skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a post-socialist country. Most older people had some criticism, but overall missed socialism.

I always found it amazing to hear about workplace councils that could fire the boss or the very low rents.
I don't know for Q* of course, but all the tests I made with GPT4, and all what I've read and seen about it, show that it is unable to reason. It was trained with an unfathomable amount of data, so it can simulate reasoning very well, but it is unable to reason
Yes it even can be installed without root capabilities: https://docs.sylabs.io/guides/latest/admin-guide/installatio...
I can barely get past the first couple of sentences.

If you are paying a subscription for a fucking MATTRESS, especially after that out-the-door price, you should be deeply ashamed. Go ahead and flame me or write an embarrassing rationalization, you’re wrong.

Sure, everyone deserves privacy, even absolute psychopaths that buy shit like this. But there has to be a point where people become personally accountable for making catastrophically stupid choices that enable loathsome low rent parasites on society and industry.
LLMs can reason to an extent. I believe it’s entirely possible even today to achieve AGI. A complex system made out of LLMs, maybe Recursive Retrieval Augmented Generation (use an LLM to retrieve) or Recursive Agent Teams (any agent can assign a job to a new subcommittee of agents) or both. The most fundamental data structure is a tree, after all. And that is how we think, no? One thought leads to another in a tree structure.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45374-y

Based on ECG and EEG. n=35.

I wonder if eye strain doesn't blend into it too. Focusing on a screen is exhausting, and a clear difference from in-person meetings across a table. If you're a computer worker, having regular in-person meetings might be good for this reason too.
I appreciate the good intention behind this post but it seems dangerously naive to the reality that most workers face.

Many employers simply do not care about worker safety. They'll claim to but the pressures they put in place ensure that it's treated as a secondary measure at best.

Most employees cannot afford to be fired for speaking up about safety. Legal protections and compensation often take months/years to come through. They are useless when you have no money for next month's rent.

Not to mention that in many places the company that fired you is often the only major employer in your area.
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Is it working? I get "Sorry, we could not find your project. Please check the submitted ID or file."
What is exactly the non sense part?

Can you elaborate on the education analogy and how it relates to AI doomer stuff?
There was (and is) no reason for it to exist since python supports running .zip files that contain all the dependencies.
Yeah "find all references" will show you everything that can call a particular function. As I said it won't give you the actual values so this still seems useful.
Interesting, how do you use this idea? If you prompt the LLM "create a python Add function Foo to add a number to another number", "using Foo add 1 and 2", or somesuch, but what's to stop it hallucinating and saying "Sure, let me do that for you, foo 1 and 2 is 347. Please let me know if you need anything else."
Yudkowsky’s doomsday cult almost blew OpenAI to pieces and sent everyone who knows the details in the wind like dandelion seeds. What’s next? A datacenter bombing or killing key researchers? We should be happy that this particular attempt failed, because this cult is only capable of strategic actions that make things far more dangerous.

This will be solved like all other engineering and science: with experiments and iteration, in a controlled setting where potential accidents will have small consequences.

An unaligned system isn’t even useful, let alone safe. If it turns out that unaligned AGI is very hard, we will obviously not deploy it into the world at scale. It’s bad for the bottom line to be dead.

But there’s truly no way out but forward; game theory constrains paranoid actors more than the reckless. A good balance must be found, and we’re pretty close to it.

None of the «lesswrong» doomsday hypotheses have much evidence for them, if that changes then we will reassess.
If you discover accidentally a vuln, what would you do as a professional?
I don’t know if a similar tool exists but in principle Java and .NET has profiling APIs that let you look into method calls. They can be used as a basis for a similar tool.
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Here's the video explaining how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9uYal8cxA
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When I got my Pixel 7 Pro I was shocked at how bad the battery life was, even without google play services. (came from a 5a)
I love the phone, but the battery life makes me regret my purchase almost every day.

Then my coworker got the Pixel 8 Pro, and it has WAY worse battery life than my 7 Pro, he even went and got a new one at the store because it was so bad it had to be a fault, but no. It just is absolute garbage.
"set -x" is a life saver for debugging. Also "set -euo pipefail" so a script just exits on errors or unexpected behavior. If done well you can really reign in squirrely behavior.

Bash has some odd behaviors and footguns but it can also be surprisingly reliable and versatile. Ive caught some seriously messed up stuff that I couldn't figure out otherwise, using set -x. Also shellcheck will forcefully hammer good practice into your head and catch a ton of hangups that are hard to know before making the mistakes.

also setting backup variables is a good idea like:
pictures="${pics_dir:-$HOME/Pictures}"
“Given enough time” makes that a useless statement. Every kid in college learns this.

