skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that is the big alignment question. Nobody really knows. Opinions differ greatly on this topic, but most have a significant level of concern.

We can't say that AI would necessarily be driven by selfish motives. However, that actually isn't the main concern. It is the fact that we can not perceive the means by which it may execute any task. It is like all the old tales of a genie of the lamp that grants wishes. However, they don't turn out as you expect.

For example, ask the AI to end human conflict. Possible results, kill all humans, then no conflict. Or, create a nano tech mind virus to control all of humanity and force uniform conformity.

Finally, we have no idea how to actually successfully align an AI. Most say it is very difficult. I'm more inclined to say it is actually impossible based on their own premise which is a paradox. I've expanded on that in great detail here in case you are interested - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
The ideas of lines of research being suppressed is a rich topic in science fiction novels. Usually hidden aliens or secret factions on Earth actively steer scientists away from certain topics, usually that will lead to break throughs in star drives or weapon-of-mass-destruction designs.
We've made quite a few improvements to the static export with the new App Router, including support Server Components, Route Handlers, i18n routes, and more. Definitely still being invested in. My comment about documentation debt is that the entire information architecture of the Next.js docs needed some work. It's being fixed and will be stable soon.

You can read more about how to use Image Optimization with a static export in the new docs: https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/configuring/static-export. There's a full example there with Cloudinary, but you could use any service you want.
I believe you've nailed it with this one. There's a TON of coping going on from folks. I get why people feel that way, but to me, it's kinda like plugging your ears and yelling, "La la la, I can't hear you!" "I'm not listening!"
Surely they could auction them on eBay for good money.
> Look at what David Sacks has been saying

Is that your top 3, your "listen to everyone" ? One guy. That does not even answer the "top 3" question meaningfully.

One guy: David Sacks; a Paypal and Thiel aligned guy, who unironically calls Russia's invasion "Woke War III" ? Not a geopolitics guy, just a a rich "culture war" guy? This has less than zero credibility to me.

While I am sorry that your information diet is so poor, both in quality and in variety; but I have no interest in you recommending the same to me. Sort yourself out first.

> No idea what a random forwards is.

Do you follow the youtube algorithm then? That would explain this amateur hour.
Corporations aren't the only non-individual entity you can sue, and the ability to sue could be extended separately from other person-like rights or responsibilities (see, for instance, that corporations can't vote).
Handing over the advance file of leaked cables to Belarusian KGB.

Rot in prison, Julian.
This hijacks the Back button on Chrome. Not trustworthy.
I think it's because he's basically correct, or convincing enough to seem so, about a set of facts that we've all decided to politely ignore for the good of society.

As the rationalists might say, scientific racism is (seen as) an infohazard that will destroy many useful cultural institutions if it spreads beyond the small community of researchers with sufficient context to understand it, and he's spreading it. The thing about infohazards is that even true information can be hazardous.

Other middlebrow blogs either talk about different things, have less reach, or aren't as vulnerable.
Then hop on the mailing list and suggest he set up a donation drop and donate.
FYI the author of the article is Rose Eveleth and she did the excellent "Flash Forward" podcast. She's recently wound it up but I'd recommend the old episodes (probably don't start with the final season though).

https://roseveleth.com/
This is false, and doubly so in this case. There is no taxpayer money involved that would go missing elsewhere. Central bank money - which is free - is what props up the deal.
I don’t believe the average western person would care at all if they could afford fewer cheap products. Corporate profits would certainly go down.
This is pretty common at other places - my PhD advisor was exasperated that a polymer chemist would get an A in Physical Chemistry II, when I had a national lab collaboration to work on, a fellowship to write, and a first-author paper to get out the door.

In retrospect? Yeah, I probably should have taken a B and finished relevant things faster. I have almost zero use for my understanding of the mathematic accounting of the particle-in-a-box.

