skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that only some physicists use Mathematica. But I haven't really seen it being used it for calculus. Maybe some differential equations.

But mostly for symbolic algebriac manipulation. I used it during my phd to work with groups. Instead of having to calculate stuff by hand, you can just ask Mathematica to do it. Also lots of stuff with tensors in GR is so easy to do in Mathematica.
The card may look like a credit card, but it doesn't have the fraud protection, chargeback, or cancellation features of a real card. Within a closed conference that's fine, but it sounds dangerous to distribute this to a wide audience people as if they were the same as credit cards.
He is basically saying there was a mis-balance in the perception of risk between this likely doomer and most tech staff that is there. There is no Terminator to align and LLM going “rogue” and killing everyone is way overblown to pause development
I missed the part of the article that laid out the intent to discourage EV usage?

For discussion purposes: what will the funding for highway maintenance be based on when over half the vehicles are electric?

As someone who drives a gas car only seldom, I don't mind paying by mile. Cost in proportion to use. Measuring that is the problem.
Epicycloid -> Antikythera gearing -> planetary epicycles

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

The mathematics of the epicycloid : a historical journey with a modern perspective
Not often, but the problem with poor security is that it is vulnerable to the "smart cow" problem.

The whole herd will stay in the fence until a smart cow opens the gate. Then the whole herd gets out.

Once a security vulnerability is found, someone will inevitably write a script, hacking tool, or modified app to abuse the vulnerability. Then everyone can use that tool to exploit the vulnerability.
> Only if you subscribe to the argument that Russia has no intention to gobble up countries west of it at least to the furthest extent of USSR and its satellites.

Russia doesn't have any intention of doing that. Putin is currently 71 and we've seen no particular interest in grand campaigns to reconstitute the USSR so far in his lifetime, it isn't going to start. It turns out they weren't even militarily prepared to take Ukraine! They thought they could just launch a quick decapitation strike and be done. The USSR leadership disbanded the USSR in the 90s, so if they've culturally reversed position on that completely in 30 years it shows a stunning failure of western diplomacy to support them in doing the right thing.

> No European neighbors of Russia subscribe to that anymore.

Things like this is why letting them in to NATO would worry Russia. They are paranoid and panicking. I can understand why; I would be if I were a small country with a Russian border or close to one. But, nevertheless, their attitudes are one risk factor for escalating the situation from bad to catastrophic.
NWCG Firefighting Manual Chapter 6: Location - Introduction
National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) firefighting manual. The sixth chapter covers

> finding your current location by using bearing, azimuth, back azimuths, a compass, and a map
US arrests two Chinese nationals in $73M crypto scam
Paraphrasing a bit, and pulling in other recent OpenAI mews.

"We know AGI is risky, and we've stated that while also shipping new products every 6 months. We hope you are excited by the recent announcement that OpenAI is looking into how to allow our customers to responsibly generate erotica, and want you to know that we are doing this with full concern of the risks and potential outcomes. We look forward to offering multimodal interactions with models so life-like that you may not realize you are interacting with a computer at all. And rest assured, we've fully thought through and planned for the potential dangers of such a future."
Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources
I dunno, some light searching reveals that they lots of latex moulds for lawn ornaments are for sale on Etsy. It seems like these things are out there.
Surprised that the article mentions the German origins of melancholy, and includes the famous Dürer Melancolia, but, neglects to mention Walter Benjamin's Origins of German Tragic Drama,

a critique of modernism positing the that "melancholy" and disaffection are inevitable end-states, moral relativism and existential crisis finding their origin in the (historical) moment that language comes to be understood as referential, and arbitrary.

To put that in HN crowd terms: it's a look at what happened when thinkers came to understand language as a set of pointers, not values. Benjamin was concerned about what happened to meaning when people understood language as arbitrary glyphs, rather than some kind of metaphysical "synecdoche" which partook literally of the thing referenced, like the Catholic host literally (sic) is the Body of Christ, etc.

https://german.berkeley.edu/news-events/events/on-walter-ben...
I’m not getting how OpenAIs reputation is being tarnished from all of basically amounting to nothing but theatrical stuff that amounts to people saying Sam is out to destroy the world, none of which is even close to happening, with every entity in earth developing the same tech.
My experience of a natural disaster confirms this from the article:

> He concluded that disasters “result however temporarily in what may be regarded as a kind of social utopia.” “While the natural or human forces that precipitated the disaster appear hostile and punishing,” Fritz observed, “the people who survive become more friendly, sympathetic, and helpful than in normal times.” In disaster scenarios, shared fear and suffering create “an intimate group solidarity among the survivors.” When the world suddenly falls apart, people do not grow more selfish, violent, or irrational, but more altruistic, caring, and calm.

