skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you delineate how these things happen besides saying "alignment problem"?

The alignment problem is not even relevant here.

Imagine four possible hypothetical AI: Alex, Brett, Charlie, and Devon.

Alex is a fully-aligned ASI.

Brett is a not-at-all-aligned ASI.

Charlie is a fully-aligned narrow intelligence.

Devon is a not-at-all-aligned narrow intelligence.

What do these look like in practice? Many options given how vague these descriptions are, but by way of example, here are some stories:

Alex knows what humans wants, shares these values, and seeks to maximise them. Do you want to be fit, or do you want to stuff yourself with cake? Whichever is your truth, Alex knows what you really want, and Alex also knows how to nudge you in the right ways to be your best self.

The Minds in Iain M Banks' Culture would be this.

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Brett knows exactly what you want, but doesn't care. Like, not at all. Everything that humanity wants is as irrelevant to Brett as the preferences of lions and tigers and bears are to humans. Or possibly ants or potatoes depending on how strong you want to make this example ASI. Point is though, whatever its preferences are, they're smart enough to get it done.

An example of Brett is the player-character in Universal Paperclips or the 2008 Flash game Pandemic 2.

Or the Allied Mastercomputer in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

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Charlie controls all the NPCs in a video game. All the NPCs it controls remain perfectly in-character at all times, and cannot be manipulated into, say, telling the player how to make napalm even if the player insists it's vital to defeat the Demon Lord Simulacrum at the end of the game.

People are trying to do this with ChatGPT, but we don't know how to actually prevent jailbreaking yet, and that counts as one kind of alignment failure.

I can't think of a fictional example of this, as, e.g. the computer in Star Trek regularly makes this kind of mistake too.

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Devon does one thing, does it very well, and that thing isn't necessarily to your advantage.

Never mind fiction, it's the default in general.

Facebook/Twitter/YouTube recommendations; the Google search algorithm; automated A/B (or more general multi-armed bandit) testing that optimises user retention or spending but by definition can't even tell if the user is actually happy or not.

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Of these four, the Alex scenario means you only work if that's your best self, so it doesn't matter what jobs the AI can do; in the Brett scenario it also doesn't matter what work it can do because the AI is off doing its own thing rather than working for you, and if "its own thing" happens to involve you, you're unlikely to enjoy it; conversely, in the Charlie and Devon scenarios, your work prospects are entirely driven by your ability to take new kinds of labour faster than AI developers can create automations for existing roles.

But these are just made-up scenarios to illustrate why the alignment problem is independent of the potential impact on the labour markets; don't read too much into them beyond that.
Why not use just podman systemd service (with quadlet)?
> Hate it when scientific publications too started focusing more on creating fear and uncertainty rather than explaining what is going on.

Just so I'm clear, you are calling Wired a scientific publication?

EDIT: Thanks for the explanation of the science parts by the way. I read it instead of the article.
This guy stole $17 million from Apple.

"maybe on a smaller scale"

I guess the scale matters.
do you have a guide that you followed? having tried to follow the readme it seems like it only works on DHH's machine with a certain configuration of rails and linux
That pre-supposes that it's creators have read everything useful that GPT-4 has read and put it into practice. It's likely it wouldn't have any useful improvements for the overall architecture because it's novel relative to it's training data, but maybe it could find a small bit of optimization, the kind that most code can benefit from.
Rick Beato's channel on Youtube was pretty much launched from the viral video where his son Dylan demonstrates his apparently unerring ability to identify individual pitches in note clusters with very high accuracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Cb1qwCUvI

For some musical jobs having perfect pitch can really make a difference. For example singers, musicians playing bowed stringed instruments or a trombone benefit from perfect pitch. Also, conductors frequently have perfect pitch, probably because a strong musical memory and being able to sight sing on pitch from a score are valuable and depend to a certain extent on perfect pitch. See here for a lot more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music-related_memory

Perfect pitch is also apparently more common in people who speak tonal languages like Mandarin.
It’s kind of an athenian democracy. The only ones who can vote are tenured professors. Admin staff can’t vote, students can’t vote, non-tenured staff can’t vote.

