skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all of your counterexamples involve the government

I’m trying to avoid the miasma of conflicting rights. Somewhere in this thread I referenced a car spilling diesel on private land. This impact the value of neighbouring plots. On entirely private merits, the owner’s ability to operate their property, on their property, willy nilly, is curtailed.

Simpler, if more absurd example: someone’s pet or kid wanders on your property. This curtails what you can do, with your property on your property. You own both. But you don’t control everything which happens upon it.

Seizing on this distinction is immensely clarifying. It’s the difference between talking about computers in general and knowing the protocols.
If anyone in the government tells there are aliens, I won’t believe them. If anyone in the government tells me there aren’t aliens, I won’t believe them.

This just tells me that their information/disinformation campaign over the last 80+ years has been hugely successful.
Why do you think it's "severe"?
How is is that dark energy density does not change with time? Surely the total amount of dark energy has to be constant (energy can't be created or destroyed, and all that), and then as the universe expands, that's then the same amount of energy over a larger volume, right?
It very much sounds that parts are not manufactured to proper tolerances, and as a result Boeing uses undocumented lubricants to make things fit (badly). If this were anticipated there would be a documented process, but there isn't, and it means nothing good.
Innumerable times quite reasonable political leaders have started wars that resulted in their own deaths; and sometimes resulted in the destruction of civilization as they knew it (most recently - World War I, which effectively put an end to the European monarchies).

This suggests that giving nukes to reasonable political leaders presents a high and concrete risk. Giving nukes to political leaders with crazy ideas presents an even greater risk.

Climate change seems to be another high and concrete risk.

AI escaping and taking over the world can be also considered a risk, but it's far more remote. It is similar to the risk of aliens attacking earth after detecting its TV and radio transmissions. Some people might argue that we should slow down the work on AI. Others may demand we also ban all TVs and radios on earth. Both proposals seem to be a bit of an overkill given how remote the associated risks are. Especially given that we have the far more pressing risks to address.

The concerns about AI risks are like a drunk driver going 90 mph on a country road and suddenly deciding to stop saying "goddamn" just in case Jesus returns and punishes those who invoked God's name in vain in violation of the Third Commandment.
Not surprising that I'm not the first to think of this.
Personally I think the “foom” scenarios with very short timelines are unrealistic.

However I think the line of argument in the parent comment is extremely weak. At some point the super-intelligence can build its own actuators; for example how long until Atlas is capable of doing all the jobs? Less than 50 years for sure.

In the transition, if 10% of humanity sticks around as a transhuman AI cult, that seems more than enough to bridge to nanotech, robots, or whatever is sufficient to replace humans.

If you prefer to think in more stepwise fashion, imagine BigCo creates an ASI. Every employee is fabulously wealthy, and over the course of a generation the company expands to take over the entire global economy. At no point is there a bad deal for any humans. Life might look great for a while. This would also be the obvious strategy for any super-intelligent entity that cannot yet survive without humans; you just need to minimize the chances of major wars and conflicts until your robots come online.

A digital mind would have no problem planning and executing a strategy measured in centuries, if need be.

The foom scenarios require extreme discontinuities in intelligence; an entity smart enough to synthesize nanomachines from existing tech and without doing physical experiments, or other IMO improbable outcomes.

But there are plenty of terrible non-foom outcomes.
I was at a large bitcoin mining farm today and talked to them about that. Their substation feeds the local community and they paid for upgrades to it so that the local community could have a more reliable source of power. Their funds also go towards maintaining all the lines that feed the community too. They employ about a dozen people from the area. We ate lunch at a local restaurant. Bought groceries from the local grocery store. Staying in a local airbnb.

