skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is low-key anti-intellectualism. Rather than consider that a greater intelligence may be actually worth listening to (in a trust but verify way at worst), it is assuming that 'smarter than any human' is sufficient to do absolutely anything. If say Einstein or Newton were the smartest human they would be super-intelligence relative to everyone else. They did not become emperors of the world.

Superintelligence is a dumb semantic game in the first place that assumes 'smarter than us' means 'infinitely smarter'. To give an example bears are super-strong relative to humans. That doesn't mean that nothing we can do can stand up to the strength of a bear or that a bear is capable of destroying the earth with nothing but its strong paws.
Does it run vim? :-)
This assumes an AI which has intentions. Which has agency, something resembling free will. We don't even have the foggiest hint of idea of how to get there from the LLMs we have today, where we must constantly feed back even the information the model itself generated two seconds ago in order to have something resembling coherent output.
> and there's huge power imbalance between employers and employees

That's the real issue, however fundamentally I don't really see an issue if saying certain things publicly makes you effectively unemployable.

> In Europe there's a specific list of reasons which can result in work contract termination.

It varies by country but I'm not sure it applies to illegal/banned speech? Also in Europe you can be convicted and fined for quoting the Hadith while not being a Muslim* and the ECHR doesn't see a problem with that (which unfortunately proves that "freedom of speech" is just not a thing in Europe).

Germany is putting people in prison (for as long as 5 years) just for their speech (as false and repulsive as it might be. How is that better than making those people "unemployable"? Which probably wouldn't even be the case since there (unfortunately) are still plenty of people who'd hire nazi apologists (both in US and Europe).

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S._v._Austria_(2018)

> is such a fantastic deal and an example of freedom of speech.

IMHO it really depends on what opinions exactly did you express. Again I don't see how is it any fairer to impose your personal controversial views on your employer (even if indirectly).
yes, that article was announcing the formation of the cartel. the past events it reported were the results of competition, not the results of the anticompetitive price-fixing, whose beginning the article was reporting on. the price-fixing is what happened for the following 4½ years

drops in prices below profitability are, counterintuitively, something that happens in a healthy market. there is always some volatility, so some of the time prices are too high, and some of the time they are too low, and in a rapidly growing market, this can be pretty extreme

i don't see how it makes sense to describe the chinese solar industry in 02018 as 'bloated' if its production that year was 130 gigawatts (minus a few percent for foreign companies) and its production this year is 600 gigawatts. you must think it's super-mega-bloated now; do you think it's going to fall to 100 gigawatts? do you expect record low prices to suppress demand somehow?

it is certainly true that china's market is not open to foreign companies

but i think chinese companies own 95% of the market now mostly because of exports, not because of domestic chinese projects. they took over the market in the 02010s, and at that point the biggest projects were in spain and germany, not china
> plastic can last as long as metal

Is that the issue? It seems more like plastics wearing away from use not to the point of it losing functionality but being constantly exposed to plastics in your food because all the implements are plasticd
That's a reasonable take as well. I think there are positives and negatives to both.
It’s not worse at all, that’s ridiculous. Most devices now run Linux. The world of software is far more open than it was in the 1990s.

That doesn’t mean every device needs to be open.
It's a hell of a conditional, though.

"How are all those monkeys flying out of my butt?" would be the important technical problem of our time, if and only if, monkeys were flying out of my butt.

It's still not a very important statement, if you downplay or omit the conditional.

Is "building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time" full stop ?

Is it fuck.
I love to imagine this kind of thing dug up by an alien civilization. That it displays the moons of Jupiter will be a fun puzzle and a source of wonder. “Obviously”, they will say, “these people must have worshipped Jupiter as a god and used the position of its moons to keep time.” But the pieces of the puzzle will never quite fit.

Who knows, maybe the Antikythera mechanism or the pyramids were a similarly ludicrous prank?
Stage 4 sounds somewhat like the structure of the Summa Theologica, wherein Aquinas addresses hundreds of individual questions following a few themes, each with the same structure (quoting from [0]):

> Each “Article” has five structural parts. First, the question is formulated in a yes or no format, as explained above, beginning with the word “Whether” (Utrum).

> Second, St. Thomas lists a number of Objections (usually three) to the answer he will give. The Objections are apparent proofs of this opposite answer, the other side to the debate. These objections begin with the formula: “It seems tha“ (Oportet).

> These Objections must be arguments, not just opinions, for one of the basic principles of any intelligent debate (woefully neglected in all modern media) is that each debater must give relevant reasons for every controvertible opinion he expresses. The Objections are to be taken seriously, as apparent truth.

> Third, St. Thomas indicated his own position with the formula “On the contrar“ (Sed contra).

