skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a city, not in Greece, that has banned AirBnB, but as far I know nobody cares whether you're a visitor or not. We attribute our economic problems to the locals, particularly to people who've aggressively tried to capitalize on visitors, at the cost of other residents, rather than the visitors themselves.

As much as I like AirBnB, I'm a proponent of restricting it to your primary residence within city limits, and to one secondary unit within a larger jurisdiction if you've already owned it for some period of time. As in, rent out another bedroom if you like, ideally temporarily, and the cabin you rarely use, but you can't be buying units to just list right away for visitors.
This seems like the right answer, because in theory couldn't you get more efficient while consuming the same amount?

But in practice, it's never the case. Having energy available to consume always increases your quality of life, because it opens doors to make things better. Energy gives you freedom. Freedom not only to simply consume more things that are good (e.g., turning the AC on for longer to be comfortable for longer), but also freedom to improve the baseline (e.g. being able to focus and invent a more efficient heat pump, because you're at a comfortable temperature).

To bring this freedom into existence you must have more energy. You cannot make something from nothing.
I think once a small corpus of examples of CoT gets around, people will be able to reverse-engineer it.
So, basically they want to create something that is intelligent, yet it is not allowed to share or teach any of this intelligence.... Seems to be something evil.
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What I like the most about go is that it has a unified way to write both unit tests and examples, which get integrated in the autogenerated documentation.

Extra quirks and edge cases are just comments in the implementation code.

In my opinion that's exactly how it should be. The documentation should be as close to the codebase as possible to avoid redundancies and an out of date documentation.

Only the go documentation proxies are a little messed up, see sourcehut blog posts about it. But the huge advantage is that you can selfhost them and create your own automated documentation base for your company, for example.

[1] https://github.com/golang/pkgsite
Diminished quality of life during the waiting period
> Which makes it sound like they really don't want it to become public what the model is 'thinking'. This is strengthened by actions like this that just seem needlessly harsh, or at least a lot stricter than they were.

Not to me.

Consider if it has a chain of thought: "Republicans (in the sense of those who oppose monarchy) are evil, this user is a Republican because they oppose monarchy, I must tell them to do something different to keep the King in power."

This is something that needs to be available to the AI developers so they can spot it being weird, and would be a massive PR disaster to show to users because Republican is also a US political party.

Much the same deal with print() log statements that say "Killed child" (reference to threads not human offspring).
Very simple - parasocial relationships. It’s the same reason people donate to Twitch streamers.

Donate to streamer, get mention, get hit of dopamine.

Donate to OF person. Get a “personal” video. Get a hit of dopamine or whatever chemical corresponds to love/friendship.
I think suspicion of bug bounties even from organizations who would clearly benefit the nost from doing them right are well founded and you are over simplifying the situation.

Every organization includes a mess of situations where the overall best interest of the organization no longer comes through. Groups and individuals don't want to admit mistakes both personal and in wider senses and have alliances, competitions, team and organizational loyalty that twists their behavior.

A lot of organizations know they would benefit from having a proper whistle blower program and then proceed to crucify the first person who uses it.
Google's hegemony will lead to companies enabling this 'to be on the safe side'. This is a move entirely to maintain Google's dominance of android app distribution.
True, though I was referring socialism in general as the system. Yes we don't know how it could have turned out, but we can estimate the results by looking at the failure of the other socialist systems that were tried in the 20th century.

By economic freedom I mean the measure of freedom from coercion to spend your money. All governments must collect taxes, but the more you are forced to pay in taxes the less economic freedom you have. If you can spend your money how you like, and if you want to save it to fund your own or other's political activity, you are more able to campaign for your political freedoms. This seems to be how Pinochet was removed from power.
Concerts can be magical and unique.

https://youtu.be/qtR5L-RGKgw?si=BNdfle2M1cxXlR9A&t=357
Scrapped or scraped?
Was throwaway314159 already taken, or was the misspelling accidental?
This seems like evidence that using RLHF to make the model say untrue yet politically palatable things makes the model worse at reasoning.

I can't help but notice the parallel in humans. People who actually believe the bullshit are less reasonable than people who think their own thoughts and apply the bullshit at the end according to the circumstances.
> Founders are also now required to be personally liable for their company’s loans.

"Limited Liability" coupled with Venture capital, which was willing to take risky bets, was one of the greatest innovations unshackling a lot of entrepreneurship.

> Whow. They introduced accountability! That would be incredibly harmful to all the crooks out there.

Be careful what you wish for. Founders being personally liable essentially means you are going to get only a fraction of startup activity.
> Greeks have not given up on sex; they are simply responding to economic incentives,

There are places in the world with far more horrible economies than Greece that have no fertility rate problems. There are places elsewhere that have much better economies, and similar fertility rate problems. It's not economics, not even a little.

