skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What I am dismissing is the statement that existing models today can "crack" environments.

Existing models are not capable enough to take over anything. However, the labs are always trying new architectural (algorithmic) improvements to models, and some labs have announced plan to spend many billions of dollars (in electricity and hardware purchases) training a single model. (In contrast, it took less than 150 million to train GPT-4 IIRC.)

Most of us (including the interviewee in the OP) who maintain that AI research is a danger to the human race maintain that most of the danger is not right now, but spread out over the next 30 years or so.
I'd bet it's because the parents are feeling a lot of stress. Especially without a robust community support network/string external role models, children tend to inherit their parents' emotional states.
MSN Messenger was like AOL/Yahoo but in Europe.
I really don't see the problem here.

In Denmark McKinsey consultants advise the government at a fairly high level. Most of the consultants are Danes and had they not worked for McKinsey they would work for another consultancy (or the government itself) doing the same government work.

Made in China 2025 is an industrial policy aiming for Chinese companies to move up the value chain. This was going to happen regardless of McKinsey.

On contrary the US congressmen are foolish for bullying McKinsey into not doing business in China as it will decrease the US's ability to understand what is going.
I am a hoarder of things that work forever. I have 1000s of old computers that all work. I love this tech that I can solder… oldest one is from 1963.
Throwing good money after bad.

Companies spent all that money on high end GPUs for crypto mining and that went bust, now gotta figure out something to do with the hardware to try to recoup some of the investment. Google pumped $1.5 Billion into crypto.
I needed a light machine to do some web design work on figma. My first instinct was to get a Chromebook but my designer found an iPad air with m1 for cheaper. I checked and figma was available for iPad so I authorized.

A couple days later we get the iPad and it does have the figma app but it is view only!
You can still use figma but it has to be the web version. It works but because apple has terrible PWA support the experience is much inferior than in a much weaker Chromebook.

The Apps for iPad are just weak on general. Often the only available app is the one for iphone, and you can still install but it renders in a third of the screen as a phone App with big black bars on the sides.

We returned it the same day.
The root comment is concerned with details about the individual. I provided details about the man which were not included in the link. I additionally provided a personal anecdote about how the immediate impact of his life work directly affected me, and possibly the fellow reader.

You butted in to talk about how corporate business practices have changed over time in ways that by your own admission have absolutely nothing to do with this guy, and accordingly have no place in this thread.
It's strange. We know that instincts, hormones, and other aspects of our biology have a tremendous influence on our thoughts and behaviors, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of effort to use that to problem-solve. There's evolutionary psychology, but given the fraction of human problems traceable to maladaption to the modern world, one would think "evolutionary anthropo-sociology" would a foundational pillar of science. Like, why doesn't "humans didn't evolve to sleep in a room by themselves at the age of four" carry as much weight as "don't let your kids eat lead paint chips"?
As other comments have mentioned - they do not want to decompile the source, they want a clean-room-implementation.
Greenpeace sides with local farmers to protect their monopoly. So they can ensure their profitability.

This is a farce of course. They don't give a fart about farmers and their profits.

Greenpeace is full of people who believe in witchcraft and crystals, worrying that GM is somehow from the devil and must be opposed at any cost. Including the health and welfare of the Philippine people.

The rice they are growing now is GM, but just done at random by farmers over a long time. Nothing in that process is any safer or moral than creating rice deliberately and carefully for a certain goal.

Lets deny healthy food to the members of Greenpeace and see how long it takes them to fold.
LLM as Ouija Board
> Nope, sorry, personal anecdotes are not evidence no matter how many times you repeat them across multiple threads

You wrote : "I definitely did meet progressives who thought vaccines were dangerous, but I met many more conservatives that were "skeptical" of vaccines way before COVID."

You are the one that posted personal anecdotes.
The conspiracy theorists are already working on making H5N1 their next act of performative contrariness. Anything having to do with the disease is going to become a lighting rod. Go read some conservative forums, they're already anticipating public health guidance, and preparing their tough-guy "I will not comply" pitchforks. You can bet anything the CDC says about anything, they're going to be against--because their entire schtick is to be against the health system.
Could it have been a VMware expiration setting somewhere, and thus VMware itself deleted the customer’s tenant? If so then Google wouldn’t have a way to prove it won’t happen again except by always setting the expiration flag to “never” instead of leaving it blank
Does this way to write an implementation have a name?
How hard can it possibly be to just turn off the entire AI-generated overview functionality given that it just got introduced...
I use nchat for Telegram, on the terminal.
Asylum is the system that gives people a safe place to exist when e.g. Russia invades its neighbors. There's a lot more to it than 'walking across the Mexican border for a free meal ticket.'

