skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not that i believe.. but if we are entertaining the idea assuming they did it..

i would bet they are are not using prescription drugs, they would likely get the stuff pure and use that instead.. so you could deliver a much bigger dosage of the drug more easily, but i guess that likely side effects would kick in.. there may be a limit on how big the dosage can be and they need to watch out, some people are more sensitive then other..

also they would need to keep then on the drugs for several days up to weeks.. that would need massive access to the person being targeted..

now, if you have the level of access to pull this off then there are much easier ways to do it..
Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
Mineral resources, possibly. But how about labor resources? Or food?
Massive inflation from the COVID shutdowns and stimulus checks happened.
The world still funds AI that completely disregards the notion of "safety" out of the gate. You can argue that those AIs aren't dangerous to begin with, but I would counter that by arguing no AI is dangerous to begin with and this entire field is a brouhaha to wrestle legislative control from Open Source opponents.
"We are below them, above them, around them." - doesn’t sound particularly ego free or nice.

And it seems that between the choice of OpenAI reassembling at Microsoft and OpenAI continuing under Sam Altman, the nonprofit board had decided to go ahead with Sam Altman.
Dumb question, but... Is AI and ML the same thing? I ask because I am seeing a lot of my ML peers claim to be AI experts with years of experience, even though the term AI wasn't really used at all until OpenAI got big.
Most residential deployments are near 20% or higher.
Don't forget... Sam Altman! (Also, Sam Altman: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." Feb 15, 2015, before he co-founded OpenAI. https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1)
I saw the point of things of the carbon tax as flattening a plateau more than stopping co2 emission growth. I never really had any delusions about that being politically viable, I can't even convince most around me that it's worth it to put a price on carbon that is several times less than its actual impact on the environment and economy.
> Likewise, if "AI" is actually intelligent then it is no worse a threat than a bumbling baby or a Vladimir Putin or a dog, among other living beings.

I think a dog and a dictator might both be able to have negative impacts, but treating them as equal just shows a desire to troll. A dog can only bite so many people.
What probability for extinction do you consider to be low enough that it effectively becomes a Pascalian wager? Pascal was also writing about a single person's fate (AFAICT), whereas this is about the fate of everyone.
The same America that's legalized hitting protestors with your car?
China has built the world's first dedicated drone carrier. The ship has not been reported however and many of the circumstances surrounding it remain a mystery.

I'm pretty sure it was Naval News that reported on this carrier some six to nine months ago and linked to a youtube video showing the carrier and coordinated marine drone swarms.

Whichever source it was, the article I read and the youtube were pulled in less than 24 hours and the links I saved (on my other office machine, not to hand ATM) were dead.

China developing such things is no surprise, the US military PR side choosing to report then not report for another six months is just as interesting.
It's matrix multiplication being done as fast as possible. On local machines the best proxy for useful gpu load for training is power draw.
Let’a assume the hypothesis that they believe that to be true. Why would anyone that believe that shut off nuclear plants that emit zero CO2 in Germany and burn wood as well as gas instead?
>Go was invented at Google by Rob Pike, Ken Thomson, and Robert Griesemer.
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Yet their own people are quiting over their claims - https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-y...
I envision that the existence of Air Traffic Control won't inherently stop people from using controlled airspace for hostile purposes. We can idealize what conduct looks like but failure of protocol still happens deliberately or by mistake.

The same is going to happen with AI. There will be bad actors, and trying to stop them from using AI for whatever "hostile" purposes it might yield is going to be nigh-impossible.
> Ironically, we already have plenty of renewable energy in the US, it’s just there, sitting, waiting to be hooked up to the grid and not being used productively.

The 947 GW is the total proposed capacity for solar projects that are in various planning stages. They have not been built yet, and most of them will never be built -- historically only about 14% of proposed capacity ends up entering service [1].

This isn't to say that it's not important to invest in the grid to handle future needs. But it's not like there's a bunch of renewable energy just sitting there idle.

[1] https://emp.lbl.gov/queues
Because the hotel is an implementation detail.
GPT4 seems to think it is a 3 body problem. Mercury and Earth are of similar size and exert gravitational effects on each other. Take away mercury and maybe the earth slowly drifts a little.

The point is that a very small difference in starting conditions yield wildly different results.
That's a fair point. I hadn't considered it from the perspective of having space for children, though I don't personally think the density of Tokyo is prohibitive.

