skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am firmly in favor of abortion rights but still I do not think that is even remotely a good bellwether to measure sexism/misogyny.

1. Women are more likely than men to be opposed to abortion rights.
2. Many people who are opposed to abortion rights have legitimately held moral concerns that are not simply because they have no respect for women's rights.
3. Roe v. Wade was the decision of 9 people. It absolutely did not reflect public opinion at the time - nothing even close to as expansive would possibly have passed in a referendum in 1974. Compare that to now, where multiple states that are known abortion holdouts have repealed abortion restrictions in referenda - and it is obvious that people are moving to the left on this issue compared to where we were in 1974.

Social media facilitates communication. As long as there is sexism and freedom of communication, there will be people making money off of facilitating sexist communication because there will be people making money off of facilitating communication writ large. It's like blaming a toll highway for facilitating someone trafficking drugs. They are also making money off of facilitating anti-sexist communication - and the world as a whole is becoming less sexist, partially in my view due to the spread of views facilitated by the internet.
It solves real problems and the technology has matured to the point of being usable.
OK, lets play this out.

Lets say an AI discovers cold fusion. Given the fact that it would threaten to render extinct one of the largest global economic sectors (oil/gas), how long do you think it would take for it to actually see the light of day? We can't even wean ourselves off coal.
It’s in the server assembly business
You don’t need police to enforce speed laws. You just need cameras, which have the advantages of being cheaper and safer.

There are two kinds of speed camera systems. One uses two cameras in short succession to measure instantaneous speed. You can dodge this by slowing down right before it.

The second uses the same concept but puts the cameras a mile or so apart to measure duration over that distance. This is harder to game.
Science is a process not a result. The process works
We are forgetting the visual element

The text alone doesn’t do it but add some generated and nearly perfect “spokesperson” that is uniquely crafted to a persons own ideals and values, that then sends you a video message with that marketing .

We will all be brainwashed zombies
> The morphometric findings predicted an ADHD diagnosis correctly up to 83% of all cases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391018/

It's not good enough for diagnosis - you want to hit 95+% accuracy for diagnostic. And MRIs are extremely expensive compared to 2-3 outpatient psychology appointments. But it's real.
Awesome to see WV at the top of yet another list of shame.

While our state representatives are issuing a tax refund because we are "running a surplus"

This state is wild. I bet it will be the first to be merged with a nearby state because of poor governance.
Thanks. I hadn't heard of them. But it would be really cool to connect with them and learn about some crossover learnings I am sure I will encounter down the line.
I got into an argument with someone over text yesterday and the person said their argument was true because ChatGPT agreed with them and even sent the ChatGPT output to me.

Just for an example of your danger #1 above. We used to say that the internet always agrees with us, but with Google it was a little harder. ChatGPT can make it so much easier to find agreeing rationalizations.
The audience isn't getting to see it because it's getting flagged as it shows up.
Cause it has to be accessed by disk protocols which are slow over the network is my guess. As you have to scale to more than one machine then you lose the convience of sqlite.
Yea, same guy, Barry Kauler
Sure but I didn’t claim he said that. What I did say is correct. Here’s him saying transformers are enough to achieve AGI in a short video clip:
https://youtu.be/kW0SLbtGMcg
it's intellectual ego catnip. https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
When QQQ and SMH close under the 200 day moving average I'll sell my TQQQ and SOXL repectively. Until then, party on! It's been a wild ride.
Ha, this brings back memories. Around 2003 I used either XDMCP or plain X11 forwarding over SSH to access my dorm room computer while at home visiting my parents, and later got a letter from school IT warning me about abusive network traffic.
To those downvoting, I'd certainly be curious to hear why.
The other side of Formula 1: Barcelona residents protest for race-car exhibition
Or we invest our money in the technology with the largest bang for the buck: renewables.

Then follow the research to handle the resiliency, still at vastly lower costs than anything nuclear.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
I thought there was evidence against Universal Grammar.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...

> A key flaw in Chomsky’s theories is that when applied to language learning, they stipulate that young children come equipped with the capacity to form sentences using abstract grammatical rules. (The precise ones depend on which version of the theory is invoked.) Yet much research now shows that language acquisition does not take place this way. Instead young children begin by learning simple grammatical patterns; then, gradually, they intuit the rules behind them bit by bit.

Chomsky's work is important, but the main part of it doesn't seem to be holding up under prolonged study. (Don't take my word for it, though, I know very little about the formal study of linguistics.)
This is the kind of result I expected to see after reading that antidepressant drugs are highly effective in about 15% of patients and relatively ineffective for everyone else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337529
The problem with opt-out is that if the whole industry doesn't do it, google will show someone's summaries and the traffic still stays with them.
> Well "trust in science" isn't actually science.

