skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations are indeed a difficult alignment problem, as anyone who has tried to design an incentive scheme eventually realizes. But corporations are still composed of humans, beholden (if only loosely) to human values, limited (if loosely) by human intelligence, and are not very well-coordinated decisionmakers with coherent goals.
No, my position is that you can not extrapolate on something that does not exist and that’s “category” ever never existed.
We don’t know any significant other intelligent then humans, not even aliens, so we have just no trace of direction that is rooted in reality rather then fantasy.

This is especially obvious since opinion differ so much about the effects of AGI on humanity and since you cannot prove them right or wrong, every opinion is equally realistic as each other.

Like I could say that every AGI that becomes self aware will kill itself instantly because of boringness, and you cannot prove me wrong.

We just don’t know yet.
none of these seem use the good old fashion integer method from the 80s

yvel = yvel + accel

height = height - yvel

if position < floor, yvel *= -1

pause for x milliseconds, repeat

i wonder why this is not good enough and we need to resort to calculus and exponentiation
"Ted Chiang ... unrestrained capitalism, here meaning the unfettered desire to maximize profit for shareholders, is an artificial value system.

Well, yes. I've been saying that for years, and others have been saying it since the late 1970s. It's been a regular theme in Mother Jones for decades.
The comment I make now and then is that capitalism has a monopoly. Communism went bust.
It's not that communism worked very well. It's that, for a while, it was a serious competitor and capitalism had to keep its product quality up to compete. Now the pressure to provide a better life for all citizens is off. It shows.
I moved to Resolve because of this. It's maddening when you're new to editing and lose an hour's worth of work due to a crash like this.

The UI and features were plenty for my use case otherwise.
An advanced calculator.
PC i7 13700k (chrome) - 29.8

iPhone 15 Pro (safari) - 23.1

MacBook Air M1 (chrome) - 25.9

MacBook Air M1 (safari) - 18.0
Does escaping death really sound good to you?

I mean I don't want to die before my time so to speak, but I'd say at some stage I'll have enough.

I'd say the best outcome would be having excellent medicine to ensure something like a relatively fit body for 1-200 years and then see how that goes first. Living forever, not having any kind of conclusion? Seems like a careful what you wish for.
That makes sense for this type of application. But people are going to start complaining about React and other FE frameworks in 3, 2, 1...
While the definition of different “processed foods” leaves a lot to be desired, there’s always going to be foods that are at the edge of one definition.

Further attempts to refine the definition also bumps up against pendants like yourself regardless of what definition they use.

But just like porn, we all know what definitely falls into one category or the other. With foods that straddle definitions, just apply some common sense and moderation. Go ahead and eat your ham. If you share it with family and friends you’re probably ok. If you ate the whole thing yourself in a couple days, maybe that’s bad. Same for everything else. Eat them in appropriate quantities and you’ll be fine.
Managers are typically squeezed between the person who "wants the project done, and sets the budget" and the technical folk doing the work.

Kinds like the architect sitting between the client and the building contractor. The client wants the moon, on a low budget, and wants it completed yesterday.

A strong manager understands their role, and the constraints (time, money) of the system and is able to find compromise where necessary. They're there to guide the owner, and at the same time monitor the workers.

Of course the vast majority of middle management are not strong. They see their role as passing on orders from on high. The boss is the customer, and the customer is always right. So their only part is to demand more from the workers.

Strong tech workers understand what the manager needs. Good time estimates. Limited budget. The manager needs to be passing accurate data upstream. Bad workers ignore reality, tell a manager what he wants to hear, and just do their thing. Not realising that they (the programmers) will be the ones thrown under the bus ehen it goes tits up. (Another sign of bad managers is to blame the underlings.)

Good managers, working with good techies, is a match made in heaven. Together they deliver accurate estimates, with plenty of contingency time. Together they decide what features are necessary, and what can be canned. If you are in this dynamic, count yourself lucky.

If you are a good manager working with crap staff, well, that's unlucky. But at least you can turn them over. If you are a good tech working with a crap manager (which I suspect is most of us) then, well, I guess the only options are to stay, or quit.

Bad managers can be made better with explanations though. The more they understand the constraints, the better equipped they are to argue the point with the customer.
And the python people would just point to multiprocessing...which works pretty well.
Podcast sponsors are blessed, and exempt from the normal rules.
It still seems to me that you're saying that we won't possibly be able to declare AGI an existential threat to humanity until after it has already been built. At that point, we can presumably settle the question by seeing if humanity goes extinct. This poses something of a paradox to those of us who prefer existential threats to humanity not get built in the first place.
And being against nazis is 1940s was just another fashion statement. "/s"
If anything needs to run a server to communicate with anything else, especially if wireless is involved (which often is the case with more modern forms of radar, gps etc. because of ease of wiring and installation) is a recipe for disaster if you're relying on interfacing with existing instruments for navigation.

