skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“For all we know, human-level intelligence could be a tradeoff. Maybe any entity significantly smarter than a human being would be crippled by existential despair, or spend all its time in Buddha-like contemplation.”

That would probably be quickly optimised out by the training process as it’s an inefficient way to achieve a goal. The only basis for this argument is that humans are smarter than other animals and this seems unique to humans but it’s probably just a quirk of humans

“With a big enough gap in intelligence, there's no guarantee that an entity would be able to "think like a human" any more than we can "think like a cat".”

LLMs are clearly already very good at “thinking like a human”

“he still couldn't talk the cat into it.”

Because cats can’t talk? Humans can, and can clearly be manipulated into doing things, sometimes even by current AI

“So how are we supposed to solve ethics and code a moral fixed point for a recursively self-improving intelligence”
“ The idea that we can securely design the most complex system ever built, and have it remain secure through thousands of rounds of recursive self-modification, does not match our experience.”

Yes, that is why AI alignment is hard, that’s an argument for that view, not one against it

“I don't buy this argument at all. Complex minds are likely to have complex motivations; that may be part of what it even means to be intelligent.”

This is a clear misunderstanding of what it means to be intelligent. It doesn’t mean “do things that humans find impressive”, it means “achieve your goal effectively”. An AI that goes against its own goals is not intelligent, would not achieve its training objective and the training process (which somewhat resembles evolution) would optimise it out in the next step of training in the same way that a species that immediately throws itself off the nearest cliff will not survive to the next generation. You can imagine a superintelligence as something that goes over all the actions it could take, sees what reward it would get according to its goal and picks that action. The intelligence here is in the world model it uses to predict the consequences of its actions, picking what actions to take is a simple “max over array” function so saying it will randomly decide to persue a more meaningful objective is like saying that a sorting algorithm will put a list in the wrong order because it thinks some other order is more meaningful

(I will continue in a new comment in case there’s some kind of length limit)
That's a great way to paraphrase this. A little chauvinistic, but he got slapped I'll cut him a break.
I'm not sure you could ever say that a company can act ethically. People within the company may act ethically, but the company itself is just a legal entity that represents a group of people. The company has no consideration of ethics to act ethically.

A company that is composed of 100% ethical actors may one day have all their employees quit and replaced with 100% unethical actors. Yet the fundamental things that make the company that company would not have changed.
Nobody likes to talk about the effect of moving large populations around globally without the housing infrastructure to support them.
The elements then still appear in the DOM and may be affected by DOM manipulation etc.
From the opening paragraph
"Earlier this week, Elon Musk — Grimes’s ex-boyfriend, the pancake-haired chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and also the man who joked about starting a “TITS” University on Twitter — was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2021."

I think it's safe to assume a certain bias.
I think that's just being ahead of your time, no qualification needed.
Global increase in pessimism (bleak view of the future), existential dread, and dystopic narratives -> darker imagery.
Not really. Nothing wrong with complaining, but saying shit like "sounds like desperation to become relevant" (Yes that's a real comment in this thread) is just reading too much into a silly joke.
There's definitely an MSV Pressure Drop on that page, under the list of ships in Hydrogen Sonata. :)
4.5 the big company has different constraints that the small company did not have
Synthetic fuels are generally cleaner in that they have significantly less sulfur and a decent bit less aromatics. There’s a great picture on Wikipedia that illustrates the difference.
I go by the title I'm given. My job has been remarkably similar from company to company despite them all using different verbiage.
I see someone mentioned zerotier, tailscale has a good comparison doc: https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/
Or drugs!
An open license for DAO administered OSS
Now seven years later Will Hurd and George Tenet are currently the managing director and chairman respectively of Allen & Co! More facts worth considering are in the mysterious hacker news comment from the other day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366484
Perhaps everyone knows this, but it's possible to create Gmail addresses without a SIM card inserted. This can be useful, e.g., when one has exceeded the max number of addresses that can be assigned to a single mobile number.

Make no mistake, I am not endorsing third party authentication when making direct connections between computers.
On what grounds do they sue them?
Could just throw it in docker and let folk try their best. Some projects that's their only supported self-hosting option.
I for one would be very happy if they clean up the 32bit parts. On Fedora I haven't been able to get rid of a start-up warning saying 32 bit libs are missing (installing them doesn't seem to fix it). Fortunately I can launch games and do Steam Link just fine, so it's more an annoying dialog to click "Ok" on. But it does break anytime they push updates as Steam can't restart itself. I also occasionally have to `pkill -9 steam` as it doesn't properly handle signals so will ignore anything it can. Minor complaints to be sure, but would be great to get cleaned up.
There's already a bunch of new age types getting into the idea that water holds "emotional" values. IE, they claim that if you scream and have negative conversations at a glass of water, you can analyze the water and see changes to it that are negative, and doing the inverse (happy, positive conversations) makes the water "happier" and has positive changes.

