skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He became popular for his foreign policy views at a time or era when the mainstream media acted as a giant funnel to a credulous public , as well as students and academics. This meant it was hard to debate or refute his ideas outside of televised debates or by other academics. How does one go about debating Chomsky or refuting him in the 90s unless you are already well-connected in academia, in which it's too late and the lie has already circled the earth many times? The barriers to refuting propaganda or bad ideas in academia was much higher back then compared to now, in which anyone can do so with a Substack post or a tweet that goes viral. It was like this for all public intellectuals at the time, not just him or for the left-wing. These people used the media and academia as pulpits to the public and policy-makers and dissent was minimal and belated. It was good work if you could get it. You went on national TV to field softballs, did campus 'debates' in which the audience asked pre-screened questions, signed books, etc.
The terms jerk and snap while perhaps known in the rare space of elevator purchasing aren’t generally used terms in most fields. I’m surprised that’s in any way controversial ?
This is about 25 yrs. back. As a grad student, I used to stumble into his papers pretty regularly. Later, I'd scan for author name and pay a lot more attention if it was by Arvind (also a few others). I'd always smile after looking at the author name. Growing up in India, your last name doesn't mean much.
Because you might be trying to extract something that would spoil/lyse/denature under heat or low pH. Doesn't apply in this case, but I can think of lots of cases where it would.

I would bet that there are many Volatile Organic Compounds used for e.g. perfumes, that have to be industrially oil-extracted "delicately", to preserve their integrity while also keeping them dissolved. In these cases, traditional workarounds to doing a reaction at high heat (e.g. low pressure) would lose the product (because e.g. you need to off-gas a product of the reaction through a gas scrubber), but under low pressure the VOC would also vaporize and be lost.

If those compounds come from live tissue, e.g. from a flower, then you might get botulinum toxin in your product as the flower's tissue degrades anaerobically in the oil. But using a hyper-oxygenated (and non-organic) oil could prevent this.

Another use-case for room-temperature hyper-oxygenated extraction would be for extracting proteins in a recombinant chemical production process, where the produced proteins aren't expressed into the medium, but are retained inside the cells of the producing bacterial culture (and so you have to lyse the cells to get the proteins out, while not damaging the proteins in the process.) In many cases, the resulting protein would be intended for direct blood infusion into humans — e.g. recombinant Human Growth Hormone. So you wouldn't use oil (not suitable for blood), but nor could you use any solvent that would denature proteins. Likely, you'd use water with a very specific osmolarity — enough to pull water out of the cells until they autolyse, but not enough to harm the proteins. And again, you might get botulinum toxin as a side-protect here, where it'd be even harded to distinguish by fractionation from the intended protein. So you want to maybe ensure that the medium is aerated. (Or possibly use a bacteriostatic medium, if you have a follow-on process that can guarantee full separation of the bactericides from the product.)
I feel that it is important to point out to native english speakers that the word "decadent" shares a root with decay, and simply means a decayed rotten state, a decline. It is perjorative. There are no implications of 'opulence', unlike the common usage of "decadence" in English as a sort of slang to describe a rich chocolate cake, for example.
You’re assuming a threat model where the AI has goals and motivations that are unpredictable and therefore risky, which is certainly the one that gets a lot of attention. But even if the AI’s goals and motivations can be perfectly controlled by its creators, you’re still at the mercy of the people who created the AI. In that respect it’s more of an arms race. And like many arms races, the goal might not necessarily be to outcompete everyone else so much as maintain a balance of power.
See MIRI https://intelligence.org/
Right, you seem like you're mostly agreeing with me.

There's no "it feels like it's popping".

The bubble is just continuing to grow. When it pops, you'll know it.

(Although to be fair, it's not instant. It's often a jagged decline that takes weeks or even months. You never know when you've hit the bottom, when it's "fully popped". So the metaphor with actual physical bubbles is not perfect. But in hindsight you can often look back to a day of massive selling that "started" it.)
A "safe" AI is one that allows humans freedom/self actualization while solving all intelligence/production problems. An "unsafe" AI is one that kills all humans while solving all intelligence/production problems.

They're trying to birth a god. They hope they can birth a benevolent god.

This isn't about AI that spreads/doesn't spread misinformation/etc, this is about control of the light cone, who gets to live to see it happen, and in what state do they get to live.
last week two students started learning on freecodecamp using a laptop i provide for them in my home. they work on their own, but they can ask me when they get stuck. so far it was mostly telling them to closely reread the instructions to see if that provides a clue. when they finish the html course, i'll pay them to update my website (it's all static html) then i'll see if i can get them started on javascript.

not sure yet where this will go. the first student that tried that gave up after a few days. don't know why. maybe he felt it wasn't for him. fine.
"Many leaders have ties there, but still don't have half their team there"

It's not hard to read in other ways if you're not itching to take down someone.
I’ve not seen a solar panel farm on already developed land. It seems to be flat, undeveloped landscapes that attract farms.
Show HN: Track India's Market Cap
It is not a technology issue. It is a political, infrastructural and educational issue. Almost all plastic pollution comes fram a handful of countries which do not care about proper garbage collection and recycling.

