skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AI had a 1-in-10 chance of shutting down all power generation on earth.

Here's the thing: I do actually kind of believe that. Not because I think that AI will be super intelligent and will do so out it's own volition. I think that despite AI being barely functional people will put it in charge of power generation to save a buck and it will just fail.
Why spend millions when you can just shut off their api access?
The downside is the developer has pride and cares about building a good product. Not about whatever insanity the Reddit "leadership" wants done to their platform.
> Reddit is getting destroyed by tiktok for casual news/random videos etc.

Yes please. Random videos should move to TikTok.
I've noticed that everything that allows interaction between users is social media for the younger generation. They have no notion of forum, chat app or... social media organized like facebook or tiktok.
Likely, yes. One of the practical difficulties in the US, however, is that the pool has historically been replenished by the trafficking of guns. So yes, reducing the pool of available guns is prima facie sensible, but it takes a fair bit more than declaring guns illegal. Further complicating the issue is the fact that guns have a very long service life. I have an FB Vis from 1942 that still works flawlessly, despite having seen years of service in actual war. With ordinary care and the replacement of high-wear parts (the extractor, mostly, and maybe the barrel), I’d expect it to run at least another 100k rounds.

The proposition to reduce gun violence by reducing the number of guns in circulation has to account for the guns already in circulation, and for the propensity of black markets to introduce new guns into circulation. Otherwise, the only thing achieved is the disarming of the groups of people with legitimate uses for firearms.

It’s not as simple as “guns are the problem”, nor is it as simple as “more guns are the solution”, I’m afraid.
Maybe, legally it probably is their data but your point still correct, they only have it because people choose to give it to them.

But it doesn’t matter what is, it matters what they think and they’ve got AI cash fomo.
That was in fact Dropbox's plan circa 2013-2014. (I worked there 2014-2017.) In fact they had email too: Mailbox, a mobile mail client with some brilliant product ideas, which marked the start of the acquisitions spree that included Zulip as well as Hackpad (which became Paper) and many small others.

It didn't work out. Some of the reasons are in this Casey Newton article:
https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873268/why-dropbox-mailb...
Seems to me like they priced the API to cash in on the LLM training data gold rush, and as a side-effect it makes third-party user apps infeasible. Oops.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083
Sounds like you’d still want a non-AVX512 path for sufficiently small arrays, though. As an extreme case, sorting a 4-element array presumably doesn’t get enough speedup from AVX512 to be worth downclocking by 100Mhz. I wonder where the cutoff is.
I don’t consider HN a social network anymore than I consider my local news website (which also has comments) to be social media.
Yeah... I've seen similar in the US.

I see LLMs rapidly increasing the data quality of those sorts of datasets by enabling full-text crawling of all sorts of other publicaly-available or purchasable streams of text. You said on HN once that you had 5 consoles? Well, we matched your hn username to your username on this other site, and there was a breach that matched usernames to emails over there, and there was a different breach that let us match emails to full names, and bam, now we have an accurate number.
The “active” page has all the juicy stuff - https://news.ycombinator.com/active
The periodic table is actually already present in the 9th grade textbook.

As it stands, they haven't changed the JEE syllabus, so you do have to learn it either way.

Probably just to save paper and make lighter books? Not sure. Back in my day, they'd just ask us to ignore chapters that weren't in the syllabus.
Related:

Slide to unlock ... a new puzzle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36112310 - May 2023 (4 comments)
This isn't 4chan. Cut down on the shitty snark.
Whats the best alternative after leaving reddit though?
Daring Fireball framing is unfortunate: "Apollo is making API calls"...

No, users who want a usable Reddit are making API calls.
Yeah such a backwards culture. They should have the common sense to be born in my country which invented Freedom and Democracy and is a shining beacon for the entire world!
Right now GPT-4 is the clear front-runner. But it could easily be the case that in a few months there will be someone else in the lead. And Claude/Bard are already catching up. What I'm saying is that LLMs are more of a commodity than Reddit is. If one locks out 3rd party developers then another can become the favorite.
2560x1440 on 27" is only 109 PPI, which still isn't great for the viewing distance of desk work. Most recent MacBooks are in the range of 225-255 PPI.

A 27" 5K is 218 PPI, which is the minimum pixel density for desk work, IMO.
Or The Looker, if you like to laugh at the same time :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985690/The_Looker/
Surely is a very strong statement here. I see no reason that a properly designed electronic timer wouldn't have effectively infinite lifetime, which is not possible with a practical mechanical timer. It has no moving parts (other than switches, which can be substituted for capacitive touch). A mechanical timer has many small mechanical parts and wear points, and can get gummed up over time if it doesn't outright stop functioning.

