skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're asking the right question.
What is human-level intelligence.

People seem to forget that we have no full understanding of how the mind works in order to replicate it.

Anyone who studied ML knows what the current tech is able to, still far from topping us.

How such software would create AGI is just absurd.
Given how many fake products amazon sells and intermingles with legitimate products, it isn’t at all surprising that they forwarded you to a scammer. They just don’t care about protecting their customers, apparently.
A director is the interface between the higher ups and the lower levels of the org. Basically taking strategy and vision by articulating it to product deliverables. They’re also the first to fall on their sword when things don’t work out and heads need to roll.
At that level they all get to skate ..right, left or upside down
It would seem the solution is to require every 'unarchive' operation to provide a 'schema' which specifies exactly which classes will be used in the unarchive operation. That schema would be read-only and specific to the unarchive call site.
Wouldn't ingesting anything into your lungs be bad? How does vaping make it better?
It was brutal. I first suspected terrible Wi-Fi, or underpowered computer, but everything worked great in Edge and the computer is a 3.2GHz i7 w/12GB RAM.

I think my favorite part of it is that the issue itself of blocking everything for network calls is like one of the first things I learned about Windows programming in the early 2000's.
Could you elaborate on why the article is nonsense? I'd love to hear your perspective.
As far as I understand it... the import path that you use to import a package acts as its identity, and only one version of any given package will be installed. The way that it will determine this is by choosing the lowest version specified in any package that depends on a given package. Major versions of packages are required to have different import paths with Go modules, so when depending on two different major versions of the same package, they are treated effectively as their own package.
> Even if "we" figure out how the animal-jump can occur, it's not like "we" can stop it or even predict it.

The first step is understanding. Until you understand how it happens, statements about whether or not you can prevent it do not make much sense to me.

For example: imagine you have not yet discovered that the unwashed hands of doctors are transmitting disease in a hospital. You might make a statement very similar to yours about how "even if we can figure out how people get sick, it's not like we can stop it".
And this is why my reolink cameras are on a subnet without access to the internet. The only thing it can reach is my home assistant and open source NVR.
Well clearly you were an order of magnitude too low.

Edit>> they left off a zero in the first number.
Is it possible to have stable housing prices when mortgages are available at a rate markedly below inflation?
Isn't that the role a library already fills? The only difference is maybe their love of the craft and more random options.
An ethernet connection is a must for me. Unless I'm traveling somewhere and need to log in on someone else's network, it's a pain to deal with wifi's slow speeds and connection issues, even in 2022.
He is looking for a definite red flag that it's a scammer. This is a terrible strategy and he should know better. One suspicious act and you should hang up and call the number on the back of the card. Really you should just not take calls from the bank ever and call back on the number on the card.
> remember Bernanke’s pronouncements before the 2008 crash that everything is just fine

The Fed chair saying "we're fucked" is, on its own, enough to cause a credit crisis. (This is why the Fed doesn't tend to make blanket forward-looking statements like "everything is just fine.")
I am the author of the flagged post with a link to Wikipedia article on the subject (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...):

“The FBI investigation found that 110 messages contained information that was classified at the time it was sent. Sixty-five of those emails were found to contain information classified as "Secret;" more than 20 contained "Top-Secret" information.”

EDIT: compare with:

“If convicted, Unkenholz faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison for each of the 13 counts of willful transmission of NDI and for each of the 13 counts of willful retention of NDI.”
"The whole math" in the libraries in question is several centuries of work by history's greatest minds, such as Newton and Gauss, including long decades of blind alleys like quaternions, so it depends on what you mean by "harder and longer". Surely Gauss wouldn't've swung much weight in the IBM boardroom, but Sam Palmisano couldn't've made much progress on solving large systems of linear equations either.
I think we're really close to one variant I really want. I want reactive spreadsheet, desktop, notebook/markdown.

Jupyter has notebook/markdown - it has very hacky arguable support for desktop and reactive.

Observable is notebook/markdown and reactive, but not desktop.

Numbers.app is desktop and reactive, and the multiple tables per sheet is kinda notebooky, but is missing markdown.
@PBSSpaceTime videos:

"Where Is The Center of The Universe?" (2022)
https://youtu.be/BOLHtIWLkHg

"Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?" (2022)
https://youtu.be/jeRgFqbBM5E

"The Holographic Universe Explained" (2019)
https://youtu.be/klpDHn8viX8

"Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?" (2022)
https://youtu.be/351JCOvKcYw
> A normal person has their MFA device or has MFA on text and they know these two mechanisms have codes they should never relay. If they got an MFA via email they'd immediately have their suspicions up.

