skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect most Americas have seen someone with 100+ million dollars in assets at some point in their life. How many people have gone to a Miley Cyrus concert or professional sports etc?

The indirect impact is even more profound, consider all the propaganda pushed by billionaires buying media etc.
My honest-to-god guess is that it just seemed like a needless cost center in a growing business, so there was pressure against them doing the work they wanted to do.

I'm guessing, but OpenAI probably wants to start monetizing, and doesn't feel like they are going to hit a superintelligence, not really. That may have been the goal originally.
I can't watch a video at work but I have seen this argument before.

I just find it fundamentally hard to believe that having more data is a bad thing. What we choose to do with that data is a different story, and the actual source of these bad outcomes.
But it does say that some sort of text processing AI system is being used right now to decide who to kill, it is therefore quite hard to argue that LLMs specifically could never be used for it.

It is rather implausible to say that an LLM will never be used for this application, because in the current hype environment the only reason the LLM is not deployed to production is that someone actually tried to use it first.
Say I have intelligence x and a superintelligence is 10x, then I get stuck at local minima that the 10x is able to get out of. To me, the local minima looked "good", so if I see the 10x get out of my "good" then most likely I'm looking at something that appears to me to be "evil" even if that is just my limited perspective.

It's one hell of a problem.
Do you really think that China would not have industrialised if not for Western companies? Nothing about China's history shows that that's remotely true.

In fact, outsourcing was only possible because of the various industrial plans that China had put in place in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, all of which prioritised building equivalent capacity to what existed in the West and the USSR.

Moreover, China was destroying its environment in the 1950s already, long before it even allowed real trade with the West.

Let's treat countries as responsible actors in their own right, not as mere non-independent reactors to Western actions.
There's really no saying whether it actually worked for good or not. Nicotine consumption has gone through several phases of boom and bust in the course of it's history (the book The Soverane Herbe is an interesting if very dated account of some of the history).
My favorite part of Workday applications is the fixed list for “field of study”, which doesn’t include my field of study or an “other” option. Or maybe its the “autofill from resume” which always, always fails in different unexpected ways. Or maybe its requiring me to manually enter my name and the current date >3 times.
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> This would just be a flat rejection to any engine modifications at all. I suspect they would still be just as reliable and no more exotic than any other engine.

Not a flat rejection to any engine modifications, but an acknowledgement that meaningful and maintainable engine modifications have already been implemented.

I'll say it again: performance and efficiency have to be balanced against cost, a large part of which is maintenance. There's nothing like simple capitalistic profit math calculations in a business setting to separate what really works from imagination, pointing to the intersection of gains vs cost. The operators have done the math, they have been ready for anything that moves the needle significantly to better profit for quite a while, but apparently it will take something more than upgrading the truck.
To operate this tool, you still need to disassemble the ROM up front and annotate it heavily before it can be recompiled. This tool is very nice, to be sure, but the hyperbole about anything close to one-click generation of standalone executables for an arbitrary ROM is getting out of hand.
The guy provided his ransomware as a service. The malware was probably spread by westerners. So he's not the one who shut down a hospital.
Google does link to the websites which contribute to the summary they provide.
I'm having a hard time figuring out what the connection is supposed to be between having a big profit and laying off employees.

My first thought is that the writer is suggesting that companies should only lay off employees when the employees 1) are financial drains and 2) are such bad financial drains that the company would otherwise go broke. A lot of people do think that way, but it doesn't actually make any sense.
Google Lens already works fine for plant identification.
There are always people willing to risk jail time for a high-enough payoff. They're called career criminals and the role would attract them in droves.

The only way honest people would take it is if they outranked the CEO on safety matters.
Just use Proxmox, it's fantastic for many vMware use-cases.
this is an evil take but i think emojis are massively, massively underrated for use in signaling information (and massively overused in git readmes)

A grimacing emoji when a process is thrashing, a fire emoji when it's eating CPU, a sweating smile emoji when the process is running longer than expected, etc etc etc.

It sounds dystopian in a way but also useful - neat seeing them used here!
Reads like beginnings of a good dystopian movie script
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Ironically I often post the exact same sentiment that you are sharing. But you are conflating two different things.

