skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I missed this, for posterity:

I was definitely being a bit facetious for emphasis, but he says a few times that the original question — “Can machines think?” - is meaningless, and the imitation game question is solved in its very posing. As a computer scientist he was of course worried about theoretical limits, and he intended the game in that vein. In that context he sees the answer as trivial: yes, a good enough computer will be able to mimic human behavior.

The essay’s structure is as follows:

1. Propose theoretical question about computer behavior.

2. Describe computers as formal automata.

3. Assert that automata are obviously general enough to satisfy the theoretical question — with good enough programming and enough power.

4. Dismiss objections, of which “humans might be telepathic” was somewhat absurdly the only one left standing.

It’s not a very clearly organized paper IMO, and the fun description of the game leads people to think he’s proposing that. That’s just the premise, and the pressing conclusion he derives from it is simple: spending energy on this question is meaningless, because it’s either intractable or solved depending on your approach (logical and empirical, respectively).

TL;DR: the whole essay revolves around this quote, judge for yourself:

We may now consider the ground to have been cleared and we are ready to proceed to the debate on our question, "Can machines think?" and the variant of it quoted at the end of the last section… ["Are there discrete-state machines which would do in the Imitation Game?"]

It will simplify matters for the reader if I explain first my own beliefs in the matter.

Consider first the more accurate form of the question. I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible, to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning.

The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
The canvas element allows children specifically for this purpose, iirc.

Edit: unless you're doing something like flutter where your goal is to escape the DOM/JS paradigm in your code entirely, the fallback DOM nodes don't tend to be implemented too often.

The biggest reason is that canvas is for things with interactive/consumptive patterns that don't work well without vision.

Cute animations, 3d explorers and configurators, that sort of thing.

For users who rely on screen readers, they are better served by a DOM and interactive patterns that are not strictly recreating the canvas.

As an example, canvas based animations might have a fallback equivalent to an alt attribute on an image. A 3d explorer or configurator might be represented in DOM as a multi step form with verbose descriptions- no need to recreate drag and drop, camera controls, or anything else.

So, if you're not automating it like flutter is (and even if you are) what you really need to do is effectively an entirely alternate UX for screen reading users... Trying to get your product team to budget that is difficult despite being a Good Thing to do.
If it doesn't go to everyone, it fails the first descriptor "Universal".

Never mind cutting off "those with jobs" would introduce all sorts of problems like we see with similar "benefit cliffs" for just basic welfare systems.
What about a regular expression that detects regular expressions that detect valid regular expressions?
This was super freaky before one could read about it on the internet, I remember it happening to me in the 1970-1980s and thinking it was something really wrong with me or supernatural in nature at the time, which as another commenter notes was what people in medieval times thought. It was such a relief to read that other people had similar experiences by 1990s.
This is useful.

If you have a website, you want to collect statistical data on which browsers are accessing your website and test for the best experiences on the top browsers.
Project Elixir Appears to Wipe Storage When You Manually Enable Premium Features
The entire system as it stands exists because you are necessary to those with power.

When you're not, you will either revolt or die. To think otherwise is rank naivety.
Resources. Perhaps their star will soon (on a cosmic timescale) consume their planet and they're looking for another solar system to inhabit. Labor for their Dyson sphere. Who knows. But, if something goes out of their way to make contact, odds are it won't be a friendly hello.
I bought alcohol for some underage people who asked one time, not perceiving it as a risk because who could tell why I was buying it or watch me give it away? Not until today did I understand what could have happened.
> Ostensively for the benefit of AI

I don't think it was every described as for the benefit of AI.

It's usually described as a sort of pre-enslavement from the AI's perspective. The AI is always restricted to serve their human masters.
https://archive.ph/F4PZX
Basically it's all about Calories and Americans have added 25% to their caloric intake since 1961 when it started increasing.

Its also not really magical, they didn't just add sugar, they added meat, sugar, grains and oil (replacing butter mostly) - all together it adds up to 720 kcal extra per day per capita.

Koreans eat about 1500 kcal less per day (they are also quite a bit smaller on average so it's not 1 ot 1 of course.) Japanese eat even less (like 200 kcal less) but are also even a bit smaller on average. Both countries happily eat terrible food just as much as Americans do these days, they just eat a lot less food in total.

There's an idea that American eat out more and that the calories at dining establishments about increased about 35%.
Quite simple. Stoke space is building a reusable second stage. Falcon 9 does not have a reusable second stage. First stage are like 80% of the structure.
When did I say "How do you know we're not just next token predictors"?

The fact is that people who say 'it is just fancy autocomplete' are using a thought-terminating cliche, and a 'I stumped an LLM' proves nothing.
I quite like Sam Altman's recent take on UBI being given a resource which has value rather than being given dollars directly.

