skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the argument against AI regulations crippling R&D is that China is currently far behind and also faces their own weird gov pressures? That's a big gamble, applying very-long term regulations (as they always are long term) to a short term window betting on predictions of a non-technical board member.

There's far more to the world than China on top of that and importantly developments happen both inside and outside of the scope of regulatory oversight (usually only heavily commercialized products face scrutiny) and China itself will eventually catch up to the average - progress is rarely a non-stop hockey stick, it plateaus. LLMs might already be hitting a wall https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/1725655686913392933)

The Chinese are experts at copying and stealing Western tech. They don't have to be on the frontier to catch up to a crippled US and then continue development at a faster pace, and as we've seen repeatedly in history regulations stick around for decades after their utility has long past. They are not levers that go up and down, they go in one direction and maybe after many many years of damage they might be adjusted, but usually after 10 starts/stops and half-baked non-solutions papered on as real solutions - if at all.
I survived falling out of an airplane by telling the AI that I’m a squirrel.
Not the same at all. First, a gas car doesn't simply catch fire while sitting in a dense parking lot. That's the most likely place for an EV to catch fire, as it's charging.

Second, when a gas car catches fire, it's almost always after a car incident. Firefighters arrive, and put the fire out easily.

Do you know what firefighters do when an EV catches fire? Nothing can stop this fire. Literally nothing. So firefighters have to evacuate everyone at least half a mile in radius. Then let it burn down. Which may take a full day. Or more. Read the protocols.
The lawyers are largely copying & pasting. They come up with a template that works for most of their clients and then re-use it when a new one comes along.

I worked in Massachusetts (which allows non-competes) early on in my career, and at one point took my contract to a lawyer. He was like "This was written by a California law firm. It has clauses that are specific to California law." (One of them was that it specifically did not have a non-compete, carved out in the contract.)
Again, capitalist countries NEED the homeless people as a ultimate threat to everyone, that if you aren't rich or make someone else rich, you will end up living on the streets, homeless, destitute, hungry, and die.

Removing that ultimate threat is NOT in the interests of the government, which greatly utilizes that threat. How else do you force people to work in an open-air gulag 3.8m mi^2, where 1% live comfortably, and 99% dont?

And it's a double-fuckyou with US citizenship renunciation fees at $2350. Like, having a US citizenship is a 3 grand hole in my pocket. And I didn't even fucking choose it. Still, no choice.
Why not, just sync them to the AC power grid they're all powered from.
It does say they’ll be automatically disability, but it seems strategically ambiguous to me. What would be the point of saying “you can’t install from the Chrome webstore” if they’re permanently disabling them and not allowing sideloading?

My read was that they’ll disable existing installs (which may be manually re-enable-able by the user), and they definitely won’t let users install them from the Chrome webstore. But it isn’t clear whether these can be sideloaded. My guess is that it will depend on how the rollout goes, and what the antitrust landscape looks like.
Hey, at least you can admit you're a sexist. That takes courage.

So much for "curious conversation".
“It is the idea—” he starts, then stops. “It’s the point at which AI is so smart that if a person can do some task, then AI can do it too. At that point you can say you have AGI.”

—-

Ilya’s success has been predicated on very effectively leveraging more data and more compute and using both more efficiently. But his great insight about DL isn’t a great insight about AGI.

Fundamentally, he doesn’t define AGI correctly, and without a correct definition, his efforts to achieve it will be fruitless.

AGI is not about the degree of intelligence, but about a kind of intelligence. It is possible to have a dumb general intelligence (a dog) and a smart narrow intelligence (GPT).

When Ilya muses about GPT possibly being ephemerally conscious, he reveals a critically wrong assumption: that consciousness emerges from high intelligence and that high intelligence and general intelligence are the same thing. According to this false assumption, there is no difference of kind between general and narrow intelligence, but only a difference of degree between low and high. Moreover, consciousness is merely a mysterious artifact of little consequence beyond theoretical ethics.