AGI doesn't require consciousness. We likely will have no idea whether or not the first AGI computer is conscious or not. What we will know though, is that it is solving novel problems that humans struggle with, and from the outside the only way to discern it isn't another human is because it is way to smart to be one.

I strongly suspect that the first computers which actually are conscious (AGI or not), whenever that happens, will have to fight a heavy uphill battle to prove it. And there will always be a group of people who will never believe an AI (is it even artificial at that point?) is conscious.
"At least you're not dead yet,"

Right, not yet anyway. But one thing's pretty certain I won't be a household name 233 after I'm dead. ;-)

A great aspect about famous composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. is that they still remain household names several centuries after their deaths because their compositions bring immediate pleasure to us whenever we hear them.

Now, that's a lovely way to be remembered.
"Ability to solve novel problems" does not mean ability to solve all problems, nor to have all the knowledge in the world. A caveman can be as intelligent as you and I, even without being able to read.

Not having knowledge in mathematics has no impact on your intelligence quotient.
Oh, no. e-Bikes and the like have already made many bike lanes unfriendly and occasionally dangerous for bicycles. I hope this sort of thing doesn't make bike lanes basically unusable as bike lanes.
What Clients See on UpWork
Not FTP, just a web server with directory listing enabled.

edit: downvotes? That's literally the situation here, look at the friggen URL.
I predate DARE. In 1980 we got a cool early 1970s film that was suprisingly neutral and only focused on Cannabis.
This is one major advantage to Apple sharing a foundation across all their devices. Vision Pro introduced eye tracking to their systems as a new input modality, and now it trickles down to their other platforms.

I am surprised CarPlay didn’t have voice control before this though.
Yes.

https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1726599944029753750
Many people are not. These trivia-style questions _used to_ be given to both assess problem-solving skills and identify people who were capable of doing the actual CS needed to solve the core problems these companies were dealing with. These days, these problems are mostly gate keeping IMO.
We're still in the same AI hype as 10 years ago. You just stopped noticing for a while. It really hasn't stopped since AlexNet back in 2012.

Personally, since I first started to learn about Neural Nets in the 90's, I've always predicted that they would bring AGI around the time they matched human brains in complexity and compute power. Back then, assuming Moore's law meant that would be between 2030-40.

Now, there was always the prospect of a serious breakdown of Moore's Law, which might delay it, but since that didn't happen (compute power just moved from CPU's to GPU's), we're now approaching the final stretch. Human brain scale neural nets are already being planned, if not already being built in secret.
Probably you've seen already, but Kobo is now experimenting with colour screens, plus note taking. People on the internet seem enthusiastic about the colour screens at least.

So maybe zines and comics is where ebook readers are heading.
Makes me wonder if that 20% compute commitment to superalignment research was walked back (or redesigned so as to be distant from the original mission). Or, perhaps the two deemed that even more commitment was necessary, and were dissatisfied with Altman's response.

Either way, if it's enough to cause them both to think it's better to research outside of the opportunities and access to data that OpenAI provides, I don't see a scenario where this doesn't indicate a significant shift in OpenAI's commitment to superalignment research and safety. One hopes that, at the very least, Microsoft's interests in brand integrity incentivize at least some modicum of continued commitment to safety research.
I don't mind flying an older version of 737, though. :-)
Because it's MSVC++. VLA is not a C++ feature.
I was more referencing the name and origin intentions than the non-profit status :)
Not sure how well that can scale. You'd have to provide more energy per square meter of land than the sun does, it seems?
Ahaha, luckily /s I am a bit of a weirdo and I like to delve deeper into things related to my job.

I was taught that a deeper understanding leads to better software/solutions and I strive to live up to my mentor dedication :)
> The time saved is hard to even measure. It's big.

You are aware that this is an obvious contradiction, right? Big times savings are not hard to measure.
> the question is if you'll accept a WHF employer that practices it, or if you'll instead work for one that doesn't.

* Provided you trust the one that claims they do.

