skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This paper provides an overview of the main sources of catastrophic AI risks, which we organize into four categories: malicious use, in which individuals or groups intentionally use AIs to cause harm; AI race, in which competitive environments compel actors to deploy unsafe AIs or cede control to AIs; organizational risks, highlighting how human factors and complex systems can increase the chances of catastrophic accidents; and rogue AIs, describing the inherent difficulty in controlling agents far more intelligent than humans.

The first three risks are completely reasonable and people should be thinking about them. No, ChatGPT should not be diagnosing patients and giving them medicine. Yes, we should be vigilant to a flood of disinformation and revenge porn made possible by AI generated content.

But when people talk about “AI safety” in this context, it’s usually in reference to the fourth category, planning for a superintelligent malicious AI that evades detection, self-replicates, etc. That’s pure science fiction at that point, and it’s not a reason to slow down development of LLMs, which yes are basically glorified chatbots and will not lead to “AGI” in this threatening sense.

If I recall correctly, when steam engines started being able to go 40-50 MPH, there were people who were concerned that human beings would not be able to survive travel at such speeds because we never had experienced them. This wasn’t completely irrational, I suppose, as there are speed-induced G forces that are fatal, and they had no way of knowing the threshold back then. But once it was clear that steam locomotives weren’t in any danger of putting us over that threshold, incessant worry about locomotive-induced speeds death was kooky. “Locomotive safety” involving derailment mitigation, track crossing markings, etc. - still legitimate. But if “locomotive safety” was associated with people making claims like “we’re headed for a mass casualty event when the first locomotive hits 60 mph,” then “locomotive safety” would be marginalized.

It doesn’t help that the public faces of “AI safety” include autodidactic pseudointellectuals, clearly mentally unwell people, and philosophers too deep in their own “taken to its logical conclusion…” thought experiments.
It's just the opposite, actually. Game theory reveals that the best thing an intelligent species can do is to hide. (The dark forest hypothesis)
Other than the appealing symmetry of being able to use a language to parse that same language, this feels very similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

Edit: I just checked and sadly someone beat me to it in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910120
I tried React Native, but ended up re-writing and going with SolidJS + Capacitor, and I love the setup. I've barely thought about performance since switching, people think the iOS/Android apps feel native, there's almost never any differences in behavior between the platforms, it's a fantastic setup for a solo dev.
I don't have any. It's my #1 go to news source
Had no idea that the cast of NG were wookies.
> which can be debated, but it's a different topic

No, it "can't be debated," it is clearly false! You said "by definition," but you used an irrational and bigoted definition of "general reasoning and logic" which conflates such things with performance on a standardized test. Humans aren't innately good at stupid logic puzzles that LLMs might get a 71st percentile in. Our brains are not actually designed to solve decontextualized riddles. That's a specialized skill which can be practiced. It's depressing enough when people claim IQ tests are actually good measures of human intelligence, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. But now, by even worse reasoning, we have people saying a computer is smarter than "average humans." (MTurk average humans? Undergrads? Who cares!) The complete lack of skepticism and scientific thinking on display by many AI developers/evangelists is just plain depressing.

Let me add that a truly humiliating number of those """general reasoning""" LLM benchmarks are fucking multiple choice questions! Not all of them, but a lot. ML critics have been complaining since ~2017 (BERT) that LLMs pick up on spurious statistical correlations in benchmarks but fail badly in real-world examples that use slightly different language. Using a multiple choice test is simply dishonest, like a middle finger to scientific criticism.
Ozempic and its popularity is a clear proof what's wrong in the West! Not only Japan doesn't need it, most of the world doesn't, but in the West, we treat symptoms, not root causes!
this reminds me of some of the collaborative pixel art sites in the late 90s/early 00s, where you’d reserve some blocks and a bunch of us would contribute. any internet historians out there with some archive links? can’t remember at all…
One has to be a little careful with designing courses like this. They are most likely to be of interest to people who already know, at least to some extent, both (i) calculus and (ii) programming. That is, the (presumable) target audience — those who are learning either of these subjects — is not really ready to take in such a class.

Anecdotally, my personal attempts at incorporating only slightly exotic CASes (Maxima or Sagemath) into calculus courses were met with tepid response at best. Part of the issue was, I believe, that freshmen are rarely interested in setting up software for a non-CS course.

That being said, for slightly higher-level classes it can work quite well as an optional component — I've had really good results with Python projects in an ODE course. Python not being a niche language certainly helped, too.
I agree, who cares if a website supports accessibility, no one in the world is vision impaired and uses screen readers right? right?
It's not impossible that rocks have consciousness. Some modern philosophers advocating pantheism think they just might.

