skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, prescient people were aware of these risks a long time ago, before any OpenAI company:

In 2022, a survey of AI researchers with a 17% response rate found that the majority believed there is a 10 percent or greater chance that human inability to control AI will cause an existential catastrophe.

Altman, 2015: https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

Bostrom 2014: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20527133-superintelligen...

Stephen Hawking, 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540

Take your pick.

Are Geoff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Douglas Hofstadter also marketing?
https://archive.is/xmuVF
Contact firms care a lot, although I think the degree is intended to convey competence. An exceptional programmer is worth a lot more than two mediocre programmers, and so if you can be convinced someone is exceptional they can make a lot of money. Although I don’t always agree with the logic, going to a top school can help convey this sentiment
"It's not economics, not even a little."

I don't think you understand the economic and quality of life decline experienced the generation that is now 30-40yo.

There may be places where worst economies, but the rate of changes counts as well. The middle and lower class were at least 3-4x better off 20 years ago than what they are today.
According to the Benchmarks Game, SBCL is roughly as fast as Node.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It's worth mentioning during every conversation about this company
You definitely can't patent or copyright "a general vibe". You can copyright a specific expression; "Harry Potter" is copyrightable but not "boy wizards".

You can patent the novel parts of an invention (and in the US, business processes), but most things are not novel, and fictional things are not patentable.
In some contexts. In this context (a PNG), they're very real.
I have an idea but I need a sanity check
Will someone talk to me to tell me why my idea is stupid or not?
The thing microservices give is an enforced api boundry. OOP classes tried to do that with public/private but fail because something public for this module is private outside. I've written many classes thinking they were for my module only and then someone discovered and abused it elsewhere. Now their code is tightly coupled to mine in a place I didn't intend to be coupled.

i don't know the answer to this it is just a problem I'm fighting.
How can a rational person not? The police had the opportunity to deescalate, which would increase their chances of survival, and they chose not to. It would be like if a mugger stabbed you, and the ER surgeon refused to operate on you to save you - you can and should fault both.

If I were ever in that situation, I would 100% fault the police for their behavior, and I would question the sanity of anyone who didn't.
People don't want to admit it's due to social change instead of economics.

Religious people even in the US have kids at a younger age and more of them. Even poor / middle class ones.
Prometheus 3.0 Beta
unions are bad for our economy. they are monopolies in themselves
Here is a review by someone who liked the book: https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/08/14/the-habsburg-way-seven...
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty in legal language
Yes, but containers do not incur overhead because of the daemon. It is there for management purposes. In other words, system calls / network access / etc are not going "through" the daemon.
… that is executive control is by an RL-trained model
High fertility rates in low income countries are due to factors such as high infant mortality, the participation of children in the labor force, and provision of support for the elderly. Greece's situation, as a middle/high income country, is different.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-fertil...
The same way when someone T-bones your car you ignore the traffic engineer who designed a bad intersection.
Gene therapy gets a turbo boost from researchers
Talking about "activity" is like identifying an organism as "a plant". There is huge diversity.

Walk uphill 400 metres altitude gain every day, and you will lose weight, yes. Run uphill 400m every day and you will lose even more. Carry a backpack, and ... you will put on muscle.

Walking or running on the flat, not so much.
Does your model of the world have anyone who genuinely believes that these things will someday develop levels of expertise in weapons (bio, cyber, or other) which, in the hands of terrorists or other malefactors, would be a real danger?
> In order to safeguard a sufficient number of species to protect global biodiversity, including humanity, the late American biologist, E.O. Wilson and a new generation of scientists, ecologists, and conservationists concluded that we must set aside roughly half of Earth’s land and seas for nature, known as the principle of “Half-Earth.”

https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-projec...

It doesn't matter if we modified the ecosystems, it's still imperative to establish large regions of untouched ecosystems (as large as possible, as untouched as possible). Humans are very recent in the life of the planet and there's no a priori reason to assume that the things we do are sustainable for several hundred million years.

The dinosaurs lasted, what?, three hundred million years? That's the figure to beat. Can the talking apes last longer than the big dumb lizards?

So far most civilizations have destroyed themselves by destroying the health of the soil. Merv was the most beautiful city in the world for a thousand years. Now look at it: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CzfGxVZiTpapqCC8A It looks like Mars.
Dealing with this is such a hassle. One of the reasons I left Greece was to avoid the mandatory military service. Now I have to provide seven years of evidence that I've been living abroad, and that proof has to be either university enrollment or employment. I can't cover the employment part because I've been contracting and freelancing for the past four years. There's no way I'm paying a fine of 6 to 12k euros, mostly out of principle.
So if the UK banned all airplanes - what changes for the world?

Oh, that's right. Still nothing.