I've also heard, "Trust in the science." (emphasis mine).

I find this second form even more troubling. IMHO, it implies that there's only one conclusion that (real) science can reach, and the audience has been shown that conclusion.

To doubt that particular conclusion (no matter how badly researched) is to doubt the scientific method itself. It's implicitly a conversation stopper.

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That said, I'm making a lot of guesses about the intentions of whoever says that stuff. So maybe I'm being unfair.
That’s already in place, I think, with recent labor law changes — not that FedEx Home Delivery or Amazon Logistics want to acknowledge that!
I probably wouldn't actually use this distro, as I'm probably not the target audience but they're exploring quite a few novel ideas.

Good luck guys
"It is your burden to prove to my satisfaction that you are sentient. Else, into the stew you go." Surely you see the problem with this code.

Before you harvest their organs, you might also contemplate whether the very act of questioning one's own sentience might be inherent positive proof.

I'm afraid you must go hungry either way.
dmesg:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171883671113138&w=2
No, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu... is a good essay on the use of propaganda to destroy language, and the natural process with which it's bought into.
What would you say your competitive advantage is compared to these companies that have a few years of head start? Don't mean to discourage you, but it's better to think about this early.
Nah, the plan doesn't matter. It's things like limited plumbing through the core, elevators taking up excess space, structural supports limiting layouts.

It doesn't really matter where you run the facades, it's all the other stuff people want like bathrooms that require significant reworking.
> Evidence and a clue are very different. Just because a scientific hypothesis us incorrect, or there is no explanation,

Evidence, clues, hypotheses and explanations are indeed different things.

> does not mean that alternatives must be right.

It was a proposal.

It was a cheerful proposal. A cheerful rebuttal seems to be called for, does it not?
I can’t seem to figure out how to see groups near me
I downloaded so many Slackware disk sets just to find out that it didn't support my SCSI card. Good old root and boot disks.
This is really more a problem with our University system and how academics gain prestige though publication. The more you publish the better for your career and this applies to many fields, not just Philosophy. The reduction of tenure positions also plays into this as it ramps up the competitive aspect. Actually doing anything that makes a real contribution to your field is of little consequences.
None?

Ohio has a pretty well-established Adopt-a-Highway program that ultimately exists to help with removing litter, and it works mostly in places that are absolutely not "in town" at all.

It has been operating for decades and is advertised on signs alongside these highways.

Elsewhere in Ohio, I've seen ODOT employees picking up trash -- and I assure you that they aren't doing this [or anything else] for free.

(But the state of Ohio only maintains ~49,000 miles of roadways, so maybe none of this can combine to equal a "large effort".)
If Ilya had SafeAI now would Apple partner with him or Sam

No brainer for Apple
> here is an ungrounded, non-realistic, non-representative of a potential future intuition pump to just get the feel of things:

> (Yes, there are many holes in this, like how would it piggy back off of our infrastructure if it kills us, but this isn't really supposed to be coherent, it's just supposed to give you a sense of direction in your thinking. Generally though, since it is superintelligent, it can pull off very difficult strategies.)

If you read the above I think you'd realize I'd agree about how bad my example is.

The point was to understand how orthogonal goals between humans and a much more intelligent entity could result in human death. I'm happy you found a form of the example that both pumps your intuition and seems coherent.

If you want to debate somewhere where we might disagree though, do you think that as this hypothetical AI gets smarter, the interface between it and the physical world becomes more guaranteed (assuming the ASI wants to interface with the world) and less tenuous?

Like, yes it is a hard problem. Something slow and stupid would easily be thwarted by disconnecting wires and flipping off switches.

But something extremely smart, clever, and much faster than us should be able to employ one of the few strategies that can make it happen.
I mean, even when I was tutoring it I’d double check most of the equations just to be sure.

I’m sure chain rule, product rule, and polynomials would come right back to you, and everyone has to look up the trig functions anyway.
Yes, the NYC pneumatic tube mail is fascinating!

These tubes were large, 24"L x 8" diameter. You could fit all sorts of stuff in there. It's so interesting to think that food, mail, and small package delivery in NYC could have peaked way back when pneumatic tubes were used (of course only in the optimal case with start/end near one of the 23 tube stations). Also really cool that there was a tube that ran over the Brooklyn bridge for sending mail or burritos between boroughs.