After the Christchurch earthquake of 2011, killed 185 people, devastated large sections of the city [0], suddenly everyone was nicer, for about 3 months - giving way more in traffic, smiling more at strangers, checking on neighbours they'd never spoken to before.

Then one day, an old lady starts ramming my shopping trolly at the supermarket checkout because she thought I was going too slow, and I thought to myself, "Ah, Christchurch is getting back to normal".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake
You need to to add the shame of being fat. Its incredibly super effective when people call you fat to your face to get you to eat less and work out.
What's needed is a 3D printed lid that attaches the jar onto the arm of a clock. Now you have perpetual mixing while always being peanut butter o'clock.
As usual, the science fiction authors have thought about this lots. Here's one example from before most of you were born:

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781481483063/9781481483063___...

Of course you don't need to agree with the conclusion!
Exactly - the reporting on hoarding fucked me off because it inevitably led to more hoarding.
I was thinking, what if Shahed had 10 Lancets to be activated somewhere around the route instead of a single explosive payload? Then it could strike several armoured vehicles at once, deep into the enemy ranks.
https://youtu.be/eO2wTmhUImE
> Soon we’ll see many new 64-bit RISC-V SBCs based on the Sophgo SG2000 RISC-V SoC.

This is an extremely unusual SoC with three main CPU cores with heterogenous ISA; 1 GHz C906 RISC-V, 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, and an extra 700 MHz C906 RISC-V core. You can choose only one of the 1GHz C906 or A53 cores to be active, and the 700 MHz core is additionally active. It also has an MCU, an NPU, and boards are $8.

The Xuantie C906 has been incredibly popular core for years now, it's not clear when a successor will appear and the RVV 0.7 debacle still has no end in sight.

The A53 has also been surprisingly longevious despite having official successors - either the A55/A510/etc license for a lot more, or the A53 RTL is just floating on GitHub somewhere.
I play Wordfeud almost every day, and it is the best 3$ (I think it was 3$ at the time I paid for it years ago, not sure what it costs now) I ever spent on an app.

So how does Wordfeud get around copyright issues with Hasbro? Do they pay them a royalty?
Does being the destroyer in the dark forest scenario not reveal yourself to other destroyers?

Also while I'm sure a relativistic kill vehicle could neutralize a planet, will it also get all the populated moons/orbitals in the system? What if the target species is already multi-system?
> round(mean(array), digits=2)

is how mathematicians have thought for hundreds of years now. They do so in this way, because it's indeed easier to parse, and philosophically it correctly represents what is happening mathematically.

> array.mean().round(digits=2)

is how a subset of software engineers have thought about computation in the last couple of decades.

Technology should whenever possible adopt already existing conventions, because technology is created to serve the user, and not vice versa.
>That's not what a Dyswon Swarm is.

Cool, but GP didn't say they were. (S)he's exploring possibilities.
That was my thought exactly, it sounded right out of a Greg Egan story.
Japanese people fry all kinds of food. They have plenty of soda as well, and there are plenty of Americans who struggle with obesity despite not drinking much soda.

It 100% has to do with walking/biking and portion sizes. Low intensity exercise throughout the day is as if not more effective than high intensity exercise for burning calories and keeping your metabolism from crashing.
Back then GCC was much smaller, and only contained C code, not C++. But sure, let's compare apples and ... much bigger heavier apples.
Yes, the MQ-9 Reaper is much easier and cheaper to maintain than an F-35. However, there is a huge capability gap to the extent that a Reaper simply can't do many missions at all. It isn't survivable for penetrating strikes, is vulnerable to communications link disruption, lacks an air search radar, can't defend itself against enemy aircraft, flies slower, has a much lower payload, can't do air refueling, can't carry nuclear weapons, etc. It is possible in principle the build a drone with capabilities similar to an F-35 but then it would be almost as expensive to maintain.

Having some drone carriers is probably a good idea. They could take over from supercarriers for limited missions, like striking insurgent targets in Yemen. That would be a lot cheaper. LHD class ships could be deployed with an air wing composed of a mix of F-35B jets plus various drones.
out-of-band way:

echo "cd /system1/pwrmgtsvc1; reset" | ssh -T ADMIN@<BMC-IP>
A lot of hand waving from those words. Right now LLM isn’t more dangerous than harmful google results. The future where AI sends a terminator to destroy us is the part I’m having issues with
Personality seems to rule the product and venture capital side of things, and at the end of the day their side is in charge.
Most companies don't pay out dividends. Google paid out its first dividend in 25 years and it's only 20 cents a share. Your wealth increases faster from the share price going up vs a dividend and it's not even close. Couple that with the fact that you don't have to sell - you can just borrow against your shares to get liquidity, most are far more incentivized to care about the stock price.
> I no longer agree that the "safety" people want the same things we do. I suspect after the bard debacle a bit back that "safety" looks a lot more like 1984.

