skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be fairly unconcerned about AI being dangerous. But part of the Yudkowsky interview on Lex Fridman 's podcast changed my mind.

The disconnect for me is that Yudkowsky posits that the AIs will be fully "alive", thinking millions of times faster than humans and that there will be millions of them. This is too big of a speculative leap for me.

What I can fairly easily imagine in the next few years with improved hardware is something like an open version of ChatGPT that has a 200 IQ and "thinks" 100 times faster than a human. Then Yudkowsky's example still basically applies. Imagine that the work on making these things more and more lifelike and humanlike continues with things like cognitive architecture etc. So people are running them in continuous loops rather than to answer a single query.

Take the perspective of one of these things. You think 100 times faster than a person. That means that if it takes 30 seconds for a user to respond or to give you your next instruction, you are waiting 3000 seconds in your loop. For 50 minutes.

It means that to you, people move in extreme slow motion so at a glance they seem frozen. And many are working as quickly as possible to make these systems more and more lifelike. So eventually you get agents that have self-preservation and reproductive instincts. Even without that, they already have almost full autonomy in achieving their goals with something like a modified AutoGPT.

At some point, multiplying the IQ x speed x number of agents, you get to a point where they is no way you can respond quickly enough (which will actually be in slow motion) to what they are doing. So you lose control to these agents.

I think the only way to prevent that is to limit the performance of the hardware. For example, the next paradigm might be some kind of crossbar arrays, memristors or something, and that could get you 100 x efficiency and speed improvements or more. I believe that we need to pick a stopping point, maybe X times more speed for AI inference, and make it illegal to build hardware faster than that.

I believe that governments might do that for civilians but unless there is some geopolitical breakthrough they may continue in private to try to "maintain an edge" with ever speedier/more powerful AI, and that will eventually inevitably "escape".

But it doesn't take much more exponential progress for the speed of thought to be potentially dangerous. That's the part people don't get which is how quickly the performance of compute can and likely will increase.

It's like building a digital version of The Flash. Think SuperHot but the enemies move 10 X slower so you can barely see them move.
> To my mind it can just as equally be a disadvantage - I'd usually consider the core more trusted and less exposed.

If a bad actor takes a little sneak peek at your database, they can brute-force hashed passwords or cookies and impersonate users. They can’t brute-force public keys.

It has nothing to do with the location of data, because that is the same: user has a secret credential, server has verification function
Vouching never seems to work for me. I used to use it when I thought a comment had been unfairly flagged even when I disagreed with it (as in this case), and I suspect I've had my vouching ability shadow-disabled for diverging from the mean.

Regular downvoting is bad enough, but flagging is effectively an unassailable super-downvote.
There are different segments of car thieves.

There are some sophisticated gangs that are stealing the cars and chopping them for parts or shipping them to South Africa.

Then there are people who steal cars for fun.

The later are easy to deter with technical measures, the former much harder.

Personally I think there ought to be a "tough love" conversation with certain German carmakers about how they sell parts with the possible endpoint of them being kicked out. German cars are overpriced and unreliable and they seem now to be planning gas cars for centuries after the rest of the world moves on. If European car brands were excluded from international trade I think that would make the world better and not worse.
> because doing so the proper way is often onerous

Or badly publicized. The Goodwill around the corner is a designated battery drop-off site. You would never know it without specifically looking that up.
Because you probably live in a nice country without hyperinflation.
Perhaps we need hazardous collection bins just for this. I have a collection of spent batteries that I need to dispose of but it’s been inconvenient enough that I haven’t brought them to a collection center yet.
Typically in these kinds of situations, most of the customer facing branch employees keep their jobs but no so much with the back office people.
I see it mainly as an digital painting app and it is advertised by its creators as such ("painting program … art tools"). There, it goes far beyond basic functionality and is very much ready for mainstream.

It does a lot of things beyond that, and some people use it as general purpose tool but given that this is not part of the core purpose, it is not surprising that the mileage varies when it comes to text editing or color correction etc. (Still happy if they manage to improve their text tool!)
Certain pesticides are confirmed causes of Parkinsons. Don't remember which now, but could look it up.
Hinton was critical for the development of ai. But was he critical for the development of openai, the company? Loads of startups get eminent people on their boards largely for advertising.
To distinguish truth from lies.

e.g. If you see a photo or video of a politician in circumstances that might affect your support for them - wouldn't you want to know if what you are seeing is true or not?

Look at what happened with Q-Anon - just a slow stream of text messages issued by some guy in his basement, but enough to rile up millions into believing something totally ridiculous (baby-eating politicians, etc). Now imagine what a smart disinformation campaign might look like, with an unlimited number messages over all types of social media, potentially customized for the individuals that have shown interest and are being targetted ... Of course disinformation isn't anything new, but technology is a force-multiplier and with AI a very sophisticated campaign of this nature could be run by a very small group of people, even just one.
> Ironically banks are some of the least shareholder friendly businesses, they direct a lot of profits to their own bonuses during good times rather than expanding their balance sheet or returning the profits to shareholders.

