skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the fraud is a two way street.

Could I just craft a POST request and book what I want?

Each of these companies are only allocated a certain amount of inventory so the availability is probably there, especially at the larger hotels

Additionally do they float the price and if so can I edit that also in the post request and name my own price?

If their interface has a fuzzy relationship to reality than maybe you can fuzz it your way

I'm not a criminal but I'm still curious.
And even if there was, could you say for sure that an AI met the definition?

For example self-awareness might be part of a definition of intelligence. But an AI can lie about it’s self awareness.
He also did a bunch of super slow-motion videos about shooting a Prince Rupert's drop with various firearms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24q80ReMyq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3FkAUbetWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaYq9sX4zLs
> Hence why "efficiencies" is just an excuse.

No. There is no reason to believe that the efficiency can be significantly improved. If the efficiency of clean hydrogen is bad enough and will always be that bad, it's very possible it is more efficient to power vehicles through easily transported liquid hydrocarbons (which are almost certainly always going to be better in effective volumetric and mass energy density) and spend the power saved to run centralized carbon capture.

> both lithium and hydrogen are on the same column on the periodic table. That they should both behave very similarly to each other in all matters related to battery chemistry

Hydrogen is a notoriously difficult element to work with, that behaves in complex and poorly understood ways, even now. Aerospace applications, arguably those with the most experience in handling hydrogen, routinely struggle with its challenges.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Second-US-plant-lice...

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/app...

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/whats-lifespan-nuclear-re...

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/f...

https://www.nei.org/advocacy/preserve-nuclear-plants/second-...
Is there a reason why most hacking is through social engineering? Possibly because that's often the weakest part of the entire security chain, specifically because humans are involved, and thus it's nearly always the lowest-hanging fruit for an attacker to target?

Is that a pattern we should be expanding? For sure, make the comparison when using GPT to aid with human tasks that can't be automated through any other means; but if you have a task that can be done just with a computer and without getting a human involved, it seems like a strict downgrade in security to involve an LLM into the middle of it.

It's really good for security and reliability that there isn't a second human involved on top of me that I need to go through to add a calendar appointment to my phone.
https://archive.ph/zsoLn
Upcoming wave of Google AI chatbots supposedly meant to appease Samsung
If anything it's more like the "Early PC moment", it makes your life a whole lot easier if you use it at work and what you work on can be automated, but for most people it's more of a fun novelty, a nice to have instead of something they can't live without.

So if a parallel has to be drawn, I'll say it's WordStar and Visicalc, even the use case is similar, mostly word processing and analysis.
Mine did the same and charged for bundles of HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+
Until recently they reverted it after bunch of complains and tonnes of people changing their ISP
Don't you need to have like >$100k to use those?
A backdoor isn’t limited to benevolent usage.
Test scores?
For an academic book-length treatise on the topic, there’s of course Nick Bostrom’s _Superintelligence_ from 2014. I wonder if Chalmers is aware of it and the basic concepts behind the AGI ruin argument such as orthogonality (a mind as smart as a human does not automagically develop human values) and value convergence (a mind with essentially any goal will derive similar subgoals such as self-preservation, self-improvement, and acquisition of resources).
finally, after switching to 5GHz WiFi was the Zoom problem resolved?

asking because: Your comment reminded me of one article / discussion about Apple Devices causing huge network load , and hence delays, due to some map ping thingy.

[Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds. 677 points, 172 comments]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356730

(I hate the '5G WiFI' that most ISPs seem to be calling it everywhere. )
Not-joking answer: James Cameron. Before him, Stanley Kubrick. Our cultural headspace has been primed to see killer robot AI, so we see killer robot AI.

Which is not to downplay AGI risk per se- it's a powerful tool, and powerful anything can be dangerous. But the uniquely foomy paperclip maximizer fear? That's a cultural attractor from the bay area through and through.
Thank you. This certainly adds considerable nuance to what I naively took to be a cut-and-dried situation.
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Booting Modern Intel CPUs
> "What's the academically supported description/ argument or whatever for why nuclear weapons are dangerous for the world if they exist?"

The Wikipedia article on mutual assured destruction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction) traces the origin and evolution of exactly that analysis, including even pre-atom bomb precursors based on earlier weapons that would hypothetically make war "too terrible to ever happen again".
> "After switching back and re-authenticating with the broadband APN, I’m no longer being throttled."

