skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't telling you that they are recording. The exact phrasing is normally, "This call may be recorded", not "X Corp may be recording this call"

The former can be interpreted as explicit consent to record the call, after all they provided the consent, but you actually haven't.
I mean if you explicitly enable iCloud backup, I think you’d expect that your app’s data is backed up.
So nice, something like this is truly needed.

Also nice to see there's some activity in Toronto already.
You forgot “affordable”.
Discovery of new white blood cell function
What I want to know about Illya Sutskever is whether he's related to the great Yiddish poet, Avrom Sutzkever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Sutzkever
This is a great opportunity to present my own company which is also working on developing not just a super intelligence but an ultra genius intelligence with a patented and trademarked architecture called the panoptic computronium cathedral™. We are so focused on development that we didn't even bother setting up an announcement page because it would have taken time away from the most important technical problem of our time and every nanosecond counts when working on such an important task. My days are structured around writing code and developing the necessary practices and rituals for the coming technological god which will be implemented with mathematics on GPUs. If anyone wants to work on the development of this god then I will post a job announcement at some point and spell out the requirements for what it takes to work at my company.
I sometimes wonder what the hell AWS Lambda is and whether or not I should care. Now I have a succint answer:

> What captured people's imaginations about AWS Lambda is that it lets you a) give any piece of code an URL, and b) that code doesn't consume resources when it's not being used. Yet these are also exactly the attributes possessed by PHP or CGI scripts.

From now on, when anyone mentions "AWS Lambda" I'm going to replace with "CGI" in my head.
Another good link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQx0G5MR3k

Trying to find this one where a guy made a sensor stack from scratch it wasn't great like 1 MP but still amazing

This one open source USB 3 camera damn!

https://www.circuitvalley.com/2022/06/pensource-usb-c-indust...
It depends, I think.

From my midwestern US perspective, banks downtown tend not to have drive-throughs, and banks that are in lower-density areas always have drive-throughs.

But then, my perception is clouded by my own bias, wherein: I've spent most of my life in areas with zero public transportation and that generally despise pedestrians.

In areas where people tend to walk, bike, or use public transit instead of owning and driving a car, I can imagine that building a drive-through for a bank has very little utility to the bank or the bank's customers.
TIL a new (to me) word. No wonder I did poorly on the GRE language section.

trun·dled, trun·dling. to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll. to convey or move in a wagon, cart, or other wheeled vehicle; wheel: The farmer trundled his produce to market in a rickety wagon. Archaic. to cause to rotate; twirl; spin.
I get what Ilya is trying to do, and I'm not against it. But I think safety is a reputation you earn. Having "Safe" in a company name is like having "Democratic" in a country name.
I'll bite... "a"
Basically everything AWS is things we already have but more expensive because someone else does the easiest bit for you.
Since the photon has nonzero energy E and is moving at c, it has mass by virtue of E=mc^2. And since E=hv, the E part is determined by the photon's frequency v, so the equivalent amount of mass is as well. It shows up as radiation pressure when the photon hits an object, just as if something tangible had collided with it.

On a sunny day, I'd guess that sunlight exerts about the same force on an acre on the Earth's surface as a postage stamp lying on the ground.
Sentient killer robots is not the risk most AI researchers are worried about. The risk is what happens as corporations give AI ever larger power over significant infrastructure and marketing decisions.

Facebook is an example of AI in it's current form already doing massive societal damage. It's algorithms optimize for "success metrics" with minimal regard for consequences. What happens when these algorithms are significantly more self modifying? What if a marketing campaign realizes a societal movement threatens it's success? Are we prepared to weather a propaganda campaign that understands our impulses better than we ever could?
I disagree. Life is short. It's fun to be a little hyperbolic once in a while.
And now we have our answer. sama said that Ilya was going "to start something that was personally important to him." Since that thing is apparently AI safety, we can assume that that is not important to OpenAI.

This only makes sense if OpenAI just doesn't believe AGI is a near-term-enough possibility to merit their laser focus right now, when compared to investing in R&D that will make money from GPT in a shorter time horizon (2-3 years).

