skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point 2 does not logically follow from point 1. That's the entire problem here.

Between point 1 and 2 there must be quite a few other steps, causally linked, otherwise it's just a massive imaginary leap based on assumptions that nobody is explaining.

> The dismissals from Tyler Cohen and Pinker are mostly just relying on heuristics which are often right, but even if they're right 999 out of 1000 times, if that 1 in 1000 error is the end of humanity, that's pretty bad.

EY is not arguing that the end of humanity is merely possible. He is arguing that it is obviously the most likely outcome and will almost certainly happen a very short time after AGI is invented. That's a much harder case to make.
BuzzFeed is using AI to write SEO-bait travel guides
Oh man, that's harsh but I have this fear as well. I'm sure we all recall Full-Self Driving was going to be ready by 2019 or something and GM was going to have a fleet of self-driving vehicles. It turns out the last 10% takes 90% of the time/effort.

I think GPT-4 was enough of a leap over GPT3.5 that I'm not sure we've hit that point yet but it'll be interesting if the next GPT is less of a leap.
Isn't this just stating the obvious? Things evolve when there's a natural selection pressure, i.e. stress, to evolve? If variations within the species don't confer any special advantages then all the variations will continue. If the environment were to suddenly change such that only one or two of those variations would confer an actual competitive advantage then the species will rapidly evolve.

I thought this has been known for quite some time? Am I missing something?
The benefits of 'deep time thinking'
To have your own, yes, more or less (it handles downtime to some extent). Running your own server is not the "for dummies" version.

The for dummies version is "just go sign up on a instance with open sign ups and reasonable moderation", I'd recommend hachyderm.io to the tech crowd. It doesn't matter that much what server you're on.
better synonyms_
It's closer to "solved" than when the police could just say that nothing happened and people would be non the wise.
A.I.-Based Policing Tools, Many Used in Repressive States, Go Global
>>"I like dim lighting, I prefer it, I don't turn lights on when I get up in the morning, I make coffee, I take showers in the dark, people come into spaces that I'm in and always snap the lights on and it drives me crazy."

Man, My brother is a constant light-stepper (he always has on harsh, too bright, lights even when he is not in THAT room, or if he falls asleep.

It drives me nuts!

STOP TURNING ON FLOURESCENT TUBE LIGHTS AND FALLING ASLEEP!!

I recognize the visual acuity, but I cannot stand tube-FLs at all - and while I have every single bulb in my house an addressable RGB LED Alexa bulb (Feit Electric) -- there are certain lights I cant replace (a few ceiling fans with integrated LED lights, tube lights in certain spots, etc) -- I have learned that the position of the lights is also important.

For example, if the kitchen tube light is on, it lasers-into the corner of my eye if I am sitting on the couch at night and the kitchen tube light is on. I cant alexify that just yet (the alexa light switches require a 3-phase (meaning the requirement of a ground wire) to mount -- my house was built in 1959 and the wall switches do not have the req ground wire....

but yeah - its interesting how sensitive you become to the lighting environment once you pay attention to it.

When I was doing architecture, I was always wondering why we paid "lighting designers" so much... but after working with them, and working with lighting in my own home, I am amazed at what they accomplish with lights.
Superhero films: Is this the end of the road?
I had an ex from podunk midwest and one of her town's claims to fame was that the sheriff chaired the local DARE chapter until he got arrested for running a meth ring.

I guess life is easier when you can arrest your competitors instead of just shooting them, but I don't have any idea how nobody narced on him to the feds (or at least their lawyer) for that long.

But then police were organized crime before police were police. To this day I don't know why the Pinkertons still exist as a corporate subdivision name instead of being fully absorbed to distance from that profound emotional baggage.

(Opinions colored by roommates' future BIL being murdered by cops in broad daylight in Chicago for DWB+autism, then moving to and dealing with Seattle PD's corruption/brutality problems)
Folia is a complete re-write of Minecraft's core game loop to support "true multithreading and regionalized ticking" ("ticking" being the term for a single turn of Minecraft's core game event loop). Even the most ambitious official modding API in the world would never ever contemplate supporting something as thorough and involved as this. Minecraft does in fact have an official plugin API, known as data packs—they're obviously more limited then the ability to completely rewrite the game's code, but they can create new blocks, items, entities, customize their behavior, change worldgen, add achievements, and more. Here's an example of a "bendy pistons" mod that was built entirely using the datapacks API, with no mods required: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wk7ZUYkrpI (and 7 more features from the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRvq6H11bs)
Vigilantism is not the rule of law no matter whether it's government sanctioned or not.
Oh yeah, I am in total agreement with you. I'm just speculating that the powers that be who are making the actual chess moves might have known (or strongly suspected) what was going to happen long before it actually happened, that it might be happening again, and that we (the average joes) might be able to pick up on some of that through sentiment analysis of the headlines.
Pushing addiction and pushing treatment are two very different things.
This is only bing - we aint talkin Google here.
> I don't see that in OP's comment.

