skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I wonder sometimes how many people gloss over what it would mean for an “ASI” to exist. We would - if successful - effectively be creating a supernatural being (at least, there wouldn’t be much of a distinction between it and one).

Sure, there’s hype, and FUD, and fatalism, etc. But, if you believe the creation of such a thing is within your lifetime then it would be difficult to find many higher priority issues to prepare for/help solve/vote on/etc.

In reality, we all likely still downplay the risk by assessing the limit on the downside as a relatively quick extinction of life on earth. There are many things one can imagine might be a lot worse than death.
This is the first time I've actually seen game theory applied to an actual real life scenario rather than just a theoretical academic problem. What's the best resource to learn more game theory and to be able to applying it like you to a more general setting?
I've been waiting awhile for the full scope of passive/near-ultrasonic/ultrasonic based attacks patterns to be mapped, and presented. I remember someone mentioned all that's needed is to compress & elaborate(reverbrative updating, frequency hoping[badminton attacks]), and you could full-sweep hack at a relative rate of 1-2 million physical devices at rate(I could believe full world sweep for the best hacker with about 2-5% reception loss[which has been the known rate mentioned in lore])
Off the top of my head...

* A plan exists
* The plan itself predicts non-obvious results in smaller systems, and those tests have passed (prediction written *before* running test)
* A bunch of smart people have looked at it and said, "Yes, this looks plausible"

The closest thing to a plan is RLHF, which has failed every toy problem its been thrown at and made everyone in the field say "even if this worked in toy problems, it wouldn't generalize".
I agree with the sentiment but just wanted to note that this is a legislative bill. often the courts strike down executive action saying that they should get help from Congress, which they're doing here
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It's an indicator for overall health, and more specifically for health during childhood. When indicators for health go down it's important to study them. A child who is taller is not necessarily better than one who is shorter, but a child who didn't catch a serious growth-stunting disease is definitely better off than if they had, assuming the disease had other effects.

Back when polio was common you could tell what areas had been hit the hardest and in which year by looking at average height in school photos. My grandfather had oddly short legs but a long torso because of a very mild bout of polio as a child. This is important not because he was shorter than he might have been, but because more serious cases of polio can cause paralysis, permanently malformed legs, and death. Height in this case is a proxy for worse things.

Height discrimination may actually be due to its usefulness as a proxy for genetic damage and disease load during mate selection. The same thing that causes people to unfairly discriminate makes it useful for studying population changes.
This is an interesting point, but I disagree that it has been around forever. I'd posit this is elementary of the state. But the state emerged not so long ago in an otherwise massive tract of history. And as to globalism, that's only somewhat correct. There are pieces of antiquity found all throughout the world, indicative of huge trade networks. Feathers from South America found on the East Coast of North America and artifacts of the Indus Valley people found in Western Europe. The speed at which that happens is, I don't think, particularly relevant. Even once in possession of such information the consequences are seldom manifest immediately. It's as much about maintaining the status quo and hierarchical stability as it is the process of civil evolution.

And it's easy to explain why: the more similar people are the more predictable and thus more controllable they become. Anyone in a position of power would love it if every word spoken was agreed upon and acted out as if their imagination was manifest. If every element of a given state was mechanistic rather than organic. Of course businesses are little states in their own way.

An interesting [unsourced] aside: I remember some comedian talking about their comeup, and that once they had what they wanted they became depressed. Telling the same jokes to different crowds and getting the same laughs over and over again. Peering into how easily people can be won, manipulated... I think it was Birbiglia. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.
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“Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?”

What a bunch of nonsense, irrelevant questions. We’re nowhere near achieving any of these. Yann LeCun is one of the few voices of reason among so-called AI experts and he’s very clear about the capabilities and limitations of these models, and that these risks are currently irrelevant.

It took several people to carry the Optimus robot to the scene so it could spread its legs open, and Mr Musk is worried about AI taking all jobs in the near future?

Wonder if this is just ignorance or malice. This nonsense hype train overshadows the fascinating progress that’s actually been made. Let’s appreciate the actual progress and do away with the nonsense speculation.
The expanded Moscone Center should be available to host WWDC again, too.
You know, I kind of get why people do this.

