skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most US states, it is illegal to fail to report a crime. This is usually a misdemeanor, but is a felony in some states and with some types of crime.
WASI (or rather POSIX) was never a good fit for the browser application model though. Emscripten did a pretty good job providing an incomplete "POSIX emulation layer" to get things rolling, but for WASM that needs to run in the browser it's better to go with Emscripten's web API mappings.
I notice they specifically use neverssl.com in their demo - is TLS too strenuous or not yet possible for some reason?
Yeah, I get your point. It was a super shady election, with a lot of examples we could talk about, but I think that would be missing the point.

I wanna zoom on couple of your points:
1. "democratic systems are flawed, like any system of human design"
2. "We cannot abstract democracy into a standard which can never be achieved"

What could the solution look like? A benevolent dictator, implemented an AI god, is the first obvious "solution" that comes to mind, but feels dubious, for the same obvious reasons haha. Do you have deeper thoughts about the matter?
Is there a graphical explanation of the perceptual phenomenon the author is describing? I think I understand the physical stimulus he describes, based on diagrams in papers, but I havent found anything explaining this part:

> So translating the pupil around doesn't change the angle of the light rays, which means the image doesn't move.
This makes power generation a bit more challenging.

There are sun synchronous orbits (and the orbit at the dawn/dusk terminator is an interesting one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit ), but there isn't an easy orbit around the Earth such that it is always in shadow... or rather, that's the Earth/Sun L2 point... which is where the JWST is. At that distance you lose the magnetic shielding of the Earth (and makes it even more expensive to get materials to and from it).
I suspect that some organizations have broken unsubscribe systems or you just end up getting repopulated from one of the thousand email lists you're on. If it's not a one or two click unsubscribe (e.g. doesn't require manually entering email), I'm pretty close to reporting SPAM and blocking at that point.
John the author doesn't have a HN account so standing in for him here.

We as a team were initially divided on whether to push NSSttatusItem limits in this way. Fighting the OS is always extra work and risk. But at the end of the day Apple's own FaceTime pulls similar shenanigans and ultimately it feels like a successful design.
I don’t understand how it’s even remotely feasible to move dirty industry into space? It’s hard enough to build industry on Earth. Where would the biproducts (dirt) go? Wouldn’t it be far easier to make factories cleaner on Earth? This sounds like someone who has now truly lost the plot.
I was just thinking that some manufacturing processes and research techniques require deep vacuum that needs very expensive equipment on earth, but comes for free and in effectively unlimited volume in space.

Also we only need a small manufacturing-capable space station to build a larger space station out of materials mined from asteroids.
I don’t agree with that blanket statement, though I do agree that it (and libraries/frameworks like it) have played a significant role in bloating the web. Perhaps even bloating development tooling in the JS ecosystem.

At the same time, my capabilities with web applications have skyrocketed in the last ten years and I wouldn’t credit it strictly to my experience. These tools aren’t only used because they’re relatively accessible; they’re genuinely capable and powerful, and when used well, allow remarkably fast development and iteration on products with real value.

I think that’s better than the bad parts. Also, a lot of what’s bad about the web today (for me at least) has virtually nothing to do with the tools we use to develop. It’s that our attention has been commoditized, and that market has eroded a vast portion of what made the web exciting.
Are you planning on working (your farm) into your 80s?
Language is the compression of our entire human experience into words, so I'd argue language captures the majority of the thinking aspect of the human experience.
What's more realistic: regulatory capture and US hegemony on AI or general intelligence destroying the world in the next 20 years?

Go ahead and bet. I doubt you're putting your money on AGI.
They’re doing this while forcing russia to sell their crude at close to zero profit. I’d say that’s a positive.
What common, popular and highly used technology hasn't radically changed in the last decade?

Back in 2015, $JOB was evaluating upgrading Java 6 to Java 7 or 8. What is now? 20?

I last touched php in 2012, which was 5.4 or 5.5 I think. People were still arguing that Laravel couldn't replace CodeIgnitor, or that we should stick with Symphony or Zend.

Change is the only constant. In that respect, React has been relatively sane.
The key is to keep whatever you put there organized and clean.
> Meanwhile tons of my furniture and other items that are designed and manufactured in Asia and then shipped to the USA seem to be shrinking and I don't fit in so many of them anymore.

I based my recent purchase of a office chair on its copious complaints from very tall people after I found I couldn't sit back on a couch I ordered from Costco without my feet dangling in the air.

If we were neighbors, I'd offer to trade you!
> They can’t point to an existing system that poses existential risk, because it doesn’t exist. They can’t point to a clear architecture for such a system, because we don’t know how to build it.