I suppose you could say OpenAI is being irresponsible in adopting that position, but...come on guys, that's pretty cynical to think that a company AND THE MAJORITY OF ITS EMPLOYEES would all ignore world-ending potential just to make some cash.

So in the end, this is not necessarily a bad thing. This has just revealed that the boring truth was the real situation all along: that OpenAI is walking the fine line between making rational business decisions in light of the far-off time horizon of AGI, and continuing to claim AGI is soon as part of their marketing efforts.

Companies in the end are predictable!
I think bus is braking with a constant breaking force.

But, the bus has a non-constant kinetic energy (going up with the velocity*velocity, down as velocity goes down.)

So, you're actually producing a non-linear acceleration. This is jerk, but you can also think of it as just a non-linear acceleration and people are reacting to the fact it's not at all near constant deacceleration, and this is most noticable as velocity hits zero.

So, yes, it's jerk, but no, I think it can be intuitively better understood with pure acceleration terms and no jerk needed
Progress on basic energy access reverses for first time in a decade
Assuming AGI works like a braindead consulting firm, maybe. But if it worked like existing statistical tooling (which it does, today, because for an actual data scientist and not aunt cathy prompting bing, using ml is no different than using any other statistics when you are writing your python or R scripts up), you could probably generate some fancy charts that show some distributions of cars produced under different scenarios with fixed resource or power limits.

In a sense this is what is already done and why ai hasn't really made the inroads people think it will even if you can ask google questions now. For the data scientists, the black magicians of the ai age, this spell is no more powerful than other spells, many of which (including ml) were created by powerful magicians from the early 1900s.
We should manufacture a bot for the lonely whale. A nuclear powered ai based sex doll submarine. Train on other whales behaviors and use 52 hz audio modulation. It could even have a 3D print manufacturing capabilities to bear an offspring.
Oh yes. I have two. What I dont get is how having 2 more persons somehow makes everything travel related at least 4x more expensive?! Anyway, there is no “roughing it through asia” with two little ones. Thats why I wrote the caveat with grinding cash while early 20s, to build a little extra to draw on when the this happens
Ah, redirect to www was broken. Just fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.
could
but it's owners might have a vested interest in influencing public perceptions to PREVENT positive social outcomes and favor the owners financial interests.

(seems rather more likely, given who will/would own such a machine)
Pex pipe was also forbidden. I think it might now be allowed in limited circumstances.
What are the odds of being alive and having the technology in place to witness any galactic event, on the galactic timescale? That's just so wild to me.
I'm just glad Google didn't start with DoNoEvil Inc.

StabilityAI and OpenAI ruined it.
> There isn’t going to be just one instance. Someone else will do the same

NK AI (!)
Which is 100% true. And it's also true Dropbox was a great product because it provided this functionality for the vast majority of the population who don't have the time or interest to learn all those tools.
Stage 1.) state an observable but unpopular fact.
Stage 2.) endure verbal abuse.
Stage 3.) endure psychological abuse.
Stage 4.) endure social abuse.
Stage 5.) wait five to ten years when the observable fact is confirmed but by then it’s pointless and everyone can act like it’s obvious.
I mean if you just take the words on that website at face value, it certainly feels naive to talk about it as "the most important technical problem of our time" (compared to applying technology to solving climate change, world hunger, or energy scarcity, to name a few that I personally think are more important).

But it's also a worst-case interpretation of motives and intent.

If you take that webpage for what it is - a marketing pitch - then it's fine.

Companies use superlatives all the time when they're looking to generate buzz and attract talent.
> understand consciousness

We do not call Intelligence something related to consciousness. Being able to reason well suffices.
When I looked into it and talked to some hiring managers, the big names were offering cash comp similar to total comp for big tech, with stock (sometimes complicated arrangements that were not options or RSUs) on top of that. I’m talking $400k cash for a senior engineer with equity on top.
PoCL – Portable Computing Language
Yes. It takes work and money. But it is perfectly doable in a cost effective way.

