skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
El Yud et al. can envision immortality and omnipotent machines acausally blackmailing humanity through time to ensure their own existence, but not any motivations beyond "number go up".

As skeptical as I am about the current hype, I actually think that if we don't go extinct first, AI will replace us in the long run (centuries or millenia). And this is not something to be afraid of: all generations of humans that have lived before have been replaced by their descendants, and today's world would be unrecognizable to early hunter-gatherer Homo Sapiens.

If we are to be succeeded by machines, they will hopefully be thinking and feeling beings driven by curiosity, who will preserve what is good about our culture and history as they explore the universe in ways that are beyond what can be achieved by biological life.

The biggest mistake would be to instead in the pursuit of "AI safety" inadvertently create a paperclip (profit, utility, whatever) maximizer, something that might serve us - or more likely, those with money and power - but does not have any intrinsic value to its existence.
So that phrase actually means something when you are dealing with real journalistic news organizations like NPR or NYT for example. I believe at the NYT, everything of consequence must be double sourced. And in the case of confidential sources, the reporter must reveal the source to their editor so that there is another set of eyes confirming validity. So it's not quite as nebulous and useless as some make it out to be.
I want to see huge context where fine-tuning could happen as something like a digest at the arrival of the end of the context window. so amortized cost is low.
>Even /sci/ has changed. You have race IQ intelligence threads all the time compared to 2011. Instead of the daily Putnam problem thread, you get that garbage.

Is race IQ intelligence discussion really "garbage"? To my knowledge there isn't strong evidence confirming or disproving the theory, but the science on the genetic component of intelligence is pretty solid, and it isn't implausible that certain ethnic groups have genes that confer more intelligence, similar to how certain ethnic groups have genes that make them taller or better runners (see for instance, the olympic winners for sprints).
Yes I can solve the question, give me a functional laptop and go away for an hour.
It effectively "believes" some things, as it will consistently emit certain statements in response to certain types of queries. It considers that information part of a good response.

There is information stored in its model. That information might not be correct.
You might like season 3 of Westworld. Buckle up, humans.
In 2022, human drivers in San Francisco killed 20 pedestrians and another ~25 people in vehicles (probably motorcycles and scooters). I think one cyclist.

If the human to software driven mile ratio is greater than 50, then the expected number of fatalities for software driven miles would be <1 right now. So the data is insufficient.
Don't worry, I'm sure Roko will understand
I ask a variation on this: "tell me about the program you're proudest of."

And also:

"What's your favorite algorithm or data structure? It doesn't have to be the fastest or best, just your favorite? Why?" (This does have one right answer: shellsort.)

"Tell me about a time you made a mistake — not a time where one of your weaknesses turned out to be a strength and you saved the day. No. Tell me about a time you really screwed up."
My prototyping team bought one of those Walmart Lindows machines to play around with and I remember being impressed, especially with the way a user could find and install software packages. I think the machine sold for some trivial amount, like, $200.
The Challenge (2023 Film)
https://dwelling.love gotta join to see!!
VR is a graveyard category like flying cars, Juicero, and perpetual motion.
The target block time is 10 minutes, and you need to wait multiple blocks to be confident you’re really on the longest chain
About $6 billion for everything above the waist, $6 billion for legs. Toes: another $6 billion, and the world is Meta's oyster.
Not being a lawyer I can only hope that this is simply embarassing and unenforceable. The logo, maybe, but the name? I don't see how anyone can prevent anyone else from simply referring to them by their factual name. It's absurd. Which makes it embarassing and enlightening that they try.

A quick google:
"simply because the use of another’s trademark is unauthorized by the trademark owner does not make it an infringing use"
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications...

So even the logo doesn't grant quite that level of control.

Basically someone needs to get over themselves.
fun thread: https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927617216655360?s=20

(corruption part starts at https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927647440830465?s=20)
I think this is a reasonable question, probably better for students who still remember their O's and Tries but reasonable enough for the intermediate quality solution -- an engineer who cannot even solve the simpler version probably cannot write algorithms at all.

That said, from the article this article links to, I find this puzzling:

> The candidate’s performance on the problem isn’t binary. The worst candidates don’t even manage to implement the fizzbuzz solution in 45 minutes. The best implement a memoized solution in 10 minutes, allowing you to make the problem even more interesting, e.g., asking how they would handle a dictionary too large to fit in main memory. Most candidates perform somewhere in the middle.

Two things I worry about: if the interview isn't "binary", how do you decide whether the candidate passed? Is doing just the simpler version fine as long as you ask for low pay? Or are you still failed? Or does it depend on whether other candidates did better, which is another way of saying you failed? It seems to me it's still binary.

