skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quickly browsed the paper and my conclusion is that Sam Altman's anger at Helen Toner for this paper is completely unwarranted. It is well written and the authors merely explore how "costly signals" laid out as policy affects organizations. This should be obvious but in the case of AI research/companies there are multiple dimensions which complicate the matter. OpenAI is one of the example case studies and there is no explicit "criticism" anywhere.

Read pages 1-3 for summary of the paper and pages 27-30 (under "private sector signaling") for comparison of OpenAI vs. Anthropic approaches to signaling.
Even GPT-4 surpasses the emotional and management intelligence of the average person. And in stressful moments even the better people perform average or below. So of course it’s helpful to use it.
In the article:

> He died unexpectedly of natural causes
I'm not sure. You're saying instead of protecting Earth from outside threats like gamma burst they work to create a backup place to go when Earth is destroyed from inside.

Result: still no protection from outside threat or radiation but more contamination of Earth adding up to its destruction.
> AGI is a potential successor species

Only if we let it be.

Oh who am I kidding. Someone either out of blind idealism, pure hubris, unfettered greed, or some combination of the aforementioned will probably go as far as technology allows them and create machines with a survival instinct that will compete with humans for resources effectively creating an enemy where there was once none.

Useful idiots will anthropomorphize machines, demand rights for them, … etc. and make attempts to eliminate them - so we can get back on top of the food chain - that much harder.

But maybe I’m just off my rocker. I’m tired.

Edit: The only people working at the cutting edge of AI now are for-profit companies who would screw over society if it made them a couple more bucks. It’s hard not to be pessimistic that any advancement would not be used to screw the common man over.
Oh no why did they have to call it Q*. I can just see Q anon going crazy with this.
Similarly, AlphaGo and Stockfish are only able to simulate reasoning their way through a game of Go or a game of Chess.

That simulated reasoning is enough to annihilate any human player they're faced with.

As Dijkstra famously said, "whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim".

Submarines don't swim, cars don't walk or gallop, cameras don't paint or draw... So what?

Once AI can simulate reasoning better than we can do the genuine thing, the question really becomes utterly irrelevant to the likely outcome.
"I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts."
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I'm sorry at what university was this assistant professor getting 200k? I clearly need to find better universities :)
Apparently LLM = MacGyver.
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What is the right way to charge my devices?
Some articles and sites recommend complete charging and discharging cycles (i.e. charge to 100% and discharge to 0-10%) while others recommend charging up to just 80% and discharge to 20% and recharge again. What do the latest research say? How do I get the most out of my battery?
Getting user-centred design work into agile planning increments
FFS... "ruin the mystique" or just show that management didn't care about work / life balance and burned out their staff like every other games company of the time.
I mean, it usually has things it wants to do with your PC, which it considers much more important than anything you might want to do with your PC. If it's feeling generous it might give you a countdown before it clobbers all your stuff and does its own thing. Infamously, if you try to adjust its behaviours, it often complains, asks you to justify yourself, or just straight up changes the settings back.

If that's not rude, I don't know what is.
>So you keep going on and on about how this is wrong, and doesn't work, and doesn't exist, and it's impossible, because it isn't implemented in Haskell? Seriously?

Yeah seriously. You actually don't know what you're talking about. You're not convinced. I'm failing on that end, but this is real, you're not understanding me. Haskell one of the languages with the most advanced type systems in practical programming. Algebraic data types. You clearly haven't used it so of course you remain unconvinced.

>This is one of the strangest and worst interactions I've had on this site, because I essentially made a comment that goes "the sky is blue, but it looks better at sunset when red" and you keep going "nu-uh! Impossible! Doesn't work! The sky is blue, nothing else makes sense!"

It seems this way to you because frankly, you're not very knowledgeable of what I'm talking about. Read my other replies. I left one more to explain it to you in a bigger way. Hopefully you'll get it and stop violating the rules here with personal insults and calling this the "worst" and "strangest" interactions you ever had on this site. It's just fucking rude.

This is my last explanation for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391431

If you still don't get it, well I can't help you.
> AI will be doing graphics programming?

I doubt that. I think the bigger concern (if you could call it that) is that certain AI techniques may be able to replace entire stacks once they get advanced/stable enough. Something along the lines of this perhaps, where you render simplified geometry and let the AI fill in the blanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0

Even without experimental technologies, you can get a glimpse of how shipped tools like ray reconstruction can morph the field in the future, forever entrenching themselves into graphics programming one way or another.