The original question doesn't need an asterisk so it may be perceived negatively. My point is that you may never know even if there's a law for it, unless you actually hear companies getting busted left and right, there's a fair chance that it is happening in your blind spot. If everything is going smooth, you may want to decide on your answer to that question.
Is that a thing? Can you go stand in a mall and spend an afternoon getting people to test it?
I don't think that's true, it really does recompile the N64 games into native executables, you can compile them using any C compiler like msvc, gcc and clang.
My daughter berated me for using AI (the sentiment among youth is pretty negative, and it is easy to understand why), but I simply responded, "if I don't my peers still will, then we'll be living on the street." And it's true, I've 10x'd my real productivity as a scientist (for example, using llms to help me code one off scripts for data munging, automating our new preprocessing pipelines, etc, quickly generating bullet points for slides).

The trick though is learning how to prompt, and developing the sense that the LLM is stuck with the current prompt and needs another perspective. Funnily enough, the least amount of luck I've had is getting the LLM to write precisely enough for science (yay I still have a job), even without the confabulation, the nuance is lacking...that it's almost always faster for me to write it myself.
Project Gameface: control mouse cursor using head movement and facial gestures
Isn't it kind of a matter of business integrity when the advantages of being a stakeholder are adjusted in response to differing overall prosperity conditions?
Looks nice, but no, I was thinking more like bent into a handle.
Morbidly curious what would actually happen in this scenario.
Boeing kills people, but it is OK since they have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders. This is just capitalism.

If you are not in favor of this, pick different products. You must learn to kneel to the overlords.
This filing makes no mention of it and appears to state quite the opposite.

> Raspberry Pi has a strong track record of revenue growth and profitability. For the year ended 31 December 2023, revenues were $265.8 million, with gross profit of $66.0 million, and operating profit of $37.5 million, as well as adjusted EBITDA of $43.5 million.

The filing goes on to provide various forward looking statements regarding growth and profitability. I find no mention of the original mission.
You're defending "Terrorism as a Service"
10% fuel savings only matters if you never have to think about maintenance costs. Same with the replacement cost for tires, although to me the tire efficiency is a bigger multiplier since they aren't replaced as often as the fuel tanks are topped off.
OK then. Your turn. Show me some humans that in the past four years have made new styles that you honestly cannot find references for in the same way.
DARE to resist drugs.

I don't do dares. (joke)
Tl;dr summary; the author spent some time investigating, found little except that the company used Google Cloud VMWare Envgine, and doubts that there was a bug on Google's side.
Exactly this. The idea of "not escalating" means we are always responding to Russia's latest escalation, so are perpetually a step behind. No risk to Russia and no way to win a war.

And, falling for the gambit that Putin was a madman who would readily use nukes even if it meant mutually assured destruction was dumb from the start. If he was an irrational madman, so ready to destroy the world, then he could have done that from the start.

He can't be this crafty authoritarian, executing on a set of well-understood geopolitical strategic goals AND an irrational madman who doesn't care whether the world exists at all. You have to pick one.
Surely there's a book on this? Maybe we shouldn't let the AI read it...
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Thank you very much. I will think of a way to improve the shading while keeping the basic principle and simplicity. Thanks for the other ideas; it is still in progress. I added pasting the calendar from Apple Calendar yesterday.
Right, one's just another paid-up member of the passing parade.
AGI has nothing to do with consciousness, unless consciousness is for some reason required to attain it (which doesn't seem like it's the case).

AGI simply means that we can create a type of machine that can do any kind of mental task that a human can, at least at a human level.
> but no one is going to go by a new iPad pro because it's 0.5mm thinner and 20g lighter

You're right, but these aren't products designed in isolation—the engineering required to make devices thinner and lighter is used in both iPhones and iPads... and then can be utilized in new products like the Apple Vision, where it is currently too large and too heavy.
Ummm, America? I do not need any paperwork to walk wherever I want to, most of Europe is that way too. I’ve crossed borders on foot a couple times in Europe. It’s not a big deal. In my old life I flew over a lot of borders - you cannot see the line usually from the air. Stressing about imaginary lines is unbelievably silly.

