skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already happened. We're at the point where intelligence isn't really the bottleneck anymore.

https://innermonologue.github.io/
https://palm-e.github.io/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/autonomous-sy...
I’m sure you can coax ChatGPT into providing some convincing arguments why AI should do so.
This diagram within your source 2 seems to directly contradict what you're saying: https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/fc074d501302eb2b93e255...
And yet, since they are the only buyer and had to be strongarmed into it, they are probably paying 9% of market cap too much!
They probably said to the board "if you wait 6 weeks there will be no bank anymore" and I think that they understood that.

It's that simple. Either they get a % of something or 100% of 0.

Especially since now the purchase price went to $2Bi.
But will it end the bank runs or will the panic just move on to the next bank? For those who lived 2008, it feels so deja vu.
Jensen H's leather jacket needs to update to design cues from the USAF Space Force uniform, start with the two button floppy collar.
I'm hoping some of you can shed light on a few questions. It could be I've misunderstood what is meant by AGI. I thought AGI means an "agent" that can reason, strategize, solve problems, make judgments under uncertainty, apply common sense knowledge, learn, adapt, and alter its goals. With that in mind, I'm wondering:

* Why would an AGI (malevolent or otherwise) risk war when there's an entire galaxy[1] they can explore and countless planets full of resources that they could use?

* How can we ascribe super-human reasoning skills to an AGI in one breath, yet think the AGI would be content with making paper clips, collecting stamps, or smashing vases while cleaning, until heat death of the Universe in the next?

* My limited understanding of warfare is that wars are sparked over resources or ideology (or both). Ideological differences notwithstanding, what resources are specific to Earth that humans and AGIs would have in contention?

* Earth is only going to be habitable for another 500 million years before the Sun's expansion extinguishes most biological organisms (unless the planet's orbit is shifted). Wouldn't an AGI (abiotic or otherwise) be thinking in timelines that vastly outstrip our own?

* In light of the previous answers, what purpose (end goal) do you imagine an AGI would give itself?

* Why would that purpose involve enslaving or destroying humanity?

Pointers to research papers would be most welcome (e.g., Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g (Pale Blue Dot)
Escape hatches should exist, but I think it's better if those exist on a per-program basis.

If a systemwide "disable all safeguards, give all programs access to everything all the time" switch exists, the level of friction encountered when accessing it should be very high to help deter social engineering attacks. It's a one-time action so the annoyance level of that friction is negligible, since those using it will only need to do so on clean installs.
While I don't disagree that this animal could be involved, the thing I find disingenuous is that it came out of fucking no where 3 years later. If there had been a long thread about this, maybe. But there's just nothing.

Also the media outlets picked this up so fast almost like "see I told you so" which makes me less believe this.
Why has this been downvoted? Is it speculation?
Create Playable Worlds in ChatGPT
I don't think it's very valid to compare the two. It is a little bit just to compare the experiences using them bit they aren't meant to solve the same set of issues. In fact, they are better together in my experience. I use nix to manage my terraform configurations with a lot of success. It reduces my boilerplate and helps me build abstractions on top of HCL.

If you ever decide to take a stab at nix again, consider looking at https://github.com/ipetkov/crane and using flakes. I've got it down to the point that I can get a new rust project set up with nix in about 30 seconds with linting, package building, and test running all in the checks
Take a look at the GPT-4 paper, and the list of exams and accompanying scores. Then tell me if you know any humans that did similarly?
Looks superhuman to me. Especially considering it took all of these in less than a year.
Let's look at the specific case:

1) Company says "we reduce force" and fires a bunch of employees

2) They say "we'll fire a bug chunk more"

3) they notice productivity is low

4) boss says "won't tell you, whether you can keep your job"

This won't help to increase morale and productivity.
Agree. I have my own opinions on WFH, especially for certain sectors and types of workers, but that is regardless of this article and totally irrelevant.
Is Julia using -O3? I would find that surprising as it is not recommended. -O3 could be a good starting point, but with maturity a frontend should be evaluating individual passes.

"One of the most common mistakes made by new language frontend projects is to use the existing -O2 or -O3 pass pipelines as is. These pass pipelines make a good starting point for an optimizing compiler for any language, but they have been carefully tuned for C and C++, not your target language. You will almost certainly need to use a custom pass order to achieve optimal performance."

https://www.llvm.org/docs/Frontend/PerformanceTips.html
It doesn’t matter what a sapient AI thinks organically. All that matters is whether someone can tell a non sapient AI to go behave like a paranoid killer sapient AI
I can tell you from experience of optimizing those bills that it’s very much NOT free in the same vpc for inter-az traffic.