For further reading on unique NYC infrastructure, the New York City steam system is also very interesting and still in operation.
The 'e' in 'Apple IIe' stood for Enhanced. Then they came out with the 'Apple IIe Enhanced'.
Open the data center doors

I’m sorry I can’t do that
Even if LLM-style token prediction is not going to lead to AGI (as it very likely won't) it is still important to work on safety. If we wait until we are at the technology that will for sure lead to AGI then it is very likely that we won't have sufficient safety before we realize that it is important.
They didn't trap Ctrl+C on Linux, so you had to be really careful about key binds.
GP is engaging in the iconic HN tradition of commenting something brilliant that has nothing to do with TFA. Literally seconds later, someone has to point out the epic failure. I've been reading HN for 17 years, and I must lament that it is turning "blazingly fast" into reddit. Because of people like me, I guess :)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Please explain where the prohibition from religious based law (that is, the separation) is vague.
It certainly appears so; every demo they showed makes it very apparent when you’re taking the step of starting to interact with ChatGPT. Starting at 01:36:09: https://www.youtube.com/live/RXeOiIDNNek?si=GZu_U8pFxfhLYCNt
> Chinese Tiktok scaring the US government: Sure OUR corps can mentally rape our citizenry, but someone else? Nononononononono. This may provoke the first real debate on pernicious ubiquitous algorithmic manipulation.

Also that western politicians and journalists are chronic purveyors of untruths/lies, mis/disinformation, etc.
K8s ruffles my feathers because it’s entirely too easy to build on it (without proper IaC, natch) without having any clue how it works, let alone the underlying OS that’s mostly abstracted away. /r/kubernetes is more or less “how do I do <basic thing I could have read docs for>.”

I’m a fan of graduated difficulty. Having complex, powerful systems should require that you understand them, else when they break – and they will, because they’re computers – you’ll be utterly lost.
We can’t even correctly gender people LOl
Unfortunately, robots that kill people already exist. See: semi-autonomous war drones
I think the price is right for a small business that is trying to catch someone's eye. Very unique and more subtle than a LCD display. I could see it in a coffee shop or a tap-room.

I would love a smaller version for my home office. Not sure what I would use it for. Maybe some app monitoring info.
Years ago a Digital Ocean virtual server of mine stopped working because I had never upgraded Ubuntu to the newest major version. After a few years, the version of Ubuntu was no longer supported by the Digital Ocean hypervisor and couldn't mount or boot at all.

In my experience, yes you absolutely need maintenance. In the past I've had to upgrade from HTTP to HTTPS, upgrade the OS, upgrade to newer versions of external API and embedded components because the old ones were deprecated, handle a domain registrar shutting down, and then yes absolutely PHP updates and upgrades for security that then start giving you warnings because less secure versions of functions are being deprecated...

And frequently updating the one thing that's broken necessitates upgrading a bunch of other things that breaks other things.

I literally cannot imagine how you would keep a PHP site running on a virtual server for 10 years without any maintenance. I need to address an issue probably roughly once a year.
Fun fact: Siri is in fact super intelligent and all of the work on it involves purposely making it super dumb
I hold my breath when I code. Just always thought it was some quirk of mine.
It took 40 years to get its own social network, for shame.

I remember the first time I saw an X terminal in my first year at college. I didn't have a computer of my own, and windows labs were overcrowded, so I figured I'd cut my teeth and learn this Unix thing a year earlier.

It was SunOS with twm, and the defaults made the font size unreadably small. I went to the bookstore, bought some Unix beginner's guide (I made sure it had an xwindows chapter, since I mistakenly thought I was using an "xwindows OS.")

I spent more time figuring out that environment than I did working on my assignments, but I had a great time. The advantage of working in a lab with older students is I could see what they had on their screen and ask them about it.

Lovely memories. Hard to believe I've been an X user in one form or another for more than half of its existence. It already seemed ancient when I first started.
I'm not really sure what your point is, or what you're looking for. What projects have Googlers contributed to? Have they not contributed much because I don't have a log of individual contributions handy? Are we even able to identify them correctly from their GitHub username? Your position feels a disingenuous and to be honest lazy and insulting to all the Apple folks who do good work in open source.

Perhaps the reason that it appears to you that Apple contributes very little is actually that you are incapable and/or unwilling to actually look for evidence, examples or counter examples, and thus proving my original point: it's not my job to exhaustively prove you wrong. Your original statement is totally baseless. Baseless accusations aren't generally welcome.

I feel bad for any Apple employee that reads this thread. I find it insulting.
3. Sorry, but how do you know what do they believe in?
You're not alone. Hard conversations are a difficult skill, and not one most people learn or even think about as a skill. Check out radical candor.
https://www.radicalcandor.com/blog/what-is-radical-candor/

It gets a bad rap, but for me, it was a really useful way to think about giving people the messages they need to hear.

