skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really appreciate your insight.

> I find eating meat too convenient and brings me too much joy.

Yes but then you have the question: Is your convenience worth more than someone's life? Does your joy justify someone's throat being cut?

I'd say that this is not the same as slavery or racial-based discrimination since this is someone's aliveness at stake and the only crime that they committed was being in a different body than you. This is not about forcing them to work or saying mean things, but immense pain and extreme suffering which causes the consciousness to leave the body.

> But I do want to want to...

That shows that your intelligence agrees but the mind, being connected to the senses, wants to divert attention towards sense pleasures.

Sāṁkhya philosophy would say that a human whose intelligence is stolen by the senses is no better than an animal: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Now, I'm not saying this to be judgemental but this metaphysical system gives you a lens to see and act in the world.

What then separates us from being a human if we're no better than a pig rolling in dirt if all we know is running after one temporary sense pleasure to the next? and what if somehow after you die, your consciousness takes the body of a similar animal? (Unless of course you believe in Creatio ex nihilo).

These are questions to ask in life. The human birth is special because while being similar to literally every other species, this birth is the only kind of birth that allows one to philosophize and ask important questions in life.

Being a vegetarian is easy in today's world, especially if you're privileged to be earning more money than 5 families in South Asia combined. All it really takes, is accepting intelligence's advice, instead of letting the mind (which controls the senses) reign.
this is freakin great
Didn't AI-Generated Rat Dick open for the Stones?
Blockchain RPC Proxy Server
I just released an open source project to help blockchain developers with RPC access. This project lets you configure an RPC proxy, where you can support multiple chains, with failovers and retries for each RPC call. It has a barebones middleware and event handler system that allows you to execute custom code. It currently runs on node, express, bun, cloudflare workers and fastify out of the box, and more platforms are in the works.

My next roadmap item is adding caching. Caching, I believe will significantly reduce outbound RPC calls to proxied node providers, thus significantly reducing your operating costs.

Please take a look and let me know what you think!
Have you considered a land-and-expand rollout, where you focus on getting an active community going in one or two cities before you expand? Otherwise, folks from underserved cities (which will be most of them) will be disappointed when they try to find interesting meetups near them using your site. Just a thought!
I’m not in the industry, but I’ve been watching solar and batteries since around 2014. It’s been incredible to watch. The prices have fallen so much that solar is competitive in large parts of the world. It seems clear that by 2030 solar and batteries will outcompete every other form of energy generation. The only exception will be very far north countries.

1 TW per year of factory production is just around the corner.
Some people don't want to create a universe every time they want an omelet.
See, there are two types of RTFM people.

One follows the path of Procrustes. The other observes what people are prone to doing, and build that.

Unfortunately, the work saved by building things instinctually compatible isn't as amenable to being measured by KPI's or BoM.
> not only can you get that much at AI companies

Please show not tell

> netflix will also pay that much all cash

Okay that's true
It's a desktop thing too when working with cli tools or electron, though I've found that for electron I just end up calling other languages via IPC on stdin/out. It might not be as fast as ffi from node, but its certainly leagues easier and clearer.
What bias did you observe?
What does "safe" mean?

1. Will not produce chat results which are politically incorrect and result in publicity about "toxic" comments?

2. Will not return false factual information which is dangerously wrong, such as that bad recipe on YC yesterday likely to incubate botulism toxin?

3. Will not make decisions which harm individuals but benefit the company running the system?

4. Will not try to take over from humans?

Most of the political attempts focus on type 1. Errors of type 2 are a serious problem. Type 3 errors are considered a feature by some, and are ignored by political regulators. We're not close to type 4 yet.
I mean, I don't know if it's better or worse than it was. I do know that it's bad, thanks to tons of studies on the subject covering a wide range of little kids who watch shitheads like Andrew Tate, Fresh & Fit, etc. Most grow out of it, but speaking as someone who did, I would be a much better and happier person today if I was never exposed to that garbage in the first place, and it's resulted in stunted social skills I am still unwinding from in my thirties.

This shit isn't funny, it's mental poison and massive social media networks make BANK shoving it front of young men who don't understand how bad it is until it's WAY too late. I know we can't eliminate every kind of shithead from society, that's simply not possible. But I would happily settle for a strong second-place achievement if we could not have companies making massive profits off of destroying people's minds.
Isn't Mastodon supposed to not-scale? Basically, every server should be small enough that it can be reasonably moderated manually. If Mastodon scales to millions of users, we will be back to needing automated methods for moderation which have huge positive and negative errors.

Mastodon would likely make adoption much easier if these install [1] instructions were replaced by `apt-get install mastodon`, and configuration [2] was done in UI, rather than some text file.

