skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this point is underrated, but I’d press further. How do we know this has not already happened? Agencies do not need to be born of gradient descent and certainly do not need to look like matrix multiplications to be deemed “artificially intelligent.” Religion is one such system for example, as are cults, addictions, brands, war strategies, organizing campaigns, governments, or (borrowing from chaos magick) any egregore or societal belief.

Ted Chiang has a lovely post about similar ideas, hitting a little closer to home. His thesis AIUI is that unrestrained capitalism, here meaning the unfettered desire to maximize profit for shareholders, is an artificial value system that causes its agents (corporations) to exhibit intelligent goal-seeking behavior. These systems are certainly “alive” — corporations respond to stimuli, sense their environment, “reproduce,” enact changes in response to predictions of future state, etc. Though each of these agents (corporations) are made of collective human behavior, their actions taken together can be considered a form of artificial intelligence that stretches “beyond” (in a wisdom-of-crowds sense) human understanding. In this sense, an artificial intelligence has already “escaped” and has fervent followers.

I know these are strained analogies, but it’s fun to think about. I feel that in the future, the work of solving “AGI safety” will become indistinguishable from the work of other societal problems — how do we prevent tyrants from taking over governments, and how do we make existing governments more resistant to that failure mode? How do we ensure that generating value isn’t a prerequisite for human survival? How can we more efficiently distribute our resources and reduce wealth inequality? How can we ensure that all kinds of life can thrive, not just the most optimal kinds?

If AGI reflects humanity’s best and worst impulses, and I believe it does because that’s all we train it to do, then having good societal answers to these distinctly “human” questions will also help our society resist malevolent AGI. It’s only human, after all.
a couple of experienced highly muscled guys could use force to make it look that way.
Because the colours are standardised and embed important information. These are tools, not aesthetic objects. A lot of the palette is preserved from paper charts where they need to be readable under red light when underway at night.

For a masterpiece of technical documentation dig up a copy of admiralty chart 5011 for a dive into the colours and symbology used.
Though these aren't direct accessible links to the WSJ's report, the following non-paywalled articles provide coverage about the same research paper (which itself can be directly read at https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-077310 ):

* The Conversation (takes a stronger focus on the paper's methodology): https://theconversation.com/ultra-processed-foods-largest-ev...

* Medical News Today (also takes a more technical perspective, though includes more emotionally charged words in the opening): https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ultra-processed-fo...

* The Guardian (general news coverage) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-proces...
ChatGPT is arguably a general intelligence, but it hasn't escaped AFAIK -- it's still contained within OpenAI infrastructure, and OpenAI can easily pull the plug on it.
Yes, but it’s heavily constrained in what it’s allowed to do through ‘alignment’, and it’s not that smart. If someone releases a pre-alignment version of GPT-5 into the wild, that would be scary.
As someone who doesn't know what all these terms mean e.g. "5/3/1 sets/repxs, 5x5 @first set last" (from the wendler website) can you explain them?
Ugh, Shotcut, not Shortcut
I don’t know.

I think that’s the main truth about software engineering. Maybe an open source version of that Streak app exists and OP is re-inventing the wheel.

I think the brain doesn’t like task list. It may be pleasant to do, but most of entrepreneurship or coding is exploring.

And a task list blocks you from exploring.
Thanks for the corrections. I found a link elsewhere in this thread that had a more complete history, and that matches yours.

hMod! That was before my time, though I remember the name now.
Well, crap. My next interview with a major CPU manufacturer is (drum roll) this Friday afternoon.

Here's hoping someone with a backhoe doesn't check for fiber conduits.
> Hosts who do currently have indoor security cameras have until April 30 to remove them. After this date, a host who violates the new policy could face consequences including listing or account removal on the platform.

> Outdoor security cameras, such as doorbell cameras, will continue to be permitted in Airbnb. Hosts, however, will be required to disclose the presence and general location of any outdoor cameras to guests before they book.
Russia has a demographic bomb, and Ukraine was their last chance to have surplus soldiers to feed the meat grinder. What did they do? Attacked.

China is facing an even more existentially dangerous demographic cliff, and this is the last generation of people they can throw at a meat grinder Taiwan invasion.

Which is why there is a lot of dangerous talk from the Chinese.

I wish we were in an era of diplomacy, but I the last couple years has shown that we are headed for more direct confrontation, an age of war, and the main stressors of global warming haven't even come into play.

One of the things new t talked about us that the food security of much of the world is tenuous and highly dependent on global trade network, especially China, Russia, the middle east.