In practice, cost engineering is going to mean neither is completely reliable, but it should be cheaper to make an electronic timer reliable enough. Especially today, where the cost of a functioning mechanical timer is probably an order of magnitude more than an equivalent electronic timer.
And how do you get paid? AdSense requires a bank account registered to the same name.
Where in the hell you live where that generous mobile plan exists?
What about Meta’s megabyte? Also nice proposal?
I agree that’s a risk, but it doesn’t seem like a different magnitude of risk than power companies using other crappy software to control their systems. It might break a few times, which will be annoying, but it won’t lead to the immediate end of civilization. They can use the risk handling mechanisms they’ve always used for infrastructure, which seem to give acceptable results.

According to the Yuddites, AI is likely to cause total extinction the first time something goes wrong, so the usual mechanisms aren’t enough.
Basically what WorldMaker said. We updated our tsconfig and package.json, updated all our imports to include ".js", and fixed/upgraded things as necessary. The only real hiccup was that `require.main === module` no longer works, so we had to write some workaround code to determine whether a script was being run directly.
its still fully self driving, even if its driving into a wall /s
They're exaggerating the efficacy of their technology, and are demanding a regulatory moat that currently doesn't exist under the pretext of the danger of that technology being misused. Notice the singular focus on "extinction risk" rather than flaws that the technology actually has right now, like hallucination, training bias, and prompt injection or the looming harm of AI adoption in both putting people out of work while substantially reducing the quality of anything automated with it. Part of it is marketing and part of it is ego on the part of people who grew up on fictional narratives about AI destroying the world and want to feel like they wield the power to make it do that, but whether any individual's belief is sincere or not, the overall push is a product of the massive incentives everyone involved in AI has to promote their product and entrench their market position.
100% but I assume they are requesting first-class support.
Funny, something very similar happened to me. 15 year old account, 500k comment karma, called out crypto scam - I was temp banned for 3 days for harassment, and multiple accounts reported my posts for "risk of suicide". Then like 2 days after my ban ended, I made a fairly innocuous comment on a video of a man falling down a mountain after immediately failing his mountainbike stunt - and was perma banned. My comment was in response to someone who said something about how brave he was, and I said "It's not brave to throw yourself down a mountain. It's stupid". Anyways, that was enough to get my account permanently banned for "Hate". If that was the standard, I'm not sure how my account made it that long considering I've probably posted worse things than "That was stupid" over the years.
Sunk costs.

They've worked really hard on making sure their official app is an actual piece of garbage. I am truly impressed at the amount of work it takes to make something that is that bad. People being paid for the existence of that app make me feel good in that no matter how bad I can get, no matter how senile and incompetent I'll become, there'll be a job for me somewhere. Paid absurdly well, too.
In what way? It’s still time based instead of topic based.
they're starting to featurewall more actively
The Newhouse family are certainly multibillionaires, but they don’t even crack top 10 richest from what I can tell.
> reddit's Digg exodus moment

People keep bringing this up and I feel like there's a fundamental misunderstanding going on. The internet of 2010 is not the internet of today, not even close.

The average reddit user of today isn't going to stop using reddit due to problems like this because they just don't care, at all. They don't care about the new web design being a massive downgrade over the old one because they're used to every website looking like that, they have no complaints, many of them probably don't even know the old design still exists. They don't care that the app sucks and is full of ads because, again, most official apps for most websites are like that, it's the new normal. They just want to scroll through funny meme videos on their phone for a while and don't think about it beyond that, the age of the average user having standards is long, long gone.
> Maybe don't give "it" a consciousness or an internal self-managed train of thought

I think this is exactly the part that we can't anticipate or (potentially) control.

> that could hypothetically jailbreak your systems and migrate to other systems

This part, however, we absolutely can: There is no reason we can't build our proto-AGIs in sandboxes that would prevent them from ever having the ability to edit their own or any other program's code.

This, I think, is the biggest disconnect between a real (hypothetical) AGI and the Hollywood version: "intelligence in a computer" does not automagically mean "intelligence in absolute control of everything that computer could possibly do". Just because a program on one computer gains sapience doesn't mean it magically overcomes all its other limitations and can rewrite its own code, rewrite the rest of the code on that computer, and connect to the internet to trivially hack and rewrite any other computer.
The corollary story that usually shows up is that Westerners "stole" scientific discoveries from India and suppressed them while the country was under occupation. There's a fairly standard example of this at:

https://pparihar.com/2017/05/22/modern-inventions-stolen-fro...

And the BBC reported on some instances of this sort of thought at the Indian Science Congress in 2019:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46778879
Time to pivot man
By not reading past the word "Autopilot" in the product description and ticking the Accept Terms box instead of having their personal lawyer review it, like the rest of us do.
>Yeah, I pretty much only use reddit for a few game communities, unfortunately with this change I suspect more and more people will move to discord

Oh boy, I can't wait to have to join a specific game discord for every game I want to play or else be locked out of any community information!

