skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human extinction due to would be "hard takeoff" of an AGI should be understood as a thought experiment, conceived in a specific age when the current connectionist paradigm wasn't yet mainstream. The AI crisis was expected to come from some kind of "hard universal algorithmic artificial intelligence", for example AIXItl undergoing a very specific process of runaway self-optimization.

Current-generation systems aka large connectionist models trained via gradient descent simply don't work like that: they are large, heavy, continuous, the optimization process giving rise to them does so in smooth iterative manner. Before hypothetical "evil AI" there will be thousands of iterations of "goofy and obviously erroneously evil AI", with enough time to take some action. And even then, current systems including this one are more often than not trained with predictive objective, which is very different compared to usually postulated reinforcement learning objective. Systems trained with prediction objective shouldn't be prone to becoming agents, much less dangerous ones.

If you read Scott's blog, you should remember the prior post where he himself pointed that out.

In my honest opinion, unaccountable AGI owners pose multiple OOM more risk than alignment failure of a hypothetical AI trying to predict next token.

We should think more about the Human alignment problem.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, indeed.
I don't understand why dilluting it would work here - either its filterable and it would get filtered regardless (e.g. drinking water would be enough) or it wont be and the dillutant would just be filtered
Vine was exploding when they shut it down, and some of the biggest influencers of today started on Vine. It's incomprehensible to me why anyone would shut down such an absolute jackpot, bizarre really!
There is a difference though. People, who produce art or any other kind of entertainment of thought provoking things, mostly at least partially do it to add something to society, or to make us think. Putting money into energy intensive speculation, which does have no real world value behind it is not in the same league as those activities and is definitely not productive. Even counter-productive, as it is using up energy, which could be used for useful things. At the end as in any such speculative endavour, one person's gain is another person's loss, no matter how many abstraction layers and smoke screens are put up.
Why should “society” have a stronger right to land than the people inhabiting it?
'ORDER BY 2' would work here, but using the named column is a lot nicer.
Regarding the substack article, why isn't this the principle of optimality for Bellman equations on infinite time horizons?
Not to toot our Colorado horn too loudly here but I really feel like this state, my home state, is one of the few sane places left in the US (but seriously please don't move here haha).
This is a terrible idea and walks away from the idea of communal stewardship that makes the blockchain method work. Making custody "someone else's problem" benefits nobody.
>so your boring old index fund might go down when crypto goes down

I need someone to explain to me how my S&P 500 blackrock ishares are going to die from crypto. I don't think FAANG, Berkshire, Exxon and Pfitzer are going to notice if all of crypto dropped to zero right now.
> I don't know the proper terminology here, bootstrapping?

There is the term "Time to first fix" Maybe "getting first fix" could be derived from that.

Wikipedia lists a set of interesting situations with what the device is actually doing that causes the delay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_first_fix
Do it all.

Be the "Google for...", for everything, one niche at a time.
AI can’t have goals since the universe is logically meaningless.

Our desire for purpose is a delusion.
Philosopher is an overloaded term. For someone who doesn't know the myth the definition is squarely non-magical. For someone browsing a bookstore the magical meaning is missing. It just sounds dry and boring. That doesn't help the book get sold.

At the time she was an unknown author with a single kids book. I think changing the title to make the theme more obvious was justifiable. Changing the term throughout the book was unnecessary.

Personally, I grew up with the Philosopher's Stone and always wondered why she chose that name. It was only years later when I learned it was a legend outside the books did it make sense. The book does explain the meaning in the context of the novel, but not the wider cultural significance. That dampens the impact (just like how the Crystal Skull is not nearly as impactful as the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones).
AI is their god.
It's also very frustrating because of so many competing and changing loudly broadcast advice, especially on SIDS. Yeah the science evolves but it's hard to follow when even pediatricians themselves don't always manage to stay up to date.
what about

That’s no different than the first snippet, if you aren’t parsing it with regexps, of course. The resulting AST identifiers would simply refer to not only column names, but also to other defined expressions. This is the case for both snippets. It’s either cyclic or not, and when not, it is easy to substitute/cse/etc as usual. The complexity of these expressions is irrelevant.
Now that would be neglectful - letting a 3 year old wander around town with just the dog!
Video calls aren't hyper latency sensitive, there is already a lot of latency in encoding and processing effects. I'd imagine this could be most disruptive to video games but this isn't a market Apple has done much to work with.
We have made recent progress in identifying the mechanism: basically, many babies don't respond to rising carbon dioxide levels in their lungs the way older people do. They don't start breathing faster, or flail around trying to get a breath. Instead, they stop breathing & then, unless someone notices, die.

See, for example: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2015.0022...

