skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a fair critique, and I appreciate the engagement. Thanks!

My thinking is based on the Attention-Schema theory of consciousness (AST), by Michael Graziano. His book “Consciousness and the Social Brain” is, I believe, the right roadmap for AGI. AST is basically a variant of the Global Workspace theory of consciousness, distinguished by its deterministic account of the mechanics and utility of consciousness.

“The Consciousness Prior” by Bengio also informs my thinking.

I’m not certain that I can point to anyone that has been as explicit as I have that phenomenological consciousness is a prerequisite for intelligence, but all the cookie crumbs are there for anyone interested in following the trail.

One correction to what you wrote — I’m explicitly saying that AGI will be fundamentally the same as existing biological intelligence, in that intelligence resides only in consciousness, and consciousness remains consciousness regardless of being biological or artificial. My point was that no currently existing DL models are generally intelligent.
> If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.

In the absence of a source showing all of their financials, this isn't a particularly helpful comment. Beyond that, if they raise the price too much and go out of business, their customers are certainly not better off.
The sun causes cancer

Sunscreen is an endocrine disruptor

Vitamin D is an endocrine disruptor

You're fucked.
You're "good enough" to apply everywhere. Never know, they may need an apprentice or broom pusher and be looking for the exact weakness you have.

You can't know if you'll succeed by trying, but you can be certain you'll always fail when you never try. This applies to far more than the job market.
The "task" changes from time to time as well. Creating crazy new things, then figuring out they're too complex and then reinventing them simpler is another endless cycle, much older than software development itself.
Nice.

Any links to the actual construction of the LLM? I'm told the underlying code isn't all that complicated. Hence a lot of people here posting that 'everyone' will catch up to OpenAI eventually.

Edit:
Guess I hadn't read far enough.

Links in the parent to some LLM's with source available.

https://github.blog/2023-10-05-a-developers-guide-to-open-so...
I’m pretty sure you have no data showing we’re heading to AGI because “compute and capabilities” is about as nebulous as it gets. You can’t just throw CPU cycles to strong arm your way to a solution to a problem you barely understand to begin with.
It is worth calling out the motivations of most entrepreneurs here. But I think that analogy you used is very uncharitable - drilling and burning fossil fuels necessarily harms the environment, but the track record on big companies handling alignment/safety in house, rather than open source with the whole research community working on it is still very much up in the air. Sidney (bing assistant) was easy to prompt inject and ask for bad things, and the research that people have been able to do on forcing the output of llama to confirm to certain rules will likely prove invaluable in the future.
> Does Go also has a distinction between naive/timezone-aware times?

Why would you ever want or need that?
Tank you for the advice, I guess too lazy to deal with logistics and customs (living in Switzerland, some stuff trivial in US is... not so trivial in more diverse Europe). On top of not really having desktop working for who knows how long.

Plus planning to build new desktop soon, I'll still probably go with them (Define 7 is my pick so far), I think I had just bad luck since they have quite solid reputation and most other cases are not to my taste or needs.
> But on one hand I prefer cheaper choices in many cases and often don't pay for premium products. And as a tinkerer or hacker I would certainly not pay extra to get into a walled garden. So the only "choice" I would have is to prostitute my privacy and let Google track my whole life.

I've recently purchased a Pixel 7a and installed GrapheneOS on it. That's been working out for me pretty well for me. They're on sale at the Google Store for $374 right now.
This strikes me as a rather idealistic viewpoint.

Let's say we wanted to adopt this stance. The world doesn't stop turning. How do you fill the year of gap you've now introduced? What do the quarterly financials for the next year look like? Is your plan to just tell all shareholders, "Our company plans to make $0 in the next year because we want to implement this practice which might make you more money in the long run - but no guarantees on that except that we'll definitely take longer to build"?
Others appear to agree with your sentiment: https://www.reddit.com/r/istanbul/comments/10sia4d/rats_in_i...

I did some quick searches and nothing shows concretely that this is due to the high cat population, only anecdotally. Regardless, it's certainly a thing.

https://turkeynomad.com/posts/why-cats-istanbul
That’s true, I made a claim I shouldn’t have, I have no proof that banks report serial numbers to any central entity. I should have rather claimed that it is theoretically feasible.
But why isn't google.com blocked?
I see no reason to accept any rationales that don't apply to themselves.
HTML Templating on Top of RESTful API
With nanoplastics, ocean acidification, global heating, rising sea levels, falling crop yields and the related Holocene extinction at work, I think AI is going to have to play a serious game of catchup.
Karpathy Tweeted about OpenAI
Are you questioning GP's mythology with facts and properly-done research?
No, this is exactly why the PSL is managed by browser maintainers and not an automated system.
There’s also the “take a deep breath” and other “unreal engine”-esque prompting tricks
Not specifically openBSD but the concept yes, I've played with it also

https://nyman.re/super-simple-ssh-tarpit/
"There are all sorts of terrible stuff on Meta" Ah the old everything is evil so you're already debased argument. Sorry, some things (sympathizing & echoing Nazi tropes) are on a completely different plane and I reject your attempt to drag me down to that level.
Merci, français ami!

