skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are just as many reasons to fear the lives lost if we do slow down the progress of AI tech (drug cures, scientific breakthroughs, etc).

While I’m cautious about over regulation, and I do think there’s a lot of upside potential, I think there’s an asymmetry between potentially good outcomes and potentially catastrophic outcomes.

What worries me is that it seems like there are far more ways it can/will harm us than there are ways it will save us. And it’s not clear that the benefit is a counteracting force to the potential harm.

We could cure cancer and solve all of our energy problems, but this could all be nullified by runaway AGI or even more primitive forms of AI warfare.

I think a lot of caution is still warranted.
Due to how my head is wired, I've discovered that I enjoy gaming a lot more after I switched to console two years ago: all settings are curated (for better and worse). I'm not even sure why I didn't switch earlier.

The only reasons I can think of are fear of the controller and slow load times due to mechanical HDD on last-gen systems.

I don't spend time away from gameplay trying to get optimal setting. I'm just the type of neurotic that I will do that stuff even though I absolutely don't enjoy it.

I can jump directly into gaming without anxiety over how my hardware is falling behind. With my PS5 being in my living room, gaming is also time away from my desk, which I, much like doing anything on a Windows PC, associate with my IT jobby job.

A console is an appliance. It's like a toaster or dishwasher, except it lets me play games without any work.

With PS5, I also don't have to worry about weird glitches with audio through HDMI in my living room setup, since that's how I prefer to play. And PS5 now also renders Dolby Atmos, without any glitches.

These are of course all me-problems, but I thought I'd mention it here, since gaming is too much fun to be confined to the tuning-happy garage mindset of PC.
Have you considered placing your website behind Cloudflare? This solution resolved my DDOS issues. Previously, I was regularly dealing dealing with over 20 Gbps and 5M pps.
Someone with a PhD in mathematics is not a mathematician?
> taking all the optional extra math courses (including linear algebra), without there ever being a big emphasis on proofs

Sorry to break it to you, but you didn't take math classes. You took classes of the discipline taught in high school under the homonymous name "math". There is a big difference.

It's the same difference as there is between what you get taught in grade school under the name "English" (or whatever is the dominant language where you live): the alphabet, spelling, pronunciation, basic sentence structure... And what gets taught in high school under the name "English": how to write essays, critically analyze pieces of literature, etc. The two sets of skills are almost completely unrelated. The first is a prerequisite for the second (how can you write an essay if you can't write at all?), so somehow the two got the same name. But nobody believes that winning a spelling bee is the same type of skill as writing a novel.

I know it's a shock to everyone who enters a university math course after high school. Many of my 1st year students are confounded about the fact that they'll be graded on their ability to prove things. They expect the equivalent of cooking recipes to invert matrices, compute a GCD, solve a quadratic equation, or whatever, and balk at anything else. I want them to understand logical reasoning, abstract concepts, and the difference between "I'm pretty sure" and "this is an absolute truth". There's a world of difference, and most have to wait a few years to develop enough maturity to finally get it.
Interesting point. I guess it would be possible to mask them, e.g. they give you the string "gitlab-123token123" and you set the TXT to hash("gitlab-123token123").
I think the mistake is to assume that all private equity is bad. I’m sure there are good examples of what PE can do well.

But for all of the consternation here about declining journalism quality, the things PE has done to local new sources is an abomination. If you’re not aware of the part they are playing, you owe yourself a bit of education.
What makes you think the US military will be subject to these regulations?
> preventing younger workers for getting into positions

This won't matter anyways, or at least it feels that way.

I have no real hope that jobs that open up above me will go to me or someone else in my cohort. What I think instead is one of three things will happen:

1) Those job responsibilities will be split among remaining people as much as possible, and effectively remain vacant with other people scrambling to take over part of it. They will receive a tiny pay bump at most.

2) Those job responsibilities will be filled by someone but pay nowhere near what the person retiring was making.

3) The job will be automated somehow.

Maybe this is too cynical but I really do feel like companies are getting better at making sure employees make exactly the minimum they will tolerate faster than employees are becoming intolerant of how little they are paid.
This thread started as a response to:

> The 401k generation will begin think about retiring in the next few years. Most will discover that their 401K, despite maximum contributions, will be insufficient to retire on.

The maximum individual contribution—not counting employer contributions—is $22,500. Or if you’re over 50, it’s $30,000. If You’re maxing out your 401k, you’ll pass $71k after working just a few years.

