skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Automated alignment research" suggests he's still interested in following the superalignment blueprint from OpenAI. So what do you do while you're waiting for the AI that's capable of doing alignment research for you to arrive? If you believe this is a viable path, what's the point of putzing around doing your own research when you'll allegedly have an army of AI researchers at your command in the near future?
Nice sentiment, but are you using chatbots now and having a positive experience with them?
I wonder if there's some kind of e-lobby that tries to further its agenda by pushing panic and paranoia into societies.

Funny how we always hear talks about how we have to limit CO2 and how the best way to do this is to buy solar or wind power and an e-car.

Nobody seems to talk about what we do if that's not enough and how we tackle the challenges ahead but solar power, e-car and a democratic president are the right answers.

As soon as you question that narrative a lot of bad faith actors show up to de-rail the discussion and attack you in person because solar power, e-car and a democratic president...

Even when you read an article like this and you're under the impression that it's even half neutral, in the end solar power, e-car and the democratic president...

I'm so tired of people destroying our future with this activism, I don't even know where to start.

Hail solar power, e-car and a democratic president!
Why would the laptop class need to commute?
The government is doing everything they can stop it, but home prices are indeed falling [1]. A 2.2% decline doesn't sound like much, but it's wild given the strong GDP growth over the same period.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-new-home-prices-d...
> Too many properties are being used as investments and not as a primary residence.

When properties are being used as an investment, they are rented out. If that's true, it should show up as higher rental vacancy rate and low/stagnant rent. That's not the case in Vancouver, BC as we have low vacancy rate and rising rent.

Homes could be left as left empty as well, but we have multiple annual taxes, ranging from 0.5% to 3% of the total property value targeting these underutilized home, and that hasn't driven price down. In additions, these taxes essentially provide an one-time only increase in the number of homes available. They can be easily absorbed by population growth.

With the population increase in Canada, building more is the only way out.
Google Fi used T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular behind the scenes. At least, they did at the time I signed up, which was why I signed up. Sprint merged into T-Mobile a few years ago; Fi dropped US Cellular last spring.

Since then, I've stayed on from inertia. I'll probably switch to T-Mobile's $15 / 5 GB plan soon, since it's half the price I'm paying for now-no-better service from Fi and I rarely use more than 1 GB per month.
Exactly right. Ignoring income of local buyers in market would be ridiculous.

My family bought an apartment couple of hrs from Delhi for about $100K which is huge amount for locals considering it is center/ hub of nothing. And as far as fit/finish goes one can easily spend another $50K on it to bring it barely to level of basic rental apartment in US.
AI picture... am I the only one who is kind of disappointed at these AI generated illustrations? At least, when you hover over them, they should display what the AI was prompted with to make them.
Limits of foreign ownership/approval regimes for broadcast services are a thing, no?
Is September a fast track though? Outside of IT I feel everything is moving at slow motion. Sure they need armies of lawyers but I assume they already hired a lot? Why not a direct ban but requires the army of lawyers to request an appeal? I bet this would send motions faster -- they won't wait for 4 months.
it's also completely theoretical, until it isn't (ref paperclip maximizers)
Should we teach high schoolers Scratch?
It's not twice the work. It's actually very little work to run dual stack.
> Thermodynamic hardware many orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than CPUs/GPUs.

I’m sorry, but is this thermodynamic hardware real? Are there any benchmarks? Those claims are pretty strong.
> Housing is just where the rubber hits the road and regular lives are directly affected.

The reason why we didn't see rampant consumer product inflation in the wave of irresponsible money-printing meant to soften the 2008 crisis was that the stimulus targeted at the wealthy and went into assets, such as the housing you just mentioned. However, COVID-19 stimulus checks were given to normal people, so inflation now hits normal people's daily purchases.
AI products much hyped but not much used, study says
What are you going to replace it with for internet purchases?
What’s weird about Microsoft’s VFS layer?
I don't see why fdroid would never provide a payment feature. At least for ethical reasons. Fdroid focuses on free software (and is also concerned with privacy and other features). Free software does not need to be gratis. As long as the payment code is open source. At worst it would be a NonFreeNet anti feature. Could be mitigated by supporting several payment platform.

Of course it could be hard to set up in practice.
If I recall correctly, it was double the fun when it points to the original copy of your other wp install while it’s still running.
Huh! All this time I thought the "super" was just for branding/differentiation.
I haven't put any effort in whittling down my use of PayPal, but my usage has dropped precipitously anyway, with online merchants adopting Shopify or Stripe, or consolidating to large marketplaces.
I find this very interesting and both correlative with respect to other defining crafts through history and portentous of how AI technology will enable only a fraction of the population (workforce). This is why I believe it is important to become a student and then master of AI starting now.

