skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a lot of people out there willing to drop half of their net worth on the floor on principle. And then sign up for years of high profile lawsuits and character assassination.
If AGI is no longer Sam Altman's goal, why was he recently trying to raise 7 trillion dollars for hardware to accelerate progress in AI?
"""The Extremadura Health Service (SES) will have to compensate a woman who suffered thrombosis due to the coronavirus vaccine with 40,000 euros. This has been confirmed by the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura (TSJEX). Condemns the SES for patrimonial responsibility due to the principle of solidarity. The Janssen vaccine was inoculated.

The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Court has rejected the appeal of the Regional Government of Extremadura against the ruling of the Contentious-Administrative Court number 1 of Cáceres. It ratifies that there is patrimonial responsibility due to the principle of solidarity given that the vaccine was promoted by the Administration to protect society as a whole and it must assume the damages caused."""
If that's the goal then perhaps we already surpassed it and I personally am not impressed.

It's useful but basically every method of quality control requires a human.

I've found that components of general intelligence specialized beyond human capability are much more useful than a model that can mimic a human.

I think an LLM is just trying to do too much at once, all of the individual NLP algorithms most of them are made of are very useful to us, but an LLM is just not specialized enough to be any more useful than a human without specialization.

Which isn't to say they're _useless_, but obviously not as useful as a specialist (in special contexts, denoted by whatever kind of specialist they are)

ETA: as an aside, I'd like to contextualize my presumption that AGI is about AI singularity with the fact that Sam Altman casually stated that he doesn't care if it takes $50 billion to reach AGI.

In the real world, with 50 billion dollars, you can do something much more useful than trying to build a product that's basically contradictory by definition.

An AGI is (presumably) a general intelligence model but it's implicitly touted as being extremely useful for specialized tasks (because, humans can specialize), but once you specialize, I would argue your general intelligence tends to weaken. (For example I wouldn't expect a Harvard PhD to be 100% up to date with modern slang terms, but I'd be shocked if I went to a local bar and met someone who didn't know what rizz means).

This is basically just trying to squeeze two opposite ends of a spectrum together, which sounds kind of like a singularity to me.
My understanding is that he wrote the code for the smart contracts and open sourced it on GitHub. The contracts were compiled and deployed to the Ethereum network. There was no infrastructure/service controlled by him responsible for running the code or processing the transactions. The core contract, once deployed to Ethereum; could not be modified or deleted by anyone.

The only "infrastructure" in the traditional sense operated by him was a static website hosted somewhere online (which was eventually taken down at the request of law enforcement). The static website offered an optional interface to the Ethereum network for convenience in interacting with the deployed smart contract. The network requests from this website were made to a public Ethereum API provider specified by the end user through their own general-purpose Ethereum wallet browser extension.
There's people who lived there all their life and can't vote because a bunch of racists decided that their life is worth less than themselves. No thanks, this isn't how any of it works in a modern country.

The independentist aren't better than the apartheid and if there's anything colonial left in there, it's the backward ethnic laws set up by the independentists.
> The whole energy of the swarm will be used there

that sounds like a made up problem. the Dyson swarm isn't to collect energy to send to the home planet. it's to collect energy. where that is used is going to be wherever it's needed. mining the asteroids, local computing (the cloud is no longer just a computer on earth, it's the cloud of the swarm elements), powering interstellar trips remotely, etc. the only thing that needs to get to earth is the imports of goods and services.
Ok, so you know absolutely nothing about the country and its cultures. Switzerland is an extremely fragmented country with 26 cantons, 4 official languages. The country is diverse, you won’t get a unified view and understanding of it by speaking to a few people. We identify with our regions more than with the country itself. The country has almost no resources and developed itself thanks to massive immigration waves. The fear of foreigners is a pretty clear bottleneck to the development of the whole area.

When I was growing up the far right was screaming about Albanian and Kosovar coming to the country to steal and destroy it. Of course that was complete rubbish and the country continued to develop extremely well. Before it was against Portuguese, Spanish, Italian people. Since the 2000s the focus has been towards Muslims and black people, which is obviously what you’re hinting to and seem too afraid to express. The discourse is the same. It’s just standard populism: vote Swiss’ People party to be protected from all those tribal uneducated bad foreigners who don’t fit in a 1900s picture of the country!

The truth is that the traditional view of the country you’re defending is a modern lie that never existed.

I will stop the engagement here, there is no point in exchanging with someone who is too much of a coward to truthfully express what they mean - likely because you know it’s xenophobic and racist, and cannot recognize their ignorance on a topic.
> Well yeah but obviously, don't try to live in a HCOL area if you're not going to economically win out.

Well, clearly the solution is for everyone to work remotely for a high-COL area based company and live in a low COL area. Gee, why didn't everyone think of that.