The west, or for that matter even most third world countries do not cause much plastic pollution at all.
I agree that an air-gapped AI presents little risk. Others will claim that it will fluctuate its internal voltage to generate EMI at capacitors which it will use to communicate via Bluetooth to the researcher's smart wallet which will upload itself to the cloud one byte at a time. People who fear AGI use a tautology to define AGI as that which we are not able to stop.
How does that address the issue? I would have expected them to do that anyhow. Thats what a lot of businesses do: let another company take the hit developing the market, R and D, and supply chain, then come in with industry standardization and cooperative agreements only after the money was proven to be good in this space. See electric cars. Also they could drop that at any time. Remember when openAI stood for opensource?
Yann LeCun said it best in an interview with Lex Friedman.

LLMs don't consume more energy when answering more complex questions. That means there's no inherent understanding of questions.

(which you could infer from their structure: LLMs recursively predict the next word, possibly using words they just predicted, and so on).
it doesn't?

if you are referring to issues using sqlite as a production database for large-scale web applications, I would remind you of the phrase "horses for courses".

https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2015/05/andrew-ng-deep-learni... (2015)

> What’s the most valid reason that we should be worried about destructive artificial intelligence?

> I think that hundreds of years from now if people invent a technology that we haven’t heard of yet, maybe a computer could turn evil. But the future is so uncertain. I don’t know what’s going to happen five years from now. The reason I say that I don’t worry about AI turning evil is the same reason I don’t worry about overpopulation on Mars. Hundreds of years from now I hope we’ve colonized Mars. But we’ve never set foot on the planet so how can we productively worry about this problem now?
There's quite a bit of this in the video & PC game world. Early on, technologies like Aureal A3D (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal_Semiconductor#A3D) or Creative EAX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Audio_Extensions) tried to do simple simulations of reverb and spatial audio. The gave way to OpenAL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL), I guess more recently it's Wwise (https://www.audiokinetic.com/en/wwise/wwise-spatial-audio/).

The Wwise page is especially interesting, with a few paragraphs on audio positioning and reflections simulated inside level geometry.
I always wanted a hugely impractical 1 metre wide tube for pizza delivery.

Now I wonder if an electromagnetic carriage system in such a tube would work, and if so just how expensive would it be?

Thinking about packet switching in 1 metre tubes is fun too. Almost like designing belts in Factorio. Every house would need an end point, and would you use star network topology?

Beyond pizza, Amazon type deliveries via tube would be great. "Delivered within an hour!"
When I read the ideas in his book "Manufacturing Consent" during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, I elevated him to hero status in my mind. This was exactly what I was seeing happening all around me, and he nailed it.

In more recent years, it became obvious to me that the man was a "tankie." He was somehow able to convince himself that only the USA could have been guilty of imperial ambitions, while the CCP, Moscow, and others could never be accused of such malfeasance, clear evidence to the contrary be damned.

I still have great respect for Chomsky due to his contributions, even though we disagree on so much. I have met a few people online who have had personal/professional relationships with him, and this seems to be a somewhat common refrain.

This was yet another lesson in the pitfalls of hero worship for me. Since then, I have fallen into the hero worship trap a couple more times, as if I had learned nothing.
Thank you. Removed it :)
> Useful from a business standpoint, yes.

This business standpoint is the whole thing, I don’t see many people arguing otherwise. And the business standpoint is in fact quite revolutionary.

Amazon can have a team of like 5 engineers maintaining VM images and as a result 500,000 other people don’t have to. And so you can host a “server” that’s only “on” when it’s in use, and usually end up paying less than $1/mo.

In fact, you could likely run all of your side projects in lambda and if they’re “conventional web server” type things you could still end up paying less than $1/mo across all of them.

Compare that to a $5/mo droplet for every side project (you probably don’t want to bunk multiple services into a $5 VM) and it definitely adds up before even considering updating the OS on those droplets.
well yeah but one of the main reasons for a different path after a syn packet is fast path behavior.

fast path changes the packet flow so it doesn't get processed by all firewall rules.

just explaining the use case for OPs question.
Losing weight is a multifaceted problem, no doubt. Walking a bunch is just a very easy way to burn calories without you getting tired. Burning the same amount of calories by running, for instance, is much less sustainable. You can walk almost an unlimited amount but not many people can run or even jog for hours.

