skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now, the "bad acting human" is, for example, Sam Altman, who frequently cries "Wolf!" about AI. He is trying to eliminate the competition, manipulate public opinion, and present himself as a good Samaritan. He is so successful in his endeavor, even without AI, that you must report to the US government about how you created and tested your model.
Reading this and the comments here make me so glad I got married before online dating became (mostly) the defacto standard. I have a lot of sympathy for folks who have to deal with it because it sounds extra hard to date nowadays (not that it was ever truly easy).
deeplearning.ai has a short coursee on the topic
https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/large-language-mod...
> "seem to accept authority happily?"

I don't know much about autism. I can say though, that while I might appear to "accept authority", that's not really true. In each case, I'm weighing the benefits and drawbacks of that, and choosing what to do.

Often, if I disagree with an authority figure's position on something, there's more efficient ways to get what I want than public disagreement.
X booted the "x" user from Twitter as well, with no repercussions...
Squeeze cheese was one heck of an experience. The food at philmont was so good in a terrible way.
OSGi and Java Modules would like a word.

Too few developers use the facilities available for that kind of in-process isolation, even when it is possible. (Don't tell me Java isn't popular... It may be the new COBOL, but it's still mainstream.)
> Wouldn't it be a hell of a lot easier if it was all in one place where each commit is globally consistent?

I always find this sentence to be a bit of a laugh. It's so commonly said (by either group of people with a dog in this fight) but seemingly so uncommonly thought of from the other group's perspective.

People that prefer microservices say it's easier to change/rewrite code in a microservice because you have a clearly defined contract for how that service needs to operate and a much smaller codebase for the given service. The monolith crowd claims it's easier to change/rewrite code in a monolith because it's all one big pile of yarn and if you want to change out one strand of it, you just need to know each juncture where that strand weaves into other strands.

Who is right? I sure don't know. Probably monoliths for tenured employees that have studied the codebase under a microscope for the past few years already, and microservices for everyone else.
If the monolithic application is written in a language with sufficient encapsulation and good tooling around multi-module projects, then you can indeed have well known and encapsulated interfaces within the monolith. Within the monolith itself you can create a DAG of enforced interfaces and dependencies that is logically identical to a set of services from different codebases. There are well known design issues in monoliths that can undermine this approach (the biggest one that comes to mind is favoring composition over inheritance, because that's how encapsulation can be most easily broken as messages flow across a single-application interfaces, but then I'd also throw in enforced immutability, and separating data from logic).

It takes effort to keep a monolithic application set up this way, but IMHO the effort is far less than moving to and maintaining microservices. I think a problem is that there's very popular ecosystems that don't have particularly good tooling around this approach, Python being a major example--it can be done, but it's not smooth.

To me the time when you pull the trigger on a different service+codebase should not be code complexity, because that can be best managed in one repo. It is when you need a different platform in your ecosystem (say your API is in Java and you need Python services so they can use X Y or Z packages as dependencies), or when you have enough people involved that multiple teams benefit from owning their own soup-to-nuts code-to-deployment ecosystem, or when, to your point, you have a chunk of code that the team doesn't or can't own/maintain and wants to slowly branch functionality away from.
I Can Hear You Fine. Is It Rude That I'm Still Wearing AirPods?
I find that very interesting given Eric Schmidt took citizenship in Cyprus, and to my knowledge, not because he has any prior tie to that country. If he really believed in the U.S. then he shouldn’t be getting late-in-life (post-billionaire) citizenship elsewhere.
So? The fact that the most successful Arm server product is a proprietary one designed and used exclusively by one company literally proves OP point. It's much easier to support such deployment if you are its designer and sole user.
> Both of these explanations strike me as too clever by half. I think the parsimonious explanation is that people are actually concerned about the dangers of AI

This rings hollow when these companies don’t seem to practice what they preach, and start by setting an example - they don’t halt research and cut the funding for development of their own AIs in-house.