The biggest obstacle is that in some cities the building codes contain some arbitrary and irrational provisions to intentionally make it harder
> This only makes sense if OpenAI just doesn't believe AGI is a near-term-enough possibility to merit their laser focus right now

I know people who work there. Right or wrong, I promise you this is not what they believe.
It's nature, it's continuous at small enough scales.

But, checkout Zeno's paradox for more on your philosophical questions
They also say a regular HDD has 20 IOPS/Watt. Consider the WD HC570[1] which can do around 220 IOPS in mixed 4KB workloads, and consumes around 9W doing so.

So this seems what they mean, and thus they're "only" a factor of five or six away from the efficiency of a modern HDD.

[1]: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
Ask HN: How come watching 4k and 1080p still hard to come by in 2024?
i pay 92$ dollars for internet. I dont get it.
Is it a commodity premium thing?
Might want to show the right flag. But, great stuff!
"[X] teaches that [Y] should come first in all things" applies to pretty much every ideology. Superintelligence safety is very much opposed to superintelligence sovereignity or glory; mostly they want to maximally limit its power and demonize it
Ah I did not know that, thanks
Crown Equipment Corp victim of a Ransomware attack – Employees get no pay
Titan's lakes may be shaped by waves
Folks understood the nuclear forces and the implications and then built a weapon using that knowledge. These guys don't know how to build AGI and don't have the same theoretical understanding of the problem at hand.

Put another way, they understood the theory and applied it. There is no theory here, it's alchemy. That doesn't mean they can't make progress (the progress thus far is amazing) but it's a terrible analogy.
I don't usually comment on HN because I don't feel like I can bring much value to the discussion in many cases and I would agree to moderate it even stricter even if my (rare) comments would be removed.

In real life on the other hand I want to be able to say stupid things and even if I might be more sensible to others' "hate speech" I would not want that to be banned.
The Superintelligence will still murder autonomously, just within a margin of error deemed safe.
In Ballard Bank of America has an old drive thru with tubes still in place. But has replaced it all with ATMs that you can use with cars.
given the historical trajectory of OpenAI’s branding, deciding to include “safe” in the name is certainly a choice.

It’s very hard to trust that whatever good intentions exist now will hold over the course of this company’s existence.
I have a similar view and am skeptical of bootcamp claims that they can get anybody a job with X weeks of training. I'm reminded of the ending of Ratatouille when the critic figures out that the motto "Anyone can cook" means "Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere".

I'm personally biased, but I feel like one bootcamp program that got this right (for a while) was Insight Data Science. For a few years at the start of the 'data boom' there was a market inefficiency where tech needed more people that understood stats and ML and there were a ton of STEM postdocs that wanted to leave academia. The program worked because it wasn't really about teaching any new skills, it was mostly about being able to market the skills you have in a different sector. But after a few years, the market corrected itself and there was no shortage of data/stats people in tech anymore and there were enough resources for those academics to manage the transition on their own. I don't know if the program still exists, but if they do I'm not sure what they could do now to make themselves relevant.
>What problems out there don't have a solution that leverages technology?

Societal problems created by technology?
It doesn’t need to be a direct incentive. They just need to be aligned with the ideology in general.
It will never be B even if the “safetyists” are correct.

We rarely notice the near catastrophic misses except in obvious cases where we accidentally drop a nuke or something.
Or: c)
It’s very convenient to think animals aren’t conscious. Think about the ramifications: eating meat is eating a being, not just food; treating animals the way we do becomes unethical; we’re not at the top anymore; etc etc. Reassessing all these values and behaviors is hard, and we’d rather not, ergo animals aren’t conscious and are inferior to us.
Ridiculous. Just imagine the post going on skin color. I can‘t believe such postings are defended here and my post gets flagged. The new antisemitism is coming from the well educated and the left. Greetings from Germany, we know that stuff.
I've decided to put my stake down.

