skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need more solid examples.

> Arrest and extradition at America's demand.

Was he extradited? The article you linked to suggests not.

> Anne Sacoolas kills someone in the UK by negligent driving? No extradition.
This article says: "Sacoolas admitted causing death by careless driving, which carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment. Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Sacoolas' actions were "not far short of deliberately dangerous driving," but she reduced the penalty because of Sacoolas' guilty plea and previous good character."

Which seems to suggest you should blame a UK judge for letting Sacoolas go free, no?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-dunn-uk-anne-sacoolas-sus...
Lowest common denominator to solve all these problems is either

1. Invent super cheap and scalable energy solution. Like Fusion. We could pretty much do whatever climate solution we want.

2. MMT to achieve (1) and a combination of one of:

a). Viable Climate solutions which are currently "costly" and if necessary UBI so labour and time could be freed up to implement those solutions.

b). Massively subsidize nationalized AI industry to crash the cost of implementation of said climate solutions.
This is great, thanks for sharing. Yeah the little imperfections work really well, it's the most humanlike computer voice I've heard so far.
#1 is a pipe dream. Oauth2 token TTL expiration alone will limit infiltration :-)
Please. No one is ignoring this problem.

In fact, a tremendous amount of money is being invested right now to reduce/control hallucinations.

It's an active area of research. Everyone with money is trying to solve the problem!
The Volvo VNL, a heavy truck purpose-designed for North American roads
As a memory researcher, I agree.
Please explain the motivation and logistics behind your diabolical supervillain scheme that involves deploying a fleet of robotaxis to disrupt the traffic light cycles across the city and reduce the efficiency gain of a few junctions versus an optimized light cycle by a little over 60%, and then perhaps I will understand why you think the government should spend a single cent mitigating that threat.
They have a video where they have an eInk display show video at 60 Hz. In contrast to a previous video, where the display was running at 2.4 Hz and the video then sped up by 10x, this is not sped up. What kind of black magic is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduK7wn9SE4
Even better use esp long range and have a receiver device outside maybe powered via solar… connected to cell network… this way no additional networks exposed internally…
I agree with you, but I'm afraid the ship has sailed... People think "hallucinations are things that don't actually exist" and "this stuff LLM says doesn't exist, therefore it hallucinates".
It's a classic problem - there are some people who know exactly what they are talking about and you should trust them, and there are some people who just sound like they know what they're talking about and you should absolutely NOT trust them.
I don't know other, But there are more and more extreme weather situation in my city recent years.
You won’t. That’s why Poe’s law is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Fear of AGI is not based on Altman’s latest brews. Look at the progress curve of AI in general is one way to get a feeling for it. The other one, which I prefer, is looking at existing AIs for which we thought human ingenuity was top notch and how they are beating us left and right. Strategy, creativity, cunning, all human notions that are being slaughtered. Slowly, but surely.

It is “just” a matter of combining. I think it’s an “engineering problem” by now. Which is not to say that it will happen soon, just that if we set our minds to it it won’t be that big of a deal.
River: Robust high-performance job processing system for Go and Postgres
> By default, many modern SSDs, including the one in this laptop, report a smaller sector size than their optimal one. This is done for compatibility with Windows XP and older systems…

I had never heard of this. Of course, checking on my new NVME SSD I also get the suboptimal 512 bytes. I won't do a reinstall for this, but I wonder how large the performance impact actually is?
I am not sure who do you mean by usurpers.
Here is the colonisers association, tasked with creating colonies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Colonisation_Associat...

The colony in Palestine took off, due to the British preference of solidifying european control over Ottoman region, and the convenient façade of the historical claim.

People lived there before this are descendents of those who lived there in the past. Many stayed even after the expulsion by Romans, many returned. Some, obviously would have changed their faith, but none of that gives the European descendents any more right over it. We can all colonise Ethiopia if we were to go on like this.
No. From my experience, many people think that AI is an infallible assistant, and even some are saying that we should replace any and all tools with LLMs, and be done with it.
Hope we found a lot of these type of things. 7 years is a big win.
Agreed, calling an LLM "AI" is just silly and technically makes no sense, they are text generators based on text context.
> “We think they are caused by a dramatic collapse of the North American ice sheet. This sets into motion a chain reaction that involves changes to the tropical monsoons, the Southern hemisphere westerly winds and these large burps of CO2 coming out of the oceans.”

