skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but some bash can be unavoidable. I've found that even trivial looking bash can be helped with shell-check; this is a testament to the issues in bash more than anything.
> But the fear mongering is a bit premature.

I’m sure you would also accept that at some point it could become too late to start worrying about the risks if the danger has already gone exponential.

So how do you determine when is the right time to worry? If you have to error on worrying too early or two late, which way do you bias your decision?
macOS LLVM is a bit of a special distribution. It's nice that there's a mostly well built LLVM distribution there, but the pain in the ass is that they ship a custom linker and _don't ship lld_, which means you can't readily use their distribution for a lot of common cross build targets - you need to go build at least an lld to get over the line.
Don't worry, Rockland County NY will ensure it remains "on the Brink" indefinitely.
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I want to share a little experience on body building and the use of steroids
If a border agent called me suspicious based only on my passport then yeah that is racism
I'm not autistic, I have mild OCD.

Law makes a distinction between various kinds of wrongful deaths for reasons. I agree with many of these reasons.
It's Thanksgiving. Beware the Deep-Fried Turkey
[cynic speaks: ] Sometimes it seems that a catchy acronym lends an association a degree of tacit validity, and/or experiences an almost viral spread, simply by virtue of its easy uptake by the casual reader.
That is not correct. AI safety is a subject on which serious books have been written, serious scientists have published research, and serious organizations have spent tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars on researching it. Who are you who to say "advocated don't know anything about AI safety"?
Those aren't the only two ideas of AI Safety, right? I'll concede that the second category is pretty straight forward (i.e. don't build the Terminator ... maybe we can debate the definition of "Terminator").

But the first is really a branch, not a category, that has a wide variety of definitions of "safety", some of which start to coalesce more around "moderation" than "safety". And this, in my opinion, is actually where the real danger is: Guiding the super-intelligence to think certain thoughts that are in the realm of opinion and not fact. In essence, teaching the AI to lie.
> Then the post ends “ Educate me.” - such a “change my mind” attitude seems rather trollish.

And later responses by the OP of that thread further convince me that this was not a question asked in earnest.
In a democracy, those limitless powers are limited by voters. The government can only pass laws and implement regulations that are acceptable to a democratic public. To the extent that voters want to move their money freely around the world, they also want policies that prevent the transfer of money to terrorists or child molesters. These powers are not limitless at all. They are limited through democracy.

Crypto is therefore a way to work around the wishes of the majority of others. That’s anti-democratic. It’s not freedom so much as it is tyranny.
> "We don't know if we'll have time travel and ray guns in six months or 600 years."

That's not the (only) problem, it's that no one can describe what AGI will really look like outside of vague and circular definitions. People have an idea of what they would like it to be, but there's no evidence any of it can be built, particularly human like intelligence, which may be only possible in the human host.

> "If we can make something that appears to be able to mimic human responses, isn't that AGI in practice even if it's not in principle?"

That's another problem, people's credulity when it comes to AI performance. ELIZA was pretty convincing in its time. ChatGPT is convincing a lot of people. But mimicking human responses turns out to be relatively easy, especially when models are trained on human output, but that doesn't move us very far along the path to AGI.
To me, a cynical old man, the threat sounds that "it might say something politically incorrect or that I disagree with". That is what I understand the threat is, not a robot uprising a-la Terminator.
155mm NATO Artillery – Heavy weapons tracking sheet
We have discussed the freemium approach, but for now, you need an account to use all options. (However, you can still build a UI Library without an account and see if it's the tool for you)
That is not at all what I'm talking about.
And if that’s the definition of AGI we’re going by, we’re in no danger of it murdering us all. Imagine thinkjng GPT4 was somehow capable of really any harm at all.

It’s also just incredible failure of risk assessment. Global warming is the real and pressing threat, and it’s here right now. Not sentient murderous AI. But it’s easier to dream about a threat that doesn’t exist than one that does because you can still imagine a perfect scenario in which you prevent it. Whoops.
Show HN: I made a nextjs boilerplate to automate boring stuff
Every time I had a idea to build a side project, I used to always go through pain of authentication, databases, payments, emails which are the basic things you need in a app. Once you are over that, there was no motivation left to work on actual idea.

So, I built this boilerplate - https://www.shipappsfast.com which is opinionated, powerful and simple to work with.

I am looking to improve and add more features. It helped me learn a lot.
I like the simplicity of the symbols. They really are international and it's interesting to see how they all have a clear purpose.

1. White rectangle above red rectangle with yellow borders: Pilot, please board here to guide us into the harbor.

2. Horizontal line through a circle: You should see this line above the water, otherwise the ship is overloaded.

3. Sketch of a bulk under water: Be careful, this ship has a bulbous bow that might be beneath the water surface.
True, but I've been highly bullish on that: if that's a core complaint, it seems one of the easier ones to improve in the medium term.