It's why a ceiling fan can help: it produces positive air pressure that makes the infant get more oxygen. It's also why sleeping in a bed with a parent who smokes is such a risk factor: in an infant, even a mild an allergic reaction to cigarette smoke can be fatal.

It is still unexplained by any specific diagnosis, because it's actually pretty common for infants to have an over-developed dive reflex and not to respond to excess carbon monoxide. But we know why it happens now.
I am going to assume you made the comment from position of ignorance on how they executed the stunt. They used a very very large airbrake to slow the aircraft down after pitching down into a near vertical dive and letting prop windmill. The risk of the plane flying away was negligible.
You should read the article, and the sources contained therein.
Imo mostly likely scenario is they’re removing evidence / firing people as if the evidence is discovered.

If you saw their prior earnings they were over reporting by at least a million users. The people they fired would have potentially known that, or at the very least should have.

Further, due diligence will be done prior to sale. At which point items such as the above can / will be discovered.

Finally, there have been a lot of political decisions made by Twitter (banning a sitting president, etc). If that was done at the behest of government (as some claim) or advertisers (others claim). The result is the same, they made a decision which strategically let Trump start a competing and growing platform. Not good for business.

In any case, I suspect that’s the reason for firing.
What if they wanted to leave and he gave them cover?

What if the board wanted them out?

There's lots of possibilities that don't have much to do with ol' Musky.
It seems to me to be a strange stance by conservatives. On the one hand they think a business ought to be able to not serve certain protected classes and on the other hand want to be treated like a protected class.
And I suppose a larger failure and fatality rate (?)
Yeah, now that you say that it sounds a bit like starting a pizza restaurant I guess: hard work. Probably harder as the Pizza restaurant has physical presence and proximity, where as online, it is more democratic: we are all equally shouting into the void for attention.
Hmm guess author hadn't seen this

https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/6J3Ae/s1/1989-toyota-rav-f...
https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/zoG40/s1/1989-toyota-rav-f...
https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/vAvJ6/s1/1989-toyota-rav-f...
I'm guessing you are in a tract home area with HOA? Some folks in these neighborhoods are such control freaks.
Wow, TIL. Great tip for those random one-off queries you have to bash out when investigating a problem.
Switzerland actually has a legal requirement for all men to store ammo for their state-issued assault rifle at home.

Also, many Americans live in HOA communities with regulations that make Switzerland look like libertarian utopia.
When you use fixed font sizes like that browsers can't resize them based on the screen size/viewport. 12px fonts are really small and hard to read on high resolution screens.
Won't somebody please think of the children????
Hi HN! Founder of Socket here :)

Socket is built by a team of open source maintainers (everyone on the team is a maintainer!). We're motivated to defend the open source ecosystem from supply chain attacks.

We'll be watching this post, so feel free to ask us questions!
> I've tried this. It's false.

So I have I. I currently have about a half-dozen accounts, each following different types of accounts with limited overlap. So, what I get on the genealogy account feed is limited almost entirely to genealogists and historians posting about those topics and very little else. People that stray too much get unfollowed.

That said, my personal account has overlap with a separate startup/media/tech account because of some shared interests in the tech space. But there is also a lot of very different items I see in the personal account because of local accounts in the city I live in as well as topical news accounts relating to Asia and Europe that interest me. Naturally, anything relating to current events in those areas also touches on U.S. politics, foreign policy, and military policy, so I get that too, despite some muted keywords.

> But that's contradictory to your claim that Twitter is what you want it to be, based on who you follow, isn't it?

You missed the part in the paragraph that followed:

However, there is bleed because people you follow and Twitter's recommendation features can't help themselves (and not just about politics; anything "newsy" pops up).

And not everyone knows how to filter it, or they only have one account. Those are the most likely to leave.

Not disagreeing with your point about outrage, though. Like you said, there's nothing quite as engaging as content that gets lots of responses/RTs/shares/"likes," and this content tends to be negative.
ZIM made 4.64B on 2021 and a large share of that money went to shareholders. Dividend yield was ~66%.
Very nice!

On the same note, I wrote a program to generate Python code (requests) from a HAR capture: https://github.com/louisabraham/har2requests

I think using HAR captures is simpler for the end user than spawning mitmproxy as they don't require any installation and are extracted from the network tab of the browser devtools. Is there a reason why you didn't use them?

EDIT: I realized that mitmproxy can also get traffic from other devices like phones. Very cool project, I will think about modifying mine to support mitmproxy captures!
Is this the first reveal of the name Gato? It is the first I’ve heard of it and it definitely sounds like more of a murder bot than a C-3PO :)

I know this is not as important as the AGI question, but I do think the branding matters as much as the attitude of the creators. They seem to be making a generalist agent to see if they can. Gato is a clear name for that: utilitarian and direct. If it was called Sunshine or Gift I suspect the goal would be more helpful to humanity.
Is this possible right now, or close to possible?