If you believe that there’s X-Risk of AI research, there’s no reason to think it wouldn’t come from your own firm’s labs developing these AIs too.

Continuing development while telling others they need to pause seems to make “I want you to be paused while I blaze ahead” far more parsimonious than “these companies are actually scared about humanity’s future” - they won’t put their money where their mouth is to prove it.
Looks like the repo is private. My apologies.
Absolutely!

I'm doing that in my implementation: the main thread immediately transfers each incoming QUIC stream to a WebWorker, which then reads/decodes the container/codec and renders via OffscreenCanvas.

I didn't realize that DataChannels were main thread only. That's good to know!
> Does a person really have to be "better" than you to act as some sort of authority in a particular context?

There's a good likelihood that an authority figure _does_ see themselves as better than subordinates, yes.

> no rules whatsoever for anybody, unless you explicitly opt-in to some specific rule or authority figure you happen to like?

This is a Sovcit scenario, one I specifically avoided.
I mean, fox news seems to manage doing exactly that just fine without ChatGPT
Because it's a good name, and names are brands, not some legal commitment to anyone's intepretation of what the company does.

Apple don't sell produce, Tesla have nothing to do with the Serbian-American inventor, Amazon aren't related to the river, and the Walt Disney company kept his name after he died.
This reminds me a little of the 404 page I made back in university (except it actually looks nice!)

http://yawn.io/404

Fun fact: it doesn't have a hard coded bitmap it renders in your system font onto a canvas and reads the pixels out and then converts to text.
The assumption you're making here is that the Earth "heals", as if a wound has been inflicted. Likewise, that there is a "normal" level. In other words, that there is a prevailing state to which the system returns to, or must return to. I invite you to question that assumption first and foremost.

You must think of the Earth more as a process than a fixed thing. Thinking about this system in terms of feedback loops may be more helpful here.

Drastically increasing C02 levels affects several feedback loops in the system, essentially transitioning it to a state that is different to the current one.

As noted elsewhere in the comments, the Earth has gone through different eras in which the atmosphere had "high" and "low" levels of C02.
Down votes because the response isn't according to HN rules, or because you just don't agree, which would be against HN rules.
Define the "bad actors". Is my example with Sam Altman above can be seen as a valid one?
I had an industrial engineering professor who did a full career in the military, focused on energy efficiently.

Paraphrasing, "The great thing about the US Government is it's so big, if the optimal solution would save 30%, but you find a suboptimal solution that only saves 29%, nobody will notice because you're still saving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of savings."

One of his big projects was on energy efficiently in remote military camps. The cost of fuel per gallon was around $100 delivered to parts of Afghanistan. They had tons of portable generators running at ~20-40% of capacity. If memory serves, ~70% is most efficient. By some combination of building a small or connecting a few tents to a single generator, they were able to very significantly reduce the fuel required and improve the quality of service.
Is it really regulation? Or is it financing, laws about firing, cultural approaches to work, or a myriad of other differences?
Try https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends

Annoying that that's not the default, sure. But at least it exists.
> labor intensive manufacturing all left...

It has also been leaving China for a while. You cannot hope to compete with the poorest country on labor cost, it's not a matter of regulation (well unless we're talking about capital control, but it's a completely different topic)
I am currently working with a US government system for downloading public scientific data. You select some data you want to download and add it to a shopping cart. Check out, and select 'create database'. This generates your own copy of an Oracle database, with your own credentials and hostname and db name. Connect to that and construct a query against a table that has some metadata about studies you're interested in. Using the identifiers from that table, join with a LIKE against another table for s3:// URLs. (There are no primary keys and the other table's column is not exactly the same; you need to use a LIKE. This is all documented.)
Those s3 URLs point to a CSV which contains another identifier which you use to download manifests which contains links to a web page created on-the-fly which contains to the s3 files to download. By the time you've done all this, your access has likely expired and you must start over from scratch.
Introduction to CURP Protocol
You misunderstood. We've been X years away until we can't avoid a catastrophe that's going to happen decades later. That's our reality. The catastrophe itself was always decades away. And largely still is, but the downside effects of global warming are happening faster than the models predicted. At the rate things are going, the problems we thought we'd have in 2100 are going to be had in 2050-2060. That's not good.