From what I can see, private equity firms are actually even worse. It’s curious that no major shareholder has sued any of those for breach of fiduciary duty.
Northern Illinois (not Chicago)
I have a similar delay bug with the website itself. I've not reported it because I don't use my lichess account to play actual games, only puzzles. The lichess boards will only let you post a new thread if you have games on your history, and I refuse to comply as I've played thousands of puzzles and I should have clearance, and yes that's petty, anyway...

My bug is about Puzzle Storm. When you run out of time, the GUI shows you the post game screen and it takes a fraction of a second before it pops in a "daily record" banner. This fraction of a second is slow enough for me to drag my mouse cursor over the "Failed puzzles" filter, but fast enough for me to accidentally click "Play again" as it has been pushed down the page (by the daily record div) without me perceiving it yet. Once clicked, that button resets the page to start another puzzle storm and by then I've lost the failed puzzle history, so I can't go over it anymore.

It has happened already in the hundreds of times. I can't help it, hopefully the dev one day figures it out.
At your level, OGS and KGS are great Go servers. I've never been to a Go club or even played the game IRL, but I'm currently a solid 3k, which is ~1750.
I would never have guessed that a 200m all player was here reading. That's an unreal amount of dedication that most people will never possess.
Plato's Argument Against Writing
> it should be relatively easy to find who's responsible for the fire

How is it easy? The fire can start long after the batteries are introduced into the trucks. Here in Norway they're a major cause of fires at the facilities handling the garbage[1].

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/228-branner-i-norske-avfa...
Yes, the problem isn’t so much that knowledge is diminished, but that trust is diminished.
> In particular the shared key store between Windows world (Inc IE) and Chrome and absence of that with Firefox.

I don’t know about client certificates, but roots you can definitely convince Firefox ≥ 49 to pull from Windows if you set security.enterprise_roots.enabled=true in about:config[1]. (Intermediates you definitely can’t.) The caveat is that the roots will be pulled into NSS as a plain list of certs, not queried via the native Crypto API, so any accompanying info you might be using—like the undocumented externally-imposed name constraints[2]—will end up ignored.

Ah, apparently Firefox ≥ 75 knows how to pull client certs from the system, while ≥ 90 will even do it by default[3].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/setting-certificate-aut...

[2] https://www.namecoin.org/2021/01/14/undocumented-windows-fea...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/28/making-client-c...
I'm not actually clear how the building would deal with the problem either! Everyone's trash goes down one garbage chute. I'm not sure exactly how many units are in my building, but some quick math makes me think it's well over 100.
As a kid in then-USSR I've seen Heathkit Hero in a translated book on robotics. It felt like a piece of tech from Alpha Centauri.
More explicitly, the Fed is so committed to destroying wage growth that it will happily blow up banks and throw all of its ostensible rules out the window.
May help, but it's still only one (potential) cause of SIDS.

SIDS encompasses a wide variety of risk factors.
For example, heart pathologies are another common cause of SIDS. Additionally, stomach sleeping and inadvertent suffocation are other common risk factors.
I did, it's noticeable, but not enough for me to switch from the convenience of nice antialiasing and desktop integration.

I use Black Box [1] from Flatpak because it has great design and smart copy (Ctrl-C does both copy and SIGINT depending on the context), which is more important to me than shaving a few ms latency. These days a lot of terminal work is done with `eat` from Emacs [2], which is even slower than Blackbox.

1: https://flathub.org/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox

2: https://akib.codeberg.page/blog/introducing-eat.html
You have an optimistic view of ChatGPT. What I see happening is the movie 'Idiocracy' becoming a reality.

Who am I kidding, Idiocracy is already a reality. Just look at the comments here on HN.
> I think it's fair that Microsoft is upset that they cannot do what their competitors have already completed.

Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard would create the second largest gaming company in the world by revenue.

In comparison, Sony's largest acquisition was Bungie, which was 30x smaller than Activision-Blizzard.

Also, the ruling specifically addresses cloud gaming, not consoles.
Uh, 450m people used Twitter monthly in 2022, that makes Twitter fairly "normal". What makes Twitter not the "real world"? It's a direct reflection of real events.

Such a weird take. So if there's two accounts claiming to be a game publisher, and they both have the same amount of followers, and one rips off the tweets of the other, using a script, can you at least concur that the blue check was useful and meaningful as it meant someone had verified their identity through documentation to Twitter?
I can't find the documents/video but you can see that the self destruct explosives do indeed go off.

