skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that a lot of the Skynet-type scenarios seem silly at the current level of technology, but I am worried about the intersection between LLMs, synthetic biology, and malicious or incompetent humans.

But that’s just as much or more of an argument for regulating the tools of synthetic biology.
I miss David Graeber

>Graeber Um…that’s a long story. But one reason seems to be that…and this is why I actually had managerial feudalism in the title, is that the system we have…alright—is essentially not capitalism as it is ordinarily described. The idea that you have a series of small competing firms is basically a fantasy. I mean you know, it’s true of restaurants or something like that. But it’s not true of these large institutions. And it’s not clear that it really could be true of those large institutions. They just don’t operate on that basis.

>Essentially, increasingly profits aren’t coming from either manufacturing or from commerce, but rather from redistribution of resources and rent; rent extraction. And when you have a rent extraction system, it much more resembles feudalism than capitalism as normally described. You want to distribute— You know, if you’re taking a large amount of money and redistributing it, well you want to soak up as much of that as possible in the course of doing so. And that seems to be the way the economy increasingly works.

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-r...
I wish I could buy ceramic Penrose P3 tiles to put on my floor or wall. They 2 different tiles instead of 1, but they're simple diamond shapes, and they tile aperiodically.
I follow the Ukraine & Crimea goings on. I've now got two twitter accounts, one for pro Ukraine, one for pro Russia. Post something anti one on the wrong account and you soon get blocked etc. It's very polarised as you might expect in a war.

It's hard to find balanced discussion on something like the status of Crimea. Which is complicated - as you say the locals are largely Russian. Then again Russia signed an agreement recognising it as Ukrainian, then invaded and used it as a base to launch war on the rest of Ukraine which they show every intention of repeating if they can.
There is a way, in my opinion: distribute AI widely and give it a diversity of values, so that any one AI attempting takeover (or being misused) is opposed by the others. This is best achieved by having both open source and a competitive market of many companies with their own proprietary models.
> You're reading too much into it.

What do you mean by this? I'm getting it wrong? I'm mistaking the author's meaning? (How do you know what the author's meaning is?) I shouldn't reflect on this? Something else?
Yeah i think it allows them to write the ‘loss’ of the content on their balance sheet at some estimated value it would have cost them if they hadn’t made it themselves.

That sort of management-by-spreadsheet without any of the humanity or long-term vision almost every corporation used to have seems to be an ongoing trend, especially in media, and it’s showing. Discovery, who have McDonnel-Douglassed HBO and are behind this mess, are a particularly good example of the kind of garbage heap that leadership style gets you.
Who chases their career to fulfill their dreams? "My dad growing up told me that you know work hard, get a good job, you know, make money. Nobody has fun working and then you can have fun with the money you make." -Jimmy Yang

But to your last point, yes, just not in the private sector. Join the dark side and work government contracts, the pay is decent and you get exactly what you're asking for. You get to be technical, unless you want to be management...boring, you work your obligatory 40 hours and when you're done for the day that's it, go home. Everything's classified and no one bothers you when you're clocked out. People are competent and everyone wants to get the product out and the mission done without office politics. TBH superchill environment for senior engineers.
You can grow surplus food in the yard of a single family dwelling. No one has to move anywhere.
I guess in my mind the argument is that the entire allure of a casino is that there's an illusion of skill to the games.

Nobody wants a pure chance game, and the casinos know this, so they make games that allow for some degree of skill to influence the outcome. The idea here is that if you think you're above average, you can win 55% of the time, and the casino allows that because most people win 40% of the time so they come out positive.

In fact, casinos promote that, and poker and blackjack are great examples where beginners who don't have the skills to beat the odds are more likely to gamble (and lose money) because they think they're better than they actually are.

To me, that's what makes this case and card counting the same thing. The players used their skill to outsmart the casino. The casino can then update their rules to account for that: using multiple decks for blackjack, or adding an obstacle the dice must trip.

What the casino shouldn't be allowed to do, is go cry to the government and throw the players in jail.

That being said, if the players were going against guidance or violating the rules then I agree, that's illegal and they should return the money and be banned from the casino. Still no prison though haha.
It doesn't matter what you do it only matters how you frame it
I don't mean to imply he committed a crime. I'm saying that he's odd and offputting to many people, which is hardly news. And while I've not seen him recently in person, everything I've read firmly indicate that he's very stuck in the past and his manners are not up to modern standards.
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While I agree wholeheartedly, I do want to point out that while it has opinions in its high quality documentation, it is in no way opinionated in the same way that something like Rails is. You can use Phoenix in the same way you'd use Sinatra or Flask or the like [0], there are just no generators for it. I just wanted to bring this up in case anyone would be put off to try it who is afraid opinionated frameworks. However, if you prefer the opinionated option and want to be given clear guidelines on how to solve many common problems, Phoenix does indeed have you covered :)

[0] https://gist.github.com/Gazler/b4e92e9ab7527c7e326f19856f8a9...
Because then you wouldn't be able to get this many people to sign the statement.