Are we all going to die by 2030? No.

Are we going to have significant impacts by 2100? Absolutely.

Will warfare exacerbate the problem and kill off even more people? Certainly.

Will civilization collapse? Maybe, but probably not. Regional collapse is likely.

Will humans go extinct? Almost certainly not.
> I do have a reasonable moral sense (it is one thing to cut in line, it is another to steal money, do property damage, deceive people, etc.)

You said yourself you cut in line by manipulating people's attention (deception). Also, the people who are ahead of you in line got there before you did because they left their house earlier, or didn't spend so much time fucking around in the dairy aisle, or whatever. When you cut in line you are stealing time from them that they could otherwise use on something else before they run out of it and die. How is this more acceptable than damaging physical property, which some social frameworks would contend can't even be "owned" by individuals? Your moral framework is not self-consistent.
On the contrary, the NYSE was founded in 1792. State Street Bank and Chubb Insurance Group were both founded before 1800, and are not family-owned AFAICT.

So the question still stands.
> Every Gigaton of carbon is roughly equivalent to covering the entirety of Texas in ~3 feet of carbon

That seems high. I get a lot smaller number, but maybe I've messed up some unit conversions. I'm using:

1 ton = 10^3 kg
1 g CO2 = 12/44 g of C (C == carbon, not Celsius)
Density of C is 2.2 g/cm^3
1 Texas = 6.95x10^5 km^2

Assuming those are right and I didn't botch any conversions between metric prefixes I get this:

10^9 tons CO2 x 10^3 kg/ton x 10^3 g/kg = 10^15 g CO2
10^15 g CO2 x 12/44 g C/g CO2 = 2.7x10^14 g C
2.7x10^14 g C x 1 cm^3 C/2.2 g C = 1.2x10^14 cm^3 C

6.9x10^5 km^2/Texas x 10^10 cm^2/km^2 = 6.9x10^15 cm^2/Texas

1.2x10^14 cm^3 C / (6.9x10^15 cm^2/Texas) = 1.7x10^-2 Texas cm C

Check:

1.7x10^-2 Texas cm C x 1 km / 10^5 cm = 1.7x10^-7 Texas km C
1.7x10^-7 Texas km C x 6.9x10^5 km^2/Texas = 1.2x10^-1 km^3 C
1.17x10^-1 km^3 C x 10^15 cm^3/km^3 x 2.2 gm C/cm^3 C = 2.57x10^14 gm C
2.57 gm C x 44 gm CO2/12 gm c x 1 ton/10^6 gm = 9.4 x 10^8 ton CO2 = 0.9 gigaton CO2

PS: the above is for 1 gigaton of CO2 since that is what emissions figures usually use. But if you were just talking about after capture and extraction of carbon, multiply the above by 44/12, giving 6.2x10^-2 Texas cm C.

PPS: If we took all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere, the amount of carbon would be enough to cover to Texas to about 53 cm.
We need the equivalent of cheerleaders for management for hire. Everybody pitches in to keep the low self-esteem suits happy? Half of your old commute costs would do..
This neglects both basic extrapolation and basic introspection.
These regulations will only impact the public. I expect the army and secret service to gain access to the complete unrestricted model officially or unofficially. I would like to see the final law to check if they have a carve out for the military usage.

The threat includes the whole world including every single country in the world. You will see US using AI to mess with China and Russian. And you will see Russian and China use AI to mess with US. No regulation will stop this and it will inevitably happen.

Maybe in a 100 years you will have the equivalent of the geneva convention but with AI when we have wrought enough chaos on each other.
The lawyer would probably tell you the risk but I would guess most people would still sign it. In 2021 very few mortgage brokers would have guessed at 8% 30 year rates.
Do you run a pi-hole or other ad blocking on your network? Or do you have personalized ads turned off in your facebook settings?