Edit: is that correct or is there an apostrophe Im missing? It would better if you were française, n'est-ce pas?
Large x-height is beneficial for low DPI (cf. Lucida Console for example), but this font doesn’t seem to have the necessary hinting for low-DPI use.
I think by now it should be pretty apparent that people are different, and some prefer working from home, some prefer coming to the office, some prefer open spaces and some prefer personal spaces. Most people are somewhere on a spectrum and like a different ratio of each. Posts like these are about as useful as an article on “Why I like gray socks more than blue socks”.

What I would love to see is some data on why so many companies that previously said during Covid “Oh wow, this remote work is great! We’re going to stay like this” are now saying “Sorry, changed our minds, now we want you back in the office”.

Office space isn’t cheap. Requiring employees be local limits your pool of talent. A lot of people like being remote. Companies must have a strong reason, hopefully with some data to back it up, but I’ve not seen any hard evidence for the about face yet. Anyone got any pointers?
That’s just saying it’s not illegal or shady - not that it isn’t material.
It seems Lindenmayer systems are formal grammars[1] combined with some geometric output instead of text.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar
There are a few breeds where the males are massive muscular monsters, at 20-25 lbs.
I'm currently in the boat where I need to set up authentication (and eventually authorization) for a startup catering to big enterprises almost exclusively. I'd love to be recommended resources for setting up something like Keycloak or Auth0 (or anything else) for that use case.
My experience of YouTube was transformed. I can watch a group of videos and they just run right after each other. The worst was when somehow I would get one of the 1 hour videos and I wouldn't realize it until several minutes were done.
Although it's certainly not always the right strategy, it's certainly a valid strategy to serve a smaller number of relatively price-insensitive customers (and provide them with ancillary services/high-touch sales/etc. that they want). The fact that you may not personally be on the market for that sort of thing doesn't mean there isn't a market.
When a human awakens, it can see all that which can't be otherwise seen, which can only be witnessed, not through senses or anything like that but merely by intention.

The Universal Words will take you on a journey of a human awakening through such words which have their universal relevance as and whenever a human discovers or tries to discover The Truth of Nature, of the physical world and that which is seldom called to as spiritual. It rhythmically covers different realisations that generally takes place over different phases of a human self-realisation journey starting majorly from living life as A Stranger to eventually becoming An Active Player.
>The fees together may cost Americans at least $64 billion annually, according to a rough White House estimate, underscoring its efforts to deliver financial relief to families grappling with high prices.

At ~$190/person, that honestly strikes me as low. A single last-second convenience fee to an entertainment venue can be tens of dollars. Monthly, it feels like almost every service I use has an unstated fee above and beyond the quoted sticker price.
Someone once nailed a list of complaints to a church door and it seems to have convinced quite a few folks.
Yeah, these poor startups just can't help but run the modern equivalent of open relays! Won't somebody think of the valuations!
Like toxoplasmosis or what are the endemic species?
DC has been experimenting with these. It requires a lot more human labor to manage them, but holy smokes are they effective.
My doctor measured vitamin d for me. I was pretty low as most people are - I think around 25ng/ml. Normal range I believe is 30ng/ml - 60 ng/ml.

I did get put on a higher dose vit d drops. Using about 1000 IU didn’t cut it. My numbers did not budge much. Using 5000 IU moved that into normal range at 35ng/ml.

In general, the current US guidance has been anything upto 4000 IU is ok. How much does one need to take to get to significant endocrine disruption? The news article doesn’t answer that. It’s probably what folks with conditions like Hasimoto need to know as well.

We live with endocrine disruptors all around us. Soap, shampoo, plastics, solvents, disinfectants among other things are all endocrine disruptors.
If the malware was hosted on drive.google.com they should also block google.com to be consistent.
Time is two different things. Just making everything UTC until display time is incompatible with that. Sometimes you need to operate on calendar units or clock units as part of business logic.
Did you ever encounter performance issues when converting between ECS and GameObjects?
Here's a reason I never see brought up in discussions like this. For me, it's as important as the others:

Being an introvert, I always used to be exhausted at the end of the work week. I liked my coworkers a lot, and I liked spending time around them, but it didn't matter, I'd still feel wrung out at the end of the day. And by the end of the week, each day's exhaustion would have accumulated to the point where I needed two days spent doing absolutely nothing just to feel right again.

Going for a weekend trip? Impossible, I barely want to shop for groceries. Hanging out with friends? Not going to happen, I talk to people all day at work. The weekend didn't feel like a vacation, it felt like a time to catch my breath, and nothing more than that.