AI Safety will inevitably look a lot like DEI programs. They're trying to thread a needle with two fundamentally opposed ideas, and with a bit of time it turns into little more than a combination of Cover Your Ass policies.

The ridiculous thing is that we actually need initiatives that follow what both AI safety and DEI set out to be. Somehow along the way they get ruined though, leaving us in an even worse spot because for a while we have an excuse to think there are adults in the room actually making sure things are moving in the right direction.
The personality is meaningless without the famous product
Big Discussion [0] (345 points, 2 days ago, 398 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379488
Chrome works even if Google is down
How is it an SPOF? And links mozilla.org will get you an alternative.
Lets assume the Dyson swarm would be built at 1 AU or 149,597,870,700 m ~= 150e9 m from the Sun.

Lets assume energy converting photovoltaics will be made of non-crystalline materials with a high light absorption coefficient allowing solar cell thickness of ~100 nm = 100e-9 m.

Sphere surface is 4pir^2, in our case 43.14150e9^2 = 3e23 m2 * 100e-9 m = 3e16 m3 is the total volume occupied by a Dyson swarm tech.

For comparison the volume of matter that Earth contains is 1e21 m3, which is 1e21/3e16 ~= 1e5 = 100,000 times larger than what is required for a Dyson swarm.
I didn't get that far on first read, I assumed the Canonical way was "snap install vim; vim; systemctl stop snapd" or something.
They may be black boxes but that doesn't change that they are operating on statistics. I see no evidence that "AI" so far is anywhere near to cracking reasoning. It doesn't matter how magical their inner-workings. They have been trained to spit out plausible text and images (and more limited, video).

All of that is imitation, nothing near thought.
By saying they have a 10x better product in the pipeline
> My very uneducated guess was that two planet-like objects smashed, and there is some cloud around the star which gave those weird spectrographs?

Another guess: it got close to a neutron star merger, and was showered with high atomic number debris. Heavy elements can be produced in mergers of such stars.
My go-to:

`Ctrl-Z, kill -9 %1`
Grew up on the east coast, poison ivy barely has an effect on me. Poison oak has me begging for steroids it’s so bad. I probably won’t try eating it.
Monopoly is pretty much the worst board game to introduce children to.

> [Elizabeth Magie] originally intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
protip, install software using a package manager from a reputable package repository
Makes a ton of sense to me. Dr Sarno was quite aware of the mind body connection and attributed most chronic pain problems to repressed rage. Psychedelics may help with this as effectively as his program.

I’m really not sure why he’s never caught on more

https://youtu.be/cbF2HMXtfZ4
I've almost never needed to read those news to keep the system working as I want it to. That's the thing.
Accelerating a rock to intercept a separate star system doesn’t need to generate any particularly noticeable emissions.

If it was intercepted someone could work backward from its trajectory and determine an origin, but the odds of noticing a cold, small, dark rock at relativistic speeds early enough to do anything about it seems slim.
I haven't read through all of them.

Are there any that satisfy the conditions I consider essential, which I explained in my other comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403308
Michelle's List: A free, anonymous landlord review site
I assume somebody thought this was funny?
It is West Virginia. West Virginia's statute protects against illicit recordings in places with a reasonable expectation of privacy. It does not penalize someone who runs the platform where it is shared.
Walk over to that one guy's desk at the office, you know the one. Ask for his help. Then you just have to wait through about 5 minutes of "Modal editors are very simple once you know how they work! A command is composed of..." and after that he'll tell you what keys to press.
What a horrible headline. Psychedelics "could" threat "some" of the worst chronic pain in the world. I "could" be a multi-billionaire. I "could" be the most attractive man on Earth. I "could" be an alien from 100 light years away. Such a statement means absolutely nothing. I'm not even going to get in to how horrible the contents of the article is. It's vox, you should already know to skip it.

At this point any time I see a vox headline claiming something, I internalize it as a data point that the opposite of their claim is probably closer to the truth, and move on with my day.
I'm from there, and they are!
Translation: we put in these show “safe guards” to satisfy the law and people peoples nightmare after watching [your AI extinction movie here], but we already had enough safe guards to begin with. They also do not wish to die if you think they have no incentive to keep everyone safe.
I don't use OpenAI because it is an unreliable service, they don't know how to run production.

LangFuse supports all providers, allows for user and session level metrics, and is self hostable. Custom spans are really helpful as is the ability to take feedback on responses and build data sets from them.

How do you include your RAG queries and non-ai ops into your overall chat observability?