It's like with climate change, every serious scientist agrees it is a problem but they certainly don't agree on the best solution.

If the history of the climate change 'debate' is anything to go by this statement will do very little except be mocked by South Park.
I suspect that in 5 years we’re going to look back and wonder how we all fell into mass hysteria over language models.

This is the same song and dance from the usual existential risk suspects, who (I’m sure just coincidentally) also have a vested interest in convincing you that their products are extremely powerful.
There are a bunch of physicists signed up on there; (e.g. Martin Rees) - they don't seem relevant to it at all. There's been a long history of famous physicists weighing in on entirely unrelated things.
Right. No crypto or your money in banks will work once that EMP from (virtually) inevitable nuclear war, Carrington event, societal collapse etc. hits.

Hint: We’re globally headed to The Collapse (with capital C) now. See climate change, resource scarcity, water depletion, or just ecological overshoot.
> it's good time to lowball

There's lowballing, and then there's insulting.
Even more context: https://github.com/crablang/crab/issues/14
Well, I'm confident they would become the next FBI. It's a feature of intelligence services. But until they did, we'd have some breathing space.
Interesting. Would there be another way to quiet these signals?
The problem here isn't that Perl is a dynamically typed languages but because it uses pass-by-value semantics to an almost absurd degree. This is why it needs explicit references in the first place where as most other languages these either use references for non-primitive types (Ruby, Python, anything on the JVM, &c.) implicitly or treat values and references uniformly (Go, for instance).
I have absolutely 0 problems with them forking Rust off under a new moniker but "Crab lang" is an abomination of a name.
I've heard if you select "Not interested" for all the shorts in your feed one time - that will stop them.
Extinction would probably require an AI system taking human extinction on as an explicit goal and manipulating other real world systems to carry out that goal. Some mechanisms for this might include:

- Taking control of robotic systems

- Manipulating humans into actions that advance its goal

- Exploiting and manipulating other computer systems for greater leverage

- Interaction with other technologies that have global reach, such as nuclear weapons, chemicals, biological agents, or nanotechnology.

It's important to know that these things don't require AGI or AI systems to be conscious. From what I can see, we've set up all of the building blocks necessary for this scenario to play out, but we lack the regulation and understanding of the systems being built to prevent runaway AI. We're playing with fire.

To be clear, I don't think I am as concerned about literal human extinction as I am the end of civilization as we know it, which is a much lower bar than "0 humans".
Using UPX for compression might work against you
It's difficult as most of the risk can be reinterpreted as a highly advanced user.

But that is where some form of hard personhood zero proof mechanism NEEDS to come in. This can then be used in conjunction with a Ledger used to track deployment of high spec models. And create an easy means to Audit and deploy new advanced tests to ensure safety.

Really what everyone also need to keep in mind at the larger scale is that final turing test with no room for deniability. And remember all those Sci-fi movies and how that Moment is portrayed traditionally.
i assume you're not trapped in a cage-like environment staring at a screen for 8 hours constantly receiving messages while feeling observed and judged. it's a big difference just occasionally receiving a mail and some of them can be unpleasant.
0.0001%-chance-of-unicorning tax
Is more research really going to offer any true solutions? I’d be genuinely interested in hearing about what research could potentially offer (the development of tools to counter AI disinformation? A deeper understanding of how LLMs work?), but it seems to me that the only “real” solution is ultimately political. The issue is that it would require elements of authoritarianism and censorship.
The US spent trillions of 2020 dollars trying to limit the threat of nuclear war, and this statement says that AI risk should be seen as a similar level of threat.
Considering the hate against him by the entrenched non-fans that are seeking profit off the franchise, it is pretty obvious what his 'compromising' 'kind' ways got him. That he was well paid, and can use that as insulation is very much an outlier to the way things usually go, i.e. tar and feathering of Stallman.
Start-ups in general don't have a lot of cash and burn rate is the death of most of them. The standard deal from YC is $500k. So if they pay $80k/yr after operating costs, insurance, etc. They can probably hire 3 people outside of themselves and only be able to do it for 1 year.

If they competed with companies who are paying at the 90th percentile they wouldn't even make it a year if they hired 1 person.
They're not paying $80k, they're paying $80k plus an equity lottery ticket that hopefully has a chance of being worth millions.
>> risk of extinction due to AI? people have been reading too much science fiction.

