skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There was nothing to do, except to hit rewind...

"A cursory look at the master key file date told me that no, it wouldn’t be OK at all. The file sitting on cryptoserv wasn’t from last night, it was created just a few minutes ago. During the Salt-n-Pepa-themed push from stage, we overwrote the master key file with the stage version... Not only that, the push script appears to have also wiped out the backup of the old key, so the database backups we have encrypted with the old key are likely useless."

So, despite all the planning and premeditation, they ended up doing exactly what AstralStorm says. An undesirable outcome does not stop being an accident if it is an unanticipated and unintended consequence of a planned action. Being in a crisis because you have forgotten how you planned to avoid it also counts as an accident.

As for the "Salt-n-Pepa-themed push": personally, I would have avoided all possible distractions at a time like this. Turning off phones (except maybe one, monitored by someone for whom that was their only job) would not have been unreasonable.
Not one paragraph but:

The text, dated August 10, 2023, discusses the development and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) and the concept of a sudden "hard takeoff" or "FOOM" (Fast Onset of Overwhelming Might) in AI capabilities.

Historical Perspective: The author begins by referencing Elon Musk's 2014 comment about AI being like "summoning the demon." They highlight the rapid advancements in AI, such as beating human players in Go, Chess, and Shogi, and playing Atari games.

Complexity Comparison: The author argues that the universe's complexity is not just a matter of scale compared to a Go game but a difference in kind. They illustrate this by imagining the universe tiled with tiny Go boards, emphasizing that predicting the universe requires understanding at the atomic level, not just the "stone level" of Go.

Dynamics Models: Modern self-play systems like MuZero and GPT-4 are described as dynamics models that predict the next state based on the current state and action. The author connects intelligence with prediction and compression, suggesting that feeding the entire internet into a model could theoretically "win the universe."

Practical Limitations: The author challenges the idea that AI can easily dominate complex systems like the stock market. They use the example of hedge funds, explaining that dominating the market requires more compute power than the entire market, which is unrealistic.

Inclusion of Computers: In Go, the model doesn't need to include other computers, but in modeling the universe, computers must be included. The author argues that unless there's a staggering advantage, understanding them from self-play is unlikely.

Preventing FOOM: The author warns against capping FLOPS in training runs, as it could create a dangerous situation if one person breaks the restriction. They advocate for preventing a 51% attack on compute to avoid FOOM.

Efficiency and Innovation: The text dismisses the idea that a single group could achieve a 1e20x efficiency increase, arguing that more intelligence leads to new tricks, but they become harder to find.

Revolution and Gradual Change: The author predicts an information revolution that will transform intelligence, similar to how the industrial revolution transformed energy. They stress that this change won't happen overnight but will follow a gradual exponential curve.

Conclusion: The author concludes that unless a "terrifying powder keg" is built, there will be no sudden FOOM. They emphasize the complexity of the universe compared to games and call for letting the markets evolve naturally. The closing statement, "the singularity is nearer," hints at a belief in the eventual convergence of human and machine intelligence, but not in an abrupt or catastrophic manner.
Under every weather, traffic and road condition?
I doubt that being the case, security research of production systems isn't done on RISC-V, and we still care pretty much about those other systems being used in large scale deployments.

Just recently we had quite a few reports from those efforts.
Harvard Professors Danielle Allen, Arthur C. Brooks, Jerome Groopman, Nancy Koehn and Susanna Siegel were asked which books «left them transformed».

Individual responses included:

-- The Bible

-- Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics; Politics; Rhetoric

-- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

-- Eugen Herrigel - Zen in the Art of Archery

-- The Way of a Pilgrim

-- Pirkei Avot (transl. "Ethics of Our Fathers" or "Fundamental Principles")

-- Lev Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich

-- George Eliot - Middlemarch

-- Roland Huntford - Shackleton

-- Paul M. Angle (editor) - The Lincoln Reader

-- Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

-- Plato - Republic

-- Thomas Mann - Confessions of Felix Krull

Justifications for the picks are present in the article.
react-admin https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin
I do, and that's actually incorrect in a strict sense, but it's correct-enough for the average person to follow to Vanguard et al and have a generous nest egg without a lot of risk attached.

Your intuition however is correct in the sense that there is a principal-agent problem at play with all kinds of hedge funds, where if the hedge fund manager isn't the one investing his own money he is by default incentivized to do things besides just maximizing hedge fund profits. But there are indeed managers who have such an ability to generate edge that they do in fact invest their own money solely, usually money they generated while working for other hedge fund managers before striking out on their own, and these people are terrifying forces to watch in action indeed.
I neither study Twitter nor would it be correct to say I use it. I started browsing it with an account last year when I got a (somewhat morbid) interest in watching Ukraine war footage. As long as you take everything with a grain of salt, it has a certain informational content for such purposes. I literally only enter #ukraine and watch a few posts. Following no one, two random followers.