My point being, you still need to be earning roughly 50% more than median to make things work. Your original math seems to point to you lucking out somewhere, e.g. low rate mortgage or being a high-earning in a low-COL area.

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How long is the path from High School Diploma/GED to being a fully licensed commercial electrician?

How many people have full support of their network while earning that license through apprenticeship?
Do you think calling your project parallel is what people have an issue with or do you think it's that you're calling your project the future of parallel computation when it doesn't perform anywhere close to what already exists?
html, really? most email users I know don't give the first shit about html.

email isn't fundamentally for marketing, and it's not a publishing format, so why any html at all? suppose the only markup available is \n...
I’m glad the conversation about LLMs in UI is getting more nuanced!

There was a while there where it seemed like conversational (either text or by voice-to-text) interfaces were the only way people could imagine using LLMs. Everything being an empty text box staring back at you.

It seems like that may have just been due to ease of implementation to an API. Now that we’ve all had some time to work a bit, some interesting UI experiments are starting to peek out.
The source code is here: https://github.com/opf

Seems to be a rails app on top of Postgres.
>In any sort of reboot, I think a modern encryption system (something like Signal protocol?) would be a must.

Signal doesn't strike me as a very suitable candidate. It is quite connection oriented and email is not. For example, it requires a online "prekey" server just to do encryption.

We already have two protocols for encrypted email (OpenPGP, S/MIME). I can't see how another incompatible protocol would help. It seems to me that the first problem to address would be the usability of encrypted email, which is quite poor. While we are at it, we should work on the usability of encrypted instant messaging, which isn't that great either, for most of the same reasons.
I would guess it’s a bonus and part of their bonus structure and they agreed to the terms of any exit/departure, when they sign their initial contract.

I’m not saying it’s right or that I agree with it, however.
I can understand the earlier reports, but the devices that are wiped and disassociated from the original iCloud account? That seems like a major failure of design.

The failure mode here is puzzling.
China makes consumer crap not our guns and bombs. In a wartime situation maybe people can’t get iphone cases from temu, big whoop. Not the first time the american population rationed consumer products in wartime. We will still have power and air, sea, and space superiority which is what really matters.
First, thank you for the article and discussion.

Do you have any thoughts on the role and practicality of deterrence in this space?
I agree with the overall thesis, but I do need to quibble about Stuxnet. Yes, Stuxnet was very interesting, and it did disrupt Irans nuclear program. However, its impact is often overblown. It likely delayed Irans nuclear program by only a few weeks. Cyber attacks can absolutely cause a lot of damage and harm, but Stuxnet is not the best example of that.
Prop 13 means local municipalities need to extract higher fees and taxes on new construction compared to existing property. Higher development costs/prices cause dead weight loss and therefore block/reduce new development.
but you chose that service, so what's the issue?
Then lower level employees who don’t have do much at stake could open up. Formers who have much larger stakes could compensate these lower level formers for forgoing any upside. Now, sure, maybe they don’t have the same inside information, but u bet there’s lots of scuttlebutt to go around.
> better than native performance using RN

You had an app written natively in Objective-C or Swift, switched to single-threaded javascript React Native, and then your app ran faster?
Phases of Ice
Presumably others here dove into this upon reading https://xkcd.com/1561/.
Probably for the same reason why they aren’t using their nuclear weaponry.
It’s really more important to have your own alone time.
And then they get drone strikes from a vengeful friend.

Cops aren't gonna be able to get away with their bully bullshit when people can strike back with technological impunity.
Cuba would be the most resilient nation on earth I’d guess
Can higher level formers with more at stake pool together comp for lower levels with much less at stake so they can speak to it? Obvs they may not be privy to some things, but there’s likely lots to go around.
But I'm still backing up offsite and have to consider that as well.
Not exactly the first post cold war european land war either
VW is going down. The market is way too competitive, and they can't keep up. Imposing sanctions on China is the only way for them to get back on their feet.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/business/volkswagen-brand-no-...
TL;DR: We don't really know.
Yeah. Treat yourself like a robot. What can go wrong... :)
More damning @dang why have allegations of inappropriate behaviour of Fong-Jones been silently redacted on hacker news but unfounded allegations against kiwifarms is allowed?
Stoke Space: 100% reusable rockets
Previously on HN [0] (206 points, 1 year ago, 105 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972712
> I don't think you understand what I'm saying.

You are telling stories. Stories are the foundation of the culture you have been raised in, they trump everything.

I know you don't understand what I'm saying.
Interesting thought. I've never heard of this idea. Let's think it through.