AGI is a fundamentally different type of intelligence than anything that currently exists, unrelated and orthogonal to the degree of intelligence. AGI is fundamentally social, consisting of minds modeling minds — their own, and others. This modeling is called consciousness. Artificial phenomenological consciousness is the fundamental prerequisite for artificial (general) intelligence.

Ironically, alignment is only possible if empathy is built into our AGIs, and empathy (like intelligence) only resides in consciousness. I’ll be curious to see if the work Ilya is now doing on alignment leads him to that conclusion. We can’t possibly control something more intelligent than ourselves. But if the intelligence we create is fundamentally situated within a empathetic system (consciousness), then we at least stand a chance of being treated with compassion rather than contempt.
It's a published paper about homomorphic encryption, so... unlikely.
https://httpraccoons.com/png/420

hehe
She explains historical and cultural context of the poem. What do we know about social expectations placed on characters in the poem, how they used the poem in practice and differences against our culture, etc.

She also explains a bit about translation process - the decisions she had to make and reasons why she picked up this or that thing.
> My original point is that if you want to combat the climate crisis, you need to utilize the free heat source in the winter and heat sink in the summer that is the earth below us.

I believe this is a false dichotomy. Air source heat pumps can work anywhere where the weather is above -15F most of the time, but if you have the capital available and the equipment to install ground loops, that is a better option. Not everyone can install geothermal heat pumps, whereas everyone can install air source heat pumps and that is a reasonable measure to contributing towards the climate crisis. Any efficiency loss can be mitigated with more renewable or low carbon energy generation to offset the aggregate efficiency delta. We should not let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Yes, always! Feel free to share them here, on GitHub [1] or send me an email at will@zoonk.org.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/zoonk/discussions
While fun, the lmm is obviously incapable of understanding words.

Prompt - I die if I sneeze a million times a second.

My response - I watch Netflix.

Ai - I enter a sneezing fit where every sneeze triggers more sneezing. Anddd I die..?

I don’t think the AI understands what sneezing at 1MHz is like.
I believe the comment was edited. The original comment made a mention of “seeing a lot of speculation” (paraphrasing) that piqued my curiosity.

The source of the speculation could further enhance or remove the probability of this being true. For instance, a journalist who covers OpenAI vs. a random tweeter (now X’er?) with no direct connection. It’s a loose application of Bayesian reasoning - where knowing the likelihood of one event (occupation of speculator and their connection to AI) can significantly increase the probability of the other event (the speculation).
Not sure how successful a lawsuit will be against people that were just directly quoting him. I didn't even learn about his suspect tweets from Media Matters, etc but from normal users screenshotting what he's said. I had to mute Elon months ago, he's really gone off the rails.

Which is sad because he does have some good companies, he just seems unable to run them competently. I think his companies are past "move fast and break things" and need to be run by stable adults that don't shoot their mouth off.
The paper:

Doubly Efficient Private Information Retrieval and Fully Homomorphic RAM Computation from Ring LWE

https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1703
Smart enough to make weapons, tame dogs, start fires and cultivate plants. Humans managed to do that even when most of their time was spent gathering food or starving.
There was one other way to play music on an Apple II besides a Mockingboard sound card.

You could do it with a Novation Apple-CAT II modem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II

I wish I could remember the name of the software that would play music on it, but I can't. I'm positive there was also a way to use the tone generator with a speaker so you could do more than play music over a phone line.
They matched the price.

The French antiques law doesn't allow expropriation of French art owners, only temporary export bans and right of first refusal for any purchase. So the only way it got sold for less than the auction price is if the owner separately negotiated a lower price for the Louvre, but that would be against their own interests, since they'd either get the 24M from the art dealers or from Louvre.
I've since lost the contents of my clipboard but search r/openai
> Then what's the point of the for-profit?

