skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oh. And what are these universal "human values?"

That is the core problem of AI X-risk, and has been studied in this context for at least 2-3 decades. If we knew the answer, we would know how to make a perfectly aligned AGI.
At least on my GPU this is extremely slow compared to disabling it.
>> In the era of the feed and timeline, nobody bothers to check “Following” when you have “Recommended” enabled by default.

That's something I really hate and I feel pretty dumb that I found just some weeks ago that I can change X's feed to show me the posts people who I follow. I wonder if that's true for instagram as well because I can't stand to see random posts anymore. To be honest, I'm getting tired of it.

i.e: I'm really enjoying going to a record shop to listen to music instead of spotify crap. the serendipity is real
How close are we to creating artificial intelligence (Deutsch, 2012)
Lol no!
> Air Canada's Fitzpatrick says launching the case was the only way the airline could get clarity on the new CTA officers' obligations when assessing evidence. ... The CTA has asked the court for permission to participate in the case but Air Canada is fighting the request.

Weird that you would be opposed to participation of the very people you're seeking clarity on.
I think the precise pre-condition is that the theory should be recursive, which means either a finite list of axioms _or_ a computable check to determine whether a given formula is an axiom.
Doesn't seem like a lot of work to me. Sending out that message takes a few minutes, and I would assume that most people would simply cave in and delete it. It's gone anyways, so they don't really lose much, and being threatened does things to people.
Seeing an epicycles animation years ago did wonders for my understanding of the complex representation of Fourier series, and I’ve been looking for that animation ever since to share with others getting into signals for the first time. This post far surpasses that page though! Excellent work, excited to share it with people in the future.
> Many constraints are extremely expensive to enforce at scale to the point of being prohibitive

Incremental View Maintenance engines might be the solution we've been waiting for here.
Among one of the excellent articles on game consoles is the on on the 3DS that references the 3dbrew articles, but provides an easier to higher level explanation of the flaws (along with how the rest of the machine works).

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-3ds/
> Some of my most popular posts are throwaway quips and memes that went viral on social media. One of my life’s crowning achievements is this: [witty, throwaway, quip tweet].

> In contrast, some of the work I put weeks or months into essentially lost the SEO game and gets nearly zero traffic ... Even though I don’t write for money, there is an immense pressure to produce clickbait — even if simply to add “hey, since you’re here, check out this serious thing”.

This will be different for different people, but I've noticed a moderately strong negative correlation between how much effort I put into something and how much engagement it gets (this seems likely to be different for people who apply their effort to generating engagement). The highest engagement content content of mine tends to be thoughtless social media comments I make without thinking. Something like https://danluu.com/ftc-google-antitrust/, which summarizes 300+ pages of FTC memos and is lucky to get 10% of the traffic of a throwaway comment and is more likely to get < 0.1% of the traffic of a high-engagement throwaway comment. Of course there's a direct effect, in that a thoughtless joke has appeal to a larger number of people than a deep dive into anything, but algorithmic feeds really magnify this effect because they'll cause the thoughtless joke to be shown to orders of magnitude more people so something with a 10x difference in appeal will end up with, say, a 1000x difference in traffic on average and even more in the tail.

I don't think this is unique to tech content either. For example, I see this with YouTube channels as well — in every genre or niche that I follow, the most informative content doesn't has fairly low reach and the highest engagement content leans heavily on entertainment value and isn't very informative.
Standby is usually enough and much faster anyway
A Surf Legend's Long Ride
https://archive.ph/ImAlY
I've done DMT a handful of times, and experienced the "entities" in several of them. After the trips ended I did not have any particular feeling that these entities were real, though the experiences were strange in a way that was quite wonderful.

