skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that AGI is the last problem in computer science, so solving it solves all of the others. Then with AGI, we can solve the last remaining problems in physics (like unifying gravity with quantum mechanics), biology (administering gene therapy and curing death), etc.

But I do agree that innovations in tech are doing little or nothing to solve mass suffering. We had the tech to feed everyone in the world through farm automation by the 60s but chose not to. We had the tech in the 80s to do moonshots for AIDS, cancer, etc but chose not to. We had the tech in the 2000s to transition from fossil fuels to renewables but chose not to. Today we have the opportunity to promote world peace over continuous war but will choose not to.

It's to the point where I wonder how far innovations in tech and increases in economic productivity will get without helping people directly. My experience has been that the world chooses models like Dubai, Mexico City and San Francisco where skyscrapers tower over a surrounding homeless and indigent population. As long as we continue pursuing top-down leadership from governments and corporations, we'll see no change to the status quo, and even trends towards authoritarianism and fascism. It will take people at the bottom organizing to provide an alternate economic model before we have options like universal education/healthcare/opportunity and UBI from robot labor.

What gets me is that stuff like the ARC prize for AGI will "just work". As in, even if I had a modest stipend of a few thousand dollars per month to dabble in AI and come up with solutions the way I would for any other startup, certainly within 3 years, someone else would beat me to it. There simply isn't enough time now to beat the competition. Which is why I give AGI over 50% odds of arriving before 2030, where I used to think it was 2040 or 2050. The only thing that could stop it now is sabotage in the form of another global pandemic, economic depression or WWIII. Progress which threatens the power structures of the ultra wealthy is what drives the suffering that they allow to continue.
> Lambda School targeted single mothers, the disabled, reformed convicts, and people struggling with serious medical problems. They lost tens of thousands of dollars, some lost years of their lives, on a broken, predatory program.

Seeing a huge wave of ponzified educational courses being pushed by influencers and famous people that results in financial ruin.

1%ers, 10x engineers, these are ALL caricatures that is created by course sellers to instill the belief that the participant NEEDS to purchase it.

If I was to create a society based on principles, the founders of Lambda School, should be behind bars.
They’re putting together a “cracked team”?
Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life
What does that make student loans? Slavery?
I understand the sentiment, but to be fair, CGI doesn’t give you an infinite scalability. AWS Labmda based solution is far less susceptible to something like HN hug-of-death.
Everything OpenAI does is about weights.
It is the most important problem of “our time” when you realize that the “our” here has the same meaning that it has in “our democracy”
people view these as test cases for the much harder x-risk safety problem
I can't comment on the benefits at scale that another poster cites, but I've been working on an Angular project in a small team for four years now. This was quite close to a greenfield project, only a very small amount of code had been written, but we decided to keep it and stick to Angular even though two out of three of us had more experience with React. I had done both React and AngularJS and went in thinking that there wasn't much of a difference between frameworks.

I would not pick Angular again for a new project under any circumstances.

We have had many problems with the build system (e.g., an update suddenly bumped build times to several minutes due to some configuration option), the build process is ridiculously heavy, our laptops with 16GB RAM struggle with it often.

And we have had countless bugs related to component initialization and statefulness that I am certain would not exist in React. Our code is littered with early returns and ?.s that exist only because things are undefined for a split second before all the state comes in. We use a lot of RxJs, but it's quite often like coding in two separate environments and you need to write a bunch of boiler plate to bridge the observables to the inputs. There's no way in hell we're ever going to be able to move all the old code over to strict null checking, so we're missing out on a lot of the benefits of Typescript.

I don't agree with Angular's decision to have component classes that get newed once and then kept around for a long time and manually updated. It's much less ergonomic than React's way of doing things, and the statefulness leads to real bugs. The untyped templating language is just... bad. Quite often typos and bugs lead to JS errors being spammed to the console at ~60Hz, which used to freeze my browser (though I think Firefox has fixed this by now).

And I haven't seen a single benefit of this! My co-worker (who picked Angular and has previous experience with it) cites performance, but honestly the only performance related comment I have with is that my high-end Thinkpad has trouble keeping up with the build system.

Are we using it wrong? Probably. But we're not being clever. We started from simple examples and moved from there. I read documentation and tutorials, and I still feel like there's so much I don't understand. After four years.
It's impossible to take these people seriously. They have turned themselves into clowns.
I used to think I'd volunteer to go to Mars. But then I love the ocean, forests, fresh air, animals... and so on. So imagining myself in Mars' barren environment, missing Earth's nature feels downright terrible, which in turn, has taught me to take Earth's nature less for granted.

