MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unethical_ban | 2025-10-02 17:17:58+00:00
That may sound bad or immoral by the company, but know that auditors have the own ambition and mo ey to think about, and will try to mark any possible thing as a serious problem regardless of whether it is.

Yes, it is highly adversarial and the best compromise I've seen is to have an internal audit team that is separate organizationally from IT, but has to withstand peer review if they claim anything is a real problem.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-02 17:18:05+00:00
I'm not sure I disagree that anxiety isn't rational. Anxiety about certain topics may be less rational, but being too anxious to sleep alone in the dark in the jungle likely has some evolutionary benefits. Similar with the anxiety at seeing large predatory animals or the lack of food leading into winter. It becomes a dysfunction when the anxiety is caused by everyday innocuous things to the general public.
by wastle | 2025-10-02 17:18:10+00:00
> Are you seriously now claiming that TERFs aren't mostly found on the right? Ever heard of a left-wing TERF?

Yes of course, and I know several personally. It's a fairly common set of views in the UK.

Over here it's not like it is the US where there's such a strong party political divide over this issue and as a consequence feminist groups (like WoLF, mentioned in the Wikipedia citations of the section you linked) decided to appeal to politicians on the right because the left has been so captured by trans ideological beliefs. Though not all on the left. If you're interested, look up Kara Dansky, radical feminist and lifelong Democrat, who has been trying to convince her party for years of the case for women's sex-based rights.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-02 17:18:12+00:00
A bit hyperbolic, ain't it? Lots of people who are not millionaires care about much more than survival. Like for example the family I drove by a couple of months ago - they were very concerned about fitting 3 dirt bikes (1 adult size, 2 kid ones) in a pick up trailer. This family was not millionaire.....
by abxyz | 2025-10-02 17:18:16+00:00
> I can't, however, provide any 2FA codes or backup codes because they are printed on paper that has, I assume, been destroyed.

The situation you are in is very unfortunate and I am sympathetic but in GitHub's defence, this is exactly what I hope would happen when I enable 2FA. I would be very perturbed to find out that GitHub would grant access to my account given identity documents. There are some creative solutions (e.g: a countdown to the reset with progressively more aggressive email notifications to ensure the account holder is aware) but even they are problematic. So, this sucks, but it's the price we pay for security.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 17:18:24+00:00
The other way around. Climate change can have its 5%.

The reason is that climate change is simply not an extinction risk.

It has a considerable death and suffering potential - but nowhere near the ridiculous lethality of "we fucked up and now there's a brand new nonhuman civilization of weird immaterial beings rising to power right here on Earth".

If the climate change was the biggest risk humanity was facing, things would be pretty chill. Unfortunately, it isn't.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-02 17:18:56+00:00
I have to rattle the key around a bit in the lock to get the lock to turn. Good luck designing a robot to figure out it needs to rattle the key in a certain way. Or to realize that the door needs to be pulled or pushed a bit while turning the key, so the bolt doesn't jam in the door jamb.

One of my doors needs to be pulled upwards in order to open/close it. (Due to slowly pulling the doorframe out of alignment over time.)
by svieira | 2025-10-02 17:18:57+00:00
> But as you say, this doesn't solve the problem of including multiple versions of the same module.

The solution that Java has for that is literally re-writing the bytecode of version A to be "in a different module" and re-writing the bytecode of the code that depends on version A to use the "new" module. That's not going to fly for C++ as I understand it, but maybe I'm missing something.
by iteria | 2025-10-02 17:19:00+00:00
This feels like anxiety more so than anything. I literally walk around everywhere with sunglasses and headphones. I'm not ASD just sound and light sensitive do to physical damage. Not a single person has bothered me about this even during conversation. I chat with big ass cans on my ears. I go to stores at times where people aren't there and favor pick up if I can't do that. It's not that I can't interact. I just get really irritated by crowds and why do that to myself if I don't have to? I do self check out when possible because it is just faster and I always get irritated by how they pack things.

Stumbling over your words? Oh well. Who cares. It's a cashier. I did this all summer in a foreign country. Toddler talked my way through it and honestly with everyone. It's not exactly the same, but the pressure is. It's incorrect speech with a person you'll never see again or who won't remember you. Who cares?

