skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commented below, but applies this too, at console launch gamers get a Great piece of kit subsidized by the manufacturer's bet that they can make the money back on games. Equivalent spec pcs cost way more.

For years this model has worked great in physical media sales, I don't have a problem with it in online media.

If we want companies like Sony to produce consoles they need a way to make them profitable. It's an extremely risky investment with no guarantee of success.

Lastly if 30 percent is "unfair" developers would not use the platform. But they do. Same for consumers. If all parties in this didn't derive value they wouldn't trade with each other.
Just used this link to order. Thanks!
Like singers against phonographs:

https://recordinghistory.org/the-history-of-sound-recording/...

Technology marches on and menial jobs get obsoleted. That’s just the way it is, even if you enjoy being a ropemaker, basket weaver, keypunch operator or, in this case, an illustrator.
"GAI" itself is a very nebulous term. Give me a definition without resorting to "acts like a human". Because if that's the touchstone, then one can argue GAI was achieved with Eliza in the 1960s.

All we have now are faster, better, more powerful Elizas and as long as deep learning is the only tool we have, that's all we'll keep getting
There are plenty of genuine reasons. One reason off the top of my head is that you cannot pay bounties to informants for rewards if they give reliable tip-offs. You need full anonymity for that. So crime / terrorist fighting is actually being hampered.

Poor privacy weakens security in general, doesn't matter what type of data it is.

Meanwhile breaking privacy does not stop terrorists or criminals. They always find a way.

again, "money laundering" is really data privacy when you distil the issue, and the term certainly is an anti euphemism, specifically made up to attack privacy.
Doesn't help for those of us who learned the order North, South, East, West.
The Light Bulb Test
Yup.
Using playstation as the spine its a little easier though not complete to base console generations off of.

When I think ps1: Sega Saturn, and a few others. Ps2 has Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube. Ps3 has 360 and Wii etc.

Though there is a chance that this will be the last generation of this and that there will be universal platforms instead of consoles for at least Xbox and probably Playstation.

Why make a console that I lose money on when I can sell you a $100 controller and a subscription to our cloud service instead.
AGI Toolkit
> including social security numbers

With the exception of current and ex. employees (for which Autozone needs the SSN to withhold tax for the IRS) why would Autozone have the SSN of any customer?

I don't believe I've ever bought any car parts or supplies from Autozone, but I do buy from Advance Auto (they have retail stores near me) and I have never given Advance Auto my SSN to make a purchase (and if the clerk were to have asked, I'd refuse in any case).

Or, does Autozone have an Autozone co-branded credit card with a bank, and these 187k are those who have the Autozone credit card? That would be the only reason I can think of why Autozone would have customer SSN's. The SSN's of those customers that applied for the co-branded credit card.
I saw a job offer wanting primarily fortran recently. It was from a government weather service, so I guess fluid dynamics/weather prediction
Actually this is the way the world works, whether we like it or not, whether we can change it or not. Doesn't hurt to constantly call attention to it but it may not make much of a difference if its consequences are kepr below the threshold of acute suffering.
> why don't version control systems (especially ones that can change history) have undo/redo functionality out of the box?

It's true. And Jujutsu has undo functionality out of the box, too. It's not just Sapling. :) https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
Here's the second result of your google search, which has 34 upvotes vs. 14:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pcDAvaXBxTjRYMdEo/...
Is there no way to apply such optimizations to C code as long as the developer adopts certain standards in writing code?
There's a pretty big difference between a soldier during the heat of a firefight shooting someone that (at a distance) they might genuinely perceive as a threat vs a targeted assassination of a political enemy while they eat dinner.

The Mossad is certainly capable of killing people in more low profile ways. There's no reason to believe this was ordered at a high level. Most likely, it was an individual soldier's fault.

And the fact that she had press gear on is really not the kind of guarantee one might hope.

Here's a video of a "medic" grabbing a downed Hamas fighter's AK47 to give it to another fighter so they can use it to try to kill IDF soldiers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/17rff07/west...
> If hardware innovation stopped, Linux could catch up easily... but it won't, so there is a constant driver treadmill that manufacturers mostly handle for MS on the Windows side, but Linux has to handle somewhat alone.

Hardware innovation hasn't stopped, but there's a lot less diversity than the past. For mainstream desktop, there's only three video card vendors (it's different on mobile, and servers have ASPEED's 2d cards to work with), sound cards are pretty much dead: HDAudio takes care of most of it but jack detection issues persist, Broadcom is poised to buy up all storage card vendors, Networking vendors are limited.

Intel is pretty good at supporting its products for Windows, Linux, and sometimes FreeBSD. If you buy only stuff they make, you can cover all your peripheral needs and move on with your life.

