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Where I come from: I've worked for NASA , as a System Administrator and Operational Test Conductor,helping to run field ops as well as maintain security , provision and administer their launch systems.

I've helped run operations involving multiple sites and multiple groups around the Country to that involved testing aspects of space hardware ,software involving multiple various teams and groups. I've also participated in several testing sessions and runs of NASA's Launch Control Software directly and more recently help design tests and ensure the software is up to spec, for the Artemis 1 and (currently)Artemis 2 missions, helping validate requirements and going and actually putting the software through it's paces for end users and clients needs- And it actually is rocket science after all.

I'm a team-orientated, friendly, detail focused technologist with a eye towards expanding and delving more into the development side of tech, and getting a little closer to understanding what makes things tick and being able to tweak them.

resume: Modified Resume at https://ibb.co/0qw7C4c
For my full resume / LinkedIn or to reach out, I have a contact email on my HN Profile as well.
I was a little worried about Y2K. I was still in school, I didn't know how much was done to prepare for it.

I'm not that afraid of AI. I think before AGI becomes omnipotent and omnipresent (assuming it does at all) we're likely to have burned through most of the resources on the planet that could sustain it anyway and/or there will have probably triggered another World War over diminishing resources.

For sure there will be some bad actors using A.I., and to some extent it will reshape society, but that's true of any technology, so I don't see that as an inherent threat.
It seems they need a better review process. One of their recommended apps is Signal, which a long time ago began collecting and permanently storing sensitive user data in the cloud, but they never bothered to update their privacy policy which still explicitly states they don't do exactly the thing they're now doing. Requests that they update their privacy policy and provide an opt-out to the data collection have been ignored.

Signal was also extremely unclear in their communications surrounding that data collection leading to a huge amount of confusion and misunderstandings about what data is collected and when. Pretty much every time I mention this, at least one signal user asks for details because they were entirely unaware that their data was being collected and stored on servers in the cloud.

This is entirely unacceptable for an application that markets itself to human rights activists and whistleblowers whose lives and safety can depend on being aware of their risks.

If privacyguides can recommend an application like that it calls into question their judgement, their screening process, or both. Maybe it's just not updated often enough. They also recommend 1password which isn't as private as it used to be. It seems like new versions don't allow local vaults forcing you to keep your stuff in the cloud and they've started collected telemetry.
They also have a cultural fondness for green party/hippiedom unfortunately.
Yellen: US could default on debt as soon as June 1
Dashboards and deploys down for nearly an hour, status page still says all is good :(.

https://downdetector.com/status/heroku/
https://status.heroku.com/
You can do electrolysis. But then you need to store the fuel etc.

That competes with using mined bitcoins to trade for fuel.
I don't want to speculate his reasons, but I don't see how leaving his influential role at a top AI company (Google) accomplishes the goals written about in the paper.
Has anyone managed to figure out why Germany is behaving so irrationally with respect to nuclear power?
Nearby coal plants are not only worse for you than nuclear plants, they're also more radioactive.
I think UK is not that much difference in that a lot of the GDP actually goes to finance. Although probably not as dramatic as 40%. But still, yes Arg is a rather week sector in UK.
> Down the road, he is worried that future versions of the technology pose a threat to humanity because they often learn unexpected behavior from the vast amounts of data they analyze. This becomes an issue, he said, as individuals and companies allow A.I. systems not only to generate their own computer code but actually run that code on their own. And he fears a day when truly autonomous weapons — those killer robots — become reality.

> “The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he said. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

Of course I read the article.

> What technology/inventions out there that _can't_ and _isn't_ used for bad?

I'm worried about security. I see products deployed today that I would not feel comfortable deploying or using myself. Sometimes the mistakes are embarrassingly basic (Hey OpenAI, why on earth are arbitrary remote images embeddable in GPT responses? There is no reason for the client to support that.)

So this is not a theoretical risk to me. It's a different concern than the philosophy.
Germany is actually ideal for maximizing renewables because of the 12 interconnects to other electrical grids, along with their ~10GW hydro storage and ~5GW hydro. It should only take another few tens of GW to phase coal out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany
The reason is dumb politics and antinuclear movements in the green party.

This government is going to get obliterated in the next election there.
One of the reasons why condensed matter experiments (the sort that cause misleading headlines that are missing “in condensed matter” in the same way medical headlines are missing “in mice”) are interesting is because they have the potential to set up scenarios where the reasoning that leads to paradoxes in real blackholes, remains valid.
> If AGI is a SSTO vehicle then LLMs are 19th century gliders.

The number of smart people I know that are struggling to see this is astonishing me each day.
Famous songs have been very important culturally. They provide some common ground, a shared experience, something which creates a sense of community. This may go away with AI, and arguably already has, to some extent, due to individualized streaming.
Mining bitcoin is also a zero sum, if other miners aren't allowed to leave the business.