As far as AI writing graphics code? No way, at least not in the next couple of decades. Button snippets are a far cry from rendering virtualized geometry 60 times a second.
They seem rigid.

Also non violent.

I think if we have a major AI induced calamity... Then I worry much more. Although... Enough scary capability in a short enough period of time... I could see violence being on the table for the more radical amongst the group.

Your concern is very interesting though, and I think important to consider. I wonder if the FBI agrees.
The reason LLMs solve school problems is because they've been trained on solutions. The problems are actually very repetitive. Not surprising for each 'new' of them there was something similar in training set. For research level problems there is nothing in training set. That's why they don't perform well.

Just today I asked GPT4 a simple task. Having mouse position in zoomed and scrolled image find it's position in the original image. GPT4 happily wrote the code, but it was completely wrong. I had to fix it manually.

However, the performance can be increased if there are several threads working on solution. Some suggesting and others analyzing the solution(s). This will increase the size of 'active' memory, at least. And decrease the load on threads, making them more specialized and deeper. This requires more resources, of course. And good management with task split. May be a dedicated thread for that.
I went into a client to do some enhancements many years back. All the UI messages were in one file, stuff like "You must enter birth date". I thought they were a bit brusque so I global edited the file so they all read "Sorry, you must ...". Whatever else I did, the staff loved me to bits for that.
While I agree what we currently have in the west is not sustainable, I disagree the reason for it is individualism or Enlightenment. Other much less individualistic countries have the same or even worse problems with fertility (Japan, South Korea, China, Russia,...). To be honest without the technological development of western societies, which happened because of Enlightenment, the countries which have highest fertility rates today would have much smaller population rise if any, because most of the kids would die at child birth.

In my opinion the problem of low birthrate is because of (in random order):

- career obsession culture (you're a failure if you don't climb up the ladder, which has done a lot of damage especially to women in general)

- prolonged childhood (30s is the new 20s)

- prolonged education (spend a quarter of a century in child care and schools, mostly with people who themselves have no work experience outside those institutions)

- moral relativity and everything traditional is believed nonsense without even trying to understand it
Thank you! Cause I have expanded it to Elastic Common Schema! https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-reference.ht...
Does it have anything to do with recent pandemic events?
One might argue that if "Spring is such a complex framework" you never should have been using it in the first place?
... why do they need to ship these features to non pixel phones ? It's Google's special software sauce that make people buy pixels. Google doesn't ship advances Photos app tools on non pixel phones
>vector float operations and little else

I thought they were generally int8 or int16 vector multiply adds and occasionally float16 added in.
Is QEMU a practical alternative?
> They have been designed and trained to solve natural language processing tasks

They aren’t really designed to do anything actually. LLMs are models of human languages - it’s literally in the name, Large Language Model .

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

I’m sorry but I don’t trust something that uses a random number generator as part of its output generation.
An oddly dramatic response to a blog post of someone working on a, what is this flutter, some frontend framework library?

Counterpoint - since I left Google, little birds told me good things happened, for example, cranking down on the travel expenses (that higher-ups used to spent with little to none oversight)
This isn’t one obituary. It’s a list of members who died, with his name being the first listed.
If you're consultant ish and keep all your old projects, maybe. Personaly I don't have 24 Tb of archives but I have old VMs worth like 5 Tb. I don't need them on NVMe, if i need to ressurect one I'll copy it to fast storage.

Media libraries are the obvious use case though. If you're into that.
That's more than 100 km/h. Without traffic lights that's not safe to cross as a pedestrian.
I'd suggest doctors choose better company if they dont wish to be associated with their current companions.
Yes, but my point us that repeating "humanity learns" can lead us down garden paths into thinking there is some species-level recollection, when history reveals a mixed bag at best.
First of all, what traceroute66 replied. Just like China is able to manufacture high quality products.

Also, you're making it sound like the devs can do whatever they want and happened to deliver cool new features. As said, back then everything hinted at them just switching Workstation to maintenance mode and letting it slowly fade into irrelevance, so it wouldn't have mattered how brilliant that new team was.
Specifically what deep-Q learning (as in Q*?) does....
99% throughout history. During that time, humanity has gained an accelerating command over our environment; Industrial Revolution to the Information Era. We are increasingly able to create unimaginably powerful things, yet coinciding with the fundamental that it is easier to destroy than create.