Right. CO2 lags temperature increase, it does not drive temperature increase. Unless 'ice sheet collapse' is driven by something other than an increase in temperature (which would be nonsensical to suggest).
Stands for "omni", since it is multimodal. Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/gpt-4o-is-openais-excit...
Solicitor general to appeal ... climate activist who held sign on jurors' rights
This is a weird article. It points out that yes, the server OS itself needs a partition sure - but if the author is using Alpine because as they say it’s so small, why bother with unreliable and potentially catastrophic USB boot? To save a few megabytes of disk space? Crazy.
Exactly, this is kinda the Innovator's Dilemma in action. Apple's focus on services and control is hurting end-user innovation and choice. They need to unwall their garden and empower users to spark the next big thing. I think more end-user malleable software, local first approaches would help, and the cost points you mention too, especially.
>> This interface has now been set in stone. Any additions that would be useful for the widget interface, say OnClick(), will require a breaking change.

> The idiomatic way to deal with this is to add a new interface with the extensions.

I also found that particular criticism weird in the GP, considering that the paper itself, with the widget example cited by the GP, performs the `extend` on an interface to add to existing interfaces without breaking existing code.

IOW, it uses the widget example, quoted by GP, to demonstrate how to add to an interface without breaking changes.
#1 is marketing hype

#2 is warmongering

#3 will be solved while trying to reach #1
40 years is not a "really long time" when talking about how long a system of government should survive.

It's well under a lifetime, and is around the number of years people in the US expect to work before retirement.

Taking just the GDR for example, statistically anyone who was born around the years of its founding went on to outlive that government by another 20-25 years.

You can't really call a government stable if basically everyone born into it is expected to outlive it.

https://database.earth/population/germany/life-expectancy#:~....

And independently of the question of whether or not 40 years is a "long time", the fact also remains that Warsaw Pact Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia had large scale uprisings in the 1950s and 1960s which were violently put down by the Soviet military.

Ergo, the East Bloc was not a stable system.
Well, does humans also have similar memory hallucination?
You can probably safely ignore those people's opinions moving forward.
When I hear Gary Marcus or others talking about this, my first thought is either they don’t understand how LLMs work, which in Gary’s case, I doubt, or they are being disingenuous. Every answer an LLM provides is a hallucination since it is just a probabilistic engine and doesn’t have an understanding of what is true or false.
Underrated comment :-)
If Americans emitted the same per capita rate as China, they would have a lower standard of living. This shouldn't be the argument anyway. The focus should be on cleaner and more efficient technologies, which includes nuclear.
If you or I don’t see the potential here, I think that just means someone more creative is going to do amazing things with it
YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong
Vs Code with the default Elixir plugin is pretty solid. Not wonderful but you get all you need, including the debugger.
Yep, that's exactly my experience. Try asking any GPT to tell you exactly what all of the points are on the gender spectrum, and then ask it how the gender spectrum has any scientific validity if they can't define its contents.
We were taught as part of our CS curriculum that "often, the refusal to assign a dollar value to a human life results in it being terribly undervalued."
What's the warning at the start all about? Aren't they violating their own terms by serving it publicly on the internet?

> THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.
The AI we have today has very little to do with writing prompts, you still need to understand, correct, glue and edit the results and that is most of the work so you still need skilled professionals.
Observing the realm of politics should be enough to disabuse anyone of the notion that people generally assign any value at all to truthfulness.

People will clamor for LLMs that tell them what they want to hear, and companies will happily oblige. The post-truth society is about to shift into overdrive.
Exactly. And it’s not even a new phenomenon, we know our algorithms are biased.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predicti...
didn't know this. can you explain or link a few articles?
4x dead $4000 machines in 2 years and then they leaked my personal details and downplayed it. They can get fucked.
Found a way to make YouTube fun
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KickassTorrents#Arrest_of_the_...

He tried to get his case dismissed on the basis that he wasn't in the US, and that motion was dismissed by a judge[1]. The reasoning given was that even though he was situated in Ukraine, he was doing crimes in the US by abetting Americans in copyright infringement. This seems somewhat reasonable to me. If a Ukrainian was hacking American computer networks from Ukraine, should he also be immune from US prosecution?

[1] https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-vaulin
Respectfully disagree on the elegance. This looks pretty neat to me:

type Hash = Branded<string, "Hash">;
I see where you are coming from but you are not quite understanding what the OP was saying

class A {
public value: number
}
class B {
public value: number
}
const x: A = new B() // no error

This is structural typing (shape defines type), if typescript had nominal typing (name defines type) this would give an error. You could brand these classes to forcefully cause this to error.

Branding makes structural typing work like nominal typing for the branded type only.

It is more like "doing what this article describes" is the default behaviour of most languages (most languages use nominal typing).
The only mass market ai application for the end user is probably deep fakes.
I'm always telling my developers to stop talking to the customer about technical details.

