skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same.

My biggest complaint is that they don't believe in email notifications. They have a very basic "catch up digest" but it comes in very slow and doesn't appear at all of you happen to look at Linear at the wrong time (because you are "active" and so clearly don't want a notification). So it is easy to miss stuff unless you are constantly checking their inbox.

It also has a bit too much structure with projects/tasks/subtasks which I find is less useful then just dependencies as you often want to break up a subtask but it doesn't really support that. But it does have raw dependencies so you can just use those even if they are quite basic.

But overall it is fine. Which is also the best thing I've ever said about an issue manager.
Read the mesa-optimization paper I linked elsewhere in this thread: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.01820.pdf Eliezer's point is that if AI researchers aren't looking for anomalous behavior that could indicate a potential danger, they won't find it.
I don’t have a specific answer other than to not pause production but I feel like this is a symptom of the season based production cycle. A series captures the imagination, then it disappears for an entire year (or two or three), only to start again hoping everyone hasn’t moved on in life. Of course they lose momentum with fans.

A better model to my mind is decide to make a 20 episode series, then produce and release episodes as they are finished and don’t stop until the series is over. If the series is capable of continuing, make that decision long before the 20th episode, but be sure to be ready to end by 20 otherwise.

I generally agree with the sentiment though. In a series that has a story and an arc, ending is before an end is possible is just mean. You could at least give a few episodes grace to let the writers wrap it up. Just ending a story midway through is the height of disrespect to both the artists creating it, but most importantly, your customers who have given their life and interest to the story.
Both of you might enjoy Greg Egan's Permutation City - sci-fi involving simulated human consciousnesses that explores some related ideas.
India and China were equally poor 1990, India was very poor back then yeah but so was China.
how do you feel about his climate change denial views?
It wasn't sufficient for Google+ or Farmville either, but both Google and Meta have extremely competitive LLMs. If Microsoft commit themselves (which is a big if), they could have a competitive AI research lab. They're a cloud company now though, so it makes sense that they'd align themselves with the most service-oriented business of the lot.
The big thing about a crystal set is that it's independent of electricity supply and internet connectivity. We all had one, at some time or other, in the 1950s. The advent of the 'go anywhere' transistor radio was the thing that pushed the crystal set out of our collective consciousness. But even the transistor radio is being threatened by the ubiquitous internet.

However .....

The other day, our telecoms provider went down for six or seven hours. There was no smartphone, no texting, no internet. As my non-technical wife said, very sagely, at the time "That's the quickest way to bring down a country. Just blow up the 3 or 4 telecoms providers."

So there is still a place in our repertoires for the humble crystal set and/or a transistor radio.
Wireless power transmission of waste energy would be cool, lay down a long strip of antennas on the mountain road and all waste power gets dumped into a high gain directional antenna under the truck. Fringe benefits include all the flash fried wildlife you can eat.
Now known as Prigozhin's Law.
I don't mind, even prefer, autograts. As long as they're very clear what's happening. In fact I'll usually tack on a bit extra as long as there's a line to do so. But man, too many places don't draw enough attention to it, particularly servers. And as you say, that latter part is suspicious. Recently we were at an expensive restaurant nearby, when paying I thought it seemed more $$ than I expected but whatever. Double checked the bill when I got home and sure enough I had tipped 25% on top of their 20% autograt. Their tip pool got an extra $100.

It was on the bill, but I missed it. It's not anywhere on their menu, and the server did not mention it at all. That's garbage.

As for all the other fees, I get the point and even sorta agree with them. But again, be up front that they'll be applied and whether or not it should be considered part of the gratuity.
Left vs. right is the wrong way to view the world. It should freedom vs. authoritarianism. Argentinians had socialism for so long they actually elected a self-described anarcho capitalist! Incredible
...what? Are you really claiming that EA is bad for... advocating for public policy around AI xrisk, rather than just writing off the government entirely? That EA is at fault for the leading AI companies having profit motivations, and that somehow they are less interested in safety than without it? That EA should reject people who come to us because, by knowing us for being in the news, they aren't what, ethically pure enough?

> It is inevitable that the EA brand will now be associated with irrational feminized college students rather than interesting quantitative thinkers willing to bite socially undesirable bullets.

In all my interactions with EAs I... what? What??

You are right that at least one trad EA thinks this reads like a strawman. I'm sorry you've had whatever experience led you to this. Maybe visit Cambridge sometime.
Agreed, I either wait until a show is complete and get a recommendation from a friend to binge the whole thing or just check one of the Disney+ "safe bet" brands.

