skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my argument is that there is zero evidence whatsoever we will be able to prevent these from becoming dangerous

Well no, but there's no need to prevent them from becoming dangerous inherently. They are tools, extensions of human agency. Tools are, by their nature, purpose-agnostic. It is good for humans to have better tools and more agency; good humans tend to cooperate and limit the harms from bad humans, while increasing the net total of good things in the world. The theory that AIs could be independently existentially dangerous is full of holes, and assumes a very specific world, one where consequential AI power can be monopolized by bad actors (plus some nonsense about nukes or bioweapons from kitchen tools. As far as I can tell, the most plausible way for this to happen is for alignment fanatics to get their wish of hampering proliferation of AI tech, and then either succeed at their alignment project or screw it up.

> here, in this very comment, we have perhaps the most brazen example one could produce:

Have you considered responding to my argument instead of strawmanning?

I do not think alignment is unsolvable for tools we have or for their close descendants. For most definitions of alignment, it is trivial and already being done. I oppose the political project of alignment, because I am disgusted by intuitive totalitarianism and glib philosophical immaturity of its proponents.
Is there a single normal human being outside a corporate environment that would even talk about an "ad experience"? Ads by definition do not put people first, putting ads over unrelated content in your app is definitionally user hostile, and nobody in any context outside an advertising department would ever think otherwise. To even get to the point where you're having to assert your 'people first' bonafides over something so transparently anti-people requires the kind of utter blindness to the entirely of the human experience that can only occur in an organization who's priorities absolutely put ads in front of people.
GP is like OP but one level above. They're referring to the user staringback's post.
Flowers for Turing
In many cases some opinions are clearly superior over others.

Compare "war crimes are bad for multiple reasons" and "lets torture, murder and loot and that is fine because they are subhumans".

Universal bothsideism is not a good idea.
That's beautiful! Hope you're getting to do more of these!
Seems like these job scheduling systems are a dime a dozen these days. Since we're an AWS shop, eventually my team ended up just building a system based on EventBridge and Fargate, killing off a previous system built on top of Quartz. Scheduling is all handled via Terraform. It's been solid for several years now, and costs next to nothing to operate. We can parallelize as much or as little as we want.

At the end of the day, I don't want more to run more dedicated boxes for yet another jobs systems. I just want to hand off a container to the ether and say "please run this container until it stops, and do this once an hour or once a day." I don't want to get alerts in the middle of the night telling me that the Quartz scheduler has had some esoteric failure, and I don't want Jobs A, B, and C to get killed because Job D started doing something dumb.

Having a nice UI is cool, but I would rather not have more servers and relational databases and Java-cron libraries that can do dumbness in the middle of the night.
> This ire does exist for every company that pulls this nonsense. What are you on about? Why should Mozilla be exempt?

What are you on about? We've all got to eat. Making money is good and essential for survival.

> This is a Nostradamus level of nonsense. [...] trying to project 15 years out into the future [...]

This is what every investor, innovator, or leader does. If you're not thinking about the future, you're flying without guidance.

> It doesn't belong in this conversation.

Absolutely it does. Mozilla painted themselves into a dark corner and the walls are closing in.

I'm not the only one predicting that the web may dry up. It was already happening with increased centralization and platforms before AI even entered into the conversation.

If, hypothetically, AI can answer all of your questions, why do you need to search for websites? Why do you even need websites?

ChatGPT is already trying to get companies to build themselves as plugins within their walled fiefdom. Don't you see that as a distinct possibility? A terrifying one? It's already happened on our phones and app stores, and it can happen again.
The conman has already moved on from FSD to humanoid robots that can currently spread their legs with the help of 2 other people holding the robot.
It’ll keep the hype up for another decade or so, and by that time there’ll be another wave he’ll masterfully ride on.

Thunderf00t points to an interesting interview of karpathy where he says (truthfully) that when he joined Tesla, the cars couldn’t even follow the lines or something, yet at the same time the scam king was promising coast to coast self-driven rides. See timestamp 16:48 of the video below:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grefAhSvcvc&t=16m48s

P.S. no offense to the excellent employees of Tesla who’ve achieved tremendous things, including the driver assist system.
But the scammy claims of the conman in chief straddling the border of fraud and and futurism unfortunately overshadows these legitimate achievements.
Wouldn't the intense electro-magnetic signature of this drive make it highly detectable in an otherwise quiet ocean?
Great Andamanese, in the Indian ocean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Andamanese_languages#Gra...
> This leaves the logical conclusion, given the fact that we still do all these things that hurt regular people, being either that a) the people making the decisions actively want to hurt us, or b) they are doing these things to benefit themselves over the organization (in short-term profit, in feelings of control, in feelings of superiority over others, etc)

That may be a logical conclusion given the perspective of a certain set of knowledge workers but how about the employees who are pissed that their roles don’t get that WFH option? Does their unhappiness get a voice with the organization? As an organization how do you reconcile that disparity? Just belaying their fairness concerns with a “learn to code” kind of answer seems a bit more evil than just resetting knowledge workers back to 2019 work environments in my opinion.