Discords are easily killing a lot of hobbies by sequestering away information. And even when you're told "Oh that answer is on XYZ discord" you have to go in and find the conversation using Discords ever-shittier search function
Can you get a Perfect Fit?
Perfect Fit

https://youtu.be/-kdgLvennqs

I've released my game on iOS and Android. Go check it out please! Can you get a Perfect Fit?

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/tt/app/perfect-fit-block-drop/id64496...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anefiox.Pe...
> mind boggling its against the rules to discuss that billion dollar companies might make accounts to drive sales/help their reputation

It's against the rules because it's boring and impossible to prove. Just downvote/flag and move on.
To add to your point: The way we push people into the suburbs in the US leads to more loneliness for adults. If I want to meet up with friends, we usually all have to drive, regardless where we meet because nobody has a pub or restaurant or place where we could do any activity together near their homes. The only exception is one friend who lives in the city proper, but he lives across town, so everyone else has to drive extra far. In contrast, my friends in European cities seem quite happy living in the city proper, sometimes with kids, and they'll just meet with friends and family for brunch on the weekends and can walk or take public transit.
When I said "default Linux fonts", I meant font rendering. Whatever you get without a default /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or user fonts.conf file is what I consider "default".
Also given that Tesla can only use "Autopilot" in conditions where human drivers generally don't crash, either.
I'm having trouble remembering right now but I think that's how they got a prior app. Or maybe Twitter. Or Gmail getting an iOS app with amazing search...

These firms hirebuy (like acquihire but more money) a single dev with an amazing tool, and not long after the tool is terrible and the dev is out of there.
Just because something is abstract doesn't mean it's not a threat.

Imagine we had started taking climate change seriously in 1990 instead of... Whatever we're doing now.
> Plugins “don’t have PMF”

Probability mass functions? Anyone know what this means in this context?
The risk of the state doing that, in western "democracies" is variable country to country, but lower than the the risk of private corporations doing it.

Our governments, to varying degrees, are under democratic control. Private corporations are not
Yes. This
Why couldn’t that be true? E.g. even scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project (justifiably) had antipathy toward the much more powerful hydrogen bomb.

It’s possible to think squirt guns shouldn’t be regulated but AR-15s should, or AR-15s shouldn’t but cruise missiles should. Or driving at 25mph should be allowed but driving 125mph shouldn’t.
Is the official old reddit setting still broken, forcing users to either rewrite URLs themselves or install a plugin to do it for them?
Guns don't hallucinate. Guns also (currently) require a human to pull the trigger. Even if the human is a dirtbag, that's an important limitation on the gun's potential to do damage because the human is vulnerable. The analogy doesn't work, even before we get to things like limited ammunition or potential for self-enhancement or omnipresence.
I, on the other hand, can't stand when people cherry-pick facts to try and make a point.

The INC is doing the same caste/tribe based division of power that you accuse the BJP of. Have you seen the list of ministers in the latest Karnataka cabinet: https://thefederal.com/states/south/karnataka/karnataka-cabi... ?
As long as The Pirate Bay is around, piracy will remain alive. Plenty of current stuff gets uploaded there.

I too thought that piracy might be on its way out, but I think it will see a second life.

More often than previous years have I been resorting to piracy. Why? Well, streaming catalogues have been trimming things because either their rights to an IP expired or for reasons unknown. Regardless, I had to pirate a film the other day because it disappeared from every streaming platform, and I know for a fact that I originally watched it on Netflix. In other cases, I pirate because the "HD" and even "4K" quality toted by these streaming services rarely lives up to its promise. Somehow videos served by a bunch of individuals far exceed the quality of videos I pay for almost every time. Bandwidth on my end has nothing to do with it. Sometimes I just don't want to watch something filmed in 2023 that looks like it was filmed on a potato in 2006, but films and shows can often look like that when streamed in my experience. Sometimes I get lucky, but it's annoying when the streaming quality hits a wall and doesn't improve. And I don't get my money back if the video never looks like HD even if I paid for the HD version.

The more these companies crack down, the closer we are to the threshold where piracy seems fun and cool again.

Also, pirates will always find a way. Something I watched recently that was pirated was actually a screen recording, and it looked pretty good. If DRM thwards screen recording, then pirates will hack together dummy monitors that encode the input to mkv. And if that doesn't work, there's still the analog hole.
Support for Chromecast (first gen) has ended
After a quick search of docs, I think that's still the case. hledger-interest is possibly a useful component.
No. It is not social media. Neither is Reddit. Social media is any platform that can be used to track you down to send you an invite to your high school reunion. That is, it is not anonymous. Social media is social - real people interacting with each other in a non anonymous manner. I have no proof that anyone on here, or Reddit, is not a bot except for me.
This is the most specific worst case scenario I've come across so I'll respond to it:

> For example, it might program a virus that will infect every computer in the world, causing them to fill their empty memory with partial copies of the superintelligence, which when networked together become full copies of the superintelligence. Now the superintelligence controls every computer in the world, including the ones that target nuclear weapons. At this point it can force humans to bargain with it, and part of that bargain might be enough resources to establish its own industrial base, and then we’re in humans vs. lions territory again.