The ability to eventually solve a given theorem isn’t interesting — especially if the time is longer than the time left in the universe.

It’s far more interesting to see if an AI can, given an arbitrarily stated problem make clear progress quickly.
Thanks for your feedback, I'll fix it later today!
I can see this happening. Same as how "don't be evil" was a joke outside the company (cause obviously an evil company would say this) but taken seriously by some inside.
I think he is referring to an AGI that is 10000x more productive than a median programmer
For a rank and file employee or a line manager, I'd agree with you.

But this is a Director at Google. She has the power to command change and her actions affect 100s of people directly inside Google and likely many thousands using the products of teams under her. They likely draw multi million dollar total comp.

I very much welcome them to be publicly called out on their BS.
Yes. Do not forget that we literally live in the Matrix, getting all the information of import through tiny screens, the sources and validity of which we can only speculate on.

All of the validity of the info we have is verified by heuristics we have, like groupthink, listening to 'experts' and trying to match up the info with our internal knowledge and worldview.

I feel like our current system of information allows us to develop models that are quite distant from base reality, evidenced by the multitudes of realities existing in people's heads, leading some to question if 'truth' is a thing that can be discovered.

I think as people become more and more Internet-addicted, an increasing amount of our worldviews come through that little screen, instead of real-life experiences.
So, it basically uses a software to translate the videos to make it available for spanish audience and others..
Thanks for the recommendations, will def check Kivy
Libra 2 specifically since it also has the highest dpi. Basically you are looking for the highest dpi and non flush screen.
Like I said, we all have roles to play. I suppose you missed that. May you learn along the way in your career.
this is a fantastic description
looks like streamlit is not really fit for the kind of "production-ready" app I want to build
eprint.iacr.org has no institutional requirement, but it does have minimal standards. It takes a few days for them to review. It's not a real peer review, but they check that you don't just publish gibberish or spam or something obviously wrong.

(I have published there without an affiliation to a research institution.)
Choosing to lose instead of succeed is indeed a choice. And a valid one I've made a few times. As long as you realize the tradeoff.
A correct-by-construction conversion from lambda calculus to combinatory logic
It's not usually hard to do, no, but it is >130K of C alone, excluding whitespace, comments, tests, examples, etc. I don't want it on my system from a security perspective alone.

Add in the bootstrapping pain it imposes due to autoconf and other stuff, I think there are many valid reasons to avoid it and choose another shell that is more auditable yet still has just as many eyeballs on it (e.g., mksh - the default on Android; dash - default on Debian; BusyBox - every embedded system).
The Entire OpenAI Explosion Was Ignited by This Research Paper
I think that modern desktop GPUs do in fact still have hardware cursors; I recall digging into this before. The reason isn't speed or power usage, it's latency. The cursor position of a hardware cursor can be changed during the scan-out, which means that it can be significantly more up-to-date than the framebuffer itself. It's a pretty big deal for something feeling 'usable' and that's definitely why VMs and remote desktops will go through extra effort to make the cursor feel lower latency (remote desktops will outright fake it, while VMs will forward hardware cursor support through the guest to the host.) If you use an older computer with a CRT and no compositor, the lack of latency is marked; it makes it feel like things are happening before you even do them, and things feel "snappier" sometimes even when they're obviously a lot slower.

edit: Also, on Windows, you can notice the presence of the hardware cursor because Windows has an additional trick: it will switch to a software cursor when dragging windows, so that the window and the cursor stay synced up. However, since it doesn't perfectly sync the hardware cursor turning off with the software cursor frame being presented, you'll usually see a very subtle flicker when you first start dragging a window. I dunno if this still applies to fully-updated Windows, but it still applied last I checked, in Windows 10. (And once you notice this, boy, you never stop noticing it. It takes a second.. then it's hard to ever not see it again.)
Right? I find that ppl who are so afraid of this kind of stuff generally have a view like "I'm worried non-straight ppl will force their views unto me, sorta like I force my views onto them", one of those "seeing in others what is in yourself" kinda thing. Thus their constant fear and outrage about anything different. But seriously, don't worry guys, people just want to live their lives. You know, "live and let live"? What someone wears or who someone "gets it on" with is not an existential threat to your astronomically-inflexible views or values. (Though if your views/values are "LGBTQ ppl have less rights than others", yeah those are definitely going to be deeply and directly challenged, moreso every day, and I'm here to do my part in that, cheers)
I've done this multiple times to great results.