Can only imaging waking up on day 5 in my tiny Martian biohab realizing I'd made the wrong choice, and the only ride back arrives in 8 months, and will take ~9 months to get back to earth.
“The point of rigour is not to destroy all intuition; instead, it should be used to destroy bad intuition while clarifying and elevating good intuition. It is only with a combination of both rigorous formalism and good intuition that one can tackle complex mathematical problems; one needs the former to correctly deal with the fine details, and the latter to correctly deal with the big picture. Without one or the other, you will spend a lot of time blundering around in the dark.”

Well put! In empirical research, there is an analogy where intuition and systematic data collection from experiment are both important. Without good intuition, you won’t recognize when your experimental results are likely wrong or failing to pick up on a real effect (eg from bad design, insufficient statistical power, wrong context, wrong target outcome, dumb mistakes). And without experimental confirmation, your intuition is just untested hunches, and lacks the refinement and finessing that comes from contact with the detailed structure of the real world.

As Terry says, the feeling of stumbling around in the dark suggests you are missing one of the two.
I was thinking of both the changing of material composition of existing organic or semi-metallic pads, but also the general drift towards ceramic pads for low-dust.

Some of the German marque factory pads have exceptional initial bite, coupled with exceptional high levels of dust.
But the scientist has only one 'l' in his first name.

He also graduated from the University of Walla Walla.
somewhere between https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ ;)
This article focuses on the sets but don’t fool yourself; every streaming device and every app on those devices is capturing as much telemetry as possible and selling it

I have even heard of some WiFi enabled sets which will surreptitiously connect to any open WiFi and phone home. They can detect programming that they display.
> Michigan might be cool in summer, what about winters?

Michigan is also cool in the winter
Systemd 256: now with 98% less unix philosophy and 100% less data retention.
MacOS and iOS internals are much more closely related and based on Mach (via NextSTEP) than Freebsd.
> It's the most supported

I'm not sure why so many comments are claiming this when it's verifiably wrong (github releases).

Angular has a shorter release cycle than React, with much more frequent updates overall.

Now some will argue that this is a bad thing because they don't want things to change too often, and they are right, but Angular has a much more stable core than React, and major changes to the developer experience are much rarer than on React despite this faster release cycle.

> I've found it the easiest to hire for

It has the Python syndrome. It was deemed the easiest at some point, so new programmers gravitate towards it, so it becomes more adopted. But it also has the same negative aspect that this brings to Python, which is a lot of very poor code and poor coders.

I don't doubt that it's easier to hire for, but I'm fairly certain it's not easier to hire WELL for.
Here is a write up on topics covered by these camera iterations

https://medium.com/@jdc-cunningham/making-a-user-interface-f...

A lot of pictures and full menu map

And MS paint wiring diagrams

(1st camera)
https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/pi-zero-hq-cam/tree/master...

(2nd camera orange)
https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/modular-pi-cam/blob/master...
I actually do think they have not thought deeply about it or are willfully ignoring the very obvious conclusions to their line of thinking.

Ilya has an exceptional ability extrapolate into the future from current technology. Their assessment of the eventual significance of AI is likely very correct. They should then understand that there will not be universal governance of AI. It’s not a nuclear bomb. It doesn’t rely on controlled access to difficult to acquire materials. It is information. It cannot be controlled forever. It will not be limited to nation states, but deployed - easily - by corporations, political action groups, governments, and terrorist groups alike.

If Ilya wants to make something that is guaranteed to avoid say curse words and be incapable of generating porn, then sure. They can probably achieve that. But there is this naive, and in all honesty, deceptive, framing that any amount of research, effort, or regulation will establish an airtight seal to prevent AI for being used in incredibly malicious ways.

Most of all because the most likely and fundamentally disruptive near term weaponization of AI is going to be amplification of disinformation campaigns - and it will be incredibly effective. You don’t need to build a bomb to dismantle democracy. You can simply convince its populace to install an autocrat favorable to your cause.

It is as naive as it gets. Ilya is an academic and sees a very real and very challenging academic problem, but all conversations in this space ignore the reality that knowledge of how to build AI safely will be very intentionally disregarded by those with an incentive to build AI unsafely.
Humans and their ancestors have reproduced on earth for millions of years. I think the human cooperation problem is overstated. We cooperate more than fine, too well even to the detriment of other species.
or paper for that matter
I largely agree, although I do see how AI can help with social coordination problems, for example by helping elected leaders be more responsive to what their constituents need. (I spend a lot of my own time working with researchers at that intersection.) But social coordination benefits from energy research, too, and from biology research, and from the humanities, and from the arts. Computer science can't singlehandedly "solve" these problems any more than the other fields can; they are needed together, hence my gripe about total-orderings.
Jerk (time derivative of acceleration) had an important role in the Apollo missions. It was used to compute TGO (Time-To-Go) for the lunar module's landing program. TGO is the primary variable for the quadratic function, and it is combined with the current/desired state vectors to compute the throttle setting and thrust vector.
The safe business won’t hold very long if someone can gain a short term business advantage with unsafe AI. Eventually government has to step in with a legal and enforcement framework to prevent greed from ruining things.
I read that absolutely credulously. I thought "137 years ago? Would that phase transition under pressure be widely known around 1890?" then after a few moments of pondering... "wait a minute!"
All the current hype about AGI feels as if we are in a Civ game where we are on the verge of researching and unlocking an AI tech tree that gives the player huge chance at "tech victory" (whatever that means in the real world). I doubt it will turn out that way.

