skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 60% of pedestrian deaths occur on high capacity urban roads. Kids in light residential neighborhoods don't deal with those roads. Tell your kids to stay away from heavily trafficked roads.

And when they have to cross one of those roads to get to school or a friend's house? What do you propose they do?
"Thinking a lot about centralization and decentralization these few days."
No. No it isn't.

The board-aligned argument seems to be "destroying the company is the right thing to do if it helps the cause of AI alignment".

Whereas the pro-Altman side seems to be "if you have the most successful startup since Google/Facebook, you shouldn't blow it up merely because of vague arguments about << alignment >> ".
Albion's seed is pretty much entirely focused on culture, laws, and institutions, not genetics. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be related to human biodiversity at all.

And on a final note, I'd suggest you read the last paragraph of the screenshotted email chain, where Scott explains how it's valuable to read creationist arguments it forces him to sharpen his thinking.

> You never realize how LITTLE you know about evolution until you read some Behe and are like, "I know this correct... But why not?".

> Even if there turns out to be zero value in any a Reactionary has ever said, by challenging beliefs of mine that would otherwise never be challenged they have forced me to clarify my thinking and up my game.

I really think you've lost the forest for the trees here. Scott is praising certain parts of reactionary ideas for asserting things most people wouldn't argue, and those interactions are leading him to sharpen his thinking.
There’s another form of bacterial memory that is actually part of their immune system protecting against phages (viruses that attack bacteria).

The bacteria cut up the phage genome when they’re first attacked and (if they survive) store pieces in their own genome. Then when they detect the phage genes again they produce anti-phage defenses.

The system is called “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”. It’s also known as CRISPR (better known for other work :)
In Hatha Yoga, there is a great emphasis placed on cleaning one's gut and entire digestive tract from mouth to anus. This is in addition to maintaining a proper diet. The cleaning techniques are rather unique and are known as Shatkarmas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatkarma. In addition, Mula Bandha and Uddiyana Bandha are also relevant here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandha_(yoga)
Did Mira also get fired?
Ask HN: How to learn about path configuration in Python
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I've tried using it for generating articles based on provided fact sheet, and it somehow managed to invent a bunch of facts while referencing the fact sheet, without directly mentioning anything in the fact sheet. This is just so bad compared to OpenAI 4 or even 3.5.

How is that possible given that some of the smartest people work for Google?
Have you been to Vietnam? There is no comparison between what was done to them and Serbia, yet Vietnam has moved on. Victimhood is strong in the Balkans, it's a way of life. I know because I was born there.
The main issue here is that the engineers have failed to communicate how picking the ethical options can create value for key stakeholders.

Until that can be achieved, alternative options that generate more value will always be prioritised. Such is only the logical turn of events.
For a surprising general purpose local chat experience: OpenHermes 2.5 - Mistral 7B
A Unix/NTFS/TAI timestamp would not be affected by the offset. Using Unix as the example:

2024-01-01T02:07:00+01:00_NO -> 1704071220_NO

2024-01-01T02:07:00+01:15_NO-> 1704070320_NO

The timestamp doesn't have to be UTC, but it should specifically not be local time. You should be able to convert it to UTC without knowing the offset or time zone.

So, done this way, storing time zone and no offset is unambiguous. And it gives you more information than storing an offset and no time zone.
As an academic, we can be fairly certain that Helen makes way less money than top AI talent
Interesting. I guess in this case it's trying to prevent Netflix from switching to a web app. But apple is still in a much stronger position because a native app isn't an option.
> What I can also tell you is that Tesla made a lot of headlines hooking up a grid scale battery to balance out an Australian wind farm. It prevented a frequency drop when a coal plant went offline.

This is what I was referring to; I was wondering whether your calculation would apply to it.
Honestly this unreasonably scares people off. This apparently very large loo loo of a first step, setting up all this infrastructure just to get started.

The tooling is nice, but it’s not what defines CL. The language has ample benefits just on its own.

A paren matching editor is the minimum tooling necessary for CL. Auto indent is a nice to have. vi has had both for pushing 50 years now.

The REPL is a standout feature of the system. Being able to load your code and poke at it is wonderful. Very powerful feature.

Python has a REPL. I never felt it was very good, but that’s me. I never used it much. Perhaps I was missing something. I wrote a bunch of Python without ever using it. And I’d wager many coders have treated Python like they’d have treated Perl, or most any scripting language. Write code, save code, run script, rinse, repeat.

With no interim step, turn around was fast and work got done.