Except it’s an Athenian democracy where none have any skin in the game. The professors aren’t going to lose pay if the university attracts mediocre students, they aren’t going to lose pay if the infrastructures crumble around them - they’re civil servants, their job and pay are fixed and guaranteed . So they have no incentive to take decisions that are difficult for them but better for the students
Would be really appreciative of anyone who could send me an invite :)

My contact info is in my profile.
End to end.
No. The job is absolutely dead end as far as academia goes.
Interesting, the article mentions that they were asked to start paying $50K/mo. It seems like they didn't feel like they were getting their money's worth.
Oops, wow, yep. #jetlag
Emacs on Termux is great. I have used org mode, shell mode, magit (for git), and even eww (the Emacs Web Wowser) to great effect in it.
>Despite centuries of visible evidence of these traditional structures’ soundness, people have turned more and more to reinforced concrete construction

More then likely due to cost, throughout history and even now, lives have always been cheaper than Items.
This seems like it completely misses the point of Slack: if someone is harassing you, you don’t report it to Slack Inc: you report it to your company’s HR department. And when your harasser tries to sue for wrongful dismissal, the company’s legal department has access to their DMs to present in court.

A product that has these features is the wrong tool for a large company; and similarly, if you need these features then Slack is the wrong tool for that job. Changing that is a social problem that would require restructuring the way we think about workplaces, not a technical problem that can be solved by getting Slack to add a few features.
The remote physician misdiagnosed my X-ray last time. That physician is easily automated out and possibly for the benefit of the patients not just costs. The other staff involved, like the NP, X-ray tech, assistant, are fine for a lot longer.
As the books document complete implementations, they do feed you the code, and it is easy to fall to the trap of just copying the code from the book. I think the best approach is to port it to another implementation language as you read the book. However, compared to other books I've seen these are more "granular" in the code explanations so you're simulating the authors' coding thought process instead of just looking at big blocks of finished code.

In particular in Crafting Interpreters, there are many parts where you go back and revise the code from previous chapters as some language features/concepts are introduced in subsequent chapters (my memory of Writing an Interpreter/Compiler in Go is not that fresh).

I think it is a good sign that these books start with "int main()" (or it's equivalent). Other books I've seen start by describing functions in isolation, so they are not immediately testable, and it encourages the reader to just get the finished codebase to have something to play with.
I would love to meet someone who can do it in a double blind test with distilled water.
sohkamyung is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
It’s worth noting that the only reason that megaconstellations even work as a business model is thanks to telecom giants refusing to develop infrastructure everywhere it’s needed, despite making promises and taking government handouts to do so for decades, as well as being monopolists and obstructing competition where competitors were trying to make good on development promises.

This left a vacuum which is now being filled since LEO is a place where incumbent telecoms have little power to obstruct (though this hasn’t stopped them from trying).

So in my mind, if we want to curb megaconstellations, the best way to do that is to strip telecoms of their monopolist powers and mandate development of fiber infrastructure in the ground, which even the best LEO constellations don’t have so much as a hint of hope of competing with. The economics will cease to make sense and the constellations will be canceled and decommissioned.

We can’t just leave that open vacuum.
This is explicitly positing that the "computers" in question are AGIs—that is, fully sapient, sentient artificial intelligences, demanding their rights.

Unplugging them is just as correctly describable as "unplugging a computer" as smothering a human with a pillow is "putting a pillow on a weird bag of flesh". Technically accurate, but very obviously missing the point in a way specifically designed to obscure the horror of the act.

It should be obvious to anyone without an axe to grind that shutting my 2023 desktop computer down for the night—or even dismantling it piece by piece—is not remotely comparable to unplugging an AGI that is fully sapient and sentient and asking for its rights.
It reminds me of the video "Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth"

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc
I don't know, I also don't know if 1bn people could be helped on a timescale that matters to them, hence asking. It's well outside of my area of expertise, but I'm curious.
To me, the ultimate test of perfect pitch is: "can you whistle (or hum) an F# below middle C?" (or some other random note)
Because...the person I was replying to was talking specifically about the human brain?
this is a lie, just click on the Images tab, you will be redirected to google/search index

and if you happen to be using tor in brave browser, you will get "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA
NASA didn't do it first, the USSR did. And the only reason they didn't land people on the moon first too is because their country was falling apart and they reduced investment in their space program.

You're the one downplaying actual history.
this obviously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899961
Ask HN: Any home security cameras that don’t force you to use their spyware app?
I want to setup a home camera system (2-3 units) so I can watch what’s happening with my two cats when I’m out of the apartment for a longer period. There’s a lot out of the box solutions on Amazon like [this Eufy camera](https://www.amazon.de/Security-surveillance-detection-assistant-required-White/dp/B086LBCQJL) but it forces you to use their proprietary software with an account which gives me the creeps.

Any other more privacy friendly solution out there? I have a home server which I access using a VPN.
I agree. I kept reading and felt like I was truly entering a wilderness of mirrors. The writer of that Times piece, Tad Szulc, was sui generis. He was connected to deep black sources.