Inductive reasoning is in favor of their argument being possible. From observing nature, we know that a variety of intelligent species can emerge from physical phenomenon alone. Historically, the dominance of one intelligent species has contributed to the extinction of others. Given this, it can be said that AI might cause our extinction.
No-blame culture :grin:

(Also, JetBrains tools use "Annotate".)
Flamebait and clickbait get upvoted a lot. That's the bait part.

The general topic has always featured on HN as it is well nested in the Venn diagram of things people are curious about here: security, surveillance, public policy, espionage, you name it.

I'd separate those two issues. That topic is fine, as long as the article is good. If the article is bad, it doesn't matter whether it's this topic or another. (You're exaggerating the frequency with which it happens, though - might be a case of the notice-dislike bias - a terrible name which I'm still waiting for someone to improve on - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

Last point - @dang doesn't work. I only saw this randomly. If you want reliable message delivery, you need to use hn@ycombinator.com.
This happens with humans too. Humans write code with bugs, technical debt, security flaws, etc.

I would trust an AI to generate code a lot faster than a junior engineer with 4 months experience. That’s the trade off, not AI vs a 10 year experience architect.
I'm all in favour of fighting climate change, but I'd be more inclined to agree with you if you provide some kind of supporting argument!
For humans, maybe. Not an AI superintelligence.
If you’re a principal, just ask your juniors to explain their useEffect()-based mess. When they can’t, mandate class components.
Discord and Discourse are two separate things.
React is really good for helping create giant SPA apps for the web. Unfortunately 99% of things using react aren't or shouldn't be SPA apps and now otherwise trivial applications are orders of magnitude more complex in their implementation and much heavier on bandwidth than necessary.
Theoretically, yes, but there will be a lot of overhead for Z-sorting objects as well as performing a multi-stage render like that. I am only guessing, I certainly have never tried, but I bet it comes out to a wash, at best. It'd be better to keep the rendering pipeline simple, if that were the case. Large-scale worlds will have LOD for models and terrain at distance, which will help with the rendering complexity of far objects.

You can also pre-process it and apply super-far details as a skybox image. A 2- or 3-block radius of real, 3D city buildings with a cityscape skybox looks pretty good. A forest scene can use object instancing to really clutter up the medium field and leave even a generic landscape skybox for great results.
I think the claim that for the first time in 4 billion years a far superior intelligence will be willingly superservient to an inferior one is extraudinary enough to require extraudinary evidence, yes.
Every incumbent tries to make the new thing a feature of the old thing, and every incumbent has read the Clayton Christensen ‘Disruption’ book and wants to make sure they make the jump. Adobe made a very successful shift to subscription SaaS in the last decade, and now it’s trying the same with generative AI, launching a de novo image generation product in Firefly and adding generative features to Photoshop.

The more generally important part of this, I think, is the move to add interface, control and product to the prompt: instead of typing 50 words into a box and waiting to see what you get, there are options and switches to give you some control. Stepping up another level again, I think these kinds of features, like most automation and indeed like Photoshop, will produce more employment, not less: making these kinds of workflows easier and faster will lead to more people doing it.

However, the other side of a platform shift is that while the incumbents make it a feature, new companies create entirely new tools that are native to the new possibilities, and unbundle the use cases one by one. Figma is not a web version of Photoshop (and Adobe is trying to buy it, which may or not be allowed by competition authorities), and there will be generative AI equivalents.

— Benedict Evans
Ha! This is exactly what I’m seeing…

I’m looking through these comments to see how I can reach out to google cloud from these links

I do not even want this access…!!!
When pretty much your expenses and taxes takes 85% That’s what I find it low
Thank you for taking the time to explain things so clearly to me. Considering the reuse, having values in a separate page makes sense now.
The (very small) amount of fame she's collected has come through her work in the field, and it's a field she's been in for a while; she's hardly chasing glory.
> So yeah, CPR is great but if you don't also have an AED, it's just theater.

There’s at least one scenario where this is less true: drowning. An otherwise healthy person, pulled promptly from the water but not breathing, has a chance of being revived with CPR.

There are a lot of drowning situations where an AED or EMT are far away, and CPR should definitely be attempted.
Because it wasn't as clear then that the technology would be profitable. Google themselves said that they and OpenAI had no moat and that they were vulnerable to open source models.
At least some of it went into hydro pumped storage https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&... though I didn't find a source that directly indicates how much exactly, without having to integrate the time series.
> My definition of thin client is how the computer gets configured by the contracting services company, locked dow to use the SaaS product, to be used by muggles on the floor.