Nuclear weapons should dispel anyone of the notion that certain “doomsday” don’t have teeth. We are quite capable of obliterating ourselves out of existence by our unsophisticated control of technical might.
Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. We now have way more content to choose from but the problem now is to be able to select what is worthwhile.
They call it attention economy and that's pretty much why. You have limited attention, if you use it on some random crap, you can't use it for something better (that you didn't notice or wasn't as easily accessible).

A friend of mine gets pissed off when I fall asleep in front of half the movies, he asks me to watch, but the reality is that those movies are bargain bin low quality comedies (or worse, documentaries) and its better use of my time to sleep than bother with it. It's actually one of my sleeping strategies, to empty my brain of thoughts, so...

I don't think there is a major problem with attention, neither in children or adults; it's just that it's a lot harder to sort through what is worth your attention and after some willpower is spent to choose something it doesn't get overthrown because of the psychology of commitment. But it is not worth paying attention, so people use whatever is around them to not completely waste time.

In my opinion inattentive children in classrooms has a lot more to do with teachers being bad and lack of physical activities than a problem with the kids. But teachers are politically untouchable nowadays and you can't ask them to actually be competitive or get fired. The pay is also progressive and equal regardless of actual performance, so you get terrible people who cannot keep kids' attention because they suck; but then we blame the kids. Sure.
Just to clarify: It wasn't the nozzle that he called "Jumbo".
They helped to divide society / politics and are a cesspool for conspiracy theories but hey they open sourced some stuff.
Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
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I really don't consider getting familiar with whatever minutia of C++/Vulkan throws at you graphics programming. It just presents unnecessary barrier that may change in the future without you learning any of the core skills that are purely algorithm and math based. When you learn a low-level API to talk to the GPU, or an antiquated horror-show of a language such as C++, you're not actually doing any graphics programming. Get into shaders (also compute) ASAP.

getting started:

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar (super basics)

https://iquilezles.org/articles/

https://www.shadertoy.com/

youtube/gamedev:

https://www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t

https://www.youtube.com/@crigz

research:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/

http://rgl.epfl.ch/people/wjakob

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/
Thanks for the links, very interesting.

Wonder how a "self-play" equivalent would look like for LLMs, since they have no easy criterion to evaluate how well they are doing like in Go (as mentioned in the videos).
I drive around Europe, frequently and great distances. The ONLY country where I got a speeding ticket three times in three years is Latvia. My tickets are all by "a little faster" (15km/h or so, not doing 150 on a 50 zone)

They got (imho) the lowest speed limits in any of the countries I've travelled, cameras everywhere (that's good though), and even on their "motorways" (imagine crappy roads in the US in the 60s, but worse) the limit is something silly like 60km/h. So for anyone that is simple crossing through the country (N-S Estonia-->Latvia-->Lithuania or S-N) it is a nerve breaking experience to be forced to drive 30-60km/h while CROSSING A WHOLE (small) country.

When I read the article I thought exactly that. Shitty country, shitty roads, shitty speed limits, it's as if they do it on purpose to fine every foreigner and they don't upgrade their infrastructure.. How will that country ever prosper when any/all transportation has to go with 30km/h?

Well played Latvia.. you are the Fenton of the Europe!
Johnson grew up poor and spent time teaching Mexican immigrant schoolchildren. He was from the South and far from flawless, but there are many anecdotes from throughout his life that showed that civil rights was a cause dear to him.
Sorry, potentially very confusing typo.

"The model is also quite unreliable" should read "The modem is also quite unreliable".

I only have reliability problems with the data connection (specifically 4G and 5G), in other aspects the phone works fine.
Rephrasing:

Let's say x=000110 for example

Invert all bits of x, call that number inv(x)=111001

If we add them together, "the gears mesh together" and we get x+inv(x)=111111

Adding 1 to that, let the carry just drop off the left side, we get x+inv(x)+1=000000

So it's natural to take inv(x)+1 as a representation of -x.
So on point. And even when it actually phones 90% of the time I just dodge it. That 10% left is pagerduty. All real contacts use some form of a messaging app instead
> If you're selling a non-Steam license then you don't have to match prices at all and can sell for cheaper on Epic, Itch, GoG, etc.

Wolfire (the one suing Valve in this case) is saying Valve threatened to remove their games from Steam if they did this.

http://blog.wolfire.com/2021/05/Regarding-the-Valve-class-ac...