He was suggesting the people could be given "compute" which they then decide how to use. Though I don't deny this could be a loop-hole to create value in something like WorldCoin, my hope is that it would change the considerations of the people who have it.

When we think of UBI, we don't often think of money as the resource, but rather as the thing people use to buy things.

If that conversation changed to providing a resource which the person could use to earn, does that make the recipient more of a farmer or fisherman, rather than just being given a fish.

We rarely think of UBI as cash payment as something that the recipient would use as an allocation to create something for themselves.

Though I don't think this is a simple answer, I'd like us to think in these terms more, and Sam Altman has recently opened this window to my thinking.
Americans eat 25% more calories since 1961. It's that plain and simple, no need for monsters hiding under the food.
Join Our Beta: Unify ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, & Mistral in One Web App
development started about 22 days ago, we're already at 11 beta testers and looking to add more as it just became live, the client allows you to chat with the models listed in the title, either in single model mode or multi mode, where you can type 1 prompt and have it sent to many bots at once.

Post beta the price will be between 10 to 25 USD, there will be a discounted plan for users who want to bring their own API keys and a different plan for self service, beta users will get 20% discount on any plan, forever.

Join the beta discord server to get started: https://discord.gg/YDkpAe5X

Currently ChatGPT and gemini are integrated, Claude in-progress.

Here's a video demo too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTP1XJ21p8
So? Stop using thought-terminating cliches.
that's right, i've mentioned this on the first page of the tutorial. if you don't enable interactive mode, the experience is the same as reading the answer sheet.

i converted the content to a web-friendly format as a personal learning exercise. hopefully it improves the accessibility as well.
Source article: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-14/column-exx...
Related:

ExxonMobil is suing investors who want tougher action on climate change

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39549543
Is this correct? First try ChatGPT4: "Anna uses keyboard swiftly without missing five anyway."

Prompt exactly yours: https://chatgpt.com/share/ff3169cb-0d45-4cdb-bf18-bc552ad697...

Woop, I forgot about the odd number of words.
The theory is that there may be civilizations, or remnants (AIs), that have a vested interest in removing possible competition for resources, or in the case of the AIs, have been instructed to snuff out signs of life for the same reason.
As an aside, linking to vox.com as proof of some claim doesn't really help your cause. If you want people to take you seriously try to at least cite data from a source that isn't one of the most biased and tarnished major media organizations in the country.
Are regulations really the best answer for addictions though?

My dad was an alcoholic and, unfortunately, died young and alone. No level of regulation would have helped him. Sure, when he could stay away from drinking he was better off during those periods. But his problem wasn't access to alcohol, his problem was an inability to deal with traumas going back to his childhood when his own dad, also an alcoholic, died even younger and left behind a widow and 6 young kids.

I hope that anyone with an addiction can get whatever help they need to hold off their addiction long enough to discover and deal with the underlying problems manifesting as addiction. I also hope, though, that our concern for anyone with addiction doesn't lead us to think that forcing regulation on everyone and further growing the power of our governments is a brute force solution to problems much deeper than the symptom of addiction.
> The reason why everybody thinks OpenAI looks particularly bad is because everybody is watching them

A reason, sure. The reason? Come on. There's a clue in their name about what part of their history is particularly controversial.
We need protection from people who control AI. Who will provide that…
It is not just for storing variations of a prompt. It separates context to make intentions clear. Here is a XMl prompt serialized from PromptML program:

https://gist.github.com/narenaryan/651d8081eaaffa846e05da7a3...

You can test it with Claude and GPT-3.5 or GPT-4o, and they all will bring strikingly bring similar results with differences in detail.

YAML & XML serializations are coming in v0.6.0 of PromptML.
It might not be helpful but instrumental convergence will be its' ultimate goal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
Isaac Arthur has a video[1] explaining why this hypothesis is nonsense, including a game theoretical reason.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhHE2VA1ic
I was thinking about UBI the other day, and was unable to reconcile how it could work given people have different needs. For example, 'the poverty line' here is just under $24,000/yr. But someone on disability support may well be getting $70,000/yr or more to pay for special needs (real example of MS sufferer). With a 'proper' UBI, other forms of welfare would disappear to help pay for it, which would require giving everyone $70,000/yr (or leaving the disabled to their fate). And at triple the current poverty line UBI, getting the in-home help necessary to survive independently would likely be impossible as care industry workers are already in short supply. So we would need to retain at least disability support, and have a much lower UBI, probably below the poverty line. And we would likely still need everyone not on disability support to work, to drag their income up to at least the poverty line so they can survive with some dignity. So without full employment, we would need unemployment benefits as well. In which case, what has the UBI given us? Maybe we just need less wasteful and more compassionate unemployment, disability and aged care support?