Meanwhile, according to Sabine Hossenfelder, a recent paper shows evidence that Penrose was right about quantum effects happening in the brain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6G1D2UQ3gg
I'm struggling to figure out what is being reported. They were mostly able to stop progression in 37% of their test cohort?

"At a data cutoff of February 1, 2023, efficacy-evaluable patients treated with petosemtamab (n = 43) experienced an overall response rate of 37.2%"

They discussed "progression free" survival, which seems to mean the condition didn't worsen.
You’re literally in the comments for one of these statements though. Did you just come here aim an outsized lecture at whoever was unlucky enough to appear on your screen first? Either OP has a point, or you’re just saying that you parachuted here to say your piece without looking beyond the submission title. In either case, behaviour that makes HN worse.
Porting/translating/rewriting something from one language to another could be like that.
They have never tried on a large scale over a large timeline. Behavior changes will not happen over night.
Somehow I spent 10 or so days in Sweden and never heard of this.

Actually, IMHO Sweden doesn't seem all that traditional. Plenty of great food without any particular Swedish heritage.
Honestly as far it goes that looks pretty good to me.
I imagine it depends on whether interstellar travel is practical. If intelligent species come to the conclusion that they’re forever isolated, a monument seems a rational, almost inevitable choice.
Damian Conway's https://metacpan.org/pod/PPR module defines a regex (in the commonly used sense) that can match perl source code - including perl regexes!

Edit: "The PPR module provides a single regular expression that defines a set of independent subpatterns suitable for matching entire Perl documents, as well as a wide range of individual syntactic components of Perl (i.e. statements, expressions, control blocks, variables, etc.)"
Which is why I'm curious about time/scale of effect, and what exactly is meant with "Americans do more exercise than ever".

One indicator is # of gym membership: ~30m->~70m in last 25 years, from 10% of population to 20%. Hard to say how much of that is due to gyms getting better at selling memberships because we know they oversubscribe. But per capita figures still suggest that vast plurarity of Americans, the average American, likely 1.5SD / 80%+ of population, probably don't have habit of regular exercise that would overcome effects of increasingly sedimentary life style. So should be ber surprising that obesity continues to increase.
They do actually have relationships with these institutions, and are in some cases likely stuck between friendly relations with their funding source xor showing solidarity with their readers, authors, and editors. https://placesjournal.org/academic-partners/

I get that you'd rather never hear about the war again--probably doesn't affect you materially, after all--but this isn't an "awkward injection of political opinions into [an] unrelated space." They're embedded in it. The extra effort of closing a dialog box doesn't seem like too much of a cost for you to bear in exchange for reading their article.
Here's some pseudocode for argument's sake: http://paste.debian.net/1317369

I don't think the immediate-mode code is really more straightforward. Retained mode looks just as simple and only has that one same function with the same 5 basic SLoC, only

- (A) the ui library has to do less work at runtime, resulting in a more responsive app (as per parent comment);

- (B) i was forced to reorder the component instantiation. In immediate mode, the counter's label depends on the button's state, whereas in retained mode, the button update callback depends on the counter instead; and

- (C) immediate mode only needed one sprintf instead of two since the initialization and update logic is unified. You can combine them in retained mode with a helper function or closure (and in real-world apps you would); in this trivial case this increases the SLoC but in real-world cases it reduces it.
But also note: "Our study showed that an IKD [intermittent ketogenic diet] can prevent the accumulation of senescent cells induced by sustained KD [ketogenic diet] ... suggesting that an IKD may be more beneficial than a long-term continuous KD"
Just a note, this was a bit difficult to read with the amount of times you repeat the phrase “ browser, device, platform, or bot that was making a request to the application”
If you look at compute scaling and model improvement on that compute, we’re going to get there pretty fast.

Both compute, architecture and cost matter, and those have been improving like crazy.

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t expect GPT-4o to come out at half the price one year later, with real-time voice, image and text.

There is zero sign of slowing, Nvidia keeps building beefier GPUs specialized in LLMs, the world keeps adding more data centers and humanity keeps creating exponentially more data world wide.

You can plot this exponential growth out over time and calculate when these models will have the complexity of the brain. Then you can assume some penalty for shitty architecture (that gets better over time), and you’ll have a ballpark estimate.

Somewhere 2027-2030 we’ll have models that most of us consider AGI today. Now, societal impact is hard to predict since that’ll depend on regulators as well.
please stop doing stuff like this. its trivial to change the user-agent when making a request with a programming language, so any logic surrounding that should be non existent, or as simple as possible.

the user-agent string has an essentially arbitrary format, so its not really a good place to be reading data from, or worse serving a different response based on the value.
"The recently imposed smoking ban on many commercial flights has had one distinctly unhealthy side effect -- it snuffed out the most popular method mechanics used to spot cracks in aircraft fuselages.