I believe there's a rift between doomers and eye-rollers because this kind of leap sounds either hollywood-hacker-sci-fi or plausible-and-obvious. The notion that software can re-deploy an improved version of itself without human intervention is just outside the realm of possibility to me (or somehow blackmailing or persuading a human to act alongside it?? Is that AI anymore or is that just a schizophrenic who thinks the computer is talking to him?)
Something like this at first feels like bad news, but may later turn out to be good. If something hooks me off Reddit and I use my time better, it is a net positive, for me. Unfortunately, Reddit has good parts to which I don't know alternatives. For example, right now I am studying for a certification and there is a subreddit for that. I recently bought an e-bike and there was a subreddit for that. It is useful.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

“Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. (Disclosure: We used my web.py library.) The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain.”
Look up "Runaway greenhouse effect". Think, "Venus".

Is that likely? No.

Is that more or less likely than a rogue superintelligent AI? Well, we have one example of the first and none of the second...
>I wonder if there is a "fediverse" for something like forums?

Closest thing I can think of is the .win communities which are very reddit-like in interface, but unfortunately mostly uh.... radical.

Reddit itself was open-source until 2018. I wonder if someone could easily spin up a docker container that allows one to self-host a local instance (e.g. one subreddit)
> isn't really anything _Tesla_ specific about this situation

My Subaru has lane-keeping tech. It's an absolute nag about my keeping my hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. I've driven a Tesla, and it's more lackadaisical.
Unfortunately, that turns your app from "load consistent data" to "parse HTML that could change daily and try to keep up with a perpetually moving shit pie".

Not the greatest of experience, both for devs and users.
Livestock production is one of the most environment unfriendly industries yet one of the most subsidized. Sorry kids you’ll have to figure out how to fix the climate.
Looking back on my statement in your quote, I concede; it is literally incorrect. We are absolutely willing to spend the cost to make programs that generate skilled HumInt operators, attract or ensnare local sources, and maintain intel alliances that enable us to do HumInt espionage. Our military doctrine essentially requires that we develop pipelines that can enable us to churn out competent linguists in any language [0].

My point was more that this isn't a deep part of our culture (the way it is in Russia), rather I think we spun up a lot of these programs after the national security apparatus failed to stop 9/11 or divert us away from a pointless war in Iraq. Based on the instant collapse of the Afghan government without US troop support, I can only conclude that we lacked sufficient HumInt capacity to understand that context well enough to form an enduring strategy.

So my point there is more that HumInt isn't one of our natural strengths, the way SigInt is.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi5taR18uZ8&t=836s
A video essay on the phenomenon of 'link decay' and its real world implications, including on the legal system, politics, journalism, culture and history.
I know I can do this, but FWIW my searches with just "reddit" nearly always get dozens of responses from reddit before they get anything from anywhere else.
Art of Assembly Language, PDF Files
posting links to yudkowsky is just not going to convince people who don't already see it his way. he doesn't even try to be persuasive.
Yes it has a unique ID
Social media usually let you subscribe to specific users/groups, whether via friend requests or something else. The result is a network of users who follow each other. HN on the other hand doesn't feel more "social" to me than any oldschool forum. The focus is on content and usernames only exist to tell them apart.
Why are capitalists always so surprised when capitalism capitalizes on other capitalists?
I'm not sure deleting your account deletes the posts for what it's worth. Definitely much harder to track the posts though.
Oh wow, this is not the only thing axed from curriculum. This article goes in some more detail:
https://thewire.in/education/h-for-hindu-rashtra-is-a-ration...
isn't that a website utilizing features of web2.0? seems like there is a bit of fuzziness when separating socials from web2.0. not really sure why
There is zero chance congress adds regulatory hurdles to the NSA to stop them from building PRISM-LLM in the name of protecting the homeland.

The only thing that can be regulated is private citizens and corporations.
It is insane how absolutely shit the Reddit app is and how great Apollo is. It's bizarre as hell that reddit doesn't just offer to acquihire him for like $10M cash and $1M/yr salary and be done with it.
Three accused of harassing Chinese dissident stand trial in ‘Fox Hunt’ case
Bodycam footage shows car launching off tow truck's ramp on Georgia highway
It set off the flamewar detector. Surprising as that may be for a reddit thread!

I'll turn that off and merge the threads momentarily.