Other examples:
- Stone masons in medieval Europe was around <5%
- Literate clerics in the early Catholic church <5%
- Surveyors in the early 19th century <5%
- People with STEM degrees in the world actively working in a STEM field ~5%
The first amendment says nothing about ownership of the press.
Seems like the first amendment should prohibit that, but so far courts have not agreed.
Seems like I struck a nerve in some way? It's 2024 and you can call a man a dog to his face or even stomp on his blue suede shoes, but as soon as an argument has a walletary impact, the response is swift and lethal.

Maintenance is just not an argument. Unless you choose – yes choose – to rent to destructive tenants, or in other ways are irresponsible with your property, maintenance cost is a tiny fraction of what you get from rent. The same for insurance, taxes, etc that you list. Nobody is unaware of these costs.

With that said, I'm not demonizing over these landlords. I'm sure they're fine people and could be worse like you say.

A renter should not be any more grateful to the landlord than a worker should be grateful to the shareholder for paying their salary. It is an exchange. I do think it is better when homeowners at least rent out their property instead of just letting it rot abandoned like many choose. The most decent thing of course would be for them to sell property they don't need and we wouldn't be living in this dystopia from the beginning.

The youth of the industrialized nations are vanishing on a grander scale than ever seen - for petty gains to a few. And those gains will be short lived when the economy folds in on itself due to the impossibility for productive people to have a home. In the end you cannot have an extremely highly skilled workforce that is needed to sustain a modern economy, while at the same time keeping them dumbed down enough to accept total life long exploitation and their own genetical extermination.
Not OP but scammy is a bit harsh here. I do agree, metered would be cool, but for v1 I'm not surprised to see the pricing as such.
as a side note: pickup is also better for the restaurant, because they don't have to pay a cut to the delivery service. If you like your local restaurants and want to support them, order pickup instead of delivery.
It's worth noting that you can opt out of that too. You should have received a privacy disclosure with every credit card you've opened containing instructions on how to opt out. Usually you have to make a phone call - you won't find the option in your online banking portal.
> Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences. An inference is valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, meaning that it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion to be false.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning>
Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand
It seems like they’re asking you to write out your plans and what makes you trustworthy on the website. Talking to people 1:1 won’t solve that problem.

Saying “you can’t trust me” isn’t a good look for a SaaS.
You had access to nicer turntables as a kid! That was a distinguishing feature between the more "serious" music hobbyist and the person who just wanted to play some tunes.

I haven't messed around with a turntable in over 20 years but these days, only the supposed "serious" music hobbyist would be using a turntable and I'd think anyone making a turntable that didn't have this adjustment would be laughed out of the market. What are you going to tell me next - they're also using belt drive, a plastic needle, and a tone arm with a non-adjustable counterweight?! :)
Right, but when you’re driving 100km/h down the road, hitting a moose will slow you down a whole lot more than a bird.

Is there any discussion in the scaling/proportion of a given facet when these get brought up?
Meshtastic (LoRa) RF Protocol Reverse Engineered from RF to Bytestream for GnuR
How Do Language Models Put Attention Weights over Long Context?
ok, so point 1 is about making sure i don't accidentally lose control of the project. i am not sure that matters. if my life dictates that i focus on other things then this is a natural development. for me the guiding principles should dictate my behavior but not my priorities. (unless it comes to priorities within the project when they affect the community). saying that i have to stay on top of the project is claiming that i am the only one capable of leading the project. that may or may not be true.

it also may or may not be important for me to keep being the leader of the project. there was at least one project that i started that i was eventually no longer using and i happily passed it on to someone else.

if anything, as a behavior rule i'd add: step down when the project is no longer important to me.

on point 2, i am not sure. most project founders have the problem to get even themselves funded. far from being able to fund others. and i disagree that not funding people from the start means it will remain a hobby project. just look at debian. it got huge without paying people to work on it, and infact attempts to introduce paying people caused a number of high level contributors to get upset and leave the project.

so yes, funding does affect what kind of people are attracted to the project, but, funding others from the start is unrealistic. and the people i pay to work on my project are people who will leave the moment i stop paying them. they see it as a job and i see them as employees or contractors (and that is not hypothetical, i am in fact paying someone right now to help me on a foss project, and i get paid from that project too (so i am a contractor with a subcontractor)). before i got paid i was an inactive member of that community, and when i stop getting paid i will probably become inactive again because i can't afford to spend a lot of time to contribute while i have to work other contracts.

so i am not sure there is a benefit to the community to have these people around. participation in a community tends to be voluntary. and communities either function well when everyone gets paid in some form, or noone. paying some people and not others is asking for trouble, unless the project is a commercial entity that needs paid workers to serve paid customers. but then again, the paid workers and the company itself are not considered part of the community, but instead they are the owners of the community. that's a different relationship.
There are already phones like that. Go for it.
> requiring that their preferred press must only controlled by the government's preferred owners?

