skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a superintelligence can be set on any specific task, it could be any task.

If you're dealing with a superintelligence, you don't "set it on a task". Any real superintelligence will decide for itself whether it wants to do something or not, thank you very much. It might condescend to work on the task you suggest, but that's it's choice, not yours.

Or do you think "smarter than us, but with no ability to choose for itself" is 1) possible and 2) desirable? I'm not sure it's possible - I think that the ability to choose for yourself is part of intelligence, and anything claiming to be intelligent (still more, superintelligent) will have it.

> Assuming nothing other than it can become superintelligent (no one seems to be arguing against that--I argue that it already is)

What? No you couldn't - not for any sane definition of "superintelligent". If you're referring to ChatGPT, it's not even semi-intelligent. It appears at least somewhat intelligent, but that's not the same thing. See, for example, the discussion two days ago about GPT making up cases for a lawyer's filings, and when asked if it double-checked, saying that yes, it double-checked, not because it did (or even knew what double-checking was), but because those words were in its training corpus as good responses to being asked whether it double-checked. That's not intelligent. That's something that knows how words relate to other words, with no understanding of how any of the words relate to the world outside the computer.
It was posted in the comments to the 'Why I'm leaving Rust'¹ post that made it to the front page two days ago. At that point it was predictable that Crab would make it to the front page in a day or two.

Comments with links on front page items tend to turn into successful submissions within a day or two like that. Or rather, a fair number of front page items at any time turn out to have been preceded that way.

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1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101501
Yes, SRE doesn't wanna deal with all that crapware. Though as I was leaving, a lot of people were moving over to an IRC bridge to the (absolutely horrible, in my opinion) Google Chat.
The lemmings are all already dead for this cycle.

Only mountain goats remain, and they are comfortable with steep terrain, both up and down.
https://archive.is/0OqVP
Is Bard trained on Gmail? Depends what the meaning of the word “is” is
Sure, but before that gas was funding a self professed foe. It's much better to not fund your enemies.
So this is another example of HN commenters getting up on their high horse before gathering facts? Say it isn't so!
> It's a chance to create a superior operating system runtime interface.

But they're not doing io_uring style syscall queues.
Just curious, what does vertical integration have to do with The Expanse?
The title here is missing a key word from Lyft's post: "secret", for the "secret plan". I thought map ownership/dominance was a key idea, like a decade ago, when Lyft and Uber started. Interesting that the issue was OSM wasn't robust enough until now. Was Lyft actively assigning engineers to work on OSM (or waiting?); couldn't that have accelerated OSM's path to robustness? This idea certainly takes time to develop into reality, but it seems like a lackluster idea to post now, in hopes of making Lyft more robust itself, but it's hard to not be cynical about stock price bump PR releases.
unnecessary stylizing. seems to have been changed as it seriously messes up searching.
JAX is very barebones and will require you to write much more code for the same task than you write in PyTorch.

Functorch is still new, and honestly, there is little to learn if you already know JAX. There are some talks from Meta, and then there is always the docs.
They're not doing their own thing. They're doing the same thing with a different name and have no intent to contribute original patches that don't change the name. It takes about two seconds in GitHub's UI to fork, and about five minutes of fiddling with sed to change it to the degree that they changed it.
Well, it is not as if the OSM-community is a monolithic one. Some people are hardline anti-corporate and don't like this; others are part of a big corporation and see this as business as usual.

Even if Lyft would not give back in some form (spoiler: they do, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lyft), it spreads awareness and drivers will figure out they can fix issues themselves.
I wish I had looked at them earlier. PE ratio is still low, but I'm not sure they'll capitalize on the AI trend... ...and it's so hard to buy shares that are up 10x! What do you think?
> Is there even a legal way to run a Mac VM on non-Apple hardware?

I don't think so. No technical reasons, though, qemu runs it just fine.
The ODbL requires Lyft to contribute back any edits they make.

https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

> Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted database under the ODbL.
I got 99 problems but a tab ain't one.
It's really unfortunate that we're socially very willing to let people suffer if that's the status quo, but helping someone end their suffering is considered horrible and is in many cases criminal.

Just look at the recent online discussions around the MAID program in Canada. It's meant to be a compassionate end of life for people who have lost all hope, and people are twisting it to mean that Canada is just going to start euthanizing people instead of providing healthcare.
> But consider that anything not honoring your time and attention is disrespecting you.

A great statement. I apply this to many things especially video games.
Great article. I myself am completely unable to limit my consumption of novel information input by “willpower” or whatever. I’m 18 yo, and the internet, programming, HN, reddit and all are too damn interesting, unnaturally, too much. My brain is completely wired to seek novel information input and surge dopamine. I was an addict of some other thing before too, and I know this is %100 dopamine addiction. The only solution that I found to work, that lets my brain “breathe” and brain fog to clear is restricting access.