What? I get MFA codes on e-mail all the time. I've got them from Steam, from Mojang, from GitHub, from Square Enix, from Digital Ocean, etc. For a normal person, getting some code you have to relay to some other entity via e-mail is normal.

Not to mention that the e-mail was actually a legit 2FA e-mail from Wells Fargo? That's how this scam works after all; you tell the victim that they'll receive a message with a code, then the scammer tries to do some action which requires 2FA, then the victim reads the code from the 2FA message. The fact that you would categorize this e-mail as an obviously fake e-mail which normal people would immediately recognize as suspicious, when it's actually a real 2FA e-mail, is pretty telling I think.

> A normal person, through the normalcy of their system, assumes that if this bank is having trouble dealing with them they'd have trouble dealing with everyone and that's just absurd.

No, this is absurd. Everyone has experienced having some one-off problem with some account in some system. Not to mention that the case in TFA was explicitly about fraud prevention calling you about suspected fraudulent charges, which seems extremely normal to me. Limiting individual accounts due to suspected fraud, and then notifying the owner of that account, is exactly the purpose of fraud prevention.

The only part of this event which the author's unusual set-up is responsible for, is that she gave an unusual level of credibility to the scammer just for calling her phone number.

But if it comforts you to think normal people would be immune to this scam just because normal people have their information more readily available on the internet, keep believing that I guess.
I don't have any particular opinion on fauci and 2 years ago I'd have agreed on pretty much everything you said. The issue though is not necessarily the GoF research by itself. If the scientists involved did not try to completely silence everyone, cover their tracks and basically stonewall any potential investigation, I wouldn't see the problem.

From my point of view, you simply cannot assess the risk when the main party involved in taking and being responsible for said risk has proven itself to be so shady. We all know that there areinherent dangers to this type of research, but we can't account for human deception and tribal wagon circling on top of that.

The proponents of GoF could've come clean, been transparent and welcomed the scrutiny considering the insane magnitude of the situation. But they have not! Even if it turns out that this is purely zoonotic, the trust is rightfully broken imo. Maybe research should continue, even on GoF, but consequences should now be clear. The article details such a long pattern of deliberate obfuscation, gaslighting and outright manipulation that it's becomes impossible to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Also, considering that we went through the biggest pandemic of the past century during which most people have seen their lives literally dictated by arbitrary (and very low) risk thresholds that authorities have decided to follow... it would be a bit rich to now just say that we have to live with the risks of scientists fucking up and that we have to let the pros handle it. Yes screw ups happen, but asking billions of people to just live with the consequences won't work.

Again, 2 years ago I'd have said that we need to take the risk because it can have tremendous benefits. But as much as appealing to "commoners" might sound lazy, there's still something deeply wrong when we see a much stronger and visceral reactions/consequences to maskless "karens" than we do to the individuals involved with orgs like the EcoHealth alliance. Yes it's maybe a populist take, but at some point the elitism becomes so blatant that even populism makes sense
Millions of people have died over the past couple of years. I think it’s important to know why.

If someone released this plague on purpose, then it would be the clearest case for the death penalty that has ever occurred. Do you honestly disagree?
"Progress" is a vector not a scalar. We can all agree it's growing in
magnitude very fast. But we have absolutely no idea in what direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...

She used her personal email for official communication quite a bit. This is illegal from a public records point of view, as well as from a classification point of view.

A review of emails found classified information there.

She was required to take document management and classified information classes when she became Sec State.
You could sort of do that using a Go module that points to all your other modules. Then anyone who depends on that will get the versions you specify (at a minimum).

But a problem is that they would also download all the modules you point at, whether they use them or not.

To fix that, the package system would need a "soft dependency" where, if a module exists, it must be at least the version indicated.
Until the alt coin they were emotionally invested in loses 80% of its value. Then the stock market and USD don't look so bad.
I like Chicago, was it in north suburbs? Looking at two flats/three flats, everything there is quite affordable, but am worried about IL itself and cook county taxes.
Such a conclusion as AI would create AGI implies you are more hyped about the field than actually understanding where AI is today, nor what is required in order to achieve AGI.
The ball is "rolling" in the sense that there are thousands of very smart, passionate people with billions of dollars of funding who are working on this problem full time. The ball is rolling more now than it ever has been in history. If AGI is not somehow fundamentally impossible, I believe we're on well on track to cracking it extremely soon. The amount of brain-hours being poured into the problem is absurd.
With an explicit call-out for running Android apps, no less!
Isn't this, in some sense, a good thing? I prefer a world where the current insane prices are indicative of a bubble and eventually come crashing down to a world where high prices are just the new normal.
A promising engineer rises through the technical track by showing impact. You show impact by getting others to sign on to your vision. You request a budget. You engage with a lot of stakeholders through meetings. Sounds a lot like what we call a "people manager" but without all of the tools available to one.

