skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are barely scraping the surface when it comes to understanding the future dangers of AI. Geoffrey Hinton is uniquely positioned to point out where the dangers are, and from what I've gleaned from interviews one of his main concerns atm is the use of AI in the military: fully autonomous military robots might not be possible to curtail.

The tried and tested method is international agreements. The current focus on arms race and militarily subduing enemies does not give much hope however. Still, global binding agreements are likely where the solution lies IMO, both in this case and others where some types of weapons are too dangerous to use, so let's not give up on that so easily.
For those who haven't seen it, worth looking at BrakeFlow, a feature of the new Si-anode Enovix batteries.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eSEoOy8JY
If a whistleblower for these companies came out and said "For the last decade advanced research has been conducted on extraordinarily big LLMs and they won't even give the public a clue of what it is and how it works" you would get a combination of people that a) don't care and b) vilify the companies for not being open and having some demonstration of this secret super power.

"why can't joe-schmo get his hands on this technology", "how can we trust something we can't see and use", etc.

A lot of the capabilities of these models are emerging as people discover them. I truly don't believe you can make everyone happy with this tech, but isn't it better than the general public can at least explore it?

Do people think that nobody was ever going to try to improve on transformers with more compute, more data, and more parameters? We knew splitting an atom was going to cause a big boom.... thats not really how this tech emerged.
Misconfigured Salesforce Leads to Data Leaks
Even though the concerns are genuine, the right answer is we do not know, and I actually think, it is the small guy that has less to lose from using AI models and may actually use it like a speed boat to attack the corporate tankers.
Ok, I tried sxiv. It works locally, but when I invoke it over a remote X11 connection, I get a blank screen.

I also tried feh. It simply hangs when I invoke it with a png file over a remote X11 connection.

If you are starting to wonder whether there is something wrong with my setup: I can run other applications like xterm, xeyes, gimp, just fine over a remote X11 connection.
Allowing suppliers to make money is a standard way to induce more supply.
There’s also shotwell, feh, gpicview, and ristretto.
What’s funny is that every cloud gaming provider is in favor of this merger. Microsoft tried to give away access to all of its games to show good faith. Acquiring game licenses are the biggest barrier to entry for competitors so the competition was wildly supportive. Now they get nothing, Microsoft gets to keep its IP to itself, and the cloud gaming market continues to struggle.
Did that TV have an ultrasonic remote? Cause our heathkit TV did…
That's by design. When the economy is improving people are getting better off. Once it gets ahead of itself and inflation rises the only way it can slow back down is for people to feel more pain.
It’s extremely hard to do shareholder lawsuits around fiduciary duty because of the business judgment rule. Companies can basically do anything as long as it could theoretically make shareholders richer.

It’s kind of dumb tbh
There was a certain joy in buying a Borland product and getting a 25 cm cube of a box that contained a detailed reference manual, a getting started guide, a quick reference booklet, and a bunch of diskettes or (later) CDs. Flipping through the reference manual and discovering new things just as you needed them was so much fun.

I was less productive than I am now, but making something was more satisfying.
Has he contributed that much personally? I thought a lot of the success of ChatGPT is some good ideas from lower ranked researchers + great engineering.
I imagine it will be great for small and medium sized business as well. Generative AI is already making it easier to bootstrap yourself in side projects, and that impact will just get magnified as a project or company grows. Eventually an AI will be good enough to provide strategic guidance.

Your second point is like saying: 'I imagine a gig economy where taxi drivers will need to leverage a car to be effective.' If someone offers you a hammer to build a cabin, why would you say no?
I think there is a disagreement in what commodity means.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commodity

People who criticize the commodification of housing I think tend to believe the correct and valid definition is:

(2) something useful or valued.

or

(5) one that is subject to ready exchange or exploitation within a market. (emphasis added)

I tend to focus on:

(1c) a mass-produced unspecialized product.

or

(4) a good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (such as brand name) other than price.

Housing was commodified after WWII, when we stamped out so much housing, it was cheap and available to everyone. When housing is that available, it removes much of the power of landlords to distort the market.
Kick the big party out of office. If a someone can't hurt you except by getting a someone else to do it, and that person only has the power you give it, deal with that person.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying that the statement "my most immediate concern..." is incorrect. What's more likely: 1) demands from Swedish citizens to the USA actually stopping the USA from using Sweden in its geopolitics? Or 2) Demands from Swedish citizens to the government they empower?

If it's only the extreme fringes, then maybe most people in Sweden simply don't have much of a problem with it or don't care either way, or have more immediately pressing problems to deal with, or something else. Whatever the reason, if you don't like it then your most immediate problem is dealing with the roadblocks to getting your government to stop doing it.