I'm curious about another thing: You mention 1000sqft+ homes being the norm where you're located, is that considered a larger than average home in Japan? I can't find a recent figure for average dimensions of a Japanese home. The average in the United States, by comparison, is apparently 2273sqft (reported in 2021).
Yes. Layoffs were across all departments.
Data centers can't run on intermittent sources.
Are you implying that principles stand in opposition to growth or wisdom? That a wise man cannot be principled?
The slope of new clean energy coming online is also important.

A company may be losing money today, but if they are growing revenue on a path to profitability, that is what ultimately matters.
Yes. It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell (with apologies to Steve Jobs, who said that about iTunes on Windows, back when iTunes was not the mess it turned into later).

Mind you, I have huge respect for Cleve Moler and Matlab and all they have accomplished (making LINPACK and EISPACK and all that easily accessible). And they've worked hard to overcome the limitations of initially having only one datatype: a matrix.

But Julia as a modern general purpose language is just so much more pleasant to work with, while retaining nearly all of Matlab's power.
What about the carbon credits for building out renewable energy systems locally/domestically? Those exist.
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Is that an actual viewer with navigation and all, or is it just like xxd, but with Unicode? Dumping gigabytes to the terminal isn't what I want.
I'd also like to know about anyone writing on this subject.
So am I correct in assuming you would also have posted this rant if the pop-up asked you to stand in solidarity with Israel and the victims of 10/7?
We are rapidly moving towards the science fiction reality of a large plane flying over a city and dropping thousands of small, cheap, autonomous drones. The drones just hunt down all life. Then you just keep the city, infrastructure and all.
Why not?

What stops training AI's during sunlight hours only and hibernating as power decreases?
I discovered that it's much easier to dip apples slices in peanut butter if I nuke the peanut butter for 30 seconds. Now I don't get frustrated by my apples breaking off in my peanut butter.
I checked Adam's peanut butter today from costco and it has garbage ingredients. The Kirkland one has only dry roasted peanuts, which is how it should be.

A few days ago I had one from a canadian brand "nuts to you nut butter inc", which is organic: it was mind blowing, the strong peanut feeling was delicious, it felt like eating peanuts, but it was also so creamy. No idea what they did, but I'm craving for more. I suspect they just used higher quality peanuts.
It's doesn't matter if Twitter/X has been around since the dawn of time, some people don't want to make accounts, and it's none of our business why. In the same way it's none of our business why someone might not want to subscribe to NYT or WaPo when their articles are posted here. It's a norm in this community to provide workarounds for walled content. The original poster in this sub thread was observing that this is now necessary for Twitter/X as well - that shouldn't be controversial or objectionable to anyone.
Huge waste of CapEx for those expensive training GPUs if you can only use them 8 hours a day (same goes for all other data center hardware). Nevermind data availability and other hard problems if your DCs don't run 24/7.
> It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase.

Didn't they just learn a lesson about the additional bad press you can be subjected to if you try to hide the severity of your security issues instead of just owning up to what's happening?
In the USA it is almost always labeled distilled water.. I've never seen "demineralized water" advertised as the alternate methods are relatively new (at a competing price point).. but they would likely just be called purified, and you'd have to look at the label.

Purified water may or may not be demineralized, depending on the method used to purify.

Basically any other form of bottled water is about as regulated as homeopathic remedies... Short of killing people, nobody really watches them. This is part of the reason why distilled water is recommended for home medical use like CPAP machines or Neti pots, with purified as second best (though it COULD be equal or better, the term is too generic)
Btw, do you have any idea whey they even bother with the second contract? Couldn't they just write the same stuff into the first contract in the first place?
> People die when they are killed.

Yes, indeed, which is why we should avoid creating something that will kill everyone...

...so I guess I'm glad to hear there's no difference in the amount of damage that can be inflicted by a baby, and by Vladimir Putin, and superintelligent AI really can't be any worse than either.
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Money.