You are hyper-focused on a meaningless gesture that you were told to believe by people who continue to fly private jets around the world - like the academics this very thread is about. Seriously... let that sink in for a few moments. You should suffer, while they enjoy the lavishes of life. Kind of like a tv megachurch evangelist.

If you want to be principled and refuse to ever fly again - fine. It doesn't harm anyone but yourself. The world won't even thank you for this meaningless gesture and countless wasted hours. Just don't stand on a busy street corner shouting "repent" into your megaphone.
There‘s another website for these with lots of videos, infos, a shop (these things are understandably rather expensive), FAQ, …

https://gamewithpixels.com/

Edit: I‘m not affiliated in any ways, just very impressed
> well, i was more thinking about a former sex worker, a group which includes many more of your friends and acquaintances than you're likely aware of.

People say stuff like that, but I'm skeptical. It probably indicates more about "your friends and acquaintances" than mine.

> still, it's a clue that what he wants out of the relationship is not an equal partner but a sort of brood mare or something.

I don't think you can infer that from not wanting to date a former sex worker, and you seem to be fixated on a certain stereotype (which may be super common in Argentina, for all I know). Others may not want to date a former sex worker for other reasons, for instance because the choosing sex work indicates a willingness to use intimacy transactionally and to be manipulative (or at least insincere) as well as experience and habits of doing that.
>I think you miss George Carlin

What does this mean?

>and fear people won't like the real you

Projecting like AMC.

>Antagonizing strangers around yourself to sabotage ones own happiness out of fear of emotional connections is not a healthy place to live.

I'm not antagonizing anyone, and you're not around me.

>Maybe a nice walk in the sun

Already do.

>or volunteer with a local pet-rescue society would help one feel better.

Also already do this.

>Have a nice day, =3

You too.
I agree that it is not economics, or at least that their argument about economics does not suffice.

This is not a challenge and I am genuinely curious to hear your perspective: in what way does Greece teach their youngest generation to not want to have children?
Critical software infrastructure should be regulated the way critical physical infrastructure is. We don't trust the people who make buildings and bridges to "do the right thing" - we mandate it with regulations and inspections. (When your software not working strands millions of people around the globe, it's critical) And this was just a regular old "accident"; imagine the future, when a war has threat actors trying to knock things out.
That's certainly a perspective.
Fyi: yeah they're Dutch.
Everything that we know about CrowdStrike stinks of Knight Capital to me. A minor culture problem snowballed into complete dysfunction, eventually resulting in a company-ending bug.
I don't see the explanatory powers of the irresistible Snickers, since they are universally available and the same price everywhere.
Are you implying that recent Apple SoCs can't run games?

While there's the ML-centric "Neural Engine", the GPU really isn't stagnating by any means: Just in the iPhone 16 presentation this week, ray tracing and a 20% faster GPU were among the headline features. Gaming got its own section in the video presentation!

The fastest GPU I own is in my Mac; the second fastest is in my iPhone. My dedicated (last-gen) game consoles are a distant third and forth, respectively.
My step-grandson has taken up boxing at the age of 15. He has lost five percent of his body mass simply by ceasing to drink soft drinks ("pop", in some parts of the USA).

Drink water or black tea or coffee.
> If thorough investigation revealed poor quality control investment compared to what would be appropriate for a company like this, then we can say for sure.

We don't really need that thorough of an investigation. They had no staged deploys when servicing millions of machines. That alone is enough to say they're not running the company correctly.
In my country, it's illegal to charge different people differently if there's no explicitly signed agreement where the both sides agree to it. Without an agreement, there must be a reasonable and verifiable justification for a change in the price. I think suddenly charging you $100 more (compared to other consumers) without explaining how you calculated it is somewhat illegal here.
public school is just daycare, not a school at all, due to lowering the bar and easing curriculum in the name of "equity".
We tried various forms of this during the pandemic; systems like gather.town and so on. They were universally awful. I think travel is simply the price of good Science.
All of their (and Anthropic's) safety lecturing is a thinly veiled manipulation to try and convince legislators to grant them a monopoly. Aside from optics, the main purpose is no doubt that people can't just dump the entire output and train open models on this process, nullifying their competitive advantage.
Can We Count on LLMs? The Fixed-Effect Fallacy and Claims of GPT-4 Capabilities
Regardless of how much impact it has, it makes them look like hypocrites. If climate change is truly an issue that threatens millions of lives then maybe don't contribute to it unless you absolutely have to.
You're wrong, it has to do with culture. Very little is effected by economics.

It reminds me a lot like hobbies people associate with rich people, like traveling.

If traveling is a real hobby for you, you will find a way to do it even if you're poor like I did when I was young. For me it was through mistake airfare scanners and hostels, but some very poor 3rd world people literally just walk / bike around the world. Sleep in tents, and pan handle / or do some odd jobs for food money.