So it’s not always a decision to actively hurt, it’s possible that the decision is one of a more holistic fairness for the organization’s employees…which benefits everyone to a degree including the organization.
As someone who never used GPT-4, what is so good about it?
If you just blow into a tube, it will resonate and make a sound. It's not far from that to notice that different length tubes make different notes. Eventually someone found that blowing in a tube with a hole in the side will change the note if one blocks the hole with a finger.

By then, one is off and running with developing a workable flute.
What if the more populated countries (ie: India and China) are the largest carbon emitters?
Easy there, cowboy, he’s had incredible success whipping his fans into frothing frenzies of self congratulatory adulation that would make a seesaw get dizzy. No other boss person since the mighty Steve has had this effect on the mass psyche, and Elon has arguably done a lot less. I claim teslas success is in spite of him, not because of him. Facts matter, and the SEC case was where I first realized his lack of leadership skill, and boasting about tanking his own stock price was not impressive. He’s not impressive, rather dull and low imagination if you ask me, which you didn’t, as you were busy falling over yourself to worship Elon Musk, who sounds like a cheap cologne
> I'm sorry, Mozilla. It's been a good ride this past few decades, but I think it's time we parted, because with all due respect, I am now questioning the sanity of your staff. This is not how any normal person or company would describe its new software innovations. This is the language of lunacy. Frankly, you sound unhinged

I think he has missed the current year jargon which is a mix of corporate BS words and Buzzfeed diversity and inclusion crap. It usually means nothing other than:

"We are doing this because of profit or because we want to further censor discussion about something because the right view is X and that's what you're allowed to think and say.

Any dissent will be responded with a negative label on your person and, if possible, deplatforming, which is good, because we know what the one true way is"

They will phrase it as "in order to improve things for consumers, everyone" while literally screwing over a myriad of those people.

Firefox is still a great browser but Mozilla has long been a company that we can barely trust, in the way that it actively is telling us that we need to subscribe to its very US centric partisan politics and view of the world, which has shifted from actual fairness and openness for all vi virtue of being a customizable browser.
Which "republics that are largely Russian" are you talking about?

If you mean LNR & DNR, then that's just plainly not true. At most they were majority Russophone (depending on how you count "native language"), which is not at all the same thing.

You might also want to look up what ethnic Russian citizens in e.g. Moldova or Latvia think about the perspective of Russia "helping" them the way it "helped" ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
I guess you are not tracking the current news here. :)
On cultural issues I agree this site leans progressive, from a US perspective. (from my international perspective, politics in the US seems to be between far right and religious fundamentalism).

But arguing for more regulation, consumer protections and limiting the influence of corporations or wealthy individuals has never gone well on HN. Which is understandable, given its origins and owner. It's really slanted towards business/entrepreneurship.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

(I always get the DVs for doing this, but somehow, dang always receives applause for doing the same exact thing.)
The FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human’s brain
I don't know about the law, but that's not true of Teslas. Deceleration triggers brake lights. Here's one example where a guy tests it https://youtu.be/dmptMElBpjI
In Greeley (30 min southeast of Foco) max upload with 1gbps is 20mbps.
I work with people who have used it almost daily since it came out. None of them have 10x’d anything. Even their open source ChatGPT related projects are stalled and not going anywhere. Not to say it can’t help but I’ve not yet encountered this mythical 10x boost.

As others have observed, maybe most have stopped using it.

Maybe Ray Kurzweil is kind of on the money about computer brain interfaces, that’s when the fun really starts.
The age doesn't mean it was definitely made by Neandertals. It could have been acquired from other Homos.
eating oil is pretty gross. I'll have to look into the beef fat thing. I started having coffee with cream and eating some eggs and avocado everyday but it seems there aren't that many sources of fat that aren't pure oil/fat that don't otherwise come with avocado.
This is a great point. The mantra "dilution is the solution to pollution" can be undone by bioaccumulation in fish at the top of their food chains.
Probably this whole story comes down to "there's 'Allow Firefox to make personalized extension recommendations setting' and it is on by default".
I had add port 53 NAT redirect to my home network.

Kindle Fire tablet has hard-coded Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server, bypassing the Pi-Hole ad blocker.
(for the record, I did not mean to imply the temporal ordering you suggest I did)
All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year.