Does this count as reputable?
How much damage could one do with ~20 terawatts of brain power? A lot. But nothing clandestine.
Ok, I've changed the link from https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/how-engineers-straighten....

openculture.com is usually pretty good and has been the source of a lot of good HN submissions but I agree that this one was a thin wrapper.

p.s. cwillu is right - i saw this because someone emailed, and @dang in comments is a no-op...just so people know.
Keep following that line of thought, don't stop there! Why did those violent behaviors succeed in being selected for? Why didn't pacifism get selected for instead? Why does the government maintain a monopoly on violence, and why is it that the nth-degree consequence for violating societal laws is violence, instead of a monetary fine or a sternly-worded letter? Is there perhaps some kind of game-theoretic equilibrium that causes agents who employ violence -- even as a measure of last resort, after peaceful negotiation -- to succeed in achieving their objectives?

People, corporations, organizations, and nation states who employ violence do so when and because they expect it to work. An AI would need to be very specifically designed not to do that; it wouldn't be the default output of a search for a successful strategy.
How the Lunar Rover Batteries Worked–and Nearly Failed–On the Moon
My gripe with most takes on the affirmative action debate is that they completely ignore this issue (in spite of the Berkeley case-study). It's trivial to take a set of admissions data and partition it by race to reveal a "racial bias", which would shrink or disappear if other factors correlated with race (like income) were accounted for.
Thanks. It was terrifying. It made me appreciate a lot that time is just a construct. Everything felt jumbled and running together with no sense of continuity. Our sense of time is intricately related with our sense of the world is what I concluded.
Re (1), are there publicly documented cases with numbers on observed slowdowns with it?

I see this mentioned from time to time, but intuitively you'd think this wouldn't pose a big slowdown since the system builtin objects would have been allocated at the same time (startup) and densely located on smaller nr of pages. I guess if you have a lot of global state in your app it could be more significant.

Would also be interesting to see a benchmark using hugepages, you'd think this could solve remaining perf problems if they were due to large number of independent CoW page faults.
True. Security is a significant concern, and in our discussions with businesses, we realised that most of them do not want any kind of data leaving their own systems. This is especially true in the biotech/healthcare industry, but also in legal and banking. That's why we're considering an on-premises solution for the future (as we're focusing on B2B). However, I assume most people were talking about personal use cases or non-sensitive documents, hence the fact that no one mentioned SSRF (yet ;)).
Ants? That's how aliens might view us. A super AI might find value in minions.
Eat right, drink water, walk regularly.
Get a goal: maybe do a marathon in 6 months? Get a coach to get you there.
This will be infinitely less than 100k.
Wow. A S24 is that far behind? Does the browser make a difference?

I figured the iPhones would be faster but not 2x.
Throwing large amounts of compute, power, and learning cycles is building fascinating outcomes. That alone means strategic competitors should be secret.
Solana has seen a dramatic increase in DEX transaction volumes since early March.
SOL is still a long way from its all-time high, which it hit in November 2021 at $260.
The daily number of new addresses on the Solana blockchain has hit a record level as per recent statistics. Based on a seven-day moving average (MA), the daily count of new addresses on the Solana network is presently above 691,000. A rise in the adoption measure indicates real network activity, says Tristan Frizza, founder of Zeta Markets.
He knows what they mean. It's the age old programmer forum response where everyone knows what the OP meant when they were asking but some pedant with a neurological problem hijacks the thread. Ignore him.
Conversational Spaced Repetition
Not reading the paper, cosine similarity has little to no semantic understanding of sentences.

E.g. the following triple

1: "Yes, this is a demonstration"

2: "Yes, this isn't a demonstration"

3: "Here is an example"

<1, 2>, Has "higher" cosine similarity than <1, 3>, structurally equivalent except for one token/word, <1, 2> semantically means the opposite of each other depending on what you're targeting in that sentence. While <1, 3> means effectively the same thing.