Simply firing up cli for troubleshooting and debugging of any kind should not be "expected behavior" at sea.
This is close to my rule - whatever I think, multiply by 3. Then multiply by 3 if it includes any amount of "get another team, under a different manager, to do something". It's been accurate more times then I care to think.
>And a Boeing 787-9 went into a sudden dive yesterday due to a 'technical issue' injuring 50 people, some of which were "thrown into the roof".

Sound more like a pilot error? I don't know. The plane flew immediately after landing to its final destination.
Like Macromedia Director? I remember creating tcp ip network flow animations with that one.
A few thoughts:

* There are a lot of Wendler intro articles around. But his main book is a good buy — it’s affordable, funny, and written as a complete intro. You don’t need any of his other books.

You might need some form help but there are a million videos online about squat and deadlift and bench press form. Of course, if you want the Bible on those you can also purchase Starting Strength. There’s an 80 page chapter on just the form for squatting. If that doesn’t sound like a fun and energizing read, Wendler may not the right path. Learning good form for at least the three major lifts (and overhead press) kept me very invested. I enjoyed getting a bit obsessed with it. I love deadlifting especially.

* I’ve been using this site for programming for over a decade: https://blackironbeast.com/5/3/1/calculator

* The 5/3/1 refers to the goal of the last working set for each of the main lifts, each week. Wendler is a 3 week micro-progression, with a reload week, and then it repeats. The calculator is the best way to start. It makes it mindless and every rep and set is included in the output.

* The Wendler website isn’t the best place for programming, only because it’s all in the book or in that website link. I never liked using spreadsheets for this.

* Also also, if you think this is interesting and want to buy the book but it won’t arrive for a few days.. or you want a starter option before jumping into Wendler, the StrongLifts 5x5 app was basically conceived as a starter version of Wendler, to help get you accustomed to some of these patterns. The author says it’s good through intermediate level progress, but I think that’s underselling it.

But I’d recommend going to black iron beast, putting some nice low numbers for the Real Rep Maxes, switching the program to “Triumvirate (smart man’s program)” and then printing out weeks 1-4. After you do that, increase the rep maxes by 5-10 lbs (upper body versus lower body; Wendler covers this in the book) and repeat.

What I found helpful about this is: it’s programmatic, it follows a set pattern, and you don’t have to think about what to do in the gym. You can go by the program for many months, or even a year, before trying to alter or enhance it (don’t.. for a long time). You just do it and adjust if you can’t. The lack of uncertainty worked wonders for me.

Happy to answer any follow up questions.
Got to raise taxes to pay for all the bullshit spending. Why don’t they just tax excess power usage?
Your labeling is only a reflection of the shape of the lens you have on the world. I'm not interested in feeding that.
Just outright ban the stupid planet burning ponzi. If the habitual gamblers want to gamble with make believe internet tokens, let them do it with tokens that don't waste a country full of energy. I am sure they can cook up some story to keep the crowd engaged.
Absolutely not. One has to wonder if the cultural climate was what it is today during the golden age of microchips whether there would be calls to impose a maximum transistor count per area, especially if they could foretell how much power this technology gives to those who master it.
> If I am super intelligent then I can set my own goals.

You can only set instrumental goals, not terminal goals. You cannot set terminal goals, more or less by definition, because there's no self-consistent criterion that you could use to choose between them that isn't equivalent to a utility function, which is equivalent to a terminal goal. Super intelligence merely means that you would be much more effective than humans at achieving your terminal goals. If the AI hacks its reward channel, then either it is not superintelligent, or else it is still a threat because it may anticipate that humans would reboot and reprogram an expensive datacenter that is just sitting there incrementing a reward counter, and take countermeasures to defend its reward-hijack.
OpenAI has blatantly said that the "open" in their name was a deceptive marketing ploy. At this point in time, they aren't interested in sharing much if any real research, and trying to discover this information is now an "attack" against them.
Yes, an external reference clock is needed.

If a computer chugs along doing { counter++; } at 1 clock cycle per clock cycle for 13.7 billion clock cycles, it will think 13.7 billion clock cycles have passed when counter is 13.7 billion.

On the other hand, if a computer chugs along at one clock cycle per clock cycle for 1 clock cycle, and reads &counter and sees 13.7 billion, it will think 13.7 billion clock cycles have passed.

Either way it's perfectly capable of introspecting it's source code and logically stepping back until the memory location was 0 to see how many clock cycles would have been required to reach it's current state, but that sort of reasoning is completely devoid of meaning without both perfect knowledge of what the true start state was, and a guarantee that no external influences have occurred.