If the author is reading this, I recommend putting an update at the head of your article with this. It will be kinder to your readers.
This seems like it's just an issue with the way conversations look on Twitter. If this were two people walking down the street and talking, I don't think that would be taken as a repudiation, just a request to clarify a vague question.

Presumably, Yudkowksy could point to any of several of his own publications, like this one: https://intelligence.org/files/AIPosNegFactor.pdf
Damn - did this get flagged? Went from top-of-HN to missing from the front page _pretty_ quick.
The use of proof tools in software is very, very interesting but still a niche application because of the relative specialization of the programmer and the need: most software limps by just fine with shockingly high defect rates. But, of the folks I know that do this kind of work you’re looking at critical applications in the MiC or bigger tech companies that produce their own hardware. Compilers for Important Things also fit the profile. I’m not aware of apprenticeship models. More education or building provably correct systems on your own time until you can go professional are the roads I’ve seen (but not traveled). Model checking distributed algorithms and complex systems is another path, one I suspect has more industry need than is realized. Getting over the imagination hump in an org is the trick there, yet.

I hope by the time I retire proof tools are the norm. It’s heading in that direction, seems to me. When I started my career static vs dynamic was a big deal and here we are with typescript being mainstream. I do a lot of work in Rust and what that compiler can prove about lifetimes is still sometimes a surprise, compared to what I used to just have to muddle through over in my mind.
They never claimed Americans are the only ambitious people, or even the most ambitious. Just “very ambitious”, in a list of factors that (put together) allegedly combined to explain the notable outcome.

There are other countries that can’t be invaded, or speak a single language, or have a large market, or have ambitious people, or culturally permit failure without ostracizing people.
The article mentions a study which is showing that the 'Algebra for none' approach has failed - despite that official want to adopt this policy to all of California.

Does that mean that they ignore the feedback of the study, because of ... ideology?
Its easy to find. This tone suggests that the person's argument is somehow invalid because they reference easy to find documents without linking them. Perhaps this isn't the intent, but it reads to me as combative, which seems unnecessary.
It's easy to fall into the trap of relying on rote memorization of integration rules, but problems like (⋆) force students to truly understand the concepts behind the math.
People have different motivations. No one solution will give 100% coverage
Are you sure such movies weren't just written because a plausible premise is more compelling than an implausible one?
Well THAT support starts with the experimental records of Manhattan Project and fills a whole library. Support for current ML techniques being dangerous in that sense are handwavy descriptions of what might well be science fiction for another 500 years.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdagdelen/hyperDB/main/_st...

Y-axis on this chart is actually hilarious
Do you mean the App to open the password database, or the App for syncing the file?

The kbdx file is encrypted, so given a strong password it should not matter how secure the app for syncing the file is. Most people seem to use it with syncthing.
> Could it not also be the problematic traffic getting routed to a Cloudfront node that's overloaded or otherwise misbehaving?

This is plausible. Nothing I saw in the packet capture specifically pointed in this direction, but I don't really have the information I'd want to rule this out totally.

I've seen issues like this when the TCP stack on the server effectively runs out of allocated memory. This can cause the server not to use all of the available tcp window.

The only reason I think this is less likely, is I'd expect a company like AWS to monitor and tune the memory on their CDN, and notice something like a kernel bug here or block an attack exploiting the kernel memory.

Some network providers, especially wireless providers also deploy TCP acceleration equipment, so that network speeds are faster. On a wireless carrier if you've got temporary bad signal and drop some packets, if the carrier can retransmit them instead of going to the internet, this makes for a faster connection. Crappier implementations of these TCP accelerators, do a sort of transparent redirect to the kernel TCP stack. So if the ATT proxy has run out of kernel memory, it could be providing a slow connection. It wouldn't surprise me for a telecom carrier to miss and not tune or monitor kernel memory.

If the issue was caused by a proxy, I'd expect more to be broken then a single server, and other customers to also be complaining.

If ATT is using these accelerators, it also means the proxy could be hiding packet loss and delays between the proxy and upstream server or network. Because the client TCP connection is only to the proxy, we only get to see what happened between the client and proxy. So this precluded drawing strong conclusions from the client side capture only.