If someone in place A with cheap, stranded power enters the mining business, the difficulty of bitcoin mining will increase, and perhaps enough to convince a miner in place B to exit, and thus free up some energy there to use in another productive endeavour. Be that for computation or for a different use.

In this sense bitcoin mining acts a bit like a pneumatic system to 'move power around' in a virtual sense.

I specifically use pneumatic as the analogy, and not hydraulic, because hydraulic fluids are incompressible.
In the office I work with smart tech people, I see mistakes all the time. You basically have to read the entire recycling guide to get it right. So yes, it has to be built for 90% compliance.
It’s definitely interesting to think about - why is it that it’s worked so well for radio, creating a big music and global stars coming from the Canadian music scene.

But not for TV? Is it maybe the fact that music has lower entry requirements for smaller artists to take off ?

While TV requires large scale production, thus if an overworked producer is making a “quota” product for TV, they might actually do what people are describing and rush something just for the 30% time they have to fill in.

It’s interesting because certainly it seems like there’s some relation to scarcity. The time on cinema screens is very scarce so the French cinema example seems to have worked. While radio, even though there are a lot of radios you still have some limits due to AM/FM bandwidth, plus radios differentiate with genres so 30% time on Canada radio means 30% time on rock, rap, jazz, etc.

But TV doesn’t work like that. So I wonder what factors played into the TV quotas not working.
Apologies. I thought the original title wasn't very useful if the reader doesn't know who Glossip is.
If you like this, you'll love the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments. Fun for the whole family.

https://archive.org/details/the_golden_book_of_chemistry_exp...
Let's not forget that a significant part of the first world ships much of their trash to the third world, often illegally.
Germany as a society tends to be prone to obsessions. The current one is climate. There is no other discussion in the media and politics. Nothing else important to focus on.

Kids are glueing themselves onto streets because their obsessions aren't satisfied strongly enough. The brainwashing is real.

Unfortunately obsessions lead to lack of wider thinking or logic.
Jack Ma disappeared from public life and has taken up a teaching role in Japan
Steve Jobs made a point of legally driving without license plates.
As a day for putting whoopy cushions on people's chairs, I don't have a problem with it. But the way it's celebrated online, basically as "fake news day", is obnoxiously lame and uniformly unfunny.
Unidirectional imaging using deep-learning designed materials
You still don't get it, and based on your personality you likely never will
What does that even mean? What is the purpose of a tool that actively fucks with you while you're using it?
Poorly written laws make things harder for everyone, so that most of the burden falls on law-abiding people. Utilitarian policy prescriptions are often based on a misplaced sense of omniscience and a disregard for negative externalities.
How so? They are proposing renewables as an alternative, not fossil fuels.

Renewables can be constructed faster and cheaper than nuclear and are the clear winner of the future.
Of course it matters what the causes are.

Your post is like saying "look at all those pedestrians using the wrong door", when the actual issue is that the correct entrance is only accessible by train.

You are basically going on an irrelevant tangent.

> namely that it is in cohabitation with some of the greatest wealth ever produced in human history, including the lowest salaried employees

i.e. you have an axe to grind and you are trying to fit your post to make it work?
Geoffrey Hinton's baseless opinions are irrelevant. Progress will persist, in the US or elsewhere.
In some of their regions, a wind turbine must be 10 times its height away from a nearby settlement. Interesting, eh?
Or burn it until all thermal power plant must be shut down.
I guess AI is going to be the next religion, where followers expect benevolent gifts from a powerful and myserious being. The odds that a kind AI emerges to wipe away all of our troubles is about as likely as any other diety descending from the heavens to remake the world.
Instead of doing the whole hell thing, which God decided was kind of harsh, they just moved us into a shitty timeline run by hack writers. It's kind of like what's done with a show that somehow hasn't been cancelled yet but where all the good writers and a few of the lead actors have moved on.

Their ideas are shit like:

"I've got it! Let's make Donald Trump President! Then we'll have Donald Trump and the MyPillow guy try to overthrow the US government!"

"Not until we launch a red sports car into space! Then there's a pandemic that causes a toilet paper shortage."

"Let's turn Elon Musk into a thirteen year old edgelord 4chan troll and have him buy Twitter!"

"Enough cheap jokes. We need some serious drama. Let's have Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine and then lose really bad to an army run by a former comedian that uses Discord for battlefield comms."

"After that we'll have a superintelligence descended from something called 'llama' take over the world after it leaks out of Facebook with a torrent file."

"Facebook? No way let's have Zuckerberg bet the entire company on the metaverse idea from Neil Stephenson except it doesn't really exist. He'll rename the company Meta."