This could be why you see less targeted ads. Scams, high-ctr and broad appeal ads thrive in places where targeting doesn't exist because their margins can support it. Watch a show on cable or broadcast these days for an example of this.
Those grants appear to be for implementation, not research or white papers.
I think this may be a little short sighted.

AI “systems” are provided some level of agency by their very nature. That is, for example, you cannot predict the outcomes of certain learning models.

We necessarily provide agency to AI because that’s the whole point! As we develop more advanced AI, it will have more agency. It is an extension of the just world fallacy, IMO, to say that AI is “just a tool” - we lend agency and allow the tool to train on real world (flawed) data.

Hallucinations are a great example of this in an LLM. We want the machine to have agency to cite its sources… but we also create potential for absolute nonsense citations, which can be harmful in and of themselves, though the human on the using side may have perfectly positive intent.
In my opinion, that's not really related to autism; that just seems like a new manager's mistake. Every manager will at some point learn that they've had too much trust in their employee and that that trust was taken advantage of. It's unfortunate but true.
to prove you are elite, what do these mean: f00, BAR, SLOW, ABS, NB, TF, SLM

;P
There is a big difference in influencing people and manipulating them. If you can get a group of people to do things that benefit the group, it's a positive trait and we call it leadership. I guess this is what you mean by charisma in this case?
> Why would I want to use this as a mini-desktop if I can't even do a Teams call on it?

You can do a Teams call on it (with prerelease software). See two Pis conferencing that way here (call was slightly glitchy until one guy on the call figured out he needed to switch from his crappy wifi to a wired connection):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35_5wRKi_TI&t=415s

I don't get why anyone who wants to use it as a mini-desktop views the encoder situation as a deal breaker (from the linked comments):

it only takes around 1 processor to encode 1080p60 with our default settings (which is still better quality than the PI 4 hardware encoder)
I was surprised to see a concrete pour below freezing temperatures. I'll have to read more about that.
I mean I just did. Your comment is just plain wrong in the face of the cited right to work law for Michigan. Any “requirements” would be this year alone due to the legality of the statute. It’s your turn to present something other than opinions posed as fact, blatant misinformation or in this response of yours an ad populum appeal that leads me to believe you have spent 0 time actually researching this.
How do you square the right to work law in Michigan with your previous claim that Michigan ford shops are “all union” by requirement and not by the workers choice to unionize. How would that even be legal to force someone to join a union in right to work state? Hint: it isn't legal and therefore your claim is 100% provably wrong.
> Does a person really have to be "better" than you to act as some sort of authority in a particular context?

No. And you're correct, IMO, that people can swap into roles without being jerks about it. And I don't think many Autistic folks have a problem with those kinds of people.

But there are also those who gravitate to positions of power and authority just for the power and authority. They're the ones who will say "I won't respect you until you respect me," and mean "I won't treat you like a human until you treat me as an authority (as your better)."

And if you haven't run into that kind yet... good. May you be lucky enough to never run into them.
The scientific method already has means for rejecting weak hypotheses. Debate doesn't serve that purpose.
> if you are a software engineer working for a salary, then the "value" you produce is captured by the owning class

so how do my RSUs and my 401k factor in to this?
I recommend https://www.grenadachocolate.com (though I haven't had one since hurricane Ivan) Some folks ideally named for making an organic chocolate company (Green, Brown, and Browne) decided that the cocoa farmers of Grenada would be better off if they also made chocolate there. The climate makes it a bit of challenge, and small batch is hard to begin with, but they make a great bar that I always feel is more like cocoa made into a food than a product containing cocoa.

It's a small company with poor global distribution because, well, it's a big planet and there are only so many chocolate bars. But if you look at the web site, and find "view, retail outlets" and then click on "Country" to reverse search, US is now visible for some reason and San Francisco has a lot of outlets and they are near the top of the results. New York also seems to have a lot of outlets. I'm 500 miles from the nearest outlet.