What shocked me was that they even allow obvious Russian propaganda accounts very freely, e.g. "Manchester Chronicle" that probably originates directly from FSB. I think it's crazy, given how Russia is at least an indirect adversary to the US and EU in this war.

So you're right, the difference in use likely accounts for different experiences. I suppose Twitter shows all kinds of content to capture users who can then customize it to their preferences. This doesn't work for people who aren't interested in information bubbles, yet nevertheless think free speech should reasonably restricted by law and by moderation.
I have emailed them.

Also, I'd like to note that geohot founded a self-driving car company, so I don't think he's ignorant on the topic.
I think we have a bit of miscommunication here. You see these “benchmarks” as necessary and sufficient for “real intelligence” when people are just saying they are necessary but not sufficient.

It’s like asking for a drink (legal age 21) and getting rebuked with a “you aren’t even old enough to drive” (legal age 16). That doesn’t mean you can drink when you are 16!

Edit: If you want a hard necessary and sufficient condition for “real intelligence”, mine is “when it can do all of our jobs, i.e. wholesale replace every human”.
I am, but C99 doesn't fix the various sharp corners and gotchas that are littered throughout language.

I don't say any of this as a dig at C, but at ~50 years old, it definitely shows its age.
There’s a couple decent ideas in here. In a hostile takeover situation, AGI wouldn’t just need to be smarter than a human. It wouldn’t just need to be smarter than all humans collectively. It would need to be smarter than all humans working in collaboration with all of our machines.
You’re still there if you need to be and you know the situation; a lot of the time Airbnb hosts don’t even live in the same country as some of their properties. A lot of the time the “host” is just someone hired to answer the Airbnb messages and let the guests in.
Anything by Robert Harris. I love Fatherland.
That's a great way of framing it. It's my expectation that we will ruin the internet as a useful training corpus by flooding it with generated articles, and we will end up with a pre-AI date we use to filter incoming data in order to avoid them.

I wouldn't be surprised if filtering regular, pre LLM bot spam was already a massive hurdle when collating data for ChatGPT.
I at least partially disagree.

A large number of smaller/basement airbnb units near me are within a very short walk of hotels or hotels offering suites. Generally speaking, the hotels are located closer to favorable amenities.
My weapon of choice is i18next, which elegantly handles inline markup, even nested translations really well (although this example has less than ideal keys)

<Trans i18nKey="userMessagesUnread" count={count}>
Hello <strong title={t('nameTitle')}>{{name}}</strong>, you have {{count}} unread message. <Link to="/msgs">Go to messages</Link>.
</Trans>
I name them by component.context.phrase

There's https://cldr.unicode.org/index .

In Angular I liked Transloco [0] very much.
For Vue I use vue-i18n, I don't think there's any alternative.
For Go I like go-i18n [1] when doing SSR Go.
For Svelte.. not sure if there's a best package.

[0] https://github.com/ngneat/transloco
[1] https://github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n
There's this odd phenomenon in US media (it is less of a thing in other anglosphere media) where coverage by the same outlet can gyrate from critical coverage of a thing to basically publishing press releases for the thing disconcertingly rapidly. This is a bizarrely softball piece, under the circumstances.

EDIT: Okay, CNN went with a rather less press-release-y headline: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/media/linda-yaccarino-elon-mu...
What Is Durable Computing?
Generally biases in transformers don't work so well.

Personally I think it's because of the autoregressive, ODE-like nature of them, but who am I to say anything on that. ;PPPP
It's a serious and sorely needed comparative study of Australian and American ass holes.
> Have we seen the slightest proof of opposite?

Well, for one, I see no competition. I don't know what the technical definition of "special" is, but I'd say being the only one counts for something.

> What senses might you consider as enough practical? Have you heard about Koko? What do you think about corvidae?

I know both and I know this is a slippery slope. You should know my love for animals runs deep, but I really struggly to put them in the same league as us.

I took a shortcut with saying "practical", because this discussion is way too deep to be performed A) by me and B) on HN. Practical means something like, can they adapt their skills as widely as we can? Can they adapt to uncommon situations? Not subtly or in theory, like solving some puzzle, but really practical? There is nothing subtle about a human becoming a parkour world champignon (I'm leaving this in, just too good) or adapting to life in a submarine (or learning chess, or whittling, or making tea, and many literal millions more examples).

Maybe I am overlooking something, but the skills these animals show seem really minor compared to what even disadvantaged humans are capable of.
IMHO LLMs are so popular because they sound very confident. That’s great marketing in itself. Unfortunately it’s only marketing.
Yeah you're right - I think "AI" as a concept for your average person was quite abstract and hard to wrap their head around, to get some kind of idea of the kind of things it can or cannot do. So having something tangible they can be a bit more hands-on with gives them a better idea of what it does.
That's news to me. Source?