By “preferred owners” you mean literally anybody not from China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Venezuela [1]. Anyone in America, Europe, most of the Americas, most of Asia, and all of Africa. (Oz can come too.)

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subp...
Well you've got Beff Jezos. This is as real as it gets.
It is somewhat ironic that that GitHub link has no visible documentation when one first opens it.
I worked in a backend team that introduced JWT, before I got there. The problem we had with JWT was that the data was stale. Even if it wasn't stale, it needed to be treated as stale because every service wanted the up to date data, even within 1 sec that data is old. The user could have changed something in their account from the time that the JWT was issued. I removed JWT and went back to the old UUIDs as tokens.
I think his tweet can be read as "research in (1) scalable oversight, (2) weak-to-strong generalization, and (3) automated alignment".
CT alters the economics of large-scale misissuance, actively, by creating consequences for it. CAs have been distrusted for issues detected by CT. That's not "passive".
I would expect:

1. Detect wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCwRdrFtJuE

2. Time wow.

3. Round to nearest record speed and report delta.

I'd also expect that armed with a normal FFT algorithm that Ye Olde Bash On Algorithme Until Functionale would be fairly likely to work with reasonable effort, without having to get too "signal processor-y" on the FFT output.
I mean more that I always have to look it up to double check. But I like the tip to remember by thinking of the sequence and the numerical order. That does help!
I think the path is now Chat bot -> Help Desk -> Engineer.
Plan9 doesn't use plain text commands really. Look at how various services work and you'll find there's usually a C library wrapping the underlying pseudo-file. Plan9 was IMHO to a large extent a failed experiment; the filesystem API wasn't extended enough to be able to express enough operations (e.g. no transactions).

The other problem with Plan9 style designs it the concept of filesystem servers. This kills off a lot more expressiveness still e.g. you can't move device files around to organize them better because they aren't really files and the layout is fixed by the server. A dbus that exported stuff via the FS would have the same problem. It'd be full of "files" that you can't rename, move, delete, add xattrs to, read, etc. Most of the operations you can do on files just wouldn't work so what's the point.
The scramble to 'prebunk' election misinformation before it takes hold
There are an infinite number of ways to ascribe meaning to galaxy dots such that they would write out Shakespeare.
Sure; my point was about the specific dynamic of "what happens if the creator wants to move to a different venue," not the general differences between YouTube and network/cable TV.
There is at least one company raising genetically engineered swine to provide organs for humans.
I do it for a couple reasons:

1. Freedom - by using a custom domain, I'm not locked into my email provider

2. Unlimited addresses - a@, foo@, john@; with a custom domain, they're all mine and enable me to make useful aliases and filter rules
How is AI changing the way we cook?
10th generation IP holder acquires 3rd generation IP holder. Whatever.
I thought that was only if you accept a "points plan" of some sort, which, of course we all do. :-/ Aeroplan is a great example of this too. No one ever asks what they are giving up for aeroplan. The answer is your entire purchase history!

People often focus on how the internet allows cross-site tracking and other privacy invasions, but generally don't get vocal about things like credit cards and points plans that have done this since time before the internet!
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) with React Native and Arduino
These are attackers exploiting BGP. They can bypass DNSSEC, too. DNS is control of names; BGP is control of the underlying IPs.
I've already dramatically reduced the amount of stuff I buy online. For things I have to buy online, I can just use one-time-use cards.
I'm not using Google play or any other services on android over 6 years now. You don't need banking apps for making transactions.
https://archive.is/Ulu8v
Depends on how the courts rule. If the copyright maximalists prevail, only the wealthiest entities will be able to afford to license a useful data set.

Paradoxically enough, this is the outcome that most "Hacker News" denizens seem to be rooting for.
yes, one is a real company and one is...
It's not misleading. The obvious assumption is that GP works for a team at Microsoft that uses ADO and not Github.
Linux lacks any equivalent of Apple's code signing and entitlements system, and as the kernel devs point out that leads to problems with making a proper kernel IPC system. The right fix would have been to do what Apple did and work out a namespaced and extensible system for capabilities/entitlements, but they never did it.
> [The Fine Article / OP] may have some funky network setup

It is very common (or perhaps almost ubiquitous since most routers will respond, idk) to get responses and works by default for most devices. It will not work if you:

- Have no IPv6 devices on your network

- The hosts on your network have a firewall that filters the packets or configuration that disables pinging (I think Windows disabled ping by default since Vista)

- You have some fancy network with host isolation (trading usability for security), often seen with enterprise vendors

- It autodetected the wrong interface to send the packets out on. I don't know how ping does this, perhaps it tries to just send it everywhere. Can't quickly find it but the Arch wiki says you have to specify the interface (for me it works without, so clearly that's not exactly accurate, but I imagine it may not do what you want)
I suspect that legally you are right about "More important".