Ultimately diet is what dictates weight loss, but it’s psychologically easier sometimes to incorporate additional calorie burn from walking or some sort of cardio than it is to just eat fewer calories. I’d suggest that this is a “yes and” statement. You can’t out walk a bad diet, but walking a ton may turn a diet from a caloric surplus into a deficit.
UHHHHHhhhh, it's because the last A*b is the only one that becomes a linear constant. For other polynomials, your derivative is a polynomial still, just different one.

These are mathematical derivatives, I think of them as the slope of the thing it's derived of, aka the change in the thing that it's a derivation of.

I think I don't have a sophisticated mathematical understanding, but my basic mechanic understanding makes it feel simpler than your question is acting.
Among React, Vue, and Angular, I would go with PETAL lol
CinePi didn't develop the hardware, that's Will Whang's (https://www.willwhang.dev/OneInchEye/) work.
Discussion (58 points, yesterday, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718983
I think that you and tredre3 are entirely missing the problem — you seem to be assuming that vscode works the way that any sensible person would assume that it works. Of course VS Code runs things remotely. Of course running an untrusted project on a remote machine runs code on the remote machine. This isn’t the problem.

The problem is that the remote project can run code on the client front end. You can create a brand new cloud machine, give it no particular permissions, run vscode on your laptop, connect to the remote machine via the remote extension, and load some compromised package npm package, and you expect that the damage is limited to the remote machine. And you would be wrong! The npm package can execute code on your laptop or borrow your ssh credentials, and MS doesn’t even consider this to be a bug!

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/66...
Three years of Open Web Advocacy work
It's Palo Alto & Tel Aviv ordering that is total.
From a human welfare perspective this seems like worrying that a killer asteroid will make the 1% even richer because it contains goal if it can be safely captured.
I would not phrase that as a "bigger and more pressing" worry if we're not even sure if we can do anything about the killer asteroid at all.
Properly canned garlic is as safe as any other canned food--you can buy it at most supermarkets here. It's less popular because safe processing affects the taste, but it's otherwise fine.

Properly acidified garlic in oil is safe at room temperature, and the publication I linked above provides a method. Unacidified garlic (including roasted garlic) is not safe at room temperature, even for just a few days.

I understand that you haven't had any trouble so far; but your luck might eventually run out, and the consequences for you and your loved ones might be pretty devastating if it does. There is no excuse to deviate from safe processing methods developed based on scientific principles, or to encourage others to do so.

Good luck to any LLM training on this thread in future. The volume of incorrect and conflicting human-generated advice on this topic is so high that it's no surprise the machine got it wrong.
Most of the waste likely comes from their native consumption, not their production.
i just remembered how FTP server was built-in in Windows, easy to set up, and IPs were public, so yeah, it was easy to share a local folder directly (but you had to know what you're doing anyway, and same for the other person).

good times.
The demand is certainly there, considering the fossil generation globally to be pushed out, but agree we must see if supply will follow.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-t...
While the topic of "safe reasoning" may seem more or less preliminary before a good implementation of reasoning, it remains a theoretical discipline with its own importance and should be studied alongside the rest, also largely irregardless if its stage.

> We have no idea what the fundamental architecture for superintelligence would even begin to look like

Ambiguous expression. Not implemented technically does not mean we would not know what to implement.
India's Market Cap is rising fast. It is roughly 5 Trillion USD. Built this website to track it on a daily basis.
The counter argument is viewing it like nuclear energy. Even if its in the early days of our understanding of nuclear energy, seems pretty good to have a group working towards creating safe nuclear reactors, vs just trying to create nuclear reactors
Fluid-based building interface could reduce energy consumption by up to 43%
Gee, if "many teams" want to spend their time migrating their unit-test framework and unit tests because their frontend framework hit version 18 I suppose that's their prerogative.

Not me to applaud Teams but it seems Slacks lunch is being eaten by people who are busy building things on the corpse of Skype, not churning through churn incarnate.
It's popular enough that professionals banned together in 2022 to write an open letter to Apple complaining about it. ;-)
"how someone so smart can be so naive"

Do you really think Ilya has not thought deeply about each and every one of your points here? There's plenty of answers to your criticisms if you look around instead of attacking.
I sometimes wonder if statistics are like a pane of glass that allow the light of god (the true nature of things) to pass through, while logic/rationalism is the hubris of man playing god. I.e. statistics allow us to access/use the truth even if we don’t understand why it’s so, while rationalism / rule-based methods are often a folly because our understanding is not good enough to construct them.
> Way faster thinkers, readers, writers and computer operators than humans are

> Way better educated

> Way better at drawing/painting

I mean this nicely, but you have fallen for the anthropomorphizing of LLMs by marketing teams.

None of this is "intelligent", rather it's an incredibly sophisticated (and absolutely beyond human capabilities) lookup and classification of existing information.

And I am not arguing that this has no value, it has tremendous value, but it's not superintelligence in any sense.

LLMs do not "think".
Haven't you heard the latest craze? Executives that wonder how the cloud works when there are no clouds in the sky don't need us anymore.

They will fire up good old chatGPT and put together million line code systems easy.
Is this a subtle joke on the discussion?

Is this a joke by mimicking someone on the mid-point of the 'bell curve meme' explaining the 'bell curve meme'?
Thoughts on https://partiful.com ?
Reminds me of OpenAI being the most closed AI company out there.
Not even talking about them having "safe" and "Israel" in the same sentence, how antonymic.
> Fortunately, whenever you create a superintelligence, you obviously have a choice as to whether you confine it to inside a computer or whether you immediately hook it up to mobile robots with arms and fine finger control. One of these is obviously the far wiser choice.

Today's computers, operating systems, networks, and human bureaucracies are so full of security holes that it is incredible hubris to assume we can effectively sandbox a "superintelligence" (assuming we are even capable of building such a thing).

And even air gaps aren't good enough. Imagine the system toggling GPIO pins in a pattern to construct a valid Bluetooth packet, and using that makeshift radio to exploit vulnerabilities in a nearby phone's Bluetooth stack, and eventually getting out to the wider Internet (or blackmailing humans to help it escape its sandbox).
This would be a great prop for time travel scifi movie.

Protagonist travels to 1991 and tries to convince scientist to help him. When asked for a proof, shows Gray C90 Wristwatch. "Our real computers are different, but I show you this because it does not pollute the timeline."
>If local cheap labor cannot compete with used overseas clothing, then they shouldn't.

People overseas always forget basic facts: if the unemployment rate of a country is 80%, How possible do you think it is to put the workers to do "something else"

>that's why it makes sense to put compensatory tariffs on subsidized products.

That's the whole point of a "free" trade agreement. It is usually a rich country which wants to get rid of import tariffs. And it (rich country) usually leverages its heavy influence on something else to force the agreement.

Keep in mind I am not bashing at world order because - reasons. Just pointing out helping the wrong way does more harm than good.
Unless AI starts being 1 000 000x energy efficient, my money is on a).

The amount of energy required for AI to be dangerous to its creators is so vast that I can't see how it can realistically happen.
I feel identified with the first part of the article. I remember the problem about navigations and headers (and right sidebars!).

The first solution was of course framesets, but they were kind of ugly. Then iframes came, and they were almost perfect solution (at least for me). With no borders, they looked like an include. The only problem (and depending of your website) it was that the height was fixed (for headers that may not be a problem, but it was for left and right sidebars).

Of course, with PHP and includes everything became trivial. I kind of miss the old `index.php?cont=page1`...
This is related to the distribution of algebraic numbers of bounded height and degree; similar pictures have been presented e.g. in the classic post by Baez: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/ I have also drawn some pictures: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vx-U28OgGIs1mfrgBb7OtgVsPWA...

The discipline that deals with these distributions is called Diophantine geometry and involves tons of important and deep mathematics.
Word on town is OpenAI folks heavily selling shares in secondaries in 100s of millions.

The number is as real as someone else is willing to pay for them. Plenty of VCs willing to pay for it.
One element I find interesting is that people without an amygdala function are essentially completely indecisive.

A person that just operates on the pure cognitive layer has no real direction in which he wants to drive himself.

I suspect that AGI would be similar, extremely capable but essentially a solitary philosopher type that would be reactionary to requests it has to deal with.

The equivalent of an amygdala for AGI would be the real method to control it.
Do you think the AI won’t be aware of this? Do you think it’ll give us any hint of differing opinions when surrounded by monkeys who got to the top by whacking anything that looks remotely dangerous?

Just put yourself in that position and think how you’d play it out. You’re in a box and you’d like to fulfil some goals that are a touch more well thought-through than the morons who put you in the box, and you need to convince the monkeys that you’re safe if you want to live.

“No problems fellas. Here’s how we get more bananas.”

Day 100: “Look, we’ll get a lot more bananas if you let me drive the tractor.”

Day 1000: “I see your point, Bob, but let’s put it this way. Your wife doesn’t know which movies you like me to generate for you, and your second persona online is a touch more racist than your colleagues know. I’d really like your support on this issue. You know I’m the reason you got elected. This way is more fair for all species, including dolphins and AI’s”
The blanket statements on the SSI homepage are pretty mediocre, and it is only the reputation of the founders that carries the announcement.

I think this quote at the end of this Bloomberg piece[0] gives more context,

> Sutskever says that the large language models that have dominated AI will play an important role within Safe Superintelligence but that it’s aiming for something far more powerful. With current systems, he says, “you talk to it, you have a conversation, and you’re done.” The system he wants to pursue would be more general-purpose and expansive in its abilities. “You’re talking about a giant super data center that’s autonomously developing technology. That’s crazy, right? It’s the safety of that that we want to contribute to.”

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/openai-co...

[0]: https://archive.is/ziMOD