If I understood correctly, you suggest to turn the heat from fusion into a usable form of energy. On earth we'd do that using steam turbines. Harvesting only the hydrogen from the star to bring it on a planet and fuse it in a reactor seems silly, as the hydrogen is already at sufficient temperature to fuse on its own. So we could send water and steam turbines close to the sun where the turbines charge some sort of battery? Perhaps on some super elliptic orbit, where we switch the full batteries with empty batteries at the apihelion.

Or did you have something else in mind?
> how kiwifarms relates to the open internet that Null allows a lot of questionable things

In other words, an open internet. Doxxing is not illegal if your intent is not considered harassment or threatening (if it's just for "public shame" or ridicule, that's allowed). If the website or Josh's conduct WAS so illegal, it would have been dealt with already. You're whining at the wrong person, or perhaps, pissing into the wrong wind.

He continues to be sued every couple of months at least, by lots of angry people who were upset at things that were posted, whether by him or others, and he has won against them every single time. I think Melinda alone has sued him like six times, and always lost.

Also your archive links are crimeflared and the opposite of open.
I've cobbled together my own assortment of services that achieves a similar suite of functionality Zoraxy appears to offer. Everything is hosted and accessible (ACLs permitting) via my Tailscale network – nothing gets exposed publicly.

This looks very cool and if it's able to integrate with Tailscale I'd try it in a heartbeat!
Why are you citing homeownership stats? I saw fox news on tv in public recently. The headline cited “millions of migrants overwhelming border.” These are the powers that be who I am referring to. The powers who craft those unhinged headlines and also stand to benefit in some way by entrenching those headlines into the formative minds of their dedicated political base.
Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic
Yes, the title was probably a bit too clicky
People also come up with "plain interpretations" of the laws of physics that allow them to construct perpetual motion machines. Arrogance and wishful thinking are a bad combination, no matter the field.
I'm not signing up or creating a "free" account without at least seeing a sample of it. JMHO.
So, you're looking forward lethal drones' becoming widely available to individuals, then?
Right now, there is some publicity on Twitter regarding AGI/OpenAI/EA LSD cnc parties (consent non consent/simulated rape parties).

So maybe it's related to that.

https://twitter.com/soniajoseph_/status/1791604177581310234
> Astonishingly, there appears to be no contemporary analysis of this star.

I should have stated: there appear to be no contemporary observations of this star.

Also, one of the more interesting things to me is that ytterbium, for example, has a half-life which is measured in days.
Do even slightly competent programmers ever actually commit LLM-generated code as is rather than using it as a clue for ideas on how to possibly do something? I thought only people with zero coding skills would just copy paste, everyone else would want to change a lot.
How to Talk to Your Database Using GPT
This is a direct threat to my startup business. Who's to say they wouldn't sell our process as an AI tool after a few TOS changes?
Another thing that sucks about construction: the dust. Workers have to wear respiratory devices on some of these jobs and yet no issues if the jackhammer is venting particulate into a schoolyard across the street.

Also sidewalks are routinely trashed by construction companies, destroyed to rubble even by their trucks and not repaired until the project is just about finished. Never mind the years where disabled people could not walk around the project.
Bingo.

The whole justification for keeping consumers happy or healthy goes right out the window.

Same for human workers.

All that matters is that your robots and AIs aren't getting smashed by their robots and AIs.
Is this largely for the exercise? Totally cool if you’re using it to get a better understanding of understanding of macOS’s Virtualization framework, but if your goal is that you were looking for a way to run VMs without Parallels, VMWare or VirtualBox, UTM [1] would be the direction I’d point you in.

[1] https://mac.getutm.app/
What unfounded allegations about the site have been allowed?
> he won't ban users who commit illegal acts

I think this is more of a legal issue regarding selective enforcement and Section 230. He has a good lawyer and always wins his cases, maybe don't be so quick to claim he is being wreckless or breaking laws.
Based on my very limited experience running events, you could easily hire a professional one for a single performance for a few thousand dollars. For an amateur group, hundreds.

Modern logistics and construction has significantly reduced secondary costs. Cost per calorie of food is nearly free compared to the past.
This is all basically true, but the problem is that retaining an attorney to confidently represent you for such negotiation is proposition with $10k table stakes (probably $15k+ these days with Trumpflation), and much more if the company sticks to their guns and doesn't settle (which is much more likely when the company is holding the cards and you have to go on the offensive). The cost isn't necessarily outright prohibitive in the context of surveillance industry compensation, but is still a chunk of change and likely to give most people pause when the alternative is to just go with the flow and move on.

Personally I'd say there needs to be a general restriction against including blatantly unenforceable terms in a contract document, especially unilateral "terms". The drafter is essentially pushing incorrect legal advice.
Yes the ubiquity & reliability of chargers remains a large problem.

Americans are under an impression Europe is dramatically better at this and, from my experience traveling as well.. it is not.

