skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, that's a more interesting goal to me, because unlike "make as many paperclips as possible" those are algorithms optimizing for actual real revenue and profit impact in a way that "as many paperclips as possible" doesn't. But it shares the "in the long run, this has a lot of externalities" aspect.

You could turn this into a "this is why superintelligence will good" thought experiment, though! Maybe "the superintelligence realizes that optimizing for these short term metrics will harm the company's position 30 years from now in a way that isn't worth it" - the superintelligence is smart enough to be longtermist ;) .

I realize that the greater point is supposed to be more like "this agent will be so different that we can't anticipate what it will be weighing or not, and whether it's longterm view would align with ours", but the paperclip maximizer example just requires it to be dumb in a way that I don't find consistent with the concern. And I find myself similarily unconvinced at many other points along the chain of reasoning that leads to the conclusion that this should be a huge immediate worry or priority for us, instead of focusing on human incentives/systems/goals.
Ah darn - okay, thanks for the feedback. I'll find a way to stop it from doing this.
I'm still unclear. Why is the test limit 110K? If this is supposed to be usable at ambient temperature then this seems like not a useful finding. Is it just some artifact of how superconductivity is measured?
I'm fascinated by the very mid-90s graphic design and typography.
Thanks for the rec! Gunna dive into it tonight!
There is a new version of Ollama coming out either later today or tomorrow that adds support for the older Intel-based Macs.
I'm pretty tied to Apple for lots of things, and I generally trust them (or I wouldn't be tied this way), but even I won't put myself in a position where a single vendor can utterly cripple me.

My email isn't at iCloud. It's at Fastmail.

My iCloud data -- contacts, calendars, etc -- is backed up locally.

My login to my Mac isn't run by Apple.

Regardless of how much you trust a vendor, you should never create a single point of failure, right?
Oh. Shrug. I hate android so I don’t really follow that ecosystem
Ok, we changed to that from https://boingboing.net/2023/08/02/cory-doctorows-new-book-on.... Thanks!
Weird how police are the most funded they've ever been (every year going back like a hundred years with rare and negligible exceptions) and yet they are so bad at stopping this alleged crime wave.
This is more of a political statement than a proper library. More to demonstrate the flexibility of Python given I was able to so easily do this.
No, there are a lot of bad and lazy marketers that set up bad targeting.

Some ad tech may be responsible for the bad targeting, depending on your vendor. But there is also ad tech that has scary capabilities that rarely misses.
Because that’s where the defense and intelligence industry is centered.
I have been thinking it would be cool to just salvage a functional MacBook Air motherboard from a “broken” device. install that in a small case, 3D print an IO shield, and you have what you’re looking for!
>Unless it’s 100% reliable or near 100% reliable, you’d still need manual testing.

Not unless:

(a) it's X% reliable now, and it would be Y% < X% if done via LLMs.

(b) businesses actually care for increased reliability, and not just for passing the accessibility requirements.

Most businesses could not give less f...., and don't do "manual testing" today either. Just add the token required tags. That's true even when they do business with the government (which mandates this even more highly).

LLM-driven accessibility info would be an improvement.
Python is the de facto glue language with one of the biggest ecosystems out there, that makes it possible to use any kind of over-the-top library that does 1093 things after a single `import antigravity`. Also, ML absolutely makes sense for python, it’s not like most PLs have actual support for video cards — ML is very specifically about manipulating data (a fundamentally dynamic task) and calling out to specific libraries for training, a very glue-task. Give me any language better than python for that.

Quoting Brooks (butchered): “the only significant productivity improvement comes from relying on code that is already written”. Your fancy “better” language has not even 1/10th of what python has, it won’t replace it.
Almost everything is ugly when you look at it up close
I think you’re missing some big pieces of the idea here.

The first is that these constraints aren’t easy. Make paperclips in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone. Ok, so it’s going to make sure every single part is ethically sourced from a company that never causes any harm to come to anyone ever, and doesn’t give any money to people or companies that do? That doesn’t exist. So you put in a few caveats and those aren’t exactly easy to get right.

The second part is an any versus all issue. Even if you get this right in any one case, that’s not enough. We have to get this right in all cases. So even if you can come up with an idea to make an ethical super intelligence, do you have an idea to make all super intelligences act ethically?

I actually believe in the general premise of this question as being the biggest threat to humans. I don’t think it’s a doomsday bot that gets us. It’s going to be someone trying to hit a KPI, and they’ll make a super intelligence that demolishes us like a construction site over an anthill.
It's not that people are ambivalent to death. It's that a certain amount of death is going to happen. You can't legislate it away. Some of us think we've reached the point of diminishing returns on many topics and don't think giving up liberties will do much good.