There's plenty broken with the US immigration system. None of it is going to get solved by posting talking points to a largely apolitical discussion of "things hackers find interesting."
To be fair. Canada is stringent about Americans coming over the border and teaching anything, even in a non-professional capacity, without a work visa.
Yeah I copied CMake's idea of using PyPI and I also use it to distribute some pure Rust CLI tools using Maturin. It works really well. Pip is... well it's about on par with most other package managers, i.e. not great, not terrible, but it has some pretty huge advantages over any other software distribution method on Linux:

* Very likely to be installed already on Linux and probably Mac too.

* Doesn't require root to install. You can even have isolated installs via pyenv.

* I don't have to ask anyone's permission to publish a package.

* I only have to make one package.

If any can think of a better option I'm all ears but until then I'm fairly happy with this hack.
The problem was created by globalization.

Previously, companies could only grow so big. Now with a worldwide addressable market, that's increased substantially.

I'd love to see US antitrust law recast as a series of increasing restrictions. No need to make it binary.

If you exceed this threshold, these are the requirements you're held to...

If you exceed this next threshold, these are the additional requirements...

The root issue is that extremely large companies are held to the same rules as much smaller companies, while having access to resources that alone create monopoly concerns.

And, IMHO, Godzilla-style "find a big monster to fight the big monster" regulation isn't a healthy approach to creating competition. Much better to increase competition restrictions with company size.
This cult and its predecessor, the I AM, are cornerstones of American fascism. It’s a deep dive worth doing. I AM toward its end even perpetuated stories remarkably similar to Qanon, in the 1930s.

A fun fact too: General Nathan Flynn recited a very strange prayer at one of his gatherings. Turns out it’s a prayer from the Church Universal and Triumphant, this woman’s fascist cult. So there may be surviving ideological links today, or Flynn may be in a cult himself, or maybe whoever wrote it for him is.

https://x.com/PiperK/status/1445663165186904065

A lot of this stuff goes even further back to William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Shirts, an American fascist movement. Pelley and Edna Ballard, one of the founders of I AM, were associated.

Wouldn’t be the first time cults tried to use rich or powerful followers to gain money or power for themselves. Look into Scientology.
A large percentage of the population is doing the exact opposite of what good science is telling them. I feel like it's not just the economy but general critical thinking and education of folks has split into a K curve.
Maybe because that’s misleading and not very useful? There are different kinds of stealing, and the platitude “all art is stolen” conflates them. The kind you’re referring to is stealing ideas, and is not illegal. The kind parent is referring to is what copyright is designed for, and it happens to be illegal. It’s helpful to distinguish between these two kinds of stealing, because one can be good for society and art and business, and the other not so much.

The historical context of the idea that “all art is stolen” is intentional hyperbole, it’s meant to be provocative and a little but humorous, and not meant to be taken absolutely literally like you are implicitly suggesting. It does not mean literally that thieves walked out with the paintings, nor does it mean that art progressed because people were hand-copying the Mona Lisa. It was referring to varying degrees of using other people’s art as inspiration, borrowing subject matter or composition, mimicking techniques, etc.

None of this is what AI does. AI is trained on fixations (to borrow the copyright term) and can only produce remixes of fixations. It can’t do the kind of stealing that T.S. Eliot was talking about. It doesn’t steal ideas, it only steals pixels.
As a parent I also thought “I won’t repeat these patterns” but reality is, that is so hard. Often parents want the best for their children and use any possible technique to make sure they are successful.

I am not giving an excuse but rather want to point to our society and our behaviour. When an expat at work asked me yesterday where to move to make sure that his 5 year old will have the best schools of the country… with such an elitist behaviour, I can only facepalm and see this is going to be much worse in the next 5-10years.
It gets worse: for some projects I’ve been interested in, the docs are terribly incomplete and when you ask - you are told to ask in the discord
The abstract describes it as promoting lipophagy (the body using its stored fat), so it seems to be better access to fat as fuel. This is a bit distinct from "not gaining fat".
> Note that if the AI is better at science and technology than people are, it might be able to create its own weapons system or infrastructure.

Oh man, do I have a bridge to sell you!

For one, the internet already exists and is better at aggregating scientific and technological information than any of us, AI included. The stuff that LLMs feed you is cut-down, diluted information that is always better-provided by a human source. You know what that means... the internet is even more dangerous than AI!!!

...but wait. The internet doesn't do anything of it's own free will. It can be used for nefarious purposes, but that requires a nefarious actor to circumvent the safety mechanisms (which usually entails breaking the law). Hm. Guess that explains why nobody got very far building Skynet.