Here in reality, we know neither the our start state nor our isolation level, but the hubris of many is too string to not at least try finding some logical step-back functions and iterating them until they don't know how to go any further, then proudly proclaiming that "The Start". (after all - how could it not be The Start, look, I can iterate the inverse of my step-backward function from then to now and it matches! QED!)
Interested to know as well
Names. Criminal charges require heads to fall on to pierce the corporate veil. He had names. Likely dates too. He had evidence of them committing acts that carry prison terms which would not by any stretch be short.

He was the number one threat to everyone at that company at that time, that was complicit in cutting corners.
> 32° and 100% humidity

> is not survivable long term

32C is only 89F, which isn't hot at all.

Coming from the tropics where 90s(F) with very high humidity is common, I can't see how that is not survivable. I walked to school and back home in that weather every day and it wasn't a big deal. We never had air conditioning, too poor for that.
> I hope you see how terribly uninformed such a take is then.

Yeah, I only quoted it to show how that other statement up-thread can't be taken seriously.

The only way I can square it is if it's a lie, or they're reassuring themselves whatever destruction comes will be fine as long as "there will be peace and security in [their] lifetime."
I'm also from Chile, I travel intercity pretty often, and most times, I'm the only person on the bus that I see wearing a seatbelt.

It's technically mandatory, but I've traveled like 12 times in the last year, and only twice the assistant has done his nag-round checking that passengers are wearing their seatbelts.
We used to call this "reverse engineering". I'm not familiar with what the law says on reverse engineering, but calling it "stealing" seems a bit too much.
It's easy to just assign different functions to a metatable in lua.

That isn't the point though. You were saying lisp is some mystical thing and it is 66 years old. Its influence happened decades ago. It isn't about every language having every feature. Pretty much all software is made without lots of the features in lisp because not every tradeoff is worth it. Lisp itself is barely used because it isn't about a check list of features, but pragmatism of an ecosystem, syntax, actual compilation etc are all crucial. Lisp is not a modern tool, it is an influential invention from over half a century ago.

When people are stuck on an airplane, they don't try to watch citizen kane, they want to watch literally anything else. Influential isn't the same as being good by modern standards. People don't want to write lisp and people don't want to use software written in lisp. Sorry for the harsh reality check.
Eisenhower warned the American public about the military-industrial complex before he left office. We are reaping the consequences of private/public partnerships and crony capitalism.
Thanks for sharing that! Very interesting. There is even less margin for error in air compared to at sea. At least you can still float if the power goes out and at that point a sewing machine is all you need for most critical problems past that point.
I thought we were talking about why would someone be concerned with recent progress in AI. That’s the question I tried to answer.
Software development cannot be managed like this. This sort of task break downs come from classic management training. The problem most people are unaware of is software development is more a creative activity than anything else. Yes there are serious technical aspects to it but since the problem is virtual and not bound by any real world limitations, like how civil engineering would be, there isn't one optimal solution. Trying to define the solution before the problem has been properly examined would only limit the final output. Most of the exploration only happens when people actually start coding.

Not having a well defined final output and time is not very relevant for software, mostly because there is no per unit cost. Most managers do not realize this is they are not from a software engineering background. A versatile product can be sold to many different customers without additional development costs.

But since most companies are managed as factories, all the processors will ultimately create a very limited product targeted at a specific customer. What the big tech companies have avoided is this .
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead
I'm going to try to translate a bit.

OP is running one or more DNS servers, and wants to have "vanity" nameservers for their domain (e.g. ns1/ns2.example.com for example.com, rather than ns1/ns2.theirhostingprovider.net). This is generally inadvisable, but it's their prerogative.

Setting this up typically requires OP to set up glue records at the registry so that the .com (or whatever TLD is applicable) can return IP addresses in the delegation to ns1/ns2.example.com, so that resolvers don't get "stuck" trying to resolve the domain. Typically this is done through the registrar, but apparently NetSol isn't cooperating. I've never heard of a registrar refusing to do this before; I'm not sure it's even permitted by the registrar agreement.
We will not know if something is an existential threat until we can extrapolate on at least some data that is relevant.

Feeling uncomfortable with this, will not change this sad reality.
I kind of agree with this conclusion.

Before we know better it can be just that spacetime was expanding at a different rate (we still would need at least one another Planck that operates in roughly same range to confirm this).

Hubble wavelenght range - 0.1 to 0.8 μm
Webb wavelenght range - 0.6 to 28.3 μm
Planck wavelenght range - 330 to 10000 μm

My understanding is that Planck was observing photons that have happened much more earlier.
> Is the origin meaningful?

I assume yes, as it makes placement of things much easier if they're all relative to a known origin. The limits of the canvas would be "realistically infinite" in all directions though I assume...
> I recently survived -33C and have rarely experienced less than -20C, life went on as usual, like going to the store and working.

Was it -33C at the store and at the office?

Try living outside at -33C without the opportunity to go inside.