To retire with just $71k after working a typical career of 40 years, you’d have to save less than ~$600/year. In other words, saving $600/year—~4% of a minimum wage salary—is enough to surpass this median $71k number after a 40 year career and a conservative 5% avg return.

I suspect most of these people have other savings.
I understand the stock market is rewarding Nadella's Microsoft. My question is what exactly has he done to deserve the praise?
Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs
> For reasons I can't quite understand, nobody seems to be advocating for revoking this tax deduction.

Why can you not understand why the US would prefer people to be invested in the future of the US?

That's essentially what putting your money into US debt means.

You are in the interest of the US not exploding in the middle of the night.

I do think that the typical 90% debt to 10% equity LBO ratio is toxic and should be regulated down. I can see this incentivizing the types that would put in 10M now to get 100M now - spending that on coke & hookers now, and then hoping the US collapses and they don't have to pay anything back.
It was better when corporate tax rates and income taxes for the incredibly wealthy were much, much higher. My favorite hobby is putting Thatcher and Reagan's faces on economic graphs to show what year they were elected is almost universally either the same year or just about when the global economic system went bugfuck by basically every metric we measure.

But, thanks to those two and the larger political milieu they so well represent, those entities are now rich beyond all reason and in a capitalist system that permits things like Citizen's United, money more or less equals political power so the odds of getting any of this addressed are basically nil, along side other issues that would demand corporations make less money: like climate change, crumbling infrastructure, socialized healthcare for the US, better socialized healthcare elsewhere, the vanishing middle class, etc.

Private Equity is going to get us all killed in a very real sense.
Didn't it leak earlier that it is 100 billion? And GPT 4 is 1.17 Trillion?
Machine Learning for Game Devs: Part 1
I have seen some similar tool at https://ai.ethics.pt/
they also have some kind of audit system.
It does feel like something like that. Maybe not that exactly, but many people have some sort of need for external authorities to tell them what to do, what to think, who to be, etc. Some lack of confidence in their own judgement? Insecurity about making their own decisions?
They don't even need to be stored procedures, just having proper queries in the code to perform the database actions would be preferable to ORM.

Another big issue I have with ORMs is that a lot of them are hostile to you writing queries in the first place. Network IO is the worst, please stop trying to force us to use your terrible overlay.
Those comments have a very short length limit (smaller than the records themselves) and I don't understand why.
> > ("The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks")

This is tautologous. "Wealthy" means mostly "built, and still owns a decent chunk of, a company whose shares are highly valued".

Also, I could, like my parents, own nothing in the stock market, but have a paid off house and decent savings and a state pension, and be doing well. Proportion of capital markets ownership is too skewed a metric to reason about.
A worthy initiative, but locked-in to Google's infrastructure and tools. No thanks.
I can see several advantages:
-having a "frozen" dataset, meaning that I can work on the same dataset as my colleague
-Having all the topics frozen at the same date, representing global knowledge at one point. They knew X and Y, but Z was not advanced yet, so they could not do W. It is hard to realized the concomitance of knowledge bumps on the time scale in a continuously changing encyclopedia.
Well it's not that uncommon to use a version of ffmpeg with more features enabled for a specific purpose. For instance my jellyfin server uses jellyfin-ffmpeg[0] to do hardware acceleration, even on my Pi.

[0]: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg
> Intelligent people can give more insight on a variety of topics without having expert level knowledge just because they are smart and can put the puzzle together differently.

Citation needed. This sounds like a Rationalist power fantasy which doesn't fit my experience of the world at all.
The only difference between a public intellectual and an entertainer or other content creator, is that the public intellectual had at least one novel idea about something important. I mean idea very broadly here, it can take the form of a reframing, an intuition pump, a system for reasoning, etc. That makes them known as "the guy who came up with x" vs. "the guy who makes videos about y". Rogan has a podcast, Taleb is the fat tails guy.

But even the best public intellectuals only have a few novel, high quality ideas a year. Most have only a few during their whole career. If someone only writes a book when they have something to say (a rarity for professional authors, more common amongst people who don't like writing). That book probably contains a few, maybe only one, novel idea. That's the case for books, what about tweets or videos?