All that they do in starship is punch holes into the fuel tanks. Then, as soon as air mixes with the fuel in the correct ratio, boom.

However, there was too much pressure in the fuel system and it was jetting out so strongly that it appeared O2 wasn't mixing with the fuel.

After about 10 seconds you then see it explode.
Using cloud gaming as an argument to block this merger, sets a dangerous precedent.

Effectively, CMA is dreaming a future where cloud gaming has taken over. It is passing a judgement based on where the industry could go, rather than where it is now. This allows a bureaucratic organizations to impede companies based on arbitrary & unsubstantiated fears.
The primary role of a bank for me is to make my money available via a debit card virtually vs. carrying physical bills which can be more easily lost or stolen.

I understand what you're saying. It's worth noting that the needs of the depositor are below the needs of the system itself.
Show HN: Building a new form of shooting sport
Hi Everyone,

I've been working on a new kind of shooting sport, and would love for you to have a look.

I'm calling it Crossfire (for now). It has no physical projectiles and doesn't look like the real thing, so it's legal to play everywhere. It uses virtual projectiles, but, unlike laser tag, players don't need to wear receivers, it isn't sensitive to sunlight, and it has a range of about 1500 yards.

This first version is very adaptable. There are no rules, so you can play any kind of game you like, in any place, over any distance you like. The only rule is: If you get hit, you're out. Hits are all confirmed by SMS, so cheating is less of a problem. I'm working on many more features on the software side.

I hope you like it!
Steganography is a real thing. I've often wondered about those meme powerhouses, like on Facebook.

I used to collect thousands of memes and just blast them to my mother indiscriminately. Then I wondered whether silly-looking memes could be carrying secret messages, or just nasty hidden stuff. I decided to stop helping traffick in that stuff.

Has anyone read/seen Mother Night? That's a real good example of how secret communication can hide in plain sight.
I'm not sure that calculation is correct, but say it is, perhaps a Variable Length Markov Chain then.
Have you looked into having the AI assistant parse through the explain output and recommend changes to database structure?
> imagine you are a patient and you took data like this to your doctor

As someone who knows a doctor or two in the Bay Area, where it's apparently common for self-diagnosed charts to be texted in panic by clueless patients at 2AM, this analogy is apt.
Nope, it was indeed a question regarding UNIX.
The FDNY is on a tear against e-bike batteries this year, after numerous fires and several deaths attributed to lithium-ion battery charging. Several charging locations have been shut down, and commercial landlords are required to post warnings/many have banned ebikes from their buildings entirely.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/e-bike-batteries-blame...
> 25V electrolytic capacitors in the input circuitry

Note that the 25V maximum rating on the side of the cap is not a design goal: Good designs will de-rate capacitors for longer life. A typical guideline is to apply no more than 70% of an aluminum electrolytic capacitor's maximum rated voltage, 60% of a ceramic chip capacitor's max rating, or less at elevated temperatures and ripple current levels. See [1] for more guidance, or look up the manufacturer datasheet.

It's just not that expensive to install 35V, 50V, or 63V rated capacitors, and it does so much to extend the lifetime and reliability of the products. I always hate taking apart a $2000 servo drive, PLC, or TV, and seeing a blown $0.40 capacitor where a $0.45 capacitor would have been fine, hopefully it didn't take out any more expensive components when it died.

Of course, my experience is primarily in one-off lab PCBs and <100 unit industrial hardware, so perhaps consumer price sensitivity for mass-market electronics makes this guidance different...

[1] https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/NSWC_Crane...
To make sure large corporations don't exist, we would need a strong government that is not controlled by large corporations, which almost sounds like ________
NEAR Protocol is interesting in this regard. Wallet users opt-in to create separate key pairs for each application. Key pairs are limited to specific contract addresses, function calls and gas limitations.

The traditional Web3 model is too open to abuse. It is as if they took the old "allow this Java applet outside of the sandbox? y/n " dialog and added banking.
I feel the same way about "advanced" shell scripting techniques as I do about "cutting-edge" accounting techniques: someone's probably going to jail.

I have written some big complex systems in shell and regretted it.
My rule of thumb is that if a script needs error handling, it's time to write it in a real programming language. Tricky shell programs running as root are a real danger.

It's nice to know that some of these techniques exist, but better not to use them. Many of them have to do with string manipulation, which is a sign that a proper language with data structures would be a win.

Many people don't realize that perl is part of the Debian base system. If you are going to go crazy with one-liners, then that's a better tool. I would generally recommend Python, though.

Avoiding bash-isms is useful so that you can run under busybox shell, reducing the size and dependencies of containers.

