skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that'll only last until it gets someone's bank account emptied or until some enemy combatant uses prompt injection to get a drone to bomb a different target

You're joining dots from LLM's producing text output that humans read to them being linked to autonomously taking actions by themselves. That's a huge leap. I think that's the risk that needs to be focused on, not the general concept of the technology.

And what I see as most critical is to establish legal frameworks around liability for anybody who does that being correctly associated. What we can't have is AI being linked to real world harm and then nobody being accountable because "the AI did it". We already have this with traditional computing where you phone up a company with a reasonable request and what would otherwise be an outrageous refusal turns into apparently acceptable outcome because "computer says no". Similarly with people's Google or Meta accounts being auto-banned by bots and their online lives destroyed while their desperate pleas for help are auto-replied to with no way to reach a human.

But it is all a separate problem in my eyes - and not actually something specific to AI.
Location is generally less important than wind direction here, which you aren’t tracking.

Having a few internal and external sensors for various gasses could work, but it’s a surprisingly difficult problem.
Sometimes it is waste energy. Sometimes it's useful energy that the local market cannot afford but could easily use it to make everyone's lives better. Sometimes it's just a random quirk of markets that they get first dibs on the electricity. And in at least one case, a decommissioned coal plant was purchased to be restarted just to mine bitcoin.
If no one can tell the difference, how would we know?
Gravity is already used for mapping and for oil exploration. I dont know all of the details but there are quantum gravity sensors that are meant to be very accurate, which I assume could be used for mapping.
San Francisco and Seattle aren't exactly hotbeds of intolerance. The large-scale studies on discrimination in tech companies did find slight gender discrimination, in favor of women: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3672484
If you’re going to murder someone just don’t take your phone. Otherwise, I don’t think this article is really anything.

Did people think that their networking didn’t reveal location? Or that joining Wi-Fi networks didn’t reveal.

All this setting means is that your phone won’t tell apps. It doesn’t mean that you’re impossible to find.
> warfare between sovereigns.

Would performing a blockchain transaction that gets taxed by a validator of a country that is enemies with your country be a criminal act?
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Never knew it standed for Media Access Control until you made me wikipedia it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
Do you not see my point that engaging from a place of honesty and partnership rather than patronizing manipulation is superior, and that you’re causing harm with that mindset due to telling a lie that validates their fears, without actual benefit?
Fun fact: The "Canadian content" requirement for broadcast was parodied by SCTV, who in order to fill the letter of the law aired a skit featuring two of the most stereotypically Canuck characters imaginable: Bob and Doug McKenzie.
What, if anything, is epsilon? (2014) [pdf]
People on here may be surprised that the off button also doesn't really turn it off.
T-Mobile customer account PINs and other data spilled in 2nd hack of 2023
> A 1% conversion rate is pretty much what I would expect from an online business.

When I was doing research on paywalls, this was my experience too, and some paywalls are much cheaper than $8/month. (Sites like Wired are always running random deals for $5 for an entire year.) Many sites came out of the gate at 1.5% or even 2%, but then dropped to 0.5% once all the fanatics were scooped up in the first few months. Pubs more often than not think their paywall or analytics must be “broken,” because they can’t believe the drop-off.
The need for a premium more caring service is a repeated lament I hear a lot, but it seems that few are actually willing to pay for it, whether it be in banking, airlines, homebuilding, etc. The exceptions seem to be tours, hotels, education, and restaurants. But in entire categories, except perhaps at the very top (i.e. you hire a plumber full time or get concierge care), it just does not seem to exist.
Their culture caught up to them. It was extremely abusive and they paid journalists poorly.

My friends did some amazing work for them and got paid almost nothing. They stopped taking Vice jobs and so did everyone else who was talented.
> Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information

I hope this new undertaking works out well for you--this stood out to me, so just to offer:

I find that at least 50% of my techie coaching clients are extremely interested in privacy. They'd definitely skim the privacy policy and would be turned off the moment they detect boilerplate.

A good number of those people, to include HNW individuals, absolutely will not share personal information, to include things like specific emotional reactions to events, unless it's in a discussion in a format of their choice. Even then they hesitate.

So, just to offer that I think a very conspicuously-addressed privacy policy with no missing data, etc. could be a valuable sales or marketing tool for you.