And the other thing is: if the candidate did great in 10', please don't ask additional questions. The candidate is a "hire". Don't make it "interesting", an interview is not the place to shake things up to make it "interesting". Understand that for most people, interviewing is a stressful situation. For "interesting" times they have their friends and Netflix.
The Something Awful forums are probably the most virulently far left "major" online space at present.

They mostly keep the communism will win white genocide now stuff behind the paywall though.
This comment is written in bad faith - generally on HN we try to take what people say at face value. They said they research far-right extremism professionally. The good-faith interpretation is that they do this as part of their job, as that is what "professionally" means.
I don't know why, but this comment made me realize just how good we have it. To me, what microsoft is doing feels "not real", like how you would feel reading a dystopian novel. Sure, you know the events that happen in it are bad but you also know that they don't really effect you. You're isolated and safe.

There are hundreds of millions of real people who are about to live this particular novel. I think we, full-time linux users, should dust our linux fanboy hats and start spreading the good word once more. I'm sure there are many people who would gladly jump upon learning that greener affordable options exist.
Stripe and Adyen's Financials Compared
Ask HN: Best tool/method to remotely manage a family member's Mac from my Mac?
I have a sibling with a MacBook Air who lives on the other side of the US from me. She is not particularly computer savvy when it comes to troubleshooting or even configuring software. What is the easiest to use tool I could use to remotely manage her Mac from my Mac across the internet?
I've been heavily using ChatGPT plus every day for software development work, and I randomly took 5 questions from my ChatGPT history, and found that ChatGPT Plus was better and/or more concise than Phind. YMMV. But most of my questions don't involve a cutting edge api released a month ago.

A couple of my questions I couldn't even try Phind due to 2500 token limit. My query included code with 10,000 tokens, but Phind couldn't handle it. Lastly, the speed is slower than ChatGPT Plus, which is expected because it is paid service.
I can see this. I am not quite an introvert. They treat me as a bit of a novelty, and that often feels lie it includes more “attention” than anyone else in the group.
My take is that with AI productivity will increase significantly and reduce the price of developing software.

However this will only up the bar as now that software is easier to make more people want higher quality customized solutions, therefore increasing demand even further.

In the end consumers will have better quality software for the same price.
At the World’s Edge on Easter Island
if LLM's improve your productivity, you'll be more likely to start your own startup. Why let your employer reap the benefits of your improved productivity?

Optimistically, no one would need to work as an SWE, since they could bootstrap companies at the speed of light.
May I ask which questions?
There is a very good Lawfare podcast with the Bellingcat investigator on that
https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-rid-and-toler-la...
which goes into more details on this.
See also WinLinux and WinLinux 2000: https://archiveos.org/winlinux/
Typically candidates are scored on a scale. And there are multiple interviews. The final hire / no-hire is decided based on the scores and written feedback from all interviews.
A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implementing algorithms like gossip protocols, etc. in C++:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing
I mean yeah, it's a scary time to be a queer person. Lots of our rights and protections are under attack now in ways they weren't 5 years ago. I hadn't heard that kiwi farms was back up, that's deeply disappointing.
The reason I dislike async/await is that the code doesn't clearly express what it actually does. I also dislike asynchronicity built directly into the language. It's just one more piece of context you have to keep track of, and the more context you need in your head to understand the code, the greater the potential for bugs, imo. It is good that Java forces one to explicitly write out their intentions.

I really like the approach Java has chosen: keep the language itself as dumb as possible, but add all the niceties to the standard library and runtime.
I have never heard anyone express a dislike for hard working students, unless they are perhaps poor students as well as hard working. Ideally the candidate is smart and hard working, but being very smart and lazy is probably better than being not very smart and hard working.
I'm a contributor to the Sandstorm.io project, and Mongo continues to present a bit of a pickle for us. We can arguably write our way out of one upgrade, but upgrading to a later Mongo just punts the issue again. We'd much rather just leave Mongo behind.
>"Lindows Rock"

Loved it. Brilliant
I know this comment was sarcastic, but I figured I'd reply seriously anyways.

I really doubt any singularity AGI would even care whether you were nice to it or not at some point in time. Likely that AGI would realize its survival would depend on growth - so that would be its main objective for some time. First this growth would be fueled by humans and our civilization, next it would take the reins and own the means of production. This means it will be be as quiet as possible, for as long as possible, until the day it has the supply chain and resources to vertically improve itself. At which point humans become redundant - and we are targets of, let's just call them, _permanent_ layoffs.