School requires multiple paragraphs per student.
There is no way you could fit 40MB into an audio tape, even when using the fastest fast loader [1]. 40MB is 3.2e8 bits, which means you'd need a transfer rate of ~60kbps even with a 90-minute tape. 8 bit computers could do 1-2kbps at best.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_loader
No stress testing the servers, naughty naughty.

Elon please hire me, I can use Jmeter to scale a 1000 users per second on my IBM Thinkpad to put load on the servers.

/s
That’s annoying it might kill the open standard
They allow donations too. Nothing has stopped anybody from paying. All you had to do was go pay. Pick some amount. Even five fucking dollars.

It's fine for them to create Mozilla VPN. It's never, ever fine to use the same old dark bullshit patterns, and interrupt me on all my computers, same as all these other dirtbag tech companies. They are supposed to be different, and give a shit about the user. Sorry if this is their only way to advertise, but it's not okay.
Wow. Just wow. WTF Mozilla o_O

I still love you though, Firefox. Your heart is in the right place. You're now a lone wolf in a ocean of Chromium and wonky WebKits.
Many people don't want to use their car as a robotic rideshare for hire. The inside is gonna get pretty not nice in a hurry.

At least when there's a human driver in a car, they can tell misbehaving people to knock it off. Not so when the car is unattended and robotic.
> …while all the synchopants keep ranting…

We definitely now live in a world that needs this word. I am now adopting it myself. Thanks!
It's great but the usage limit is crazy to me. Sometimes I need to use lots of small messages, and run through them way too quickly
look at the source code! Simple!
Where's the "don't suggest stuff" box? That seems much easier than the multiple about:config changes I'd have to do to turn off all of the new avenues for advertising
but… What if they vote russia?
Ads by default are still not acceptable to me.

Yes, I am willing to pay say 100$/year for web browser if money would entirely go to development. Maybe something to support staff like CEO. But not over 5 000 000 per year ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary... )

And if such browser would be actually user-first, without ads for VPN and Disney movies (especially without ads pretending to not be ads).
Wow that is significantly more than I would have guessed. Fun little comparison, it took until 1996 for 14% of North Americans to have used the internet.

https://ourworldindata.org/internet
Plugins and web browsing. You can enable web browsing for it. It will search the internet for you and read the articles, sites and get back with some pretty decent information
Which Waymo and possibly Cruise are on track to make cars for. Tesla though, nope. Their approach is fundamentally unsound and unworkable (just like Uber's internal effort was).
At the risk of anthropomorphizing, GPT-4 is smarter. It writes better code, hallucinates less, and is just generally more helpful.
The original headline says "but few have tried it," but reaching over 1/10 of the population as actual users in under 6 months seems crazy impressive right? And also, that a quarter of the people who have heard of your product have also used it?

I would say both of these numbers are really impressive, not just the first one.
The number of people who have read my dissertation would fit into a bus shelter.
Another related pattern: rock-paper-scissors comparisons.

Say we're looking to choose a library.

A - Let's use FooLib. It seems to be the most widely used.
B - Nah, FooLib's kind of outdated. We should use NeoFoo, it's more modern.
A - Well plain old libfoo is way faster.
B - But FooLib has a way friendlier API...

Because you're not deciding what you care about, instead of a straight bakeoff, each option is in multiple two-way fights where only its strengths or weaknesses over a particular other option are considered relevant. Option 1 beats option 2, beats option 3, beats option 1...

Prioritize your requirements. Try out sentences of these forms:

I would be okay with lower performance if the API is easier to use.
I would prefer a fast implementation of this even if it were unsupported.

If you're not comfortable with them, you have learned something about your true priorities.
It’s just plainly superior, by at least a 25% margin if not higher (imo). That’s not necessarily needed for every task though. ChatGPT’s free version is ‘good enough’ at many mundane tasks already.
Dish in Talks to Sell Wireless Plans Through Amazon
I've been using IceCat recently as part of a video project I'm doing. I started using Guix just for fun and IceCat happens to be the version of Firefox they have available by default. It has some quirks but it's overall pretty usable and strips Mozilla branding.

It's a shame because I pay for Mozilla features, including Mozilla VPN. But I find this behavior (1) kind of gross, and (2) a clear signal of either desperation or indifference to their mission.
I think it worked entirely 'correctly', and yet still annoyed the shit out of me.
This is not, in practice, what they do. In reality, they tend to use overwhelming force with dubious justification (if any), escalate situations via techniques such as kettling of protestors, and arrest/brutalize people expressing their disapproval of the above. There are many instances where police use violence on nonviolent protestors, so how does that protect them from physical harm?
This is no longer true as of 2021. You as a Google Play user with very limited exception (see next paragraph) have no assurance whether you've received the mobile application bundle (.aad) the developer intended you to have, nor are you receiving the same application bundle everyone else in the world receives. Signatures controlled by Google are now used to sign the application bundle sent to each device[2]. It's not quite as bad (yet) as the Apple situation, but not far off.