> they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM.
Everything in photos ML related is done locally. I guess that is one of the reasons results are not great for now.
So the bad guys won. OpenAI gets further from it’s non commercial origins and further from responsible research in this field.
There are plenty such papers out there - now obviously disproven. At some point smoking was prescribed as a cure or various heaelty issues. Letting you know so you don't feel impressed by what was "created" when a chat bot generates such a paper.
It's something lots of people think. "Hey, I'm innocent what's the harm in talking to the police?" and that can go badly wrong, an innocent response or poor phrasing of a reply or a manipulative question from a cop can look /really/ bad iin front of a jury. It's why every defence lawyer says don't talk to cops - period - not even to confirm you breath oxygen.
Zoom Fatigue? Why not call it "Video Conference Fatigue"?

It sounds like FUD
Well, shell scripts are small helper programs, where you don't have to implement all sorts of business rules and complex object interactions. I am pretty sure most developers (I definitely) would be horrified at the prospect of having to to implement in shell what we are now doing in JS. Even if that were possible.

The likes this gets is the design simplicity and uniformity (across processes), not how it looks and what it actually does.
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Any idea how that would work? I mean it's not as if these things are standardised in any way.
thank you i'm immediately starting to work on it. but actually it is not a kids software. it is a "latest video player from the channels you like" as a youtube companion. focus is that, not kids.
but thank you i'll check what i need to do.
Well, you can find post-pandemic pictures of Gabe and his comically bad mask fit, given his full face beard. You can also find pictures of him in public without a mask post-pandemic.

So I think this was pretty much a transparent "can't I just do this bullshit over Zoom?", which the court saw through.

I'm pointing out that they are being accommodating to his concerns, if they're taken at face value. I bet if he requested being wheeled in in an airtight plexiglass phonebooth the court would at least entertain it.
And yet, using "please" for demands is more commonly seen as authoritarian. Even spawning a game referencing such fake platitudes: "Papers, Please."
It can also be used to end a discussion by signaling agreement on disagreement.
plot twist, his son is 38 and has a physics degree
I think it's legit, or can be, guilty people often blab in the privacy of their home and car. If you're guilty you just have to be aware of the potential to be surveilled.
The framework is complex, not its use. It’s actually extremely easy to use. If a project builds a framework that tries to cover every case in an opinionated way, they’re going to end up with a complex framework. Why should the fact that the framework externalises most complexities mean that it shouldn’t be used?
What are you using it for? I don't understand the purpose of any of these tools.
Breaking down silos de-risks a company, despite some of the costs you mentioned. Especially after covid, companies capitalize on the flexibility of employees and lack of (physical) offices. Employees can be replaced like never before.

But even without that in mind, breaking silos can also put the right people in the loop - for every successful silo you mentioned, I bet there is a successful company which was able to have a good mix of people from different teams.

For me it always boils down to: what does the company want? Who they want to be in the next 3-5-10 years? Based on this you need to have proper management training. Without that, they simply throw engineers at the problem, which as you mentioned, can backfire. If you as an organization are able to scale well (even with some small and monitored silos) I don't see why it should be a problem.

Reality is: companies want to be able to scale like Google for their pet projects, fire fast upon need, have a lot of teams all with the performance of 10x engineers, etc etc. That's the BS they write on their about page.

Do they have agile coaches? Do they have people that help them organize work? Skilled people, not random guy that developed software all his life and now he/she wants to try something new, and he/she read a book over the weekend or listened to some podcasts..

People have high expectations by paying little. It takes effort to do things right. That's in my opinion the truth.
Arithmetic expansion is a feature of all POSIX compliant shells, which furthermore advises against using `expr`. The latter is only needed for non-compliant shells like some legacy implementations of the Bourne shell.
Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac.
Recommend parents give their kids something more interesting than putting them in front of YouTube while you’re at it
I mean there wasn't really much need for it when the functionality has been available for ages in various extensions. Not least of which uBlock origin, which may as well be considered a must have for now.

Brave and firefox clearly differ on which features to add natively and which to allow extensions to fill in, but saying this makes firefox late to the party is just silly. You might as well point out that firefox has no ad blocking, even though uBlock origin recommends using firefox at this point.
I think in modern times in theory they could have AI analyze the conversations to spot any such grooming behaviour.