... mechanics could count on tell-tale build-up of nicotine around cracks as air escaped from the passenger cabin when the plane pressurized after lift-off."

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/05/27/The-recently-imposed...
I had a photo show up from Sept 2019 and I haven’t even upgraded my phone yet. Maybe my wife did, as we share an iCloud Photo Library

Edit: nope we are both on 17.4.1. Must be our iPad updated
Bamboo shoots through your house
I always assumed despite the slight laxative effect of coffee, the real reason is most people are just morning poopers and morning coffee drinkers.
The typical sci-fi answer is primes

Irregular but mathematically significant/recognizable.
It doesn't stop at obesity though. The prevailing mindset of "hammer any nail that's coming up" also applies to mental conditions, ideas and behaviors going against the status quo, including radical innovations and diversity in general.
We are getting fat because we stopped eating legumes and whole grains like we used to.
100 grams of uncooked lentils is 300 cal only and will make you feel full for 12 hours
Hitler was decidedly against modernism, including in architecture (read up on history of Bauhaus), preferring instead neoclassical architecture.
Surely, many do? The ones I interacted with did, for example. I'd venture that the preferred CAS varies with schools and countries.
I really don’t understand why not all LLMs use schema validation on their output 100% guarantee that it is actually JSON and that it matches the expected format.
could this be made from lego? Or maybe glued lego.

I do need this but I don't want to put too much effort into it.
Fiddling with machines results in processes that can save you a lot of time and headaches, so I do think it's worth the time to learn it.

Even if/when LLMs improve enough to bring their code quality up to par, humans should still be comfortable reading that code to ensure it aligns with the goal.
People install fake soundbars: https://youtu.be/52hBPL6y_aU
Yeah that’s all correct. It’s particularly notable because the study was a third line treatment. These patients had already progressed after taking a platinum based chemotherapy, which is a standard first treatment, and they also progressed after taking a PD-L1 immunotherapy. So these patients had very advanced and difficult to treat cancer. This represents a real improvement for them as they probably didn't have many options left outside very invasive surgeries or lots of radiation to the head and neck.

Also the treatment targets two cancer genes at the same time. The first is EGFR, which is a very well known therapeutic target. The second is LGR5, and I’m not as familiar with that one, but I think it might be a novel target for cancer. So that's important in that more drugs might target this gene or combinations of LGR5 and others and they might be more effective than this first effort.
Thanks for sharing your experience- I hope you continue recovering and improving.

I live in a high tick area as well. Did you notice any symptoms before the eyesight?

I had a few bites but since the rashes went away my doc said no need for antibiotics unless rashes come back or I get flu like symptoms, etc.
How can game theory tell us that hiding from a malicious civilization is a safer choice than exposing ourselves to a benevolent civilization that could rescue us from some danger impossible for us to handle?
> The concept of a universal basic income amounts to the government paying all individuals a set salary regardless of their means.

> Critics say it would be extremely costly and divert funding away from public services, while not necessarily helping to alleviate poverty.

I'm not sure why the reporter wrote this. Have there been any failed UBI studies, ever? (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/univer... purports to list all of them, and doesn't list any failed studies.) The illusion of balance should not come at the expense of truth.
You mean you do not still want to read jquery answers in 2024?
You mean like the one across Iran running from 2011? Yeah, I agree at this point we should just run it globally for over a decade to see if the result is in any way different than almost every single test done so far.
The Silurian hypothesis:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis>

(Largely debunked.)
I've seen some powdered dish detergent boxes do this.
Because if this is how our brains really worked, then chatgpt wouldn't be beating most humans at standardized tests and then failing this absurdly easy question that even an elementary school kid could pass.

It is simply regurgitating this phrase without even considering that it is stating the exact opposite of the answer it just gave, simply because most answers to this riddle on the internet say this at the end.

> This riddle plays on the assumption that a surgeon is typically male, but in this case, the surgeon is the boy's mother.

So from this 1 failing, you can see that it is a copy and paste machine, and it doesn't even understand that it is contradicting itself.
I know a guy who has been slowly automating very old food process equipment.

He makes peanut butter by the ton. Loading the hopper was quite tricky and getting up and checking a bit fraught. Knowing how much peanut butter is in the big vat thing once it is being stirred is quite hard too, and most sensors become less accurate once coated in peanut butter.

His ultrasound sensor (measuring the distance to the surface of the peanut butter) is a thing of beauty. He used Arduino.
And how do you know you're forever isolated? There are things you don't know that you don't know. No rational species would ever build a monument IMO, and again, game theory supports this so far.
> salting a star with an impossible chemical composition might also be a way for a technological species to create a monument, correct?

It's an impossible composition from a nuclear physics point of view, since the star shouldn't be producing these atoms, and they can't be part of the initial makeup of the star since they're unstable elements and would long be gone by now. The most likely explanation is still that something randomly collided with the star.