As a coach myself I'd be interested in helping clients interface with this kind of tech but I'd also want to know how every ethical and privacy-oriented aspect is dealt with at a your-org's-policy-level. Are you yourself interfacing with ethically-trained professionals or receiving ongoing training, etc. That could be a really valuable add-on.

Anyway. Good luck with the new project!
I would argue that should be deductible
Here's the amazing demo of Tesla battery swap: https://youtu.be/H5V0vL3nnHY

Somehow in a staged demo they couldn't figure out how to show a camera angle that captured the slightest hint of the actual battery swap (hint: they didn't even have a working prototype of battery swapping). Nikola level demo, good enough for California taxpayers though I guess.
> Clipper/TransLink

I wonder if this company is related to the TransLink which is the one running the OV Chipkaart in the Netherlands? https://www.translink.nl/

This is also a really poor system, it took years to implement and the various services never integrated properly. They all have to have their own portals and if you forget to scan one you're screwed and have to physically go back. The card can't be put on a phone and can't even be scanned for the credit level in the app (you can view it online but it's 24 hours old which is totally useless).

Also it was cracked 3 months after being rolled out because they used older mifare cards with known flaws, which had been on the market for 10 years.

They are working on some new thing now using credit cards which will probably also suck :P
But, your WiFi may still leak your location, eg:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.05716.pdf
Presumably you're commenting to rectify the misinformation, and you can get to the meat of it one sentence sooner if you skip the personal attack. You already know the person you're replying to doesn't read everything in front of them. Why give them more to read? Why open with a personal attack? It never makes people like you.
Is hypnosis, prompt injection? Apart from hypnosis, humans are not susceptible to prompt injection, not the kind of unlimited sudo access that it provides.
There are ways around that. MAC address randomization is necessary but not sufficient.

https://ido2016.sciencesconf.org/122873/Privacy_v4.pdf
How local are these laws? Maybe we’ll get BlueNet and RedNet in the US (although that might be confusing for some Spanish speakers).
Yeah, this "critique" seems incredibly bad faith to me. The actual problem in this hypothetical situation exists with or without the chat bot. Should we expect chat bots to act as police?
They don't like the density, but they like the location?

Usually, liking the location means you like that it's close to other things, right? In other words, you like the density.
Seconded. My father who also had AS 25 years ago, had to get on sulpha drugs to stop disease progression. In comparison, I consider biologics a walk in the park and truly consider myself lucky to have access to them. I luckily haven't had symptoms of AS (yet) but the auto-immune problems I've had include recurrent uveitis. I was similarly reluctant to get on biologics but having been on it a while now, I truly consider it a miracle drug - especially when the alternative is losing my eyesight.
That's one thing that's tricky about the regulation, is that so many are behind OpenAI...and they are coincidentally the companies behind pushing regulation on AI. We have to be careful who is a real worried market actor and who is just looking to slow the competitive advantage. Also vice-versa is true, we can't just listen to OpenAI/Microsoft on the issue. Another thing is simply national security, the threat of China getting better AI than US companies, is also a huge risk. I feel sorry for regulators honestly, this one is going to be much harder than your standard run of the mill thing.
“It can never be perfect” is a reasonable position to take.

“Therefore, we shouldn’t bother to fix the clearly shitty bits” is not.
This is correct. Back in the early 2000s I used one to connect a hardware dongle for Quark Xpress
No thanks. I don't want incompetent and biased government regulators dictating what software features private companies are allowed to build. If you don't like YouTube recommendations then just ignore them. No one is prying your eyes open and forcing you to watch.
even with video evidence thats not enough to charge. this is equivalent to security system...deter criminals and encourage crimes be done in an easier area.
Could you describe my strong negative bias? I have worries that come to mind - just like people were worried that the atom bomb would burn the atmosphere - and I think they are fair.

I have a hard time understanding your point - not a jab, genuinely- I agree with your last point, where any advantage being centralized becomes an instrument of oppression, and that's mainly where my issue with it lies.

I'm not a doomer at all, I'm personally not afraid of AI. I'm just extending the logic of the previous commenter.

AI could overcomes a lot of problems, for a lot of people. Talking out of my ass, but say Jeff Bezos wants to start a lab to make super-covid or whatnot, and his hurdle is having access to restricted hardware - how hard is it to get the AI to design the hardware?