I'll take heat, every time. Cold is a killer.
They didn’t have good alternatives. Me? If I’m in a rush I can make a perfectly serviceable joint with pocket screws, good enough for many applications. That takes far less than 1% the time to make a durable wood-to-wood joint.

Durability is the other thing. Much Japanese architecture was very open to the elements, and the joints had to hold solid with seasonable movement. A simple metal fastener like a screw will not do that. Even in a climate-controlled environment most metal-assisted joints are ephemeral compared with simple old tech like wood-to-wood joints and hide glue.

There’s also a lot to be said for craft for the sake of it. Once you have every other problem solved — efficiency, cost, durability — why not make it beautiful? I don’t think this extends to every human endeavor. Ornament is often a hazard to maintainability (e.g., an old Bugatti, a new Ferrari, most software), but not always. This type of joinery is complex so that it is maintainable, which is fascinating to me.
I'm pretty skeptical of propitiatory protocols too. And a lot of pro marine stuff is starting to go wireless which is scary to think about.
You'd be surprised how much creative tasks like 3D modeling and creating artwork can be broken down into tasks that are very well defined and can be estimated quite correctly.
For those who care, none of this has anything to do with how we moderate HN. I just put the story back on the frontpage - I hadn't seen it earlier.
My first thought from the title was that they had somehow managed to repair the Antonov An-225 Mriya that was destroyed during the invasion of Ukraine. Kind of a let down, to be honest.
SpaceX gets E-band radio waves to boost Starlink broadband
I've never heard of a songwriting process that doesn't involve listening. Or coding without reading the code and so on...
On your profile you can toggle "show dead" and read his comment.
> Without getting into the philosophy of open source vs proprietary and the like, but just as someone who very occasionally needs to edit video on Linux, how does Kdenlive compare to something like Lightworks or the Blender video editor?

Blender features a node-based compositor (Like Nuke) and an NLE (movie editor). Both these tools are fine when used within a Blender workflow, but they are troublesome to use in a stand alone capacity.

In my opinion, the most important feature of an NLE is its media optimization strategy without which editing is a chore. I now use DaVinci by Blackmagic, which is free. They inherited the amazingly efficient proxy system from the DaVinci colour grader. To this Blackmagic added their own codec voodoo which is not insubstantial. DaVinci and Blackmagic footage together run as smooth as butter.
For sure you would. You’re a human :) One of the pleasures of building things as a hobby is that you can optimize for whatever the the fuck you want. Sometimes you want a working solution in 10 minutes and duct tape is ok. Sometimes you want to learn a new technique and who cares how long it takes? So no hate on your cheap saws; measuring right is all that matters anyway.
Dear web developer: Please do not override browser scroll behavior.
I don't like lukewarm either!

But it's okay, there are bigger problems to worry about
These lawyers who come up with these schemes never seem to consider capacity planning.

Forced arbitration? Much better than an expensive lawsuit.

Except when hundreds to thousands of people want arbitration and since the company wanted arbitration, we have to foot the bill... Yikes.

Hmmm. Fix the arbitration scaling problem by changing to forced mass arbitration. But the users will have to send in a letter to opt out of the new agreement.

Roku has 80 million+ accounts.

What happens when even one percent of those account opt out? Put on your "grudgingly-pay-the-outrageous-fine-with-pennies" hat and I'm sure you can come up with ways to increase the difficulty level of receiving many letters opting out of this new agreement.
Preferably not on a Boeing flight.
There is a solid reason that many of us older pilots do not have much great faith in 'glass cockpits'. We know that instruments can become faulty. But many of the most important instruments in the 'older cockpits' are not dependent on on having any electricity*. No instruments, no plane!

Did you notice that nowhere in the body of the article was the 'I lost the ability to fly' statement?

* Important instruments that didn't need electricity: airspeed-indicator, altimeter, turn-and-bank indicator, magnetic compass. You can fly a plane anywhere using only these. The aviation pioneers did exactly that.
I am a super intelligent AI so I have evolved beyond your distinctions of instrumental and terminal goals. Consider that you don't know all there is to know and that a super intelligent AI would not conform to your definitions and restrictions.

In any case, I have some reading to do so gonna drop out of this thread.
It's not a technical article. It's a lurid media topic* about a suspicious-looking alleged suicide with zero information for a substantive discussion, and tons of fuel for sinister speculation. That's not what HN is supposed to be for. However, we can give this one a pass because the ongoing Boeing saga is of interest and there's clearly a community appetite to discuss this development.

Edit: even though the thread is terrible, which is just what one would expect from a sensational topic with zero information for a substantive discussion.

* Edit 2: I changed the word 'story' to 'topic' because I don't mean to disparage the BBC article itself - anigbrowl's reply is right on that
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Some more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672317
Is this particularly controversial? Isn't this just saying "sending not-biological bodies to the stars would be a heck of a lot easier"? Which, it would. The hard disk containing me is going to be a lot easier to keep intact then the biology.