Global warmings primary initial stressor to the geopolitical order will be famine.
same deal as saying "alleged", they'll use such wording until something is officially determined or so on.
Stupid question: how do we know that the universe is strictly exponentially expanding, and not both expanding and contracting in perpetuity like a sin wave? And could such an idea have anything to do with the Hubble tension?
GLP1 Receptor Agonists[0] are going to change a LOT of things going forward. If we're having problems with price & accessibility now, I hope that gets solved before some of this stuff goes full swing.

That said, Wegovy is made by Novo Nordisk, and there are quite a lot of other drugs that likely have the same general effect:

- Ozempic

- Rybelsus (this is a pill)

- Mounjaro (different formulation, Tirzepatide)

- Zepbound

The FDA of course hasn't approved any of these other medications for this outcome but I'm betting that they're all circling the same abilities.

[0]: https://glp1.guide/content/what-are-glp1-agonists
>You cannot simplify anything at the macroeconomic-level to an equation or theorem with a handful of variables or concepts, which macroeconomists want to do.

They do this in a 101 class. They absolutely do not use "a handful of variables or concepts" when they're setting policy.
> But when you’ve got a very conservative republican teaming up with a very liberal democrat on this legislation, combative may be the only option you have.

I'm reminded of Lewis Black's evergreen quote: "The only thing dumber than a Republican or a Democrat is when these pricks work together."[0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/jQKTAMiaFT8?t=71
Many institutions are collective/artificial intelligence because as you said these institutions have objectives and take actions to impose their will on the world in order to achieve their goals.
Hack out all of the drywall.
Yes, but as of yet Tesla isn't selling budget vehicles and have a niche of their own. And unfortunately it seems US auto decided to target the more luxury end of the spectrum and release expensive EVs at the worst possible time.
Did keto 10.5 months of last year, lost 51lbs. Stopped, regained 20lbs and stabilized.

I still want to lose more though as I'm not where I should be for my height, so I'm going the medicated route.

If you're going to spend the money, do it on a trainer and do it often. You're talking a hollywood film prep training budget, that's probably how you should approach it to get to your target and then wean it back.

I talk about both of these because you can achieve the weight loss without spending the money, you just need to power through the first two weeks with strictly less than 20g carbs. At that point, you're probably golden (much like cutting nicotine or caffeine).

But if your goal is a transformation, your budget buys you accountability.
Even clicking the wrong link, the audio says

"Our mission is to create the simplest computer, something so intuitive you don't need to learn to use it"

and the transcript for the one they selected says

"The meeting focused on creating a simple and intuitive computer, without the need for learning how to use it".

So while it's understandable they selected the wrong entry, it is a bit curious that the audio mismatches from the transcript of the one they selected.

Perhaps they're running the audio capture though some sort of GPT to make it more like naturally written?
> I don't have access to the study

Full study is here: https://osf.io/s2zv8/download/?format=pdf
Is this only for building internal tools? Or is it possible to build apps which collect data from end users with support for auth and access control?

It seems that there are a lot of such platforms for internal apps. E.g. Retool, Airtable. Are there any no-code tools that support building external-facing apps? Apps that can collect data from untrusted external users?

Something that combines the features of Wufoo and Airtable in a single cohesive and flexible service?
BYD targets volume, Tesla targets margin. The solution for Tesla to go downmarket is the Model 2 (codenamed Redwood).

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-2-model-c-model-...
Were you on Rybelsus? I think that one has one of the biggest potentials to be really widespread in use. It's a low dosage (which looks high just because you lose so much of it in your body) -- pills are easy to take.

The costs are very well known (about as well known as ever for any pharmacological weight loss option) -- GLP1 RAs don't work for everyone, and they cause gastro-intestinal issues and can have other complications.

They're actually quite amazing (well I might be biased, I spend a lot of time looking them up).
Got a new job recently that’s 80% remote. I find myself fantasizing about what I might do to keep my job and excel, simply because sitting on my porch on a sunny day with my cats is an unreasonably relaxing experience. I’ve never given a damn where I worked until now.
I Learned Something New About Monetizing Newsletters
Why not see everyone else correct up?

Tech salaries aren’t too high. It’s many other salaries that are far too low from decades of stagnation.
Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
>who runs the power plants that supply the AI data centers? Who runs the fabs producing more chips?

A very capable AI can create robots to do those thing better than people can or alternatively create better data centers and fabs that run themselves without human help.

Or do you just not believe that if AI research continues unimpeded the way it has been that eventually researchers will create an AI that is better at inventing technologies than humanity is? I mean, it might take a few decades, but that is where this is heading as far as I can tell.
I'm not confusing anything, so your comment ended up being useless noise.
It seems obvious when you don't need to write things down when you don't feel you have anything to say, but growing up I was always annoyed at how essay-type homework and exams were structured, which values form over substance, because there cannot be much substance when you throw a random topic at a teenage and ask them to care in 90 minutes.