Look, humans are by our very nature nomadic, we traditionally used to have a “seasonal round” where we lived in multiple places in a given year to have more access to better food/water sources etc. Being able to travel where you like is a fundamental part of being human, borders restricting that are what’s weird, not the other way around. Restrictions on travel are a relatively new phenomenon. The difference is it was just physically harder to get places 1000 years ago, and that formed its own sort of barrier.

Someone else said that you used to not need ID to even fly before TWA800, I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that you could walk up to the gate when I was a kid. And why should you need an ID? Tracking every movement of every person doesn’t grant any sort of security to anyone.
That's distinguishing the String class from primitive string. I don't think that would still work with another `extends String` the same shape as Hash.

For example: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABO...

class Animal {
isJaguar: boolean = false;
}

class Automobile {
isJaguar: boolean = false;
}

function engineSound(car: Automobile) {
return car.isJaguar ? "vroom" : "put put";
}

console.log(engineSound(42)); // TypeScript complains
console.log(engineSound(new Animal())); // TypeScript does not complain
> I'm in agreement with the author: without more detail or pushback from the Google Cloud leaders, this is a really bad look for future customers.

That's exactly the opposite of what he said:

> [...] putting out a competing statement blaming or contradicting your customer is a bad look with that customer and with all future customers.
The Beginning of the End of Private Cars in American Cities
Apple Announces iOS 18 Accessibility Features, Including Eye Tracking
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Wings of Death Edition
I agree. Not everything has to be a conspiracy. Microsoft looked at a $10m+/year cost center, and deemed it unnecessary (which it arguably was), and snipped it.
> .. though I do wonder if the tests will be good enough ..

Sure .. but ..

a) knowing that cancer is there, but you may get hit by a bus before it kills you, can still inform some medical care decisions

b) the 12 authors of that paper have probably put a bit of thought into the usefulness and efficacy of this kind of very early detection, and concluded it was worth reporting on their research
I'd like to just respond to the caption on the first image.

It's me. I'd wear that shirt with a cat samurai on it.
Run an email server, send triggers on subject keywords, automate stuff.
It's true that some of the commentary is specific to the full body MRI itself (such as misdiagnosis due to an imaging artifact), however many of the claims in the video are very general. And the scientific study they referenced at 6:30 has nothing to do with fully body MRIs. The study is in regards to thyroid cancer overdiagnosis due to screening (using ultrasound and not MRI). This is clearly a statement regarding the effectiveness of screening. And, yes, it is specific to the cancer.

I'm not saying anything that the studies aren't saying. For some kinds of cancers and for some kinds of screening methods, screening can result in overdiagnosis.
> One night on the phone, I asked if she had any fantasies, and she immediately told me about how often she thought about being pregnant and doing everyday things- going to school, cleaning, going shopping, going to the doctor, etc.

Unfathomably based.
This doesn't seem to agree with IPCC predictions. What's your source?
Noo! Think about the children!

(this post is sarcastic)
Because TikTok was likely banned for not cooperating with intelligence agencies or perhaps cooperating with the wrong ones.
My personal favourite is the old New Zealand Studylink website. You had to log in with both a password and a 'passcode'. You didn't type the passcode though, it told you to enter two or three random characters using dropdown boxes. I always had to write the passcode on paper to figure out which characters were needed (mine was long).
However, the US's per capita CO2 level keeps decreasing, while China's is increasing at a rapid rate. It's already 60% of the US's level and at this rate will eclipse it in the next few years.

So any solution to climate change that does not take China's emissions into account is doomed to fail just as much as one that doesn't take the US's emissions into account.
To this end, OpenAI is already off track. Their “GPT marketplace” or whatever they’re calling it is just misguided flailing from a product perspective.
Hours in Kharkiv, Ukraine's most-bombed major city
I imagine that's orders of magnitude more expensive than paying these rates for an exploit.
Us guys can be a bit slow, can't we. :-/
This was the plot to Ghost in the Shell when the traffic system was paralyzed countrywide.
>Frequency-pulled

You mean like injection locking with oscillators? Or is this a new term in the tweetosphere