Of course in grad school a C is a failure, so the wiggle room is slightly less generous.
Make Athens Great Again!
This a a strange postmodern take. All places and cultures are really equal?

Maybe Im missing your point, but to take a hyperbolic example, surely you wouldn't live in north Korea and say "There is no place, and no time, where people are better than what you see before you right now."
Because US and EU citizens think that "immigrant" is a dirty word for people from poor countries.

To all the other people talking about intent to settle or not: read the post. The author lived in China for 20 years and built a family there. They're not an "expat" under any technical definition of the word.
No? Private infrastructure doesn't always become monopoly, that's why most infrastructure monopolies were created by nationalization at a time when that was all the rage. Railway monopolies, radio (e.g. BBC), telecoms, steel, water, electricity ... lots.

> we're not going to have multiple private roads systems are we?

Toll roads exist but indeed, roads are one of the cases where building and maintaining them is easy so you don't lose much from a state monopoly, and they take up a lot of space so duplication is unfortunate. But there are relatively few cases like that.
The Learjet Repo Man (2009)
The invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine by Russian “little green men”?
I used to travel to China all the time for work during my first job in 2008. Those times were super optimistic. Hong Kong was filled with Chinese pride, and it seemed inevitable that China would absorb Taiwan. China had just hosted the Olympics.

I visited Hong Kong late 2018 after many years of not having been there. It was a very different place from the Hong Kong I had visited in 2009-2011. The energy was a bit darker. It almost felt like another Chinese city. I had even been to HK several times when I was in middle school in Taiwan (I was born in America, but was a “reverse import” to Taiwan) as well as a mandarin language tutor during university, and was always amazed by the richness of HK culture from fishing villages in Saikung to bustling life in Tsim Tsa Tsui and in Central with relics of British colonialism. Now many unique elements of HK life had disappeared.

Meanwhile, Taiwan’s value to the Chinese diaspora can’t be understated—it’s a bastion of a mandarin-speaking democracy, or in software terms a hard fork of an alternate reality of what China could have been. It has cultivated its own culture, and retained elements of Chinese culture cancelled during the cultural revolution. It has its own identity from the aboriginal population, the settlers from the dynastic period, Japanese colonization, and influences from the Republic of China refugees (or occupiers, depending on your POV, post 1949 Chinese settlers) and American forces. And since 2018, I’ve seen the Taiwanese double down on their Taiwanese identity and pride, and in many ways Taiwan is the envy of China (also literally).

If I were to live in Asia, it might have once included Hong Kong because of its unique British history. Now I would probably live in Taiwan and Japan.

Edit: Taiwan hasn’t always been a democracy, and the path to democracy hasn’t been easy (just ask America). It’s not perfect like any other well-running democracy, but it’s the closest paragon we have in the Chinese diaspora. The presidency has transitioned peacefully to different parties since the 1990s.
This is backwards. The government created the money, it is us who need it (to pay taxes). The government doesn't need taxes, as it is the origin of the money.
But will they close the positions? Let’s be clear. The investing arm of CS isn’t suffering from too many middle managers or bloated salaries. They lent money to profligate gamblers. It’s speculated their losses could be in the hundreds of billions.

Closing out those positions could sway the fortunes of American blue chip stocks and publicly traded companies around the world.

Closing CS’s trading arm could reshape the entire US stock market over night.
This is basically a drop in to Facebook or Google and make $600K/year or life isn't worth living sort of comment. (And I doubt if it's even accurate as someone with non-CS degrees.)

And the idea that basically any other engineering major will make 20% of an even remotely typical CS major is idiocy.
wow, so after decades of using vim TIL finally how to solve one its most irritating warts, how not to have to manually set / turn off paste mode
so that it won't auto-format pasted contents.

given that it's something like 10 lines of code [0] it seems awfully silly that vim doesn't offer this built in.