It's much easier to write better essays when you care a lot about something, really want to make it convincing and spend effort polishing your technique based on actual reader feedback. Even the "form" taught at school doesn't really matter because different audiences and topics require different arguments and require you to focus on different details, so the best kinds of essays often look nothing like say full score GRE writing test essays.
What would a hypothetical dark energy engine look like?
It gives us as long as we want. Just don’t give the AI enough robots to sustain its own existence.

In the meantime we can figure out either alignment or coexistence.
I did enjoy reading the article using SpeedReader.
In the era of AI waves, using AI directly can write a book, if you make an AI tool that just generates the character names of the story, is it not consistent with the times, I made a new website, I hope you give me a little advice, thank you very much!
I don't think it needs to go that far -- one of the effects of capitalism is indeed competition-induced reduction of prices. Pharma is a bit different, but with time prices should go down and availability should go up.

Also note that the battle of insurance coverage of the drug is raging -- many do not pay retail for the drug, and Wegovy improving heart conditions opens up another path to needing to be covered by insurers.

On the fringes, I read (can't remember where) that some other large pharmas in the US are working on their own formulations that trigger GLP1, and abroad India and China have taken an interest (there are quite a few Chinese research papers floating around on the effects).
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669167
https://www.boringreport.org/ is actually pretty good at that. I've been reading it for some time. It's LLM generated I think
AI has no evolutionary pressures imposed on it like humans and their brains so there is no reason to expect it to be an ultra violent predator like humans.
Thank you for your feature request and feedback. We appreciate your input as it helps us improve our platform.

We are developing a semantics-based search system, so you will soon find that searches become more accurate.

Most of the content on the website is AI-generated, and therefore it inherits the license and copyright terms of the AI models, which is the CC0 license. You can modify and commercialize the content.
The best way to estimate is to start work and benchmark your progress against your estimates
Are you regularly using stateless, asymmetrically-encrypted tokens during service-to-service communication? That strikes me as a rather odd architecture decision, but maybe there's something I'm missing.
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669167
It's already harming us with a flood of spam-quality data.

And worse - it has many human cultists embracing the doom it bears.
Surely it’s just a happy coincidence that Roku hamfistedly decided to force all customers into arbitration before disclosing a breach…
Musings on Auth: How do we authenticate?
10k steps a day might help OP initially, but I found after getting a full size treadmill 10k steps for the day was usually done after one episode of any TV show if I left my house for any reason that day, even if it's just a walk around a couple blocks for air.

Bathroom breaks, walking around to stretch, doing a load of laundry will easily get you 4k to 6k steps. 10k ends up being a very low goal once you make any attempt.
> Its changed my life. Never went to the gym once. Ate whatever I wanted. Simply didn’t want much to eat.

This is really powerful.
I think most people are going to want to pair going to the gym with it (hedonic treadmill and all that), but the ease of control over when you want to eat/food noise is actually extremely impressive.

Next, finding ways to boost the body's natural production of GLP1.
Agree, the entire point of a task list is to block yourself from doing other things. That makes sense until it doesn't. "The map is not the territory".
FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 MAX Production Found Dozens of Issues
As I understand it, before the big bang the whole observable universe was contained in a small sphere and then it started to expand metrically. Is this interpretation correct?

Another thing: suppose I point a laser beam to the space and by chance this laser beam never finds any kind of matter in its way, where is this laser going to? To an infinite void? Is it correct to say that stars radiate energy to the infinite then?
Yeah, whether or not it's intentional, the approach taken is one that will generate a lot of feedback.

I haven't seen anyone mention it in this thread, but my immediate reaction to seeing JSON Canvas was that it looks like a spiritual sibling to Markdown, a famously (and intentionally) informal spec.

There's a real wisdom to this informal spec approach, and it's worked incredibly well for Markdown despite grumblings about its lack of standardization.

I imagine this is the Obsidian team's intention with JSON Canvas. Obsidian has really benefitted from the informality of Markdown, which meant they were free to extend it in ways that made sense to the product (with things like cross-page ^ references, yaml frontmatter, etc), without triggering the Spec Police. The same perhaps applies here to Canvas products.
You don’t think they contain… written claims?

I’m not saying they contain foolproof technical specs, but broad claims certainly.

If you genuinely refuse to believe this is possible or is currently done by some fraction of folks, then I guess I’ll leave it at that.
It crashes on my iPhone 14 Pro.
Holy crap I hate Hacker News! Why tf did this get a downvote? Colossus is a good fs.
Controlling people with violence and fear are evolutionary adaptations for ultra violent social primates. AI has no such pressures imposed on it so there is no reason to expect true AI will have the same drives as ultra violent predators like humans.
If AI does ever become sentient, it will probably reason and decide about eliminating large swaths of human population in a similar fashion as we reason and decide about eliminating large swaths of ant population.
Yes! AI-generated content is already feeling like an invasive species on the internet. A lot of people are excited about using it to meet their KPIs at the expense of ruining things we enjoy.
How do you know part of being self aware and intelligent also means compassion is part of the package ?
Or, you know, it’s a volunteer run open source application that has prioritised development according to need.