EDIT: Maybe we're just talking past each other. The phrasing "most immediate concern" is something I equate to "the problem I have to deal with first". That's why I see that statement of problematics. If you were able to in some way deal with the USA first without changing Swedish politics at all then some other geopolitical power will quickly fill the power gap afterwards and play the same games.
Sounds potentially problematic, having a lot of members of one group, any group, in your intelligence service? But then again, i can imagine the type of person who would be willing to apply to an intelligence service in the first place...
TIL. I’ve not seen this annotation on any rust crates I’ve looked at. Might have missed it of course but this feels like a niche annotation and everyone relies on semver instead.
It would be helpful to have some description regarding why some entries made the naughty list. For example, is there evidence that iOS sends data to PRISM? Has any analysis shown that Safari leaks any more data than Firefox?
I think it has a lot more to do with popular chess streamers like Hikaru, Botez sister, gothamchess etc. Andrew Tate promoted a lot of stuff and but I never came across his chess content and I follow chess content quite a bit. Also, I just googled what his chess rating was and his dad Emory Tate [1] came up, so it seems like he isn't even the most influential chess player in his family.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Tate
I was using it generally before but bought it on steam 1) to support the project and 2) to have it automatically update itself.

Worth what I paid for it even though I could get it free.
This is never going to happen, and nor should it. Any system that you can lose your entire life savings without any recourse by forgetting, revealing, or being hit by a wrench, for one number - is irreparably flawed and extremely unsuitable.
> [...] blackrock and vanguard big tech companies.

What do you mean by that? Are you talking about index funds or something?

> The only way out is hardcore regulation with noscript/basic html browsers and simple but able to do good enough job protocols, and that stable in time (for instance irc if there is a text chat).

The cure sounds worse than the disease..
People have been using AI and machine learning since the beginning of the web. Googles very search has been using ML for years.

I argue we have already been using these technologies, they merely got better and more available.
> Monitor them for "dangerous" thought like we do with LLM

We do that?
Wow! I'm 21 now but I wish I had known about this when I was younger and getting into programming, I would have been all over this. I sometimes get a little jealous of the old timers - I think being able to grow up with the evolution of computers and learn as they become more complex is a really wonderful thing.

Had a look around and I'm interested in buying this microcontroller kit, has anyone tried this before? What did you think?: https://web.archive.org/web/20221203215708/https://shop.heat...

I took a Nand2Tetris course at my Uni and really enjoyed it, but was disappointed when there was no practical element for physically building any of the circuits. Hoping this can scratch my itch.
> Has anyone read/seen Mother Night? That's a real good example of how secret communication can hide in plain sight.

Are there any confirmed examples from non-fiction?
In my city we have these big clothing donation bins in the corner of the parking lot at most major strip malls:
Example: https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/82019/2013/06/raw/d5b3360843...

With scrap batteries being worth 5-50 cents per pound it would be worth just sticking a handful of these, but labeled as "used battery drop off point" in high visibility areas. It won't stop people from maliciously throwing away batteries but would remove the lazy factor.
I agree with your premise but ultimately its the responsibility of governments to manage how society distributes what is produced. In the US at least, it seems most of the tension here comes from the fact that we've decided that if you are not doing "work", then you don't "deserve" food, shelter, or healthcare. Trying to stop automation always seems like a fools errand because there is simply too much incentive to automate.
“Twitter is going great” is being sunset
Yeah, this seems like more of a problem than vague statements about AGI. We're still in the scope of ML - ChatGPT can't play chess, for example, and a self driving model can't write Haiku. An AGI would be able to do all of them. It seems much more likely that a fleet of autonomous (in the name of cutting costs) war machines will be created with relatively simple ML models that work in intended (or otherwise) ways to cause a lot of problems.
Lots of people think this means "don't smoke" or something like that.

From the members I have conversed with, they are forbidden from using caffeine.
Your verbiage makes it sound concerning, but if it's the following image[0] then I don't see how anyone could misconstrue it with lolita culture. It looks like something you'd see in a Studio Ghibli film.

[0] https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/electrichearts_...
Location: Carlsbad, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: full-stack web dev, Typescript, Node, Rust, Firebase

Résumé/CV: https://irreducible.io/static/resume.pdf

Email: taylor@irreducible.io
Probably something also about similar views about a moral high ground.
Emulating tacky sleazy ads that have a fine print where you pay $10,000 every day and sell your soul to Satan.
not an argument and fallacy fallacy
This site and many guides like it are intended to help people avoid mass surveillance rather than targeted surveillance. Confounding the two threat models seems intended to confuse and exasperate people.
oh come on, whatever is feeding files to the function I'll just trick into using some other data with different files. you don't need to "execute data" to have substitution bugs.

and it's easy to add status checks to your shell script just like you can for Python. exceptions are not the only way to stop on error. but it's sure a hell of a lot easier to have a non-working program in Python, whereas it's a lot easier for a shell script to keep working.
> The authors of Attention is all you need, the transformers paper, y

Schmidhuber claims to have invented something formally equivalent to the linear Transformer architecture (slightly weaker) years before:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11174
I ask ChatGPT to write me a comment thread in the style of Hacker News.
3. Mormons are overwhelmingly white and come from a cultural background of conservative patriarchal Christian whiteness which comports with the historical and present culture of the FBI.
Coders who are no resourceful*
True. For all their flaws, Google doesn't have the ability to send men with guns to my house to abduct me if I don't pay them 50% of my income.
(humor?) Server is in an unheathy state
I guess Europeans never stop in at a store real quick while someone is in the car, and lock the doors while in the store?