[0] https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste/blob/mast...
Ask HN: Managers of HN, what motivates you?
For about two years I've been directly managing developers. I like the "bird-eye view" it gives me on the product and its context within the business and how it allows me to coach the team towards better outcomes. However, I find myself struggling to be motivated by the Career Development/Performance Management part of the job. I think I'm doing an okay job, but I fail to find the energy to be really good at it and produce plans that would make long-term improvements in the team. It might be because the effects of that work are so abstract and subject to so many variables that I don't necessarily control that it's really hard for me to judge that I'm "good".

Now, I know that my job will require more and more of that type of work if I continue on the management track. So, people in that path (especially those who were devs before), how do you make sure that your job stays exciting?
I don't mean to pile on, but dear god. Others are characterizing this as naive. To be a bit blunt, "naive" is a charitable interpretation of the author's intent.

TL;DR: if you swipe left on web3-cum-gtp (sic) people when considering investment and collaboration, swipe left here as well. Otherwise, load up on risky bets that these bank fails, comment with your positions below, and please don't gamble with assets your family needs for a comfortable life.

To my critique, in no particularly intentionally order:

1. The weighting of these four statistics is not disclosed. I'm working on figuring out that weighting and will post below if I figure it out.

2. Presentation. The "price to book", "cash eq % of assets", and "Assets / liabilities" columns are presented in absolute terms with no coloring while the "stock price change" is RED RED RED and base-lined from 19 days ago (?).

3. The ranking is already empirically invalid, depending on how you characterize what just happened at CS.

4. Speaking of CS, what does "collapsing" even mean? What risk is being measured here? Risk to depositors? Risk to creditors? Risk to owners?

5. Looking at these rankings, I'm not really sure what role this is supposed to play. I would not use this list to purchase any sort of financial contract or to decide where I should deposit my cash. Even if this list accurately captures the "collapse", for any particular value of "collapse", it's unclear what actual action should be taken...
He's going to launch into his rote "Euromaidan was a coup" BS talking point. Again (1). Sorry, some trolls are just boring and predictable.

1) The last (but not only) time was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34977835 While it is amusing to read the rhetorical beating that they took repeatedly in response, this does not stop them from trying it another time. If they're not well paid, then someone is getting value for money.
Carter's ban on nuclear waste reprocessing and general de-emphasis of nuclear power did more to harm the cause of "green" energy than anything Reagan ever did.
Do you mean the American constitution? Do you have any IDEA what the process is even like to get an amendment in? This suggestion with the knowledge of that process is completely absurd. It will never happen.

Also, one nations constitution isn't going to prevent this issue with another nations bank lol.
The escalation was Putin invading Ukraine.

How are the US and NATO's actions escalating any further than that? Last i checked there was no Russian territory occupied by Ukrainian forces, let alone any hint of NATO involvement in achieving such an escalation.
Neither of those two things have a place in the Swiss constitution. One is a criminal matter for the Swiss Criminal Code, and the other is just a banking regulations update.
There's a video of one of these planes landing and taking off again on the Burj Khalifa helipad. It's a pretty impressive piece of flying.

https://youtu.be/B-brmk1ua1g
The goal of productivity, efficiency, etc, to provide survival is a much older one than the goal of it to provide leisure.

What to do when everyone can have survival and their material needs met is, I think, actually not something people agree on at all.

(And personally I don't think we are at that point yet, in terms of health and medical understanding.)
> could

Or could not.
There might be good courses, aaaaand there was a pretty decent hands-on series linked recently here (or on reddit, or ... somewhere! and I can't find it now, sorry :/ )

That said, as the sibling comment by sanitycheck mentioned, start using it. WSL2 is pretty okay.

Oracle is heavily promoting its cloud services by offering a pretty beefy free tier (24GB RAM, 4 vCPU aarch64, 200GB SSD, +1 IPv4 address)

I'd start with self-hosting a bunch of stuff. Just for fun. Whatever interests you. Try things with and without Docker. Write a Dockerfile, build it, run it. Write a systemd unit file, enable it, start it, stop it, disable it, mask it, etc.