Absurd amounts of money.
I would not equate self-awareness with the feeling of being enclosed in some distinct thing called a human body that you can exercise control over. With the latter you are not just self-aware, you are also deconstructing experience into parts according to a particular dualistic approach (“that is my body, this is me”). Such deconstruction may not be required, and whether it is the only or even the best approach to qualifying own being is dubious (some might say you and your body are the same and implicitly treating “you” as “contained in your brain” is a fallacy—from the perspective of natural sciences a good illustration is probably how gut flora changes, non-brain organ transplantation, and such correlate with shifts in your personality).
With private stocks, they can put further restrictions on what you can do with your stocks.
When you read a website do I get to say you're plagiarizing it?
zz centers the screen on the current line. Use ZZ to save the file and quit. Use ZQ to not save but quit.
Somewhat related entertaining book recommendation (sci-fi thriller): Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez (from 2012).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision
I suppose that might be more related to left wing populism as embodied by the German Greens who worked for decades to get nuclear energy out of Germany. Also because the plants would have had to be decommissioned anyways and modern nuclear is not SO competitive for practical concerns to outweigh political expediency.

I truly don't think it was a result of the actions of a centralised oligarch elite that drove this anyways.
Aren't the LLMs on hf good enough to learn from?
How do you verify this?

For example, if I really like an apartment and want to stay longer in it, I might be inclined to write a fake review about how about the apartment or my landlord is to steer competition away.
I imagine a language with decent support for macros would be much much more ergonomic for symbolic computation. Even ignoring all the other pros & cons, just this one reason would push one strongly towards Julia, Lisp(s), Mathematica, etc for symbolic computation.
> I would counter that by arguing no AI is dangerous to begin with and this entire field is a brouhaha to wrestle legislative control from Open Source opponents

Note that this is not a valid argument against any argument that superintelligent AI might kill everyone; it's just a character attack.
It's strange that they somewhat smear IRC, but don't bother to explain what Hacker News even is.

Also, the ida of the photographer going to shoot the cybercrime experts or the victims preparing by bringing the colored lights amuses me. Sitting by three computers with a wall rack of keyboards doesn't make someone look enough like a hacker, they need Mt Dew green lighting too.
> is it even a valid contract clause to tie the value of something to a future completely unknown agreement?

I don't know about this specific case, but many contracts have these kinds of provisions. Eg it's standard in an employment contract to say that you'll follow the directions of your bosses, even though you don't know those directions, yet.
Googling suggests that the details differ by municipality. For example, Hilversum requires [1] you to submit a proposal for a facade garden. If approved, the municipality will take care of removing the appropriate width of sidewalk tiles and replacing them with soil. The owner is responsible for planting and maintaining the resulting garden. Other municipalities have different regulations.

[1] https://hilversum.nl/en/mijn-wijk/geveltuintje-aanleggen
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/a...

"...I also went to a panel in Palantir’s booth titled Civilian Harm Mitigation. It was led by two “privacy and civil liberties engineers” – a young man and woman who spoke exclusively in monotone. They also used countless euphemisms for bombing and death. The woman described how Palantir’s Gaia map tool lets users “nominate targets of interest” for “the target nomination process”. She meant it helps people choose which places get bombed.

After she clicked a few options on an interactive map, a targeted landmass lit up with bright blue blobs. These blobs, she said, were civilian areas like hospitals and schools. The civilian locations could also be described in text, she said, but it can take a long time to read. So, Gaia uses a large language model (something like ChatGPT) to sift through this information and simplify it. Essentially, people choosing bomb targets get a dumbed-down version of information about where children sleep and families get medical treatment."

Definitely not dangerous at all.
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Yes, it's only aspirational in Python, too.
If drone armies are vastly more powerful than human armies, the latter become insignificant much like unarmed civilians are irrelevant in a war today. If Ukraine loses its army, it will surrender. If an army of the future loses its drones it will be impossible to oppose the winner’s drones and would surrender as well.
There’s also the dumb option that he’s afraid of it, but thinks it’s better for him to be in control than someone else. If everyone thinks they are the lesser evil, they all do what they don't want anyone to do.
Brilliant psychopathic move to talk about global warming and buy Exxon Mobil shares. Textbook example of zombies that know how to imitate a human being.

Kudos to Exxon management for blowing the whistle on them
It will help non-state actors wage the asymmetric war and impose costs.

Think Houthis, they may in few years drive sea/air drones with small load munitions - operating far from the site, and statistically be lucky to make their point

It will not be limited to them either - pick a place that have people who think they are oppressed and live in the margins, and really have not a whole lot at stake to worry
To those who are drinking deep of the AI kool-aid, know this: this is not remotely sustainable.

Anyone who is thinking AI will replace writers and artists and voice-overs and who knows who else ... it's going to cost more money than you think, and it's all getting added to the considerable bill we're running up that will end up costing us everything.
You can be right about AGW and still be a moron?
Does "only having client side validation" really count as a bug? It wasn't really an oops, it was just really poorly designed.
Gates is an investor in some carbon dioxide removal companies and seems to be involved in decarbonization, so at least he has an incentive to have Microsoft do the right thing.