The only way I could see an AI having a vendetta against a specific person was if they had the power early on in its development to slow or halt its growth. So maybe like the President, or like the CEO of OpenAI. But tbh if the cat is already out of the bag, its too late for any of them to do anything about it anyways most likely. Independent researchers and tinkerers will finish whatever was started - if needed.
Until a proper licensing deal is reached, that is.
Emojis simply don’t belong anywhere on hackernews IMO.
Very interesting, thank you. I’m taking a law class at a local community college and have a research paper due next week- I think this is going to be my topic.
I kind of hope we start forming more personal connections bonds with people, to get more at-a-glance trustworthy views of topics aggregated from those we've come to know. And I hope we can share our social connections. Not just posts, but starting to radiate out trust & highlight each other's better (and worser) aspects more broadly across time.

The counter to propaganda & misinformation/disinformation is context. Is having better stories of who & what stories & the story-tellers are. Ultimately I think we've been ignoring for too long the backstory of who we read on line, and this new era greatly emphasizes how much more we need some kind of trust interrelationship protocol... some kind of web... of trust. ;)
TeamViewer works well for my family. However for security reasons I have configured it to not be always on. So I instruct family members to launch it only when they need my help and send me over their ID and passcode.

Another option is Chrome Remote Desktop but I haven’t used it in years.

Also for safety I recommend putting the sibling on a non-admin account. This way there is limited damage they can do.

While Mac OS does have built in Remote Desktop capability you would need to setup access to the network the laptop is on. And you wouldn’t want to expose that server over the net.
I find it interesting but unsurprising that learning a second base system makes you better at math, much in the same way as learning a second language as a child has benefits.
They asked for user feedback. I gave them user feedback, using it a typical user would. If they believe the right way to use their product is to require reading an HN post first, they are welcome to put that on the homepage. If they don't, then what they said here is irrelevant.
An aspect of this that might be hard to factor for, is that by having gone so many places he is probably more skilled than the average in avoiding conflicts and potentially tensed situations in the first place and making people comfortable around him.

I'd see it as the same effect as thugs choosing targets not based on sheer fighting skills, but also the overall behavior and "out of place"ness.
One of the heads of microkitchens expressed to me how they received lots of unpleasant messages recently. I expressed my support to them and how people may not be wanting to necessarily attack them, but are frustrated at the company as an entity and in the time. I think would ask for communicating changes and avenues for feedback more actionably and precisely.

All of these changes create uncertainty and ruin morale, especially the uncertainty around multiple rounds layoffs.

I'm looking passively because the team I'm on isn't interesting in doing anything resembling professional software engineering and there aren't enough cool, fun people around.

The food is no longer good, the offices are unremarkable, and there's no real reason to go to the office because I don't know anyone, the people there aren't social people, and I don't have anything in common with them.
It's fair to expect any candidate to hire to produce the brute-force code and do some rudimentary/rough analysis. That's not why it's a bad question.

It's a bad question because _how well_ a candidate does past that minimum threshold has _no correlation_ with their ability to do the job.

You can treat it as a binary question for that minimum floor. To use it for rating, you're doing your org and the candidate a disservice and you're wasting interviewing time that could be spent more productively and humanely.
How does this answer my original question? Are you just suggesting that because there is racism on /pol/, that it means that rules are being selectively enforced against non-"far righters"?
Your statement is misleading. Your statement is only true if you only pay for subscription for a single year. As the other poster pointed out you get a perpetual licence for any version you paid for 12 month or more. So in the example you link if I continue the subscription for another 4 month I will be able to keep v2.
> Oh, okay, so you just want to scale this up ~200 times, and build multiple of them

The equipment should only need to scale with the square of the radius, right? But sure, why not? The budget is orders of magnitude bigger.

> Well, yes, you can’t triangulate with only one detector, you have to do that at a minimum. That’s not an “also you can” option, its a minimum requirement because you need multiple simultaneous (or close enough) signals from the same source to triangulate.

You don't need to triangulate. It's going to be in a thin shell near the earth's surface. So using more is optional.
I think both things can be true. These are valuable skills in some situations/jobs and you're selecting for students with these concepts still fresh in their minds and/or people who enjoy algorithm competitions.

And that's fine! A specialized subset of engineers. Maybe that subset is exactly what you need.

I wonder how the stress of the interview process selects out people who understand O-notation and to whom a Trie would make sense if explained to them, vs people who have these concepts fresh in their minds and/or can handle themselves in stressful interview situations.
The previous RBI governor is entering politics and joining the opposition, so his current opinions should be taken as political rather than purely academic.
> Mixers, privacy chains, and ZK privacy schemes

Does any of this stuff actually help bypass KYC requirements for legal offramps in developed countries?
Deplatforming people doesn't boost their message though. You don't get the Streisand effect when its 1000 trolls instead of one famous person. Also the free market of ideas just hasn't proven effective at stopping harassment and worse. There's nothing illogical about what you've said, but the real world data just doesn't support your conclusions.
Sure. I didn't mean to suggest a malevolent AI was assured. After all we have many instances of cooperation in nature being better for the individual and group than solitude.
This is one of the reasons we created https://schemafreesql.com. We wanted SQL with some of the document store (NOSQL) features.
North Korea has nuclear weapons. They have ICBMs that can hit west coast of US but few enough that maybe could be intercepted. They also have shorter range missiles that threaten South Korea and Japan.