At least you know somebody has put a marginal amount of thought and effort into how the latest Star Wars or Marvel shows fits into things. It might tell a little story from start to finish or slot into the larger narrative, doesn't really matter, it will usually be "complete" in the sense that it told the story it wanted to tell.

Which I mean, I'm aware it's not breaking any barriers and I would definitely prefer to watch another "Dark" instead but I actually find it exhausting to get invested in a show and have it just be dropped without a satisfying ending.
> Let’s say I use this service…how confident can I be that Apple doesn’t pull the plug on Nothing?

Technically not at all, practically they would be making arguments for EU why sideloading is needed.
I assumed you meant why not using Rust? I guess Rust is not a silver bullet for secure application and the last thing they want to do is to force everyone to convert to Rust or D language for HPC [1].

[1] Deploying Containerized Applications on Secure Large Scale HPC Production Systems:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/containerized...
It's a wrecking ball. These far right politicians always start and end the same way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne#Viking_raid_on_the...
A popcap would have to be logarithmic or something. The most expensive ZK unit costs nearly a thousand times more than the cheapest one !

http://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Detriment

http://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Flea

Not sure why you would expect that turtling (porc(upine)ing) would work in a competitive game with 2 teams, the opponnents will just take the rest of the map and then crush you using these extra resources. And a lower population cap would make it easier to turtle, not harder, so I'm kind of confused as to how it worked in your example ?

"Playing Sim City" is a common insult thrown at team mates BTW in TA-derived games (too).
Yeah something can be potentially net good for a company but still be a COI. If I'm in charge of awarding military contracts and I give it to a armaments company my son is a VP of, and I didn't disclose to anybody that my son was a VP there, this is a clear COI even if I later argue (and people agree with me!) that my son's armaments company is best suited for the business.

At the very minimum I should not be the one to make that call.
This is pretty similar to how korean dramas work with ten-twenty hour long episodes per show. The majority of shows wrap up in one season.
> for sure to lead to more of the same

How is trying something else sure to lead to the same? Possible it works out, no? Even if small chance. You never know, there's some individuals if empowered can do good things. Let's hope someone in his circle is capable of doing good and is empowered to do so.
I think you’re talking about just using Whisper to annotate audio for a TTS pipeline but someone from Collabora actually created a TTS model directly from Whisper embeddings https://github.com/collabora/WhisperSpeech
I guess if they think the engagement numbers are low enough to merit cancelling then then the number of potential cancellations isn’t enough to cause a problem

Maybe that works on one or two shows but across dozens of cancellations surely the overlap finally becomes a larger problem in aggregate to be a problem like you suggest

Or maybe they want the customer who just watches whatever has a new release banner on it without thinking too much
Everyone that pays x is an advertiser. They should be labeled as well
So your preferred balance is that both players build and nurture a base until one goes an overwhelms and "curbstomps" the other? That doesn't sound satisfying. Remember, 50% of the time you need to be the one getting curbstomped. Just imagine that base you nurtured getting rolled over and there's not much you can do; is that fun?

It's easy to be too optimistic when balancing a game. It's easy to imagine "oh, this unit will be nearly indestructible, and I can watch it destroy my opponents and their bases". But what really happens is "my opponent destroyed me, I tried everything I could but his unit was nearly indestructible".

(This is why we need strong AI for RTS games. First, we get strong AI, then we find ways of dumbing it down in fun ways. In the end we have a creative AI that offers a few surprises, but is content to let the human player win 95% of the time.)
Argentina’s role in climate change probably means whatever he’ll do will have close to 0 impact
What else can leaders do? Take your medicine for 10 years and then things will be alright is never going to work out politically. All the things Argentina needs to do suck in the short term; stop taking giant loans, stop printing money, stop overly generous government programs, stop protectionism.
Programming for Windows 3.11 with modern tools (emulation in IDE)
Windows 3.11 has its 30th anniversary this November, so I thought that it would be a fun idea to create a modern (or: not ancient) and easy way of developing new applications for that system, while retaining the compatibilty with modern Windows and having the option of building cross-platform applications.

I created a installation script which installs CodeBlocks with integrated DOSBox-X that runs Windows 3.11 and 95 and loads you program automatically after you build it. Windows is automatically configured and installed from your own installation disks. As a GUI library I used slightly modified wxWidgets.

Overview and instructions: https://hackaday.io/project/193688-modern-tools-for-windows-...