My wife got her green card two years ago, through her marriage to me. We never considered sending them a sex tape, but we did have to attach lots of photos to prove that the marriage "real", and not just a front. I don't know how much the photos actually helped, since I don't think they actually looked at them, but instead the fact that we've had a shared bank account and shared mortgage for multiple years, but our lawyer made it pretty clear to show them as many photos as possible.

I could totally see the mental logic of sending some sex videos to prove the marriage was consummated, even if doing so isn't terribly well thought out.
How is that valuable in a modern society that outlaws violence of that nature?

Or it is simply that you can physically intimidate people to get an upper hand in situations where such an upper-hand shouldn't be given... just because. How noble. What a useful and admirable trait to encourage.
By that definition of AGI, not even most scientists are generally intelligent.
Given identical genetics, height is likely an indicator of overall health.
The audiences and authors of midwifery manuals
How to get GPT-4 to play Wordle (and other prompt tricks)
It’s the wat I’ve seen have the most security impact.

Deep merging two JSON parsed objects is innocuous enough everywhere else that most don’t think twice about doing it. Lots of widely used libraries that provide deep merging utilities have had security vulnerabilities because of this.

I guess you could argue that the wat is that objects coming out of JSON.parse don’t have null as its prototype.
If Twitter was planning on re-releasing their API after shutting it down last month their communication has been completely incompetent.

Who would trust them enough to build a product based on an API with a record of shutting down without notice?

Honestly, I doubt tweetbot and similar apps will return.
I've made various attempts on 5 different Pynchon books. The only one that I managed to finish was "Inherent Vice"
Hey, ChatGPT, what are the hiking trails like round here?

There are some really good hiking trails to be found in $TOWN. Many visitors like to start at $LOCAL_LANDMARK and take the signposted trail up to the peak of $LOCAL_MOUNTAIN. It will take you around 6 hours in total to get up and down so be sure to plan ahead and bring plenty of snacks and refreshments. Lay's Chips will give you energy and replenish your electrolytes and Coke Zero is the perfect way to stay hydrated.
Yes, but it's not an exclusive design goal. Other goals are listed on that page and you can see how design tradeoffs happened. You don't prioritize simplicity over all and make concurrency a core pillar!

And certainly I think they pulled it off. Go through the lessons here to see what I mean in nothing stands out as beginner unfriendly here, but it's also not black boxing much in the way Python would. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/learn-the...
Implicit conversions are very pernicious. In Virgil, the only implicit conversions that happen are promotions, i.e. representation changes that don't change values, like float -> double, int -> larger int, int -> double (where no rounding occurs), etc. AFAICT this is a pretty sane model.
You can say that, but no, it's for certain parts of those states, and middle class for those parts of California and New York is de facto rich for most of the country.

I say this as someone who would actually benefit from the deduction. Do I swim in my Scrooge McDuck coin vault every evening? No. But I'm not going to pretend that I'm not well-off.
I don't think either is held accountable. Who was held accountable for Flynt? Who was held accountable for East Palestine? Usually, the only people held accountable are citizens when they make even the slightest mistake.
I would hope so. The fact that they spent so much development effort on Lambda and yet never bothered to integrate it with Assistant is ridiculous.
Exactly, conspiracies ignore opportunists simply existing. People reacting to new information that favors them. It ignores that there are different opportunitists for every possible outcome. Every possible administration, every possible industry leveraged, every possible geopolitical outcome.

Conspiracies rely on coordination, and a counterproductive view that makes no difference in how we got to the outcome.
I'm sure he agrees the chance is remote, which is why he's so afraid. He's articulating what would be required, he literally uses the word "miracle" in the article.
150 million Americans and 5 million small businesses will probably disagree with your assertion.
I've used GPT-4, and while extremely impressive, it doesn't feel like we're all that much closer to super-intelligent AI than we were last month or last year. It feels like Google on steroids, but the gap between GPT-4 and AGI still feels massive. This seems like so much putting the cart way ahead of the horse.
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Elad has hosted many great conversations this year. I’d recommend folks check out his YouTube channel

https://youtube.com/@eladgil3583
JSON is by far the best supported serialization format. Why does using that format make it less about HTTP?
Perhaps this talk/prophecy is also encapsulated in that reference:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
End of the covid lockdowns say otherwise.
Common sense suggests that the length of the cycle can be greater than any chosen N.