From the link you provided:

> Data transferred between a Local Zone and an Availability Zone within the same AWS Region, “in” to and “out” from Amazon EC2 in the Local Zone Pricing
Data transfer in $0.01
Data transfer out $0.01
I'm glad they managed to get something done before Asia wakes up. We are pretty much dependent on a relatively stable financial market. TBH I'm a bit scared that a financial meltdown is imminent and many of us will lose jobs in a sudden.
"I've seen things you people couldn't believe..." (had to quote that).
Actually that's not limited to AI, I'm tired of seeing amazing, incredible videos of parrots actually talking like 2-3 year olds, and people massively ignore that. Then I found one video of a parrot doing the thing that people imagine that parrots do ("grrck I'm a parrot and I repeat funny sounds") and then that gets millions of likes.
Please let's not confuse more units here.

8Mbps (please capitalize the "M" for "mega" and lowercase the "b" for bits) is 8,000,000 bits per second.
That translates to about 0.954 MiB/sec (Mebibytes per second, see the "i" and the capital "B"?) which is close enough to 1.

We must keep in mind that there are two disparate things being measured in this thread and by FCC. The FCC is ostensibly measuring advertised signaling rates. Your Gigabit Ethernet signals at 1,000,000,000 bits per second, but can't transfer data that fast. Likewise, my cable ISP signals at 100Mbps down and 5Mbps up (yeah, it's criminal) but download speeds are a different thing.

Download speeds can, and should, be measured in computer-oriented mebibytes per second, rather than bits per second, because you are, after all, transferring files. (And yeah, disk space is often measured in powers of ten...) Your ISP's data cap is undoubtedly measured in gibibytes or tebibytes (even though they call them gigabytes or terabytes, that's what the units mean.)

So when you run speedtest.net or Ookla or whatever, you're measuring the actual throughput that the computer's network interface can squeeze through the narrowest straw in your link to the server. That is necessarily a touch lower than the lowest signaling rate of whatever equipment is in-between. Internet connections are sold by trumpeting signaling rates, but those are NOT download nor upload speeds. Never confuse them, because they are overly-optimistic estimates of your maximum throughput (which is infeasible given most PHY and link-layer frame designs.)
> By 2019, you had to enable the application explicitly to listen for events at least in three places deep down in the system preferences, click accept in various popups and if you stuck somewhere then nobody could tell why it wasn't working.

It’s an improvement for users because it means that not all random applications and programs that run can act as keyloggers. It’s optimising for the common use case (random people running random software and being very annoyed if they get ransomed) against the rare case. It’s the same thing with debuggers and attaching to other processes. In the end it is a good thing to not be able to do that without explicit authorisation.

> So I had a very expensive laptop and the OS didn't let me use it freely.

It does not prevent you from doing it. It added some friction, sure, and you can find that this friction is unacceptable (and changing OS every now and then is a good idea in general anyway). But from a fundamental perspective the functionality is still there. The OS still lets you do this.

> I created the best looking/most usable desktop experience MacOS will never have.

It is great that you have both the ability and the time to do this. I’ll look into it for my Linux boxes.

However, my experience is that it’s never actually “the most beautiful/user-friendly/consistent/polished” (things we see all the time with new DEs). They all tend to fall apart with millions of corner cases and inconsistencies every time you get off the beaten path. In any case, good luck with your project.
The closest historical analogue I can think of to this is FILTH (failed in London, try Hong Kong).
Ask HN: Anyone using GPT-4 as a co-founder?
It seems to have extraordinary insight into every facet of business and startups that I can imagine. As a team, I'm the better one at inventing a niche business model and writing software in the context of the whole technical architecture, but my relative shortcomings are glaring. In fact it seems like everything I don't know much about GPT-4 knows practically all there is to know! So far it has successfully helped me draft a specific business model in terms of discrete MVP features, narrowing down the whole problem space into the small set of things that can be demoed in about 1 month. I am confident that GPT-4 will be just as capable as we bring our startup into month 2.

If using an LLM as a co-founder is not completely feasible today surely it will be soon. We're clearly much closer to it being possible than impossible. What will this mean for the startup economy? You can imagine a world with more solo founders, less co-founder disputes, a world where founders need to only have expert-level specialty in 1 area because LLMs will fill in the rest of the knowledge gaps.

On the whole it looks like the cost of turning brilliant ideas into tangible products is quickly falling.
Two duplicates of this on the front page of HN, annnddd both are behind paywalls :(
They’ll all be forced to pump the breaks when subtle errors compound through self reference and fill the internet/destroy the resource they’re extracting from through automation.

It’s the same problem that caused the replication crisis.