Since WFH, I don't run my batteries down during the week, and suddenly I have all this energy on Saturday and Sunday. I've taken up new hobbies, I visit places, I catch up with friends, I exercise, I go to restaurants. I've done more interesting stuff in the last 4 years than in the previous 10, because suddenly I have usable time and available energy. I thought I was a homebody, turns out I'm not. Imagine not finding that out for the first 20 years of your career! I'm not going back to the office, that's for sure.
That's an understatement. They're effectively family.
Just listen to the voice in your head that you’ve been ignoring. You already have an intuition about your limits, but you probably dismiss it because that doesn’t fit the outcome you want.
What is the deal with Ilya Sutskever's style?

Can someone here identify with it?

Why not shave off those few curly hairs on his forehead?

Why wear a suit? Sitting in a suit next to the CEO of your company, who wears a sweater - isn't that giving off a very strange message? Like "I have to play by the rules, as I am not as cool and important as him"? Together with that golden smartwatch, isn't that giving of a "try hard" vibe?

This is not a critique. I'm just trying to understand. Is this a cultural thing maybe? Is this style fashionable or respected in some cultures?
It’s entirely possible that in-house offerings aren’t up to the task largely because the last 15 years have seen tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars invested in the idea that SAAS is cheaper and better?

Now that the VC subsidy is over, and we’re into the gouge all those billions back from the people you’ve hooked onto your drug phase of the adoption cycle, it’s entirely possible some investors and technologists might see an opportunity in helping companies break out of that situation.

So we may actually see some investment and effort in bringing in house tech up to par.
This just shows how much the moderation of r/programming has improved over the last 10 years.
There's two opportunities open at Crater Lake that are literally full time jobs in search and rescue.
> Nobody is going to be checking the opening hours of a Home Depot in another timezone and expect to get the date in their local timezone.

You've never wanted to call a business in another timezone before making the trip out there?
Because if you want to stop someone from destroying humanity, your best course of action is to fire him
Nice, didn't know about this.

Perhaps much smaller in scope, but justserve.org is a good one for finding service/volunteer opportunities in your local community
Ahh but the big boy bare metal companies are catching up. Nutanix and the like can simplify on prem deployments and provide cloud-like experiences, though I admit nowhere nearly as polished yet.
It’d be another story if Altman were one of the tech influencers who goes around saying that AI isn’t dangerous at all and you’re crazy if you have concerns. But he consigned the human extinction letter! And 20% of OpenAI compute was reportedly allocated to Sutskever’s superalignment team (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment). From what we know, it’s hard to see how this action was supposed to advance AI safety in any meaningful way.
Like 5 out of 1000 people at raves do nitrous oxide where I’m at
The glaring assumption here being that deficiency can be treated with supplementation. There are tons of reasons why you can be deficient, and many that don't respond at all to supplementation. More people should be talking to medical professionals about this stuff
And be like everyone else?
> In those societies, slaves could and were regularly beaten, raped, or killed with impunity

What is the basis for that? I read it as the imagination of the contemporary reactionary movement - the idea that a sort of sociopathology is a normal human condition, and compassion about others and a belief in their rights is a fake contrivance (of liberalism). But the evidence points strongly the other way. Still, there is plenty I don't know about the ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Well, those OS differences taught us to write (or strive to) portable code. It also taught me to better appreciate strengths in different operating systems over the years.
How is it a scam to watch 15s of ads before a 10 minute video? Wait until you hear about cable TV.
And then Kevin McLeod triggers the no-DRM provision of CC-BY and rugpulls every creator on the platform.
So either doomers are wrong about the technology, or we’re doomed. There’s no universe where doom is possible but for policy decisions and we aren’t doomed.
> Now, how do you think these millions of content creators get paid for their content?

People will continue to make and share videos regardless of whether they get paid for it. There are countless channels that have less than 1k subscribers (Google's threshold to pay you anything at all), that upload semi-regularly and often have interesting content. (I subscribe to those via RSS, just to make sure I don't miss an upload.) People made content long before YouTube was able to pay anyone anything at all.

People make their videos even though YouTube basically guarantees them nothing in terms of promoting/driving traffic (btw even if you have a million subscribers, you have to continue to game the algorithm, please remember to upvote this comment!). Even after that, your payout is a cut of Google's ad/premium income, not "pay per view".

Finally, people make sponsored content, set up tip jars, sell merch, etc because ads alone can't fully support a high-effort channel.

More importantly, YouTube has been generating losses for a heck of a long time (including after being acquired), which again - considering that it is a de facto public service, makes me think that it should've been publicly funded. (By whom? Excellent question. Maybe tax some of those billionaires who poured VC money to kickstart it.)
Yup, I lost a chromebook that way.
I think magnetic connections are fine for 5V power with no data line, but as soon as you add more connections and try increasing voltage/power you are asking for trouble.
they're a particular way to apply a cfg, yeah
Kind of a shameless plug but it's hard not to with such a title.