It will take a while and in the meantime I think we need one of those handy "are we xyz yet?" pages that tracks the rust lang's progress on several aspects but for AGI.
I think they have a thing now where all stored data gets wiped every few days (in the name of privacy, purportedly). And yes, that broke a bunch of apps.
Module prices drop, deployment demand soaks up modules, and so on as the market attempts to but doesn’t reach equilibrium. Unless I misunderstood the inquiry?

If you mean grids where there is excess solar, that means they need more battery storage and transmission to continue to push fossil generation out of the mix. The sun throws off enough energy in less than an hour to power humanity for a year.
Are you saying Chomsky was propaganda? I think he was an important voice against propaganda. Not a perfect voice, but he was definitely an archetype against the mainstream narrative. Your statements about him being hard to argue with I think apply even more to the narratives he was fighting against. Not saying is perfect, but his message was important during his prime years.
I never took Chomsky’s foreign policy views that seriously or knew them to be taken that seriously. He just had at most a refreshingly contrarian perspective that didn’t normalize the American Imperialism so many take for granted.
If you can't spend your coins during a bank run, it may savd the economy or destroy your finances depending if the reason for the bank run is real or fake. Anyway, some popcorn material from 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
An obvious application might be to make Google Street View not suck. They don't seem to be actively maintaining that anymore, unfortunately.
"TAs are TAs, all colleges have them; they do not replace full instructors, but some of them are worth their weight in gold due to their student empathy."

Lol. TAs in colleges are graduate students. They aren't undergraduates who can't find a job.
I guess now the kernel is written in C++. I didn't look at it but if it's true, it's probably very different from the sources from MS. And anyway the snippets I compared between Reactos kernel source code around 2005 and Microsoft source leaks, shown they were quite different. And if you look at really old Reactos code (pre 2.x), it is very very different from the code found later. So it could be argued that there was a continuous progression, which would not be the case if they had used heavily MS sources (legal and leaks).
And a lot of code comes from other open source projects, for example the USB stack was imported from Haiku.

I also expect current Reactos developers much less "adventurous" than some older developers.

Anyway if you use Linuw + Wine (or Codewaiver or alternatives) you have a good OS plus good Windows compatibility.
So it's like code-only shared hosting, billed by CPU-time rather than wall-time, and with a load balancer in front.
No it’s typically where the reporter is -based- not where the reporting was done.
I didn't even know it had keyboard shortcuts. Thanks for mentioning that.
Oscar Wilde's personal life with teenage boys

There's an episode with a young boy in A Rebours, a little googling says chapter 9

I don't think there's a canonical age for Salome's seductive dance but she's often like 12

A decadent work not mentioned here is The Immoralist by Gide, where molesting young Arab boys is much of the plot
That's neat! Although the first version was before my time. I had Kid Pix Deluxe 3 in elementary school, and eventually got my family to get it. Had to run it on our Windows ME computer since it crashed trying to run it on XP.

(Crazy story how we even got a copy... I used to go and stare at the product page for Kid Pix Deluxe 3X, a remastered version for Mac, since it was the closest thing I could find to a source for the one I knew of. One day, my parents got an email from some company offering the original Deluxe 3 version for something like $40. Looking back on it, I have no clue how they got my parents' email address or if they were in any way associated with Brøderbund, and it was probably unsafe to give them payment info... but we actually got the software and I don't think the credit card was ever abused, so all's well that ends well.)
You know something about this? It's just money being moved around between the rich, middle class and poor. Each cycle ends when that resource extraction is complete (or rinsing).
> consider SDL/Pango/Cairo the counterparts for DWrite/DDraw

I’m not sure Cairo is comparable to Direct2D, the ecosystem is too different.

On Windows, Direct3D 11.0 is guaranteed to be available. Even on computers without any GPU (like most cloud VMs) the OS uses a decently performing software emulation called WARP. For this reason, Direct2D is designed from the ground up to use these shaders as much as possible, and it shows because hardware GPUs deliver way more gigaflops than CPUs. For example, on my computer D2D implements anti-aliasing on top of MSAA hardware.