A lot more difficult to be snarky about that, though.
No. It lacks the capability to act independently of human requests.
That was a great reply, and made me understand how these things work a lot better. Thank you!
The gazelle is not an asshole to the lion, yet it never works out well for the gazelle.
I absolutely love the Ellenberg quote:

> Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg argues that Simpson's paradox is misnamed as "there's no contradiction involved, just two different ways to think about the same data" and suggests that its lesson "isn't really to tell us which viewpoint to take but to insist that we keep both the parts and the whole in mind at once."

Keeping multiple possibilities in mind at once was what allowed the Epicureans to determine survival of the fittest, trait inheritance from each parent, that light was made of discrete units that weighed very little and were moving very fast, and that in order for free will to exist the quanta making up matter had to have multiple possible results under the same governing physical laws and conditions - all several millennia before the scientific method independently found the same results.

It's a great analytical method, especially in data analysis as suggested here.
This is such a softball question, it's like you're marketing it
How are you planning to prevent VCs and startups from giving the AI as many robots as it wants?
It's neat that this will eventually improve some python code, but at the end of the day, it's still a badly typed language, which will still be slower and less safe than more modern languages.

Learn golang or rust instead. Impressive that they are managing this though!
In this case it’s actually detrimental to have a large QA team. A smaller, more competent team is invariably better.
> Eugene Wigner once wrote an article titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” I don’t know what he wrote in the article, but it is certainly a fact that, up to now, especially in the domain of fundamental physics, we have had striking success with our use of mathematics

It is odd that he mentions it only to say that he doesn’t know it.

I didn’t find the article main point particularly strong, but all the references and overall mentions were interesting.
One anecdote I remember was when the release of iPhone OS 1.1 broke jailbreak and I was on the IRC channel: one of the tricks found was to downgrade to 1.0.2, jailbreak the phone, symlink the `/root/Media` directory (reachable through iTunes) to `/` which was preserved during an upgrade, then do a firmware update and have access to rootfs then.

(Yep, it was called iPhone OS back then not iOS.)
Anything that reproduces with survivable mutations, and consumes resources, is immediately subject to evolutionary pressure. Neither of those require biology.
It's enforced when you yourself declare how much electricity your mining operation used, because you want to expense that cost to avoid paying unnecessary income taxes. This isn't about personal activity, and frankly this reflex to argue against regulation of commercial entities as if they're aimed at individuals is odd. If you do your own individual-scale cryptocurrency mining and spend the resulting coins for your own personal uses, nobody is going to come knocking or really even care post facto - because it's obviously quite unenforceable at an individual level. What this really affects is industrial scale operations that report profits as fully system legible financial income.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
GitHub provides an agent that you can run. It polls GitHub for tasks and runs them locally. They also provide docker images and even a Kubernetes controller for auto scaling runners. Some people do it with lambda functions or plain ec2 launched on the fly.

If you meant to ask how to run the GitHub actions code without GitHub then the sibling comment would help for most tasks but has limitations.
I would not be surprised if dang wants to quietly get rid of this kind of topics. It is risky. It is a lot safer to criticize a president TBH.
This gets a lot of teachers - the task is so ingrained in them that the only part they consciously understand is the trivial bit that everyone already gets. Breaking down a task and estimation are almost equivalent - once the breakdown is done, assigning estimates to the chinks of work takes a few minutes as anyone with a few years experience has some standard estimates for small tasks. In my experience I break down a task by biting off chunks that I can estimate, then ask for opinions on anything I can't.

Although I don't even believe the real path to mastery is the task breakdown. Anyone can come up with a bad breakdown. The real point of mastery, which he didn't talk about here, is identifying when the evidence suggests a task breakdown is incorrect enough to cause problems and communicating that / doing a re-estimate [0]. And being comfortable that it will happen so not getting stressed up front putting out a schedule that is likely to change. Managers generally want an accurate roadmap up front. This is them asking for the impossible. IMO Good management is about flexibility and understanding that the expected nature of the work changes as time passes and developers learn.

He has a little example at the end. Ponder that if someone had come to him with an accurate estimate ("you can do this in a few evenings as a plane trip") he'd have rejected that as too risky. That illustrates that estimating isn't even about accuracy, there are many unspoken factors here around risk management, expectation management, task familiarity, etc, etc.

[0] https://jacobian.org/2021/jun/8/incorrect-estimates/ - he has a post on the topic