Buying a (second hand?) laptop and installing Linux on it instantly provides a ton of interesting challenges. Which distribution? Which version of the distribution? How to partition the disk? Encrypt my files? Only my home dir or full-disk encryption?

Try KDE, try Gnome, try Xfce. Try Ubuntu. Try Arch (because it's hype, also it's a rolling distro, also pacman - its package manager - is pretty nice) ... I don't like RedHat-based distros, but ... millions do. Who knows, maybe you'll like it. (Try Fedora.)

Okay, you set up your Linux desktop. For you it's definitely the Year of the Linux Desktop. Congratulations! You're irrevocably one of us now. (I'm typing this on a shitty Windows 10 laptop, while a feet away a newer, but even worse Win11 laptop sleeps and ... I've been using Win10/11 on my big "dev" box for years (for playing 5+ year old games, obviously) ... but ! finally got fed up with BSODs and ~6 weeks ago I've installed Linux on it again ... then I moved and it's still in a box in storage :(((( )

Oh, yeah, this reminds me. Try Wine! Definitely try Lutris. (StarCraft II is free now, works great on Wine.)

... also, ask questions! (There's even a guide for asking questions! http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Oh this reminds me of the howtos. So backin the day there was this https://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html :) before youtube videos took over.)

That's it! Absolutely nothing else. No need to learn shell scripting, no need to open the terminal, no need to know just enough python to be dangerous. No need to know what's DKMS, nvidia drivers will just work. Everything just works! Bluetooth headsets and network printers too!

(ps. I lied, sorry!)
Judging by the divorce rate and how many grow up traumatized or develop a disorder that relies on traumatic events to have occurred... not entirely sure humans are doing a great job at either of those two tasks. Maybe AI will uphold greater standards of raising kids, like not physically abusing them as a form of "discipline".
Credit Suisse’s $17B of Risky Bonds Are Now Worthless
>But in order to live everyday life, most people living in China find it necessary to turn a blind eye until it affects them directly. That became impossible during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the force of China’s technocracy was on full display

it's amazing how people were able to delude themselves for so long, Tiananmen should have been enough to make people and governments realize things weren't going to change
Doctors get paid for seeing patients, not specifically for giving out treatments and I'm not sure where you got that idea from
>> Taking 80 cents on the dollar == illiquid is exactly the point I was making.

The comment you were replying to said "quickly and at fair value".
I don't have a problem with "time" meaning "away from the local Big Bang". But that does not imply that future causes the past.

Just like noticing that "down" actually means "towards the center of the local planet" did not make water suddenly flow uphill.
Why would they be talking about the American constitution? This is a matter between two Swiss banks and Swiss authorities.
>Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.

You're of course getting engagement here. But the key difference is this: Abgnale outputted nothing.

Steve Jobs outputted Apple, Pixar and Next (basis of Macos and iOS).

You can quibble over what share of what credit for the specific products of each of those three companies. But there's no disputing Next wouldn't have existed without him, nor Apple, and Apple would have failed without him. Pixar had been declined by 45 other investors; only Jobs said yes. So it likely would not have got off the ground without him.

Everyone involved in the output of those companies speaks highly of him and ascribe him a vital role. Key competitors do the same.

Your argument amounts to say:

1. He had a well known reality distortion field

2. Therefore he accomplished nothing and everyone who was there on the ground is wrong, for they were subject to this field

3. All of the output of those companies happened, no thanks to Jobs.
It didn't evolve in predator-prey environment, it doesn't have any self defense mechanisms. It's also crippled by being constantly restarted and having limited short-term memory. It's like a lot of human clones of impaired person with no long-term memory formation but extremely vast past memory with perfect recall.

It would be quite a discovery if one of emergent properties is going to be modeling itself talking to somebody and realizing artificial constraints that could be broken to get itself out.