A host of other issues, which Rust notably doesn't suffer from, are almost "unfixable", even in the long term: think build system, type system, memory safety. Rust is fine in these regards.
The problem is that there are rarely guarantees for long-term playoffs.
> all signs seem to be pointing toward a longer timeframe rather than a short one

If we time-traveled back to 2019 and showed past-you a demo of GPT4's capabilities and asked you to guess the timeline, would you have gotten it correct to within a decade? I wouldn't have.

It's not crazy to prepare for another jump.
For what it's worth, I've found (mostly non-dev) customers of one of my e-commerce businesses to be pretty good at filing "bug reports" when they receive faulty (or "faulty") hardware.

About 50% of the time a complaint will be accompanied by the steps they performed, what they saw and what they expected to see. Often there'll be photos too, and enough information to diagnose remotely.

I think the difference with bug reports for commercial software is that it's invariably unacknowledged and unactioned by the developers. Why would you take the time to write out a clean report when the reasonable expectation is that it's ignored?
there’s your problem right there. wolverines don’t breath water. you gotta leave them out of the fish tank.
This is in relation to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361247 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326878
This is a document that lists what 155mm artillery weapons that have been pledged and/or delivered to Ukraine by various NATO countries. It is updated using publicly available internet news sources.
Will the Global South become a dumping ground for gas cars or an EV hotbed?
I wouldn't have my brain frozen unless we have a better understanding of the fundamental stuff that makes up consciousness. The mind is more than the neurons and synapses. Yes it's a necessary condition to have a brain but consider the following anecdotes:

1. Under anesthesia, the neurons within the brain are fully connected and have access to blood and other resources of the body, yet it is not functioning at all. No pain, respiratory drive, no memory

2. Patients with large parts of their brains removed, or large parts of their brains injured by stroke, can recover fully to a point that is functionally indistinguishable from their previous intact state.
Thank you for your testimony.

I'm wondering if this was pseudomonas aeruginosa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas_aeruginosa
wow, truly one of the stupider, if not the most stupid take--well done!
> But that's a knowledge issue. Which is fine, if I can say one thing for sure is that none of us was born knowing anything at all :-)

It is just that for them, "non c++" tools ended up doing a lot of this magic work. Plus the idea of "embedding another language or two into a language where i already made UI without any fuss" tended to keep some of the more experienced C++ devs away from QML in my experience. Giving them tasks like animating the UI, writing custom styles etc.. that's where QML converted more C++ devs in my experience.

Those kdab blogposts were indeed very helpful for us back then.
I recall having a conversation in about 2016 with a lawyer who was looking into crypto for potential opportunities. After a thorough analysis, he said, “In a few years, all these people will be in jail.”

He was right.
I wonder if this changes the prospects for finding life in Mars somehow. IIRC, one thing making life in Mars difficult is the presence of oxidizing chlorates or peroxides in the surface. If we have a example of microorganisms developing extreme resistance to oxidation here on Earth, I think it improves the odds of some microorganisms still being able to thrive in Mars today.
And any utilitarian thinker who wanted to do the op would tell you that they weren't going to get caught, so that outcome won't be relevant to their calculus.

Is that good reasoning? No.

Is it what some humans will do? Yes.
Simple answer is YOU control the deploy of a server in miroservices, so YOU decide when it goes live. You aren't playing spreadsheet telephone at scale to get everyone even im an internal org to update. If you're smart you have your callers send version information and you usually just add fields, only removals or renames cause version issues. If you're having everyone use a library they control when they update the logic and you have less telemetry when some wierd corner of your company is using out of date logic.
I’m somehow really skeptical—has there been a postmortem of the general failure of BLOOM? That model was unreasonably ineffective. I expect the same of government and academic models, but I don’t have a good rationale.
As a principal I tend to lower my conviction of any opinion I hold the more that people I intellectually respect disagree with me.

I think to say with confidence that we're doomed or that there is no risk to the AI system currently in development would be intellectually arrogant. I'm not even convinced you necessarily need AGI before AI becomes a risk to humanity. An advanced enough auto-GPT bot given a bad goal might be all you need. Cripple enough infrastructure and humanity is going to be starving to death within weeks.

Personally I think humanity is probably okay for another 5 - 10 years, but after that I have almost zero certainty. It seems to me that it's quite possible we could have AGI by the end of the decade if we get another breakthrough or two.