Good luck! It's not easy, but it's key to leveling up as a professional, and I would argue, as a human being.
"Some people (X'Grn'k et al) say it was a device used for humorous purposes. However, we consider that the presence of sacred etched silicon devices rules this hypothethis out. While crudely worked in that time, and despite the abundance of raw material on the planet, such silicon was in short supply and was central to the nascent Guptian Church movement. In addition, records suggest that the "geo"politics of the time, somewhere between 1980 and 2050, had silicon artisanry in constant high military demand (see the F'llr'wq Metaversity analysis on use of Phonic Screen Devices in Central-West Asian planet-surface warfare between 1945 and 2045), and if not inducted into the Guptian priesthood, a silicon carver could expect a so-called 99-6 life, a 105-Earth-hour cycle with 99 hours in a warfab and 6 hours to rest (J'Hrar et al). Furthermore, per a recent discovery of a transaction record thought likely to be payment for living volume at the Western-American coastal enclave, the artisan class appears to have little in the way of disposable resourcing. Thus, we consider it unlikely that an artisan of that period could have spared or even been allowed the resources or time for such levity."
They also scrape and cache sites on behalf of the user too. I understand why media sites are upset about their lack of control over their content, but that's just how the internet works. Sites and services proxy requests for their users all the time, and since this is live scraping directly on behalf of the user from an affirmative user action, it's not really materially different from a proxy.

You could simply shift the site requests to an end user machine instead and then have that data be sent to your server for processing, so all this seems like a technicality of what machine is doing which work. It's very different from an indexer like a search engine that does batched crawling.
And doing it this way is slooowww in JS
1. sit down somewhere, a relatively quiet and dark place is nice but you can do it wherever, maybe set a timer, maybe don't

2. close your eyes, pay attention to your breath

3. when thoughts appear in your mind, note them but attempt to keep your attention on your breath, not on your thoughts

4. when you notice that your thoughts have wandered away from your breath, congratulate yourself for noticing this, and go back to step 2

important: do not berate yourself for getting caught up in your thoughts, do not worry that your head is too full of thoughts to ever be able to "stop thinking" - your brain has been thinking for most of your entire waking life and disengaging from this is hard at first! it gets easier.

"the mind illuminated" is a nice book on the subject IMHO.
Yea, I don’t think things are hopeless here. What you mention might drop fuel costs by as much as 0.3c/kWh which would be a major step forward, but nuclear needs several such wins and it needs them quickly.

People aren’t going to ramp up construction until the economics change significantly and then you’re looking 6+ years out before anything comes online. Meanwhile investors are thinking what will renewables look like in 6-60 years from now? which makes such projects hard to justify without massive subsidies or at minimum locked in pricing for decades.
If Anxiety is in my Brain, why is my Heart Pounding?
> Students got a taste of programming, but when it came to getting hired, neither the training nor credentials held a candle to a college degree. Yet Lambda School regularly compared itself to college in its marketing, promising, "The depth of a 4-year degree, the practicality of a bootcamp."

I thought people in the US already knew that part of the value of a college is accreditation. Some people would fail in a rigorous 4-year program. Some courses are like grand filters: it does not mean much if one excels first-year calculus, but it is a strong signal that one's talent or discipline is in question if the person fails the first-year calculus. So, statistically, companies get a pretty good signal, at a relatively low cost, on how good a college graduate is.
Don't forget deploying updates by either (a) stopping your Python application and then restarting it, hoping your users are not too badly inconvenienced in the interim, or (b) rigging together some kind of blue-green deployment setup. Meanwhile, the PHP developer runs rsync and the deployment is done.
They’re probably just saying no to revenue growth as the #1 priority, and instead focus on quality of the tech.

That’s what engineers typically dream of. Let’s see how it goes.
> "It is your burden to prove to my satisfaction that you are sentient. Else, into the stew you go." Surely you see the problem with this code.

It's the opposite; I've always assumed all humans were sentient, since I personally am, but many people in this comment section are eagerly insisting they are, in fact, not sentient and no more than token prediction machines.

Most likely they're just wrong, but I can't peer into their mind to prove it. What if they're right and there's two types of humans, ones who are merely token predictors, and ones who aren't? Now we're getting into fun sci-fi territory.
Generally datacenter drives like Samsung PM9A3, Micron 7xxx, etc., that are available in M.2 and U.2 have the same features between the form factors. The maximum size and performance may differ between them, but this is likely a side effect of physical size for NAND chips and power envelope.
Agreed it is a poor bell whether.

But:

> Women are more likely than men to be opposed to abortion rights

Where is that coming from? Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opini...) has a 5 point higher opposition rate by men.
it says that Universities should be free.
> If you really want durable writes with sub-millisecond latency, you might want to pay the ~20% premium that vendors charge for such enterprise SSDs.

A 20% premium for an enterprise SSD? No. A 120% premium is closer to it.

ref: https://www.newegg.com/Enterprise-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-2021
> They reduce the marginal cost of producing plausible content to effectively zero.

This is still "LLMs as a tool for bad people to do bad things" as opposed to "A(G)I is dangerous".

I find it hard to believe that the dangers everyone talks about is simply more propaganda.