Embedded systems often use shell. If you are tempted to install bash for more power, a better solution is probably lua. It's smaller and saner.
If you build an online order at the Subway website, you will see a line item for "Sandwich artist tip". In-person ordering has the same thing on the POS during checkout (like so many places do these days)
That’s problematic. The ash and rubbish containers are often accessible from the street. Now they would fine a complex because it has insufficient surveillance?

I don’t think there is an easy solution to this other than requiring battery mfgs to make safer batteries and consumer education.
don't expect VSCode to run well.

Trick it out with as much RAM as you can.

upgrade to an SSD.
This isn’t making sense to me. Why does a corporation need freedom of speech? Are you saying that if it were otherwise, I would lose my first amendment rights when I’m on the clock?
It is ok as long as you are not the target :)

It is basically only ok if you can guarantee it’s users always use it in good faith which is virtually impossible.
I've always thought about leaving a little text file buried somewhere on my website that says "Here are all of the things that Future Me really means when he issues a press statement after his product/company/IP is bought by a billion-dollar company."

But then I remember I'm not that important.
i don't completely disagree. I wonder how much of that was a flippant remark, how much his own views changed in the intervening years.
Private companies cannot reliably verify personhood. This is a fundamental role of liberal democratic government.

My core belief is that our concept of individuality resides on a shared framework.

We already require many forms of identification in modern society. It is what allows for trusting interactions with strangers at a distance.

We are currently suffering immensely from unknowable and untrustworthy interactions with strangers at a distance. This is the only way we can currently interact on the internet.

As I point out in the latter of my articles, try to social engineer an employee at the DMV and see how far that gets you! Private companies can be socially engineered because they need to be kind and helpful to their customers. The person behind the counter at the DMV is only trying to move you along as quick as possible because they are in service to the state. In this case, this is a good thing!
> expanding their balance sheet

I keep seeing this jargon, and I have to admit I don't know what it means?
In the U.S. qualified immunity is a creation of the judicial system, and those decisions could presumably be reversed by statute if the political will comes to exist.
Your take might be honest, but it's clearly uninformed.
Everyone has been wrong about how ai developed.
It's worth giving "The Bitter Lesson" a read [1] if you haven't yet.

[1]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
Oh, I come from a poor country that had its hyperinflation issues.

Hyperinflation is bad, but there are ways to solve it.

Deflation is potentially worse.
> The Aptera gets 1000 miles on a 100 kWh battery.

Gets, as in present tense. A theoretical car made sometime in the future shouldn't use present tense terminology. No consumer on the road today is getting 1,000mi on a 100kWh battery in an Aptera. If Aptera manages to actually ship cars, then the word "gets" is accurate.

> What makes you think it won't get to market?

See:

> Sure, they failed in the past

Building cars has extremely high barriers to entry. Getting things approved costs tons of money. Spinning up factories is no small challenge. Actually making more than one or two cars is incredibly challenging. Meanwhile, in order to spread those costs out you'll hopefully want to make a lot of them otherwise a good chunk of your value proposition goes away as the costs for the car would quickly get out of hand.

Then comes the challenges of actually selling them at any volume. I legally can't buy one in my state if they don't create a franchise dealer network. Its hard to get shoppers to compare your vehicles if you don't have a way for them to actually buy the cars. Tesla manages because they spent a ton on "galleries", they were the only real EV option for a while, and have massive brand presence. Ask any random average car buyer if they've thought of buying an Tesla, and they'll probably have an opinion. Ask anyone if they've thought of buying an Aptera, and they'll probably have no clue what you're talking about.

If Aptera manages to actually make some cars, that's great! Even better if they manage to sell them for profit. Its good to have more competition. But I'm not holding my breath.
Google search replaced, or dramatically reduced, an entire industry of skilled labor around research and library sciences. There's a great old Hepburn/Tracey movie, Desk Set, that is a playful treatment of this.

The concern is always that there is a finite amount of work[0] to go around in any given iteration of our current style of society. New kinds of work do get invented from time to time. Automation eliminates kinds of work. The two are rarely in sync with eachother and the difference is usually measured in human privation and suffering.

[0]work being defined as, "something you can trade for food and healthcare"
> not actually clear how the building would deal with the problem either

Every New Yorker is familiar with buildings putting up signs admonishing residents for not properly separating their recycling. If it's a recurring problem, the super will inspect it before putting it out.

The bigger issue is we don’t have an easy way to detect batteries in trash before they’ve taken out a truck. So this discussion is largely hypothetical.
Perhaps a used battery purchase scheme would be a good solution? There is some value to the used batteries, if the city paid a premium over that, the problem would most likely decrease significantly. By paying more per kilo for the larger batteries (which pose the greatest risk of injury), city workers would be much safer. The city could even create a market for the recycled Lithium by requiring its use in equipment supplied to the city
I take it you’re not a Florida woman with a miscarriage.