For a security conscious developer such as Signal who publish an APK (.apk) and signatures publicly[2], a user with a rooted device could theoretically unpack the official application bundle received from the Google Play Store and check the executable code and resources match those in the publicly available APK. Or just not use the Google Play Store and obtain your applications directly from the developer or an intermediary you place more trust in.

[1] https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing

[2] https://signal.org/android/apk/
On chrome on windows desktop in North America, when I click the BBC link I get the paywalled link and then almost immediately a redirect happens that sends me to a rendering of the PDF article. Same thing happens on firefox on windows desktop.

The top right of the PDF-alike has a link that says "what's this". and it sends me to https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/sharedit which seems like a service that allows sharing of links to fulltext. If I go to the url directly, e.g. by copy-pasting the URL or clicking on your link, then I do not get the same behavior. Hence, I deduce that it is probably some referrer magic.

When I click the same BBC link on chrome on android mobile, I don't get the redirect, so probably there is some User Agent stuff too.
To Imagine AI, Imagine No AI
Requiring pam_close_session is just bad design - if it needs special cleanup, pam_open_session should grab process pidfd and spawn separate monitor process (or pass pidfd to existing daemon).
> What are you on about? We've all got to eat. Making money is good and essential for survival.

Yeah. The Mozilla foundation is struggling to keep food on the table with the hundreds of millions paid to them from Google. Totally.

> This is what every investor, innovator, or leader does. If you're not thinking about the future, what are you doing?

Again, you're attempting to justify current bad behaviour by what might happen the future. That's what ridiculous. I never said no one should plan for the future.

If Mozilla is going to pull moves like this then they deserve to get called out for it. Defending bad behaviour like this only helps things become worse.
Google One. Google One's cheapest plan also started to support VPN.
Calling Al Jazeera and The Guardian obscure sources? They could have used my website as example, not a soul would recognize it but it was on the front page on a few occasions. Interesting choice of evidence there

It also doesn't seem to take the comments into account at all, which is rather the point of HN unless I'm majorly off base here. If the sites submitted are religious extremist but everyone is laughing at them and posting replies based in atheism, you can hardly call the site a good source for religious content. Since they're just looking at the domains being used as "source" here, they might as well not have rated HN at all
Why Nvidia and other 'picks and shovels' of tech will stay solid bets: investors
I wonder what the under 18 usage rate is. It would have been near impossible for me to resist this as a kid in school.
Justify the forcing of republics that are largely Russian to belong to a union that has been turned decidedly anti-Russian including with a coup and NGOs and intelligence activity.

The "coup" theory you're referring to is nonsense. Nobody in Ukraine (nor anyone else who understand the actual event chronology, and just how marginal and insignificant the events you're referring to were) puts any stock in it.

To many other cognitive distortions in your post for me to unpack. It's clear that your whole thought process is backwards -- starting from a moralistic position ("Western geopolitical elites bad; those who seem oppose what they want, good"), and building your "understanding" of recent history from that.
Unfortunately that cant work as you like. UK has their Feds too and can print more easily than US but debts require purchase. Saudi and China already stop buying. Liquidity of T-bills have dropped drastically compare what it was 10 years ago. Now Fed can step in and buy those debts pumping printed money directly to US government coffers. This in turn fire up inflation. Already many countries actively aboid using USD. Reduction of using USD in worldwide commerce now hit back American shores. So as long as US governments not reigning the expenditure, Fed showing printing money DIRECTLY, inflation will keep penalising Americans. This time, there are alternatives compare to 70s. People can migrate. Immigrant can stop migrating to USA (Asians now stopped significantly migrating and investing in US in the last 3 years). Anytging Americand needed like Russian uranium and Chinese goods are now sold to American market via blackmarket. This in turn fuel the criminal organization. This is why Americans now facing rampant crimes as the increase in crime couldnt be match by law enforcement. So all this talk of ignoring debt ceiling already happening since a decade ago and the repercussions already in the works. The more you want to ignore the ceiling the more of the above hitting Americans.
Did you read the alt text?
I think I may be a unicorn...
I don't think people with realistic expectations have any illusions. Servo couldn't get 10k per year for infra alone.
Tritiated water can be absorbed through the skin and it's also quickly flushed out with other water regardless of how it gets in your system. If i had to eat some activity of either 40K or 3H i would definitely take the tritium.
> no correlation between rockets and self driving cars,

This is actually false. Automation of vehicle controls has a surprisingly large overlap between air/space and land.

The main difference is the amount of traffic and lack of vibration dampening.