Most other vendors of important devices have code dumped drivers for Linux and sometimes FreeBSD for at least for some of their devices. This gets more frequent as there's more consolidation. The Linux drivers might not be great, and the code is usually full of unexplained magic values, but it's a start.

There's also the potential of running Windows drivers elsewhere; it sometimes works for network drivers (something something NDIS)
the parent comment explains why dumping a blob is bad, particularly for drivers. it allows vendors to depend on all sorts of undocumented and unreliable behavior and prevents upstream improvements.
I would like to message jorater warning him about drawing conclusions from a subtweet when there's deviousness afoot, but hacker news doesn't have that feature.
> literally put out a direct threat warning Sikhs not to board Air India flights and that Indira Gandhi Airport will be attacked on November 19th

Is there a credible translation? The parts in English are indistinguishable from a call for boycott. (Not disagreeing.)
Have you ever seen a useful product produced by a cult?
Yes but the if you want to do ahead-of-time type checking you need to run a tool like mypy, and none of those tools are as comprehensive or performant as Typescript. Also the ecosystem of libraries with type annotations is much smaller (Typescript has the first mover advantage, after all).
I've been writing in Python for over ten years, in different roles, for wildly different projects (research, infra, Web, testing, education).

I'm yet to find anything Python was good for. On engineering merits alone Python isn't best for anything, nor is it best for combinations of things. It's silly to think that any tool that works with Python does so because Python was the best language for the job, and they only needed that tool to make it even better.

Most stuff written around Python is yet another layer of band aids on top of a huge ball of band aids that's already there.

So, you may wonder, with all those band aids, didn't they all make it better? And, in a sense, yes, that's what they are for. The band aids improve the experience of the user end. But this isn't how I use the word "better". When I use "better" I mean the quality of execution, not the satisfaction it gives to the user.
Nope. This is a totally vanilla Windows install.

The general consensus I've found while researching this problem is that Windows Defender inserts itself into the compiler process to monitor it for malware.
Doing the math, it is extremely unlikely for a lot of coin flips to skew from the weight of the coin.

To that end, observing unanimous behavior may imply some bias.

Here, it could be people fearing being a part of the minority. The minority are trivially identifiable, since the majority signed their names on a document.

I agree in your stance that a majority of the workforce disagreed with the way things were handled, but that proportion is likely a subset of the proportion who signed their names on the document, for the reasons stated above.
Oh totally agreed. I'm just saying, if you, as this theoretical rich or soon-to-be-rich EA believer, are committed to improving the world by attaining and using wealth, there are problems out there than can indeed be solved with just... a big ass check. Those exist. But most of them are also pretty boring. People need things, and you can provide them things. But because they're boring, they never end up on an EA's radar. No, instead let's dump shit tons of cash into a nonprofit that will create AI and also create tools to stop the AI they created from killing us all with nukes.
While cult followers do not make exceptional leaders, cult leaders are almost by definition exceptional leaders, given they're able to lead the un-indoctrinated into believing an ideology that may not be upheld against critical scrutiny.

There is no guarantee or natural law that an exceptional leader's ideology will be exceptional. Exceptionality is not transitive.
There's a lot of evidence that not having two X chromosomes is less stable, leading to...irregularities. That sword cuts both ways.

I don't like ignorance being promoted under the cloak of not causing offense. It causes more harm than good. If there's a societal problem, you can't tackle it without knowing the actual cause. Sometimes the issue isn't an actual problem caused an 'ism,' it's just biology, and it's a complete waste of resources trying to change it.
A career in the military (and, to a lesser extent, shorter stints) is in several ways a route to access European-like social services.

- Guaranteed housing—including for your spouse and kids.

- Healthcare for same.

- Free college education.

The pay sucks, but the benefits are pretty damn good. I do think universal healthcare and free public university would take a big bite out of military recruitment rates.
We can't agree on a non-leaky definition of benefiting humanity, and we can't be sure of a lossless way of communicating this ideal to an AGI if we could agree. We then don't know how our instructions will be interpreted (is it just pretending to understand), or if it will understand the concept of "greater good", which would allow it to justify to itself doing practically anything towards any stated goal.

On top of this, the people trying to race to this eventuality are trying to convince us that any of this is possible to constrain.

Despite binging enough Ghost in the Shell to entertain all of the scenarios I still don't think AGI is anywhere near and I'm just going to mostly ignore the possibility. One of those distant existential things I have no control over so I'll try not to think about it too much :)
I'm actually not sure about Nvidia, due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Just an observation, I have an M1 Max and M3 Pro. The M3 Pros battery seems to drain much much faster than my M1 when watching YT. Wonder if this P core thing has anything to do with it.
It's been about 30 years since I last wrote FORTRAN (77), but back then it was used in computationally intensive applications because it was (or at least felt) like working much closer to the bare-metal data and code segments of a process than a 'high-level' language like C. Certainly the compilers produced far fewer lines of assembly/line of source compared to C, pushing the burden of correctness back on the programmer. It was almost like working with an assembly macro language.