> are you really claiming that things like electrical generating stations cannot be taken over by breaking into the computers that control them even

I don't think anyone said that, but given that humans have also been capable of this for the past 30 years it feels like a moot-point. You are describing a security issue, not an AI one.
People just have no historical reference.

Think times are tough now? Try the great depression.

Worried about climate change? In the 1980s it was nuclear war.

People living paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by? Media glorifying the rich and famous? Nothing new.
Maybe I'm being stupid but what exactly is the issue here? It's probably a bit wasteful of the proxy to cache non-Go repos, but even if it didn't you could make it store arbitrary data just by having it cache a Go repo surely? Sounds like a complete non-issue unless I've missed something.
Understanding Coupling in Software Development
I remember a friend showing me photos from someone who shot a sparcstation and proved they were literally bulletproof. I can’t find them now though.
No. I may not be doing it all justice but my explanation would be that alpine is for client side interactivity and Htmx handles server interactions/server state sync.

A form example; htmx would handle a form submit response (eg insert the server response of a html todo item in a todo list on the dom), and alpine would handle the reset of the form values.

Htmx and co have their own alpinejs offering called _hyperscript. Definitely one to check out if you’re interested - quite pleasant to work with.
Thanks, that’s interesting info. I think you might be underestmating this part though:

“Here you see the 100 largest and most popular IRC networks that take part in netsplit.de's comparison, but please consider that there are still some big IRC networks that are out of competition"
Common ancestor with potentially a similar gut. That is not definitive against.

The researchers have shown an unexpected effect. They do not know the pathway. The fact the effect exists indicates there is some biochemistry at play that we did not expect to see. What that mechanism is, is not known. So, it is just a question mark, science does not know - and that is simply where we are. We don't know, and we don't even know the chances of the result carrying over to humans. It seems like science needs to identify the mechanism behind this result,then we can start looking at whether that mechanism also exists in humans and also if it functions in a similar way. We might have an enzyme that enhances the effect, or contrary, or not at all. Bottom line, no data is available to make any statements regarding human efficacy, it is a big fat - we do not know
Who knows how many of these are fake. People have been dropping inspect-element-manipulated screenshots all over twitter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-over...

> A correction was made on May 24, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to a Google result from the company’s new artificial-intelligence tool AI Overview. A social media commenter claimed that a result for a search on depression suggested jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge as a remedy. That result was faked, a Google spokeswoman said, and never appeared in real results.

that screenshot was tweeted by @allgarbled. ten minutes before, they tweeted:

>free engagement hack right now is to just inspect element on the google search AI thing and edit it to something dumb. hurry up, this deal won’t last forever
I’m sure this is true at some level. Just not _all_ levels.

At some point you just can’t connect to the db on the other side because it belongs to a different institution.
If you are so sure that it’s only 1-2%, then why are people irritated (to the point of burning things) when we suggest automatic paternity tests?

It should be a non-issue.

But let me guess, you are going to find the weakest word I have ever said and aggressively attack me on that?

The proof is in the pudding (it’s also in numerous other proxy statistics which are much more reliable than your study): You do not dare starting automatic paternity tests, and you are much happier asking men to emasculate themselves way before ever questioning women’s sincerity.

Well, guess what happens when something cannot be questioned.
The Engineering Distortion Field and the Rise of Stem Propaganda
Direct PDF link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03196322.pdf
Moon rock, I suppose
One quibble: some aspects of being a nerd are likely innate, but many are a choice, and being the stereotypical nerd isn't necessarily a lifelong condition.

In my teens I was very into computers, ham radio, fantasy books, and pretty well typified being a nerd.

I became obese and took an unhealthy pleasure in hating the outdoors and thinking anyone who enjoyed exercise was shallow and probably dumb.

Then in my late 20s my parents died young, and I snapped out of being so foolish.

Maybe if the industry has become less nerdy, part of the cause is some individuals becoming less nerdy as they age?
Yet the new struggles are real too? explaining them away as more of the same does nothing. There are old problems and there are new problems and they're both problems.
When you take the clothes out, are they hot or lukewarm? Mine are lukewarm, and it doesn't seem possible that heat could damage (and it never does). Other, regular type (high heat) dryers do regularly damage fragile clothes.
From the PowerShell Github releases page[1] you can expand 'assets' and 'show more assets' and find a ZIP distribution which doesn't need installing, unzip it. e.g. PowerShell-7.4.2-win-x64.zip . Then from PowerShell 7 somewhere, run

Save-Module ImportExcel -Path C:\Whatever\

and copy that module folder along with the PowerShell folder to the remote machine, and you can import modules from a full path:

Import-Module C:\Whatever\ImportExcel

and do a no-install copy-paste deployment of powershell 7 and modules. (I'm not saying you should do this instead of using Lua, just that you can).