If this paper is about persuading people about efficacy with regards to semantic understanding, OK, but that was always known. If its about something with relation to vectors and the underlying operations, then I'll be interested.
I do something similar! Usually I will lightly fry or roast the scraps before blending in the vitamix, then straining. It’s great. I am also getting into flavoring oils/fats in a similar way.
> I stick my Bamix into the pot and let it run until the contents are silky smooth

How do you like the Bamix? I was considering replacing my aging Kitchen Aid immersion blender (which I love, but it’s starting to fall apart) with either another Kitchen Aid, or a Braun, or a Bamix. The Bamix seems a very opinionated design, but interesting. Reviews I’ve seen are split between love/hate, though.
imagine a writer writing more books than they read.

imagine a film director directing more movies than they watch.

imagine a software engineer writing more code than they read.

imagine a musician writing more songs than they listen to.

... etc etc
My guess is that it because laptops need to be connected to TVs and projectors that only have HDMI ports. Monitors have both DisplayPort and HDMI.
Nonsense. They were obviously supposed to use MIL-SPEC standard MIL-D-16791 Nonionic General Purpose Detergent. /s
"A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickam's_dictum
You can also hold down power and a volume key to lock an iPhone and require the passcode.
I'd like to remind people of this single-sentence statement:

> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. [0]

Signed by Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Bill Gates among others

[0] https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk
>fantasy dollars

If you include all fiat currencies in that category I think that's a keen name.

If it's just a title to bad-mouth crypto in some arbitrary way -- well -- a lot of very real stuff has been bought with crypto, and name-calling generally attracts the very worst allies.

I get the energy concern, and mostly agree with you, but i'm not sure we should pretend that fiat currencies have these problems fixed.

Military backing for the sake of currency stability requires X amount of energy daily to facilitate, it's just not draining Texas. 'Not my problem'?
I started spearfishing recently. All the "cool" people are dry aging their catch. I didnt realize aging increases glutamate content.
Yes, I tried archive.is and 12ft, all failed. I have to say, I never success with 12ft even 1 time, what a shit website.

Anyone got a more advanced trick on WSJ link?
This position makes sense. You do not have enough knowledge to assume that the Dawn soap thing is bad, only enough knowledge to discourage folks from pointing out that it sounds bad
> feels like busy work just so management can “see” progress

Lot's of people feel like this. I usually come at it a different way - we're trying to estimate effort to see if we want to attempt building it in the first place. Assisting with the cost-benefit question if you will. That's the first reason.

It can also be extremely beneficial to the team, particularly when working with less experienced folks. You can farm out a lot of the work and parallelise the task.

I suspect Jacob didn't do much of this breakdown when implementing his streak app, which is why he recurses in an illustrative way.
No problem. I am also a huge Dream Theater fan.
In RL I never do such, as I know how to pretend and survive, for my own good. What I pointed out is that the dead guy did it with courage, with of course his life being the cost. Scaling it up I see something, and with the overall disappointment I find place to suit myself better in the future. And I don't plan to go a super long way with the majority anyway. This book is strongly recommended to read: "The Crowd" written by Gustave Le Bon. Tiktok swipers don't need to bother.
It’s not so much that there’s a little morality tag that randomly gets assigned the value of “nice” or “evil”, it’s more like there’s 1000 possible programs we would consider “super intelligent” and maybe it’s the case that 950 of them would reshape the world in a way we wouldn’t like - and when a powerful entity reshapes the world in a way we don’t like, we call that entity “evil”.

^ This is the basic reasoning behind the common view that super intelligent AI will be, by default, evil
The last two versions have lead to demonstrable speedups in major browsers.

Why wouldn’t this?

Bad developers (or management dictates) will be bad no matter what. That’s not a reason to give up.
Also for shrimp/prawn shells, I've seen people cook the shells in oil. The shells are discarded and the oil can be used on noodles and in other dishes.
This seems more complete.
It's hard to guess these cards' real performance uplifts. According to Nvidia, H100 is 11x faster than A100, but that's definitely not true in most cases. If Gaudi3 is legitimately 4x faster than Gaudi2, it should be a very good value proposition compared to even the B100. I'm really curious whether Intel will be able to compete with X100 using Falcon Shores or not. Regardless, I don't think Nvidia's margins are sustainable.
It's not clear that model weights are copyrightable in the US. Maybe they revoke the license, but I assert that I don't need a license.
Well it's hit and miss but these days you can point me to just about anyone who you think earned their money 'fair and square' and I can point out many different ways that it was not quite as 'fair' nor 'square' as it seems. The role of privilege is just so significant.