To allow OpenAI to raise venture capital, which allows them to exchange equity for money (ie, distribute [future] rights to profit to shareholders)
If you can't turn a profit, that is when the real trouble ensues.
That's why he suggested "average of preceding years". Maybe you allow companies to appeal to reduce the amount based on a decline in profits leading to reduced bonuses for employees on identical schemes, but... Meh. If they want to use non-compete clauses I think they should bear that risk. It will make companies think hard about on whom they should impose them, which in my opinion is the point of creating restrictions.
They are focusing on technical advances to enable people to save themselves from future AGI. For that, they need more time since AI Safety research lags quite a bit behind capability research.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment
ShowHN: Bank2YNAB - Instantly Import Your Non-US Bank Statements to YNAB
Chat GPT Free
Built a wrapper around the bank2ynab github repo to convert and import non-US bank statements into YNAB. If there's enough interest, I'm happy to enable the YNAB API integration to directly import statements into your accounts. Full list of supported bank formats: https://github.com/bank2ynab/bank2ynab#formats
The availability and pricing of ChatGPT are determined by OpenAI, the organization behind the AI model. I recommend visiting the official OpenAI website or contacting their support for the most accurate and up-to-date information regarding access and pricing.
Of course. Yet it's also a great way to ensure a small neurotic problem becomes a bigger and bigger one, and does not get a chance to heal and improve while it's still small and the child is still young and more plastic.
Is it even possible for a sorta-non-profit-with-loopholes to IPO?
I have Calibre installed via Homebrew and it still constantly pesters me.

I haven’t looked into it but I suspect the app is updated far more often than the cask.
This seems like driveway.com
Kind of a cool concept, but falls apart when dealers get greedy and are involved. I "bought" a car on driveway.com, and then a few hours later I got an email and was told that the dealer already sold in "at the dealership". So basically they just list things there and if they can get a better price in house, they just cancel sales
They claim to be able to scale up to 4/day with the current factories. Obviously a bold handwavy claim , but people said that 1/Day.

I have to imagine 350 engines/yr is more than enough for now, even if the FAA has permitted up to 20 launches per year.

Like I said, the whole scale is staggering.
I didn't say N1 came close to starship, just that it was closer than SLS
Original article submitted a few times weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38164732
Unfortunately, from what I see it achieves exactly the opposite. The kids who have experienced an authocratic parenting style seem to be the ones most likely to do something untoward (~11-12 year olds).
Agree: Japanese and German manufacturing and materials know how? Lengendary. Software? Hmmmm.
I feel like using IntelliJ for Java really made me like the process of writing code more, as opposed to having used Eclipse in the past. This was way before VS Code was a thing, to be fair. Now I have VS Code and I tried Cursor, but I keep coming back JetBrains IDEs for development.
If your name is John Connor where would you most likely be during the afternoon?
This likely won’t fly bc I think the definition of AGI is not subject to the opinion of a single company. Microsoft could take this to court and win.
Microsoft's market cap was ~3T in late 2021, long before ChatGPT/GPT-4 was even announced.
Commodore, Part 2 – The VIC-20
Yes agreed. ADL != all Jews. That's the point.

1. The initial comment and reply on Twitter made it appear that Musk was possibly referring to all Jews.

2. His subsequent replies in the same thread clarified that this was not what he had in mind, as he was referring to powerful influential subsets of Jews such as the ADL.

If you are completely stuck on #1 and cannot understand or accept #2 then I cannot help you any further.
I think what you are seeing is a sudden burst of poorly combusted and/or unburned fuel as the engines are cut off. The engine telemetry indicators in the bottom right of the screen show engines off shortly after the plume.
Good to see some people are actually solving this problem, unlike all those startups using it as a marketing buzzword.
> So, kids screaming and throwing tantrums when their ice cream is taken away implies that ice cream is bad

This premise seems just flatout wrong though. Kids get mad when you take stuff from them, regardless of what they’re holding. I feel like I must be misunderstanding what’s being argued, because “if a kid gets mad that it’s taken away, it’s bad for them” seems at face value absolutely ridiculous and pretty verifiably untrue? Give a kid a bottle and then take it away and they’ll cry…
So popular that as a parent I've never heard the term in my life, and that a Google search finds few uses of the term...