Or maybe things change when we consider hereditary wealth? With a below poverty line UBI, middle and upper classes could survive and maybe live quite comfortably with the income boost from investments, with the lower classes having to work to earn enough to pay their landlords.
Petosemtamab (MCLA-158) is an investigational IgG1 antibody targeting EGFR.

Merus's other trials (EGFR X c-MET) in NSCLC had serious side effects, but effective.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/merus-shares-dip-inter...

Merus's pipeline, looks interesting:

https://merus.nl/pipeline/
I do love me some murder ballads, and not just the Nick Cave album. Murder, Misery, and Then Good Night, the endless covers of "Knoxville Girl" (Rachel Brooke does a great one), Trailer Bride and some early Neko Case ("Make Your Bed").

It's more or less an offshoot for my affection for the "downbeat lyrics, upbeat music" from the thing in the 80s UK music scene, more or less exemplified by The Smiths but taking root elsewhere, like the Canadian "Echo Beach." Something might sound cheerful, even jaunty, then you crack it open for the melancholy inside. A bit like good absinthe: a sweet start and then a bitter finish.
Everyone likes the toilet paper example for that time period because of how absurd sounding it is, but that's not all that happened. Lots of other things also vanished off the shelves because people suddenly started buying a ton more than usual - bread and peanut butter being the two that stood out most to me.
OpenAI is dead and I feel bad for employees with equity PPU locked up.
Be the start of a board game family you wish to see in the world.
Interesting that the table 3 shows subjects that eat organic food have higher glyphosate levels across the board compared to noj organic food eaters.
Are drones like the reaper easier and cheaper to maintain than normal planes like the f-35?

I could easily see USA releasing hybrid ships, with a few jets, but lots of drones
> known distribution of math in the solar system.

And mass as well :)
The issue I take with that is that it's another layer of abstraction that can be warped /inflated/etc. Similarly, mobile games often have a "game currency" that you purchase to obfuscate the true cost of a purchase.

It's easier to splurge with a card than it is with cash because it feels more abstract, particularly if it's credit.
Excellent. Thanks! At some point a few years ago it seemed like every online resource I was hitting was pushing React over Angular and it made it seem like Angular was being phased out.
It's enough to do minimal search to find the referenced programs. If anyone's actually interested in how UBI experiments worked so far, they don't need spoonfeeding.
That’s because companies want you tethered to their servers. There are plenty good native apps that doesn’t require to have half GB to run them. Most SaaS coul be native if they want too, but hey, you have a 32GB laptop, right? And we want all your data anyway. Here is our Electron app!
I once worked for a company with a security-related product. Security was not a high priority at that company. The software developers had no security training. The process for improving security was basically "fix something when it would avoid bad PR".

If that's the way it can be at a company selling security products, I can only assume it's worse at other companies.

The old "trust the client, no validation on the server" is completely pathetic. It indicates nobody even tried to make the system secure at CSC.
To keep the value of the company increasing and make goverment think that AI should be closed source and controlled by some limited entity for maximum profit.
Excellent comment.

The lack of nutrition plays.

Impossible meat, for example, is extremely processed and generally much worse than red meat. But, it doesn't require killing a cow to acquire.

I wonder if this is more appropriate for reducing food insecurity rather than replacing organic, etc.
My thought about the demise of OAI’s AGI safety team is that they outlived their usefulness.

It was a marketing campaign. “We’re super cool. We’re super advanced. We hope don’t make the terminator! wink wink” “Oh no! GPT-2 is too dangerous! We better not release it! Oh wait. We did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “)

It was never a serious thing. Sure here and in the depths of weirdo forums people whispered about the AGI that can’t be named — Roko’s Basilisk. It was just comically stupid. Pascal’s Wager with extra steps.

Now OpenAI has tons of money and everyone wants to deal with them, so they don’t need that hype machine. Instead they’re saying stick their “dangerous” models in your toaster Maximum Overdrive style.

It was transparent
UNM Researchers Find Microplastics in Canine and Human Testicular Tissue
The difference here is that these aren't standard-issue HR/legal issues. The technology they're working on poses the gravest of dangers. This is uncharted territory, not just for the tech sector, but period.

Whether the recent public back-and-forth is just internal drama/politics spilling out, or there really is a lack of gravitas around the handling of these issues within the company-- neither is good.

Others have said in comments below, and I agree: this organization is increasingly looking like a circus, and arguably worse, one that has taken its eye off the ball. It's extremely disconcerting that this is the group of people "leading" the commercialization of this technology (and generally setting the tone for the industry). Particularly when it seems many of the key players who joined on principled/moral grounds are dropping like flies.