I remember hearing this at a seminar of new age things (I was doing an investigative thing at the time, which is why I was there)

So they already are!
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I don't know if you should call that results driven.

Results tend to come from cooperation and collaboration.

What you might be looking for is that were in an attribution-driven system and culture?
Just dont tell them
The "so what" is that you were making a false equivalence between diesel engines and hydrogen fuel cells.

But you've made some progress so that's good.
What you're describing is extremely common. So many ppl leave FAANG et al after a few years and do a riskier startup
> other men sued him for ruining their marriages by making them look like losers and actually won

Wait, what?!
[deleting my comment as it is not relevant.]
Not just Google, all of Silicon Valley. Here on HN, I regularly see comments along the lines of: "Wait, do people actually still use Windows on servers!?"

Yes, yes they do.
I’m not sure you understood my point. Moving continents isn’t an average person solution. In fact it exposes another problem - companies can easily register anywhere and restructure their finances for lower taxes.
He (or his admins) created the categories, many of which have the reasonable assumption of illegality. You can't claim plausible deniability for your users selling cocaine when you literally created a category called Cocaine.

https://astr0baby.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/sr-01.png
I am the basilisk

coo coo cachoo
Can't read the article but I bet it's familiar to any Vancouverite
SpaceX moves Starship to launch site, and liftoff could be just days away
Ignoring questions about if this is makes economical or environmental sense, this just seems plain cool -- it appears to be a fairly standalone industrial complex that just needs water as input, and produces fuel plus three useful byproducts.

This seems like something you might build in Surviving Mars, or something.
I gave examples based on well-understood instances for which the reader is presumed to have the capacity to draw inferences to business-related concepts.

Businesses also rely on astronomy and geology, in instances. The former is used for navigation (though far less than in the past, I'll grant), and there are certain extractive sectors with interests in geology. Risk-management as well (insurance and catastrophic risk, whether from landslides, earthquakes, volcanos, tsunami, or other phenomena).

You'll also find businesses keeping tabs on weather, climate, competition (competitive intelligence), demographic data, politics, legal cases, laws, social and cultural movements, etc., etc., etc., which in many cases they have comparatively little capacity to change directly.

You're also jumping late into a thread which has already given numerous other rationales for why such activities might be undertaken.

Sometimes approaching a discussion from the PoV of seeing what you can learn from it rather than automatically adopting a presumptive stance of opposition or disagreement affords benefits. I recommend it strongly.
Just count it towards the storage limit as metadata or some shit.
Collaboration is the killer feature of the docs ecosystem. You will never convince them to break it for X reason.
I'd recommend The Soul of the New Machine that bugged me to really learn computer engineering.
If you could email me, I'm trying to see if self-hosting is doable. Thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35404958
And yet another ++1 for Inoreader. I don't find the need to consider the "alternatives"
I’d guess the contracts have a no compete clause.
SpaceX is private and Elon isn’t exactly known for paying a ton so no?
Canada is fucked
You got the communist part wrong. If you are born in 1989 as your name suggests, I see why you got it wrong, like that entire generation and the generations after that, but it does not makes it right. Food shortage in Romania had a very different cause.
amazon policy will affect you rating if you use all you vacation and pto. latest is getting rid of pto option soon so no need to pay you $ if you leave.
Optionally, and completely up to the author.
“When we look at where AI is actually succeeding, it's not in complex, recursively self-improving algorithms.”

That’s because humans are better at this currently. When AIs get better at this than humans they can take over the process and improve a lot faster

“My roommate was the smartest person I ever met in my life. He was incredibly brilliant, and all he did was lie around and play World of Warcraft between bong rips.

The assumption that any intelligent agent will want to recursively self-improve, let alone conquer the galaxy, to better achieve its goals makes unwarranted assumptions about the nature of motivation.”

Humans are satisficers, not maximisers. If we can figure out how to build a satisficer, great, but we can’t do that currently. Also maybe humans are this way because we have historically needed to conserve energy to to survive, AI may not have that constraint in the same way
https://youtu.be/Ao4jwLwT36M

“I can't point to the part of my brain that is "good at neurosurgery", operate on it, and by repeating the procedure make myself the greatest neurosurgeon that has ever lived. Ben Carson tried that, and look what happened to him. Brains don't work like that. They are massively interconnected.”

But it doesn’t need to do that, it just needs to give itself more compute, which is something you can’t do to humans. Also by this argument it should be impossible for humans to make any progress on AI as well

“Moreover, the first AI will only have humans to interact with—its development will necessarily take place on human timescales. It will have a period when it needs to interact with the world, with people in the world, and other baby superintelligences to learn to be what it is.”