Do you think carpenters talk to their customers about types of nails and dimensional lumber? Or they talk curves, size, and color?
Clearly an impulsive decision by Musk.
> It can’t consistently figure out the simplest tasks, and yet, it’s being foisted upon us with the expectation that we celebrate the incredible mediocrity of the services these AIs provide.

This is exactly how I feel about AI in it's current state. Maybe I just don't get it, but it just seems like a novelty to me right now. Like when Wolfram Alpha came out and I played around with it a few times. Copilot did help me write a one-liner with awk a few months ago so that was cool I guess.
We all work in complex systems and see first hand how fragile and error prone they are. Yet you think the risk of nuclear war is low even though the programs rely on similar types of systems?
IMO their next big leap will be to get it cheap enough and integrated with enough real time sources to become the default search engine.

You can really flip the entire ad supported industry upside down if you integrate with a bunch of publishers and offer them a deal where they are paid every time an article from their website is returned. If they make this good enough people will pay $15-20 a month for no ads in a search engine.
I see fewer discussions of it. I've mostly given up getting involved in any. There's nothing much new to say, and people's views rarely change.

I'm firmly in the camp that considers calling it "hallucination" or "getting things wrong" category errors that wrongly imply it gets anything right, and have seen nothing that remotely inclines me to revise that opinion. I recognise it as an opinion, though. It can't be proven until we have an understanding of what "understanding" is that is sufficiently concrete to be able to demonstrate that LLMs do not possess it. Likewise the view that human minds are the same kind of things as LLMs cannot be disproven until we have a sufficient understanding of how human minds work (which we most certainly do not), however obviously wrong it may seem to me.

Meanwhile, as that discussion fizzles out, the commercial development of these products continues apace, so we're going to find out empirically what a world filled with them will mean, whether I think that's wise or not.
Yes, I'm not sure what to make of that wording either. Based on my quick read of the article, it should probably just be "rise". Presumably it is knowable from isotope analysis if carbon added to the atmosphere is recent or fossil. We certainly know that we are adding fossil carbon to the atmosphere at a prodigious rate, and if "natural" carbon content is rising as well, then that is quite bad news because it would likely mean we had crossed some tipping point or other where the Earth system itself has begun contributing to carbon emissions.
If you stop looking at the internet it immediately becomes clear nothing is happening.

Apocalyptic thinking is not the mark of a healthy mind.
Meanwhile, on LLM hype threads, people are already thinking about AGI, when we haven't even cracked basic intelligence.
Yeah, but how else will you get the new iPhone with 27 cameras that can make you prettier than you actually are?
As a developer (just $1,000 MRR from App Store) - I don't care about 30% fee (actually 15% in my case because of Small Business Program). The only other developers that are mad are other large corporations, that are also fighting for profit.

For me, as an indie developer - I love that Apple takes care of many things for me on the App Store side. I am ok with sharing my revenue with them. I hate the App Store for other reasons, but not the 15-30% share.

Apple became too big. Other companies will sue them for one reason or another. Whatever they do - other companies will sue them.
"accelerating on par with a 22-caliber bullet"

I suspect they don't literally mean to compare acceleration rates?

Googling provides all sorts of additional likely misreporting: same speed, same power, same energy.
Ask HN: How is generated media being stored?
Every time I see generated images on a web forum (discord/twitter/reddit etc) i ask myself how the growth of this data is being handled by all these servers.

The amount of data must have increased way beyond any regular metrics based predictions (suddenly exponential?). Or are we equally good at producing storage devices at the same rate and its not a problem at all in an foreseeable future?
Instead I keep this list updated: https://notes.bayindirh.io/notes/Lists/Discussions+about+Art...
Didn't Google fire the team of Flutter? How come there is a new version?
I'm patiently waiting for my sysadmin job to be automated away. AGI, its time to deliver! I'm waiting. Should have happened yesterday?
Can you recall what it was?
I hadn't heard of Virtual Boy until I stumbled on the virtual Virtual Boy game inside the game Jazzpunk.
Who is this "we". While I see it here, I'm not seeing it talked about as much in other areas.
> There are a couple of good file system options, but I chose btrfs for a couple of reasons. Subvolumes work in practice, like more convenient partitions, snapshots are incredibly useful for backups (more on that later) and compression can save quite a bit of space on the not-so-big included SSD, which also reduces wear.

I am also running btrfs (as the default disk partitioning on Fedora 40). I used to do regular snapshots with snapper on my laptop but at some point ~20% of my SSD were reserved for metadata. From that only 10% was used (so 2% overall) without any apparent possibility to reduce the reserved space.