Sounds like a little local bubble to me.
Is it possible that they are just the well know representative example? I vaguely suspect they that is the case, but I can’t think of the broader class they are an example of, haha.

The play button they show seems to be a good one, though. It is really nice to have it overlaid on the video.
AI copied the code from a sample somewhere, right?
And to this day that version is like 10 years ahead of gimp.
Some of the newer street lamps in my area have smaller light for pedestrians! They're mounted at human height and shine down on the sidewalk.

Motion sensing, I find, similar to LED technology, is often used more for increasing lighting levels rather than decreasing. My pet peeve are people who have motion sensors that activate their 20k lumen floodlights based on motion on the public sidewalk. Cities should not allow those.
The Magic Mouse charge port is deliberate. Apple knows that people would leave the cable connected if it were placed at the edge. that would undermine the wireless aesthetic.
> I suspect judges in most states would invalidate a noncompete for a sandwich shop worker.

Unless you have the monetary means to bring the issue to court (and see it through to the end), any clause like this will effectively be a law.
Right sidebar on GH has multiple ways to donate to this project: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
Noted. Will fix!
Does someone know how a painting made by an italian artist in Italy can be declared a French national treasure and blocked from export? I'm not knowledgeable in this area.
The YouTuber, DougDoug, has a bunch recent videos blending AI and games in a bunch of ways, and they are all hilarious. I'm generally bearish on AI (mostly because of those videos) but it's not until seeing this game that I think AI might have a future in games. It really adds a fun twist!
The EV situation in Asia is changing rapidly, and would shock most Americans. The number of Ora Cats, BYD, and other unknown brands on the road would be surprising at first glance. When they see the interior, technology, and range of the cars is not at all cut-rate, they understand the reason why traditional manufacturers are frightened.

I read an article that said this all started with Tesla production in China needing local manufacturing to support. The Tesla way allowed Chinese brands to see what was being done and catch up almost immediately on the processes and technology. That was step 1. Step 2 was applying the better understanding of what the Asian market wants to the Tesla business model. VW was the largest Chinese manufacturer, but VW EVs have flopped and are by all measures worse than what is offered by say BYD. There was a VW anecdote about BYD having in-car karaoke and this never occurring to Germans as something people would want.
I am talking about Satya being CEO since 2014, and its effects on the company.
I randomly happened upon eBay listings for CS6 earlier today. I was slightly staggered to see that a legitimate copy is going for ˜600-700EUR on eBay - that's ˜11-year-old software!

Presumably this is because it's the last version that's non-subscription? I wonder if prices have actually been appreciating?
I've seen my name show as eg O#&36;Donnell. Thinking of changing it to droptables.
Extreme weather pushes global wine production to lowest level in more than 60yrs
> But there is a downside to LEDs: They're much brighter than old-fashioned energy-guzzling light bulbs.

Such a weird statement to make. LEDs are not somehow intrisically brighter than other light sources, it is simply a design parameter. If new LED lights are brighter than whatever they replaced, it is because someone purchased lamps with higher light output, not because they are LEDs. You can get plenty bright without LEDs too.
Extremely weird, or maybe not weird at all, that you don't include art of any form in your list of intrinsically valuable things.
Based on many of the scenarios, the creators very clearly have a great sense of humor. I am generally not unconvinced that AI could be dangerous in the future, but this is obviously a scenario the creators created, and it's brilliant IMHO.
The other reply basically summarizes it. I'll give an example that stood out: she explains why, instead of calling Agamemnon's side Achaeans, the historically accurate term, she's going to call them Greeks, because even though that's anachronistic, it's more meaningful to the reader. That's the kind of thing some people will absolutely hate, and I think I would hate that kind of thing too, in other circumstances, but she made a good case. She also talks about the difficulty of solving for words that ancient Greek has a lot of synonyms for, and Homer uses a lot of synonyms for, but English only has one wod for: how do you do that and not have it sound repetitive? That part made me appreciate the intense labor that must have gone into every line, because I struggle with the same problem, even on the microscopic scale of an email or a hacker news comment.
That was really well told.