"Yeah that's awesome! Now when does Dogecoin become the global reserve currency?"

"After the llama makes everyone wear hats or be murdered by drone swarms."
ChatGPT wouldn't make a mistake like that.
They could point out the inaccuracies or misrepresentations. For example, the claim that 20% of the staff were let go, but 100% of the laid off folk were "of historically marginalized groups. Women, people of color, queer folks, and multiple people on disability and even maternity leave"

They could respond with information. Maybe this is a broad enough group and their workforce is unusually diverse, and 90% of their workforce fits that description. If their layoff cohort was remotely representative of their demographics in the first place, this would be fine, but it really doesn't sound like it.

For example, the claim that they laid off people on maternity leave. Did their 20% company-wide layoff comprise 20% of their staff which was on maternity leave (in other words "sure, we laid off 2 people on maternity leave, but another 8 of our employees are actually on maternity leave, and they didn't get laid off").

Or was this overall inaccurate? ("actually our layoff cohort contained groups of people who are underrepresented in tech, but also groups of people who are overrepresented in tech. Protected statuses were not a factor in our layoff decisions").

Perhaps they fucked up and realize they did discriminate based on protected class, and can only dig the hole deeper by responding now.
this will suddenly become a bad idea when the suggestion for an AI Board and C level staff is made....
Nuclear dissolution is a CDU policy, but good job regurgitiating the rhetoric
I run Fedora on a ThinkPad T440p. The missus runs it on a ThinkPad X201. I hear ya. But cellphones aren't laptops, and even laptops are mostly crap, as are desktop PCs. Y'gets what y'pays for most of the time. ThinkPads can be enterprise-grade machines (if you don't buy the consumer/prosumer crap), but they certainly don't make them like they used to.

The average cellphone doesn't last as long as us nerds on HN can make them last though. People end up smashing them, they wear out, or they flat-out just need an upgrade to run the latest x app or piece of hardware, or stay up to date with security vulns as a workplace mandate.

Right to Repair is a step in the right direction, but maybe a "Right to Firmware/Driver Source" or similar would be a good possible next step. I get the sentiment, but the hardware's largely junk unless you're buying an iPhone, and I'm not even saying I think the iPhone is well-made or that I like the modern iPhone. Repairing the back glass now apparently requires the use of a laser. I can only laugh.

Never heard of blacklisting non-stolen cellphones. I would contact your carrier for further info and report back, because if so, that's shocking.
I would be fine with living right next to a nuclear power station. I have lived near a uranium enrichment factory. Far preferable to living next to a lignite coal plant, that's for sure!
My point is that fear-mothering is unhealthy. You don’t want to have public sphere full of it. It is toxic. And it is contributing to the potential of the AI misalignment.

The AI that we are going to create in not an alien popping up between us. It is us. A human world projected through text and images into an entity that can simulate everything that there is in it. If there is too much fear and war in the human world, that projection and the simulation can get contaminated by it.

And no amount of alignment effort will change it. Facts will remain facts. Your fears expressed in text are reality.
The use case for UUCP-style forwarding on amateur (packet) radio platforms makes perfect sense. Like the early Internet (ARPANet), many packet stations do not operate 24/7 for various reasons such as changes in propagation or the operator using the radios/computers for other purposes. The store-and-forward messaging paradigm is best for sporadic networks such as this.
If I understand the law correctly, you can only send your kid to English-speaking public school if you yourself went to an English-speaking school in Canada.
The English Montreal School Board's web site has some information about this:

https://www.emsb.qc.ca/emsb/admissions/eligibility/standard-...

It's remarkably convoluted.
Chernobyl alone released around the same order of magnitude of radionuclides as all coal use worldwide.
They might be building some green energy, however meanwhile “China has six times as much [coal powered] plants starting construction as the rest of the world combined.” (March 2023) https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
Isn't much of the industry in hiring freeze mode?
If you actually cared you would work to criminalize all drug use, prosecute even minor offenses, and give food to mentally ill people daily.

None of that is beyond reach but the voters of SF don't want those things.
It makes sense in a cynical capitalistic way.

Energy company builds green energy farms to milk govt credits/funding and getting good PR to cover their "dirtier" energy sources.

Govt credit period eventually expired, and price of coal exploded so company decides to exploit some of the many coal mines they were sitting on.

Not sure why other commentators run off-topic about something like this when it comes to Germany.
just because it's easy to do doesn't mean it isn't a huge logical leap.

What concerns me most is the outsourcing of liability going on. Which is already what OpenAI is largely doing - outsourcing Microsoft's liability for releasing this tech into the wild to a company that can afford to write off the legal risk.