If it's a monument, then it certainly is the right one to send a (very vague) message far into the future, "we were here".

> This seems like it would involve moving less mass around than a Dyson Sphere/Swarm

It's a bit weird to compare two endeavors we haven't even tried yet, but making a Dyson swarm seems vastly easier than this. To pull off the salting of a star, you'd need to constantly manufacture vast amounts of exotic radioactive materials. A Dyson swarm may be massive (although there would be very light-weight ones you could build if the only function was to be a monument), but it's "just" a lot of solid bodies orbiting a star. A star salter, on the other hand, would require way more complex engineering.
There are many options: couscous, rice, air-fried potatoes, even pure popcorn (raw corn + vegetable oil) is healthy and very filling.
Who said so? It might not happen at all. We might well be coding in a thousand years, why not? Non-programmers seem to not understand that a programming language is just that, a language. We use it just because it is more productive than using plain English, which now with LLMs is becoming a better tool to program. But prompt engineering is still programming and that won't change in a thousand years.
Summary for YouTube Videos
I created this tool to get all the data I need from technical YouTube videos without spending hours.

Maybe it will work for your use case as well.

The site is very basic and took me 3 days to ship. (I am c/c++ sw engineer, no prior experience in web)

Hopefully next projects will look better :)
I answered a funny regex question once, “can strings that are base64 encoded twice be matched with a regex?”

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49650847/determine-if-st...

The answer is yes, they’re regular. :-D
Adding back the crappiest oil they can find… of course.
The thing about that is, you don't need to be aware of climate change to have to do it. You will simply be forced to do it because your insurance company is going to make you.

But the only solution is move. There is no way you can make a high fire risk zone safe, and water/summer temperatures won't be an issue outside tropical regions (so the US will be okay) but if you are in one of those you can't fix it.
Article title: This is the Time of Year Bamboo Shoots Grow, Sometimes Wreaking Havoc
I disagree on the zero-based indexing complaint. Indeed, the fact that Julia indexed from 1 is the sole reason I will never use an otherwise great language. I can’t comprehend how people came to the conclusion this was a good idea.
Of course they’re more healthy, they eat less & walk more.

I just returned from Japan, and the difference in quality of life due to urban density, reliable public transit, and walkability of every city I visited is staggering. There really is no comparison to the United States. Everything you could ever need to live is within walking distance - seriously. This is the way people are meant to live.
Not criticizing new projects is a good social norm, because starting new and ambitious projects is good and should not be discouraged. However, criticizing projects that make misleading, unsubstantiated or false claims is also a good social norm, because it discourages people from making misleading, unsubstantiated or false claims.
> not responsible for any

That's a very strange way to read (the inverse of) the word "most".
Previously [0] (58 points, 15 years ago, 26 comments), [1] (69 points, 3 years ago, 20 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879255
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113845
My opinion is based on different theories and hypotheses, but the prevalent opinion is that there can't be a benevolent civilization in the first place. And even if there are, they would continue hiding themselves.

Essentially, any alien civilization that survives in the long term is silent and hostile. But especially silent since being hostile can reveal your location.
> Developers like that they won't have to pay the "Apple Tax" because users can side-load. Whereas users like that they don't have to pay developers because they can side-load.

The killer app for jailbreaking/sideloading on Apple's handheld gaming system is ... running unlicensed games?

So basically similar to jailbreaking/sideloading on Nintendo's handheld gaming system?

Perhaps one difference may be that popular iPhone games are "free to play" with intrusive microtransactions, while Nintendo games (especially first party) cost more up front but avoid microtransactions. Also iPhone games tend to be "live service" while many Nintendo games can be played offline (or on a LAN for games like Mario Kart or Smash.)

iPhone game developers may be able to leverage online DRM schemes in "live service" games to block unauthorized players of sideloaded games.
Has anyone ever explained how UBI would be funded? The US has 300 million people so at, say $500 monthly per person, it’ll cost $1.8 trillion annually just for this one program.
Sleep paralysis is consciousness when you are supposed to be knocked out, AFAIK unrelated to oxygen levels. There is possibly a correlation to sleep apnea but I think that is more likely due to hEDS being a common cause for both. hEDS not rare, it is pretty common, far more than doctors think. People with hEDS have very weird drug interactions, many often have a genetic resistance to local and general anesthesia. I think a reasonable explanation is they are also resistant to whatever the chemical the brain uses that causes sleep induced loss of consciousness to the point they are more prone to sleep paralysis.

The N of 1 with changing positions is interesting though.
I'd been meaning to/thinking about setting up a page for BGP, so here we go: https://itlookedlike.itwasdns.net/but-it-was-bgp/