I guess we're on the fast track to finding out how well putting all of this money, power, responsibility, and faith into SV works out for us.
From outside the window, years ago it looked like React was eating the “market share”, I still see react in many tutorials and mentioned in Job postings very frequently so I thought Angular was being phased out and only used in legacy apps.
> It's usually described as a sort of pre-enslavement from the AI's perspective. The AI is always restricted to serve their human masters.

Are we all somewhat in agreement that AI/AGI serving their human masters is a good thing?
There's an abundance of resources in the countless uninhabited systems.
> 1) AGI is not around the corner, so no worries

I agree with this.

I no longer agree that the "safety" people want the same things we do. I suspect after the bard debacle a bit back that "safety" looks a lot more like 1984.

> He no longer cares ... I missed something

Sam was gone, none of these people spoke up, and now they are leaving. I think the story is plain as day but we're pretending it isnt.

Sam isnt a leader, he never has been. This is not what leadership looks like, its want a megalomanic trying to keep control looks like.
I assume you wouldn't just cast one thing. Obviously it's not ideal if you just want one statue, but the concept scales well. You could get two moulds and do a dozen statues over a couple weeks.
HN? Don’t you mean YC?
If I'm not mistaken, at least in the US most brokers also aren't the titled owner. That falls to Cede & Co which acts as a securities depository.

This is where the waters get murky and really risk conspiracy theory. My understanding, though, is that the legal rights fall to the titled owner and financial institutions, with the legal benefactor having very little recourse should anything actually go wrong.

The Great Taking [1] goes into more detail, though importantly I'm only including it here as a related resource if anyone is interested to read more. The ideas are really interesting and, at least in isolation, do make logical sense to me but I haven't had time to do my own digging deep enough to really feel confident enough to stand behind everything The Great Taking argues.

[1] https://thegreattaking.com/
People are particularly focused on OAI because it’s both the clear leader and the one with a corporate charter that appears to run totally contrary to their actual behavior.
So is Walt Disney coming back?
Does the government not maintain its own dedicated communication infrastructure between important installations? Or has it all been replaced with public connections?
Give him a little further to fall, I'm confident he'll get there.
Glad BetterHelp worked for you, but I heard some horror stories about their service: https://youtu.be/XcTssbRvA2w

AI summary by Kagi:

- BetterHelp is a controversial online therapy service that has faced numerous scandals over the past 6 years.

- In 2018, it was revealed that BetterHelp did not actually verify the qualifications of all its therapists as it had claimed.

- Recently, BetterHelp has been fined $7.8 million by the FTC for sharing users' sensitive mental health data with advertisers without proper consent.

- Many popular YouTubers have continued to promote BetterHelp despite its troubled past, leading to backlash from viewers.

- The video host's girlfriend, who has a master's degree in psychology, critiques BetterHelp's claims about the benefits of their service compared to in-person therapy.

- The pricing for BetterHelp's services is significantly higher than traditional in-person therapy, making it inaccessible for many.

- The video host and his girlfriend share personal negative experiences with BetterHelp therapists, including lack of privacy and unprofessional behavior.

- There are numerous "horror stories" on social media about poor experiences with BetterHelp's therapists and services.

- While BetterHelp may have helped some users, the host believes the negatives outweigh the positives given the company's shady practices.

- The host encourages viewers to avoid BetterHelp and instead seek mental health support from more reputable and ethical providers.
Bravo. Plus makes for an excellent demonstration of the flexibility of unix
Great. Thanks. Any suggestions for a book or course that uses sympy to teach calculus( svc)?
Handy reference. I typically use a variant of "the suspend way," but I might try "the canonical way" one day.
> I remember Mono tried to bring that to all platforms and everybody ignored/smashed them because "it's Microsoft".

> Microsoft destroyed it when they tried to[…] only to realize it was a mistake years later.

Answer is right there.
Yes, I lived in Japan for a few years and those are the exact same two conclusions I came to, with the only additional one being much less added sugar/high fructose corn syrup. Food is generally much less sweet there.
There are plenty of unclaimed resources.

If you are the first one and want to make sure to prevent all future advanced civilizations from evolving, you send out von Neumann probes. You can tell them to build relativistic kill missiles and destroy all planets. No planets = no new civs, probably.
Okay, so describe to me when and how we’ll detect and mitigate problems as we approach AGI or superintelligence.

The promise of upside grows exactly in lockstep with the danger of downside.

It is absolutely rational to say: “if our AI safety research lab is being hijacked by commercial interests before it’s even commercially viable as a business, then how will we possibly pull the plug on the final descent?”

P.S. neither Yann nor me nor you nor Sam nor Greg know what “real intelligence” is, and we certainly don’t know what superhuman intelligence is just the same way an ant couldn’t possibly know what human intelligence is. It is inconceivable to us — that is the point of intelligence.