Privilege is often the product of unethical machinations that happen behind the scenes or happened behind the scenes at some point in the past. Once you understand that value creation and value extraction are two very different concepts and that only the latter is rewarded AT ALL, you start to understand how we got to where we are today. It's not value creators who are rewarded. Over long periods of time, our system almost completely dispossesses value creators for the benefit of value extractors.

Money, in its current form, is the root of all evil. In a highly competitive global environment, you cannot win without cheating. That's a probabilistic fact because if there are 10K intelligent people competing in the same area (which is very common in global markets), the probability that maybe 100 of them will be cheaters is very high and the cheaters have a huge competitive edge over the non-cheaters, hence the winner in a winner-takes-all market is much more likely to be a cheater.
I remember this happening with Inuit in 2020

> Judge Breyer suggested at the Dec. 17 hearing on the proposed class action settlement that Intuit has only itself to blame for its mass arbitration predicament. “You knew what the rules of arbitration were. You knew all these things. And you elected - you elected to go to arbitration. And you fought fairly, vigorously, and it turns out correctly, that you had this right to insist on arbitration,” the judge told Intuit counsel Rodger Cole of Fenwick & West. “Now you come in, when you see how it is unfolding, and say: ‘Not so fast … Now we want to turn and do something else.’”

https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-intuit/judge-br...
Won't any AGI made by humans unavoidably have human origins, and thus, simply be a [post-]human? I don't see a reason I should be scared of a non-biological but generally human-like intelligence - not on a general principle. If anything, in general, I'd be happy that someone is finally getting real good chances of conquering death.

I possibly would fear genuine non-human intelligence (on a principle of fearing what we don't understand), but given that chances of one evolving under our nose, on its own, entirely within its own world, without the connection for ours, then emerging, are quite improbable... Unless real aliens arrive - but let's avoid spoilers for 2025 this early.

What should I fear, I think, is hostile intelligence, but then I'm not sure I should discriminate on its origin. I mean, there are some very real humans out there who can try to end this world (in one way or another), so I'm probably kind of desensitized and isn't exactly afraid of some very theoretical AGI threats.
> Nintendo 2DS

You brave fool. I love that you tried it.
Idemitsu, Qantas and Airbus back Australia biofuel refiner with $19.2M
What is the cheapest way to capture similarity if not via dot product then?
The canvas in Obsidian is as the whole app very well made. I wondered what they are using as well. My guess is https://www.xyflow.com/, which is for drawing nodes. More general purpose would be http://fabricjs.com/. Or very low level https://pixijs.com/.
Why wouldn’t it? Weight is a lagging indicator, and it’s only one phenotype out of the countless ways your body is affected by what you eat.
The American astronomer, Halton Arp, had a theory he called "intrinsic redshift". My limited understanding is that he saw evidence of "very close" and "very far away" structures that are connected to each other in space, which makes no sense. He theorized that redshift may also be indicative of the age of a galaxy, rather than only indicating velocity.

The interpretation of redshift as velocity is also the primary reason cosmologists think the universe is expanding.
What is the deal with posting (seemingly) random links to Wikipedia articles lately without context?

Some of them are interesting, but most(?) of them come without details.

Please provide me with some context.
> No one wants to hear the truth: HoHos and pork shoulder will ruin your retirement years.

I think it is well understood by interested people that indulging in cream-filled chocolate snack cakes will lead to bad outcomes.