Make sure to check out Spacelift[0]. It’s a CI/CD specialized in Infra as Code. Terraform/OpenTofu are first-class citizens and it brings advanced customizability with cross-statefile dependencies, OPA-policies (not just for access control, but e.g. customizing your gitops flow) and others.

The pricing is reasonable, too, and not per-resource. Generally based around concurrency.

Disclaimer: I work at Spacelift, but I do legitimately think it's a great product and recommend it.

[0]: https://spacelift.io
Shoppers may soon encounter deflation in stores
This is just the thesis that paperclip optimizers win over general intelligence, because they optimize.
Honestly, as time passes the bigger issue is seeming to be issues in the core simulation. Parts of it aren't implemented, parts of it are tuned very weirdly, parts of it are just bugged, parts of it don't display information to you accurately, etc. You can find more and more complaints and weirdness as people dig into the game implementation via decompilation and manual testing. There's also issues like the mod system being promised right after launch (weeks/days?) and getting pushed back months. I think these are the issues people are more frustrated with at this point. None of this is the end of the world, but as someone who bought it, it kind of doesn't feel worth spending time on the game when it's clearly half-baked.
I can see why they banned it, you're spamming.
Crop yields are falling?
All the same, do you want to put large quantities of them inside your body for a study?

Of course you don’t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38335012
I don't think we would have as much people creating content if ads always opt in. The system can support a percentage of ad block / ad free consumption and other models for content production beyond ads, subs and patreon.
And of course ads are a numbers game to begin with X people exposed mapping to Y people that convert.

But content on YouTube is subscription and ad free or with ads. To subvert that is generally labeled piracy.

YouTube does have drop a prop function to a creator which be another way to more directly direct money to creators of content you consume. If you do $5 one out of 1k videos you watch I thik it's fair to skip ads :)
Then you actually do typo a word and are one letter off and is clearly wrong and it’s like “nah that’s good we’re not changing anything”
Basically, it amounts to working around the issue that AI has no morals or code of ethics and is unconstrained from certain human limitations, such as processing speed and replication speed. It thinks different than we do, and these differences will only become more pronounced as capability grows by orders of magnitude.
It’s meant literally. Everyone involved in this story, both Altman and the people who did the coup, agrees that AI is dangerous in the same way that pandemics and nuclear bombs are dangerous.
> From the start of each project I knew that we’d be bridging the ECS sim with regular Unity GameObjects for visuals — which sounds crazy but actually works quite well

Yes! That's precisely what ECS makes sense for, complex internal game logic. It's questionable over-engineering at the game engine layer, where you care about rendering and physics and not much else.
I spend a lot of time working with the junior developers on my team, mostly because that's part of my job. There's also a selfish component: if I don't help the new people get up to speed and improve, then I will be less confident delegating tasks.

IMHO, there is sufficient motivation for senior developers to work with the junior members of the team that are unrelated to physical space.
No, I can't think of any case where that would be useful (although I do take umbrage with a local datetime being referred to as a 'naive' type - it serves a very specific purpose as a primitive... if it's naive then so is an int, since it does not specify a unit).

I don't know anything about Python's datetime handling (other then to be alarmed by it given what I've seen in this thread). I live in the Java world where the java.time library is one of the best around (after a decade or more of Java having one of the worst date time libraries)
This headline doesn't make sense. Whatever dude. Someone wants to work from home. Someone wants to be vegan. It doesn't tell me anything.
Don't forget about other humans and war! To the people worrying about extinction caused by AI, how about we worry about the insane people with nuclear weapons first?
https://aisafety.info/
This whole thing feels like being stuck between an app & a hard place.

Hopefully, a good solution is found.
At the hashi conf last month they started talking about adding terraform features that would only work on terraform cloud.

It was very sad to see
An int is not unambiguous, though. "2023-11-19T14:22:34-03:00" is clearly a timestamp and represents an unambiguous point in time, while a number by itself doesn't mean anything. You have to know that it's a timestamp (probably from context) and you have to know what timezone it's in.
On the bright side, being born is a death sentence! :)

On a more serious note, I suppose moderation is key. Sunlight as much as easily doable, sunscreen only on the face (and check between physical and chemical sunscreen), and if you’re still deficient then take a supplement.
Will electricity consume and overtake humanity?

Maybe the "they're made of meat" phase is the great filter. Why would aliens speak with meat based organisms.
...and while you're at it, take off that ungainly human suit and show us the exalted being of light you are.

This comment is subtractive from the discussion and doesn't belong here. It's just random insults about someone's appearance.