There is one thing about the packet capture that suggests a shaper to me. And that's how even the traffic is from server to client. While I didn't spend a bunch of time timing out all the packets, it looked a bit like I'd expect to see for packets getting released by a token bucket algorithm. This isn't necessarily safe to conclude, because the client has an offload that is buffering and merging packets using a receive segment offload, which causes us to miss some timing information in the capture.

So based on the above, shaping looks a little bit more likely to me, but I don't have the right information to rule out a broken or miss-configured server. An overloaded or otherwise broken network link like errors on a link doesn't appear likely to me at all.
in what universe sacrificing child’s education (even if the child is from wealthy family) leads to some greater good. It is a lose-lose proposition for everyone.
Is there really any point to digitizing 16mm film to 4k, instead of 1080p? The initial quality of 16mm film is so bad, I don't see how 1080p is really limiting.
What about the Non Proliferation Treaty?
Drake AI: An AI Generated Drake and Weeknd Song
This is going to certainly change the creative process for many components of songwriting and composition.
There's no way the dog is actually CEO. Twitter would be in much better shape if that were the case.

(come on, someone was gonna say it.)

Attempts at humor aside, I didn't even attribute any kind of legal motive to it. I just assumed he was high/being a troll, per usual.
Right, this totally makes sense. Every time I am accused falsely of something, I am making a deal with somebody to write and publish a book claiming I did that very thing, and then lie about writing it myself. That's what every falsely accused innocent person does in such a situation, right?
I guarantee that if some 50-year-old guy tried out and they found he could play better than Michael Jordan in his prime, they'd take him.

Of course, this is extremely unlikely, and he might have a hard time getting in front of the right people to prove himself.

Pro sports doesn't have age limitations that I'm aware of; it's all entirely performance-related. People who can't perform don't get new contracts, regardless of their age, and of course as people get older (and accumulate more sports injuries), they become less competitive.
You should probably spend some time speaking to folks outside of your dev team and learn how businesses tend to operate
It seems to me more like a request for an argument of such strength that, if I can find a weakness in it, I can be confident in the falseness of the conclusion without doing any further research to see if that weakness has been buttressed elsewhere in the literature. It seems like it would therefore need to be a living document, actively maintained and updated, sort of like the IPCC reports. And probably at least 100 pages long. In which case, that's basically the website Less Wrong? But most people want something condensed, in exactly the way that addresses their specific doubts without any of the other stuff they don't care about.
"Concerns about superintelligence have been voiced by leading computer scientists and tech CEOs such as Geoffrey Hinton,[6] Alan Turing,[a] Elon Musk,[9] and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman."

Oh my, the implications of this sentence are staggering. Equating Musk on the same level of Turing is the definition of a juxtaposition, but that's not even my point: the second juxtaposition is putting inventors of computing theory next to profit-driven egos trying to make a buck. These two layers themselves indicate the table stakes are already tilted in the favor or recklessness.
Isn't simply explained by the fact that immigration processes generally select for the fittest individuals? If you are not operating well it is going to be difficult to find the capacity to start the immigration process, and if you do make it that far you are likely to find out that the destination country doesn't want you.

The same kind of phenomenon is seen in college graduates who love longer than non-graduates. There is no reason to think that attaining a college degree somehow cures what ails you. Rather, those who are not in tip top health don't have the capacity to make it all the way to graduation.

It is even likely why we see those with more money living longer. While it is often thought they live longer because they are more able to care for themselves, at the same time if you are not in perfect health it is much harder to make money. The same capacity determines qualities like what kind of job you can focus your attention on, and even something as simple as a few extra unpaid sick days each year can greatly reduce your net wealth potential over time.
feeling better?
By "external shocks" I did not mean daily or weekly fluctuations, but price jumps lasting many months to several years. Like oil price spikes 2006-2008, or less extreme but longer 2010-2014. Or shorter, but more extreme natgas spikes of 2022.