Really, disabling the inside handles when there could be a person inside the car sounds like a deathtrap.
I would expect a lawsuit if you gave them to investors, and jailtime if it was part of an IPO. Keep draggin down that bar in tech, I guess.
The one thing that keeps me from building my own keyboard is that I’d want a 3D-curved keyboard (similar to the Microsoft ergonomic keyboards), and I haven’t seen anyone tackling such a project yet. Ergogen as well seems to only support “flat” layouts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSmpE_aefI

And basically a lot of reports on Reddit. Eg.:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/ubcxup/e...
https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/umg2j5/e...
https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/lj3n45/p...

Of course, these are just anecdotes and we don't have good research into all the individual designs, but there seems to be a pattern. The movement is also similar to what causes texter's thumb.

At any rate, I am not an ergonomics professional, so if you are switching to a more ergonomic keyboard because you have pains, you should ask and expert what works and what doesn't.
Interesting. One of the few movies you can fully watch in both directions. The music character makes the distinct atmosphere.

I just made a small peek and I could find new some visual details, which I was glossing over on the forward version. (e.g. explosions in the windows of the demolished buildings)
I really wish Apple had taken initiative with OSX and made tabs something that could also be exploded out through Exposé, alt-*, trackpad gestures, and other shortcuts.

They had it within grasp as they rewrote the UI APIs, they just didn’t choose to go that far.
Great question! Yes, EVA supports NLP pipelines thanks to our recent integration of Hugging Face pipelines last month. Here is an illustrative text classification application:

-- Text classification application in EVA
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS MyCSV (id INTEGER UNIQUE, comment TEXT(30));

LOAD CSV 'csv_file_path' INTO MyCSV;

CREATE UDF HFTextClassifier
TYPE HuggingFace
'task' 'text-classification';

SELECT HFTextClassifier(comment) FROM MyCSV;

EVA supports many other NLP pipelines, including summarization and text2text generation.

[2] is an illustrative notebook that presents an HF-based object segmentation pipeline (not NLP-based though). We would love to jointly explore how to best support your NLP pipeline. Please consider opening an issue with more details on your use case.

[1] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva/blob/4fa52f893e7661d4...

[2] https://evadb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/source/tutorials/07-o...
You left out “heirarchical authoritarian”, but, yeah, that.
I go to Best Buy or Ikea
Anti monarchist sentiment is strong in UK surveys so the idea that it's fake/astroturfed online content seems ridiculous to me. Any evidence?
Is it stealing, when „code is law“?
They own “60-70% market share” in large part due to the failure of every other cloud gaming company to gain meaningful usage (Google Stadia and Amazon Luna) and in small part because the CMA inflated the count of active users to include EVERY Xbox game pass ultimate subscriber, regardless of whether they’ve touched it. Luna is available to every prime member yet they aren’t counted in that MAU calculation. Only Microsoft is treated differently.
Disclaimer: I am pretty pro AI.

To your point about it being good for small and medium sized businesses — let’s assume it gets rid of a significant amount of workers. Who would be the consumers of these products, other small/medium sized businesses who also mostly have AI producing work? Obviously it’s a simplified question, but I’m curious how we’ll handle the removal of “useless workforce” when AI does an objectively better job.
At the very minimum we should mandate the stores that sell products that include batteries to have collection points for the products and their batteries.

I bought a power bank from Best Buy that was recalled, and when I tried to return it for disposal, I was told to look for local recycling companies.
Do you have any references for your claims? Because this Bible scholar more or less completely contradicts your claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCy7NuujCLc
> If you could just throw "Battery recycling" into Apple/Google Maps or OpenStreetMap (which has Tag:amenity=recycling and recycling:batteries for the purpose), I think you'd get a lot of these issues resolved. None of these offer reasonable results when I look this up near me

This is a great idea.
Kyle Rittenhouse was not convicted by a Jury, something very different.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was toothless primarily because of its Jury trial clause, which guaranteed that no one violating civil rights would ever be convicted by a jury of their white peers.