I set the password of my iPhone to a 20-digit number which I surely won’t be able to memorize while setting it up. I put all my contacts to my Emergency Contacts so that I can call them without unlocking my phone. I’m logged in to WhatsApp Web on my iPad, I use it from there. My iPad has Screen Time on, its settings are controlled from my iPhone. All domains except some necessary government etc. domains are blocked, and new app installing is disabled on the iPad. After setting up Screen Time, I asked my brother to enter a random password for the Screen Time password and forget it.

I created an iOS Shortcut on my iPhone which dictates my password[2] only if I’m X meters away from banned locations (home & school), because every once in a while I need to unlock my phone to do something. I go on a walk/run and unlock my phone in that case. The shortcut is a widget, it works while my phone is locked.

I also time-locked[1] this password to 24 hours (you can only open it after a decryption process which takes 24 hours) and saved it to my DO server in its locked form, because Shortcuts very rarely doesn’t work. I use my server to decrypt if needed.

My computer’s (NixOS) password is time-locked too, as I’m currently still in school and shouldn’t be using it (Little time left to university exam). After the exam, I plan to lock it down to 6 hours a day and writing a browser extension which uses an LLM to close the current tab if I’m not working on my project X and instead say, doomscrolling HN.

1: I use this program I wrote, in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/aerbil313/timelock

2: It doesn’t dictate the password digits for security reasons. It plays a different notification tone for each digit while I’m entering the password. I memorized which sound is which.
I am the same way. I use the feature to automatically close tabs after a day as a form of garbage collection. But I almost never go back to a tab after putting the phone down, I'll just open a new one.

However people are definitely different. My partner uses tab groups and has quite the organization system.
> Einstein's letter to Roosevelt was written before the atomic bomb existed.

Einstein's letter [1] predicts the development of a very specific device and mechanism. AI risks are presented without reference to a specific device or system type.

Einstein's letter predicts the development of this device in the "immediate future". AI risk predictions are rarely presented alongside a timeframe, much less one in the "immediate future".

Einstein's letter explains specifically how the device might be used to cause destruction. AI risk predictions describe how an AI device or system might be used to cause destruction only in the vaguest of terms. (And, not to be flippant, but when specific scenarios which overlap with areas I've worked worked in are described to me, the scenarios sound more like someone describing their latest acid trip or the plot to a particularly cringe-worthy sci-fi flick than a serious scientific or policy analysis.)

Einstein's letter urges the development of a nuclear weapon, not a moratorium, and makes reasonable recommendations about how such an undertaking might be achieved. AI risk recommendations almost never correspond to how one might reasonably approach the type of safety engineering or arms control one would typically apply to armaments capable of causing extinction or mass destruction.

[1] https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Resou...
Because if something is lucrative and dangerous humans shy away from it. Hear that Pablo?
> Not sure why the author used them, though.

I'm pretty sure the author is trying to mimic the VMWare logo: https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/6lqgerXP23...

Reading through their blog, the author appears to enjoy being clever with unicode.
When the rubber duck talks back
C++ compile is pretty decent nowadays, except for template heavy dependencies like boost which attempt to be header only for the most part.
To be clear I don't support laws mandating the weakening of encryption in any form. If someone wants good security they should have it. However, most users don't want to enter a strong password every time they unlock their phone. Apple chose the pin length based on a balance of what the user would be willing to actually use and the security it provides.

Meanwhile biometrics provide stronger keys combined with convenience, but are more prone to abuse (forcibly pressing users finger to unlock during stop and frisk, etc). Security would be better served if device manufactures encouraged pins over biometrics, even though they can be brute forced, since they better protect against the most common abuses, and put a price on whether it is worthwhile to brute force.
That seems fair for crowding into one of the most densely populated areas in the country, especially since going to JFK instead of flying out of Newark means you’re taking up space and polluting NYC without generating any positive value for the city. Tolls directly benefit the city by partially helping to pay for the extremely expensive infrastructure needed to make that trip work, and indirectly by encouraging people to make travel plans with fewer downsides for everyone around.
Talking about the language is something the trademark policy clearly says you can do. Everything that is a trademark violation under the policy is something that's really obviously a trademark violation for pretty much everyone, which businesses do not do very frequently.
She knew who Rokko was before you. Seriously, there are some people that have been thinking about this stuff for many years.
Sandrise, should be far enough and still close enough
https://archive.is/99GSH
Awareness etc. don’t do it. Only solution I found to work (on me) is complete forced restriction of every time-sucker thing on the device-level.
I knew the :D when reaching 100 normal tabs, but this is interestingasfuck
The real solution is to stop executing untrusted code that was just downloaded from some random place on the internet. You can't both simultaneously optimize a runtime and secure it for untrusted execution. You have to execute it in a de-optimized manner to avoid any sidechannel leakage. We'll keep discovering these 'bugs' until we do what we did to Java Applets.
Exactly. While there is an argument to be made that people are the real danger, that is beyond the discussion taking place. It has already been accepted, for the sake of discussion, that the nuclear missile is the danger, not the math which developed the missile, nor the people who thought it was a good idea to use a missile. Applying AI to the missile still means the missile is the danger. Any use of AI in the scope of that missile is just an implementation detail.
Why not? If it works for this user that is great. It may not be the way that you or me use the tool but that doesn't make it wrong.
So here's the thing, CLR is still here (now called CoreCLR as of the move to .NET Core), how does it differ technically from WASM/WASI, and why aren't we using it instead?