There is nothing stopping folks from doing the same with CL. I’ve developed 1000s of lines of CL with little more than 2 little defuns. (e) and (l). (e) fired off ‘vi code.lisp’ and (l) wrapped ‘(load “code.lisp”)’. My knowledge of the debugger was knowing how to abort it back to the top level. I mostly did “print” debugging. If I was clever, I’d write a ‘dprint’ function that would take variable arguments. If I was lazy, I’d just “(print ‘(“x=“ x “y=“ y))”. No big deal.

Even when working with LispWorks (which has much to recommend it), I operated much like this. Reload all the code, dabble with the REPL, add print calls, reload, test individual functions. I never took the time to learn the higher level tooling and such. I didn’t feel it was necessary, and I’d rather code than fight tooling.

So, as the Lisp cognoscenti stares on in mouth agape horror as I left much of the Lisp experience on the shelf, I got stuff done anyway.

Which goes back to the fundamental point. CL is a language like any other. It’s a very cool language, very powerful, and worth using just for itself. Its environment does not define it as a language. It augments it, it’s cultural and useful to be sure, but you don’t necessarily need it to be capable and productive and to solve problems.

If all the talk of tooling and what not deters you from trying the language, don’t let it. It’s worth trying all on its own. Try it your way, however you’re comfortable.

But do get a parenthesis matching editor.

Edit: just to highlight the point, if you read PGs “On Lisp” and “Common Lisp” books, you’ll notice they’re pretty much all about the language and its power. He does not talk much as I recall about the environment.
I've been asking science and math questions to Bard and ChatGPT (at about an undergraduate level) and likewise found Bard to be consistently better.

As an example I asked both how many groups there are of order 6. Bard gave the correct answer of 2 and listed what they were. ChatGPT said there were five and proceeded to list seven.
Forever wanted one, because I thought it was easier. Turned out it is not.
In late stage pregnancy babies in the womb can hear voices, and can often identify their father after birth by their voice immediately after birth. Violence often includes a lot of shouting, and physiological stress on the victim which would affect the baby. I’m guessing the baby learned to associate these.
So not only are we not teaching them, we are going to not even pretend that's what we are trying to do.
I wondered if this was possible, so I tried to build it, and I ended up making an app: Call Annie (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/call-annie/id6447928709). Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think
> because of screens

It’s connection they are looking for. Nobody wants to play in big backyard treehouse alone. At least the screens let them talk to other people or at least pretend to.

Having a house in a suburb where kids can’t walk to anybody they have connections with isolates and pushes them to the screens.
> your country being under devastating economic sanctions, then bombarded by enormously more powerful armies, then annexing a part of the country

All of that just out of a sudden, without anything else occurring to trigger these events, right? No genocides, no invasions, no massive civilian casualties? No war criminals walking around free doing DJ gigs 30 years later?
An SRE in a company I worked used to say that naming something temporary ___ is the best way to ensure that no one touches that code.
It's the same story there. Hyper inflation began in the Weimar Republic / Germany in 1921. The Nazi party was only formally formed in 1920 with a handful of members. By the time hyperinflation was raging, the Nazis were a group of people with 0 political power, largely made up of drunkards and misfits.
> fast, silent, cool with great battery life

Exactly. I forgot to mention the competition between chip manufacturers that makes this possible, which obviously leads to much better chips then a monopoly like Apple could produce.
Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds
It's not just OpenAI. Every AI organization is discovering that they have internal groups which are pulling in a different direction than the rest of the organization, and trying to get rid of those groups.

* Google got rid of its "Ethical AI" group

* Facebook just got rid of its "Responsible AI" team

* OpenAI wanted to get rid of the "Effective Altruists" on the board

I guess if I was afraid of AI taking over the world then I would be rooting for OpenAI to be destroyed here. Personally I hope that they bring Sam back and I hope that GPT-5 is even more useful than GPT-4.
Because people doing that is why this will never change. Every time someone leaves the suburbs for the city, a vote in town elections goes with them. Every time, it becomes less likely that zoning or other local laws affecting land/property use will change. The only way to make the suburbs better, to turn all of these urban-design principles we all know so well into reality, is for more people to stay and fight.

"Move to the city" (or any other already-walkable place) is part of the problem, not the solution. For one thing, people won't do it en masse. Even if they did, those too-few places would become even less affordable, plus their power/water/waste infrastructure would get strained beyond breaking. It's a very privileged and selfish position to take. Instead, we need to make more such places, reconfiguring and repurposing buildings and other infrastructure where they are and where the people are. And that takes voting power. Don't tell people to throw that away.
Is there a name for this type of analysis?
What you’re missing is that Eliezer has been beating this drum a long time, while the rest of HN and the world is asleep at the wheel.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and the original founders of OpenAI believe AGI is an existential threat and are building it with the belief that it’s best they’re the ones who do it, rather than worse people, in an arms race. Eliezer is the one saying “you fucking fools, you’re speeding up the arms race and have now injected a shit ton of $ from all VC into accomplishing the naive capabilities with no alignment.”