Regulation of anything becomes basically impossible - and I think that's enough of a worry in itself. (Edit: to clarify, abssence of regulation brings us back to your final point - centralized power leads to oppression. Regulation is supposed to make power less centralized, other than for the common good (yeah yeah I know), so removal or regulation means untethered power for the already powerful.)
Someone supposedly from Meta reached out to me today. A lot of the hiring freezes seem to be mostly public relations or only for certain types of roles.
Probably a good time to back up any you care about. Whatever entity buys the rights could take them down
I have a different take:

Be the change you want to be. Everyone just says "leave" but what if you have no where to go, and inversely, if everyone is just leaving, then there is no incentive for organizations to change.

You can argue its "futile" but the truth is, its not, these things compound, the more people do it, the less it can be swept up and hidden away. Real change is thousands and thousands of people doing small things to increment in a better direction. Its not always easy, but its the right thing to do. Thats how as a society can do better.

The idea of shifting it to "some other person" is why I think we have some of the issues today with reform and general societal polarization: everyone wants someone else to fix the problems
Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain
Good. Every car should be tracked. They are far too dangerous. Crazy we have so many rules for guns, but not cars. Guns have to be locked up, but not cars??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
You're asking a lot of criminals that they dot all their i's and cross all their t's before committing a criminal act.

Criminals in general are not the Professor Moriarty type.
> How else is the executive supposed to check the judicial?

Pardons and nominating judges. Disregarding the Court is a constitutional crisis.

> would be an even worse precedent for the Supreme Court to force the government to default on its debt

On one hand, we have the Court allowing the President to overrule the Congress. Two branches agree. On the other hand, we have the President unilaterally overruling the Congress and the Court. One is a check. The other a coup.
I'm not sure why "creativity" is a yard-stick. Machines could do creativity better than us for a while now - take a bunch of inputs, collect some possible outputs by mashing the inputs together with a random modulating factor, pick the best one. Computers are much, much better at every step here except "pick the best one", and that's only because it's humans who decide on how ideas are to be rated, and our rating is so absurdly complex that we can't even explain it to ourselves, much less write it down as code.

If anything, transformer models are closing the gap on that last bit, as they're built by taking the approach of "if we can't describe exactly how we rate and rank things, then let's shove so many examples at the model that it eventually gets a feel for it".
I read that pre-print Microsoft paper. Despite the title, it doesn't actually show any real "sparks" of AGI (in the sense of something that could eventually pass a rigorous Turing test). What the paper actually shows is that even intelligent people have a bias towards perceiving patterns in randomness; our brains seem to be wired that way and this is likely the source of most superstition.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

While there is no scientific evidence that LLMs can reach AGI, they will still be practically useful for many other tasks. A human mind paired with an LLM is a powerful combination.
I'm always excited to see new OS concepts. It's a shame that there's such a huge amount of work involved in building operating systems, otherwise we might have a lot more options to choose from. Back in the 80s you wrote an OS that supported one or two types of fully integrated computers. Now you're supporting any combination of hardware, much of it requiring proprietary black box drivers that depend on a specific ABI anyway. It's why I don't buy into the idea that people who wrote software in the 80s were ultra low-level wizards or something. They had a significantly easier job and could specialise.
> The fact that I can send money (liquid fiat) to a friend without going through paypall/zello/etc. is valuable.

You can do that only because Bitcoin is currently underregulated. Governments will eventually regulate it to enforce money laundering laws and starve DPRK, and then Bitcoin will become even more expensive relative to other options.
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Also, when you say democratize chickens do they get to vote about if they.. umm.. get eaten?
The problem is that this full repayment is just objectively not a full repayment. In a standard economic environment with a positive rate of inflation, if I gave you $10 yesterday, and you returned me $10 today, I _lost_ money even though the numeraire suggests that I didn’t.
> That's as likely as hidden photo radar slowing down drivers.

Of course it does. What a silly comment.
Author doesn't present any evidence to back up claims that I saw. I don't understand why people make posts like this and don't back it up with exact and specific instances?
It seems to me that they ended up being a vicious shitter onner of everything. Every article is so negative for no real reason.

I’m surprised they are still in business for while “Dick Amnesia is a Real Thing” [0] might be funny for some, it doesn’t seem that funny to me.

I’m not sure what Vice’s value add is over when they seemed to do some actual journalism on the Iraq war and other topics not covered 10-15 years ago.

Today they just seem like angry, failed hipsters. And I’m not sure who’s buying that.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxvjy/what-is-dick-amnesia
If you take the precepts of the parent comment at face value, then you have an intelligence far greater and faster than humans.