MicroOS is and will be its own cool thing AFAIK. I'm guessing they will provide a MicroOS based on Leap in the future.
Rethinking the Dichotomy: Generalist vs. Specialist
I know, it’s a tired debate. But alas, I’m here to offer a fresh perspective.
> You've never been outside the United States, have you?

Why is this personal to you?

In fact, re-reading my post, I don't see anywhere that I contradict what you claim. I agree with you, my post agrees with you, case closed.
he said solar, which is pretty nice if (1) he is generating excess solar in the day (2) he cannot sell it back to the grid (3) it's not cost effective to store in batteries for night use (4) there's nothing else to spend the energy on.

otherwise, i can imagine it'll still be cheaper to not run things than to run things. but it's a hobby, people spend energy and resources on more frivolous things, and those frivolous things make us human.
If you were licensed wouldn’t you be a privateer anyway?
Train derailment blocks Gotthard Base Tunnel for a week
The not-app-building parts of building an app
Can vacuums slow global warming? Administration bets $1.2B on it
>> Does Amazon contribute code changes back to the software projects they modified when offering them as a service?

> Yes, but not all changes are appropriate for upstream.

But the (modified) source is available to consumers of the service either way, under the AGPL?
I would rather call it "noteworthy" than "funny".
Yet more evidence that Musk is trying to kill the platform.
I've had a notion for years that Intel has intentionally failed to pursue some areas of performance improvement so as to reserve them for "official" users.

way, way back at the beginning of the PC revolution, for example: SRAM vs DRAM? Intel went all in on DRAM. Imagine how different the world could be today if they'd chosen differently an could expect all main RAM to be "cahce latency". DRAM would be a slower dynamic store, possibly looking more like hard drives did.

What if they'd decided that unifying a bus was a good idea instead of tossing out new ones every couple years? Imagine the longevity and variety of the VME bus ecosystem couples with the size of the PC market, in the 80s.
I see people hating on Mozilla, not Firefox. They absolutely deserve it too. They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead. One would think they'd try to fix the web by making Firefox the dominant browser.
>I need a VCR remote on my wrist!

Casio: Best I can do is a calculator.
It's also only the code for the game.dll, which is important for modding but doesn't include the new engine.

If it's anything like the Quake re-release, it's not actually using idTech 2 at all.
Show HN: Interpreter for Piet Programming Language written in Rust
I just implemented an interpreter for Piet Programming Language in Rust.

Some people may notice this implementation behaves differently from some of the existing implementations, but that is mainly due to the language spec had been changed relatively recently; my implementation conforms to the latest spec. See "4.2 Integration Tests" of `README.md` for the details.
the username says it all
Regarding tech leadership:

Perhaps I've just been unlucky, but a rather depressing proportion of tech leadership that I have been under in the past appear to have seeked the role in order to:

1. Hide lack of engineering aptitude.

2. Put less work in.

If i'm on the right track with that, then it well explains why they don't care about cultivating a good engineering culture and let everything devolve into a zoo - i.e. everybody feels like everyone is out to get each other, no team work, rep farming, and all that nonsense.

Regarding getting work done:

I agree, I actually believe that it's the cause of the slow death of many companies: A gradual acceptance of nay-sayers, laziness, and "losers", that is to say an acceptance of people who just think that everything is lost, there's no point to fixing anything, and instead choses to spend their time placating why nothing can be done about anything.

It's depressing, and was traumatic for when I was working in those environments in the past. (I like to think) I'm a get shit done and deliver awesome products kind of guy, so these "loser" engineers and leaders are a true PITA.
Large corps don't care about you. I’ve realized that going above and beyond by putting in 10 times the effort doesn’t always earn the recognition one might expect; it can even lead to unforeseen challenges.
I just wanted to post some Info for those interested:

- A cargo train of around 50 carriages derailed in the tunnel going North in one of the Gottard tunnels.

- A few carriages passed the interchange between the two tunnels when something on a carriage caused damage to the interchange and then caused the separation of the train sending part of it through the protective door between the two tunnels. The door was closed at the time as it should be.

- The train was ok when it passed the scan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwx_rumXUAw) before it entered the tunnel. The track was also 100% so that is why the investigators are looking very closely at the moment.

- The door stopped the carriages from damaging the N->S side but the door was heavily damaged as well as the rail infrastructure on the S->N side. Picture of the door: https://news.sbb.ch/_file/23661/_r1280x689cc you can see the carriage on its side which was covered and filled with pallets.