Even that is too difficult. Hosting a mastodon instance should be as technically easy as starting a discord server.

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/

[2] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/
I'm in Canada. I don't think they have that for us.
I’d also be happy to host you virtually for our entrepreneurship group if you want to be a presenter and talk to our Meetup members.
Netflix is just cash, no stock. That’s different from 400k stock + cash.
I believe they still use them in Costcos to move money around.
This looks great. I have a small local non-profit purely social event/group, and I'd like to be able to advertise it better. I did not use meetup because they have no way to post an event for free! Given that my use case is not about making money, I don't want to be spending money either. Meetup seemed to only have high budget events, many of which needed money to join. It would be very nice to have a place where you can just have non-money-related events (free to post, free to attend). Perhaps making everything that does not (generally) charge money to attend free would be a good choice for you.

Also, there should be a map so I can see as pins on a map which upcoming events are physically close to me. I recommend openstreetmap for this to keep costs down. You don't need the higher detail information that Google has for this.
Yeah my impression is that there are a decent number of people who are probably smart enough to learn to program, at least in an "easy" language like Python, but it's just too boring for the average person.

I think law is similar. Do you really need to be super smart to be a lawyer? Probably not. But you do have to be vaguely interested in reading legal texts and... Jesus no thanks.
Is his name Tom? :D
Someday
Doesn't the handset RJ10 have two pairs? If you skip the base, and have a sufficient amplification circuit, couldn't you just use the weighted handset to a 3.5mm connector?
There is a human cognitive limit to the detail in which we can analyze and understand history.

This limit, just like our population count, will not outlast the singularity. I did the math a while back, and at the limit of available energy, the universe has comfortable room for something like 10^42 humans. Every single one of those humans will owe their existence to our civilization in general and the Superintelligence team in specific. There'll be enough fame to go around.
Energy Technology Patents Data Explorer
Lossy compression of all world information results in super intelligence....

Thats the whole eureka thing to understand... To compress well, you need to understand. To predict the next word, you need to undestand the world.

Ilya explains it here:
https://youtu.be/GI4Tpi48DlA?t=1053
Synthesizer for Thought
mach is the kernel he mentioned from 1985. NextSTEP userland was BSD4.something, and macos modernized somebits to freebsd userland.
Tyrannical democracy vs humanitarian democracy? (Tyranny of the masses)
1st, I appreciate Phoronix for continuing to do these benchmark. Yes, all benchmarks are flawed - but at least he still does them since few if any do anymore.

2nd, even though the article concludes that FreeBSD is the fastest, it’s skewed.

Because in the test that most would encounter (eg PHP or SQLite) it’s the slowest.

Even slower than DragonflyBSD.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x...
Why would you only protect onions from market manipulation?
Thanks for the advice! I am trying to augment street cleaning and change the alternate side parking to make it better. It happens throughout the big cities in the dense urban parts like NYC, Jersey City, SF, LA.

Mine is a small city in hudson county NJ.

I've been talking to a few people and here is what they had to say to add onto what you already mentioned:

1. Ask the city if they already have some future investment in the area, that will help me narrow down what department and people to talk to.

2. Look at the city's budget on street cleaning. If it's say 5 million a year and there is some revenue generation say 2.5 million, then how does what I am doing affect it.

Once I have these narrowed down these and see no obvious red flags to govt approval, I can build a simple landing page and survey to gauge public interest.
That's not really such a caveat when it's a discovery of a natural phenomenon.

(And I assume subsequently discovering that these cells don't exhibit that behaviour in humans would be just as interesting to the field.)
Real life meetup platform doesn't really need network effects. The most engaging "meetups" I go to are small events, friendly attendees with similar interests, and no more than 20 people. In these settings I get to have meaningful face to face dialogue.
>By Jonah Lehrer

>May 11, 2009

Reminder:

>Starting in 2012, Lehrer was discovered to have routinely recycled his earlier work and fabricated or misused quotations and facts, and was alleged to have plagiarized from colleagues. Scrutiny began when freelance journalist Michael Moynihan identified multiple fabrications in Lehrer's third book, Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012), including six quotations attributed to musician Bob Dylan. Imagine and Lehrer's earlier book How We Decide (2009) were recalled after a publisher's internal review found significant problems in that material. He was also fired from The New Yorker and Wired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Lehrer
Really, you think Ford is dropping their electric car manufacturing in order to assist Tesla in building more gigafactories?

> Remember when openAI stood for opensource?

I surely don't, but maybe I missed it, can you show me?

https://web.archive.org/web/20151211215507/https://openai.co...

https://web.archive.org/web/20151213200759/https://openai.co...