No I don't want cameras. No I don't want backdoor encryption. No I don't want gun registries. No I don't want the Fed's to have more money or power.

They are not looking out for our best interests most of the time.
You're right, permission was given. Your browser also gave all of that data to the webserver and happily shows you that ad. Both sides were voluntary.
If you actually do the demo project thing, you'll find a .web directory, with all the next-js code. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975423
They didn't, though, they made it available to be looked at alongside advertisements.

HN users just love twisting themselves in circles to justify their belief that they're somehow entitled to consume content from private websites without consuming the ads that support that content. (If you don't want to see ads, there's a really simple solution: don't look at websites that display them! No one's forcing you to!)
I'd be curious to hear about some of these contradictions. I've seen giant lists floating around, but after checking into some of them they seem spurious at best. I'm curious to know if you have something concrete?
Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
The sad truth is you can't build grungy housing. At least no sane developer wants to.

Grungy housing was new fancy housing - decades ago.

I guess if the government is willing to build Soviet style grey blocks then you can have new but modest, relatively cheap housing.
This makes no sense.

How is pressing a key on a piano different from pressing a key on an electronic piano?
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking their intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Have I lost my marbles? It doesn't work?

(temp5) ~/temp5 pip install .
ERROR: Directory '.' is not installable. Neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.
What's your evidence for this bit?

> this is how judges will construe the license
people can go to github to see the blog post without the block:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/blob/main...
Not sure if rhetoric question only, but Go has the expressivity of C. Let’s not compare it to python that is often textbook pseudo code like.
It's a weakly motivated opinion I strongly stated :) Urbit back then was strange, it wasn't understandable what it wanted to be, and then there was all the political ramifications from the author's ideology. So in my mind it's still marked as dead, and if things really changed, I'll add "sadly". Because I won't be alone with that.

I had just a very short look at the project now, it does look different than what I saw back then. I'm just not convinced "inventing the stack completely anew" and "needing to pay for identities" can result in something that wins users, but hey, who knows. The thing that was attractive back then and still is, is the part about "one programmer should be capable to understand the whole stack." But that's only attractive for devs.

In the end all the background doesn't matter, only how the layer behaves that users can interact with. On the one hand that's good for Urbit, its history doesn't matter much. One the other it's not as good, since I don't see how Urbit could be a foundation for a service that wins against regular apps or websites. Publishing, reading, shopping, listing to music and watching videos, how can Urbit improve any of that?
Thank you for your article.

The rubric by definition is going to be inaccurate as you say.

I went over it myself for my project, and your breakdown does shed light despite the acknowledged inaccuracy.

For instance it made me google how many 250+ employee English-language businesses there are. In the UK it is around 8,000. That was useful in itself.
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975245
Out of curiosity, must you subscribe to all magazines within your favorite genre(s), or is just one or two acceptable? If the latter, then I don't think you have to be rich.

I think there's an analogy with the maddening offer of streaming services, but in that case there's the FOMO effect and you "need" to be watching the same shows as your coworkers and friends in order to be able to discuss them... a more devious trap.
Looks like 110K still puts this in the top 5 highest temp known superconductors and it only takes a couple of days to produce out of the blue.

So even if that's all it sounds like an important discovery.
The basic problem still remains: if you build an autonomous machine intelligence and try to encode it with basic directives, the potential implications of those directives is hard to predict. Obviously the paperclip company doesn’t want to replace the entire universe with a grey goo any more than the sorcerer’s apprentice wants to flood the workshop; it happens accidentally.

Of course the paperclip company can try to add constraints to their AI in order to prevent naive paperclip maximization, but what if they screw up those constraints as well? The whole premise of Asimov’s Three Laws is that AI has these sorts of constraints, but even in his stories these constraints still lead to unexpected outcomes.

All programming bugs are the result of a programmer encoding an instruction or statement that doesn’t imply what they think it implies and the computer following it literally. A more capable and autonomous computer that approaches what we might call “intelligence” is also going to be more capable of doing harm when it runs into a bug. And if it’s something like an LLM where the instructions are natural language, with all its ambiguity and vagueness, you have a whole other issue compounding it.