People don’t even realize that Elon Musk founded Neuralink with the belief that AGI is such an existential threat, we’re better off becoming the AGI cyborgs than a separate inferior intelligence. But most of the people thinking theyre so smart and understand the AGI X risk landscape here, even Elon fans, don’t know that.
>Uh... don't expose your X.org server to the internet naked.

This is not something the X maintainers can say. They can encourage people not to do it but if they stop maintaining that feature then the complaints start to roll in because someone somewhere was using it. If you think this situation is awful then yes, you're starting to get it: X is in a bad spot where these broken insecure features are holding else everything back and will continue to do so as long as people depend on it. At best they can disable it by default and make it hard to accidentally re-enable it, which is what they've already done.

>That's not something a normal desktop install does.

Yes, most normal desktop installs don't use X11 in any capacity. They use Microsoft Windows.

>It's not actually a problem that my applications are powerful and can do what I want them to do.

I notice you didn't actually respond to my comment about stopping using passwords and private keys and running everything as root. Because I'd bet even you draw a line somewhere, in a place where you think it's a risk to give an application too much power.

>It is a problem that other locked down OSes like Macs and smartphone systems are not in the user's control and programs cannot do many things by design.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux or even on those systems either. It's not actually a problem there. If you have root on the system then you are in control and can do whatever you want anyway. The purpose of setting security boundaries and not running everything as root is because not everything needs to access everything else all the time. The security model you're suggesting became obsolete by the mid 1990s.

And let me say this again so it's perfectly clear. When you use X11 there is effectively no security boundary between any X11 clients. So if you start up your root terminal or you use sudo or anything else like that, then any other X11 client on the system also gets root. This is unacceptable and I can't believe I still have to continually point this out to long time Linux users that should be technical enough to understand. It doesn't even matter if you personally think it's fine to run everything as root: maybe you do. But as a user you should have enough understanding of the system to know that this absolutely is not ok for lots of other users and it's simply not appropriate to be shipped as the default in the year 2023.

These are not fantasy issues, these are actual issues that the underlying system was purposely designed to fix. X11 pokes a huge gaping hole in it.

>sharing keyboard/mouse with synergy/barrier/etc is secure.

No. On a typical X11 install it's not, because it relies on insecure APIs.
Windows does not have Raycast? I don't know what I would do without it!

That must be a pretty huge opportunity. I don't use Windows, so not for me, but why no one has built something like it?
The official Microsoft version is Run, and it's not bad. One of it's biggest limitations is it's not customizable, so no plugins or community like Alfred.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run.
So by my calculations, Each celebrity has flown the equivalent of 20 (24-hours) days worth of trips on average.

I imagine if I had a plane that would be expected use, or probably wouldn't have bought one.
You can either not editorialize the title, and accept that the thread contains updates, or editorialize it and violate HN guidelines.

Either choice will lead somebody to complain
"Less useful" belongs to "don't agree" part, if you haven't noticed. It isn't an inherent part of the package.
You're using American-centric terminology that doesn't translate well to other countries, most of which have one national grid company that manages the transmission grid (which extends up to the generation facilities) and where 'retail companies' refers to local distributors who may operate their own distribution networks or who may just handle billing etc.
just because you see a joke you don't like doesn't mean the whole site has no sense of humor
About three-and-a-half minutes.
I call for the mods of r/singularity to resign
While walking the dog today, it talked me through some trade-offs between DBSCAN and isolation forests. Walking + verbalizing the problem is a very different and positive experience for me.

I've also used it several times on ~15-20min drives to memorize something I wanted to have available for immediate recall. I had it chunk & quiz me, and by the end of the drive I had it down pat. Fun use of drive time.
Did you get the fake in an official box? Or OEM version? This is quite a big claim.
If I'm correct then the board is fine with getting replaced, they just don't want Sam to have total control. Many of the candidates for independent director are friendly with Sam and will happily give him the keys to the kingdom. It's probably extremely difficult to find qualified independent board members who don't have ties to Sam.
Flushing in this case is from the SSDs internal DRAM cache to the actual NAND flash?
Ask HN: Great Interview Questions You Have Been Asked
Especially open-ended/design-focused ones.
See also:

1) The Second Brain by Michael Gershon.

2) Gut: The Inside Story Of Our Body's Most Under-Rated Organ by Julia Enders.
Yeah I'd agree if there hasn't been prior review and it's not new code. I normally would set my hard limit around 1-2k LOC and I'm expecting quite a few commits to break that up into something digestible or else it's an instant reject.