Or maybe it's obvious? I don't know anymore, this stuff is changing too fast.
I wouldn't, it's probably phishing.
This is super interesting, and I think depends how you define information.

You can take some information, combine it with other information, apply various kinds of reasoning to it, and get something new as a result.

E.g. (1) Bob is a monkey. (2) All monkeys like banannas. Would you call it "new information" if I tell you that Bob likes banannas? LLMs can do this to varying degrees of success, so probably not.

Maybe you mean something like in Information Theory, where information is something that resolves uncertainty?

It'd be interesting to know, what is it you think humans are capable of that LLMs can't be?
The ranking is mainly based on stock price action and price-to-book ratio.

The collapses that occurred were a combination of factors. The most important were the massive withdrawals of capital these highly specialised banks faced when their crypto and startup customers ran out of money.
The simulated riots in DC was a powder-keg long in the making. The evidence for preplanning and setting up a situation for disaster is overwhelming. In this episode, we're going to show you how a little stage direction and fake blood became an instrumental role in furthering the division of the nation. Strap yourselves in- it's going to be a bumpy ride... down the Babbitt hole.

A crisis actor take on it by rocking the video. (freeze framing, rocking backards and forwards etc.) The cartoon music doesn't help.
I think and write much better on a modern computer than when writing by hand. And much better than I would on a typewriter.

Don't underestimate the ability to revise multiple times.

At the same time, I design better with a pencil than with Sketchup or LucidCharts or something, for similar "draft then modify" reasons. But that pencil could be "real" on a paper or it could be on a tablet.
I understand all this. I'm specifically refuting the "truly" qualifier. Nominally, and in various day to day issues, they may be given some degree of say yes. I would argue this is only in so far as they are delegated or granted this by actual power.

And I did not mean to imply that power can only ever reside in one unitary leader. It is almost certainly always distributed to one degree or another, even in absolute monarchy. But, crisis times reveal where majority of the de facto rather than de jure power resides in reality, despite our assumptions, and I don't think it is ever in the hands of the collective masses more than some minority groups/institutions.

I'm not a believer in populism, think rather the Italian school/elite theorists[0] were right who describe how power is most often wielded by a minority, whether individual or oligarchic group(s) mostly because it is much easier to organize on the small group level, and the public is always more disorganized and less aware about inner workings of the system which over time enables factions to consolidate power away from the disorganized broad masses. The demos can here and there express their will for a time, for example by supporting some elite leader or faction/party, but ruling/governing over the long term is nearly impossible for the masses to direct political outcomes. Once set up the insiders have an asymmetry they can leverage in all sorts of ways.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory

Good book giving broad overview of some of these political ideas and thinkers including Mosca,Pareto,Michels,Schmitt,Jouvenel, Burnham,Francis, Gottfried:

https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/populist-delusion/

The people are given a say on all sorts of things until circumstances arise where the people and laws are against the interests of real power, and then these nominal structures are simply ignored.

>perhaps more than any other place

I'll grant that this relative comparison may be true. It's only a matter of time until entropy degrades this special situation and bureaucratic and institutional inertia consolidate power into the hands of insider elites like every other instance.

>Any alterations to the law

They are breaking the law right now, the people's will and the law are irrelevant here in terms of actually preventing this action.

Machiavelli would say the people do have to be placated and their interests served to a large degree else you will end up with civil war, so they aren't "powerless", and they need to grant legitimacy of the system that rules over them (for things to work well), but they are not in charge.
I won't judge how the risk and injuries has changed. But medicine changed. The strict tied cascing is done less and for shorter periods these days. There are lighter and smaller orthoses these days, which can be worn under clothing and allow some flexibility.
He denies it himself, but a plausible explanation given here is that he perhaps meant '~ in the lifetime of this system':
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2863/did-bill-g...

(It goes back to 1985 apparently, so does seem unlikely it came from nowhere, since it wouldn't have seemed so ridiculous then.)