I'm somewhat of a mind to switch to an Open Telemetry based system, since that is the standard now
I disagree with sibling comment. No prior exposure to Julia or even programming is required for this course.
In particular, he won the French world championship, twice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_pla...
I expected to find Doctor Who and TARDIS there, but they seem to be missing from the party.
> At this rate, it's already a race to the bottom and I don't believe the first place AGI was born would be able to kill it off. AGI is like nukes, it's so powerful that nobody will take the risks seriously until they have it, and nobody is going to stop pursuing it because everyone else is chasing it. If OpenAI slows down, Google will take the lead. If the US slows down, China will take the lead. That's basically the doomed future we are facing in reality

Its amazing to me that Oppenheimer became such a box office hit around the same time all the AI / AGI hype really built. There are plenty of parallels between the Manhattan Project, and nuclear weapons in general, and real AI.

Heck, just watch the last 5 minutes of Oppenheimer and tell me there's no lesson there to be learned before going right back to work the next day trying to build artificial general intelligence just because we can.
Nukes are made directly to blow things up so I’m not sure if this analogy stands the tests
Curious, there is no mention to randomness or seeds in the whole book.
This discussion is tremendously annoying because like the whole "room temperature superconductor" thing, half of it is people who have read far too many science fiction books
An article about how to do charts, which itself uses charts with labels so small they are unreadable while also disabling zooming, lack credibility.
> Logically, the first two civilizations to "team up" would easily handle any single civilization that challenges them.

This assumes defense is possible. Two loud cooperating civilizations don’t seem like they’d stand much of a chance against a silent, hostile civilization that quietly chucks a few rocks at both homeworlds and any interesting-looking moons, timed to arrive at roughly the same time.
From the article:

"If any aspect of an unfolding disaster is marked by panic, disaster sociologists Caron Chess and Lee Clarke observe, it is the behavior of elites. Catastrophe presents a leadership class with a terrible contradiction. On the one hand, the perception that leadership is not equal to the unfolding calamity erodes the legitimacy of any ruling class. Leaders understand that Heaven’s Mandate rests on their effective prevention of and response to crisis. On the other hand, the chaos inherent to disaster inevitably reduces leadership’s ability to control—or even stay aware of—the events by which they will be judged."

"Further, the high morale and solidarity that citizens exhibit during a disaster dissolve the individualist outlook that elites have long learned to control and maintain. The seemingly positive and prosocial solidarity response of the population is itself a threat to the mechanisms of elite power in our society. Just as disasters empower normal citizens on the ground, who have no choice but to take fate into their own hands, they leave elites feeling distant and helpless. Chess and Clarke call this state of affairs “elite panic:” a fearful distrust of the populace that prompts leaders to restrict information, over-concentrate resources, and use coercive methods to reassert authority in the face of temporary breakdowns in public order. This style of response poses an active danger to disaster survivors and, ironically, creates the very resistance to authority that leaders fear most."

A similar view comes from, of all people, the CEO of Waffle House. Waffle House prides itself on staying open through disasters. This is formal policy; they have emergency plans, supplies, and equipment. Waffle House does not use computer systems to transmit orders between order counter and kitchen, and that's on purpose. The Waffle House CEO says that if you can keep the Waffle House, the CVS, and the WalMart up, communities will start to recover from a disaster by themselves.

This is a good goal. One worth bearing in mind given the other discussion today about cyber attacks. Entire fast food chains should not go down because they can't communicate with HQ.
> What do we actually have, stripping away all of the "it will be this someday" thinking?

I can speak to a few restaurant owners who no longer need devs because an LLM can keep their website menu up to date. (Bonus: it’s now just a PDF.)

That’s a tangible productivity change. Granted, it’s on par with crypto’s remittance-efficiency pitch. But unlike crypto, these advantages are growing. Speaking personally, Kagi’s AI search is far superior to a list of links in most cases.
Tf is the risk of generating erotica?
Nah, it values money more
By the time you know whether or not another civilization is hostile, it’s probably too late. “Interstellar war” sounds like a long dragged-out set of engagements when it’s more likely that one random day without warning your planet intersects a sizable chunk of tungsten traveling at 0.9c.

Better to strike first than gamble.
I've never really understood the dark forest thing. Being an intelligent species or not doesn't change whether your planet has useful resources. And if you're a naive species yapping on all frequencies, you're clearly not a threat. So... why would another civilization go to all the trouble of eliminating you?
AI alignment is a job so there is negative incentive to make it more than it is. Right now it’s painfully clear it is what’s happening at OpenAI
I think that pittance of calories is only the surface benefit. Consistent activity keeps your metabolism much higher, meaning you burn more calories throughout the day even when you aren’t moving.
Okay, that's actually amazing. Bravo!
Part of the promise of UBI is lower administrative costs and reduced political pork. Adding in conditions like the ones you propose would be expensive and arbitrary.
So you agree with Sam’s stance since he likely knows way more than anyone?
Generaring porn with children in it.