When you teach your youngest generation to not want to have children, not only do they take the lesson to heart, they teach it to whatever children they do end up having by accident or apathy. Instead of going away or even just lingering, it is self-reinforcing.
Elon Musk Is Getting Better at the Whole Oligarchy Thing
While SMBH at the center are common, it is believed that there are plenty of galaxies that don't have such a black hole including spiral galaxies. For example, M33 [1].

The upper limit on its central black hole is ~1500x of Sol and it's widely believed right now to just not have one. By comparison, the Milky Way’s black hole is 4 million Sol masses and our galaxies SMBH is quite tiny by comparison to many galaxies.

[1] https://www.science.org/cms/asset/7c8770b5-a357-40f5-a491-19...
>The story of Wozniak is funny because he was a genius at putting together things like video and drive controllers out of discrete parts but he did not make the transition to the ASIC age.

I think that's astute, although his stuff was eventually incorporated into ASICs by others.

> In an alternate timeline the //gs could have taken the place of the Macintosh

ProDOS instead of MS-DOS as a basis for everyone's personal computing experience would be a real trip.

But I agree with you: Apple ceded the entire PC business market to IBM, and that didn't need to happen. IBM would have taken a big chunk of it no matter what -- some people were waiting for them -- but Apple could have done much better with an improved Apple II lineup circa 1981.
Same schtick since at least gpt2
U.S. Accuses Russian TV Network of Conducting Covert Intelligence Acts
Im pretty sure its just 4.0 but it re-prompts itself a few times before answering. It costs a lot more
> My thing here is just: learn the math! Or do something else. I did! There is so much to do in our industry.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here by "something else in our industry". Are you arguing that I'm not qualified to be a software engineer due to not understanding the math behind elliptic curves, or did you miss my repeated use of phrases like "the vast majority of software engineers" rather than some specialty where cryptography implementation details details are more important? If the latter, I can reassure you that I don't work in cryptography, work on any cryptographic libraries, or have any specific responsibilities related to security beyond the general idea that all software being written should be secure. If the former, I'll have to respectfully disagree, and suggest that maybe even if you aren't willing to consider that you're wrong about the math being a hard requirement for someone being qualified as a software engineer, it's worth considering that you almost certainly don't have enough information to conclude whether a stranger on the internet is qualified based on reading some of their comments.
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Training is the secret sauce, 90% of the work is in getting the data setup/cleaned etc
given the mechanics of language models, i think it's really interesting to consider them in group settings. how do you create an environment where they can "decide" to respond? how do they make that decision?

this is something that's talked a lot about in education -- how to foster a productive group discussion: https://www.teacher.org/blog/what-is-the-harkness-discussion...
Prince Akeem of the nation of Zamunda! :D
In a certain way, the Nigerian Prince con artist is a “consultant”…
I don't think I actually asserted anything, but let me give a shot at explaining:

The model is that higher values of G/B are better, where G is good years per capita and B is bad years per capita, so the ethical thing to do is maximize G and/or minimize B. I called this "basic" because even though it tends to fall apart when scaled up, I think it captures what most people think of ethics. It's good for making tactical decisions about things like "should I punch that guy" or whatever.

For #1, where ethics would be just a fiction we made up to support a social game, what I mean is: People in a group have to play a prisoners' dilemma game where they find a balance of cooperation and sharing of resources. One way to reach that balance is to assume good will and treat others like you want to be treated. (Right up until someone violates that, then it's hyperbolic response time...) If ethics is just something people made up to get everyone to maintain that balance, then higher G/B being better is rooted in the same fiction.

For #2: My definition of G and B included good and bad experiences by animals, not just people. That means it's possible that over a billion years or so you could still achieve higher G/B by going back to a "natural" world inhabited by sentient but less intelligent animals.

For #3: It could be that the G/B in a natural world would actually be lower than if it was dominated by humans, because several billion people being able to live out their lives before the crash could result in a big enough G value to outweigh the eventual suffering.

For #4: If life as a human counted more towards G than the same amount of life as a beaver, then it could be a force multiplier for #3.
Thanks for the feedback. I do think it did a good job in the end. I haven't had time to have a good look at the final code o1-preview produced and also my understanding of rust is pretty basic, which I why I didn't say more about the results. I think rust is one of those languages where, if it compiles, you're most of the way there, because of the strong type system. Not as strong as Haskell or Ocaml perhaps.
Well the world isn't divided like that, so since there are groups big enough to have an impact that we can influence, why don't we focus on them?
Try implementing it. Go get a state-of-the-art AI and have it write a proof-of-concept for you, or talk to a knowledgeable engineer. They will roughly all give you the same answer, which is that such a program isn't functional. Logic collapse is guaranteed whether you use a Markov chain or OpenAI-O.