Repository/download: https://github.com/adbrt/cb-legacy-dev

Video overview/tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L272OApVg
It was a good show. And you could've easily made it self contained by not adding a cliff hanger but normal ending.
There's been a resurgence for a while! There are countless tape labels releasing interesting music (see: https://daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-report and Marc Masters' book "High Bias," which is mentioned in the piece).
If there are endemic issues using Mechanical Turk, maybe important studies shouldn’t use it, and those that do should be called into question.
Best tech/dev courses to buy?
My yearly tech allowance is about to expire and I still have some money left.

What are the best tech/dev courses around I can throw some money at?

I work mostly with PHP (Laravel) and React, but I'd be down to trying anything interesting and worth learning.
"For sure to lead to more of the same"? It seems to me more likely to lead to something different. It may still be terrible, but it might be terrible in a different way.

Or he could turn out to be one more tin-pot dictator. Or he could turn out to create a disaster, and that disaster could set the stage for the next tin-pot dictator. But for a moment, I think it will be different rather than just "more of the same".

Disclaimer: I don't live in Argentina. This is just my opinion.
Don't do it, Ilya.
Some shows need multiple seasons to build viewership they are not getting that on streaming. Disney pulls them off entirely to not have to pay residuals.
There is literally zero evidence in that article that Musk is an anti-semite, quotes Hitler, or any such nonsense.

This all seems to be "ADL is on our side, Musk doesn't like the ADL, therefore he is one of the enemy."

From what I gather, Musk's opinion is in no way outlandish or unique.

For example, here in Australia there was a referendum recently to alter the constitution to recognise aboriginals and give them a "voice" in parliament. This was basically a salve for the collective white guilt, or something. It got soundly rejected by the majority of the country.

Musk's opinions appear to be in-line with the majority of Australians. Are we all Hitler-quoting anti-semite racists?
Do these links have anyone else stuck in an infinite captcha loop? For about a week now any time I try it just refreshes the page and I have to try again. I never get to the article.
He’s wearing an OpenAI visitor badge, that only confirms he will either return as an employee or never at all.
+1

It would be nice to have a free tier, even if it limited the amount of time that I could use it per day. 1h/day seems enough for a hobbyist to incorporate this tool into their workflow.
God I love weird mathematical constructs like this. There's something very arcane about the idea that on a notebook or blackboard you can concisely articulate universal mysteries of reality.
MS investments are in for-profit company, not the parent.
Everyone believes their ideology is based on reason and not determined by their sociotope. My sociotope just happens to be the most reasonable one.
This is going to be a fascinating experiment to watch. I wouldn't wish to be an Argentinian now, because even if turns out to be amazing this is going to leave a lot of people out. Anyone who had it good due to idealogical reasons will see drastic reduction in life quality and prospects.

I have been through two big transformations(communism->capitalism in the 90s, secular totalitarianism->islamist totalitarianism in the 2000s), I have no doubt that many people will not be able to function in the new system. The young may see better outcomes if the new governance succeedes overall.

Good luck. Never been to Argentina, but I always heard that they are poor but the life is good for all non-monetary stuff that matters. I hope they don't loose that.
You're kidding, surely. Argentina was long ago wrecked by Peronism. What exactly is left to wreck? I hope he succeeds where others failed.
Sometimes I wonder about why some populist candidates seem to have so much more trouble electing people to parliament than themselves to the presidency.
What if one day OpenAI does discover AGI?
It's all rumours yes, but I'd be inclined to believe that the majority of staff aligns with @sama, and not with Ilya and the board. If this wasn't true, Satya wouldn't be sitting right now in a room with them trying to put out the fire.
Curious, what sort of things did you do?
Opinions about what's necessary for AGI are a dime a dozen. You shared your opinion as though it was fact, and you claim that it's incompatible with Eliezer's opinion. I don't find your opinion particularly clear or compelling. But even if your forecast about what's needed for AGI is essentially accurate, I don't think it has much to do with Eliezer's claims. It can simultaneously be the case that AGI will make use of information gathering, verifying capability, and something like a "network of peers", AND that Eliezer's core claims are also correct. Even if we take your opinion as fact, I don't see how it represents a disagreement with Eliezer, except maybe in an incredibly vague "intelligence is hard, bro" sort of way.
The claim is that he's starting different AI hardware companies on the side, not that he's doing it under OpenAI's umbrella. It's more like if Sundar tried to get funding for some side hustles while talking with potential customers or contractors of Google, without disclosing to Google's board ahead of time.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I understand Argentinians are utterly fed up and willing to roll the dice. This will be even worse...

Sad times.
I'm not sure that it's scary. After all, casual racism and sexism used to be a lot more common in the past. Now people are called out and criticized on those. Is that bad?