Without local hydrocarbons or nuclear oil or gas price spikes drive industry out of the country. This is what happened in Germany, which apparently is doubling down on this strategy. With base nuclear power the state has a lot of flexibility to support industry in case geopolitics or neighbors' bad macro policies jack oil and gas prices up.
Bravo, I’m glad more people are making this observation
Of course. The author points to a real problem whereby civilian control of the military is undermined because the underlying capabilities have eroded. But this is due to the DoD procurement moat that the Big Five persist; if it were easier to procure DoD contracts, then we'd see more smaller contractors pop up to compete for them. That those smaller contractors are still profit-maximizing civilian corporations wouldn't matter; having a large, diverse industrial base was key to 20th century military victories, as the author concedes. But said industrial base does need to be both large and diverse.
You neither proved that what they did was actually horrible nor did you actually stop blaming them, even when they're not to blame for the outcome we see today.

So what is this? Why are you keep doing this?

This thread is a circle jerk fueled by false information created by a right wing influenced Astro-Turf. You swim with them, and you keep on putting more nonsense on top of it. Now their current energy policy is a disaster?? What? I bet you don't even know what their current energy policy actually is. You just whine because nuclear is gone. The result of decisions made and not made by all other relevant parties in Germany.
Original source https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
What Chalmers is quoting is a tweet from Yudkowsky claiming that “ruin” is the guaranteed result of inventing AGI.

If someone said “the invention of nuclear weapons is guaranteed to lead to global destruction,” you might ask to see their reasoning for such a strong assertion. (As opposed to your assessment of nuclear weapons as a risk to be managed.)
Yep. To be clear in these metro districts the residents also pay full property tax to the city. So the city typically still collects taxes and provides few services to these areas, and the residents pay extra to provide their own infrastructure.
why would he pay for an artist when he's happy with what he has? Why do drawcels feel so entitled to be looped in financially for no reason?

I find the complaint about copyright so strange in this case. Copyright has a purpose, stopping some random person from creating an imagine only they will see and use is not that purpose. In this case it's just spiteful. Ultimately, if you think he's infringing your copyright you should sue him, but I don't think you'd win.
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> my two-second no-research hot take

This is more like watching an argument between Feynman and Oppenheimer. They look like hot takes on twitter, but these guys have spent plenty of time thinking about it.

Yudkowsky is an AI ethics and safety researcher, also founder of LessWrong, an HN favorite – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky

And Chalmers is a philosopher focusing on consciousness and cognitive science – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers

I wouldn’t put their replies in exactly the same category as your typical social media reply guys.
> natural hierarchies

Lol

> Social conservatism is where “black and brown people” have the most in common with white republicans:

Sure conservative blacks and browns, just like the whites can be compelled to vote against their own interests by group 2 and group 3.

> in 2000, Muslims got George W. Bush elected

Your ability to fish for random bits of data to reinforce whatever point you are making is exceptional.

> I’m frankly offended at the insinuation that I’m a libertarian!

I honestly don't care about getting your political category right, but now that I recall - you are a social conservative of the Clayton Bigsby variety.

Anyway, thanks for acknowledging that conservatism is inherently anti democratic.
Learn Haskell and join a company/team/etc that is cool about it. Gotta watch out though - there's a growing cohort of Haskellers out there focusing on appeasing management by putting down advanced stuff by saying such people are "easily distracted by shiny ideas."

Definitely some uncool ones out there, but Haskelldom is large so you can definitely find a place that at least allows for advanced type stuff but is still normal software dev. That may scratch that Coq itch.
Sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying that AI is of the same sort of danger as nukes?

"The danger of nukes is more obvious than why AI is dangerous."

Succinctly stated. This is why people are asking for canonical arguments for AI Ruin.
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Hmm, not true in my experience. Family members have insurance paid psychiatric care and got their first appointments within a couple of weeks. I get that this is variable in different areas and insurance plans, but you stated no insurance and 3-6 months wait as general facts. That is incorrect.
As I understand, the argument goes like this: kids are required by law to go to school until 12th grade. If you let some kids test out of math classes and take higher level classes, then by the end of the required schooling (12th grade), those students will be smarter and look better to colleges. Smarter and college educated people tend to make more and therefore there's an advantage of kids who test out.

Meanwhile, kids who don't test out look worse at the end of 12th grade. In theory, yes, we should let kids finish at the same time. But required school is over at the 12th grade mark, which is also around the time colleges are looking at you. Most kids won't do non-required schooling to get to the same level as the other kids.
The argument doesn't make any sense since one has nothing to do with the other.

See my edit.
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