Like this all feels like anxiety and lack of problem solving. And I'm not sure I even forgive it because my kid has autism and anxiety and she has solutions for these problems. She's not perfect, but she seems to be carrying on better than what you're portraying here. I also know several autistic people where what you're talking about is just not a thing. I get if you know an autistic person yoy know that autistic person, but they are coming up with solutions that allow them to be without a higher level of stress than anyone else.
by sctb | 2025-10-02 17:19:33+00:00
You're right that sensory issues make up a small (optional) part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD under the DSM-5. And I agree that "autism" in popular discourse seems to be very flexible and inclusive, but the medical diagnostic criteria are much more specific. When someone does meet these criteria, there's something going on that isn't just a collection of unrelated peculiarities. This seems to be supported by the very high heritability of diagnosed ASD.

I would agree with you that there are issues caused by the wide range of presentations. It seems as though there's a tension between differentiation and unification at the various levels of scientific research, social understanding, social accommodation, etc. I expect things will get teased out over time.

DSM summary: https://www.cdc.gov/autism/hcp/diagnosis/index.html

DSM and ICD summary: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/diagnos...

ICD-11 direct: https://icd.who.int/browse/2024-01/mms/en#437815624
by SirFatty | 2025-10-02 17:19:44+00:00
" requirements are failing the memory requirement not the TPM requirement"

IT worker here, managing a ~400 computer install at the company I'm employed at. Laptops, desktops, some very old (10 years) and some relatively new(ish).

It's processor and TPM, not memory, in every single case of the nearly 150 computers I have to replace.
by toast0 | 2025-10-02 17:20:30+00:00
Honestly, with 10 servers, a pxe setup is probably overkill. If you're getting used servers (and maybe even if not), you might need to poke them with a KVM to set the boot options so that PXE is an option, and you might want to configure the BMC/IPMI from the console too, and then configure anything for serial over IPMI / bios console on serial ports... do that in your office, since your colo is across the street, and then you may as well do the install too. Then when you install, it should just work and crash cart if not. But, PXE is fun, so...

For PXE / iPXE, there's several stages of boot. You have your NIC's option rom, which might be, but probably is not iPXE. That will hit DHCP to get its own IP and also request info about where to pull boot files. You'll need to give it a tftp server IP and a filename. DHCPD config below

I server iPXE executables to non-iPXE. When iPXE starts up, it again asks DHCP, but now you can give it an http boot script. The simplest thing is to have something like

kernel installer_kernel initrd installer_initrd boot

You can also boot isos, but that's a lot easier if you're in BIOS boot rather than UEFI. Better to practice booting kernels and initrds (unless you need to boot things like firmware update isos)

Then you'll have your installer (or whatever) booted, and you might have an unattended install setup for that, or you can just setup a rescue image that does dhcp (again!) and opens sshd so you can shell in and do whatever. Up to you.

the pxe part of my isc dhcpd config is:

next-server 203.0.113.11; if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" { option ipxe.no-pxedhcp 1; filename "http://203.0.113.11/tftpboot/menu.ipxe"; } else { if option client-arch = 00:06 { filename "ipxe.efi-i386"; } else if option client-arch = 00:07 { filename "ipxe.efi-x86_64"; } else { filename "undionly.kpxe"; } }

(This is mostly consoldidating bits and pieces from here [1] )

And I have those three files in the root of my tftp server. There's all sorts of other stuff you could do, but this should get you started. You don't really need iPXE either, but it's a lot more flexible if you need anything more, and it can load from http which is gobs faster if you have large payloads.

If you really wanted to be highly automated, your image could be fully automated, pull in config from some system and reconfigure the BMC while it was there. But there's no need for that unless you've got tons of servers. Might be something to consider if you mass replace your disk shelves with 4U disk servers, although it might not save a ton of time. If you're super fancy, your colo network would have different vlans and one of them would be the pxe setup vlan --- new servers/servers needed reimaging could be put into the pxe vlan and the setup script could move them into the prod vlan when they're done. That's fun work, but not really needed, IMHO. Semi-automated setup scales a lot farther than people realize, couple hundred servers at least. autopw [2] can help a lot!

[1] https://ipxe.org/howto/dhcpd

[2] https://github.com/jschauma/sshscan/blob/master/src/autopw
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-02 17:20:30+00:00
My older Toyota has a DVD for its maps and works without any comms — I use it all the time (and even pay to update the maps from OEM every few years).

I would LOVE to be able to use my modern Toyota's navigation system; unfortunately, this requires you to connect a modern cell phone (cannot use without it) which I don't own.

So for my new vehicle I instead purchased a stand-alone GPS unit ($60) which comes with lifetime map updates.
by thaumaturgy | 2025-10-02 17:20:39+00:00
I was really hoping this would at last be a treatment of the most realistic risk for AI, but no.