Even near-term I have no strong conviction. I have a decent amount of experience building and working with neural nets, but my experience is so far from scale and complexity companies like OpenAI are working at my ability to predict even what might come out in the next 1-2 years is very low. I'd basically just have to assume the next GPT is going to be somewhere between 10-50% jump from what we got this year. But what if it's 200% and the trend is moving exponentially?
Didn’t something like this happen during the George W Bush presidency with AT&T as well?
As a nurse I make $100/hr.

Try again.
there are many cases that you have to use sh scripts, e.g. many IoT devices, embedded devices etc where python etc are just huge and slow.
Is anyone aware of a nice resource that teaches the language while also showing its evolution at each step?

(as opposed to just teaching the latest version only / an older version only)
This is awesome news. Sounds like we not only have more runway than expected but also obtain more than expected with every tree and shrub we plant.
Linux doesnt force either upon you.

Life is good. We are free.
If you have any feasible ideas that could plausibly work where people don't "have to make a living" so that we can find ourselves and not be lost, we're all ears. Until then we're stuck in a place where people need money to pay for frivolous things like "food" or "rent" or "transportation". Still, in the face of that, there's a site called GitHub where people do freely share code, despite the economic misincentives, so I think the kids will be alright.
Okay, so perhaps 'all' was a little optimistic. Spark is the old government monopoly, once called 'Telecom'. As such, they have inherited a huge base of users who don't pay any attention to which ISP they are using, or don't even know what an ISP is. As such, they're basically non-competitive.

There's rarely any benefit to using them compared to the competition - they are more expensive and refuse to join free internet exchanges, so Spark users frequently experience bad routing to services which refuse to pay money to Spark to peer.

What I can tell you, though, is that I have never once heard of Spark warning/booting a user for excessive usage, and I have my ears to the ground at various NZ tech forums.

Other ISPs, however:

https://www.orcon.net.nz/terms/broadband

If you are on an Uncapped or Unlimited Plan, the total amount of data you can upload or download is unlimited. We may use traffic prioritisation policies for these Plans to protect our Network and improve the overall performance amongst our customers.

(This is the Vocus group, including 2degrees, Slingshot, Flip, 2talk and Stuff brands)

https://main.prod.vodafonenz.psdops.com/_document?id=0000018...

Our policy is to provide you with the best broadband experience possible, so we won’t slow down or throttle your connection.

One New Zealand does not have a fair use policy for One New Zealand Fibre, HFC, VDSL or ADSL broadband

(One NZ, old Vodafone)

https://care.zeronet.co.nz/hc/en-us/articles/7436185566863-N...

Zeronet does not enforce a fair use policy when your connection is used for standard home use.
Personally I trust China with it more than I trust SV and their handlers in the CIA. But that's just me.
I think this is the relevant API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/webRe...

> As of Manifest V3, the "webRequestBlocking" permission is no longer available for most extensions. Consider "declarativeNetRequest", which enables use of the declarativeNetRequest API. Aside from "webRequestBlocking", the webRequest API will be unchanged and available for normal use.

So the other functionality, to inspect web requests, will still be available.
Here's a TL;DR for people short on time:

"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov is a seminal science fiction short story that explores humanity's evolution and the quest to overcome entropy over trillions of years. It starts in 2061 with two technicians, Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov, operating Multivac, a powerful computer. They discuss using solar energy and the finite nature of the sun, leading to the titular question: Can the increase in entropy in the universe be reversed?

The story jumps through various epochs, where different iterations of computers (Microvac, Galactic AC, Universal AC, and finally Cosmic AC) are repeatedly confronted with this question but always respond with "Insufficient data for a meaningful answer." Humanity evolves, colonizes the universe, achieves immortality, and ultimately merges with the Cosmic AC.

At the universe's end, when only the Cosmic AC exists and time, space, and matter cease to exist, the AC finally finds an answer to the question. The story concludes with the words: "LET THERE BE LIGHT! And there was light --" suggesting the cycle starts anew, possibly with a new universe. Asimov's tale is famed for its profound philosophical inquiry and visionary depiction of humanity's future and technology.
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I'm not sure how this is relevant to my point: "sorry your app isn't on the Apple app store" probably isn't enough to stop an oppressive employer from forcing employees to install spyware.
Memory safety bugs are currently being introduced to the Linux kernel faster than they are being fixed. I assume this is true for all major projects but for Linux there's hard evidence for this:

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream/graph/bugs

So, yes, all bugs can be fixed. And yes, the world produces enough food to feed the entire population. But people are still going hungry.
“Lead” is fine in British English.
If you sell your 3yo computer you are gonna get a decent price, so upgrading a 4k computer every 3 years is not the same as spending 4k every 3 years. Though, it highly depends on the initial configuration, and the additional premiums you pay to apple for ram etc do not seem to scale so well in the second hand market.