Last I checked we couldn't really achieve that at meaningful scale.

(Or do you simply mean this sort of XR is useless until we get decent holography?)
I bought a Homepod Mini on sale some time ago, and it's one of the worst experiences I've ever had. It continuously stutters. It stops working. I realize just how magical it is that it works at all. But the realization that it needs WiFi to stream music to, despite having bluetooth, has been quite depressing. I don't think the product will ever work without jitter given the amount of overlapping WiFi signals in my area.

It's a bit like the butterfly keyboard of speakers. A wonderful idea in theory. But it makes you wonder if anyone at Apple has ever tried using it an apartment building, a dusty environment, or some place that isn't a pristine lab or upper middle class suburbia
there's already a vast oversupply of investment money chasing far too few opportunities: take a look at the s&p500, it's only returning 1.3% dividends. that tells you PE ratios are through the roof and that there's too much capital chasing too few opportunities. so, there's no need to "encourage investment and spending".

Society would have a lot to gain from a government that didn't default on it's obligation of "money as a store of value". there's a large need for store of value, especially with the aging population.
Can confirm that the scripts posted itt by vJan00 [0] solved the stuttering problems that were plaguing me 4-5 months ago. Didn't bother setting up a cronjob; I just toggle it on/off as needed.

[0] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/issues/159#...
My guess is that it's 1 pixel short of a typical 1.5x line height.
The problem here in the US is that Alabama has much representation in the Senate as NY state.
Long Live MySQL: Good Old MySQL Should Be Rejuvenated
I wanted wired Ethernet in my office but didn't want to punch holes in the wall. Luckily I have an old "central vacuum system" that as far as I can tell has never been even powered on, many years before I bought the house.

I tied a ping pong ball to a piece of string and used a vacuum cleaner to suck it through the pipes, then used the string to pull a stronger rope and then the Ethernet cable. So now my Ethernet goes from my office to the wireless router via the vacuum ducting.
I would go even further and say that "GROUP BY ALL" and "ORDER BY ALL" should be implied if not provided in the query.

EDIT: Typo
My understanding is this is an issue with new features of all sorts of laptop/desktop devices.

For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952

"Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag" because they stay connected to wifi and may attempt to run updates etc when the user is not expecting or prepared for that, as far as cooling.
Uhh, NFC devices really didn't work with google's service. This is not "cargo cult", this is pure and total google / android stupidity. Every time you claim it's just cargo cult you underestimate apple here.

Google had Google Wallet. Yes, it came out first, but then there was android pay. Then there was google pay send. Then there was Google Pay - which was a mishmash of chrome autofill and an actual app. Internationally its even more confusing, especially in india. Google pay picked up messaging (!!) explore for personalized ads (ugh). There was also peer to peer features.

Then they did a NEW google pay (2020?) that got rid of google accounts (!!!) and uses just your phone number, and you can't import folks you paid from previous app (!!!!). They have a combination of barcodes - 1d and 2d etc etc.

I'm not sure what the latest is. Android Pay taking over? Google Pay taking over? Going back to google wallet?

Keep on going on about the apple "cargo cult". I pay attention to this space a bit, and even I'm confused.
So basically bitcoin died again. Oops.
Nope!

The narrative of individual responsibility has been pushed for a long time because it was all we had, but it's always been the case that even doing everything perfectly correct doesn't reduce the risk to zero. We discovered in the past decade that infants have a neurological difference where, when deprived of oxygen, instead of trying to get more air they simply stop breathing: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2015.0022...

It's not "ordinary suffocation". Instead, anything that reduces how much oxygen an infant is getting, including colds, mild allergic reactions, rolling over onto their face, acid reflux, not enough ventilation, etc, will potentially trigger a complete shut-down of their breathing & eventually death.
It's a different market today. The mistake would be to stick to a 6-year-old decision.
I am Jack's lack of surprise.
It is slightly less than half where abortion will likely be banned, my bad. I was looking at the chart on the link you gave. I didn't mean that most would automatically trigger.

> According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, a group that advocates for abortion rights, abortion would become illegal in about half the country if Roe were overturned. Its metric indicates that 24 states would likely ban abortion outright if Roe is weakened or overturned.

And I'd have to see numbers to believe you when you say that it's what the residents of those states want.
> If we manage to make a 'better' replacement for ourselves, is it actually a bad thing?

It's bad for all the humans alive at the time. Do you want to be replaced and have your life cut short? For that matter, why should something better replace us instead of coexist? We don't think killing off all other animals would be a good thing.