But, if you want more money to go to people closer to the dirt in the production chain, these are your guys.
The greatest danger I see with super-intelligent AI is that it will be monopolized by small numbers of powerful people and used as a force multiplier to take over and manipulate the rest of the human race.

This is exactly the scenario that is taking shape.

A future where only a few big corporations are able to run large AIs is a future where those big corporations and the people who control them rule the world and everyone else must pay them rent in perpetuity for access to this technology.
Could you tell us what world-wide event happened in the years 2020-2022?
I don't like this trend of using the label "neurotypical" to describe one's idea of the most boring, unimaginative person one can think of, and then applying it to pretty much everyone that isn't on the spectrum. "Neurotypical" people range from absolute rebels who reject any kind of authority to people happily working for and supporting a fascist regime, and then everything in-between. There is no less of a variety of opinion and thought in them than in "neurodivergent" people.
To echo wslack, experiences with moving initiatives through grit and collegiality is key. The PIF program is a bit easier to apply for than USAjobs and really focuses on being more of an entrepreneur-in-residence, as much as that’s possible in government. I was able to work horizontally in a way that would have been challenging otherwise.
> The interesting example would be "multinational conglomerates that are family-run"

That's begging the question, literally. You're assuming something that guarantees your side of the argument.

There is no reason why a company has to become a multinational conglomerate.
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I believe there is no publicly available data that allows one to calculate the exact percent of new H-1B numbers used by a specific company.

But if I go into USCIS's H-1 data hub, I can find some information. For FY-2022 Amazon had 12.5k petitions approved. But drilling into the data we see that less than 4k of those were for _new_ petitions - the others were extensions of existing petitions. 4k out of the H-1B quota is less than 5% (there are 85k new H-1B visas per year). But even that is an overestimate because a new employee transferring to Amazon will require a new petition but won't count against the quota.

Overall, the best guess would be that Amazon use low single digits percent.
> sulfur dioxide tends to rise high into the stratosphere, where it combines with water molecules to create sulfuric acid particles, and remains for up to three years

> the way that sulfuric acid eventually leaves the atmosphere is by combining into larger and larger droplets that eventually become heavy enough to fall down to earth as acid rain
> I think in 50 years we will look back on the way pure math was written today as a great tragedy of this age that is thankfully lost to time.

That could very well be true. I mean just a 100 years ago mathematics (and most education) consisted almost exclusively of the most insane drudgery imaginable. I do sometimes wonder what the world could have been like if we didn't gate contributions in math or physics behind learning classical greek.

I do think that some of the issues come down to different learning styles. I personally like getting the definition up front- it keeps me less confused, and I can properly appreciate the examples down the line. The way Axler introduces the dual space was really charming for me, and it clicked in a way that "vectors as columns, covectors as rows" never did. But that's not everyone! It's by no means everyone in pure math, and its definitely not everyone who needs to use math. I've met people far better than me who struggled just because the resources weren't tuned towards them- there's a huge gap.
The problem is when authority figures act like they're better than you. This is colloquially referred to as a "power trip". The effects of this can range from annoying (some assistant manager at a store on a power trip) to potentially life-changing or life-ending (a cop on a power trip).
Yep.

There are situations where microservices genuinely add net value. In discussions like this one, people make valid points for microservices and for
monoliths. Often, words like “large” and “many” are used without providing a sense of scale.

Hers is a heuristic. It’s not a hard rule. There are likely good counter examples. It does sketch a boundary for the for/against equation for microservices. Would love to hear feedback about whether “100” is that number or a different heuristic would be more accurate.

Engineering departments with fewer than 100 engineers should favor monoliths and seriously question efforts to embrace microservices. Above that, there’s an increasing chance the microservices could provide value, but teams should stick to a monolith as long as possible.
Thanks - updated.

Not as ridiculous - but still not a solution.