Maybe a better way of framing it is people managers have too much power. In an alternate reality, "staff engineers" hire and fire and have budget signature powers, and "people managers" are more like HR-plus who manage interpersonal conflicts and deliver performance evaluations. The status quo is a remnant of how society has historically undervalued and infantilized technical workers.
That sums it up very succinctly, thank you.
Amazing that a security "professional" would wait until he is 100% sure it's a scam and not hang up when he isn't 100% sure it's legit.
Just because you don't understand a data structure doesn't make it a magic buzzword.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses
Does anyone have evidence that Faddell's claim is genuine? I have no doubt the iPod "came together" that fast, but I recall reading about this and it seemed like the building blocks were in development for years prior.
My resume's got 4 pages, going back ~25y (though you can get a pretty good picture of my recent experience on the front page)

Don't get hung up on the length - resumes are 100% digital nowadays

Do get "hung up" on precision, action, and measurable achievements (whenever possible) in your resume's bullet points

Do be careful about spelling, listing relevant "non-work" experience, where you went to school, etc

Do be as brief as possible - but no briefer
> Especially if you write your Rust code idiomatically, as others have already suggested. Your earlier Rust example was practically designed to inhibit any attempt at optimization.

This is pretty much word-for-word what I've seen in other similar disagreements. Rust Skeptic transcribes their solution from its original programming language into Rust line by line, producing something nobody using Rust would actually write. They find that Rust performs poorly. Rust Proponent writes it the way you'd expect someone who actually knows Rust to write it, and performance meets or exceeds the original. Sometimes they even catch a few bugs.

Yes, if you don't know Rust, and you think it's just a weird re-skin of C++ that can be gsub'd from one to another, you're going to have a bad time. If you're an expert in C++ and have never written Rust, you probably aren't going to beat your finely-tuned C++ program with a ten minute Rust translation. But someone with a year of experience in Rust is probably going to be able to rewrite it in half an hour and come within spitting distance of the thing you've optimized by hand over the course of a few years.

I've written Rust for half a decade and I'm not sure I've ever actually explicitly indexed into a Vec or slice in production code. If I needed to, and it was in a hot loop, and it wasn't a fixed-size array whose size is known at compile time... there's always `get_unchecked()` which is functionally identical to indexing into a C++ vec without `at`.
I think many people give too much credit for intelligence, which is generally interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective. Fitness for successive reproductions has nothing to do with a Turing test or any other similar measure of human likeness. Before there are any claims to the inevitability of AGI, I'd like to see a convincing argument that AGI is not an evolutionary dead end.
It’s interesting how many of these happened during WWII. The fact that the Pentagon was built in under 500 days is astounding, if you’ve ever walked through the place.

True urgency is really such a key predictor to things getting done impossibly fast, and our brains are great at detecting manufactured urgency.
But none of them have a system where all of these services are put together.

What I would really like to see is an offering where anyone can just pick a suite of open source tools, all managed with the same SSO, and pay a flat rate for it. Something like https://restack.io, but not where I´d have to manage.
Washington first state with an alert system for missing Indigenous people
The math for a self-aware consciousness is always with us: just measure two patterns in the brain and replicate them. It becomes physically impossible for the relationship between them to forego consciousness.

That said, take care. No one wants to be born without hope for a normal life.
Sentience is overrated.
What we have? A story we told ourselves about how its our life? Machines need that? It would be efficient to do that? Or would they optimize themselves to do better the task they are assigned to? Programs and AIs may need a conscience like a fish needs a bicycle.

We tend to anthropomorphize everything, of course that we want to attribute a conscience, a will, a mind pretty much like the human one (but "better"). But unless we intend to do that, in exactly that way (like in it won't be an accident) it won't happen, not in the way we think or fear, both in more and less of what we expect in that direction.

What we call our conscience may have emerged from our inputs and interaction with the real world, our culture (parents, other kids, more people we interact with in different ways), some innate factors (good and bad, like with cognitive biases) and more. There is more there than just computing power. Take big factors out, and you'll have something different, not exactly what we understand and recognize as a conscience.
Most spreadsheets are 3d and represent the 3rd dimension as tabs.
I don't think it's old design myself. I think it's "how little can we require so that people don't call on the telephone or get in line at the airport?"

Any barrier you put in front of them increases support calls or slows down the check-in line.

Airline websites have logins, passwords, resets, and so on. They just don't want to make that a requirement to get a boarding pass, etc.
You have proof that Hunter Biden funded labs in Ukraine to create pandemic viruses?