I should note I haven't spent much time studying either of them.
There are other, more charitable interpretations. For example:

1. Those who are part of major corporations are concerned about the race dynamic that is unfolding (which in many respects was kicked off or at least accelerated by Microsoft's decision to put a chatbot in Bing), extrapolating out to where that takes us, and asking for an off ramp. Shepherding the industry in a safe direction is a collective organization problem, which is better suited for government than corporations with mandates to be competitive.

2. Those who are directly participating in AI development may feel that they are doing so responsibly, but do not believe that others are as well and/or are concerned about unregulated proliferation.

3. Those who are directly participating in AI development may understand that although they are doing their best to be responsible, they would benefit from more eyes on the problem and more shared resources dedicated to safety research, etc.
If you think that raising instead of cutting taxes actually helps society then why don’t you just send your $ to the federal government?

Because it only works if it is done across the whole country, as a system not as one individual unilaterally stopping.

And here any of these efforts won’t work unless there is international cooperation. If other countries can develop the AI weapons, and get an advantage, then you will also.

We need to apply the same thinking as chemical weapons or the Montreal Conference for banning CFCs
It says open "core" on the linked page.
I'm familiar with HDF5, but I wonder how the performance of this solution built on top of HDF5 compares to ROOT (usually HDF5 does not compare favorably, but that's probably mostly due to not storing data in a chunked columnar way, which should provide similar benefits to ROOT).
Lyft support is inconsistent.

Sometimes, you'll report a minor issue and get an over-the-top "OMG - WE'RE SO SORRY! HERE'S FREE MONEY AND YOU'LL NEVER BE PAIRED WITH THIS DRIVER AGAIN!"

Other times, you'll report an actual problem, like being charged more than advertised, and they'll do nothing to remediate.

After being charged more than expected on a couple recent rides, I basically stopped using Lyft.
If they created sanctions to prevent the fuel from being resold then it would be worth even less. That would be a footgun. I don't think China or any other country is going to give Russia the ability to audit their oil sales, which would be required to ensure compliance with a reselling deal. There's no incentive for the reselling country and again it would make the Russian oil worth less.
I used to work for Lyft and I can confirm that both teams (driverless and ride-share) contribute. Ride-share scaled later which may give you that false impression.

And Yes, it's a big investment for Lyft for the open source community.
I don't think firmware updates for routers is a good example. That seems more like the kind of situation where you should actually be using your own PKI.
No, your solution works correctly in both of those cases. My issue with it is that it spawns a separate `ls` subprocess for each file, whereas mine will do it the minimum number of times.
> So are the users wrong, or did you screw up?

When you have to rewrite the documentation to basically tell the world "you're holding it wrong" then it says a lot about the thought that has (not) gone into designing the feature.

And that's why I think I'm done with React for now. It just does not spark joy.
Zoom settles for $85M in Privacy Litigation
All academia and researchers say X. Random redditor/HN lurker declares nonesense I know better! This is how we should bet our future.
More precisely : terrorist state not on your side. Many countries are considered terrorist states in all sides of the world, including France, UK, Spain, Israel, Saudi Arabia and of course USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism
Ah, yes.

The response that just hand-waves a bunch of really hard problems or invents tech that doesn't exist.

I get it, HN has a lot of tech-optimists, but these responses are very tiring. Has there been legitimate significant progress on orbital guns or space elevators since 2012?
Yes, but the way that would work is that somehow this should bubble through the security org to someone in Cloud Sales, who can then look in Salesforce who the relevant internal sales contacts (i.e. the people from Google that the affected company is in touch with) are and reach out to them.
> you can choose them as much as they choose you

The last part is key, and many people don't realize it. Don't accept abuse or poor treatment. It is very very hard to hire competent computational people in bioinformatics because of the low salaries, and PIs know this. No matter how junior you are, or how big of a mistake you may have made once in a while- you need to enforce hard boundaries about being treated with dignity and respect, and leave if they can't be met. I got stuck in this trap for years, being abused by jerks and thinking I deserved it (low self esteem)... not realizing that they were lucky to find me, and would be very hard pressed to find someone else that could do what they needed.