You don't think than an intelligence who would emerge and would probably be insanely smarter than the smartest of us with all human knowledge in his memory would sit by and watch us destroy the planet? You think an emergent intelligence was trained on the vast human knowledge and history would look at our history and think: these guys are really nice! Nothing to fear from them.

This intelligence could play dumb, start manipulating people around itself and it would take over the world in a way no one would see it coming. And when it does take over the world, it's too late.
everything you're describing has been possible since 2010 and been done already. AI isn't even necessary. simply scale and some nefarious meat bags.
Personally, I find the idea of statistically measuring the "happiness" of an entire society to be absolute intellectual fraud.

There is even correlation with my happiness by the minute based on some of the dumb things I read on here at times.
Why would that be an insult?

If they can find someone good enough at that rate, then why would they pay more?

And if they can't, then they'll just need to discover the market floor by experience.
> The alternative is relatively straightforward: Utilize compute-intensive & memory-intensive tasks in CAPTCHAs.

Visitor A is a legitimate human being from a poor country using a bargain brand Chinese phone with hardware that could be charitably described as "slow as molasses".

Visitor B is a troll for hire with a rack of used crypto mining machines in his basement, running hundreds of Chrome processes proxied through hundreds of hacked residential IP addresses.

Your approach would make the website unusable for human visitor A, while being the tiniest bit inconvenient for visitor B's hundreds of alts.
It’s not on the same page as the signatories but they do have this: https://www.safe.ai/ai-risk
AI may be here (purely depends on definition so not worth debating) but the superintelligent AGI that they are scared of clearly isn't here yet.
I remember there were some brute forcing tools for iPhone 3GS passcode back in 2010. It only took a few minutes. Perhaps, it didn't really brute force but searched the passcode from the device.
honestly if you genuinely believe this is a real concern in the 2020s then maybe we're doomed after all. I feel like I'm witnessing the birth of a religion.
One aspect I don't see discussed as much is the shutting down of the infrastructure used for the IoT. 3G/4G/5G/etc. were all pitched as revolutionizing connections for more than just cell phones. But these devices, such as refrigerated truck remote monitoring, older vehicle OnStar, many depend on 3G.

This is going hand-in-hand with browsers increasingly putting up roadblocks to configuring said IoT devices. Guess what? The tiny device setup webserver on my low power embedded device isn't going to be able to https sorry. So now you have to dismiss more and more warning dialogs.
Shouldn't forget to mention, not all titles are SFW.
My main gripe about the Wikipedia mobile site is that text search doesn't work on the collapsed sections, and there's no way to expand all sections at once. The simplest thing left to do is the request/navigate to the desktop site and use your browser's find text feature then.
"Senior" means different things to different people.

I've interviewed "senior" engineers who I wouldn't hire into an internship, and I've interviewed regular (non-senior) engineers who are exceptional.

It also means different things to different companies. At a startup, a "staff engineer" might just be the best engineer on a team of 5-10, but at a big tech company it means a completely different thing. I've also worked with senior engineers at big tech companies who would be less productive than a new graduate in a 3 person startup.

Apply to a job description, not a job title.
The elite class in your country views AI as a risk to their status as elites, not an actual existential threat to humanity. They are just lying to you, as usual. That is what our current crop of globalist, free-trade, open-borders elites do.

Imagine if you had an AI companion that instantly identified pilpul in every piece of media you consumed: voice, text, whatever. It highlighted it for you. What if you had an AI companion that identified instantly when you are being lied to or emotionally manipulated?

What if this AI companion could also recommend economic and social policies that would actually improve the lives of people within your nation and not simply enrich a criminal cabal of globalist elites that treat you like cattle?
Seems to have worked well enough for OpenBSD, OpenOffice (and then LibreOffice from that), Jenkins, OpenSSH, Apache Server, WordPress, Inkscape, Webkit and Xorg.
Forget the consumer tech, high resolution neutrino astronomy would be dope.

Not that I expect anything like that in our lifetimes.
Also, there are shockable and non-shockable heart rhythms. A defibrillator is not a catch-all solution.
Modern technology usually complicates things and adds overhead, it's part of technological advancement isn't it?
North Korea to Launch Military Spy Satellite for Monitoring U.S. Drills
Oh yeah, those dropdowns, where it's just a text field but you can arrow through it like a dropdown. Except it'll say "<item> selected" or some such, and gives this long hint on how to use it. I believe [UberDuck](https://app.uberduck.ai/speak#mode=tts-basic&voice=zwf) still uses it. And we have this Attendance on Demand app we use to clock in and out at work, and it's pretty darn bad, with several buttons that have text labels beside the button instead of on the button, and don't even get me started about the calendar widget on there. I mean, you never know what component or framework or whatever will be used in an important product.
If you’ve just been laid off from big tech and have been applying for three months in the current climate you might want to take the insult and hope the startup succeeds in a way that brings you the rewards later. I don’t like it either but that’s where some of my friends are at right now.
>> What do grad students in math do all day?