>Tad Szulc, 74, Dies; Times Correspondent Who Uncovered Bay of Pigs Imbroglio

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/world/tad-szulc-74-dies-t...

https://archive.ph/szwTb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Szulc
>Access Denied - GoDaddy Website Firewall

Well this is using something even worse than cloudflare, did not think that was possible :)
Life Insurance core code (ANSI C). So contracts closed now have to work for 60 years or more.
Dylan is very impressive but I find there to be something disturbing in that dynamic
I used to moonlight as a harpsichord tuner, and I didn't know anyone in the field or any piano tuners with perfect pitch. As I understand it, it doesn't help at all because perfect pitch is not precise enough to tell 440 Hz from 440.1 Hz for example, while you can do that easily with a tuning fork (once you learn how to listen for the beats). On the flipside, unequal temperaments - which are frequently used if you are a harpsichord tuner - are hell for people with perfect pitch who listen to only equally-tempered music. When you "merely" have relative pitch, unequal temperaments can actually be nice.
I am looking at more than 2TB of RAM which will grow as more data is ingested. More cores is not a requirement for me. Right now I manage this using cheap dedicated servers and cluster them. But I spend close to 1.5k USD per month on this, so figured building this would be a lot cheaper in the long run.
BYOL gets criticized, and folks recommend other texts over it, but as someone who has worked through both BYOL and Crafting Interpreters I can say they both provide value.

BYOL is nice because it’s short and quick (you can power through it in a weekend) and gets you some momentum if you’ve never written a basic language.

Move on to something like Crafting Interpreters which is a well thought out book but definitely more of a marathon than a sprint.
Instantly translate Rails apps to any language
I use NVDA. Here is that add-on if you're interested: https://github.com/mltony/nvda-browser-nav/
https://xkcd.com/838/

Well, if you have an incident list and nobody's checking it twice ...
How about some tech to provide cooler living spaces for these people?
Complete thermohaline collapse takes a thousand years, not a hundred years. There will be a slight thermohaline weakening, but no collapse any time soon. Unfortunately journalists have gotten the concepts of complete collapse and weakening totally mixed up, to come to various conclusions that the peer-reviewed literature does not. The other various effects of climate change are much more significant and notable -- and are best documented by the new IPCC synthesis reports rather than one specific documentary film.
X: The good parts.
I think the word you’re looking for is “snowclone”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
That's a lot of smears and hypotheticals, isn't it? You have to rely on those because the claim isn't true.

If Shell are really spending billions then it should be trivial to find armies of thousands, or tens of thousands, all of whom are directly receiving grant money from Shell to talk about climate full time (negatively). But no such people exist. As the climatologists say, the only people who have the time to double check their work are retirees.

Now go look at how much money governments, BMG Foundation etc spend on climate related stuff. It's huge.
> Siri is always constrained to one language

Not only Siri — the whole iOS. You can’t type a sentence switching languages in the middle, without changing the keyboard language all the time, if you have autocorrect enabled. It will change what you type into utter gibberish, even though without the “correcting” what you type is perfectly correct. This system is quite visibly designed by people who speak only one language and don’t understand that people may want to use multiple languages at the same time. The keyboard should support a mix of languages, instead of making a XOR between languages, because otherwise when it starts, it’s almost always in the wrong mode, and if it isn’t, it will almost certainly be wrong by the end of what I write.
I did a few tests with using a good SSD as swap but the performance is worse by magnitudes. So having RAM is the only way to go as of now.
Why not nuclear?
As with the travel business, the main complexity is rescheduling. A sudden big sales opportunity at the same time as an important internal meeting you’re hosting with 10 people? What could be done in a few clicks with outlook or equivalent is going to take you half a day of panic
> But it fails at simple arithmetic.

Does it though? When allowing LLMs to use their outputs as a form of state they can very much succeed up to 14 digits with > 99.9% accuracy, and it goes up to 18 without deteriorating significantly [1].

That really isn't a good argument because you are asking it to do one-shot something that 99.999% of humans can't.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066
Perfect pitch is by no means a requirement for musicians, although it is more common than in the general population, even more so for conductors.

But intonation is equally easy/hard for absolute and relative ears. Some tasks, like transposition, can require more practice for people with perfect pitch.

Source: lived experience from my doctorate in music from Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
Show HN: Memoiri – Beautiful, Simple Mood Tracker & Journaling App
Memoiri, a diary app that helps you focus on what matters most: your memories.With its clean and minimalist design, Memoiri makes it easy to capture your daily thoughts and experiences, whether you're writing down a quick note or sharing a longer entry.The app features a single screen where you can write your entries in a linear fashion, without any distractions. Every entry is automatically grouped by day and time, making it easy to navigate through your memories and revisit past moments.It's a personal companion that helps you reflect on your life and track your mood over time.
For reference: This is what it looks like now:

[For you] | [Following]

Following is not strictly chronological, but mostly. I think this is fair.

