look towards ourselves to solve the problems we see.
I schedule loads to be ready when I wake up. I hang them outside and 1.5 hours later they're dry.
Eh? A random person making up a fictional press release doesn't count as hype, you know that right?
"Public for humans" is not unconstrained. Permissive open source licences require attribution, copyleft licences have all sorts of requirements.

If AI could honor those licences (and all the others), I wouldn't see a problem. But they can't.
The substance of this discussion is that a language model has never convinced anyone to crash a plane into a building and your position is that pointing out that fact is to ignore the material reality of the possibility of some theoretically advanced technology (which could maybe be adjacent to language models) at some point convincing a hypothetical person to crash a plane into a building.

That is to say, the substance here is an emotional doomsday reaction to a benign statement of undisputed fact — a language model has never convinced a person to crash a plane into a building.

Watching a cell divide into two cells: “Why isn’t anyone talking about the possibility that this is Hitler??”
> I don't think it would be possible for someone to change their rating but that may be a feature.

It should definitely be possible. Take films. I had a friend who would go see a film. On the day he saw it: "OMG THE BEST THING EVER". Next Week: "Yeah, that was a good film". A month later: "Yeah it was okay I guess". Six months later: "A bit ordinary really"

In 1990 if you'd asked me to rank the Alien films, I would have put ALIENS first, and ALIEN second. These days, I reverse those rankings.

People's tastes change over time. It would be inaccurate to "fix" a rating in stone.
One problem is that the instructions are not visible until you click on the question mark icon (at least on mobile) so I didn't even realize there were instructions until I read your comment.
The fact that AIs will have some information that we cannot understand, or will have more information than they can transmit (or we can absorb) does not make us cockroaches.

The AIs will deliver to us truly massive quantities of information, every minute, until the end of time, much of it civilization-changing. Thus the AIs relationship to us will thus be nothing like our relationship to cockroaches, where we essentially cannot tell them anything, not even the time or the day of the week, let alone the contents of Wikipedia.

I think Hofstadter is having an emotional reaction to AI. He says so as much. And it'a a common one, it's the woe is me phase. But I think he's totally wrong about the analogy. I'm 100% sure we will not feel like cockroaches when AI is in full swing, not in the slightest.
> The superficial take on FDB is "waah, where are my features? it doesn't do indexing? waaah, just use Postgres!".

i love fdb, but, most people _should_ just use postgres. you should have a very precise explanation for why you want fdb instead of postgres. you're trading away a lot of things when you go to fdb.

> I would encourage everyone to at least take a look at FDB.

yes, make sure you're aware of it so you can spot the situations where it _is_ the right answer.
This appears to be done by union-ing the types in question.

The thing about Go interfaces (and C++20 Concepts) is that you can name a type that contains certain methods or behaves a certain way, but you don't actually have to inherit from the interface or concept explicitly - anything shaped correctly that conforms to the interface or concept will work.

And at least with Go, if you try and pass something in that doesn't conform to the interface, it is very particular about telling you what you're missing. One downside of C++ templates is that if you have a problem with what you're passing in, you might get a horrendous error message somewhere deep in the implementation - or worse, your code might compile just fine, but have unexpected behavior - instead of a nice "Hey, you need to add a method named `foo` to this type."
Group 4 does video/photo/graphics work so they prioritize color accuracy and high resolution, so they would always trade >60Hz for more resolution, at least up to a point that has yet to be achieved. And that isn't even factoring in cost, which is a big one since Group 4 is a smaller market than Groups 1-3 so the displays targeting them (like this Dell 6K) tend to be the most expensive on the market by a large margin.

Realize >60Hz makes exactly zero difference for video playback, so the only areas for improvement are cursor movement and scrolling smoothness.
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