I don't know what "that" is. I quoted the post I was responding to.
That's nonsensical. An AI is either transformative or it's not, it's an intrinsic quality that has nothing to do with the training data or the "product" type. If OpenAI is sufficiently transformative to claim fair use (which I don't believe for a second, alas), then any other AI built on similar fundamentals has the same claims and can crunch any data their creators see fit, including the output of other AIs.
And the answer, as with all "is it worth the money" questions, is "it depends".
I honestly still don't know, but the information given has been helpful. I really hate all of this stuff because I just want to work, but I think the other commenter is correct in that it's sonewhat a marketing problem.
Forget outperforming CEOs.

AI outperforming investors and owners.

On the basis of motivations and reasoning which are beyond human ken. Which is to say, that even the nominal beneficial owners of that AI itself won't understand it. Or be able to prevent its own adopting of legal or corporate structures which effectively emancipate it.
> If they want to keep the signal pure analog, that is enough of a reason.

Why would they want that? It's possible to perfectly reconstruct the original signal. The sampling theorem states that analog and digital audio are equivalent given a high enough sampling rate.

> If a function x(t) contains no frequencies higher than B hertz, then it can be completely determined from its ordinates at a sequence of points spaced less than 1/2B seconds apart.

I don't see the point of analog signals anywhere in the pipeline other than in a DAC whose output drives the actual speakers.
Is it just me, or does the site make Firefox on iOS go haywire?
No it isn't. I know someone who runs a specialist news outlet and cross-posts everything to Mastodon. It yields only a trickle of traffic/engagement despite the target market being pretty anti-Musk. Indeed, I'm told traffic/engagement on Twitter has actually improved since the takeover. What people say and how they behave are two different things. A lot of people still check Twitter every day because train wrecks are interesting.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty solid, the installer also makes setting up root filesystem snapshots as easy as ticking a checkbox.
Guess I'm a sociopath then.
History repeating again. Pre-big data, most event processing was done via SQL-92, some processing via custom procedural code, and the rest via DSLs like Drools and Esper. Post big-data, most processing is being done by Spark / Flink SQL, some via custom python code, and now Kasakada.
Yes! Thank you. This paper is exactly what I needed.
Wow. In the footnote they mention they shut down right after demo day? Perhaps I'm old school but I always had a huge feeling of indebtedness to my investors.

So here they lose all the money within 3 months and write a scathing review to boot?

Is it not a two way street?
I guess because I haven't bought anything in a while so for me it was a "used to", not any perceived change. So poor wording on my part.

I can't edit my post. Trusted reviews are hard to find, I would still trust Consumer Reports over random Amazon reviews.
I've spoken with many democrats (since I live in a democrat controlled city in a democrat controlled state, it's hard to avoid) and what they say they want and who they vote for are completely divergent.

I mean... If you vote to let violent criminals out of jail in the hopes violent crime will go down, something is missing up there. This has been my universal experience with democrat voters. It is what drove me away from the party. They'll trust 'experts' ridiculous advice over their own common sense. Most of them are extremely partisan, and will quickly label any independent candidate as a Republican, which is enough reason to not vote for them.

Either way, democrats have been in charge of cities for years in this country and it simply hasn't turned out well.

I often align with democrats on fiscal policy, but the voting bases inability to use common sense reasoning and their overuse of the cliche of everything being 'complicated' has driven me away
What's the cartel keeping SWE salaries high?
I don’t like how many apps are effectively spyware.

Having said that I also don’t care if we ban an app from a non free / less than friendly country that doesn’t allow similar apps from the us to operate in their country….

So yeah I get some of the weirdness but I have no problem with the actions proposed either.
In functional languages, you seldom replace an existing value. Verse, like Rust, is mostly single-assignment.
I'm curious, how did you figure this out? Do you search texts of random HN comments? Did you remember that comment? I see these posts on here sometimes, and just don't understand how the commenters so consistently find these types of things.
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What's the use-case for this instead of the default UI?
Wow, thanks for the deep dive! This is so fascinating that someone would be willing to dive into my ideas. HN rules.