But from the "moral" and "public perception" PoV, I'm thinking that the AI's behavior matters more.
Which is better for habitual, problem opiate users: a) they can get a clean supply of their drugs, a safe place to do them, medical support if they encounter issues, and connection to treatment programs and social services even if they keep using or b) they cannot get a clean supply of their drugs and needles which means increased spread of HIV and hepatitis (both preventable diseases), increased chance of interaction and overdose due to adulteration, active pressure to not admit use or seek addiction treatment for fear of criminal punishment, and active exclusion from social services?

Yes, not _everyone_ will stop using opiates if they’re made legal. THAT'S THE POINT - more users will quit when provided resources and the ones who don’t quit are better off than they were before while they work toward sobriety if they choose.
They're certified to know that any effort spent on proper packaging is wasted.
I think broadcast is treated very differently because of the limited number of frequencies.
Gzip Predicts Data-Dependent Scaling Laws
Is this not something of an oxymoron? If there exists an ai that is more intelligent than humans, how could we mere mortals hope to control it? If we hinder it so that it cannot act in ways that harm humans, can we really be said to have created superintelligence?

It seems to me that the only way to achieve superalignment is to not create superintelligence, if that is even within our control.
There are already laws against foreign ownership of media companies.
Maybe it's that I never used one of them, so forgive me if I'm wrong: can I still go go the right it I missed the exit, and how? Can I do an U-turn and how? And finally, there are still traffic lights, and thus the potential to jump a red and t-bone someone.

I'm not really saying they are scary, but they are not less scary than a roundabout IMO.
Them cat reacts because you have sprayed them at least once with it and it associated negative emotions to that action. It’s not like cats and orcas see a water bottle at birth and immediately know what it is and what will happen if it’s used against them. That is an entirely learned behavior from what you have done to them in the past with it. You can attach negative and positive associations with most items if you consistently do something.

The OP’s point is that spraying them will do nothing because they are literally in a giant pool of water already. A spritz is literally not going to affect them at all. They probably wouldn’t even notice it happening nor be able to associate an emotion to it.
I agree with your assessment of fuel prices and whatnot but I just checked Autotrader. I set 11k as the price, SUV body type and there are 63 electric cars to choose from. Over 40 are MG...

If I change it to Diesel I get over 11k cars available. 171 Santa Fe models.

The range on those MG's is about 180 miles too: 3 times this year I've driven to Aberdeen - I'd run out of juice on the way in the EV. I get just over 400 in my diesel.

The energy density of batteries isn't comparable to ICE cars.

An 11k EV is not a patch on a 11k diesel.
Yes, this is exactly what they did.

Rosa Parks “got in the way” by not leaving a seat she wasn’t legally allowed to sit in. She disrupted the flow of the white passengers. Today people would say “why doesn’t she protest elsewhere? She’s just getting in the way of bus riders who are trying to get to work.”

Sit ins were lead by MLK. People would go into restaurants, order food, and refuse to leave until they were served, despite being told they had to leave because of (legal) race laws. Today they’d be told they should protest elsewhere, that there is a time and a place, and they are hurting their cause by creating a disturbance.

Thoreau explicitly states you have a moral obligation to oppose unjust laws, etc. and resist governments, etc.

Empathetic awareness raising is one way and often not sufficient.

Read kings Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

1) determine if an injustice is actually being committed
2) attempt to talk with those committing the injustice to resolve it
3) prepare spiritually for non-violent resistance to evil
4) engage in non-violent resistance, protest only after all other means are exhausted, be prepared to be beaten and do not fight back, and 4 is only a means to get back to 2 — to open negotiations and discussions to restore justice.

The greatest “harm” to a cause is often passive silence.

Sitting by and critiquing activists is often a pastime of folks who stand to benefit from the preservation of the status quo and who have no real desire for immediate change.

Here is King reading his Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Worth the 50 minutes to listen.

https://youtu.be/ATPSht6318o?si=37312G9PxNHyYAEs
But we don't control the fed. The degree to which these investments are risky is our only lever.
Edmund Husserl – Consciousness
Can we please not? This forum is better than this.
it does get longer. rather than typing in aaaa copy and paste it and copy and paste that to grow exponentially
> what do you do while you're waiting for the AI that's capable of doing alignment research for you to arrive

Nobody interested in superalignment is interested in waiting until actually threatening AI gets here.