One trip lacked any of these entities, but the time dilation is something that I still contemplate today, a decade or so later. It literally felt like hundreds or thousands of years had passed, with clear memory of all sorts of mundane days, etc., along with more memorable ones, particularly in the days following the trip. It had a pretty profound impact on my worldview, particularly in the few months following it, though those memories faded faster than real memories would. Feeling like I had lived for so long did make a lot of my day-to-day worries seem far less significant.

Also not anything I ascribe to any sort of mystical or extra-planar root-cause, but the ability for the brain to invent such a huge quantity of information over a ~15 minute trip is crazy to me, in the "man brains are weird" sense.
Yeah, I had upvoted the comment, and retracted the upvote when I got to the last sentence. Nobody who has anything kind to say about snaps has any business anywhere near my desktop.
From the article comments:

“when trying to reset my phone they are prompted to enter my iCloud password. My iCloud email is also one of the ways to reach me via iMessage. So they used that to contact me”
The amount of evidence you and the article misses to put on the table?
Return it to an Apple store? Apple knows who to contact.
I sometimes see certain memes related to some corporate content pick up a ton of traction online and can't help but wonder if they're organic or manufactured. Spreading subtle ads through memes is probably still an under-explored area of marketing and it bypasses modern ad-blocking techniques. The way I learned of Invincible was through a couple memes, which eventually lead me to research and watch the series.

To give a concrete example of another trend: a few years back there was this group trend on TikTok of going to the theater dressed up in a suit to watch some animated movie. You would only need to pay a couple of large accounts to engage in this trend, and then others will follow along because they want to fit in.

Another dimension through which content marketing will probably expand in the future is by creating media that encourages people to take sides and engage in discussions, like Giant Monkey vs Giant Reptile, who wins? This trend is very popular within the political landscape, but it could probably be twisted for fictional IPs as well.
Change for the changes sake, of course.
That’s why I talked about unnecessary complexity. Of course many hard things in life are worthwhile. I don’t think anybody would argue otherwise.
I believe I speak for all when I say I keep all my most important files in /tmp and ~/Downloads
>it was in an office building conveniently located around the corner from an Adidas store

lol no.

That location is the Huaqiangbei electronics market - one of the largest electronics markets in the world w/ a thriving 2nd hand parts ecosystem.
I assume they just take the money. Just like facebook allows random pages to be tagged as government orgs. That said, perhaps they are a sole proprietor and that would be a legit business.
uW/cm^2 and other data available from https://www.exeger.com/powerfoyle/downloads/ after a few minutes' web searching. Not surprising that the "newspaper" articles doesn't go into that much depth.

My knowledge of these things is shaky at best but I reckon that the "Hybrid" gives up to 0.0015 W/m^2 and the "Indoor" gives up to 0.000050, which ... doesn't sound like a lot, particularly given you'll have much less that 1m^2 of material on the suggested consumer goods, but it depends how much power they need. Also, devices could be continually charging as long as they're not in the dark or in a bag/pocket/etc.

Anyone know enough about the relevant sorts of devices to say more?
It's my bin. I paid a lot of money for it. I can keep my keys in it if I want and if it's convenient for me. I don't work for the council and I don't care what their agenda is.

Why not just have the installer _ask_ me what configuration I prefer? Is there some reason you have to force the change, announce a victory, then make me to go mucking with "defaults" after the fact?
Yeah but flying Miami back to the US to murder their whole family does seem like a lot of effort.
What those people told you is correct, and "I don't have those, I have i3" is incorrect. Stop ignoring them.
Yes, but, 'where' are they better than Intel and AMD?
long time ago i had my samsung galaxy stolen

ive not reported as stolen because my carrier said i needed proof of the receipt (which i lost years ago)

its such a crappy experience i dont wish it on anyone. Samsung has been next to useless in finding it.

having said that this article makes me glad I bought an Apple

just wish they'd kept the hardware touch button on the non-SE phones and back button.

this is the first iPhone for me but i keep searching for the "alt+tab" and back button. it was ridiculously hard to switch between apps (have to physically press the touch button twice which makes me lose grip on teh phone).

honestly its so close to being perfect but the iPhone has some obvious interface flaws coming from Android
Thanks for this informative post. I was a little confused as well.