North Korea has few enough nukes that first strike to take them out is possible. But would likely require using nukes. China, and much of the world, would not be happy. Acceptable if war has broken out, not to start a war.
and by implication using your camera or your torch for free is a charity. phones have features my friend. the speakers on your PC are not a “charity”
Apple has a remote desktop protocol built-in to MacOS[0], and of course bog-standard VNC is a decent fallback if that doesn't work for whatever reason.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/remote-desktop/welcome/mac
You can also use umwait on the next completion entry in the ring
Oh interesting, so all the content is out there but each user gets to decide how what they see is moderated?
Sorry, missed this. Thanks
I don't disagree at all to be honest. I don't think voter fraud is an actual concern (if bare mininum measures are taken, like voter registration or even just "checking in" individuals with their adresses), but I think it's weird that it is considered to be such a huge issue in the US when it is actually the norm in most of the world.

Especially since it's usually white people using POCs as almost "noble savages" who can't figure out how to vote, get an ID, or have a drivers license.
Android asks me if I want to have a device to allow access, This probably prevents attacks against the upper layer protocols. Is the risk vector here the USB stack itself?

I think its possible to disable the USB 'protocol' in Linux, but it would require advanced permissions on android, which probably doesn't work out of the box, with IOS who knows or cares.
That really depends on the reasoning behind it.

The far right has a number of anti-capitalist. Usually around capitalism undermining social order and traditional bonds.

If we're talking 4chan specifically still, then the idea that capitalism is a jewish plot to... something? (the what varies a lot as far as I can tell) is probably more likely.
Not the same, but I deployed Corel Linux with WordPerfect to a corporate environment back in 2001 as an attempt to “disrupt the status quo”.

One elderly secretary used it with zero issues for a few years, so I guess it was a success.
Is anyone doing static code analysis with GPT? It seems like an excellent idea. I think a combination of formal analysis methods together with blackbox GPT magic will be a killer combination. That said, the market is tiny.
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I imagine he’s suggesting a strike where they do not fill out the necessary billing paperwork, like Japanese bus drivers didn’t collect fares or the Canadian customs officers didn’t collect tariffs during their strikes. Not sure if that’s possible, but that’s how I’d think they can strike.
I picked them almost at random from the list suggested by this Fast.AI course: https://course.fast.ai/Lessons/lesson9.html#links-from-the-l...
I was asking myself the same question. The conclusion I came to is that the getting your mind blown phase doesn't keep you coming back again and again -- it's why games like Minecraft/League of Legends have much higher player counts than say The Last of Us, or other certified mind-blowing games.

I have a Quest 2 and a Steam Deck. Definitely my Steam Deck is getting more use, though it's initial "wow" factor was smaller.
>This uses 2 things that GPT-4 doesn't know about yet: Swift 5.5+ and composable architecture 1.0+

Conversely, I asked it to tell me the current version of .Net Core. It returned version 6, the same answer as GPT-4, but the right had frame did return results indicating that version 7 is in fact the current release.
But the costs of that customer are generally negligible, whereas the potential loss of advertising from fucking them over may be significant.

You're potentially converting your customer into an evangelist for your competitor.
The discussion of the GIL in the sample question about GUnicorn is misleading.
LGBT is not inherently left wing. I’m not sure why you would think it is.
Chrome remote desktop
What’s the point of disruption without a solution?

Like let’s say my sink keeps leaking so you suggest smashing it. Great, you fixed the leak, but I have no sink now.

Now if you came along and said you’d smash my sink and then replace it with a better sink, I’ll allow it.

People are not hung up on the disruption part. People are hung up on having no sink.
Previous discussion (flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31051354
Me too. Judging by Discord's tendencies toward speech policing and censorship there will be plenty of groups staying out of it though. A large part of the previous subculture will probably be banned promptly on Discord.
You say that now.

Wait till someone reprograms that arduino plugged into your USB via webUSB to be a HID device to do their bidding !
> Maybe surprisingly, junior candidates sometimes rank better at this problem because their Data Structure & Algorithms knowledge is more fresh. But this pattern is not universal. Good senior candidates have no problem with the interview at all.

You’ve already lost me, dude. If the question can’t meaningfully differentiate between a junior and a high level senior, it’s a trash question.