The algorithm alternates between 2 steps: multiplication by 3 +1 followed by division by a power of 2 (equal to the number of trailing 0 bits; on average it divides by 4), etc.
(So on average you multiply by 3, but divide by 4.)

This argument simultanesouly 1) motivates the claim of the conjecture 2) predicts that the cycle length is unlimited (but always finite).
I sincerely disagree. Even just slowing down the churn rate would give more employees a chance to find other jobs without a "can't make rent" gun pointed at their heads. It would also avoid flooding the market of this or that sector, which exacerbates all problems around joblessness.

Policy doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to push in directions different from naked market forces.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Is my favorite computers achieve sentience book
With a globalized world we're (all humans, not us specifically) all gonna end up a nice tan color.
I hate that intersection. I regularly find myself on Lawrence headed north and need to get to 280 north and it's not pretty.

First I have to get to the right side, but not all the way to the right or it will throw me to 280 south. So second from the right, but immediately after passing the 280s onramp I need to get more to the right where I get off Lawrence and find myself at a red light with 3 left turn lanes but the rightmost of those is already packed up with cars coming off 280n so usually I'm in the second from the left lane. During that left turn I have an eye on getting over to the right because I need to be in the far right lane on Stevens Creek to even be in position to cross the green bike lane into the actual lane that gets me to 280n. That lane is usually already filled with cars coming off Lawrence south and there's a light in the middle of it so I'm trying to merge into standing traffic. Or else waiting at the light and trying to make the short merge after the light.

By far the most stressful bit of southbay driving I ever encounter.
A well-informed electorate isn’t a prerequisite to democracy. This is precisely why fake news proliferates - it’s relatively easy to elicit an emotional response, and that tends to win over critical thinking.

While fake news and undue outside influence absolutely must be protected against, the line is hard to draw. For instance, would Snowden have been considered undue influence, would Wikileaks have been considered fake news, at least sufficiently enough to cross the ban threshold?

There are pros and cons to both approaches, and it really doesn’t come down to whether or not people agree with a statement that contains such vague terms. It comes down to interpretation of those terms.
The TSA violates the 4th amendment millions of times a day. I think that covers both grossly, and negligent.

Here's the full text of 4a, see for yourself:

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

There are no exceptions in there for air travel! It's incredibly firmly worded, and is obviously deliberately meant to be very restrictive on government power.

They don't have probable cause to search every single person, let alone a warrant to do so. And their holding people's freedom to travel hostage to do so, and conditioning Americans to a lack of rights that were supposedly enshrined in the Bill of Rights.

The notion that they need to search every single person flying is not remotely "reasonable". It's one more step towards a police state. It's a shame that the 4th amendment isn't defended as strongly as the 1st & 2nd. The patriot act is the reason why flying sucks now when it used to be fantastical.
> I would expect people who know about game programming first, and about language design second.

Well, one of the authors is Tim Sweeney.

> There's a reason C/C++ and even C# are the go to languages for game programming, and not Haskell.

It's interesting that you list those because none of them were originally designed for games. Well, C++ sort of was if you consider network simulations to be game-like.

I share your concern that this language looks like they packed a lot of functional programming candy in it and maybe not so much "actually reasonable for building a game" features.

But I think you're also underselling the expertise of the people involved. Also, my impression is that Verse is mostly intended as a game server language. I don't think you'll be writing physics or rendering in Verse. From that angle, a heavy focus on immutability, software transactions, etc. can make a lot of sense: it's trying to make it tractiable to author very large distributed systems with a lot of mutable state.
Hasn’t America traditionally regulated foreign press ownership?

It’s not like we would let the Soviets, Nazis, British, Prussians, etc just buy the New York Times.

And non-news media has been protectionist too.

We allow foreign news distribution - but there are limits.
I can't imagine how much time you must have available to be able to respond to an error with:

> Could there be a mistake here?

in place of simply correcting and then getting back on track with actually solving a presumably difficult problem.
<<The Zone>> is a fleeting thing, especially with two programmers. Such nebulous, passive language seems like a guaranteed way to disrupt any kind of flow state.
> Yes unsurprisingly a country wants to do basic background checks on people it is making permanent residents and then citizens.