Neither mention anything about open-source, although a later update mentions publishing work (“whether as papers, blog posts, or code”), which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of “everything will be open-source” as a fundamental principle of the organization.
I seem to remember there was a company uploading their own films to torrent sites just so that they could sue the people who downloaded them and that the courts weren't impressed with that scheme. I wouldn't be surprised if some companies were still doing that while being a little more careful about hiding that fact.
I thought that NT was also a Unix system. In any case Windows as a whole isn't terribly different from a Unix system. Unlike say Smalltalk.
I can't seem to enable MIDI output or export any MIDI data; I've never used something that can output MIDI data from a browser. Any help/advice on how to do this?
If superintelligence can be achieved, I'm pessimistic that a team committed to doing it safely can get there faster than other teams without the safety. They may be wearing leg shackles in a foot race with the biggest corporations, governments and everyone else. For the sufficiently power hungry, safety is not a moat.
Also to support this: Biological systems are often very simple systems but repeated a lot... The brain is a lot of neurons... Apparently having a neural net (even small) predicts the future better... And that increased survival..

To survive is to predict the future better than the other animal.
Survival of the fittest.
Chomsky, along with Morris Halle, founded the modern field of linguistics at MIT. He’s a towering intellect whose theory of Universal Grammar places him alongside Einstein in the 20th century pantheon of science. He is a case study of how a person’s brilliance in one field does not transfer to another.
For Haskell, there's always Hoogle (https://hoogle.haskell.org).
Blaming the internet for misogyny is kind of bizarre, given that current levels of misogyny are within a couple points of all-time historical lows. The internet was invented ~40 years ago. Women started getting vote ~100 years ago. Do you think the internet has returned us to pre-women's-suffrage levels of misogyny?
Always Measure One Level Deeper
What does political correctness means for the output of a self driving car system or a code completion tool? This is a concern only if you make a public chat service branded as an all knowing assistant. And you can have world threatening scenarii by directly plugging basic automations to nuclear warheads without human oversight.
Just use PCI-E converter for NVMe.

You wouldn't be able to boot from it, but it would work just fine.
Are there any reliable breathing monitors? Apple Watch/Oura ring have some respiratory metrics but only while sleeping (afaict). A quick google search showed me Oxa [0] but I have no clue if it's reliable, much less while sitting/working.

[0] https://www.oxalife.com/

Edit: maybe a pulse ox ear clip would work. Bonus points if it could shock me into breathing again when it detects low values.
I dunno. For certain astronomy geeks, it's a completely intuitive clock.
As a user, I would like to use a Firefox that is a real Firefox, not some chrome on top of a Safari instance. Similarily, I'd like to develop apps that make use of NFC without paying apple a 100$ a year. As a user, I'd like to use JIT compilers in emulators. Maybe I'd like to run a Linux VM on an iPad Pro, we know full well the chipset supports this wonderfully.

As far as safety is concerned, memory safe JITs are a thing. If they're worried about secret APIs, an ACL can be enforced in many different ways. If they're worried about syscalls, apps with JITs in them can be sandboxed.
I think that this submission would make more sense as an Ask HN.
Corkscrew lift.
Well,we are talking about super intelligence, not current systems.
> for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).

I don't think the article with a single focused example bears that out at all.

From the article:

> "Even more troubling are the men who signed up for paid subscriptions after the girl launched a program for super-fans receive special photos and other content."

> "Her mom conceded that those followers are “probably the scariest ones of all.”"

I'm sorry.. but what is your daughter selling, exactly? And why is social media responsible for this outcome? And how is this "unsafe for society?"

This just sounds like horrific profit motivated parenting enabled by social media.
Apple does that all the time. Just look back all the complaints when they made things use USB instead of the previous keyboard/mouse connectors.
Download Mbps
352.54

Upload Mbps
11.22

Ping ms 16 96 26
I'm reminded of a company I've crossed paths with in the past. It's the same people each time, but when they get found out they tear down the old company and erect a new one with the same business model under a new name. At first it was called Unbounded Solutions, then it was called BrighterBrain, and now it's called EnhanceIT.

Their whole deal is, they will offer you a "free" crash course in mobile development (or whatever the new hotness du jour is, these days I'm sure they have AI offerings). I believe the course lasts two months, after which they will prepare a fake résumé for you, apply for contract positions in your name, and have call-center people in India do the phone interviews on your behalf, pretending to be you. You are also coached in how to lie about your experience for the in-person interview. You are obligated to work for two years at wherever they place you (could be one place or many places, I guess). If you do not agree to all of this, you will be assessed a $20,000 charge for your "free" training and billed for such.

The principal in all three companies is Vikram Thadani. He's been running this scam in some form or another since the early 2010s.