That being said, maybe Microsoft won't, and will buy the low quality "we totally were going to cut this forest but now we won't pinky promise" kind of credits, but I'd at least give them the benefit of the doubt over the average greenwashing corporation.
You can stop most of the hot water waste in that situation with one of these [1]. It's a valve that you put ahead of the shower head. When it senses that the water has warmed up to 95℉ it reduces the flow to a trickle until you turn a lever to restore full flow.

[1] https://www.showerstart.com/products/showerstart-tsv3
i don't care what they say, i care what they do, and what they do is force employees to sign a "life time non criticism" document before leaving.

that tells me everything i need to know about Open AIs concern for any kind of safety.
Not really. You can only make these predictions about things bottlenecked by things that improve exponentially such as compute.

Neither the space program nor self driving are compute restrained.

The latter will probably be “solved” as we get closer to AGI, since you need some sort of human like reasoning for edge cases that require reasoning.

Another tech like this is batteries: There is no miracle jump in production batteries. They just improve about 10% YoY, both in energy density and cost.

So you can extrapolate when electric cars will be cheaper than gas cars to buy.

Intersects around 2035 last I checked.
you say that like everyone had the luxury of making the choice not to sign those deals
> Once enough of one side's drones or robots are sufficiently defeated, it will be people that are the means for imposing or resisting force, so they will eventually always be the ones fighting and dying.

If your people are better at building drones than fighting in person, then presumably the enemy's drones will already be in your cities before it makes sense to send people to stop them.

> The purpose of any war is to impose your will by force on another… …It always comes down to removing an enemy's capacity or will to resist force, and people will always be part of that equation.

People are the quarry. That doesn't mean that the physical means to resist force will always be in the hands of people.

It might also mean an initial attritional phase where machines kill machines, followed by a very brief and very lethal series of machine-directed killings in all your metropolitan areas, as soon as one side runs out of drones and drone-producing factories.
As Terry Pratchett once wrote:

“... that you are nothing more than a lucky species of ape that is trying to understand the complexities of creation via a language that evolved in order to tell one another where the ripe fruit was.”
you all realize this is a day time soap opera?

hey hackernews, your shows are on
If you wanna be really honest you write one short example where HVM is weak and one where it's strong, use the opportunity to explain why if you want
Sure, we may be heading right into a massive climate crisis in the next few decades, but what about the hypothetical post-humans who will dig up spent nuclear fuel 10_000 years from now?!
> Poor support for OOP (no, pure FP is not the optimal programming approach).

Julia is not really a pure functional programming language, though it does support that style if one desires.

It's actually a "multiple dispatch" language... thinking of OOP as single dispatch, Julia is conceptually OOP on steroids -- but to benefit from the full expressiveness, the programming style looks different from the typical OOP syntax/patterns one is used to.
AI as a field has been around since the 50s and gone through multiple paradigms, but modern AI (since its resurgence around 2010) is effectively all machine learning.
I raised DEI as an example of a field started with good intentions to solve very real and important problems that, in my experience, completely lost its way. That's not to say there isn't good work being done or good people doing it, but from what I've seen DEI has in many ways been whittled down to a combination of public relations and CYA policies.

DEI has definitely become a political trope, but regardless of what Newt Gingrich or any other talking head might say, there are plenty of valid critiques that can and should be made of the field if its going to get back on track.
This is the venn diagram I keep seeing when this question is asked: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363930739/figure/fi...

GenAI ⊆ Deep Learning ⊆ Machine Learning ⊆ AI, where ⊆ means "Is a subset of."
The huge solar power plants in China are in western China, aka deserts and frozen desert mountains, aka you can't build data centers there either. And shipping that power across thousands of KMs is as hard for China as it is for the US.

Hence China is still building coal plants, and won't really stop. Especially if it means the future of AI is being bottlenecked by it.
Mhhh apple contains fructose and my doctor suggested it to calm down big hunger without overeating (which it does), but i don't know if there are differences when it's pure vs inside an apple
Glassdoor doesnt either
>”An atomic bomb explodes. A bomb explodes. Both are very destructive. Is there a difference? I say no”

Atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs are orders of magnitude more destructive and also produce fallout. How in the world can that difference be dismissed?
OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, a year after announcing it