This will not stop the worst from coming, at best; but might discourage the best from doing it. It’s stupid and inhuman.
This one, at least, isn't done without you asking. It's not the sort of thing I'd complain about more than any other lossy photo-processing system.
You are more than capable of using the internet to find time series demographic information of geographic locations.
(Off topic: can you please remove my name from your fork? Thanks)
This is all speculative, but not fiction at this point clearly. Sci-fi authors have explored this possibility for decades, maybe their ideas could be of some help? I struggle to see how though; how to train Asimovs three laws for example?
>"some level of immigration and naturalization controls."

I would not call it "some level".
The paper's "200" comes from plugging "1 quadrillion" into Terence Tao's new theorem directly, and not applying any other results. I think they wanted to communicate only the meaning of the theorem, not the context around it.
Still pretty different. Compare Tulsa city to neighboring counties: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/osagecountyokla...

Naperville is a suburb of Chicago, and without looking I can confidently tell you that it's more white than Chicago, but less white than a nearby rural area. I will look though: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/chicagocityilli...
yeah i found it noteworthy that your comment had mostly green user replies. thanks for sharing this, i didn't know about the 50 cent party.
It all serves to inflate the self-importance of the bigwigs in this sector.

If you want adulation for your brilliance, go figure out what we need to go beyond the tired "scale transformers to infinity = superintelligence" meme that so many are stuck on.
> it’s more the ability for CCP to leverage influence.

like they cant influence twitter, facebook and all the rest?
I'm confused by this example, Jonathan Blow sounds identical to LANGUAGE EXPERTS here. If anything the difference stems from humor, but they're both doing the exact same thing - arguing Yet Another Language is better.
We use this in our generic REST client[1] to emit nicer error messages to the user of the client. As much as possible our client uses best practices and open standards where applicable. If you don't use application/problem+json you just get a HTTP errors, but with application/problem+json we'll extract the human-readable error message and such.

[1]: https://github.com/badgateway/ketting
Well, yeah. The security of Britain's colonies as a wee bit threatened by the War of Independence. The crown very much considered it a crime. But was it wrong?
I guess we are all concerned about LLMs being used by nefarious users (for propaganda, manipulation, scams, …).

But I’m curious, hacker news, how many of you are concerned (like Eliezer) that LLMs lead to strong AI and the AI itself (rather than its users) endangering humanity?
PrankGPT goes live on April fools day .. beautiful
It is manifestation. If he acts like he owns the building and has a positive mental visualization of it, he'll manage to find some way of paying for it.
hacker news talked about gpt playing wordle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35240999
Never ever hire incompetent people who are beyond help, no matter how nice. What's the point? You are running a team that needs to perform. It's not a charity or a social club. By keeping incompetent people you send a horrible sign to the rest of the team and the team will crack under the stress.

Reject the notion that you can only find jerks to get the competency you need. Just be sure they are willing to work for the team. Some will be real nice, the rest will learn to get along. Make expectations very clear up front and be willing to fire for bad behavior.
Does anyone have a plan for hiding some people?
That is an excellent, albeit concerning analogy.
It should be true for the US that customer can't order a specific car. But other markets also like boring colors.

Interesting to see worldwide research (PDF)
https://www.axalta.com/content/dam/New%20Axalta%20Corporate%...
I don't know how you formulate it mathematically for unbounded numbers without branching. On a computer, there are a variety of ways (including a single assembly instruction), but pretty much all of them rely on n being bounded.

If you're trying to feed a SAT solver, you can bound the size of the numbers at some level, and then pass one of the closed-form formulas into the solver.
When I stop to think about it I feel like photography these days in such a weird state. We started with analogue photography that literally captured the incoming light, today we’re taking multiple photos and merging the results together… before long we’re going to be at the point where your camera software recognises you’re stood in front of, say, the White House, goes online, grabs stock photography of the White House and merges it into the shot you took.

I don’t know at what point it stops being a photo any more. In many ways I suppose it doesn’t really matter but I wonder if I’ll be looking at my kids graduation photos and seeing a smile an AI has approximated my child probably had in the moment based on previous photos and stock photography of graduations.