These days, I do snapshots only on my homeserver (which is running syncthing) but not on my laptop.
It’s time to stop pretending we aren’t going to do geoengineering and get serious about making it happen.
Great points, thank you very much!
Especially the pre-paired ones. I’m wary of older Logitech Unified dongles, but the newer Bolt platform offers a bit more comfort.
Url:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/15/trudi-wa...

If you are thinking surely the courts have better things to do with their time, you'd be correct:

"Statistics released today demonstrate the lack of progress made in tackling the huge criminal court backlogs, says the Law Society of England and Wales.

“It is extremely worrying to see the huge backlogs in our criminal courts continue to rise, which is leading to unacceptable delays for victims, witnesses and defendants,” said Law Society president Nick Emmerson.

“The number of outstanding cases in the magistrates’ courts is almost 30,000 higher than it was a year ago.

“While the Crown Court backlog has reduced slightly month-on-month to 65,077, it is still more than 3,500 higher than last year and far above the UK government’s target of reducing it to 53,000 by March 2025.

“Decades of cuts and underinvestment in our criminal justice system has led us to this crisis where there aren’t enough judges, lawyers and court staff to deal with the huge volume of work."

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-visit-us/press-offi...
Climate related deaths are at an all time low...[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1634509546067574790
The linked GitHub is a mirror of the original Gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider
That looks very cool! One piece of feedback if I may: I tried the section for “similar triangles” and I got through a few questions (love the content), but then it ends like this:

> So, the two quadrilaterals are not similar. Similarly, you may note that in the two quadrilaterals (a square and a rhombus) of Fig, corresponding sides are in the same ratio, but their corresponding angles are not equal. Again, the two polygons (quadrilaterals) are not similar.

With no button to move forward, and no obvious conclusion text. At the bottom it says “1 of 3”. I’m not sure of there should have been some button letting me continue or if I’m supposed to press the menu button and just go to a different section because I’m done.

Hope this feedback is useful. The site looks great otherwise, and explained very clearly!
Everyone should aspire to a higher standard of living. It just needs to become decarbonized. Degrowth is not a realistic solution for either the developing or developed world. It makes no economic or political sense.
https://pessimistsarchive.org/
Alice Economic Viability Dashboard
Journalists gotta stop ignoring that experts in industry are working day and night to improve deficiencies in new world-changing technology.
The problem is that Canada is basically a european country on the american continent - SV is possible in a place where you can have risk and reward. But also you might lose everything. In Canada, it is hard to become rich - so no worth trying, there is also less risk due to better social security and the base level is pretty decent. Would not be surprised if there are tons of regulations in Canada too (more than in USA).

There is a reason why there are not many startups in Europe - if you can have a decent life, secure job and a nice social security - no worth playing risky games. I would not be surprised if just sheer layoffs in USA led to more startups than in the whole Europe.
>There's no fundamental qualitative difference here...degree either.

I've heard the same comparisons made with self-driving cars (i.e. that humans are fallible, and maybe even more error-prone).

But this misses the point. People trust the fallibility they know. That is, we largely understand human failure modes (errors in judgement, lapses in attention, etc) and feel like we are in control of them (and we are).

OTOH, when machines make mistakes, they are experienced as unpredictable and outside of our control. Additionally, our expectation of machines is that they are deterministic and not subject to mistakes. While we know bugs can exist, it's not the expectation. And, with the current generation of AI in particular, we are dealing with models that are generally probabilistic, which means there's not even the expectation that they are errorless.

And, I don't believe it's reasonable to expect people to give up control to AI of this quality, particularly in matters of safety or life and death; really anything that matters.

TLDR; Most people don't want to gamble their lives on a statistic, when the alternative is maintaining control.
It’s an interesting article and I recommend reading it (it’s very short). However, it was disappointing to not have the slow motion video discussed in the article included. I followed a few links and found it:

Paper: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/9/jeb247063/...

Video: https://movie.biologists.com/video/10.1242/jeb.247063/video-...
From what I understand, you get all of OTP as it is now – You only use the experimental Gleam packages if you want types. So you should be able to use them right out of the box, with the same level of guarantees (or lack of) that you get in Ex/Erlang.
Still, I have not yet found a compelling reason to switch over – or at least try – Gleam.
Pop and swap the keycaps
The 100-Year Quest to Make a Paper Bottle
And climate change is now making many more people wealthy than AGI has and potentially ever will.

Reverse Carbon Sequestration employs a very large population.
True, although "Opaque" was deprecated and replaced with similar type "Tagged" (that supports multiple tags and metadata).
Read the next 2 paras. It's SOP for for listings in the UK under the FSMA.