Cairo is cross-platform, and Linux doesn’t have a universally available GPU API. Some Linux computers have GL 4.5+, some have GLES 3.1+ (both GPU APIs have approximate feature parity with D3D11) some others have none of them. For this reason, Cairo renders vector graphics on CPU. Some computers, with slow CPUs and high resolution displays, don’t have the performance to render complicated 2D scenes in realtime on CPU.

This may change some day once Vulkan support on Linux is ubiquitous, but that day is yet to come.
A big part of that is who pays - state and federal dollars that are unused go away, so they often find a program that can use it, even if it's not the best use of funds locally.

Local roads often don't qualify, but state and federal highways do.
> you teach the masses how to code their own tailored software

That does not seem to be the key recipe to reaching techno-scientific milestones - coders are not necessarily researchers.

> plummeting technical literacy in smartphone-raised generations

Which shows there are other roots to the problem, given that some of us (many probably in this "club") used our devices generally more productively than said «generations»... Maybe it was a matter of will and education? Its crucial sides not being «teach[ing] the masses how to code»...
A super intelligence probably won't need to hack into our systems. It will probably just hack us in some way, with subtle manipulations that seem to be to our benefit.
Yeah this feels close to the issue. Seems more likely that a harmful super intelligence emerges from an organisation that wants it to behave in that way than it inventing and hiding motivations until it has escaped.
Part of it I think is because the definition that openai has over AGI is much more generous than what I think most people probably imagine for ai. I believe on their website it once said something like agi is defined as a system that is "better" than a human at the economic tasks its used for. Its a definition so broad that a $1 4 function calculator would meet it because it can do arithmetic faster and more accurately than most any human. Another part is that we don't understand how consciousness works in our species or others very well, so we can't even define metrics to target for validating we have made an agi in the definition that I think most laypeople would use for it.
High upfront capital costs for tube infrastructure and relative inflexibility once set up might dominate the decision.
But there is a global timeline. The age of the universe itself. It happened when the universe was roughly 300M years younger. Somebody might say the universe was created a year ago if they traveled through it extremely close to the speed of light. But we know how fast we travel by measuring redshift/blueshift of the cosmic microwave background and it's definitely far from any relativistic speed. There must be some effect of gravity, but that is also within a rounding error. So, I'd say we are much closer to the "truth" than somebody who travels through the universe a few percent of the speed of light or "lives" right next to the supermassive black hole. Whether something we will never see exists or happens is a philosophical question akin to "if a tree falls in the forest..."
Welcome to Attention Economy 101. Social media are engines that run on attention, and will prioritize anything that maximize it.
Yes! He’s a great counterexample to the popular view that mathematical/pure logical reasoning ability is negatively correlated (even zero-sum) with communication ability. Yes, there are people that are crap at one and quite good at the other… but you can’t make much of an inference when given one without the other.
don’t comment if you don’t know what you’re talking about, they have tender offers
I disagree. If it could hack a small system and engineer our demise through a gray goo or hacked virus, that's really just universal paperclipping us as a resource. But again, the level of _extrapolation_ required here is not possible with current systems, which can only interpolate.
When people operate a safe AI company, the company will make money. That money will be likely be used by employees or their respective national revenue agencies to fund unsafe things. I'd like to see this safe AI company binding its employees and owners from doing unsafe things with their hard-earned cash.
I actively run both a professional and personal on Meetup for the past 1.5 years. I love seeing new options show up in the space, because I do believe the tools are ripe for disruption right now and the sites where people post their events are very fragmented. Kudos to you for taking a stab at it.

There's two things I'd love to know how you're thinking about:

1. Right now, the benefit of Meetup is natural discoverability. I can set and forget an event with no advertising and people will find it and show up. That's not true of any of the other event websites. This may be specific to the Austin community though.

For example, I've tried to post the professional data happy hour on LinkedIn events, Eventbrite, and Meetup. Meetup always drove >60% of the ~50 attendees.

I've been increasingly interested in Luma because they have the idea of a "Calendar" you can subscribe to which doesn't require the origin of the event to be on Luma itself. This allows it act as an event aggregator while still encouraging events to originate on Luma with notifications and reminders built in. See an example here: https://lu.ma/austin-tech-scene

How are you thinking about becoming a go-to resource for discoverability?

2. It's my understanding that despite the high cost to run Meetups, the company itself has never been in a good financial position. They've been bought and sold multiple times.

How do you plan to make money? Without a visible monetization model, my main concern switching to your platform would be the longevity of the platform and the risk of building up an audience there.
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