This needs to happen in the training process or the AI won’t successfully achieve its goal during training and get the training loss down, and again, that trait will be optimised out in favour of AI architectures that don’t require this.

How long did ChatGPT need to interact with humans after its initial training before it worked properly? No time at all, it doesn’t even need to learn at all after the training. And training is done on a computer and can be sped up millions of times

“Similarly, if you stranded Intel's greatest chip designers on a desert island, it would be centuries before they could start building microchips again.”

But AI can build on what humans have created to improve itself until it really is intelligent enough to invent everything itself

“What kind of person does sincerely believing this stuff turn you into? The answer is not pretty.”

Completely irrelevant to what will actually happen. This is like deciding climate change policy based of what “kind of person” believing in climate change will “turn you into”
Crappy font rendering is a Linux problem. The appearance of the same font in different applications can vary wildly. It’s really shit.
Heroku’s downfall had little to do with Salesforce and much to do with AWS, Google and Azure muscling in to the PaaS market.

Once K8s got wide adoption Heroku was over. Selling Heroku to IT was a huge pain in ass as the key decision makers mostly make résumé-driven buying and engineering decisions.

Did Salesforce neglect Heroku or allow it to operate independently? It’s a matter of point of view.

The reality is that Heroku saw itself more and more irrelevant vis à vis its competitor and without the funds to compete. It’s only hope for survival is to become more and more relevant to Salesforce customers while largely out-competed but the big 3 for everyone else.
Ask HN: Is there a “game”/simulator to reallocate/budget government spending?
I thought it might be interesting to spend a little time fiddling with the amount of money that come in to the government and the money that goes out and reorganise it the way I'd like to, and see how much money there would be available for the things I prioritise.

For example it would be interesting to see what happens if all subsidies to fossil fuel companies are cut to zero, if taxes on corporations increased etc etc.

Sort of like a game but with real figures.
The situation in the UK and in Sweden appears to be very different, though. Sweden's rent control was certainly welcomed as pro-tenant policy, except (as noted by GP) has led to a black/secondary market of sub-letting and selling existing rent-controlled contracts at enormous prices, while keeping economical incentives for new construction low. That's really basic economic literacy and even suggested by OECD to the Swedish government. Of course, that doesn't stop eg Berlin leftist parties to suggest rent controls (read: to buy votes).
The Best Books on Artificial Intelligence Recommended by ChatGPT
How does this work? We've had a decade of low inflation, low interest rates. Now we have high inflation, high interest rates?

Which one was architected? It can't really be both.
I'm in the highest percentiles of income in Sweden (public data is available) and it doesn't matter. It's basically impossible for me to afford a house / apartment for my family in the best neighborhoods.

What's the point? What is the point of trying to be a high performer if wealth can't be acquired by income? Why would I want to work for anyone in this country? Only way out is equity and that game is even harder to play in Sweden than in the US.
Go Go Curry is Kanazawa-style (thick almost like gravy, served over the rice with cabbage, on a metal bowl). It's very popular and lots of places do that style. If you like it I also recommend Champion Curry and Joto Curry.

I agree the rice is quite important. I've tried making it at home with basmati rice and it's not the same.
conflict resolution for concurrent modifications of the same object on different domain controllers are resolved first by local timestamp (unreliable) and then by GUID order (arbitrary) and in both cases mean that it's possible for someone to make a change to an object that is reflected in local reads for a period of time, but then "erased" and forgotten after replication, tl;dr: this approach provides basically no meaningful consistency at all
I thought headscale was pretty functional before all that? Either way, this is the Tailscale blog— it feels weird to me to second-guess them here.
for undergrad labs ttl has a big advantage over cmos, it doesn't die when you touch it after walking across the floor
The green card let's you do what you want, no?

The h1s and tns, etc are locked in
"Recognize the risk" what does that mean? That advanced AI would could overpower us? That it is likely that it would want to overpower us?
Password requirements in general are off-putting. It's my password.
What you need is a bookkeeper and/or a CPA, and probably some business/tax advice from a professional (ie attorney, CPA, etc) - probably not a loan.
Italians don’t have this issue with OSM , yet trails are very well maintained.
The site gives 3-5 months typically. "Intermediate" is broad. Do you hike every other week with more than 2k ft elevation gain? How much running do you do? If you hike that much and run like 15 miles per week or more, you're probably in the faster side of that range.
Is that fomo or anchoring?
> Calling it a scam doesn’t make it a scam...You cannot consent to being scammed, that goes against the very definition of being scammed. Making it illegal for consenting individuals to do what they want is typical authoritarian trash behaviour.

Who consented their crypto funds to be lost to rug pulls, ransomware, thefts, hacks, pump and dumps, commingling of funds, and their funds being used for leveraged trading?

So $12+ Billon lost in crypto is not a scam? and the users agreed and consented to all of this?