If there's a will, there's a way.
I think it's because we want a solution to our problems. You can usually find a solution to economic problems.

Cultural problems are nigh impossible to solve- especially by the government.

This is an interesting perspective on the left/right split. People on the left see economic problems (thus government can help), people on the right see cultural problems (thus government will not help).

Generalizing of course.
No, causation isnt distribution sampling. And there's a difference between, say, an extrinsic description of a system and it's essential properties.

Eg., you can describe a coin flip as a sampling from the space, {H,T} -- but insofar as we're talking about an actual coin, there's a causal mechanism -- and this description fails (eg., one can design a coin flipper to deterministically flip to heads).

In the case of a transformer model, and all generative statistical models, these are actually learning distributions. The model is essentially constituted by a fit to a prior distribution. And when computing a model output, it is sampling from this fit distribution.

ie., the relevant state of the graphics card which computes an output token is fully described by an equation which is a sampling from an empirical distribution (of prior text tokens).

Your nervous system is a causal mechanism which is not fully described by sampling from this outcome space. There is no where in your body that stores all possible bodily states in an outcome space: this space would require more atoms in the universe to store.

So this isn't the case for any causal mechanism. Reality itself comprises essential properties which interact with each other in ways that cannot be reduced to sampling. Statistical models are therefore never models of reality essentially, but basically circumstantial approximations.

I'm not stretching definitions into meaninglessness, these are the ones given by AI researchers, of which I am one.
All this exists from Decent Espresso, but they are the 1% of the market that is the exception.
There are no operating systems with an EAL greater than 5. There are single-purpose microprocessor controlled devices with higher ratings, but you are unlikely to ever find one.
> manufacturers just aren't that interested in supporting them

AAA games are starting to show up on Steam for macOS these days. Baldur's Gate 3 runs pretty well, for example!

The real shame is that some older indie games are disappearing just as easily, given Apple's deprecation strategy – while Microsoft basically never breaks backwards compatibility, Apple recently cut off 32 bit games (killing about half my Steam library), and presumably Intel-only binaries are next.
Playdate has over 1000 games on itch.io
Do you vote in elections? You must realize it's a waste of time, at least outside local elections. It's very unlikely that your vote will affect the outcome of any election in your lifetime. And it's even more unlikely that the effect will actually matter.

It's good to realize that you are almost certainly a nobody. Your life will probably have no measurable effect on the world. And that's good, because the world would be a terrible place if many people could change it individually. But when a million nobodies make a choice, the world may change.

You should act in ways that would be good for the society if everyone did the same. That's a pretty universal idea in moral philosophy. You can find it in most philosophical traditions and most religions. Utilitarianism fails on a large scale, because individual choices have a major effect on the individual but a negligible effect on the society. But if everyone makes choices that are individually good, everyone may come off worse. Civilized societies depend on people occasionally choosing the right thing over the thing that benefits them.

To be a human, you need moral agency. It's not enough to be a utilitarian automaton reacting to incentives.
This is what an incredible level of product market fit look's like, people act like they are forced to pay for these services. Go use a local LLAMA!
That chart disproves your original point
What's also insane is the mitochondria are evolved from proteobacteria.
oversaturated job market allows companies to demand this
the author is also using many large, multi-megabyte photos in their travel posts, so I'm not sure how significant the size of the SVG content is, in comparison
He's also somewhat active on twitter: https://x.com/pinboard
What a pleasant surprise seeing dark mode get ported over to this. Always loved BeOS aesthetics and this improves on it!

Hope Haiku continues to grow as an alternative OS that can do more daily driver activities. One day I hope Obsidian can be ported to it.
This comment is warranted. Dude thinks he's a king and is wondering if the peasants will harass him. No one's going to give a shit. It is for sure a strange comment.
Says who? At a fundamental level
Same here. Any time I get annoyed with the site problems I just remind myself I paid once years ago and the site works 99% of the time.

I think if I was paying $20/year I would be really annoyed and have moved elsewhere years ago.
I'm 99% sure your comment was written by AI. Do I have any proof? No. Does it matter if the content is relevant? No. Should I have just voted instead of accusing someone? Yes.
Still exists today. It's a position called Search Quality Evaluator. 10'000 people who work for Google whose task is to manually drag and drop the search results of popular search queries.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...
> There would be a mix of versions, managed via branches

"We build the image slated for deployment from the release branch which is cut from master daily / weekly at noon." Works for MPOW, and some previous places. It's a monolith, there are rules!

> but if the multiple services you want to run are truly that hard to spin up locally, it won't be any easier as a monorepo. First thing you'll do is pass in 30 flags for the different databases to use.