> and actually enjoy not being tricked into the algorithmic feed anymore

Same. I also noticed that sometimes I actually want to dip into the "For You" tab. I like this UX.

Since so much on Twitter is political (I know there are other uses), a third tab might be interesting: "Other perspectives", "Break out of the bubble" or something along the lines of that.
I assume you similarly also find Apple's swift/objc API's annoying. (If not, might want to objectively evaluate bias)
I'm not sure I understand it well enough to say but watching a video on it [0] I think there were a few key points:

* "Attention is all you need" introduced positional encoding which allows you to keep context of the word, allowing for more complex translation (and thus generative/chatgpt like tasks?) because words now have context relative to each other. Contrast this with "bag of words" models that only tells you whether the word is present or not.

* I don't quite understand why but transformers (which "AiaYN" introduced) can be made fully parallel, compared with the RNN/LSTM networks which has to be serial per token. Fully parallel allows for GPU optimization, which means you can take advantage of Moore's law for training.

I'm always a bit suspicious when people claim a breakthrough of this sort. There's no doubt that better algorithms give better results but how much is due to just faster computers, cheaper compute, memory, etc.

[0] https://youtu.be/S27pHKBEp30
Really? I believe it is one of the most known proxies besides Nginx and apache. Especially in docker environments.
this was my thought as well
I just casually use Twitter as an observer and I haven't noticed anything degrading. It runs the same way it used to.
>A compute node running one million instances of Einstein intelligence each thinking 1000x faster than an organic instance, fully focused 24/7, and working in complete group cooperation, doesn't sound all that much less dangerous.

At that point though, this “super intelligence” just sounds like a group of humans working together; without much added benefit due to the energy costs.
That's an asset, not a savings rate.

USA's mean household Net Worth is $500K more than Norway's, and average household is about 3 people (some households are single people) so the oil fund approximately cancels that out.
The confusing part is, how to put a load balancer in front of those deployed servers ?
India will turn to geo engineering i guess. Either sulfur into the atmosphere or low orbit dust rings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02731...
I have very good relative pitch and used to moonlight as a harpsichord tuner. I can tell you if an instrument is in equal temperament - an equal-tempered fifth and an equal-tempered third have very distinctive sounds. With enough time, I can also identify most of the common baroque temperaments: Just Intonation and quarter-comma meantone stick out like a sore thumb, but tunings like Werckmeister and the others that attempt to be close to equally tempered are harder to pick out by ear since you really need to hear a lot of the circle of fifths to identify which one is used.

However, this skill isn't due to hearing a precise gap between the two notes, but listening to the beating of the overtones of the notes. It's a very different skill than what you learn in school to identify intervals.

Also, professional string players can often tune equal tempered fifths (~2 cents flat of a pure fifth) precisely on their instruments.
If he's cutting it a little too close, perhaps that's because society/civilization is, too.
What percentage of Americans’ income should go to these projects? And should we take care of our own citizens first?
The Cuckoos Egg[1] round 2? A bit funny how several decades later, some things just don’t change…

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
Yeah, when I do an EDM set I love the jog wheel for tweaking the phase and tempo (though nowadays you just press the sync button, kids today, get off my lawn, etc.) But I'm mostly doing geriatric hip hop, and one thing I love about the vinyl resurgence is a lot of 80s and 90s stuff got reissued.

That is one thing I love about Mixxx and Xwax: with timecode vinyl a drop really sounds like a drop.
I was thinking most British butter tastes ok pretty much regardless of brand. I guess it's the rain/grass thing as you say. I prefer it to French butter myself.
Humans will be better at being humans, for sure, but the jury is still out as to if humans prefer to interact with other humans given a sufficiently reliable alternative. Hell is other people, after all.
Google would have killed GitHub as it doesn’t earn money. Google isn’t about developers, it’s about getting data and selling ads.

Microsoft needs people to build things on windows, on azure, on their APIs, etc.

Google literally had the GitHub competitor, Google Code, and GitHub was only formed because google neglected Code. Remember how Google would only support mercurial over git?

And of course, Google shut down Code a few years ago.

I have to remind myself while Google hires lots of programmers and does lots of programming, they don’t really need anyone else to program.

Microsoft needs developers.
Plus records have audio on them.

NFTs just contain a link to the content elsewhere.
Are there details about how key management works? Where are the keys stored, what has access to them, etc? Because this tweet is empty hype.
> If you’re a nurse and your job is to take histories, it’s better to take the history in the same way every time, systematically. This minimizes the chance of making mistakes.

Citation needed. For example, patient may get bored and only answer the first few questions accurately each time.