I suspect much has changed since though, so its fields of use may just be convention now.
> some portion

The logic being that if any opinion has above X% support, people are choosing it based on peer pressure.
Henry Kissinger is 100 years old
My children visit their friend's houses where I am sure there is beer in the fridge, guns (hopefully) in the gun safe, dangerous cleaning solvents in the garage, and perhaps other things I'm not even aware of. It is not insane to expect adults to manage the things in their houses and secure them appropriately when kids are present. And while there is certainly a possibility that some people may screw some of these things up from time to time even to deleterious result I'd still rather leave this responsibility in the hands of local adults than have to present ID to open my fridge.
I find that very unlikely. LLMs seem capable of simulating human intuition, but not great at simulating real complex physics. Human intuition of how a scene “should” look isn’t always the effect you want to create, and is rarely accurate im guessing
Should two of the world's leading democracies fall out over something like this? Both countries have a track record of assassinating national security threats on the territories of other countries, including allied states.
I bet you didn't use many HiDPI displays during the last decade ;)
Changemimicry. Make the sound, stay around, worked for a ton of dinosaurs.
That's fair. Most of what I know of EA is the stuff that makes the "news" here on HN, which is generally not flattering.
No, but I trust Facebook plus Microsoft plus Amazon even less

Which is actually impressive. You've managed to make a group even worse than all other current bad actors
ive worked at companies where we buy these types of workstations for fea/cfd/ML

if the company has a overbearing IT, we run windows for "security". at places where we move fast and break things, we run ubuntu and IT says for us to manage it ourselves.

for anyone wondering why we done use the cloud or a server, we do too. but model setup, licensing, and small jobs are easier and quicker to do locally.
Not sure what your point is? Yes, Pakistan has been our “ally from
Hell” for at least a generation. Meanwhile India has wound up with weapons made by a “partner” who reports to its geopolitical rival.

The point is it’s difficult seeing history following a different path. America was rebuilding and de-colonialising Europe. That required involvement in the Middle East. It was simultaneously countering the Soviets, globally. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, was the only one concerned about Chinese army’s potential in Central Asia. India, being close to that, was similarly concerned. (As it remains.)
I'd imagine I'd want it to be time based, not per video, but yeah. I'd probably want a counter right on the page of how much I've spent, and perhaps a toggle right up there if I decide I've spent enough that month and would rather have ads again.

For your actual numbers, 5 cents would be fine. I don't think I'd go for 25 cents.
You mean to say autocracies are easier to predict because they behave with a firm consistent control (until they leave). They are obviously not always aligned with our foreign policy goals. All you have to do is name a handful of current autocracies that come to mind.
EA/longtermerism smell a lot like “intelligent design”; yet another attempt at belief in divine mandates for man.

Like the PR teams got together and intentionally conjured semantics that tickle the same biological responses seen in religious true believers.

Consider “religion” as a biological state, not an abstract philosophical framework. Behavioral economics has been leveraged to embed the hallucination that is American Civic Life similarly to embedding religious mind viruses.

Given what we know now in neuroscience, how we brainwave sync with rooms of people just by being there, the leadership class reinforces among themselves hallucinations of their right to reach into all
of our lives and claim them for themselves, just like the church.
Maybe they're working for both, but when push comes to shove they felt like they had no choice? In this economy, it's a little easier to tuck away your ideals in favor of a paycheck unfortunately.

Or maybe the mass signing was less about following the money and more about doing what they felt would force the OpenAI board to cave and bring Sam back, so they could all continue to work towards the missing at OpenAI?
You don't have to be phony, you just have to not be unethical and screw over the people you meet, turning your acquaintances into enemies. If you behave like a normal reasonable moral person, you will make friends and form a social safety net that can support you when you need help. Poor people who behave unethically are truly stupid. Any short-term gain you might get from screwing people is going to come back to bite you before long.
The key is that the support is not anonymous.
<a href="mailto:email@example.com">email</a> blocked 17% but email@example.com blocked 0%
C and C++ and most modern programming languages have very poor support for arrays in comparison even with the ancient versions of Fortran, especially for multi-dimensional arrays.

In C++ it is possible to define adequate types and operations for good support of multi-dimensional arrays, but this means that a user must choose some additional libraries to get the support that does not exist in the base language, unlike with Fortran.

C++ can be much better than Fortran for scientific computing, but only after a significant initial effort of establishing a well-specified programming style, based on selecting an appropriate non-obsolete subset of C++ and after selecting carefully a set of libraries that provide all the missing features.