Right, now we have e-SIMs. So what was the reason for physical SIMs in the first place?
Unfortunately I don't think browsers handle opening MHTML well out of the box.

At least last time I checked in only worked for local paths (file://) and only some browsers. Otherwise it would either try to download or just show plain text.

I ended up using Chrome to dump to MHTML [1] and then reshuffle the content into individual files, rewriting the path references and fixing mime types [2]. That gives a reasonably faithful static capture of a page that can be shared as link.

[1] https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Page/...
[2] https://github.com/lacop/udrb/blob/master/app/src/chrome/mod...
Yet we have _standing_ Armies.
Are you being facetious or facist? I can't tell.
But to align the LLM in this way, it needs to have agency, desires, wishes, impulses...

Not only do LLMs lack such things, but we don't even have any semblance of an idea of how we could give LLMs these things.
>“hackers” might “contact my family” to, what, send them thousands of photos of my dog??

I'm confused. The attacker doesn't have access to the author's photos or family contacts, right?
Mostly, no. Nobody except for expensive precision resistor companies are actually measuring resistors more than statistically.

The resistors are manufactured so that they are "guaranteed by manufacturing" such that the outliers are 1%, 5%, 10%, etc. And they do statistical checks on batches, but not really looking for the 10% outlier (which is stupendously rare and very difficult to catch) but looking for slight drifts off nominal (which are much easier to spot) which would result in more outliers than expected.

As such, if you measure resistors, you tend to find that you get really close to nominal--much closer than you would expect for 10%, say. Resistors are so cheap that binning simply doesn't make economic sense.
> because Hacker News for whatever reason

HN is largely pro-status-quo. Deferring to parasitic gatekeepers is how things get done in the worldview of the HN mindset, so this reaction shouldn't surprise you.

When evaluating a given action from the HN zeitgeist, a decent rubric is: if a Western government authorizes it, it is universally good. If a Western government discourages it, it is Hitler.

Further, and importantly: if the action in question is determined to be Hitler, it is not merely bad; it is unthinkable (because the mere act of considering it would make you, the thinker, also Hitler), and therefore not worthy of being considered an option in the first place.
You do not get rich from income. You get rich from wealth. Income can help you acquire wealth.

Early in your career, aim to change jobs every 3-5 years. Your income and career will rise much faster and you will gain more experience.

Take on debt when it is cheap, so long as it goes towards durable goods or personal investment. Loans where the interest rate is lower than inflation is free money.

Talk to a loan officer before you start saving up for a house. You may not have the right savings goals in mind.

Nothing will eat away at your finances worse and more quietly than a car payment. For the monthly cost of a new Camry, you could buy an old running Camry every 5 months.

Nothing will save you money more than roommates.

Know yourself. If you chase side-projects and have ambition, don't stick all your money into retirement - set aside money for direct investments. If you just want to work the bare minimum and play video games, then squirrel away at a steady rate.

Having cash or savings when entering a recession is how people get wealthy.

The best investments are in private businesses, followed by real estate, followed by stocks, followed by bonds. But it is also directly proportional with risk and effort.

You may come to a point in your life when your time is worth more to you than your money. Don't become accustomed to wasting either.
Tao and Maynard are both academics…
Different names in every German speaking country

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauschalabgabe
DevOps is _all about communication_ (simply cannot emphasise this enough!) and is not a great fit for those who might struggle in this area. "Clients" can be outside the company or simply internal customers (your colleagues).
There is a difference between irrational fear, and the situation here, which is about not willing to self-inflict pain and days of suffering for a potentially helpful vaccine.

The physical pain and struggle that you endure during vaccination is very real (you fight the spike protein fragment) versus a relatively weak virus now.

Also with the vaccination and the virus, you get some very nasty side-effects (micro-thrombosis, etc).

Calling it a guaranteed benefit is odd. It may benefit in some circumstances, but each case has to be individually assessed.

For now it has very low real-world utility for most people but it practically guarantees real suffering, not just “irrational fear“. Because of that I don’t think that forcing everybody to get again vaccines is a good idea.
Recently migrated a vim script mess to Lua and got what a breath of fresh air it is.
I am legitimately shocked that you actually expect anything better out of X. Why is this even news? Everyone knows verification is and has been a joke.
OpenTelemetry from 0 to 100
I think I was very unclear. I didn't mount anything, the docker daemon by default is accessible over http (over a unix domain socket rather than the typical TCP).

I was proposing that this persons web app not do any sort of subprocess automation via something like ht, and instead take in requests and talk to the docker daemon on clients behalf. Since that allows any sort of authentication or filtering that needs to happen.

I wasn't really seriously proposing the straight reverse proxy setup. That's one of those layer violations like PostREST that is either genius or lunacy. I haven't figured out which one.
I don't mean to imply that books are the ONLY way to consume information, just that reading correlates strongly with being an information addict and that many people don't read at all. Therefore, it seems to me, many people are not infovores.
The LLM usually molds itself into whatever prompt you give it. That's one way.

The other way is to train it on biased information that aligns with a certain agency, desire, wish or impulse.
If it works like Jupyter, as a file that can be version controlled, and like Deepnote where multiple people can be viewing/working on it at the same time, my mind would be blown.
I don't know what portion of a typical plants mass is carbon, and your 273 grams of carbon number is right (the 1kg number is CO2), but I don't think "people don't need to eat 10's of kilos of plants per day" actually justifies your claim about their density or invalidates GPs claim as to how much plant-mass you need to offset what you eat.

We don't just eat random (average) parts of plants, we eat selected ones, primarily things like fruits and bulbs that plants store energy in. If you just tried to eat, say, lettuce... at 2000 calories per day you would need roughly 14kgs [1, 2]. Which is surprisingly close to GPs 10s of kg number all things considered.

Either way, growing 2kg of plant/day or 20kg of plant/day... seems impractical to me. There's also the issue that if you equalize CO2 levels with the outdoors during the day as you open doors and windows, you're going to make night worse as both you and the plants output CO2 during the night.

[1] Lettuce is 14 calories / 100g - https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/lettuce...

[2] Math here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2000+calories+%2F+%2814...
'Laser-trimmed resistors' will be the next selling point on a boutique guitar FX company's 57th clone of a Tubescreamer.
That has nothing to do with this. To do that you would be long-term leaving the money in their account, requiring their cooperation because they would have the legal right to withdraw it. The same scheme works when you have the person whose name is on the account open it themselves.

On top of that, that isn't even how withholding works. The tax isn't taken out by the bank, it's taken out by the employer, so to make your scheme work you'd have to be lying to the employer about who the employee is rather than the bank about whose account it is. And doing this kind of thing by any mechanism also doesn't need to be bank fraud because it's already tax fraud.

Moreover, in practice how those schemes work doesn't require you to put some other person's name on the account, because they would put a corporate entity's name on the account, where the corporation is a legal entity type or is incorporated in a jurisdiction that has different tax treatment. It seems like you're just making up fake problems with giving people the ability to buy things digitally without having their privacy invaded.

You need an example of something it would enable somebody to do that isn't already independently illegal. Otherwise you don't need this to be illegal because you can still prosecute them for that.
If it's your own hardware, what's stopping you from closing the port they connect to?
Surely that throwaway "computer science" tweet only went viral because lcamtuf was already famous and had a high follower count because of their previous, substantial work.
Perhaps, but it’s not clear that would be cryptographically relevant still.
It was a charitable interpretation. I agree with you, there’s more to it than just “helping the user”, most likely. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Qualcomm/Microsoft seem to be having a good start with the new Snapdragon. It will all boil down to x64 emulation at this point because from the reviews the battery life and performance appear to be solved problems (or at least good enough to make people shift away from intel/amd).
As long as people can get their software running and Intel/AMD don't make miraculous improvements in power consumption it seems like the arm prediction even though very optimistic is still very possible.
Thank you! I periodically remember this and for years I've been meaning to try to find out for sure whether I had somehow just misunderstood completely. Very pleased to know for sure that I had and that the Riemann Hypothesis remains a genuine mystery.
Can relate to a lot of this as a very small content creator that has been doing it for fun for over 10 years.

On online weirdos - this is very much a thing. You can pick up weirdly persistent stalkers and haters and it can be exhausting and sometimes scary.

For me, I do it for fun. I find it very frustrating to have conversations with followers/viewers that are wanting me to do $thing and why don't I open subs to $monetize blah blah and I explain that while I do enjoy putting out content, at the end of the day this is for my enjoyment and there is zero chance I can make as much as I do from it as my day job, so I don't. It's very frustrating and a sad state of affairs that people can't seem to grasp the idea of making content for the sake of making content. That's how the early internet was, no one was getting paid, and it put out arguably some of the best there has been.

Regarding hosting/seo stuff, I always let platforms like twitch, meta, YT, etc. manage that for me rather than wrangling SEO hell, but I acknowledge the video space is a bit different than the blog space. For the writing I do, I wouldn't dream of self hosting for the reasons he describes.
Ask HN: Is anyone using the Bigscreen Beyond in Linux?
I'm thinking about buying a Linux-compatible VR headset, and I would like to know if the Beyond is a good choice.
What's the difference between stealing the history of OCRs of screenshots on anything you did versus the ability to steal my tax/financial documents, business trade secrets, private letters, photos and other information commonly stored on a computer which can be taken in the same manner whether it is on Windows, Linux or macOS?
Testing primality doesn’t break encryption; we already test for primarily on a daily basis very efficiently
> the most informative content doesn't has fairly low reach and the highest engagement content leans heavily on entertainment value

Same observation here. I think it's because these channels are optimized for people looking to be entertained, not looking to be informed. There's an impedance mismatch between high value content and what people want while doomscrolling on the couch at 8pm or while on a coffee break at work.
My gut says - and this is very much gut - that throwaway content/posts probably tend to be comedic, and sometimes we just strike comedy gold. One good, funny sentence can ripple very quickly.
The part pairing isn't the problem, it's that you can't unpair parts. Creating a secure unpair process would not be beyond Apple's capabilities.
EZ Texting is your best bet. While I use it for mass texting, it offers developer-centric API and webhook support to respond to incoming texts faster.

I shopped around a lot…SimpleTexting, SlickText, Twilio, etc.…EZ Texting was the last option I looked at, and what sold me was its extensive feature suite, absolute ease of use, and customer support folks.

More info: https://www.eztexting.com/
According got the article Boccassi wanted concrete scenarios where things might break, but his justification for making the change was “upstream and other dists”.

Systemd now essentially control Debian both the OS itself, and though Boccassi, the development.
I'm not ignoring. I still don't know how do I enable dark mode. If you have the answer, would you kindly help?
An AGI aligned to Germany in 1938 is not much better to one not aligned at all.
I got downvoted for this!? Wow, hacker news is almost as bad as reddit.
Bot accounts prop up their KPIs and they directly provide revenue. They have clear incentives to allow such bots and junk accounts to thrive on their platform.
Of all the routers along the route, the one most likely to be compromised is obviously the piece of plastic guano your ISP forces you to use
All humans are put in indefinite cryogenic sleep to protect them.
It will be interesting to see if all the thermal tiles will survive launch this time. They are targeting a successful reentry, but it sounds like their current design cannot tolerate the loss of more than a few tiles.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1796049014938357932