> Our cousin's on the hominoid family tree are all extinct, yet we don't consider that a mistake.

It's just how evolution played out. But if there was another hominid still alive along side us, advocating for it's extinction because we're a bit smarter would be considered genocidal and deeply wrong.
Expensive cars in the emerging EV market. 1.4% is great.
It's too late now. We are already entering the age of laptops without headphone jacks.

If only people listened earlier.
I disagree. If anything, US is far too left. The current leftist politics and the administration is distinctly different from Obama's run. Btw, this goes for right as well (Trump vs. Bush era).

Worth going through this entire article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...
Wired would be so much better if it were just a replacement for wireless, where you just plug a wire between two points, and they start communicating without any configuration necessary if the two points already had a wireless communication going.
I mean there was plenty that happened in this space between 1992 and 2007. Smartphones were already ubiquitous for business users by 2007 but not for general consumers, including Blackberry, PalmOS, and Windows Mobile devices. As late as 2010 Blackberry was still dominant: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2011/1/comS...
There's evidence everywhere, every second of every day. It doesn't follow from the mind having a material basis that it is doing linear algebra calculations like a Python machine learning program. That's quite a leap.
I wonder if the measurement of the over-developed dive reflex is capturing survivor bias.
Why should general intelligence continue to survive? You are placing a human value on continued existence.
TIL why Bluetooth is called Bluetooth:

> It was the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom; Kardach chose the name to imply that Bluetooth similarly unites communication protocols.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Name_and_logo]

Another thing, not mentioned in the article, is that microwave ovens tend to interfere with Bluetooth in my experience.
absolutely. HOAs bring out the worst in humanity.
> pure lava,

Is this jargon for some lava-derived rock like obsidian or basalt? Because I'm fairly sure even extremophile bacteria, never mind any kind of tree, wouldn't be able to grow in actual (ie molten rock) lava.
Postpartum depression is a real thing and very common. I believe it's more of a hormonal response and less about a lack of attention, though
No. It's an extrapolation of something one of my history teacher taught in school when teaching us about our colonial history. While early imperialism was about enslaving people for labour and obtaining raw resources from the colony, as the industrial revolution happened the goals changed. With the advent of industrialisation the capitalist-imperialists found a way to reduce dependence on human labour and this was considered a necessity to counter the potential economic might of the colonies in Africa and Asia with huge populations. (And this did give some colonies an edge - for example, at one point in history both India and China were economically richer because of the easy availability of cheap labour). To ensure their economic edge, apart from using industrialisation to reduce the need for human labour by finding machines to replace them, they also used the colonies as a market for their industrialised goods. For this, they also had to destroy the local industries of the colonies (deindustrialisation) that had the advantage of surplus and cheap labour, and thus make colonies importers of their manufactured goods. ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/20/britai... ).

After the French revolution, and later the Russian revolution, once freed colonies got influenced by socialism and / or communism, it was common to see some socialist or communist parties organising protests against machines or computers that were "stealing" human jobs to "enrich" the capitalists at the expense of human workers. Thus, there is a political history in past colonies to view mechanisation / industrialisation with suspicion and distrust, and the debate on humans vs machines in these countries leans towards humans being "superior".
I think it's highly dependent on the area.

Our kid bikes to and from school each way, a little over a mile away. She is always hanging out with other neighborhood kids, going to the pool or park, and nobody has called the cops yet thankfully.
> in the low-end market they aren't an entity to speak of.

So... like Apple?
That's kind of arbitrary because Microsoft is an OS, apps, computer, and peripherals company; and Amazon is a retail, logistics, and cloud services company.

Tesla is a battery-based company, but could also have been a transportation company and included Boring and SpaceX.

And Mastercard and Vida are both bigger in payments than PayPal. And PayPal was mostly Thiel's Confinity, which merged with Musk's X.com bank.
I do understand where you're coming from, but I was growing up in the 2000s and the (primary & later secondary) school took photos that were shared first on official blogs/sites and then later posted on facebook/twitter without asking for permission.

It's not the photos that are the problem, it's that people don't really understand or respect others' privacy in the internet age.

February before covid, I was at a college in Manchester and was pleasantly surprised when they asked us to complete consent forms on where the photos that were to be taken were going to be uploaded. I was very happy to check the "I don't consent to photos of me shared on social media", consequently they took some photos with me & some without me. No pressure to be part of the group & not be left out.
The simplest answer is that the state can prevent the company from doing business here at all, just like how China cuts off non-conforming platforms. This effect could echo into other states, just like laws in California often anticipate nationwide changes.

A state ban on a nationwide company could also extend to its vendors and customers, so platforms could be cut off from advertisers and suppliers here. This technique has also been used in CA and in Europe to widen the compliance net.