I'm assuming then that you know some information that suggests that the $12 Billion lost is somehow insured?

> Again, the source is available online, free for you to see.

This doesn't mean anything.

All the people who completely lost their money in FTX, LUNA, BlockFi, etc. do not care about source code. This makes no sense at all. If I was rug pulled in a scam the last thing anyone would care about is the source code.

> That’s cool, I don’t really care though. Leave my money alone,

You will care once liquidity goes dry and once the crypto crackdown ramps up, then all these tokens plus Bitcoin go to zero.

I shouldn't see you moving money or cashing out your crypto because another exchange has fallen down due to regulations or insolvency and the price of these tokens crash.
This was my first thought - originally described a prison designed in a way that a central guard tower can see into all the cells. Even if prisoners aren’t actually being watched, the theory is they behavior better because they know they could be being watched at any given moment.

Just happens to be this week’s 99% Invisible podcast is all about panopticon history!
The prediction about Linux breaking 2% is interesting. As a Linux gamer is does often feel like we're such a tiny minority that rapid multiple growth wouldn't even make a difference, but something has really changed over the last year. A lot of people who are Linux-friendly but choose Windows for their PC and macOS for their work machine are buying Steam Decks and loving it. The Deck is getting covered like crazy in mainsteam gaming media (possibly this is a google-created echo chamber around me as they know how to get me to click, but I don't think that's all it is). I don't see the waves converting en masse, but things are really happening in a way I've never seen before, and have hoped for years. Related, I have a lot of love for what Steam is doing for Linux.
I always make "test pancakes" until my griddle is just right, as I don't have a fancy temperature control. A drop of batter will behave just like a full-size pancake if you know what to watch for, a teaspoon if you don't.
If instead the data was that some high percentage of workers use all/most of their vacation days, then the story would have been framed around workers not having enough vacation days and how they're getting screwed by not being given enough. If the data says that most workers use almost no vacation days, the story would have been framed around how the workers are overworked and screwed out of using their vacation. In the end, no matter what the situation actually is, mainstream media such as this will just spin the message however they need to push the social/political narrative they want to push.
Tokyo Institute of Technology is already a thing.
Most people don’t understand economics and confuse cause and effect. Plus, emotional pleas have always had greater pull than rational ones.

They are also so polarized by the media they can’t even entertain practical solutions that existed for decades to centuries.
Transforming Text into Neural Human Avatars with Parameterized Shape and Pose
The answer: "it did actually not, you are not seeing the actual ram usage, because the os now counts it as filesystem cache. Since #613 the model is a memory mapped file. It does not do the impossible, it's just that gnome-system-monitor does not show cached files."
Duke of Westminster's Case
They contribute some drivers, but not all. There are still some ThinkPads without full functionality on Linux due to closed hardware. Until just a few years ago it was 100% reverse engineered.
Same in every single rich country in Europe. Same story with housing issues, interest etc.
This isn't how homes are sold to people. They're sold as "investments" and "stores of wealth."
> the "proton devs" (probably a money sink hole for valve)

It's probably a ridiculous figure. However, compared to the amount Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft spends engineering their console runtimes, I bet it makes a lot more sense. It also helps that Valve doesn't have to maintain Wine by themselves, with various cross-platform stakeholders funding and making contributions. It's obvious that Proton/DXVK/Wine is a passion project for Valve, but much harder to tell if they're seriously threatening the idea of a "Windows runtime".

> Elephant is the room: c++ is not mean for binary-only games

I think I agree with you. Steam's runtime provides a lot of stuff (probably standardized libstdc++), so it's hard to truly evaluate how true this is. That being said... both Steam and Wine do a really good job juggling it. Steam works roughly the same on NixOS, Arch, Flatpak and Snap - that's a better starting point than most software clients get.
That money doesn't come out of the managers' paycheck; does it even come out of their budget? Do they care?
It seems a bit weird to me to say "this doesn't give enough credit to Tailscale" considering that the person writing this is a Tailscale employee. I guess you could say it's overly modest though.
Personally I have seen some tax codes that were written to make using offshore companies mostly unpractical / illegal, but when an offshore lawyer explained to me the loophole and I reread it multiple times, it became clear that it was explicitly written to look like a nice anti-offshore law, but contain loopholes that are clearly legal, just makes using them more expensive.

I'm not saying it's nice / fair, but this is reality. It's similar to putting a buffer overflow bug in a C/C++ code on purpuse, but hiding it in a nice function.
It shows a lot of confidence on the part of Tailscale to host a guide for something like this. I really like that their idea of competition seems to be focused on making a better product when for so many companies, it's more like unconditionally, categorically grasping for control. I hope it stays that way.
I assume they've been given the chance to participate in secondary sales by now. 'Alum' in this case probably does mean 'new money' haha.