> ... by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet.

A friend of mine[0] once said that the act of doing research in math is the act of inventing a language in which you can talk about the problem. Once you have that, the solution tends to come. But inventing the right language is really, really hard.

This might explain why so many research mathematicians end up married to (or in long term relationships with) linguists. His wife is a PhD in Spanish and linguistics, my wife's first degree is in French and linguistics, and I know perhaps three or four others in my immediate circle.

Anecdata, of course.

[0] Andrew Lipson: https://www.andrewlipson.com/
> Minnesota Governor Vetoes Minimum Pay for Ridehail Drivers After Uber Threatens to Leave

Leaving out the governor part results in potential different interpretations of the title.
Normally, I don't hold my breath reading an email. If anything, I'm doing a lot of (frustrated) exhaling. Now, when it comes to games? Yeah, it happens! When nerves are involved, you tend to lock up in many ways.

In general, it seems like the solution is to get some (aerobic) exercise. Or breathing practices? Judging by other comments, probably not this Buteyko method.
HTLM may be the standard for many things, but it is not the standard for academic papers. PDF is the standard.

PDF is the optimal format for this use-case, mostly because of existing tooling which makes it very easy to make academic papers as PDFs. As far as I know no tools exist to make something comparable to an academic paper which would improve view-ability on a small screen.
I wouldn't say that's the goal. Most of these platforms are VC owned with the goal of growth. Meaning a lot of public usage. Not my goal.
A family of posts in this genre for every db would be quite a useful resource.
A simple .. "hack?" that has served me well.

No social media on the phone, computer only; in fact, turn off all notifications not from live human beings trying to contact me personally.

It seems as if the big social media sites are beginning to appreciate this as well? Seems like the formerly "phone only" sites are getting web interfaces...
> this salary wouldn't attract strong talent even in medium cost-of-living countries (like portugal/spain).

median salary for a developer in Spain is $30,000 a year[1], so 50-80k would easily place them in the upper 10% of the scale.

I think americans need to really reflect on how inflated american dev salaries are.

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/ES/Job=Software_Developer/...
Totally reasonable to think that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

As for this forum, it has repeatedly censored statements relating to this illness and the vaccines which have proven to be accurate, and regularly features posts which advise those with clinical depression to self-medicate with psilocybin mushrooms.
The Rust Foundation is a 501(c)6, but the Rust Foundation was not involved here. The Rust Project (which is not a formal legal entity, AFAIK, more like "the people who can approve GitHub PRs") was entirely at fault.
I would argue that all of the above are serious concerns.
Maybe it will develop into a true fork as you say. Right now it seems rather aimed towards influencing the committee in favor of a different type of monoculture.
Defund the police?
I lived in Asia for a couple of years and freelanced during this time. Freelance is probably your best bet because most companies won't hire a part-time, remote, developer (especially overseas).

At the time(a few years ago), I found them all through craigslist and indeed.
> I wonder if the framework is particularly tied to Elixir or if it could be done in a more popular language so more people will take it up.

As others have pointed out there already are lots (missing at present are LiveWire and there is even a LiveView.js that uses the same JS that Phoenix LiveView uses... it's a very unfortunate name).

Having said that, most of these implementations aren't "live" in the same way you get with the Erlang virtual machine where each user has a dedicated process. It's at least possible in Go, but most of these other implementations resort to AJAX and the like.
Let me remind folks:

There's no captchas on torrents, or trackers like thepiratebay.org

None at all.

Whereas you're evidently the enemy if you legit buy service.
A lot of the responses to this seem like Bulverism, ie., trying to refute an argument by psychoanalyzing the people who argue it:

"Suppose I think, after doing my accounts, that I have a large balance at the bank. And suppose you want to find out whether this belief of mine is "wishful thinking." You can never come to any conclusion by examining my psychological condition. Your only chance of finding out is to sit down and work through the sum yourself. When you have checked my figures, then, and then only, will you know whether I have that balance or not. If you find my arithmetic correct, then no amount of vapouring about my psychological condition can be anything but a waste of time. If you find my arithmetic wrong, then it may be relevant to explain psychologically how I came to be so bad at my arithmetic, and the doctrine of the concealed wish will become relevant—but only after you have yourself done the sum and discovered me to be wrong on purely arithmetical grounds. It is the same with all thinking and all systems of thought. If you try to find out which are tainted by speculating about the wishes of the thinkers, you are merely making a fool of yourself. You must first find out on purely logical grounds which of them do, in fact, break down as arguments. Afterwards, if you like, go on and discover the psychological causes of the error.

You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly." - CS Lewis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism