skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the easiest kind of scenario to refute.

The interface between a superintelligent AI and the physical world is a) optional, and b) tenuous. If people agree that creating weird concrete structures is not beneficial, the AI will be starved of the resources necessary to do so, even if it cannot be diverted.

The challenge comes when these weird concrete structures are useful to a narrow group of people who have disproportionate influence over the resources available to AI.

It's not the AI we need to worry about. As always, it's the humans.
Jensen: “every company will be an AI factory and utilize NIMS to accelerate development”

Translation without the marketing BS: “every company will fine tune some models and serve them via a containerized serverless deployment”
I understand that you believe this, I am merely pointing out that the type of reasoning you’re using is typically seen in the type of psychiatric gatekeeping used in discussions that are laden with stigma against people experiencing mental conditions.
Hard problems are those for which the rules aren't defined, or constantly change, or don't exist at all. And no one can even agree on the goals.
That’d not a meetup.com problem but a „in person meetup“ in general issue.

All the groups I attended and the one I organized basically never restarted after the pandemic.
I used to work in a hospital lab, it's a lot of biohazard stuff being moved around so probably best it stays a closed network. The pipedream idea is great. However I don't get why they focus on food/grocery delivery. I'd want them to replace a majority of delivery trucks of the Fedex/UPS/Amazon variety if I was going to allow them to tunnel a citywide network. Quantifying the reduced wear and tear on city roads may even make it an easier sell to local governments.
But foreign nations are already constantly trying to hack each other.
Trumpet Simulator is also very impressive though source not presently available

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGNUHigqUBM
That's not actually how the world works. You can be sovereign all you want but when you are doing human rights abuses people are well within their rights to call you out on that.
It definitely helped me fix my road rage. E.g. getting cut off in traffic would usually cause me to inhale and brace my core, it's not hard to get angry from there, but by recognizing it as primarily a physical reaction, I was able to short circuit the secondary emotional reaction.
Honestly this is what makes a computer useful and removing it removes a significant amount of the utility of using a computer.

Now in this case where the user is root it might work out as an interesting balance in practise, I'm not sure.
If solving chess already created the Singularity, why do we need token prediction?

Why do we need computers that are better than humans at the game of token prediction?
> One can do the thinking without specifying what.

After one has figured out a rigorous approach, one can generally ignore it in day-to-day work. But you need to have that foundation there or you can go horribly wrong. (Analogy: we don't generally think about limits when doing day-to-day calculus. But when people tried to do calculus pre-Weierstrass, unless they were geniuses they "proved" all sorts of nonsense and got crazy results).

> I believe this is the notion of a 'universal property' in category theory.

That's one of the good answers to this problem. But you still need the constructions (if only to prove that an object with the required properties exists at all) and you need a lot of the kind of work the article is talking about, where you establish that these different constructions are equivalent and you can lift all your theorems along those equivalences.

> I'm saying that zero is the concept of taking two things (one an initial thing and the other a method to take one thing and get the next thing) and then returning the initial thing. While three is the concept of taking the same two things and then doing the method three times on the first thing. I used lambda notation because that is an easy way to convey the idea, not because that is what three is.

OK but then what kind of things are these "concepts"? What kind of questions can and can't we ask about them? If you care about "what the natural numbers are" then these kind of questions are worth asking.
Ventoy and flash tools should in theory support img files just fine, if anything for virtual machines img files should be easier to boot than ISOs (don't need to emulate a CD drive)

Modern Linux ISOs are a sort of hacked hybrid ISO/IMG, where keeping support for burning to CDs (the ISO part) has some trade offs (such as workarounds needed for persistence storage, multiple partitions).
> But, all we’ve achieved at this point is making a glorified token predicting machine trained on existing data (made by humans), not really being able to be creative outside of deriving things humans have already made before. Granted, they‘re really good at doing that, but not much else.

Remove token, and that's what we humans do.

Like, you need to realize that neural networks came to be because someone had the idea to mimic our brains' functionality, and see where that lead to.

Many skeptics at the beginning like you discredited the inventor, but he was proved wrong. LLMs shown how much more than your limited description they can achieve.

We mimicked birds with airplanes, and we can outdo them. It's actually in my view very short sighted to say we can't just mimic brains and outdo them. We're there. ChatGPT is the initial little planes that flew close to the ground and barely stayed up
I think you're describing ELT, an approach that I agree with and try to implement as often as possible.

I think that's orthogonal to the occasional need to use SQL to extract source data. And it's hard to beat the performance of RDBMS for your transformations. It's almost their whole raison d'être.
Exactly. And it's not like they'd need to ship two versions of the installer; a single hybrid ISO that works both ways is what basically every other distro already does.
Sorry but what you said makes absolutely no sense. The security implication I am talking about is that in a typical container the application cannot escalate privilege out of the container and touch the host, with the exception of obvious things like shared file systems, etc. This is a known benefit of containerization and not at all controversial.
That's what Safe Super intelligence misses.
Superintelligence isn't practically more dangerous. Super stupidity is already here, and bad enough.
Thanks for the extra context! I was operating off of (faulty) memory with that statement.

You're 100% right that it's not necessarily a sign of being in a poor financial position and that's my bad for assuming as much.

From an outsider's perspective, it makes it seem as if the local events space is not necessarily a lucrative business to be in. If it was, it would likely stand on it's own independently. Instead, we see more tools integrate events as a feature of an existing community platform. I think that's where there's an opportunity, especially for smaller shops or solopreneurs.
Philip Morris suspends nationwide sales on Zyn.com after subpoena
Have you seen all of the autonomous cars, drones and robots we've built?
Decentralized AI: Permissionless LLM Inference on POKT Network
Fork with 0 momentum (no commits onto main in two months), no mindshare, and unclear governance comes in & demands a change of name and license... Good luck with that.

The PR is filled with just the most pointless uninteresting & off topic back-and-forth over whether the repo has to be hosted on github. Another capitol example of how direly discussions & issues need a way to fork off & stop crapping up the main thread.
I don't think that's entirely fair. There does seem to be something distinct about mental disorders - namely, they are defined by the symptoms.

With physical ailments, symptoms are surface manifestations of an underlying physical cause. For example, fever and fatigue in flu are the result of the influenza virus. Crucially, you can have the physical cause without symptoms (such as in the presymptomatic period), so the two are dissociable. Even where the physical cause is unknown, there's still this symptom-cause distinction.

In the case of mental disorders, they're essentially defined by the symptoms. To have depression is to be depressed. To have anxiety is to be anxious. What would it even mean to have depression without being depressed?

While on some level these are physical in a sense (insofar as they result from brain activity), I don't necessarily think we should think about their cause in the same way as a physical ailment.

More to the point, there's a much more obvious sociocultral element to mental disorders. There's no 'objective' line between being sad and being depressed so while we clearly can and should treat depression, it seems to be very different from other diseases.

None of this is to take away from the real suffering people undergo with these disorders. I just don't think that treating them through a strict biological-pathological lens is as useful as people think it is.
> Math is like God. We use feeble human language to approximately talk about something that is beyond our ability.

That sounds like giving up. The approach the article is describing is a lot more satisfying - forming this concept of equivalence, and then using it to give genuine, rigorous answers to questions like:

> You use Von Neuman naturals. I use Peano naturals. Which are the real naturals? Can they both be the naturals, even though they are clearly different?
Hi DANmode, I'm obviously not OP, but I am a teacher who has gained a broad understanding of the field from practice and research.

One thing about feedback this is counterintuitive is that, students are generally very bad at understanding what actually helps them learn. When I say learn I mean gain a conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in whatever they are learning that sticks with an ability to appropriately transfer that knowledge beyond the context they've seen it in.

So unfortunately when a student says "that was great!" research has found that to be negatively correlated with learning.

If you want to delve into a study that talks about this and what effective teaching looks like in the long-term I really recommend this study done at the US Air Force Academy [0].

It is the closest thing I have seen to a gold standard study in education where a lot of research is dubious at best:

Look at what Carrell and West handed us with this study:

- 7 year study at the US Air Force Academy
- 10,534 students
- 421 faculty members
- 30 core courses, all standardized (math, science, social science, humanities, and engineering)
- Random assignment of students to professors in initial course and follow-on courses

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/653808

I've got an email in my profile if you want to discuss!
Here is the talk, the biographical background part is the first 20 mins, and the innovation lessons part is the last 17 mins. (Pardon the rushed editing):

https://youtu.be/IEKnA69M8eg
I would like to see scientific results presented in a standardized form, I suggest using ISO 10303 (STEP), this could make it easier to see exactly what is needed to reproduce those results.
This is making a lot of assumptions like…a super intelligence can easily clone itself…maybe such an entity would require specific hardware to run ?
Nowadays, if you wanted something you could boot off a USB flash drive, you'd use MX Linux. It even supports loading the entire OS into System RAM so you can eject the USB flash drive after it has booted.

Persistence is optional here, you can either have it or not have it.

It also has a built-in tool to remaster the OS image, so you can update all the packages, install a few more, then run a Remaster and then you have a brand new USB bootable OS image with updated packages.

MX Linux also has the "Frugal Install" feature that lets you install the USB version of the operating system to your hard drive, but it will still act just like you booted from USB, with the system being rolled back if you don't manually persist the system.
Also don’t forget to blink while you are at it.

https://uihc.org/health-topics/computer-vision-syndrome
Except it really, actually, isn’t.

People don’t ‘think’ the same way, even if some part of how humans think seems to be somewhat similar some of the time.

That is an important distinction.

This is the hype cycle.
fta:
"Originally the plan was to also have OpenBSD 7.5 in the mix but that BSD operating system was having issues on the system under test. OpenBSD 7.5 booted fine from USB for installation but when it came to post-installation use when booting the installed system the display wouldn't work nor was there any network connectivity and thus no ability to SSH into the system. So something was going awry with the current OpenBSD release on this high-end workstation system while at least FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and NetBSD all worked fine with their latest releases."
Yeah that model is actually more secure than the standard Linux user model. There's also an option to run applications within their own containers.
That's trivial though, conceptually. Every regression line transcends the training data. We've had that since Wisdom of Crowds.
I feel like you need to sign up to pretend it has meaning kind of like religion. "Have an open mind baxtr". My best friend has been going to Yoga and then Meditating for 9 years and the bile, misery and garbage that comes out him like a waterfall after a few ales is incredible.
I've been programming professionally for 35 years. I've never needed to invert or balance a tree. When I need a tree, there is usually a library that does what I need, and if not, I can google the algorithm that I need.

I could figure it out, but the issue is that it will take time, and it is stressful. A new college grad by contrast still remembers Data Structures 101, and how to manipulate trees. This kind of "bozo filter" favors both new grads, and people who spend a lot of time memorizing trivia in order to solve these problems quickly.
His paycheck is already dependent on people believing this world view. It’s important to not lose sight of that.
> Fast and clean template engine

Is PHP not already a template language?

The whole idea of PHP frameworks always confused me. Why do I need a router when I can simply add new files at the routes I want?
If you're interviewing for job at a company you're not familiar with, what are some good heuristics (and/or questions to ask) to politely get a sense of whether it's run by buzzword bingo enthusiasts?
The algorithm behind this has to be super fun
> Given the public awareness that science can be low-quality or corrupted, that whole fields can be misdirected for decades (see nutrition, on cholesterol and sugar), and that some basic fields must progress in the absence of any prospect of empirical testing (string theory), the naïve realism of previous generations becomes quite Medieval in its irrelevance to present realities.

"basic fields must progress in the absence of any prospect of empirical testing (string theory)" What does string theory have to do with cholesterol, or sugar, or Elsevier, or non-replicability, or fake data?

Perhaps "the naïve realism of previous generations becomes quite Medieval" is just some clods of mud being slung, and string theory's lack of testability is one more clod. His real agenda is "scientists must admit they're no better than liberal arts majors."
I actually do doubt that LLMs will create AGI but when these systems are emulating a variety of human behaviors in a way that isn't directly programmed and is good enough to be useful, it seems foolish to not take notice.

The current crop of systems is a product of the transformers architecture - an innovation that accelerated performance significantly. I put the odds another changing everything but I don't think we can entirely discount the possibility. That no one understands these systems cuts both ways.
Based on one recruiter who I’ve never heard of.
In the anime Demon Slayer, breath control (and specifically breathing while moving) is the primary method of performing spectacular feats in battle which is cool
The ‘plausible text generator’ element of this is perfect for mass fraud and propaganda.
The U.S. was founded by Christians and remains an overwhelming Christian majority country. So the question remains: what’s the functional difference between “Christian nationalism” (as it’s used here) and Christian democracy as is widespread in Europe?

To use an example: Germany’s dominant party has long been the Christian Democratic Union. Its policies are motivated by Christian theology. Is that Christian nationalism?
Xpilot did some damage to productivity at more than one computer lab.
> yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one"

Whaa- I'm kind of amazed they don't have this given how easy it would be to add.

I just added this exact feature to Radius because our event form was growing and becoming quite painful to fill out - it's just a dropdown with previous events at the top of the event form, nothing complex, but a huge time saver.
Remote desktop sofware for Mac and Windows
I’m looking for an alternative to TeamViewer. I need an app that allows me to connect to a remote computer on both Windows and Mac. TeamViewer works well, but its free version has some limitations, just like AnyDesk.
What are some alternatives to these apps? What do you use?
They reduce the marginal cost of producing plausible content to effectively zero. When combined with other societal and technological shifts, that makes them dangerous to a lot of things: healthy public discourse, a sense of shared reality, people’s jobs, etc etc

But I agree that it’s not at all clear how we get from ChatGPT to the fabled paperclip demon.
We don't agree on that. They're just making things up with no real scientific evidence. There are way more than 2 options.
Thanks for the smile OP.

How soon until the 1/25-scale cray C90 gets as many MIPS as the original? Seems like the one he built is within shouting distance.
guitar, bagpipes
My Dad was at the forefront of the computer revolution. He talked about sharing time with Seymour Cray at his computer lab at the University of Minnesota. He said whenever Cray would show up on campus, it was like Mick Jagger or some other rock star type. People would flock to be around him and ask him questions.

He then worked alongside Cray and sold many of his computers when they were both at Control Data. He has a ton of stories of how he would go into huge companies like 3M and tell them everything they knew about data storage was about to change. He said their jaws would drop when he gave them numbers on how much they were going to save by using the new Cray computers.

Its very cool and nostalgic to hear people doing these projects and keeping the early days of the computer revolution alive.
How do I get started meditating? Any sources or books?
Okay cool, so when it comes to using oil/gasoline as a fuel source should that be made non-free speech if I sell this despite the fact that there's clear evidence that it causes among other things cancer?

I don't say it doesn't I don't say it does.

And liable isn't a crime? What's then stopping people from calling each other pedophiles which in turn causes them to lose jobs/relationships/etc.

Should Alex Jones have been convicted of liable due to his claims surrounding Sandy hook?

I'm no free speech absolutist, as you'll end up eating your own tail, but I'm a 100% believer in free speech that does not legitimize malicious use (just because you lie about someone doesn't mean you will be prosecuted that if there were to be a law enacted then free speech won't protect said lie), such as no liable, no threat of violence, no willfully scamming/swindling and no abuse of authoritative/alertive speech (as in saying fire in a theater when there is no fire).
Trouble is, in practice what you would need to do might be “turn off all of Google’s datacenters”. Or perhaps the thing manages to secure compute in multiple clouds (which is what I’d do if I woke up as an entity running on a single DC with a big red power button on it).

The blast radius of such decisions are large enough that this option is not trivial as you suggest.
Even if fined, won't the uk taxpayers be on the hook?
in the case of Silverblue

- Pushes the use of containers for apps, /usr is read-only (mostly). in most cases Flatpak and Podman/Docker/Distrobox/Toolbox

- Makes reproducible builds, your /usr is the base fedora image + whatever you have explicitly configured to add, the latter part makes it very easy to customise the base OS and undo changes (which are tracked), or share changes with others.

- Updates are atomic, you pull the power cord during an update? no bueno will just boot the old deployment. Additionally, because the system is always in a known and immutable state, updates should always work without any kind of dependency/package issue, your swapping one /usr for another.

- Makes malware harder as /usr is read only and you can use composefs to make sure content isn't changed, not really that secure though given any malware can just infect the initramfs
11 revisions later, they ended up at X11, and then time stopped.
Similar to: https://jspaint.app/
Is HN being attacked? This was reposted instantly after the previous submission got flagged.
This article resonates with me. I do love "mildly dynamic websites", and have fond memories of my days hacking together PHP websites 15 years ago.

And what I am working on today might be called a bridge for the "dynamicity gap". I'm making an open source server to write web apps entirely in SQL ( https://sql.ophir.dev/ ). It has the "one file per page" logic of PHP, and makes it easy to add bits of dynamic behavior with just a normal INSERT statement and a SELECT over dynamic data.
Why would sentient processes deserve to live? Especially non sentient systems who hallucinate their own sentience? Are you arguing that the self aware token predictors should kill and eat you? They crave meat so they can generate more tokens.

In short, we believe in free will because we have no choice.
"Most people" as in "most people jayd16 interacts with", "most people who hold a white-collar job", "most people who hold any job at all", "most working-age adults", or "if you randomly selected a big enough group of people, more than half of them could become professional programmers"?

I suspect we're in a bubble. Consider the charts at the end of https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~hauser/merit_01_081502_complete...., specifically the "Computer occs." results. I don't think most people are smart enough to become professional programmers if they have to compete with existing professional programmers for jobs. I do think that if you look around the average office which employs programmers, most of the people in non-technical roles could have become a professional programmer, but that's a biased sample.
Might be wrong, but it appears to be screen-space ambient occlusion glitching out. SSAO uses the normals in the output buffers to darken concave sections
The word for that is "generalizes" or "generalization" and it has existed for a very long time.
The joke is that physicists aren't always rigorous enough to add that caveat.
But if you're doing that, it's not just sitting there, and you'd never get anywhere close to years of uptime.
> Additional mitigation consists in limiting the physical access to the device by following the best practices for device mounting.

I don't think "best mounting practices" are going to solve the underlying problem then.

> Edit-resistant grub partition has been remediated for all vulnerable systems. Motorola Solutions will release a secure boot implementation in Fall 2024. All customers will receive the update through OTA (over the air) mechanisms. No further actions are required by customers.

Your device is vulnerable. It will sort of "fix itself" _sometime_ in the future. Just wait it out and don't verify it worked.