If you study philosophy you end up running into the exact same problem. The object of the game of philosophy is to make the most general true statements possible. One philosopher might say something like, “knowledge is defined as true justified belief”, or maybe “moral good is defined as whatever delivers the greatest good to the greatest number”, or maybe even, “the object of the game of philosophy is to make the most general true statements possible”. And then another philosopher comes up with a counterexample or counterargument which disproves the first philosopher’s statement, usually because—just like a programming bug—it entails an implication that the first philosopher didn’t think of. We have been playing the game of philosophy for thousands of years and nobody has managed to score a point yet.

Another thing. Human beings have a lot of needs, imperatives, motivations, and values. Some of them, like food, are built in. Others are learned through culture. But we end up with a lot of them, and it’s easy to take them for granted. With a machine, you have to build those things in yourself. There’s no getting around it. But we don’t actually have a complete, hierarchical set of imperatives/motivations/values for a decent human being. The philosophers have been working on it for millennia but keep running into bugs. So how can we expect to solve the problem for non-human AI? True, we are unlikely to screw up so badly that we end up with a literal paperclip maximizer, but we are bound to make some far more subtle mistake of the same general kind.
>After the change, it becomes a stronger (yes, there is such a thing) superconductor the cooler it gets

Do you mean the tradeoff between temperature, field strength and current? Like, if you lower the temperature, the SC will be able to handle a stronger field or more current in return?
I’m not talking about Linux users in general. I’m talking about the subset who hang around forums and other online spaces and purport to help newbies with problems.

Ironically enough, then, I figured out on my own that the biggest obstacle I was encountering with my Intel MPB was Ubuntu’s distribution of firmware, where they officially pretend not to know about certain non-free device drivers, even though they vaguely gesture at the process of acquiring them in their respective official docs. Whereas Debian straight-up distributes them in their ISOs.

Can’t say I’m a big fan of Ubuntu’s wink-wink, nudge-nudge approach to “standing up for free software,” where they get you started down a path then steadfastly refuse to help because VIRTUE! Debian’s approach is saner. And so I’ll be tinkering with Debian, I guess.
Mom n Pop shops are great but getting rid of ads doesn't put the genie back in the bottle when it comes to big box stores and Amazon. It also doesn't solve the shelf space problem. I've found incredibly niche and useful things through online retail ads that a local business would be insane to stock because they would have dead inventory.
I don't like rejecting calls. I prefer they go to voice mail/transcription, so I set my main system ringtone to a few seconds of silence, and then a custom ringtone for everyone in my contact list (plus a few additional ringtones for family and close friends).

Bonus, if I happen to notice the phone screen light up with an unknown number and I know I'm waiting for a service station to call, I can always try my luck that it is actually legit.
This.

Problem solved.
The flowchart is nice to refer to as a checklist.

The pattern of failure which includes steps

3. Founder builds a product that solves The Problem. (And it really does!)
4. Founder fails to make enough sales, and the company shuts down in 6-24 months, when the founder runs out of patience or money.

...can largely be avoided by focusing not on the identified problem but by real potential customers that have the problem. It's not the problem in isolation that you're solving, though it's necessary but not sufficient. Interacting with actual people will let you know if there's any hindrance to adoption. Rinse, repeat and address each hurdle faced by potential customers. The mistake is simply thinking "if you build it, they will come" where it is a real solution to a real problem.

Sometimes there's a problem that precludes adopting the solution which is a bigger problem for the potential market, and it may be a good to consider pivoting. Go beyond understanding the product/solution and understand your customers (to be).
> The side of science didn't "have answers all along", but it was willing to learn and change.

This is the framing that I disagree with. There is no "the side of science". There are only people making assertions.

Some of those people were practicing the scientific method competently and in good faith, some of those people were doing nothing of the sort, and from here in the cheap seats we just had to do our best to decide who was who.

Some people like to think everyone should have trusted who they themselves decided to trust. I think this is unreasonable, but also unsurprising.
Civil forfeiture is a foundational part of the American way. We traded in humans at the start of our country. That has never stopped. Instead of being African Americans (or Black people generally) in current reality it's... our Black communities who we target and throw in prison which is the only exception.

Then look at Capitalism. Exploiting labor to drain any opportunity of wealth building from the working class and transferring it to those with wealth.

People have this twisted idea that America is a moral or ethical place. It's not. We live in a toxic culture and it has always been and it will continue to be. There is no escape.
(Addressed elsewhere in the comments, this is obviously a mistake.)
> A ridiculously large portion of "tech" is perfectly fine with sending copies everywhere

Not the part that controls the market share.
Khronos Launches Anari 1.0 Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine Open Standard API
Steel Prices and Dumb Policies
Libertarian techbros are on a mission to make us doubt (climate) science.
Just be prepared for it all to go away when you need it the most. Thunderbird can import your past mail
Fails already by the title: 10 cents for a dozen ... token? I thought good suggestions. Not hollow replies from a too generic LLM Setting.