The real risk -- and all indicators are that this is already underway -- is that OpenAI and a few others are going to position themselves to be the brokers for most of human creative output, and everyone's going to enthusiastically sign up for it.

Centralization and a maniacal focus on market capture and dominance have been the trends in business for the last few decades. Along the way they have added enormous pressures on the working classes, increasing performance expectations even as they extract even more money from employees' work product.

As it stands now, more and more tech firms are expecting developers to use AI tools -- always one of the commercial ones -- in their daily workflows. Developers who don't do this are disadvantaged in a competitive job market. Journalism, blogging, marketing, illustration -- all are competing to integrate commercial AI services into their processes.

The overwhelming volume of slop produced by all this will pollute our thinking and cripple the creative abilities of the next generation of people, all the while giving these handful of companies a percentage cut of global GDP.

I'm not even bearish on the idea of integrating AI tooling into creative processes. I think there are healthy ways to do it that will stimulate creativity and enrich both the creators and the consumers. But that's not what's happening.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-02 17:20:40+00:00
> So I conjecture that this is the crux of the issue with AI-risk. People who truly accept that AI with an IQ of 300 and all human capabilities may appear are almost always at least somewhat worried about AI-risk. And people who are not worried about AI-risk almost always don’t truly accept that AI with an IQ of 300 could appear.

Correct. I think a lot of people are highly skeptical that there's any significant chance of modern LLMs developing into a superintelligent agent that "wants things and does stuff and has relationships and makes long-term plans".

But even if you accept there's a small chance that might happen, what exactly do you propose we do to "prepare" for a hypothetical that may or may not arrive and which has no concrete risks or mitigations associated with it, just a vague idea that it might somehow be dangerous in unspecified abstract ways?

There are already lots of people working on the alignment problem. Making LLMs serve human interests is big business, regardless of whether they ever develop into anything qualitatively greater than what they are. Any other currently-existing concrete problems with LLMs (hallucination, disinformation, etc) are also getting significant attention and resources focused on them. Is there anything beyond that you care to suggest, given that you yourself admit any risks associated with superintelligent AI are highly speculative?
by ed | 2025-10-02 17:20:43+00:00
Nit: if you read the Wikipedia link it’s clear that guy has no claim to the high IQ record.

> It later transpired that Langan, among others, had taken the Mega Test more than once by using a pseudonym. His first test score, under the name of Langan, was 42 out of 48 and his second attempt, as Hart, was 47.[12] The Mega Test was designed only to be taken once.[14][15] Membership of the Mega Society was meant to be for those with scores of 43 and upwards.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 17:20:44+00:00
The only reason the content works, at all, is because it's completely free and ad driven.

The truth is the content on Facebook is basically worthless and basically nobody wants to watch it. But humans are stupid. If you tell them something is free, they're gonna use it, even if they don't want to use it.

If Facebook cost even 1 dollar a month, I can garuantee those videos views would fall off a cliff.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-02 17:20:58+00:00
Bengio is a professor and Hinton quit Google so that he could make warnings like this.

And this is just to highlight that there are clearly many familiar people expressing "worry about AIs taking over humanity" as per GP.

There are much more in depth explanations from many of these people.

What's actually amusing is skeptics complaining about $-incentives to people warning about dangers as opposed to the trillion dollar AI industry: Google, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, all of VC, trying to bring it about. Honestly the $ is so lopsided in the other direction. Reminds me of climate change, all the "those people are just in the renewable energy industry lobby"...
by joshmn | 2025-10-02 17:21:03+00:00
That's the same stance I have and why I'm torn. The little quirk here—where it makes slightly more sense—is that they received a legal notice at one point (from the US Government) about my account, there are plenty of online articles to corroborate me as me, and I have a fancy prison release ID that can help me identify me. Unfortunately this context is probably lost on the individuals who work their Zendesk.

The policies are rather draconian as others have mentioned. Anyone could be the victim of theft; mine just has an awkward paper trail attached to it.
by bawolff | 2025-10-02 17:21:15+00:00
Both stupidity and malice happen. It can often be difficult to tell the difference as we arent as objective as we think we are.

However, accidentaly attributing stupidity to what is malice is generally not too bad. If its malice it will happen again and you can revise your opinion.

Accidentally attribute malice to what is stupidity is an easy way to start grudges. This can blow back on you and turn someone who just made a mistake into someone who does actually hate you, and make third party observers think you are unreasonable.