Can something like this persuade humans with whom it freely communicates to do things not in the interest of humanity, in the same way that less intelligent and slower people have convinced humans to, e.g., release sarin in a crowded Japanese subway? Given its speed and intelligence level, what are the physical bounds of the nuclear, chemical, or biological agents it could teach radicalized people to create, and on what timeframe?

Can it amass funds through scamming people on the Internet, defrauding financial institutions, super-intelligent high-frequency trading, or creating digital-only art, code, information, or other services that people voluntarily pay for now? Something that, again, people less intelligent and slower have done very successfully for decades? And with that money combined with superhuman persuasive power, can that AI buy services that align its digital-only goals to real-world actions counter to the goals of humanity?

To ask a more specific question: if an AI meets the conditions of "many multiples smarter and faster than humans," "capable of persuasion and creating things of financial value," and "wants to end humanity", what stops it from coordinating mass utility shutdowns, nuclear strikes, chemical attacks, destruction of Internet-accessible transportation and farm equipment, release of smallpox, and/or anything else humans are currently capable of and choose not to do?
> I've never heard anybody think setting "location services" to "off" prevented your cell service from detecting your location

Outside of the HN bubble, many. Besides, the point stands: the UI is misleading.

A phone should clearly show to the user what data is sent, where and why, without any exception.
Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef”
Fire is a great way to help restore soil. Some plants, as you found, come back stronger.

The best way I have found to get rid of weeds without herbicide is to make sure something else is growing on there.

Some weeds are pioneer plants. They come in on disturbed, and desolate soil. As they grow and thrive, they change the soil conditions so that other plants can grow there.

These plants are tenacious, but ironically, changes things so that they are out-competed by other plants. If you fight them, they dig in and get stronger. If you help them fulfill their ecological function, then they help make way for something else.
I think it’s better for mental health than not trying due to grievance and negging narratives.

Most people calibrate their expectations; the people who don’t sometimes succeed — and don’t seem to wither the way people who don’t try tend to.

Again, my point isn’t that they’ll all succeed — but they’re strictly better off with a mentality that they should try.

To your point about living independently, that’s exactly my point: the ones trying live more independently and require less support because they do the most they can — rather than emotionally imploding, not trying, and requiring extra support.

That’s better for both them and their caregivers.
My alarm kept getting disabled. I realised it was my baby daughter's flailing arms when I held her, opening the alarms on my smartwatch and clicking randomly.

Also, unless you really enjoy waking up, never make a great song your alarm sound. It ruins the song in about a week. It forever becomes associated with that dreadful feeling of having to get up, and becomes unbearable to listen to.
The Senate put in an amendment to explicitly make that clear but the house of commons stripped it out citing "loopholes". So I wouldn't be surprised if any reasonably sized YouTube channel gets impacted despite being users of a social network.
Oh, I knew what the GP meant to type. I was just enjoying the typo.
This is written like the construction of a hydroelectric dam on an intermediate point at any elevation change in a river is an inevitable law of nature... ?
Alexa had filters for their Super Bowl ads.
> Roman pantheism is a long dead religion anyway.

That's Yamnaya/PIE pantheism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyēus

It's coming back though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenism_(modern_religion)
Any chance of a paper or something?
*coup de grâce ;)
Local reporting is the most important, as far as what people reading/seeing/hearing it can meaningfully act on, and it's already all but dead thanks to the Internet and smartphones making competition for attention a global enterprise 24/7/365 no matter where a person is.
So it makes it harder. Like almost all laws.

Laws can’t stop you doing something. They make it harder and provide punishment.
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I lived in the UK for 10x the time I've lived in San Francisco, but here in SF I've witnessed many more instances of cars driving with obscured plates or no plates at all.
how do you improve shitty products and shitty service with AI? i dont get it.
I think that's going to be the key here, how do you define "Canadian content" in terms of internet broadcast. Does this mean the government will be hand picking which content and producers count as Canadian? If standards are set, will they favor certain content producers with ties to the government. Right now the law is extremely vague and seems like it's tilted towards helping Canada's legacy media rather than small Canadian creators like Canadian youtube producers.
An easier and more reliable way to make money is to sell it to neighboring countries that need energy. Like they had been doing. Seems to me a little corrupt birdie told them about BTC and their ruling class wanted in on another way to hide wealth. Like every other use of BTC