I clearly need a much more clear explanation of things — for example the floor(log2(( part is being misinterpreted here. Thanks for diving in and giving me pointers
Doubly so, when the two domains don't actually map cleanly to eachother. DNA is not a computer program, or a file, or storage. There's no real distinction between data, metadata, and 'code' in it, either in structure, or in practice.
The eternal flaw of NPM (and Cargo, and PyPI and so on) is that they allow namesquatting at all. It should be that you can only publish into your own user's namespace. So if I upload the "foobar" library to NPM, it can be imported as "user/majewsky/foobar" or something. And if you upload one with the same name, it would be under "user/hughw/foobar". The review barrier would be to obtain an alias into the main namespace: If I wanted to have my library be just "foobar", I would have to apply for my own library to be aliased to that name. And then there could have to be some sort of notability requirement for those "nice" names.
In practice yes. However, someone might also just say "No more ICE" and that is semantically different. Sure, in the real world, no practical difference.
Well god damn there it is! Three days fresh, even! Thanks!

Looks like a fair lot of work to get it configured, but few good things come entirely free. Wonder if there's enough people that could get together for a communal one...?
A junior writer would absolutely plagiarize or write things like, "For example, if you deposit $10,000 into a savings account that earns 3% interest compounding annually, you'll earn $10,300 at the end of the first year."

But if you're saving so much money from not having junior writers, why would you want to spend it on editors? The AIs in question are great at producing perfectly grammatical nonsense.
Scratch gets meme'd way too hard, such a good way to learn, we did this for a few classes in highschool as an intro to the concepts, got me hooked and now I'm a dev at a hedge gund
> you must do actual calculations.

I disagree, you build intuition around numbers just as you do anything else, and there's so few of them when dealing with time, you feel it, your mechanical intuition has been built the same way. Like, if you read "19 minutes" you don't really need to calculate to feel "about a fourth of an hour" but if you needed to know, you don't have to squint harder.

I agree, bar-shaped clocks would be silly, I was just thinking about gauges in general, where they make sense, and dial clocks are a special kind I think, because they wrap around all the time, exactly like your temperature or fuel gauge do not (or the "windows file copy progress bar").
A bar for an engine temperature, or fuel, or.. A time-constrained meeting! that'd make a lot of sense if "quickly determine if the engine is overheating without looking away for too long" is the priority (or if you need to decide if you have to run to the bathroom now or can wait for the meeting to end)
Or find a local coffee shop that roasts their own. I used to buy from various sources and the roasts were all over the place. Thus, I was changing my grinder settings fairly dramatically with each new bag.

Having switched to a local shop's medium roast, I very rarely have to adjust my grinder after buying a new batch of beans.
> semi-experienced programmers (the kind to browse this sub)

Is a giveaway the comment is copy/pasted from Reddit.
In Firefox you can enable "HTTPS Only Mode" which auto-redirects all requests to HTTPS and provides a warning that you need to click through before downgrading to HTTP.

It is quick interesting to see what is not HTTPS. One common one I have seen is tracking links in emails are often not HTTPS. I have even see password reset links wrapped in tracking links that redirect through HTTP. So these could be intercepted and used to reset your password before you do.
@Dang,

Why the F are we having this conversation on HN and it not a seminal discussion happening with, at and of YC?

Why do we need "trench knowledge" as opposed to YC actually holding an open forum on such?
Not yet. That needs more machinery than we currently have to enable tailscale clients to do automatic TLS cert issuance for custom domains.
You have 2 year warranty. Return it. My dad did it so often that they refuse to sell him a new one in that shop. What an irony.
That's an interesting direction but I think using AI tools is going to be for everyone, not just developers. And How good you are at using them is not going to guarantee that AI can't replace what you do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367552
Fail open can be the right choice for some applications. Especially if you have logging of user credentials.
Can you demonstrate exponential progress in AI?

One notes that in roughly 6000 years of recorded history, humans have not made themselves any more intelligent.
They are poor by design! You want repeat customers of course!
They are banned in the US and the UK. The lawsuit is specifically about illegally trying to evade that ban.

That is fraud and there are many many other examples if you choose to do even a cursory search.
Fingering isn't a fixed "right" or "wrong" matter. Every pianist's hands are different, so fingerings may vary from person to person.
It didn't die, it evolved. Mojang began taking cues from the modding communities, improving the internal APIs, making the overall codebase more generalized and robust, moving model data to declarative JSON, adding registry systems instead of hard coding, introducing additional resources namespaces by default, resource packs, data packs, simpler creation of custom blocks, biomes, and most recently opening up Mojang's own class and method name mappings so that the insane process of mapping obfuscated Java class and method names can be stopped, allowing mod frameworks like Forge et al to have consistent API making and to reduce the previously huge amount of time needed for mods to get ported to new versions.