> The fourth part, “I answer that” (Respondeo dicens), is the body of the Article. In it, St. Thomas proves his own position, often adding necessary background explanations and making needed distinctions along the way.

> Fifth and finally, each Objection must be addressed and answered—not merely by repeating an argument to prove the opposite conclusion, for that has already been done in the body of the Article, but by explaining where and how the Objection went wrong, i.e., by distinguishing the truth from the falsity in the Objection.

[0] https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/summa...
I figured geofencing might be a dealbreaker.
In fact, enzyme didn't support the previous version of React either, except for the grace of some random guy who wrote a driver to make it work. Airbnb, who built and maintained enzyme, abandoned it. There's (afaik) no way to add React 18 support without major changes to the enzyme core. So not only is this a problem that will plague them indefinitely (that is, dealing with their test framework not supporting a recent version) if they don't switch, it's adopting a project that they don't own and didn't start to avoid a one time cost of rewriting some tests.

> Since that technical debt will inevitably turn into a real expenditure of resources, they are stuck with expenses indefinitely, however they do it.

I simply can't see how becoming the maintainer of a testing framework to rewrite it to add support for the last two versions of the library it no longer works with is a comparable investment to the ongoing cost of maintaining your own unit tests. That's like if Docker became abandoned and didn't update to support modern kernels so you decided it's better to become the maintainer of Docker instead of switching to Podman.
The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation
From the article:

"To enable more precise diagnosis and selection of the best treatment for each individual, we need to dissect the heterogeneity of depression and anxiety. The dominant ‘one-size-fits-all’ diagnostic approach in psychiatry leads to cycling through treatment options by trial and error, which is lengthy, expensive and frustrating, with 30–40% of patients not achieving remission after trying one treatment"
Chrome Is Dying Because It'll Kill You
[dupe]

Lots more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993
I got flagged for less. Anyways, nice sum up of the current AI game!
Lambda is like CloudFlare workers.

They are deployed AT THE EDGE TO THE CDN, and therefore can handle requests without hitting your network and database.

For example I recommend your servers sign all the session IDs they give out, so they can easily be discarded if the signature doesn’t match or if they’ve been blacklisted. Such decisions can be made without doing any I/O, or by checking a local cache that was built up when eg a blacklisted session ID was tried just recently.

They can also spin up huge numbers of instances and fan out requests to MANY different servers, not just yours and your domain names. They allow client-first development, where you might not build ANY back end at all, just use some sort of JAM stack.

And now, CloudFlare Workers supports a key-value store and a SQL database so it is sort of an environment that will autoscale all your deployments in CDNs around the world and take care of the eventual consistency too.
According to Lindy's Law this means I'll be ready to switch to Wayland no sooner than 2065.
> let alone invincible

!!

I don't want anyone to think I meant that.

> an android has to plug in at some point no matter what

Sure, and we have to eat; despite this, human actions have killed a lot of people

> - dexterity, or in general agency in real world, seems we’re still a long way from this in the context of a general purpose android

Yes? The 5-10 years thing is about the gap between some AI that doesn't exist yet (level 5 self-driving) moving from car-sized hardware to android-sized hardware; I don't make any particular claim about when the AI will be good enough for cars (delay before the first step), and I don't know how long it will take to go from being good at just cars to good in general (delay after the second step).
Please look up the history of maxing out credit cards, eating disorders, attention disorders, and misogyny. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that anything before your birth was the Garden of Eden and that the parade of horribles existed only because of "big tech". What is next? Blaming big tech for making teenagers horny and defiant?
Do you believe that no subfactor can ever have a sign opposite of the factor of which it is a component?
And now we have created a cycle
> privacy-focused ad tech company

"privacy-focused", "ad tech company". Chose one. /s
Monster Energy is the official energy drink of NASCAR but that doesn't mean NASCAR manufactures energy drinks. As best as I can tell, RTL is the only testing framework mentioned in the React docs, so that's pretty "official"
There are several chicle gum companies out there. I forget the name, but I bought some. It comes in pellet form instead of sticks or bricks.

Edit: "Simply Gum" is the company I tried.
Agree up til last paragraph: how's Altman involved? Otoh Sutskever is a true believer so that explains his Why
If you want a shorter version, "grug brain, monk brain" pretends to profound, like "Zen mind, beginner's mind," but it's just a lazy take. If "grug brain, monk brain" was poetry, it would say:

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And it'll look exactly the same because travel is pointless.
> that try and bring a hospital to its knees for the grand goal of making america look stupid for the nationalistic few who might actually care about that sort of thing

That the public believes this is our biggest problem from an international policy perspective... (as far as this topic, that is)

These governments are turning a blind eye, if not quietly supporting such because of the sheer economic and social damage.

I know a local hospital group paid 22mil in ransom on top of a lot of days where stuff barely got done.

Iirc United Health said a recent attack was probably 900 million in total costs to them?

It adds up.
Binder, a Logic-Based Security Language (2002) [pdf]
Makes me think of Pieter Levels who used to run a 60k/mo SaaS with hundreds of paying users from a single index.php on a bare metal server.

(I don’t know if he still does it that way.)
It's a single user, hosted instance so just https://krapp.masto.host would also work, it's just (unnecessarily) pointing to a user account. It's not that weird - this very forum is a subdomain of ycombinator, people used to host their sites under geocities and tripod and the like.

I agree that instance discovery is a problem - mostly because identity isn't portable on Mastodon so you're kind of making a commitment, but it clearly isn't an insurmountable level of complexity for a lot of people to deal with. Most people will just gravitate to the biggest instances and that's fine.

One of the lessons I think the fragmentation of Twitter is teaching us is that the user experience doesn't have to be as simple and frictionless as possible.. people will put up with some rough edges if they want to.
I think it's more that it's a crap job market. Have been dev freelancing for about 10 years, used to be able to choose from a few projects within a couple of weeks of searching.

But the last 18 months have been hard. On some freelancing projects I was up against 80 or 120 other devs. (I live in Germany.)

Recruiting agencies have told me the same. I finally found 2 part-time projects after 6 months of search and will now try to wait our the dry period.
I disagree. I want my phone to Just Work. I don’t want people to publish software that uses unstable APIs because that means your software running on my phone is going to break when I upgrade it.

There are many dimensions to “freedom”, and in the case of my phone, I want freedom from janky software that breaks when the OS gets a minor upgrade. I want the freedom of a device that almost never fails. I want freedom from malicious software that puts its fingers down my throat and rips out my private data because some alpha quality API has bugs.

In any case, you can and do have the freedom to use these private APIs on your phone, you can do it right from Xcode and install the software directly on your phone.

The only freedom you don’t have is the freedom to publish that software as a product and risk making my phone break, or worse.
Hopefully, this thing never sees the light of the day.
I decided to roll my own virtual keyboard after a protracted battle with inconsistencies and quirks across mobile browsers. The glaring difference is that the native keyboard slides the viewport upward on iOS (pushing the fixed header off screen), whereas it shrinks it on Android (causing relayout that repositions any UI element fixed to the bottom).

Also, notice how the search box is anchored to (and animates with) the virtual keyboard. This effect cannot even be achieved with the experimental VirtualKeyboard API, which is not supported by WebKit anyway.
May I suggest you find not just any doctor but an exceptional one, such as on the level of the late Oliver Sacks (a neurologist). Do not restrict yourself to location. Find and write to physicians who are at the top of their game. Given what you’re describing, you run a high risk of being painted into a corner by average doctors. That motion is already happening on this thread. I also definitely would not recommend an audiologist or other vocational health specialist. You need an intelligent and curious intellectual with deep domain knowledge.
A lot of people think superintelligence can "solve" politics which is the blocker for climate change, hunger, and energy.
180nm is declining as far as I'm aware.

Its more likely that 180nm fabs are idling so much that they've made the decision to close. There's only so low that the prices can go before these businesses don't think its worth staying in business anymore.

I've heard that over the long term, 28nm should theoretically be the "long term cost-efficient node". The 65nm and other nodes are all cheaper in practice because these factories are fully paid off by now.

It was something about 300mm wafers and overall tooling being shared with 28nm with the latest nodes + overall investments. While 200mm likely will be shutdown over the long term (but 200mm wafers will remain the cheapest solution in the short term).

So under these expectations, I'd say that 180nm, 65nm, and other old nodes will slowly shut down as everyone moves to the long-term most efficient node. Still, having the oldest nodes stay open for the educational / hobbyist / experimental R&D for some commerical companies makes sense. Especially since the wafers are smaller and thus overall runs can be smaller.
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It’s not, when most discussion around AI safety in the last few years has boiled down to “we need to make sure LLMs never respond with anything that a stereotypical Berkeley progressive could find offensive”.

So when you switch gears and start using safety properly, it would be nice to have that clarified.
Do you enable unattended upgrades and kernel live patching? If not, then that doesn't seem secure.
Thanks, didn't see it.
And mind the opportunity cost:
You never learn how to set such a thing up yourself; and AWS runs off to the bank. Where you could have had an asset, (frequently a good idea), that you can do something with.

Remember, the innovation of cloud was to add a payment, IAM, and config layer on top of basic compute tasks.
After only reading the headline, I expected Poettering to be quoted saying, "Functioning as designed. Go pound sand." The response was as expected, but apparently Poettering's attitude has become contagious within the systemd devs:

> Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:

> So an option that is literally documented as saying "all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted", that you knew nothing about, sounded like a "good idea"? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand?

> Maybe don't just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh
Wouldn't the technology that caused those problems inherently be a part of that solution? Even if only to reduce/eliminate them?
Deceiving a single human is pretty easy, but decieving the human super-organism is going to be hard.

Also, I don't believe in a singularity event where AI improves itself to godlike power. What's more likely is that the intelligence will plateau--I mean no software I have ever written effortlessly scaled from n=10 to n=10.000, and also humans understand how to improve themselves but they can't go beyond a certain threshold.
If you meant multiset, then you were correct. (Not that I expect GPT-4o to make the distinction.)
> I myself have formal training as a data scientist, going so far as to dominate a competitive machine learning event at one of Australia's top universities and writing a Master's thesis where I wrote all my own libraries from scratch. I'm not God's gift to the field, but I am clearly better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners who haven't put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps, but can read textbooks and use libraries written by elite institutions.

I really didn't have any illusions on the article after reading this - apparently the author believes that anyone who hasn't written a C library is below him.

And also, this author is known to make articles that are full of ranting and have rage titles, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968457
And its properties have far-reaching implications for life, climate and the physical world in general. Indeed a remarkable one
Having worked in this space a while back, every federal gov digital service experiences nation-state intrusion attacks daily and in the 1,000s on the low end. Our gov digital infrastructure has been born under the weight of constant attack.

Responding in kind has minimal value because it’s not a deterrent.
I wonder if Paul Graham regrets investing in and defending Austen for such a long time.

I only made a comment long time ago that Lambda School sounded like a good idea to me and I regret how fool I was.

Edit: btw, bitwise, you were right in 2019, despite your response to my comment being downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774532
Maybe on the app it’ll eventually have this nice virtualization where it all appears as one. But hell, I can’t even imagine getting my mom to use Discord with all the channels and servers etc…
> there won't be a next (biological) person managing things afterwards. At least none who could do anything to build a competing unsafe SAI

This pitch has Biblical/Evangelical resonance, in case anyone wants to try that fundraising route [1]. ("I'm just running things until the Good Guy takes over" is almost a monarchic trope.)

[1] https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-24.htm
I'm curious what AWS services you have in mind. I can definitely think of services that aren't actively updated and that don't integrate smoothly with newer services (thinking of Elastic Beanstalk here), but outright deprecation/removal seems pretty uncommon.
Not sure if spelling mistake.
Great, don't run janky software on your phone then. Exclusively use the App Store. Your preferences should not impinge on my freedoms.

Also, if you happen to use a Mac, all that same private data from your phone lives there too. I haven't heard a good argument for why this one class of device should be open while the others are locked down, especially given the availability of secure enclaves across Apple devices.

> You can and do have the freedom to use these private APIs, you can do it right from Xcode and install the software directly on your phone.

If I pay $99 a year, have access to the code, renew my certificate every week, and stay in Apple's good graces. To me — and seemingly to the EU — this is simply not acceptable.
> it sounds like this issue is enormously more of an abstract concept to you than it is for me

Maybe. On the off chance you may have some first hand experience with these topics, I would be inclined to believe you.

However, considering the standard for transparency you yourself have set earlier, I would have needed more than a simple affirmation.

> i don't want the policies you favor

I do not want them either. I do not favour them. Quite the opposite. That’s actually my entire initial point: what I favour is hard to reconcile with my experiences and the emotions associated with them.

You could have offered some interesting, helpful, constructive, and interesting, perspective on that. And re-reading your replies, I’m pretty sure you tried in your own way. But instead it reads like you chose to come waltzing in and bite my head off.

> when you opened that page, why did you just close it? why didn't you send those pictures to the police, to investigative journalists, or to a private investigator?

I was 16, living in a foreign country.

> so no, it wasn't whataboutism

And I am glad it wasn’t. Thank you.

As for the rest, I definitely understand and agree on the need for means to securely and reliably communicate information that some states would rather censor. Despite our differences, it is clear we both care about these issues.

I am however afraid this is all the common ground you and I will be able to find. So I will stop engaging any further and step away from this conversation.
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Those limitations are due to the Mastodon software, not the ActivityPub protocol.

ActivityPub provides a mechanism that can technically be used for both post and follower migration – not that I'd suggest using it for that – but Mastodon's account migration feature is something separate. There's no technical reason it couldn't support post migration, except that nobody's put the work (largely social) in to get it past Gargron and implemented.