Instead: 40 bucks for one report ... in which it susggests to compare my idea (specific newsletter) to etsy, AirBnB, Uber ... whaaat?! Nope.

I bet the idea was good on paper, as a mockup and in self-testing. But it is not working for those who need help for a niche, which is a lot.
> Politicians use the exact same companies and tactics to solicit votes, so why would they fight against themselves?

Say what you will, the 27th Amendment passed. (IE: makes it constitutionally illegal for Representatives to give themselves payraises immediately. They have to give pay-raises for the _next_ congress, which means it may give a pay-raise to the opponent if they lose the election).

Politicians do, and have, been forced by the people to make bad choices for themselves for the good of the country. And its not like its an easy thing to pass a Constitutional Amendment like the 27th.

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We also used to have very strong laws with regards to campaign finance. It was actually our judges who took those laws away in the Citizen's United case.

But our politicians actually put those laws into place to allow the people to trust them more during campaign finance season.

Etc. etc. Plenty of examples. All we need is to convince enough people that a particular law is a good idea, and then that law will happen.
cheap land (before), cheap and lots of electricity
Property tax/sales tax/use tax incentives
High fiber density/“network” effect (literally haha)

Somewhat central to most of U.S population
The US government didn't drop the bomb to avoid a violent invasion. They were half-sure they might get an easy surrender anyway.

They needed to show the Soviets what they could do. It was 100% a demonstration. The Soviets knew about it of course, but no one had really seen what it could do.

And if it helped end things early enough that the Soviets didn't invade themselves and partition Japan as they were already starting to do in Germany, then that was a bonus.

Whether it was morally sound to use it to intimidate Stalin is another question entirely, and I don't know what the answer is. But let's not pretend that it was some balance sheet calculation about how many lives would be lost... it was never that.
> HgTlBaCaCuO

New band name. And band gap.
Are Tesla Model S buyers worried about paying less? Probably not.

Are entry level EV buyers? Maybe/Probably...
Uh. Cops are certainly not always portrayed in media as the good guys. The Wire and Reno 911 aren’t even positive portrayals. On top of that media portrayals are irrelevant in this context.

The alternative to a state monopoly on violence is mob rule. You can call that state entity whatever you want, police, militia, whatever. But some regulated construct needs to exist.

If you can’t separate that concept from the current model of policing it’s unlikely we can have an interesting conversation.
Nobody has given me a copy of their pitch deck yet
We do use nextjs but I think what's the most handy part of Reflex is the simplification of state management and event handling so there is more complexity to the framework.
No it hasn't. All I've noticed is that I get more pop-ups than ever before and some of the sites I would like to visit block me with a 451 error code.

Phone browsing is a nightmare these days.
Does it lazy-create leaf dicts on access? It would be preferable if they were only created on assignment, and failed if it’s just a get.

For example, if I call config.usors.adminn.naem I’d like it to fail loud and fast to point out the typos.
I knew someone would reply making that point. Well done.
> IBMer back in the day felt natural and inoffensive.

But "digit" to refer to DEC employees never really did.
Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, and is a digression.

I noticed you casually implied people familiar African countries
wouldn't dare down vote your comment. Take this exotic downvote[1], it is straight out of Africa.

1. for lowering quality of discourse with a speculative, off topic shallow dismissal

Edit: if you want me to reverse the downvote, you know "how things work" :) Paypal deets are on my HN profile
It sucked up several weeks of my time. Got about halfway through the map before my save file got corrupted.

Honestly kinda ruined it, I don't know if I can play the game again knowing I lost a couple hundred hours of progress
Some people say they can get it to work at room temperature, and others say they can't.

Testing a sample at superconductivity-friendly temperatures helps figure out whether there's something to investigate here, since most materials do not superconduct at any useful temperature.
I think that's right. Most likely general AI will be some fractal type system where the larger models first outline the boundaries then smaller models refine the pathways.

I'd say 2-3 years the money proposition will be a market of small, efficient models with clear domain bias and you build out by overlapping the domains till you cover the footprint.

These large models just interconnect too much to efficiently produce reliable output unless you don't care about accuracy(eg, art or far right propaganda)
Nowhere does it say how much the energy price is per kw/h energy prices vary drastically depending on where you live from 10c-35+
I know somebody that successfully registered a nipple for an android phone unlock behind-the-screen fingerprint scanner, does that count?