For someone whose main job is not programming, using Fortran can be simpler.
No. Proper "reform" entails reorganizing our economy. We will all die before this happens.
Johnny Cash sings "Barbie Girl" (A.I.) [video]
The power of AI-generated voices
I think it could have easily been predicted just from the initial announcements. You can't create a public charity simply from the donations of a few wealthy individuals. A public charity has to meet the public support test. A private foundation would be a better model but someone decided they didn't want to go that route. Maybe should have asked a non-profit lawyer?
There was a tool like this 5 years ago on [Github](https://github.com/emilwallner/Screenshot-to-code) that did similar thing using neural networks.
Bagels.

I really would appreciate a nice bagel with smoked salmon and hot honey.

Then a nice craft Cola.
true to the username!
Terrible choice of novel too. Long and boring in print — I suppose one could say the film was faithful to the source material in that regard. Thackeray would have been a far better choice to cover the same issue.

It was a self-indulgent film.
> but the following him part was mostly because of money/shares and because they know he's influential and well connected to people with money.

In other words, they believed in his leadership, direction, and ability to serve their interests more than they believed in the board's.

I don't understand why so many people are performing mental gymnastics attempting to turn the unanimous support behind him into somehow being evidence that he's the antichrist. Why wouldn't the employees act in their own self-interest? What's wrong with them acting in their own self-interest? I would assume all employees everywhere, more or less, act in their own self-interest and I don't think that makes them or their preferred leadership evil incarnate.
Even the IDF isn't trying to say anything like that. They say it was "accidental". Though there's lots of convincing analysis it was very deliberate. Where the shooter would have been shooting right at 2 people, nobody else in their sights, with blue vests/helmets and "PRESS" labels.
They should be platforms of journalism. There are plenty of other venues available for "important people" to share their views. A news outlet lending credibility by uncritically publishing an opinion is not journalism.
That person should find a copy of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapping:_America%27s_Epidemic...

I read the first edition circa 1989 when people still remembered the moonies. When LSD got fashionable in the 1960s parents blamed it for what seemed like sudden personality change (Straight A student athlete now smokes dope all the time, grows their hair long, gets the crabs, etc.) but after the crackdown all the psychedelic bands either went under like the Beatles or changed the way the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd did. By the 1970s the fear was much more that your kid would get ambushed at the airport and brainwashed or maybe even kidnapped like Patty Hearst and transformed into a revolutionary.

I found out about the 1995 edition circa 2005 or so and though first “gee that issue wasn’t so salient then” but no you had groups like Aum Shirikyo, Al Quadea, etc. that were not so prominent in terms of numbers but highly dangerous in behavior.

The Reaganite sirge in inequality makes EA quite different from the Scientology of old (which wanted to drain people of their money and then make them work like slaves) because back then it was worth emptying the wallets of ordinary people. An EA club at a place like Stanford on the other hand is really a potemkin village that creates the appearance of a movement, what matters in a group of 30 of them is 2 rich kid whales, the other 28 are there just to make it look like there is movement. (E.g. Scientology has moved into big ticket donations because they found ‘working people like slaves’ isn’t that profitable). What happened to Patty Hearst is close to the right idea for a cult in 2023 except you don’t want to kidnap them and encircle them, you want to encircle them in their own environment.
EA continues to look like moral cover for good old-fashioned profit maximization.

The "Effective" part is immediate and drives short-term incentives like maximizing profit. The "Altruism" part is hypothetical and delegated to a future date where the resources acquired "effectively" are deployed for the benefit of humanity. In the gap between the two are fallible human beings, not necessarily more virtuous than average, that task themselves with making decisions about what's important.

I do not agree that we should try to maximize our profit and then only help people at a nebulous distant point in time.

We all make priorities about things important to us. Some of that shows in what we chose to donate to. A lot of charities we donate to are not fundamentally urgent because they do not work on saving lives. A lot of EA is simply prioritizing what saves the most lives, right here, and right now.

The focus on hypothetical dangers like GAI is telling here. If you can invent an apocalyptic boogeyman that you're "addressing" by funding thinktanks and sitting on company boards you don't actually have to spend anything on addressing immediate issues.

They can be sincerely strongly held belief. The fact that OpenAI is actually...not doing anything remotely about it makes me discount OpenAI as a serious organization, regardless of the nebulous and hypothetical nature of GAI.

For the record, I don't think we are able to even remotely approach the problem if we can't take of issues of alignments of human actors. Once we figure that out, maybe we'll have a concrete path for aligning GAI should that or when it becomes a technological possibility.
> Co-producing warplanes is as good as a treaty.

Not really, no. One is a financial commitment, the other is a military commitment. They're very different.

India never courted the West because Pakistan already had close relations with them. The order matters since your argument is US aligned with Pakistan only because India aligned with Soviet Union. US had its own motivations (obviously) around curtailing Soviet influence in Afghanistan.