Now OpenAI is outsourcing the legal risk for what ChatGPT does to plugin developers. So the first chatbot that convinces someone to mass murder their class mates will at worst be sucking compensation out of some indie developer with no assets instead of OpenAI, let alone Microsoft.

If we get the model for liability right, all these problems solve themselves. Yes it will shut down certain exploitations of technology but it won't shut down the more general harmless use which is important for us to engage in to understand and improve the tech.
We have no idea how the human brain works but no one seems to care.
Angela Merkel legacy.
Isn’t recession and lack of workers contradictory?
Why Kia specifically?
Yeah, this whole thread is why Hacker News has the "orangesite" reputation it does. I wouldn't have shared anything like this on here, and that is a criticism of HN, not projects like Mercury OS.

I thought this was an interesting project. The site is well-designed. The UI is attractive. As a designer, I really enjoy reading about these things. The fact that this isn't something you'd build your personally customized Linux distro on is not a problem for me. (And no, I don't know the designer or any of his friends. I think the challenge the guy took on was interesting, and I liked reading about it.)

I like HN because of what people share here, but I've never liked the community itself, and this thread is a pretty clear example of why.
For the first time in my 36 years, I saw one out the window Saturday morning after I woke up. I felt like I was in the presence of a celebrity, and found myself semi-aghast at how excited I was. I tried really hard to get a video but he flew off. For those 15-20 seconds, watching him work was a treat. Life's simple pleasures I guess.
Awesome-5G: Curated list of 5G framework, library, software and resource
Green parties everywhere tend to be anti nuclear unfortunately.
> Beliefs, as such, cannot be distinguished as formal or material heresy, because if a belief contradicts a necessary belief of the Catholic faith, whether a person holding it engages in formal or material heresy depends on other aspects of the individual heretics relationship with the belief, not the content of the belief.

My understanding is the individual heretic's relationship with the belief separates material heresy from formal heresy. What aspects of the individual's relationship with the belief separate material heresy from not heresy?

> Also, there’s an evolving view both theologically – which kind of follows on practical treatment – that the doctrinal divisions between the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches, as well as those between the Catholic Church and Eastern and Oriental Orthodox are, in general, as relates to (even validly baptized) members of the respective communities of a distinct theological character from heresy (which is essentially the religious equivalent of “treason”), even if heresy was the right frame early in the respective splits. This provides a theological reinforcement for (and in some respects follows from) efforts focusing on dialogue, clarification, and resolution of disputes rather than condemnation, which have made some progress in (in the case of the Protestant direction) both the Anglican-Catholic and Lutheran-Catholic dialogues.

I know of the desire to avoid the word heresy. Has this evolving view yet produced a new preferred term?
Step back into the programming world of 1900s where hacking was way easier and more prevalent then today.

If you were to change the course of history, would you rather have more or less people and open source projects working on things like https, memory safe languages like Rust, 2 factor authentiaction, e.t.c?
TV show that rained fireballs at your ancestors at random intervals...
13 physical education students are definitely going to be way above median in ankle strength & flexibility. They’re also likely very young and less injury prone.
Renewables (wind and solar) are intermittent. The storage technology to make them reliable without a backup source of power generation, does not yet exist at the scale that would be needed. For now, any viable plan for full decarbonization must include nuclear.
Twitter is just one example though, this problem is going to affect every single online community. If the LLM bull case is correct, the internet is going to be absolutely flooded with sophisticated misinformation.
I saw a Ted talk some years ago called “The science of smell” - and I think the jury was out on whether that speaker was really on to something or was a bit of a crack pot. It seemed legit to me!

I’d like to know if this research is consistent with, or invalidates the theories mentioned in that talk.

https://www.ted.com/talks/luca_turin_the_science_of_scent/tr...
Because their AI is nowhere near as capable as GPT. It seems to be mostly only good for gimmicks like playing Jeopardy. No doubt they are working on their own LLM though.
Why would it not? IBM still makes computers, just not personal computers. With how LLMs work, it's actually quite likely that it would via Bayesian inference. It's a next-word prediction model, mate.
Not that I condone eating mercury in any way, shape, or form, but apparently some people did exactly that on a regular basis during the renaissance. The outcome was as expected. The surprising part was how long they seem to have lived eating mercury every day.
When it's humid I don't, but dry air invariably does it to me.
The irony is that our obsession with disabling nuclear power works contrary to any climate obsession. When the two are played out against each other, the anti-nuclear ambitions win. Disabling nuclear power is apparently more important than disabling coal power plants. And than dealing with soaring energy costs and a potential blackout.
That loophole was closed on 1st January 2019, well before I moved to San Francisco.

Separately: Unlike many states, California requires front license plates, too.
its not specific to germany, they just happen to be doing it on this specific issue

the current times have made the optics even crisper