But what is your beef with pork shoulders?
That is entirely dependant on the model for the embeddings. You can fine tune for pretty much any outcome you want.
NYT changed the title after I submitted it…but I was able to edit it.
I definitely see value in ants.
The amount of buzzwords on this page should disqualify this from even getting votes on HN. Anyone who writes like this is trying to confuse and mislead the reader.
“Could” is carrying a lot of weight there.

What is p(much better) vs p(much worse)?
“Outlaw the publication of weights” is this regulatory capture or just the usual gov stupidity?
Degrading light sounds like an interesting idea to me, you could call it the “cosmological damper” if you will.
Thought experiment: imagine you have light particles in a perfectly circular orbit around a black hole. Does the light ever fall into the black hole or does it orbit for eternity?
Long time ago I was reading translated accounts of Rwandan Hutu's that had participated in the 1993 genocide. One in particular had stuck with me; one account of a man that had murdered his childhood friend. As he described it, standing there having gutting and dismembers the man he had grown up side by side with, he had a sense of exhilaration. With all the wealth he thought of the wealth he had now, a tin roof, cattle, all those things he could take from his dead friend... he realized he didn't need God.

And then he went to bed, like millions of others, proud of what he had done. Proud of fighting off an unarmed, defenseless 'cockroach' whom just months ago he called brother. What he had done wasn't evil. It was only later that the regret came. For the longest time I wondered how someone could get down to that level of hate.

And then it happened to me.

I commuted by train and occasionally there's collisions. There was one that late night, 11:00pm or so. I was exhausted, hungry, and just wanted to go home when we were told that we would have to board a shuttle bus due to a collision on the track and that just made my dark mood all the more worse.

The busses take us along side the track and in the dim darkness I could see the flashing lights of EMS and police. And the covered chunks of what was left after a person is hit by a train going 30 mph. And you know what?

It delighted me. Here was this man that had just died, but he had made me some minutes late and I genuinely felt that was exactly what he deserved, that his death was karmic justice for causing inconvenience to me. And I imagined his wife's world being destroyed when she learned of her beloved partner's death. And I imagined her falling apart and being unable to raise her children, leading them also to a path of complete self destruction, and her choking on all the despair. And it made me happy. The happiest I had been the whole week, because in my mind that was exactly what they all deserved for the unforgivable sin of making me a little bit late.

Then I went home, went to bed. And didn't think about it again for years.

Does it make me an evil person? And there, in trying to answer, lies the problem. Because a part of me says, no I'm not because it was just a fleeting moment of thought. But if I can justify that, then who exactly goes through to bed twirling their mustaches and count themselves among the forces of evil doers?

Did anyone that that goaded a suicidal Shaun Dykes, a 17 old boy, to jump down to his death think themselves evil?

Did the men of the Khmer Rogue believe themselves to be evil as they dragged their countrymen to be murdered in the killing fields?

Did the Imperial Japanese soldiers of Unit 731 view themselves to be evil as they vivisected people alive and awake in the name of science?

I don't know. I can't even say for certainty whether I am evil or not. I just know that I can make any of a million and one excuses to justify anything.

And that leads me to wonder how many excuses an AGI can come up with.
Some things cannot be bought by money. Such as discipline, will power, consistency.
Love this. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "make your soul grow" letter to high school kids -
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/make-your-soul-grow
Ajax or Dawn? These things matter.
Why Lebanon's citizens are suddenly being matched with Israelis
Insert meme of Nolan Grayson, representing Lisp/Scheme/Racket programmers, pointing at fighter jets labeled "transpilers" and saying: "Look at what they need to mimic just a fraction of our power!"
The host is a supplement shill as well. It’s a “discussion” between a snake oil salesman and an algorithmic megaphone.
This is pretty cool. I find it intriguing that we're neural surgery on LLMs!
I thought it would be clear that I was talking about macroeconomists in general, just like GP.
Some think that statins stimulate atherosclerosis and heart failure

https://cardiacos.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2015-Statin...