The biggest problem with the "mod API" is that, effectively, you'll need to open source Minecraft entirely to satisfy the kinds of changes mods make to the vanilla experience, or else everyone will keep using the patch systems we are building on now. It is discouraged unless absolutely needed, but mods can even apply bytecode level runtime patches on the vanilla classpath to enable functionality that the mod framework hasn't yet exposed.
this is huge
The Native Americans sold New York in a consensual deal - not that one theft begets another, even if they hadn't.

I mean, not that I personally have a problem with New York returning to Native ownership, but it's both (1) wrong to claim that it wasn't purchased in a consensual deal and (2) completely and totally irrelevant to the problem of digital piracy and entitlement to the work of others.

This kind of logic makes me believe that pirates can't be reasoned with - that theft is a core part of their moral framework - but only when it benefits them, of course. If they perceive that their employer isn't paying them what they're due, it suddenly becomes a huge problem.
What a bummer. Open, anonymous, and free forums are some of the most interesting places on the internet. this profit-motivated antisocial shit makes me so sad.

edit: oh. most if not all of the comments are from reddit.
I've used Ubuntu since going full-time Linux desktop ~2006, but for many of the same reasons in here, jumped from Ubuntu to Arch circa 2018 and haven't looked back. I use Ubuntu or fedora/cent for disposable server vm's as needed/desired, but any primary boxen I interface directly with every day is Arch.
> ... I was deeply confused, until I heard a dear friend and colleague in academic AI, one who’s long been skeptical of AI-doom scenarios, explain why he signed the open letter. He said: look, we all started writing research papers about the safety issues with ChatGPT; then our work became obsolete when OpenAI released GPT-4 just a few months later. So now we’re writing papers about GPT-4. Will we again have to throw our work away when OpenAI releases GPT-5? I realized that, while six months might not suffice to save human civilization, it’s just enough for the more immediate concern of getting papers into academic AI conferences.

In other words, the people who wrote and are signing the open letter may be much more concerned with their inability to benefit from and control the dialog around rapid advances in AI than any societal risks posed by these advances over the coming six months or so. Meanwhile, to the folks at Microsoft/OpenAI, Alphabet, Facebook, etc., the rapid advances in AI look like a shiny rainbow with a big pot of gold (money, fame, glory, etc.) on the other side.
I always felt it was kind of dumb for scammers to only target gullible people, by making obvious detectable errors to weed out discerning people

Always seemed like discerning people are just as likely to be around people that would victim blame them after falling for a scam that was imperceptible from a legitimate communication. Letting that scam hit high value targets undetected for longer.
Are you implying that they disclosed (to a movie director) that the USA have a foothold within China’s IMINT apparatus?

It’s trivial to observe flyover changes, but it’s ludicrous to suggest that this action alone meant they were looking for a specific aircraft.
Silverblue tracks Fedora releases, the only difference is that you're using ostree deployments which keeps "bit rot" at bay.

For the unaware, ostree treats your root filesystem somewhat like a git repo, and you add/remove packages with rpm-ostree or by using containers.
I'm driving an older car that has an analogue speed dial and a digital display only for cruise control setting..

If I'm not already on cruise control, I'll press "set" just to quickly see how fast I'm going.
I've been using git for years and do `rebase -i` daily, bisect many spooky commands. However, I still don't know how I can update a branch and switch to it in one motion:

- not just update `origin/branch`
- not checkout `branch` and sync it with `origin/brach`

and it drives me crazy.
We’ve definitely talked about the cruel irony that my dad never got treatment for depression but tried basically every illegal thing he could get his hands on trying to self-medicate. The line in his mind between medicine and party drug was tragic.
Sure, but surely you'd rather not? I imagine you want the network encoding the details of the specific image, not wasting weights to learn about easy wins that apply to every image. You could burn a whole layer converting to YCbCr, and the net in the article only had 3.
They're really stepping up. Last year they dragged me into a hospital in cuffs and told the doctors to "inspect" inside my GI tract. That was a better part of a day affair along with a federal warrant and the works. A dog never even alerted (and even verbally told so by CBP, although the warrant lied and said otherwise). They also have a network of hospitals with staff openly hostile to tourists, who are fine acting even without a warrant or consent and a complaint to the state board results in the medical professional boards telling you that a patient has no right to deny consent even without a court order.