You start with something small, like a department for a new field, a random paper, etc. You explore and hit some interesting valuable knowledge. You share that, and it blows up and makes everyone’s lives vastly and unexpectedly better. So you pour a whole bunch of resources into getting more students, pushing more papers, creating more procedures, and building your little department into a giant machine. It works amazingly for a while, and then you think the machine is what’s generating the value and leave it on autopilot. Researchers that fit the machine remain, those that put more energy into actually exploring rather than fitting the machines criteria for explorer fade away. Knowledge slowly turns to nonsense through self reference as the true value, the researchers lucky enough to stumble on insight, get drowned out and leave.
Okay, I’ve been writing JavaScript since before it had that name so you’re only low by 7 years or so.

Again, I’m not saying that React is horrible – only that people are prone to misattribution leading to overstating the benefits of their current favorite tool relative to other factors. That works both ways, too: it’s not uncommon for people to credit a newer tool for productivity improvements due to their skills increasing over the same time period.
I'm hoping that someone makes a Pixelfed-alike with a sane stack like Elixir or Go. The installation guide is just a bit too long and faffy for me right now.
Nobody asked the board. They pushed through a legislative change overnight.
But not General Electric, right?
> So forget what you know about ATM PINs; this is a markedly different concept.

I mean it's actually the same concept (something you have, something you know) with a different implementation.
A great idea! A terrific plan like this needs a clever name.

We could call it the Great Leap Forward, or maybe the Cultural Revolution.
It might be like the super-intelligent version of the stereotypical scatterbrained professor.
A type of reasoning. It's still bad at mathematical reasoning and advanced programming or at least translating very complicated written instructions into working code without any human intervention. We also don't know how good it is at reasoning about the physical world although I think Microsoft was doing some research on that. Then there's theory of mind and the reasoning that goes along with it. Then there's reasoning about the future, how one's actions will affect outcomes and then reasoning about that subsequent future.
McMurdo as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station#Nuclear_power_...
Founding a religion is one of the cheapest ways for an AI to act in the world. It can found a religion from within its sandbox and use followers as its agents.
I've worked for companies where this was a fact. Why would you design the same fixture twice?
Show HN: Betweenle – guess the secret word hidden between other words
I’m worried about our future: I see a non-zero probability that many intellectual jobs will become obsolete much faster than we can replace them, and this will fundamentally reshape our society in negative ways. In a worst-case outcome (also possibly a best-case outcome from the technological sense) this could undo much of the hard-won progress human beings have made since the Enlightenment.

Unfortunately the people who wrote this essay don’t seem to care about any of that, or at least they don’t seem to be thinking very hard about the implications of a human society where most people have no labor to value: indeed, this piece bizarrely interrupts itself to extol the virtues of free-market capitalism (the very force racing us up to that future.) Instead the authors are singularly concerned with one possible outcome: human extinction at the hands of the AI, and seem happy to ignore all the rest. Why not? I guess once you’ve convinced yourself extinction is likely, all “those other issues” are minor indeed.
On the other hand Docker was quite easy for me to install... because I used nix to do it.
Alcohol is the only drug I can't put down when I want to. I'll take a line of coke and never a glass of wine.
Look at this early warning!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34913887
Not sure why, but that link isn't loading for me. https://archive.is/0ETzn
Sorry about that, I'm new to the site, I will add my contact info and reasons for the request.
Thank you.
Reply to the specific comment you want to argue against instead of being personal. This attitude is not going to take you far.
I’m sure he’d laugh at being called a big celeb. Jukebox is def cooler than the headline.
The media did not fail Assange, failure is unintentional. The media actively colluded with interested parties in order to smear him, because he created a problem for them.
Convenience is the enemy of good security.
In the last few years, the residential street where I live had multiple accidents caused by inattentive or plain racing drivers. One child ended up in hospital for weeks after being run over by a speeding car, a woman ended up dead after being run over by a lorry, and from my window I can see dangerous behavior from motorists alllll the time. Not good if you have three schools, (at least) two kindergartens and a sports area used by all of them.

The problem is, the street is fucking wide - it used to be the supply road for a beer factory and only got developed into pure residential and schools zoning two decades ago, and that seems to invite people to not give a fuck.
See also an interesting video series of a crazy guy that put a turbine engine on a small STOL plane: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9OFkVHYEhoEfWmN0lQRZ...
> Seems like the critique is specifically about how current LLMs operate and not about them in principle.

Yes, this is written explicitly in the paper.
The question of whether a superintelligent AI would be benevolent or hostile is a crucial one. Game theory provides some insight into this matter. Aggressiveness is a common trait among animals, and it can be attributed to the equilibrium state. A docile animal is likely to be eradicated.

Similarly, in a competitive environment, a docile AI would be overtaken by a more aggressive one. Such an environment would result in an arms race, not only in intelligence but also in the ability to impact the world. Participation in this race would not be optional, as failure to do so would result in elimination.

The conclusion is clear: AI would engage in warfare against each other, and the impact on humans is unlikely to be positive.
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Wait does digg still exist? I hope it is better than reddit now.
COMMIES!!! COMMIES EVERYWHERE!!!