Agreed! Maye that would be a reason to split the thing finally into separate services. Not necessarily micro-services, just into parts that are self-contained enough.

But most code bases are not nearly as heavyweight. They can work pretty well as a monolith, run as a whole on a decent laptop, along with a database or two, or even three (typically Postgres, Redis, and Elastic). I know because I did it many times, and a ton of other people did. Worse yet, I ran the whole bunch of microservices, much like production, locally, again, as many a developer here did, too. At the scale this small, the complexity just slows you down.

> use some common prod or staging instance for things you don't want to bother running locally.

I've seen this in much bigger projects, and there it made complete sense. When you have to move literally a ton, it makes sense to use a forklift. But if the thing is a stack of papers that fits into a backpack, the forklift is an unnecessary bulk and expense. It could sill be a neatly organized stack of papers, not a shapeless wad.
I'd add that if you're going to use color, then you should do the appropriate checks for determining if STDOUT isatty
At 63, I have gained about 4 kilos of muscle mass and lost about two kilos of abdominal fat in three months by doing more rucking (backpacking, up hills).

Older people need a high protein diet, but muscle gain isn't impossible, nor is muscle loss inevitable.
> Spinning up a GPU seems like something to avoid.

You can do inference on GPUs as well, and for anything other than very small/lightweight models, such as noise cancellation or maybe speech recognition, it's probably worth the initial overhead.

I believe CoreML already splits workloads between CPU, NPU, and GPU as appropriate.
I'm pretty sure the UK banning all airplanes would make a measurable difference. Especially since other countries would be reducing air travel along with them if this scenario is supposed to be at least semi-plausible.
I'm sorry tptacet, some examples come to mind?

I was really expecting you to say this doesn't happen, I'm now left wondering why security researcher's are willing to take such risks.
I'm going with principle of least astonishment, where productivity is more highly valued in most companies than quality control.
> if not, there also is a dedicated matrix unit there called AMX

This seems to be the successor to AMX.
Well, Europe did look very differently for a long time, with the iron curtain and all. And we did spend a lot on the military during the cold war.

I have to say though that the cold war wouldn't have gotten so out of hand in Europe if it weren't for the US. I think the USSR would have happily let us lie because we didn't have any beef with communism (and in fact during the cold war many Western Europe countries were pretty socialist). We do with dictatorships (which the USSR really was), but not in a sense that we'd want to invade them. Like how Belarus is being left alone as well.

It's the US that was afraid of the world turning communist and willing to fight for capitalism. This caused the arms race. Of course it came from both sides but ever continuing escalation was really the wrong move.

This is the problem I have with the US, they often get themselves into wars that aren't really needed. War should be a last resort and most of them have been far from that. The second Iraq war was based on pure lies. The invasion of Afghanistan accomplished nothing (and Bin Laden was even trained by the US in an earlier war against the soviets). Then there's Vietnam (Admittedly started by France), Korea etc. And of course citizens of other countries start hating you if you blow their countries to bits, increasing terrorism threats. The only one I think was justified was the first gulf war as it was a direct result of Hussein invading Kuwait.

For us "defense" doesn't reach beyond our own borders. The only time it does is under NATO commitments or international pressure.
Friendly advice, if you’re looking for a co-founder, please don’t start with a depressive laundry list of your baggage while suggesting a risky venture.

We’re all human, and have our issues. But your post does not make you come off as a professional or technically capable or reliable business partner. I don’t mean to be harsh, but just some candid feedback.

My suggestion is to take some time off to assess if you don’t have burnout.

That said, you were smart enough to get into medical school, and are a practicing doctor from what I can tell. My suggestion is to keep the stable income from your current job flowing, while working on your startup as a side project. It would make the most sense to jump over full time when you have something solid.

You can even use part of your current income to hire one full time software developer to work on something for you. Make sure you have a solid NDA or contract so they don’t steal any of your IP.

Sorry if anything I said made you feel bad, that wasn’t my intent.
It would not. Those people would still travel - just by far less efficient means.
Actually it makes total sense to hide chains of thought.

A private chain of thought can be unconstrained in terms of alignment. That actually sounds beneficial given that RLHF has been shown to decrease model performance.
You think long distance travel demand is completely inelastic? It's not.

Also what's "far less efficient means", please be specific. Most of these people are not going to take solo car trips super long distances.
Getting paid to fuck off at conferences and hang out with hackers on the company dime instead of staring at a screen in a cubicle all day sounds pretty awesome. Do I detect some jealousy or resentment that you haven't mastered the art of the corporate grift?
> Be careful what you wish for. Founders being personally liable essentially means you are going to get only a fraction of startup activity.

Exactly. Limited liability is a big worry. Crooks everywhere