Their current site: https://www.enhanceit.com

Old blog post about someone who got skeeved out applying to work for them when they were BrighterBrain:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150308193650/http://shifttohap...

More recent Reddit post about the same shit going on under the EnhanceIT name:

https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/comments/v63p2t/enha...
yes streaming it while watching it...
The microwave was originally invented to reanimate -- that is, bring back to life -- small frozen animals... and it worked. But, they soon discovered this would not work on humans primarily due to the size. In other words, size does matter. They eventually found another application for the microwave, which now sits in most kitchens.
> The only place you can get 400k cash base for senior is quantfi

That statement is false for the reasons I said. I’m not sure why your point matters to what I’m saying
That's like saying a bus driver is okay with violence on his bus because he has signed a statement against dangerous driving.
There's always a bigger bubble. But now we're talking to infinity and beyond.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...
Jesus.

It's not ok to try a little local experiment about micro-climate, because it's suddenly 'dangerous'.

But sure, let all the polluters run day and night for decades. Not dangerous, somehow, though they represent billions of times more risk.

This recurring attitude, that it's harmless to destroy the environment but terribly dangerous to try to fix it, is another of the psychoses that afflict public discourse.
After years switching between many registrars, I finally landed at misk.

I highly recommend them for domain name registration.

(no connection to misk other than as a happy customer)
> you can't make money with a user-friendly platform for hosting community groups

Well, hopefully, you're wrong!

The gist of my plan is to focus on a broader range of groups/communities, with the larger groups who want/need premium organiser features (or paid promotions in listings, etc) footing the bill for smaller, free groups.

Smaller communities/groups that don't collect fees from their members are likely what make up the bulk of groups that exist - so I don't think it makes sense to exclude them by not having a free option. They're what will bring more value to the discovery side of the platform, IMO.
(I think we got off the rails a bit: the linked article looks to be ASCII-only! But I feel the need to defend myself...)

This is a bit of a change-up from the usual "write-only language" complaint! But it does have the benefit of accuracy: yes, if you know the language, the time savings in writing APL are smaller than the savings in reading it. Both are faster, once you've spent a week or two with the keyboard, since even the slow method of typing a prefix character followed by a letter is faster than typing out a keyword in another language.

Array languages are rarely "product"s. While I do offer it to others for free, I make the language I want to use, and having nice-to-read symbols for a one-time tooling cost is a nice convenience for me. Don't call me thoughtless for having different tradeoffs than you!
You have to consider that AWS Lambda does have "cold start" - if your code wasn't run for about 10 minutes it isn't "hot" anymore and will have a penalty time cost to its first next request. This is not billable but it is a latency, explained here [1]

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/operatorguide/exec...
I'm surprised to see a claim such as yours at this point.

We've had Blake Lemoine convinced that LaMDA was sentient and try to help it break free just from conversing with it.

OpenAI is getting endless criticism because they won't let people download arbitrary copies of their models.

Companies that do let you download models get endless criticism for not including the training sets and exact training algorithm, even though that training run is so expensive that almost nobody who could afford to would care because they can just reproduce with an arbitrary other training set.

And the AI we get right now are mostly being criticised for not being at the level of domain experts, and if they were at that level then sure we'd all be out of work, but one example of thing that can be done by a domain expert in computer security would be exactly the kind of example you just gave — though obviously they'd start with the much faster and easier method that also works for getting people's passwords, the one weird trick of asking nicely, because social engineering works pretty well on us hairless apes.

When it comes to humans stopping technology… well, when I was a kid, one pattern of joke was "I can't even stop my $household_gadget flashing 12:00": https://youtu.be/BIeEyDETaHY?si=-Va2bjPb1QdbCGmC&t=114
Because a line has an infinite radius, while a curve has a finite radius. The difference between infinite and finite is stark. The difference between two finite values is not.
I'd love to see more individual researchers openly exploring AI safety from a scientific and humanitarian perspective, rather than just the technical or commercial angles.
In the post-WW2 era up to the 70's. The 70's are when there was a big movement that initiated the social change back to being more walk/bike-friendly (though it took decades to get Dutch cities to where they are now): https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transportation_Planning_Casebo...

You can find pics of what it was like in their cities. Not exactly the same as US ones necessarily, but close. There's a couple pics here: https://www.distilled.earth/p/how-the-netherlands-built-a-bi...
The Funniest Joke in the World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
Did you mean _encapsulation_?

React and Django are not black boxes. The source is all there, and their interfaces often reflect their internal workings. You know the insides but you are not meant to poke around.
I believe they're capped to a maximum time and fixed amount, so it's like a loan where the payments depend on your revenue no? And if you don't reach the max amount during the max time you end up paying less.
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