People don't work in university research for the pay, it's garbage, I assure you.

I was a research associate about 15 years ago. The top tier CS researcher at that leading university payscale was something like $70k, that was the cap out.
GPT4, I find the difference consistently significant
Where do you learn this stuff?
You are missing the point that it can be a model limit. LLMs were a breakthrough but that doesn’t mean they are a good model for some other problems, no matter the number of parameters. Language contains more than we thought, as GPT has impressively showed (ie semantics embedded in the syntax emerging from text compression), but still not every intellectual process is language based.
I think they've interpreted "variable length tuple" as "a tuple whose length can change", not "a tuple whose length could be one of multiple options".

The former is of course not possible with tuples being immutable, which is why they're talking about lists.
I have almost never heard a single good thing about Vic from people who were there around same time as him
Maybe the situation he’s good at dealing with is… getting fired?
Well, but I'm sure you'd accept that there are limits. Where we may differ is where those limits begin and where they end. In the end LLMs are not magical. All it's going to be able to do is present words to you. And how we respond to words is something that we can control. It's not like some series of words is just going to be able to completely reprogram you.

Like here I expect there is 0% chance, even if I had a superhuman LLM writing words for me, that I could ever convince you that LLMs will not be able to convince you to hold any arbitrary position. It's because you've formed your opinion, it's not falsifiable, and so there's not a whole heck of a lot else to be done except have some fun debates like this where, if anything, we tend to work to strengthen our own opinions by finding and repairing any holes in them.
Judging by some YouTube videos I’ve seen, ChatGPT with GPT-4 can get pretty far through a game of chess. (Certainly much farther than GPT-3.5.) For that duration it makes reasonably strategic moves, though eventually it seems to inevitably lose track of the board state and start making illegal moves. I don’t know if that counts as being able to “actually play a game”, but it does have some ability, and that may have already influenced its answers about the other topics you mentioned.
Maybe you should sell it then? Given its scarce and all..
When I was a grad student, I'd get exactly the kind of inquiries you are talking about just because my email was on the website. Professors got even more. One emeritus collected the most colorful work and stored it on a shelf in the institute's hallway and labeled it "black physics" [1].

These kind of requests have an extremely low signal to noise ratio (as in: I never heard once coming something out of this) and no one wastes their time with this. I also think it's basically impossible to contribute to my former field, theoretical physics, without a formal education. Sorry, I know it's not fair.

If you're a just a curious layman with an honest question that doesn't imply you solved the world's most difficult problems, you may get a few pointers to ressources, but I wouldn't expect a research collaboration.

[1] https://www.rnz.de/region/heidelberg_artikel,-Uni-Heidelberg... (sadly paywalled now)
People are already lamenting the lack of useful results in Google Search, and adverts aren't returning as much value as they used to, and there's been a rise in modified client apps without ads as a reaction to ads being spammed on certain services.
There a good textbook that covers modern CSS and HTML? Or does the space change frequently enough that most of the best stuff is contained in blogs and articles?
HBO is paid programming with product placement at most, and NYT sells subscriptions that actually bring in the majority of their revenue. If it were 90% ads, I'd say yeah they might want to reconsider that.

YouTube has its own content while Search ofc doesn't, and its advertising model is different. I wouldn't lump it in with Search. But still, they've decided ads aren't enough and they need YT Premium subscriptions.
Set -xufo pipefail

Or whatever the magic string is. Enable all the errors at the start of the script
Weird time estimate given that a little more than a year ago, the leading use of LLMs was generating short coherent paragraphs (3-4 sentences)
Not unless you get a basic VSphere Essentials for 3 hosts. $500 I know, but you get it once, use it with 3 servers, and control it all from one portal. Moving Vms is super easy with Vsphere too. Of course, you get unlimited cores with it.
And going the other direction: I don't expect my individual brain cells to feel conscious, but if they do, they're probably not aware that they also together form consciousness.

The fact that the universe exists is pretty weird; that it is (at least partially) self-aware is either far more strange, or completely... natural. Perhaps even inevitable for sufficiently complex closed systems with stabilizing forces.

Thanks for the book recommendation.
VMware was doing live migration since 2002.
Open source reimplantations are relatively recent.
What is the difference between simulating reasoning very well and "actual" reasoning?
https://youtu.be/PtAIh9KSnjo?t=3754
How he became a CEO is a common story. Why this drama happened is still unknown to everyone.
And seems like they don’t plan to make the HP experience similar to Macs.
Nice citations. Finish your thought. What's your point?

Do you honestly think the average American lives better than the average Kiwi? That is an adorable thought lol.