So you invented your own definition.
Not trying to dispute anything here, as I don't think anyone sane would suggest it isn't expensive to have kids, but the Brookings article in particular is kind of hard to parse. $310k for kid #2 born in 2015 to a middle-income family. What's middle-income in this case? How does that change for higher income which would be more representative of HN readers? How does that change if it's kid #1 instead of 2? They also say "adjusted for higher expected future inflation" but don't say what numbers they're using. Elsewhere they say that inflation is increasing the cost by about $26k overall. Over 18 years that's $120/mo which for a $300k expense is pretty insignificant overall. And in general, I don't think people take cost into account for children this granularly. Who is looking at $290k over 18 years and thinks "yeah let's do it" then balks at $310k? Nobody.
Yep, my mom (84) had an older friend years ago. Had a medical directive that said "do not resuscitate" and her daughter ignored it. She spent a year in hospice before she died totally angry at her daughter for not following directions. Her quality of life was terrible. My mom has talked about this many times and sternly told me not even think about ignoring her directive.
> Germany should have about 70GW of PV installed right now [citation needed]

See [0] for a table of the installed peak power and it was at 66-67GW at the end of 2022. We're half a year into 2023 already, so 70GW sounds pretty reasonable.

> I really wonder where the remaining 30 GW went.

Some capacity is installed already but not connected to the grid yet. This seems to happen disturbingly often but hopefully doesn't explain a difference of 30GW, though.

[0] (de) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaik_in_Deutschland#En...
Webb telescope finds towering plume of water escaping from one of Saturn's moons
Apache Druid 26.0 has launched
In the long term, Otto will be happy about this.
I knew a guy at Google (name withheld, for obvious reasons), who would put his phone on the floor face up while in the gym doing pushups. This way, if an email came in, he would know instantly.

Three little words: It can wait.
Yes exactly, it’s a group with just a generic name I made many years ago…
I guess so, but the difference between "humans are extinct" and "a small population of powerless humans survive in the margins as long as they don't cause trouble" seems pretty small to me. Most non-human primates are in a situation somewhere between these two.

If you look at any of the writing on AI risk longer than one sentence, it usually hedges to include permanent human disempowerment as similar risk.
The Quest Pro does the same, with the fit adjustment app.
> EU is basically paying a premium in order to stake a claim to moral high ground they don't hold

Not really, EU is paying a market rate just like the rest of the world. It's just that a big part of the profit which would normally go to Russia now goes to middlemen.

The price cap was designed to reduce Russian profits without reducing Russian oil exports..
if you have access to the DB, create a collection/table with a warning/contact info
>Most of the signatories are academics, for one thing

Serious question, who funds their research? And do any of them ever plan to work or consult in industry?

My econ professor was an “academic” and drew a modest salary while he made millions at the same time providing expert testimony for giant monopolies in antitrust disputes
WASI (and in extension this WASIX thing) is mainly for running WASM *outside* the browser, basically what POSIX is for native code.
In the words of succession. This is not a serious product.
Also Clojure.
The statement isn't about LLMs. It doesn't refer to them even once.
Every human has bias, no one is infallible, no matter how many awards they have to their name.

The reason why people doubt is cui bono. And it's a perfectly rational take.
As other commenters here have noted, a company can't just do this accidentally. If they add an external group, there's a warning message. Because many times it may be a mistake, but there are also many times a company will have a legitimate reason to do so.

This isn't a bug, it's a feature. If you want to do the right thing, the correct course of action isn't to notify Google, it's to send an e-mail to the companies so they can revoke access to the group. It's not Google's problem.

Or if you don't want to deal with that and the group isn't used for anything anymore and you still want to be a good citizen, just delete everybody else from the group.
It used to be something specific, coming from the heritage of HCI and usability engineering. Then every UI designer decided that it sounded cooler on their resumé, and now the concept is completely pointless.

The poor usability of modern interfaces certainly doesn't come from people who care about what it's like to use it in practice. It comes from people whose main skill lies within the field of aesthetics.

What should you call yourself if you're actually interested in working with usability, and happy to leave the visual design to others?
Instead of grasping at a snapshot in time, declaring loudly "AI is inferior", one should humble at the trendline of capability gain in the last few years and inform their actions and attide by that, it would be fastly more productive and helpful in facing what is about to come.
Presumably they believe that capabilities research is progressing faster than they expected and alignment research is progressing slower than they expected. Also some of them have been saying this for years, it just wasn't getting as much attention before ChatGPT.
I wasn’t making an argument, I was making a statement. But no, I don’t believe GPT-4 is conscious, because we have no evidence that statistical models — even complicated ones — are the sorts of things that can be conscious.

If there’s an argument that simply being a better, larger statistical model implies consciousness, I would love to hear it.
calling it now, government controllers have trouble censoring people so they want to create AI censorship as a way of bypassing the person’s speech rights, censorship by proxy, talking about things that AI is banned from saying will be a natural side effect
It's extremely easy to publish in NLP right now. 20-30% acceptance rates at even the top end conferences and plenty of tricks to increase your chances. Just because someone is first author on a highly cited paper doesn't imply that they're "right"
Right. And it would be a complete break from the history of computing if human-level GPT doesn't get 100+ times faster in the next few years. Certainly within five years.