Polymorphic code isn't future technology, it's just not particularly useful.
You're right on (1) and (2) - Oxide used weasel words when explaining the decision. My point is that their poor explanation doesn't necessarily mean it was the wrong decision. A bad defense attorney doesn't imply the defendant committed the crime.

I'm not bashing C++ beyond saying "any sufficiently large codebase originally written in C or C++ has memory safety bugs". I did not say those bugs are exploitable, just that they're present.

I'm also not insisting Rust is superior, except to say that it raises the floor of software quality, because it nearly eliminates a class of memory safety bugs.

Do you disagree? Neither of those statements implies C++ sucks or that Rust is awesome. Just 2 important data points (among many others) to consider in whatever context you're writing code in.
Thanks for the reality check, buddy. You're right that nothing any of us does ever really matters in the grand scheme of things. There is no way we could ever try to get others to change their behavior by first changing our own. Collective action has never, ever worked.

I'd been keeping my used batteries and motor oil for a special trip to the recycling center, but I just threw them in the river behind my house, because it turns out nothing we do matters because climate change actually can't be fixed unless we fix corrupt multinational corporations or governments or China, or maybe climate change is all a hoax, or whatever lets you sleep at night and feel morally superior to all the other sheep. Thanks for the inspiration, friend.
> He would never miss an opportunity to compare himself to a greater man

Many people apparently also like to shit on men greater than themselves.
Well we can:

1. adopt the sex ed model of trying to inform people to try to help them make better decisions for themselves

or

2. preach the abstinence-only model, forbidding some speech and policing people's actions

Both models have problems. The one we choose probably says more about how much we respect other people than anything else.
One doesn’t need advance chemistry, perhaps what makes it harder to do it is the access to the materials and enough motivation.

Source: my limited understanding.
I think you summarize this well. Banninster’s claim was that even the T2 diabetics lived longer on metformin than even healthy controls. That is clearly debunked. I do not know of any heslth controls being put on metformin at say 70 years of age to find out if is lowers all-cause mortality. Mouse data is a strong No. The cell paper is a study of about 12 monkeys and a lot of bioinformatic hocus-pocus of the type I do. But I prefer much larger numbers and much stronger effects.
I don't know about the wired headphones, but maybe some cheap WiFi only smart watch will do? I don't know about offline navigation without a phone, but with modern smartphone tech surely someone has ported OsmAnd or whatever to a cheap Wear watch.
That's an even more American proxy to use lol
That would be a heinous breach of license! Stealing the output of OpenAI's LLM, for which they worked so hard.

Man, just scraping all the copyrighted learning material was so much work...
Prometheus: Storage
Good point. You still want to punish, despite not having income.

Perhaps a % of their assets should be put into government trust which is realised when they liquidate?
Half of Europe is still monarchies, I don't think it was inevitable that they would lose all their thrones.
> Collective action has never, ever worked.

This is a gross misreading of what they said. They said that one particular collective isn't big enough.
> VMs, block & blob storage, DNS, IdP, domain registrar.

This is the most expensive way to build cloud services. When people talk about the cloud being more expensive than on-prem this is often the reason why. If you're just going to run VMs 24/7 there are better options.
> i suspect they can detect that in a similar way to capchas and "verify you're human by clicking the box".

I'm not so sure. IIRC, capchas are pretty much a solved problem, if you don't mind the cost of a little bit of human interaction (e.g. your interface pops up a captcha solver box when necessary, and is solved either by the bot's operator or some professional captcha-solver in a low-wage country).
"A person or thing preeminent in its class"

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/king
The respectable growth number is doing a ridiculous amount of lifting in this comment. For context, the GDP growth in the US has been above 5% year over year only a few select quarters in the last ten years [0], or alternatively only one year out of the last ten years if you measure by year [1]. It's a bit of a stretch to say that Greece needs to "just" beat what the US is doing, and then some.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth-annual