Entertainers and public intellectuals compete for the same bandwidth. They show up in the same feeds. In order to compete, the intellectuals have to lower their standards, and the result is that many public intellectuals are only in the intellectual business 1/100 of the time, and in the hot takes business the other 99/100.
Now that you mentioned it... Does it outlaw the Intel and AMD's amd64 branch predictors?
but is it far-sighted that to keep the internet as free as possible there are no ways to mitigate a ddos,

and at the same time this freedom is completely lost

when the companies that protect against ddos can be counted on the fingers of one hand?
Alternatively, 'mpv -vo caca'. https://mpv.io/manual/master/#video-output-drivers-caca
Isn't capitalism great?
I hate that this is the right answer. I hate that I use it too. I hate that I don't have time/cash to explore alternatives.
It all comes down to available resources. It takes capital and motivated founders to create new vet clinics. Few will want to spread themselves thin enough to cover many clinics unless they are in the same geographic area, and even then the market has saturation limits. However, if an entity essentially resembling Chase bank in terms of capital resources comes into your town and either buys out or undercuts you drastically until you appear to be uncompetitive, and you can't make your mortgage payments, or cover your whole staff and equipment, what are you supposed to do? PE can starve you out, they have the resources, these small businesses do not. There is no competition in this instance, just a slaughter.
SQL URL Parsing UDFs on Snowflake
I know you're being tongue in cheek but this is why the evolution of open source models capable of cheaply running on your own hardware (i.e. the r/locallamma folks) is so important.
> If you group science in such a way so that logic/mathematics/computer science falls outside the group then isn't that an erroneous grouping?

Why would it be erroneous?
Tesla style steering yoke. There's a good reason we ended up at a steering wheel for this many years IMO. A yoke is worse in every way except in "look at me I'm a special snowflake" and "I'm not actually a car". Such a thing should be an option. I'd rather have round doors or a TV screen as a windscreen than a yoke. Hard pass.
Maybe it's time for a tech startup to invent the Futurama suicide booth. We could have a test market lined up.

Combine it with a Cyberpunk 2077 crematorium vending machine and it sounds like a great one stop shop.
Assuming this is an API and not a website, my approach would be (other than just paying cloudflare to handle it).

Application servers that aren't listed on DNS and their IPs kept secret. A _lot_ of proxy servers that take requests, check the auth, and forward the valid requests to the application servers. For invalid requests, just let them time out.

If checking the auth is expensive enough to cause problems, require some proof-of-work in the request too, and only check the auth if the PoW is there.

In other words, keep all the DDOS traffic off the application servers. Have sacrificial proxies. Make it cheap to handle the DDOS traffic and expensive to generate the DDOS traffic. And then just process the traffic. Spread the proxies across multiple cloud providers if you need to - but ideally ones with free ingress.
Procedures can't be effective unless backed by law.

Besides, point me to existing processes that cover my examples

Only one of them exists, in 1-2 states.
No - lawyers tend to describe things like this in terms of capabilities or behavior, and the government has people who understand the technology quite well. If you look at some of the definitions the White House used, I’d expect proposed legislation to be similarly written in terms of what something does rather than how it’s implemented.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/definition...

> An “automated system” is any system, software, or process that uses computation as whole or part of a system to determine outcomes, make or aid decisions, inform policy implementation, collect data or observations, or otherwise interact with individuals and/or communities. Automated systems include, but are not limited to, systems derived from machine learning, statistics, or other data processing or artificial intelligence techniques, and exclude passive computing infrastructure.
It’s not over-hyped. If you play around with the numbers, the ~$22k per year (increases a little each year usually) you can put in a 401k is insufficient to retire on, even if you start at age 20 and max it each year till 55… unless the stock market goes up, up, up. One flaw is that you can only contribute that $22k to retirement if you have an employer and that employer offers a 401k plan to employees. Most do, but it also discourages entrepreneurship and gig work (which can be lucrative). Without a 401k, we are limited to contributing $6k/year to an IRA, which only has a tax deduction if you make less than $85k or so per year.

Meanwhile 15% or so of our paychecks go towards social security, which many believe won’t exist in 20 years, regardless of contributions you made.

Finally, the cost of retiring heavily depends on two things- healthcare and housing. Many Americans remain employed until 65 when they are eligible for Medicare as their employer-provided health insurance is all they can afford. Prior to Obamacare, these individuals would simply be uninsured, but now it’s “insured but it’s ridiculously expensive” without their employer.

As for housing… it’s common to sell a single family home for X and use X/Y of that money to buy a smaller townhome or condo to live in until the day you die. This can work out well, adding tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to the retirement account, but it relies on the person owning the home, having significant equity in the home if it’s not fully paid off, and being willing and able to sell the house and downsize.