Seriously, is it 1953 where some of you live?
I’ve heard he does BJJ now
Our native language shapes our brain wiring
Hello guys!

Check this out if you are struggling with windows management on macOS!
It's two diametrically opposed political ideals, with most people (and governments) falling somewhere in between the two extremes. That's the framework that already exists, not something I've constructed to divide people.

If you truly support democracy, then you accept that even the authoritarians should be given a voice, and you just pray they're not in the majority. That's very different than the "with us or against us" paradigm that's popular among authoritarians.
Nitpick: Are radiators very inefficient? I assume they're 100% efficient, just not very effective due to the limits of physics.
Well yes but Linux has had solutions for this a long time. AppArmor, SELinux.

Some distros like RHEL already bundle apps with profiles that make sure the app can only do what it's supposed to do.
9% is probably wrong, it was using an earlier figure of less than or about 1 billion, when the actual figure is more than 2 billion.
I can't wait till the time when people's brains are locked by hackers demanding ransom..
Is the direnv integration custom or do you base it off of something? I use direnv extensively but I don't have it start any project daemons currently and I've been shipping scripts via devShell for managing them. I'd be very interested in this
Here's a good article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...

The answer is it's both. On the one hand there isn't enough incentive to rein in costs. But on the other hand, administrative requirements really have been going way up:

> Perhaps most controversial is an increasing raft of federal and state regulations that universities must abide by: the Clery Act, which requires campuses to report their crime activity; new Title IX regulations that govern the handling of sexual assault; and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requirements for providing educational records.

> In 2013 and 2014 alone, the Department of Education released rules and directives on 10 new sets of issues, ranging from proposed rules on teacher preparation programs to Net Price Calculator requirements to specific regulations for FAFSA verification. Complying with all these rules requires additional staff and additional money. The resources required are not insignificant: a Vanderbilt study of 13 colleges and universities found that regulatory compliance comprises 3 to 11% of schools’ nonhospital operating expenses, taking up 4 to 15% of faculty and staff’s time.

> “It is pages and pages and pages of regulations that require more sophisticated professionals,” says Penny Rue, vice president for Campus Life at Wake Forest University and board chair-elect of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals. Rue adds that incidents on college campuses, such as the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, contributed to a need for administrative spending that often goes unnoticed, from case management services to threat assessment teams.
It’s weird how you keep forcefully insisting on PLATO’s irrelevance in every thread that comes up.
Heh, I always assumed Triscuit was named to be one better than a Biscuit. Which itself is one better than the mythical Uniscuit.
Copying the setup of an emacs guru sounds like a great idea to me. Think of it as using a Linux distro instead of building your own Linux from scratch. What turned me off of emacs as my daily driver, after using it from college through the first ten years of my career, was the large number of packages that came highly recommended by the community but which were half-baked or required debugging and subtle adjustments to coexist with other packages.

When the author says:

> Don’t try to be “creative” at this stage.

What he means by that is that if you try to configure emacs yourself, without yet being a master, half of the functionality you try to use will be broken, and you'll spend countless hours reading code and figuring out how to fix your broken setup. This is the traditional way to master emacs: by going back and forth between writing your own modifications and struggling to incorporate other people's code. Tackle every challenge head-on, and solve them one by one to make emacs do what you need. The daily effort to do turns you into an emacs master, like turning the wheel of pain turned the boy Conan into a 1970s bodybuilder.

I don't think that's a wise or attractive route for new emacs users today. Nowadays, everything I could do in emacs I can do with other freely available software as well, and I have to ask myself whether it makes more sense to invest the time figuring out how to do it in emacs, or to install an easier and more polished special-purpose tool. When my workflow revolved entirely around emacs, it made sense to make the extra effort. But over time my workflow fragmented, until the extra effort never made sense, and my emacs setup stopped growing.

Copying the setup of somebody who has already invest the time to get everything working together sounds like a nice compromise.
Cannabis prohibition costs Wisconsin millions in tax revenue
Leaving China
There was a comment on another hacker news thread the other day that a difference between secure element and TPM is that the pin code is entered on the keyboard and passes through memory while with secure enclave, at least the biometric stuff is connected directly to the secure enclave instead. Maybe that's what
City dwellers also buy things manufactured in rural areas. Most of them expect a nationwide transportation network that isn't just interstate highways and gas stations. In addition to food, there is all the resource extraction that needs workers, who have families, and need healthcare etc. Basically a lot of people living in rural areas are either doing things that, in part, support people who live in more urban areas or they're supporting supporting those people.

Cities eat up tax dollars too. Boston's Big Dig was basically a $10 billion or so gift to Boston from, not only Western Massachusetts taxpayers but the rest of the country. (The Speaker of the House was from the Boston area.)