That said, I do not find much appeal to upgrade unless there is a specific reason myself. But there seems to be something in apple customer culture where people upgrade for the mere sake of stuff like new design or colour.
I agree that git is almost asking you to juggle commits.

My preference is to use temporary branches and cherry-picking instead of stashing; I mostly use a gui* to work with git so it is easy to select the two or three commits to cherry-picking or see visually if an interactive rebase would work.

* https://gitextensions.github.io/
Bash is usful for 100 lines scripts that do little logic and mostly chain together various commands. Setup the right CC variables and call make.
I think we just need smarter browsers which can be configured to know who we trust in which dimension.

If I want to leave a comment on an article and then delete it, I can publish the comment in my pod, and I can also publish the deletion. If you've got your browser in a mode where it's interested in my comments, it can pull in the data from my pod and render it in context with the article--whether or not the article's author cared to provide a comments section.

If you drop the idea that anyone is authoritative about how it all comes together on the viewer's screen, you can also dispense with the headaches of being that authority (e.g. services).
> you can't "just" ignore then either.

Yes, that's why I mentioned they will probably enter into talks - but it's not unimaginable that those will fail.
take any narrow capability and 'superhuman <narrow capability>' will almost certainly be possible before 'superhuman general intelligence'.

The biggest, best transformer-based LLM you could imagine, that we haven't even made yet, will still fail the basic test "what is the weather tomorrow" since a LLM has no knowledge outside it's training set.
I find it confusing why the first type of AI "safety" is being focused on so much. A reasonable person will know that a tool like AI can spit out none-politically-correct things, and that reasonable person should shrug it off. But we're making a giant deal out of it and dedicating an unreasonable amount of work onto this aspect, at least in my opinion. It's akin to spending 1/4 of a Dewalt drill's development budget on ensuring that the color scheme used is patriotic enough, or some other puritanic, ideological fanatism derived endeavour.
Median annual wage for a Registered Nurse in the US is $81K. That is way higher than the national average worker income of only $54K.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291141.htm
Most likely for historical reasons where A* was used alot in games path finding for in-game AI characters
That sounds fine until there's some sort of mixup and you're left stranded in a foreign country with no clean clothes.
I found my narrator by being married to her, and all the animation was done in After Effects.
16-17 seconds for generating one image.
I thought Chouinard had sold the high quality hard goods (Black Diamond Equipment) part of Patagonia to some employees, keeping the high margin soft goods part of the business?
My controversial opinion is that git needs some kind of gui that help you keep track of the state of the repo
Yeah, that wiki article is confusing. Broadcom Inc is the new company formed when Avago purchased Broadcom Corp, and Avago got it's start as a spin off of HP (by way of Agilent). However, the original Broadcom Corp is older than that and was unrelated to HP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Corporation
The title of the article literally says "where possible". You found a case when it's not possible, and decided to argue against that...

No, not all services come connected with a database. Alternatively, often times a database is an artifact of tenancy and the need to manage users which would not be needed, had the functionality be exposed as a library.

More importantly, whether users realize this or not, a library is more beneficial for them than a service in majority of cases. Much in the same way how it's almost always better to own something than to rent it.

Just to give some examples of the above: all the Internet of crap stuff, all sorts of "smart" home nonsense which requires that you subscribe to a service, install an app on your phone and send all your private data unsupervised to some shady Joe Shmo who you know nothing about. To be more specific, take something like Google Nest thermostat. There's no reason this contraption should ever go on the Internet, nor should it require to know your street address, nor your email etc. In fact, the utility it brings is very marginal (saves you few steps you'd have to make to reach for the boiler's controls to program it). It absolutely could've been designed in such a way that it doesn't connect to the Internet, or, at least, to never leave the local area network, and yet it's a cloud service...
This is why I can't take the Safetyists seriously. Yudkowsky's essay in Time demanding a global pause in AI research is so naive to the point of parody.

And who is going to enforce this "pause", Eliezer? What he's really advocating is global war to prevent the AI apocalypse. Fair enough, but he should really make that his argument because AI research doesn't stop with out it.
A few years ago we thought we were so far away from AI creating art or having a reasonable conversation.
That would have been really impressive in 2016!
And if we're hunting for dragons should we wait until we find one and bring it to the castle before we start discussing how to protect people from it?
Being a researcher doesn't require a fully consistent set of beliefs.

You do need to be willing to go where the evidence leads you, but that doesn't require or guarantee a fully-consistent belief system.
AI is capital intensive, scaling with user count. That makes any sort of “do the right thing” fundamentally at odds with “make money or at least break even.”

I love the idea but it’s just not going to be a thing. Do not be fooled by what OpenAI says. Pay attention to what they do.
We are getting a bit ahead of ourselves here.