The system is broken and in this software engineer-heavy forum, I think it’s easy to forget that we make more money than most Americans. Heck, we make more money than most humans.
Doesn't it bring you a tiny bit of concern that this is only current answer people can give?
You do realize it makes no difference whether the vectors are written horizontally or vertically? Part of mathematical maturity is not getting hung up on pointless notation like this.
This is only one quarter right. Public companies can also take on a lot of debt.

The bigger reasons are twofold: 1 - the biggest one is that pension funds etc get to avoid the constant vol in stock prices. They get to stick their head in the sand and imagine asset prices not moving around. 2 - the annoying parts of being a public company can be avoided (public eye, some sec regs, constant need to "grow" rather than generate cash).
Those are the things that happen in static or declining companies. If you see those things happening then it's time to look for a new job in a growing company, unless you're already close to retirement.
Just eating up water and fossil fuels.
Honestly just see a lot more RV/Van dwellers in retirement. housing and healthcare are the greatest costs.
Zero job security and very expensive mandatory contributions* to a state pension fund which may well end up being insolvent by the time we retire? Sign me up!

* https://portal.seg-social.gob.es/wps/portal/importass/import...
The weirdest thing about this thread is that nobody has yet suggested replacing public intellectuals with GPT-4.
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Yes. They used the drones to take down the cell towers communicating with video and unmanned machine guns.

> that doesn't make the conflict any less one-sided given Israel is one of the best equipped militaries in the world subsidized directly by the US.

That's one sided in terms of modern warfare. Sure. But they have plenty of anti-tank missiles and are still firing many rockets into cities in Israel on a daily basis. Israel is also required to hold back on many of its capabilities both due to international law (which the Hamas ignores) and due to the fear of hurting the kidnapped hostages.

The Hamas is no Hezbollah but who are also taking a part in the fight albeit to a minimal extent at the moment. But they have a home court advantage and urban warfare is difficult even for the most advanced armies. It reduces a lot of the advantages. E.g. in the past the IDF used to rely on night vision goggles and take advantage of the night. The Hamas has those now and many of their soldiers received training in Iran.

> Israel is one of the best equipped militaries in the world subsidized directly by the US.

Notice that a lot of the tech Israel has is home grown. One of the reasons the USA funds Israel (besides the alignment on many issues) is to keep Israeli arm manufacturing in its niche. Israeli weapons such as its jets and guns (famously the Uzi) were hot items in the late 60's and 70's. The USA's funding effectively made it uneconomical for Israel to make some of its weapons. Most specifically the fighter jets.

Israel is also an amazing "demo stage" for US weapon superiority.
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The "skin in the game" argument is, IMO, not compelling. It is clearly possible to have stable software services delivered by separate Dev and Ops teams that communicate using a will defined software interface -- look at any app that uses Heroku or a similar PaaS.

But, as we know, useful software interfaces are difficult to define well and, once they exist, they tend to be the most inflexible part of a fast-changing system. It is always better (though of course more expensive) to control both sides of an interface for this reason.

The "skin in the game" argument elides this fundamental reason and substitutes one that implies all of this is the fault of lazy devs, which isn't (generally) true IME.
For patients with IBS, Ozempic might be the better option.
They can't regulate finance, they can't regulate AI either.
one of the first pages i ever put on the internet was a flash-based mp3 player with an iframe populated by a php script that scraped my local hard drive at home

loved showing off my music library on school computers, and a couple friends asked for the code to build/remix their own
What’s wrong with Peter Zeihan?
So it's possible to run gpt-3.5-turbo on a local machine?
On the Importance of Accounting Information for Early-Stage Financing
> I suspect most of these people have other savings.

Please show me the data, because all available public sources indicate this is not the case, and in my travels, the data confirms my conversations with these cohorts (because I am very curious). If they have other savings not showing up in the data, what and where is it? We cannot simply assume it exists. Hope is not a strategy.
Once I heard Kendi's definition of racism (1) I could no longer take that guy seriously. He is a social justice warrior public intellectual of the post modernist variety leading me to think he is either innocently and unknowningly deluded or an intentional and nefarious grifter profitting from giving apparent credence to the hard left hardliners. A similar role that Jordan Peterson leverages to make a living arguing or giving theoritical support for the religious right.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IpV9rrcGc (it's a 2 minute video and totally worth it!)
It used to be built into YouTube
It really seems beyond dispute that there are certain tools so powerful that we have no choice but to tightly control access.
The large context is the reason its hallucinating and gpt would likely have the same problem. You can see this effect even on gpt-3.5-turbo-16k. Performance and accuracy are directly correlated with context size