- The hazardous materials was in carriages behind the accident and did not derail. Those could be safely removed without any incident. The hazardous material carriages were traveling empty however regulations require them to be declared as hazardous no mater if full or empty.

- No rail traffic can go through either side even the undamaged N -> S side until the door is either fixed or a temporary solution is found. The door is custom made and will take a long time to get a new one.

- All rail possible is diverted along the scenic route however double-deckers can not pass through the tunnels as well as some cargo as they don't fit.

- They expect 30% less seating capacity.

- At this time the investigators (SUST) are still investigating. Until it's given free only then they can see the total damage at which point they start with repairs.

More Pictures:

- https://news.sbb.ch/_file/23659/_r1280x689cc.jpg

- https://news.sbb.ch/_file/23662/_r1280x689cc.jpg

- https://news.sbb.ch/_file/23661/_r1280x689cc.jpg

- https://img.blick.ch/incoming/18829950-v1-fb-img-16916890392...

- https://img.blick.ch/incoming/18830061-v1-img-20230810-wa000...

- https://img.blick.ch/incoming/18830064-v1-img-20230810-wa000...

Sources:

- https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/124073/bahnverkehr-im-gotthard-b...

- https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/tessin/die-wichtigsten-fragen-u...
And later pregnancy is more risky for both mother and child. To resolve this, socialist policies need to be introduced, decisively anti-capitalist policies that will theoretically harm a country's GDP (because it encourages people to not participate in the labour pool).
Wild to me that people will take seriously people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom who are both "idea guys" who have accomplished exactly nothing in the field of AI. Their strength is in the world of discourse, not in the material world.

Meanwhile, George Hotz, an engineer and a technologist - a guy who actually works with and understands technology, but isn't an acclaimed harry potter fanfiction writer or a stand up comedian - is derided because his arguments are dramatically less sexy, harder to appreciate why they might be right.

People, please do not listen to people who sound great but have no credible claim to be an expert on something. There is a difference between an idea that sounds good and an idea that is good.
https://archive.is/4ljoV
"And what does "winning" mean? It means the government decides that it must take some money from other citizens and give it to you. "

It can also mean countless other things. Like that government has to stop excessive surveillance. Cannot take your home away to build a road. Or has to lift a regulation for your buisness, ...

Not every government activity is money redistribution.
JSDoc can get you pretty far, but it can be clumsy sometimes. There’s a [TC39 proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations) to allow types to live in JS code and be treated as comments (similar with Python types today)
I thought that USB flash drives were not made to withstand the duty cycle required of system drives, and that's why SSDs cost more - because they have the hardware to transparently detect errors and remap them to a reserve set of locations.
"who consume 12 MWh of power per capita, while it's around 6 or 7 MWh for modern European countries."

Lol, you write that as if the Europeans were consuming half as much because they are morally enlightened.

Europeans use 6Mwh/person because thats as much as their emasculated societies can steal from Africa. May I remind you they didn't leave Africa very willingly in the 50s-70s. But they kept on stealing anyway!

Thats right. Steal. Libya, Algeria, Niger. The French convertible Franc. The French senate bemoaning just this week that Macron "lost" Africa. Lost Africa? Africa is not France's to lose!

Unlike, say, Japan or Korea that have more than just a token few LNG terminals and pay for their gas with monitors and great cars.
I’m less about enshittification or literal Skynet and more about casually and indirectly causing a major destabilization with some seemingly mundane application of fancy tech that devs didn’t bother to think through about the implications of, or were so amazed they could do something they didn’t think about whether they should.
I find him very entertaining to listen to, and I often end up agreeing with him, but he’s definitely not the most “coherent” individual out there (like jobs/woz/carmack/pg/etc.)

At the same time, he’s out there talking and writing, I’m sure if he continues he’ll get good. Nobody’s born a good writer and you only become one by writing a lot.
I get what you're saying and it doesn't make a material difference, but a lifespan and a generation are quite different. My grandpa was born in 1928, when penicillin was discovered. There's a picture of him holding my brother's grandson. That's five generations in one lifespan, four of which could have been meaningfully impacted by the availability of a general antibiotic.

Now are we going to start observing the influence of that on the human immune system in four generations? No. Forty? Maybe a little bump in the noise floor. Four hundred? Almost certainly yes.
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/LICENSE#L8-L11

Clearly states that you can use it in a production setup.
Even when she reported about her toothache? If this situation was not fabricated (why to fabricate a work of your life and how to do it unnoticed) the situation meets the definition of intelligence.

What are your doubts, are they related on some data?
I've actually recently switched from using uBlock in Brave (desktop Brave) to the built-in blocker.

They both use the same selectable filter lists, so I notice barely if any difference.

I'll also scuttle Cookiebro once Brave's cookie auto-delete moves out of beta.

Less extensions means less attack surface.