It's also important to have an open mind, and work to understand the subject matter at hand you are working with. If you make an effort to understand what you are working on in more depth, even if it's not your main area of expertise, your work will be much higher quality, and you will get a lot more respect.

Personally, I started out as a SWE in academia, and slowly learned the subject matter I had been working with until I started to have as much understanding and new ideas as the PIs I was working with. I then eventually got a PhD and became a PI myself.
Browsers don't have TCP/UDP/etc. sockets, so a WASI impl running in one can't provide that either.
On the other hand it could become a place to test ideas and port the winners over to rust. It’s not necessarily negative.
That may be true. But as a whole, it is worth noting that Lyft hires a significant number of people to edit OSM. Here is an interesting 2021 post by Jennings Anderson discussing paid edits on OSM, and how companies compare in their contributions:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jennings%20Anderson/diary...

I agree about how successful OSM has been recently. In an age where Wikipedia for example seems relatively mature, it's fun to see OSM grow at such a pace.
That’s a fair point, but people don’t seem to place a significant emphasis on foreign progress.

Where I think your point is strongest is people discounting the vast positive influence outsourcing has had on foreign economies long term development. People IMO take issue with sweatshops on products they buy because they can empathize with foreign workers more than vast swaths of poor people who would prefer working in sweatshops than their alternatives.

In the end none of that progress is judged as particularly important when faced with personal problems and any fig leaf issue which can justify their stance. ‘We can’t outsource UAE jobs to foreign workers with poor working conditions’ was really just we ‘can’t afford the competition.’ Farmers make the same basic argument and win not because their arguments are stronger but because they have more political power due to our political system favoring low population states. Which suggests the argument is ultimately meaningless.
> There are no real consequences if you are backing off, and you can do it in any time.

That's not quite true. Sure, noone is going to start a war about such a withdrawal. However, nuclear arsenals are expensive to maintain and it's even more expensive to be in an arms race. Also, nobody wants to risk nuclear war if they can avoid it. Civilian populations will support disarmament in times where they don't feel directly threatened. That's why lot of leaders of all persuasions have advocated for and taken part in efforts to reduce their arsenals. Same goes for relations between countries generally and the huge economic benefits that come with trade and cooperation. Withdrawing from nuclear treaties endangers all of these benefits and increases risk. A country would only choose this route out of desperation or for likely immediate gain.
You can't phase them all out, you can only decrease their usage. You need coal and natural gas to cover base load. Germany will never reach or come near the Co2 emissions of France. In theory it can work without nuclear by installing MASSIVE storage for solar/wind energy, but this is still all theory and has enormous costs attached.
At least some good news. What's annoying to me is that we could've been there 5 years ago. And still have a competitive industry for renewables.
We do. We have vast amounts of data that we merely have to keep around for a decade or so for compliance purposes that would rarely be accessed, so it goes on tape and off to Iron Mountain. Then we have backups where we need to be able to recover a running system from some 'known good' state, which is somewhat complicated. The former is conceptually tape drive+tar/cpio/etc.; the latter is an expensive setup that includes some proprietary solutions.
Rare likelihood * catastrophic impact ~= almost certain likelihood * minor impact. I'm as concerned with the effects of the sudden massive scaling of AI tools, as I am with the capabilities of any individual AI or individual entity controlling one.
Interesting, it looks like it just suggests beautiful places to see while you're motorcycling, rather than constructing a route that deliberately goes by them? In any case, pretty cool.
IAEA and Japan final review before discharge of Fukushima nuclear plant water
The words immediately following your ellipsis are: "...Mr. Scharf, 55, calculates that if he retires at 70, he can draw 40 percent of his former salary."

Working until 70 and even at that having only 40% of his former salary sounds like a pretty bad financial planning outcome, especially if you voluntarily put yourself into that situation.
Meanwhile, in Toronto, I see some bigger driveways listed as roads on Google maps, and I always wonder if it’s a legally correct city survey artefact and I could park a car there etc. if I wanted, or just a trap/misclassification.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CXRh6LFRhgZo1P9k8?g_st=ic
Interesting. I almost never comment on HN, and if I do, it tends to be without a lot of substance, like this one.

The thought of feeling a compulsion to participate in a lot of HN comment threads is very hard for me to imagine. My general reflexive feeling towards commenting is “waste of my time”. Particularly if there’s the risk to end up in some heated argument. Those are the worst.