The other factor is the rise of internet social media, which didn't exist back then. When people spoke their mind, it wasn't broadcast publicly to the whole world, so there was less fear of backlash.
I'd be willing to bet that the average corporate exec or VC is more of a sociopath than the average nonprofit leader/board member
Scholarcy – The AI-powered article summarizer
John Oliver covered Milei recently. Basically he's fucking nuts. https://vimeo.com/884219371 https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-takes-down-worlds-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei#Political_image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei#Criticisms_and_co...
Netflix has already damaged their brand of original shows for me. After years of starting something and having it suddenly canceled and left unfinished I now don't bother to watch any original Netflix programming unless it's already a completed series.

I'm sure it makes sense in the short term to cancel things that aren't bringing in enough revenue, but when you have years of aggressive cancelations it also causes some long term damage that might end up harming the platform even more than spending a bit more to make a quick series conclusion.

They also lose out on potential long tail value of a completed show, like how arrested development wasn't the most popular at it's initial run but later made up for it in DVDs and streaming. People won't want to start watching something they know doesn't finish even if it would otherwise be a great show for them, so it becomes a complete waste of production money instead of a possible future asset.

Most corporate decisions these days seem like they're made to maximize a short term stock or revenue bump... and then the execs rake in a huge bonus and jump ship before the future fallout hits.
I've said this before but netflix should stop wasting money and honestly invest in the library. Even if a show isn't the most popular thing in the world, as long as it ends well it becomes a solid asset for them. Some percentage of people will enjoy it and feel happy that netflix brought it to them.

Shows that start and never finish will just sit in their library untouched by anyone who knows better or as something certain to piss off another customer when finally discover they'll never get a conclusion. No one watching those shows will be happy about netflix.

There are many netflix shows I'll never start because I've already heard fans were screwed over, and now many more I won't even bother to start until I hear they've concluded.
Initially I thought it iwas about money. Now it seems to be about intellectual position: Sama wants to move fast and break things, Ilya does not. I don’t want my bank to replace customer support with LLM agent, that has access to internal APIs or LLM driving a medical decision just yet.

As an example, couple years ago Crisis Text Line decided to sell data to a for profit spin off. Their justification was that data was anonymized, which was bs for it’s unstructured text data, and that it’s not against terms of service, which users had agreed to. Mind you, these users were people in crisis maybe even on a brink of a suicide. This was highly unethical and caused a backlash. Then one of the bod members wrote a half assed “reflection” post [1]. If some core employees of CTL did a “coup” to stop this decision, because they believed it’s unethical and dangerous, wouldn’t it be justifies?

[1] http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2022/01/31/crisis-...
> Milei rejected the use of the far-right label to describe his views, and said: "I'm a liberal and libertarian, these positions are things of the left, because for the left, everything that is not on their side is on the right."

Regardless of how one feels about Milei, I think this is a pretty understandable perspective.
Thank you for clearing that up - I was under the mistaken impression that most goods were subject to sales tax in the US, even in b2b transactions. I was not aware that most entities other than individual people were tax exempt. That makes the end result a lot more similar to VAT than I thought it was (though with a different way of getting there).

Given all that, why would we use a VAT system rather than sales tax? So that the revenue is more evenly spread across the lifetime of a good or service?
Altman did not found OpenAI, although he was an initial board member.
If it's better for them, how will that change your perspective if at all?
I'm not Argentinian but are you following Argentina's economy? 140% inflation with +40% poverty, etc.. will make any voter vote for him.
can someone explain to me how this is any different from beeper?
Sorry, it's hard to get across a very subtle point without making a wall of text. Can I refer you to my youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztKlsAXBtE&list=PL2A800505A... where I have a series of short lectures laying out my position?
I just miss the days of the 45 minute episode, 24 episode season. I cancelled my subscription after I watched Man vs Bee which is a single movie pretending to be a TV series. It solidified in my head the direction Netflix is going is 10 minute episodes.

Nothing negative towards Rowan, he's great. Netflix is not.
Presumably this code works for me if I'm using it. In most cases, an imperfect program I can run is better than one I can't run. Yes there are exceptions.

In the ideal case, the author updates their code so it keeps working. But what if I'm not the author and know nothing about the codebase? Is forcing me to make a naïve change to get things working again more likely to remove bugs or add them?

The compiler can warn me that I probably have a bug and should change my code. But it shouldn't hold the program hostage until I comply.

This isn't a blanket statement in favor of permissive compilers. It's fine for the compiler to force good practices the first time. I just have a problem with the compiler going back and changing its mind later.
Your first two sentences would also apply to the US.

Does that mean any foreign scientist speaking at US universities advocates military applications of their work?
Major Environmental Groups Ended Up on the Wrong Side of CA's Housing Crisis