That is not any kind of idea I ever entertained in the past, but it is so outrageous that yes, I would apologize to you on behalf of OP if you had proof of it.
Riddle me this: wouldn't a superintelligent AI be smart enough to realize that if it designed an even more super-ultra-intelligent AI, it would be exterminated by that AI (like it just did to humans, presumably?)?

It'd be stupid to extinct itself.
> doing gain of function research - deliberately creating new variants of viruses to study them

What do they learn from these studies? The drawbacks to GOF is clear - but what are the potential gains that makes the risks worthwhile?
I think it was important of the author to put that out there, expert or not. It made me take a mental inventory, and bolster my first-responder thoughts.
I mean it's also that construction is hard and expensive.

I want to build, I don't even know where to start and I don't have a super elastic budget.

Oh, and mortgages for construction are so much worse.

We really need to encourage people to build by having a streamlined process.
Theoretically you aren’t getting the particulates from smoke. I assume it’s less harmful, but has it been studied?
I'm a fan of some, but it's a subjective thing, isn't it? Don't you think that maybe perhaps some of the "auction prices" and "appraisals" are a bit more "objective"? Can nobody on this website think outside the box?
Generally you have to look for non-traditionalism (by today's standards) in terms of elementary/high school education, elementary/high school hobbies/activities, etc. This used to be the norm but not so much now.

Most Americans are raised and educated to be compliant and submissive, which is the kiss of death to "giving a shit" about anything. You have to be willing to take risks and rock the boat to have interesting and relevant opinions and interests. Too many won't do that.

Most of the people I've found who "give a shit" tend to have strong moral/religious training while young, tend to be home-schooled, tend to have had fairly intense nerd hobbies in their youth, tend to have been raised by parents to lead and/or decide what is right on their own compass or by critical thinking rather than by others.

In general they did NOT go to public schools, NOT live without religion in their youth, NOT go to top tier universities (especially not Ivies or West Coast Ivies), NOT tend to go along with the crowd for morality or ethics or otherwise demonstrate NPC-traits.

The top people who work for me were non-traditional in one or more of the above ways. Some didn't even graduate with university degrees but have a passion for everything they do in an autodidactic way.

Sadly most people I get unrequested resumes from or interview are pretty close to being dead inside - NPCs. To avoid this, I usually go to where the right people congregate, talk with them, and also just watch how they approach everything around them. Better if in-person but online works sometimes. I've gotten pretty good at reading the NPCs from the non-NPCs.
> The Fed has been consistently wrong over last decade in many of their policy, and their credibility is on the line.

Considering that after 2008 and 2020, we did not end up living in a weird Mad-Max blood-covered hellscape, trading bottlecaps for hits of zyme and ammunition (Which would have been the likely ideological outcome of 'just let the whole economy fail'), I think the Fed has weathered the past two decades fairly well.
HN is a social network as much as LinkedIn. They might not look the same and have the same features, but people connect with each other in varying ways on here.

Discord it depends, but if you join the right communities, it's like joining the perfect Facebook Groups.
Singularity in the sense of a black hole refers to where spacetime becomes a single one-dimensional point. As far as I understand the usage in futurism, it is supposed to be similar, not in that growth is exponential, but asymptotic. The slope becomes infinite when progress is plotted against time, so all of time left to come effectively compresses to a single "state of technology" value. All possible future progress happens instantaneously.

This is, of course, not possible, but it's supposed to be an approximation. All progress is not literally instant, but in the "foom" or "hard takeoff" recursive self-improvement scenarios, developments that might have taken millennia in the past now happen in microseconds because the controlling force is just that much smarter than all of the collective powers of human science and engineering. To a human observer, it may as well be instantaneous.

To be clear, I still think this is ridiculous and am not endorsing the view, just explaining what I understand the usage to mean.
BlackBlaze.
It required some manual effort and scripting.
It is on a manually triggered batch that i'm running quarterly.
I wish there was a service that could do it, ideally on a more regular cadence.
Hmm, as I mentioned in my above comment, I think you might be overlooking the wildcard in all of this that is humanity itself. There is absolutely zero guarantee that only one person/group will discover AI, and zero guarantee that any given group that does discover it won't just release it. Sure, the first people to successfully create AGI might be responsible with it and keep it airgapped, but at some point, someone will purposefully or accidentally let it escape.
They don't put anything on anything. They buy Windows computers for Windows, and Mac computers for Mac. Summary, they would buy Linux computers for Linux. This isn't the 90s, or the 00's anymore.
This is probably highly subjective, but I rarely have WiFi issues. I think primary driver there is investing in a stable home networking equipment.