So erring on the side of assuming stupidity is generally a good call.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-02 17:21:19+00:00
> Like others said, skipping breakfast should not be that big of a deal for a reasonably healthy adult, we didn't evolve having 3 meals a day. Intermittent fasting is a thing too.

I haven’t played the simulator but I wonder if it’s also trying to account for more than just the physiological effects. A friend of mine has autism, and we were getting together one day. On the way over I suggested getting some food since it was close to dinner time. They agreed, gave me some items and I bought us some food. When I arrived they were amped up and excited to show me something. I set the food down, and I ate while they were showing me this thing that had them all excited. They ate some of the food too, but were clearly distracted and not all that hungry. No big deal. But a few hours later I noticed they’d gone real quiet and seemed down or anxious about something. Turned out they had been worrying for the last hour that they had offended me because they didn’t eat all the food and they knew they weren’t going to eat all the food because they were going through a phase where eating in general was just a difficult thing to want to do and so were eating just the minimums they needed to not have other problems.

The entire later half of their evening and their excitement over their new thing had been badly deflated all because of a decision / need to not eat all the food on offer. Never mind that this was nothing new for them. Never mind that I could easily see myself skipping food just for the excitement they were experiencing before factoring in any sensory phases. Never mind that it would be a truly shit thing for me to be offended because they only ate some of the greasy fast food I picked up for us. No this simple and normal act caused them an hour of stress and anxiety over worrying if they’d crossed some social line for doing something I didn’t even notice until they said something.

But it doesn’t matter whether I noticed. Their brain latched onto the “you did something abnormal, people might have noticed, now you need to analyze everything that’s happened to figure out what you next move should be” train of thought and it would not let go. So at least from what I’ve seen, choosing to eat or not can have impacts beyond just “hungry”
by devKnight | 2025-10-02 17:21:32+00:00
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by softwaredoug | 2025-10-02 17:21:47+00:00
IMO, realistically, AI Safety isn't about killer robots. It's about another Therac 25 Incident because someone vibe coded a radiology machine and didn't know how the code worked.

Or someone gave an agent insane levels of permissions to use a tool that impacts the physical world, and the agent started pressing dangerous buttons during a reasoning loop (not because it has intent to kill humans)

There are a bunch of mundane AI Safety risks that don't have to do with robots taking over.
by jow13_12 | 2025-10-02 17:22:00+00:00
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by devKnight | 2025-10-02 17:22:15+00:00
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by peterdunson | 2025-10-02 17:22:21+00:00
I built RenderScholar, a small tool for researchers and students who are tired of LLMs hallucinating citations.

RenderScholar scrapes Google Scholar directly, pulls real papers, and then ranks them by relevance, citations, and recency. It also renders results into two views:

- Human view: a clean HTML page for browsing papers - LLM view: copy-paste friendly citations that you can safely feed into a language model

Why I made it: I kept getting fake references from ChatGPT/Claude when doing literature reviews. I wanted a quick way to gather real citations that I could trust, and then drop them into my workflow.

Repo: https://github.com/peterdunson/renderscholar

I’d love feedback—especially from people who would use this for lit reviews, etc and are frustrated with hallucinated citations. Also curious if there are features that would make it more useful.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-02 17:22:54+00:00
> Australia’s NEM will see a massive increase in grid-scale battery energy storage capacity in the next three years. There are 16.8 GW of battery projects that could come online in the National Electricity Market (NEM) by the end of 2027. This would result in a ninefold increase in battery energy storage capacity in just three years - with 2 GW operational today.

https://modoenergy.com/research/australia-nem-big-battery-en...

https://reneweconomy.com.au/graph-of-the-day-the-stunning-ri...

Compare to ~22.5GW of total coal generation capacity and ~30GW of utility scale solar in Australia. This does not include behind the meter solar and batteries.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/AU/72h/hourly
by klipklop | 2025-10-02 17:23:15+00:00
> It's unclear to me why they're being so aggressive in this area..

A signed bootloader with TPM is the first step to implementing an OS that can only run signed code. The long term goal is to be like Android (who recently flipped to requiring all APK's to be signed by Google. Almost zero user push back) and iOS in this regard. MS is looking down the road and they want a locked down OS as well. They will pitch it as enhancing security and protecting children more than likely.

There is a good chance that in 5-10 years Linux will be the only platform that allows unsigned code to run. I hope I am wrong.