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases
Perhaps, but back in the days you weren't exposed 24/7 to all of that (IMHO).
It didn’t go away — it moved. You can disable JS per website in Web Inspector. That way you can disable JS from the site you are building, while being able to use Safari with JS to look things up on other websites.
Google shot their own foot. Starting with discontinuing Google Reader, the biggest ecosystem of blogs at the time. Could have evolved into a moat against social media walled garden.
> ...supporting forever wars like Ukraine

Opposing Russian aggression, rape, and slaughter in Europe is now a left-wing thing?

Trump broke one political party psychologically, but it isn't the left-wing one.
I'd say the broader issue here is a lack of transparency into results.

If Google is sending bad results, who can prove that?
It seems to be turned off for me. And I was in beta testing for a month. Or maybe they are figuring out who is doing weird searches and turning off for them.

In any case this thing is just hilarious. Just right after their AI painted historical figures as black.
Allowing Epic into Google Play seems like such a poor fix to me. It doesn't seem to end the abuse just allow Epic in on the game.
I don't know about Russian dads, but in America it's very likely they'd be indulged. I don't know anyone who would kick their teenage child out of the house because he or she was depressed. Especially when you see the sort of life the homeless have in most places.

I'm sure it happens, but at least from my perspective it would not be common.
My view of Google during these 25 years went from amazed to disgusted.
> Just like there is a 'real risk' of catching parasites from eating plants. Or any foodborn illness from any food really.

Most foodborn illnesses are not contagious to other people, and most are not nearly as bad as tuberculosis.

> Using that logic, humans can't consume any plants, fruits, meat, etc because they aren't 'meant for humans'.

I really don't think you read my comment in good faith. By "meant by", I really meant "evolved for", not any kind of god-given sense, and I do feel like that was pretty obvious. If we evolved to eat something untreated, then that's what I meant by "meant for us". I think you actually knew that.

I'm not really an advocate of a lot of raw foods, I think treating them in the form of cooking kills a lot of pathogens that could be bad for us.

> Do you only drink breast milk?

Is this just a meme with the raw milk crowd? Why is it automatically assumed that I'm suggesting that adults consume any form of raw milk. That's not implied by anything I said. I don't think adults should be drinking untreated human breast milk or untreated cow milk.

I personally don't really drink any milk, human or cow or otherwise. I do eat cheese from cow milk though, but it's always treated.
Modern high efficiency heat pump dryers don't have any exhaust. In the UK dryers have never had an exhaust.
Pay no attention to the Accenture contractors behind the curtain!
The conundrum is that the entrenched powers could likely continue to wield power based on the amount of regulations and standards in tech nowadays. There basically would need to be a way to subsidize startups for whom such compliance is a significant expense.
So Google hasn't used an LLM to generate and test weird queries ? This is not putting the bar very high for the whole industry... There'd be so much to gain from a clean deployment...
Either it hard, either it is a rush. As a machine learnist, I believe it's actually impossible, by design of the autoregressive LLM. This race may we'll be partially to the bottom.
It's reddit-like BUT it doesn't have the same mass adoption and that's why I go to reddit. I don't have time to be a saint and help their numbers, so I just go to reddit and read what I want. Really HN is the only SM platform that I actually participate both ways with. I just read thing on other SM sites to catch up with friends or topics (like reddit). Comments there are mostly a trash heap but on something you want to know about you can find a gold nugget every now and then.
> The root issue is that extremely large companies are held to the same rules as much smaller companies, while having access to resources that alone create monopoly concerns.

Totally agree. Another “simple” solution is different taxes based on size (maybe based on global revenues or profits).
Management realized that they are not good enough to sustain progress, so they humbly allocate resources to the next generation: AI
In Europe even iPhone users will preferentially use WhatsApp in my experience.

I have exactly one contact who prefers iMessage over WhatsApp or Signal. The majority use WhatsApp, with Signal being a growing second.

Telegram comes in third place - but mostly that’s used for following “feeds”
Thanks for this comment. The parent comment came off quite ageist. As though the person in question struggled to keep up with the times. In reality, human dynamics play a big role in software quality. I wonder, could it be that the younger developer who recently became a lead both changed the team dynamics, and has not yet fully mastered the art of motivating fellow team members?