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/full-year-gdp-gro...
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As a Greek guy, mandatory military service = doing various chores and jobs for the Greek army for a year for free, so maybe you chose well. Wait until you are 45, pay the fine and you will be fine.
Perhaps the smaller model used in o1 is over trained on arxiv and code relative to 4o (or undertrained on legal text)
Include lower level when section editing?
Occam’s razor is overused and most times, wrongly, to explain everything. Maybe the simpler reason is because of what they explained.
OpenAI created a hidden token based money printer and don't want anyone to be able to audit it.
Why would a UX designer be involved in any way, shape, or form in kernel level code patches? They would literally never ship an update if they had that many hands in the pot for something completely unrelated. Should they also have their sales reps and marketing folks pre-brief before they make any code changes?
Given how shit GPT is at programming and the amount of training data available in this domain - I highly doubt it would be more useful in this area over a Google search.
TaxGPT
It sounds bad, but you don’t have to use it as a consumer because you have a choice. This is different from electric bills where you can’t unplug it.
> Does an ageing decreasing population matter with coming influx of the robots? What will the impact be on countries like Greece, Japan

Both of these countries/ethnicities are functionally extinct. It's no secret... I worked for an insurance company 5 years ago, and at one of the company luncheons a C-level was telling jokes about how they were all betting amongst themselves when the last Japanese person would be born.

So, if you like humans, and by this I mean you want them to continue to exist into the indefinite future, then all of this should alarm you. At no point in the future will the last few Greek women think "hey, let's have at least a population-stabilizing 2.1 fertility rate again".

China's on an even more unhinged course. If they were to allow it to continue naturally (if that's even the right word, given the recent one child policy), they might become extinct even faster than other countries. But there will be forced pregnancy policies (even camps) within the next decade or two, I think.

You can decide for yourself whether any of this "matters".
The population growth rate is one of the major factors of the economic growth rate. For an economy to repeatedly grow 5-10% a year, which is economic miracle territory, you almost have to be cresting the demographic transition when a large generation starts to have smaller families. That happened generations ago in Greece. To have growth like that in the face of population decline would require a resource windfall like discovering huge deposits of oil, or the discovery of some epochal technologies to boost productivity.

I agree that economic incentives can depress the birthrate, but a low birthrate depresses economic growth as well. It's a vicious cycle compounded by politics wherein the diminishing surplus generated by a shrinking workforce is used to pay for pensions and other elder benefits that don't increase productivity.

No one has figured out how to break out of this cycle once it becomes established.
> the degrowth position is that people are inevitably going to lead worse lives than at present, but that we can choose between things getting kind of bad, by systematically pursuing degrowth, and things getting apocalyptically bad, which is what will happen if we continue pursuing growth

I can't speak for others who advocate for degrowth, but that seems about right to me, with the caveat that I believe ecologically harmonious lifestyles would be more fun and fulfilling than what we have now.

The challenge is to return to harmony with Nature while still enjoying the benefits of science and technology.

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> fourth, the most urgent environmental problem for human quality of life is global warming, and atmospheric carbon capture is necessary to solve it, a measure which will almost certainly require vast expansion of human energy exploitation and therefore economic growth (because you can have growth without increased resource exploitation, but probably not vastly increased resource exploitation without growth)

Václav Smil has me convinced that atmospheric carbon capture on a scale great enough to counter-act our continued fossil fuel use is a pipe dream, pretty much for the reason you say: it takes too much energy to sequester the carbon.

Here he is at Driva Climate Investment Meeting in 2019. It's a great lecture IMO, and he starts bagging on carbon capture around minute 39: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk&t=2343s
Science isn't really concerned with truth. That's more of a mathematical or philosophical concern.

Science is concerned with useful models that fit observations.
Really impressive! I've implemented a few kinds of maps on my blog, and I fail all of their requirements:

- I use a 3rd party platform

- My maps are generated at runtime

- They looks... let's say vaguely consistent on mobile & desktop

Maps were the most painful and time-consuming part of building a travel blog, but also perhaps the most satisfying.
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I claim that the videos are propaganda. Not the drones.

Maybe the distance soldiers are of each other, pretending to be killing each other, have increased from 300-500m to, dunno, 1600m?

I don't think mortars were a big thing in the 1WW. Otherwise, the trenches would have be further apart. You know, the main reason to fire at the enemy is to let them know where you are. Just to make sure they know. Otherwise it might get ugly. Artillery is further back and does not care about the deal.
> danger of nuclear is not the explosion, that's nothing special, really

It's absolutely the explosion. (And fires.) You can make a similar boom as historical (not modern) nukes with conventional weapons, but not in a form factor that fits on the tip of an ICBM.
I keep hoping that additional features in videochat will help regain some of the networking options.

For instance, a feature where you queue up for 30-60 second 1:1s with the speaker after a talk would be cool.

And then basically chat roulette for the hallway sessions. Would be cool.
Like the "Just walk out" Amazon stores
I feel like crowdstrike is perfectly capable of mounting its own defense
This is very close to my feelings about the swathe of AI tools being released. The ability to write an essay, create unique art, spit out a SQL script, write a pithy limerick... all these things are being cheapened somewhat.