All it takes is for someone to give an AI that thinks 100 times faster than humans an overly broad goal. Then the only way to counteract it is with another AI with overly broad goals.

And you can't tell it to stop and wait for humans to check it's decisions, because while it is waiting for you to come back from your lunch break to try to figure out what it is asking, the competitor's AI did the equivalent of a week of work.

So then even if at some level people are "in control" of the AIs, practically speaking they are spectators.

And there is no way you will be able to prevent all people from creating fully autonomous lifelike AI with its own goals and instincts. Combine that with hyperspeed and you are truly at it's mercy.
I'm not sure about the clashing philosophies, but useEffect is certainly a "nexus of difficulties" about learning and using React (with hooks), in terms of the mental model it requires, knowledge of not-so-obvious JS concepts like closures, etc..
Ah I mean, that's just us on-call tech workers being taken advantage of. You should be being compensated for time that you spend being mostly responsible ie tethered to your laptop being sober because you can't responsible do anything else but wait for a page to come in. Google does this for their SREs (2/3rds base pay for all non-work hours spent on-call), it's embarrassing that most other companies don't, and that we put up with that.
Neither ChatGPT nor GPT-4 pose an existential risk nor are they superintelligent in the sense that Eliezer or Bostrom mean.

I say this as a "doomer" who buys the whole argument about AI X-risk.
Mine are, they get expensive on eBay so... The last Battletech game is propably one of thebgakes I played the most, according to Steam statistics!
People should be actively contacting their legislatures to ensure that we don't have these regulations take hold. They are absolutely preying on peoples fear to drive regulatory capture using modern moral panic.
I get what you're saying. Its day will come. Study human history. If we can build it - we will build it.
Ask HN: will we see headlines “X needed fossils for electricity for a week”?
There fairly frequently are headlines saying that Germany/the UK/Spain/… managed to produce 100% of their electricity from renewable sources for a few hours or days.

We get those headlines because that’s newsworthy. Given the conflicting forces of increasing demand for electricity, increasing supply of renewables and increasing storage capacity of renewable energy, will we ever get at a point where it is newsworthy that a country did NOT manage to produce 100% of their electricity from renewable sources for a while?

If so, what’s your estimate for when we will see that?
Ok, ok, I see people downvoting this, so I'm correcting myself:

for g in * do wget --recursive "g"; done;
Great explanation that I've never seen on any of these carbon capture sites. Thanks.
That’s fine when it’s a minority issue, when it affects everyone it IS societies responsibility to fix it. That’s the kind of stiff society exists for
No, just that it was inefficient relative to taxing. Though tbh, I wonder why people who think taxing would be more efficient believe that. It seems like it would come with more bureaucratic inefficiencies and regulations trying to figure out how much to tax.

A clear well defined ban seems more efficient and straightforward, as long as it can be enforced. In this case - unlike for prohibition - it can be enforced like you point out.
Bees against honey
I recognize your account too, and while I’m way less prolific I can relate to the same conversational draw and compulsion.

I noticed I had it less when working in the office in the Bay Area where it was more possible to engage in these kinds of discussions more frequently in person.

I suspect it’s just hard to get that kind of group together in the world outside of weird circumstances so it’s easier to find it online.
In my experience the social safety net doesn’t really matter for highly skilled workers making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. In terms of violence you’re statistically unlikely to be the victim of violent crime in the US as an upper class white collar worker.
Getting a gauge on private schools in my experience is difficult because each family's situation is different. There are the typical non-denom prep schools which cost a car payment every year. And then there the private religious schools which are more of a sliding scale. Prices go down further if you have scholarships, being a member of their church, parent volunteer, etc.
Good call, the problem is I use the group for my own projects…

I will painstakingly change that to not use groups and then delete the group if it lets me

It’s just kinda stupid people are allowed to just add my group with my group not even confirming
I've come across across him, yeah-- I might have a problem :p
Was just focused on folks making content in that 8-22hr range (with one exception :p), otherwise I could include:

KingK, Mandalore, Daryl Talks Games, RagnarRox, Adam Millard, Chariot Rider, HBomberGuy, SuperBunnyHop, Lambhoot, GManLives, GrimBeard, ThorHighHeels, Nerrel, MathewMatosis, WillLovesVideoGames, Writing on Games, Game Makers Toolkit, and (duh) Jacob Geller
Then you get a security audit that you are not using the latest whatever and c-suites panic
Not enough to justify an $80k salary.
That's what the kids are for.
It's also one of the largest countries in the eu.
Per capita or total?
Higher taxes is not a default: it's what balancing the budget means