It's not "self defense" when you arm yourself and drive yourself intentionally into an are trying to create and/or find trouble.
They all suck. I use GNOME, KDE is terribly buggy, I'd like to use Sway but it's still shit with hidpi screens (because of a missing feature in xwayland, go figure. KDE and GNOME have a hacky workaround, not Sway because no one of its devs has a screen with more than 96 dpi apparently)

In fact, tiled WMs are 90s tech, I want scrollable tiling WMs, and they are niche or pretty much unknown. See PaperWM or Cardboard

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cardboardwm.html

Re: hardware accel on X. I have been using Linux full time since 1999, yet I keep hearing people trying to convince me whatever crap we had before Mozilla WebRender on Wayland was hardware acceleration. Having VLC use VDPAU when opening media files is not full desktop hardware acceleration.

It has taken until Wayland to be able to move and resize windows without artefacts and lag. Stuff Windows and macOS have had since 2010. Let alone accelerated rendering of web pages and YouTube.
The UK’s power in this situation isn’t contingent on Microsoft at all.

Brexit or not the UK still has a lot of soft power, it’s still a G7 member and a large economy.

Other countries won’t look too kindly on a corporation ignoring a major and very well respected regulator even if their interests aren’t impacted by that particular decision.

The rule of law is something countries fight to preserve and it’s very much a collective thing.
Same—but it's because I'm not a teen boy. Friends who are teachers inform me that he was and is incredibly popular in that demographic. I dunno about "most internet famous person" but he was probably at least in the running.
It's more likely that they just don't care. There's a certain cavalier attitude from the VS Code project in general.
Sounds a bit like the "cultural fit" narrative that has been used by some FAANG companies to prefer people from certain ethnicities
If it is actually a malicious site trying to herd people toward exploitable behaviors it'd be following the Nigerian Scammer tactic of pre-screening by allowing simple errors to scare off more savvy inquiries.

This would go along with the rather crude emotional appeal.

That said, it hardly seems an efficient way to exploit people… though there are useful points. If you can get somebody credulous to use something that's compromised, and you're acting like a baleen whale and accumulating whole populations of credulous government-suspicious folks whom you've steered towards some mechanism where YOU can surveil them, that's got to have some usefulness.

People absolutely don't take into account the effectiveness of loosely manipulating entire populations in selective ways. You never need to select an individual and 'make' them take any action at all. You only have to cultivate the conditions for the outcome you want. Facebook might have discovered this first, but the idea sure caught on quick.
The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin
I would add that their culture is a good match. They are Lawful Good through and through. Historically their church youth programs were tightly integrated with the Boy Scouts (until a recent split as BSA became more inclusive), and are raised to have a strong sense of duty to their church, country and community.
Yes, handling private keys is very inconvenient. I also can’t imagine my mother (although rather tech-savy for her age) handling all her financials with crypto wallets.

However, one of the next Ethereum upgrades (ERC-4337) will make it possible to safely recover wallets without a key seed phrase. Its implications seems to be huge but I am not deep enough into it to explain how exactly it is going to work. Perhaps somebody more competent than me can elaborate on that.

https://beincrypto.com/learn/erc-4337/
After this introduction, I'd probably watch the talk. Wouldn't be too bad to just post a video to Youtube.
How would you curtail their use when any military that commits to using them will have a huge advantage ?

This isn’t like nuclear weapons where any use is curtailed by the apocalyptic outcomes. Killer robots are the way we will fight in the future and any military which refuses to deploy them will find themselves facing defeat.
Without land, farming cannot occur.

Duh. But that's not what you're saying, you're saying "without privatised land, farming cannot occur", which is a trivially false assertion.

>Also, all monetizable "things" represent assets because they hold/produce value.

Yes, that is indeed the definition of asset: an ownable and tradable "thing". I fail to see the point.
What country are you in out of curiosity?
I can't speak on the relationship between FAA & Spacex, but I can't imagine it's great considering the public statements that have been made (ie. Twitter).

But, FAA takes safety incredibly seriously. Range safety is top priority, and a malfunction of flight termination gear would be a showstopper. If there is indeed a serious design problem with their FTS it would ground the vehicle for a lot longer than the 1-2 months they're claiming for next test flight.
Yes, but losses at SVB and FRC were a lot heavier than at most banks,

https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/ins...
Schmidhuber claims to have invented a lot of things. It's almost a running gag at this point.
We should push for laws and resist new acts that curtail our rights of privacy and free expression, but that is not a solution. We are generally on our own in making our choices of technology to use. If you go on using proprietary services and networks hoping that someday laws will suddenly fix all the problems, you are seriously deluded or naïve.
I don’t know, sometimes I was more productive then, because you used what you had.

Today.. .. first one has to get up speed on whatever the F changed this week
He is the co-founder and chief scientist[0] at OpenAI but "has he contributed that much personally". I don't even know how to respond to that

[0]https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-sutskever/