But for new code? I'm okay with more LOC than normal but I think 10k lines is my hard limit (including tests and documentation). And I expect no more than 500 lines in any given commit/patch. And realistically I am expecting that patchset/PR to be around 50-100 discrete commits/patches in length. Also it's likely that once things start stabilising that patchset can be broken up and merged in chunk by chunk.

And with prior reviews (i.e. merging an incubation branch into mainline) I expect there to be effectively no changes other than merge resolutions to aggregate PRs/patchsets into the incubation branch that is getting pulled into mainline.
It doesn’t even have to be software.

This camera tracking a goldfish to pick stocks is AI by this definition:

https://youtu.be/USKD3vPD6ZA

Update: A coin toss meets this definition.
They are not wrong, I can attest that there have been a ton of breakthroughs and new developments. I don't know what else you're looking for here? Are you expecting them to list every single breakthrough here for you?
Neither do we. We just do what our neurons tell us to do.
"Weiner" should be Wiener?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
I really don't understand the problem. Don't nazis buy phones?

Or is the real complaint that nazi content is being placed next to ads for typically non-nazi twitter users?
Both the camera and fishtank are artificial, this is clearly AI. The goldfish would have picked different stocks in a natural habitat and when observed by another goldfish.
Here is GPT-4 for reference. I can't judge the quality.
https://chat.openai.com/share/96d4f976-627f-4cc3-8716-3557d5...
good for bitcoin
In this instance, "Sam is trying to take over the Board on a flimsy basis" is an reasonable reason to remove him. Started leading discussions about whether she should be removed, is also very very far from actively working to remove her.

This is amateur hour and considering what happened she probably should have been removed.
Have a live conversation about a basketball game with GPT4V, Whisper, TTS
I agree but only because we don't expect people to be.

We expect clean, readable code so we develop engineers who can write that code.

If we expect clean, readable commit histories (like any project on the lore. https://lore.kernel.org/), we can develop engineers who produce those commit histories.

There's an adoption cost but IMHO it's worth it.
We both know that crypto is only used for and that the main use case is criminal activities, so it's only right that the whole thing should be shut down by law.

It's already impossible for crypto to become part of the current financial system so the only way to stop this scourge is to make crypto illegal starting with the exchanges down to the blockchains.

Blockchains have absolutely no use case at all.
unfortunately i don't think neoreactionary views are at all orthogonal to the political discourse that is current in the usa; moldbug has his own variant of the 'cultural marxism' thesis, though naturally enough he doesn't blame it on the jews or the frankfurt school; instead, he picks the quakers, which i mostly agree with (except that of course i agree with the quakers)

his criticism is squarely directed at the mainstream us left that he grew up in and its core ideals, such as equality, human rights, pacifism, fighting injustice, etc. he thinks all those are bad things
Maybe your brother can work more because he was born healthy and he was treated better, while you were born with a disability and neglected.

One needs to look at circumstances that allow different inputs in the first place.

Your capacity for input is not some inherent core part of your being, unless you believe in souls, it is a result of what surrounds you and what has come before you.
> I'm talking mostly about kids 8-14 or so. Older teens will get more bored and mischevious. Fortunately by that age there's more stuff they can be involved in at school or they can get a job.

In my experience, at least, this is a large contributor to the drug epidemic. You could get a job, or you could get high. For a lot of people, it's an easy choice.
No, I don't think he agrees with neo reactionaries any more than he let on. In his public posts he has praised reactionaries for making observations that most shirk away from, even if they are wrong in their conclusions. This is pretty much what is expressed in the contents of those emails.

I think you're reading way too much into one sentence saying human biodiversity is partially correct (which is not actually a particularly contentious idea when you explain what it is), and leaping to the conclusion he agrees with neo reactionary claims that some races have substantially lower IQ even with identical environmental factors. There's a vast disparity between "IQ disparities across races" and "IQ disparities across races, without environmental differences" that is crucial to understand.
There should be extra (and enormous) antitrust penalties for publicly lying. These lies can be proven with internal communications gained from discovery or from leaks (incentivized by large bounties).
I've also lived in the balkans and my work involved tourism, I have to say this does sound like a complaint made primarily by germans and americans. I'm not sure if it's because germans and americans are the ones who get an earful of it most often due to heavier national involvement in the yugoslav wars and/or if we take it as a more of a personal affront.

The triumphal liberal cosmopolitanism of the 90s is starting to fade in Europe and the US, what's left looks more and more like cynical window dressing for brutal realpolitik. Nationalism, irredentist attitudes, ethnic cleansing and military conflict seem to be very much back on the menu as of late.

I see all of those as negative developments, but it's maybe time to wonder who's living in the past, them or us.
How does he become more sympathetic? If this reporting is true, then Sam going after Toner’s board seat because of a paper is totally out of line.