Check out the latest Channel 5 documentary to see how many Americans live. We have some mega-wealthy people but also have extreme poverty and even our middle class often does not have health insurance.
When companies figure out that cloud is a waste of money, this might not work.
Wikipedia says 100 billion neurons in the brain
Having an email address of a known university or institute is usually sufficient as academic credentials. If you don't have that, you need endorsement.
You're in theoretical physics, that's quack central. The level of advanced math you need mastery over to make contributions in that field is practically unachievable for people without formal training.

I'd imagine the kind of outside inquiry that would be possible is if someone found a new computation model for some raw data that successfully passed rigorous tests and then did new feature X.
Focusing on a single technology never was a great idea though. Even already towards the end of the 90's D3D was the better choice on Windows, so one had to write code against multiple 3D APIs anyway. This also gives a better perspective where the strengths and weaknesses of the different technologies are and it makes it easier to learn new APIs. But in the end, 3D APIs are just a utility to write applications (mostly games), not to build one's career upon. 3D APIs come and go and are (to some degree) also subject to fashion cycles, the underlying GPU hardware develops a lot more predictable than 3D APIs (e.g. especially Vulkan had pretty bad "mood swings" recently).

Of course when focusing strictly on money and "career growth", going into game development is a pretty bad idea to begin with ;)
Interestingly, I experience more anxiety from the thought of being made irrelevant than from the prospect of complete human extinction. I guess this can be interpreted as either vanity or stupidity, but I do think it illustrates how important it is for some humans to maintain their position in the social hierarchy.
I think we agree, as my comments were mostly in reference to Altman's (and other's) regulatory (capture) world tours, though I see how they could be misinterpreted.
Not saying the kid can't be a genius, but grandparent discussing math with the kid and incentivising him to learn is probably a massive boost to his development. It's not the same as having to go to the library and teach yourself. Still, props to the kid though.
Sadly, I have wasted many hours reading HP-UX documentation, and also hunting the Modula-2+ and Modula-3 papers, as per Compaq and DEC Olivetti acquisitions.
Any centralised platform makes me uncomfortable to use it.

I like Signal, but it's main weakness is centralisation.
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What you're missing is empathy. You've shown a distinct lack of it.

She didn't. She had empathy for the other victims that might have been out there.

And she did something effective about it. Something commendable and honorable. She took down the very means by which this widespread abuse was perpetuated.

Sometimes, being right means doing things for others. You should try that and find out for yourself just how much value empathy can add to a lifetime.
I think “change agents” in any context get over idolized. Or over despised.

When Obama was president, it struck me how many liberal friends idolized him as a perceived uber-liberal. And how many conservative friends despised him, also for being a perceived uber-liberal, but with completely different rationalizations.

Yet to me, many of his choices seemed to be moderate and he continued down many paths not so differently from his predecessor, a Republican president.

His “radical” healthcare plan was mostly about requiring people buy their own health insurance (very market & personal responsibility friendly), an approach previously pioneered by a Republican governor.

My take is anyone associated with big changes gets wrapped in highly inaccurate, but highly sticky, narratives.

And many of these widespread narratives tend to be all love or all hate.
Anywhere where the working class rose up against the bourgeoisie/upper class because of their "mistreatment" (sense of victimhood instilled in them by Marxism), became dramatically worse in its civil liberties, and in its economic trajectory, in every respect.

And in most places there was no such uprising, and incidentally, those places fared far better.

So no, Marx was resoundingly proven wrong.

Even during his own lifetime, some of his pseudoeconomic ideas/doomsaying was proven wrong.

He claimed, like many demagogues and economic laymen, that automation would reduce the demand for labor, and with it, wages:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour...

>>But even if we assume that all who are directly forced out of employment by machinery, as well as all of the rising generation who were waiting for a chance of employment in the same branch of industry, do actually find some new employment – are we to believe that this new employment will pay as high wages as did the one they have lost? If it did, it would be in contradiction to the laws of political economy. We have seen how modern industry always tends to the substitution of the simpler and more subordinate employments for the higher and more complex ones. How, then, could a mass of workers thrown out of one branch of industry by machinery find refuge in another branch, unless they were to be paid more poorly? and

>>To sum up: the more productive capital grows, the more it extends the division of labour and the application of machinery; the more the division of labour and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

This was proven wrong in his own lifetime as factory worker wages rapidly grew in industrializing Britain.
Room fatigue is real as well.

Try working in a noisy environment concentrating while other people talk and make general noise.

I'll take Zoom fatigue any day.