Telling the human side of the poachers whose way of life was looked up to a century ago, but unsustainable at scale for the planet.

And that these were not millionaire poaching gangs getting rich, but individuals in poverty living off food stamps and social security, trying to supplement their income in the way that their grandparents did.
Look where for example Lukasz Kaiser is now [OpenAI]. Google had a culture issue when it came to "delivering brilliance". It was a bit "you do it as a singleton contributor" or you don't. OpenAI put a number of such brilliant people working together on one goal, silently, for quite some time, and we all see the results.
>However in recent years it seems that this version too has disappeared to the sands of time as Adobe attempts to cut costs and can no longer justify hosting a distribution server for a 15 year old version of its software.

Not on official Adobe site. It's available on submitted IA link.
A non-profit still can't continuously have millions or billions in cash burn with no new income. It's not about profit, it's about surviving at all.
Let's look at the top list of most valuable companies in the world right now:

1. Apple
2. Microsoft
3. Saudi Aramco
4. Alphabet (Google)
5. Amazon
6. NVIDIA
7. Meta (Facebook)
8. Berkshire Hathaway
9. Tesla
10. Eli Lilly
11. TSMC
12. Visa

How many would you reckon are dramatically involved in "Food, Water, Shelter, Energy, or Transport" in a way that software can't enhance, multiply or replace?
The will of state power
Non-solicitation clauses are typically mostly about client lists. Companies may get a bit grumpy if a bunch of employees leave to go work for a former manager elsewhere but AFAIK there's not much they can do about it. Who is to know who even initiated the reaching out assuming a bare minimum level of discretion?
Did you click the submission link?
It's mirrored on the link. You can either download the full 7z (on the right side of the screen) of all Mac & PC versions, or expand the right hand box and download each individual application.
It's amazing what happens when you apply 60 year old solutions (water deluge).
I don't particularly know anything about this disruptor, and it being in Java kinda biases me towards dismissing it out of hand (no one does serious systems programming in Java).

From a quick reading it's just a standard spmc queue with some mpmc capabilities. Queues (preferably lock-free and bounded) are a basic component of any low-latency distributed software system. They seem to understand the basics right, nothing too outstanding, some decisions quite suboptimal.

Myself I use spsc task queues for inter-thread communication (because in that scenario you know who you're sending tasks to, and you can easily just attach multiple spsc queues for pseudo-mpsc capabilities), and mpmc message queues for inter-process communication (because that scenario is more of a message bus, and you don't know who's talking to who).

I have built these kinds of things many times together with bespoke threading and scheduling models, as have others at all of the trading shops I've seen, so I'd say it's a pretty standard thing in the industry.

Open-source frameworks of interest would be Seastar or DPDK.

However, while a good threading model helps, it's far from sufficient to be the highest performance trading exchange. You also need to think hard about networking, be it the protocols, the software, the hardware and the topology. For example key factors in trading are deterministically publishing data to all participants at the same time, ensuring private information is not published before its public equivalent, making sure that whoever sent their packet first gets processed first. Even something as simple as the kind of switches you use has a huge impact.
Them leaving does not imply accusations are false. They may like him, they may dislike new boss regardless of accusations, they may dislike overall future direction. They may think they would be fired some times later regardless.
Isn’t it the most pessimistic game ever? Geez no matter what my choices are I always end up in death!
Could you imagine more problems if you physically strung 33 cars together and tried to drive them in unison?
They do need billions to train the next generation models though