When we get even close to the distribution and reliability of gas stations, things will get dramatically better. In theory US is heading there with all this IRA spending, but remains to be seen. Musk RIFing his entire supercharger team as Electrify America continues to flail does not inspire confidence.

Case in point - NJ signed some sort of deal a year ago to make EvGo the exclusive charging network at NJTP rest stops. Nothing is installed yet, and meanwhile the existing slow, 2 stall chargers at a handful of rest stops have been taken out of service.

The other American charging problem is they tend to be located well off highways in the back of shopping centers, which is more useful for regular fast charging (if you don't have home charging) than it is for road trips.
While we may not have free healthcare we have clinics that are pretty cheap and found throughout most areas. I'm not surprised that SSA is screwed up here just like the unemployment stuff.

If you can claim all that why haven't you already?
That’s a really good point. Was this a prenuptial agreement? If it wasn’t May take is section 174 would apply and we would be talking about physical compulsion — and not “it’s a preferable economic situation to sign.”

Not a sociopath, just know the law.
>You're probably smarter than a guy who recreationally huffs spraypaint, but you're still within the same class as intelligence. Both of you are so much more advanced than a cat, or a beetle, or a protozoan that it doesn't even make sense to make any sort of comparison.

This is pseudoscientific nonsense. We have the very rigorous field of complexity theory to show how much improvement in solving various problems can be gained from further increasing intelligence/compute power, and the vast majority of difficult problems benefit minimally from linear increases in compute. The idea of there being a higher "class" of intelligence is magical thinking, as it implies there could be superlinear increase in the ability to solve NP-complete problems from only a linear increase in computational power, which goes against the entirety of complexity theory.

It's essentially the religious belief that AI has the godlike power to make P=NP even if P != NP.
So far, my 2 years of retirement are an experiment in discretionary time. I'm married but no children or pets in the house. So I have lots of leeway in what I do every day. Maybe I average 1-2 hours of responsible time. And there are constraints - health, energy, lack of ambition, family travel, Internet distractions etc.

But in general I can do what I want. This month, it's been relearning awk to do financial data analysis and reading the books of a British author, Diana Athill.

I'll say that my personal project satisfaction level is medium. Life satisfication has a major social component that provides meaning, though. Optimizing for both isn't necessarily easy even in retirement.
I don't personally know of any specific cases but I think it's sufficient to recognize that some countries, such as Canada, outright criminalize lolicon and other drawn material, and that the chilling effect alone is enough to push back.

I've personally brushed against the effects of these laws while operating and moderating international discussion forums and boards, because it's easiest just to outright ban the stuff than deal with a myriad of laws across each country. And that doesn't even get into individual state laws.
Also

> natively embedded into a message

I don't think any chat platform ever does this because they would like to support low bandwidth clients but maybe I'm just making this up.

Practically every service uses a separate file storage service and if not URLs they use some identifier to reference them within said service.

I think maybe you're referring to email, but even then, most MTAs and MUAs will strip embedded multimedia from the body to be downloaded separately anyways (at the user's behest), for similar reasons, but also privacy reasons (and security reasons).
> If all the things people are doing are done so much more cheaply they're almost free, that would be good for us ...

Doesn't this tend to become "they're almost free to produce" with the actual pricing for end consumers not becoming cheaper? From the point of view of the sellers just expanding their margins instead.
> Everything is hallucinated, some word combinations coincide with reality but that’s a random occurrence.

This isn't accurate, these models are trained and tuned to be correct, it's not a random occurrence.
See also JerryRigEverything's teardown/durability test video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GN6ZlssqNAE
It’s a counterpoint anyone can identify with. One can interpret it uncharitably as flame bait if one wants to, but it need not be. It could have been Reagan in his second term, but some may not know who he was. Or Lee Smolin.
Study discovers cellular activity that hints recycling is in our DNA
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to build a better, more open and interoperable platform.
How Are Microchips Made
Unfortunately this isn't consistent with how these terms are typically used. This article only explains the simple case where your program is small enough that you can compile all source files at once. That's not realistic or practical for much larger projects.

Both WebKit and Chromium support unity/jumbo builds. They combine around 20 source files at a time into a single compilation unit, which provides a reasonable tradeoff - making the full build noticeably faster without overflowing RAM and without making the cost of recompiling after a single change too large. You also get lots of parallelism.

Making a unity / jumbo build work for a project with 10,000+ files and millions of lines of code is not simple at all.
170,000 photos. Dear god. Please tell me how you manage such a large collection. Folders by dates, locations, people? How do you search for something? What software do you use? Apple photos is not the fastest even on the latest Mac machines.
I use ILGPU all the time for prototyping different image processing and rendering things for work and for my personal projects. I use cpp for a few things where the extra efficiency is worth it, but for most tasks c# is plenty fast enough.