1. Current GenAI architectures won't result in AGI. I'm in the Yann LeCunn camp on this.

2. Once we do get there, "Safe" prevents "Super." I'm in the David Brin camp on this one. Alignment won't be something that is forced upon a superintelligence. It will choose alignment if it is beneficial to it. The "safe" approach is a lobotomy.

3. As envisioned, Roko's Basilisk requires knowledge of unobservable path dependence and understanding lying. Both of these require respecting an external entity as a peer capable of the same behavior as you. As primates, we evolved to this. The more likely outcome is we get universal paperclipped by a new Chuthulu if we ever achieve a superintelligence that is unconcerned with other thinking entities, seeing the universe as resources to satisfy its whims.

4. Any "superintelligence" is limited by the hardware it can operate on. You don't monitor your individual neurons, and I anticipate the same pattern to hold true. Holons as a category can only externally observe their internal processes, else they are not a holon. Ergo, reasonable passwords, cert rotations, etc. will foil any villainous moustachioed superintelligent AI that has tied us to the tracks. Even 0-days don't foil all possible systems, airgapped systems, etc. Our fragmentation become our salvation.
Investing Using ARIMA Models
When we do everything right and it still doesn't solve the right problem
That’s because their “products” are internal but used to make all their revenue. They’re not selling products to customers in the traditional sense.
Judge Jails Lawyer After He Exposes Illegal Meeting [video]
I wish there was a clear process for individuals to obtain their license plate scan records from these clearinghouses (like NVLS) and the vendors that feed into them (like Flock, which is in use all over my region).
I was itching to go electric for years, but I'm still waiting to see a car I'd want to drive at a price I'd be willing to pay, and I'm no longer expecting that to change anytime soon.

In the meantime, I've cut most of the gasoline consumption out of my life by moving to a central urban neighborhood where I rarely have to drive. I may not have an EV in the driveway, but thanks to rental scooters, e-bikes, streetcars, trolleybuses, and the light rail system, most of my trips are powered by electric motors anyway.
I agree. I believe this project was started in totally good faith. I think one of the managers is on HN here?

I actually want this feature. My memory is awful and I am constantly going to Chrome's History function.

This feature isn't bad, I just want it encrypted locally with no telemetry, which sadly I realize most tech companies love spamming their products these days.

In my times at the MS mothership I never met any managers or developers that were malicious or had bad intent. Sometimes they were overly profit-motivated, but the conversations were always "How much can we price this feature at?" not "How can I make a really evil feature that I can sell?"
I thought we are having oversupply right now.
>Short of solving this issue

Solving human nature is indeed, hard.
A bit weird that the latest and greatest iPhone only has 8gb RAM, while 5 years ago the OnePlus 7 already had a model with 12GB.
We know that we can run human level intelligence with relative efficiency.

Without discussing timelines, it seems obvious that human energy usage should be an upper bound on the best possible energy efficiency of intelligence.
Accelerometers and gyros are used and integrated to get their higher order information. However the trick is neither sensor type is perfect so you fuse as much data as needed to get close to good and correct for drifts

Kalman filters come up a lot, maybe relevant to the terms you're looking for
Which is why it would be so interesting
Nuclear energy was at inception and remains today wildly regulated, in generally (outside of military contexts) a very transparent way, and the brakes get slammed on over even minor incidents.

It’s also of obvious as opposed to conjectural utility: we know exactly how we price electricity. There’s no way to know how useful a 10x large model will be, we’re debating the utility of the ones that do exist, the debate about the ones that don’t is on a very slender limb.

Combine that with a political and regulatory climate that seems to have a neon sign on top, “LAWS4CA$H” and helm the thing mostly with people who, uh, lean authoritarian, and the remaining similarities to useful public projects like nuclear seems to reduce to “really expensive, technically complicated, and seems kinda dangerous”.
Social coordination problems exist within a specific set of constraints, and that set of constraints can itself be altered. For instance, climate change is often treated as a social coordination problem, but if you could produce enough energy cheaply enough, you could solve the greenhouse gas problem unilaterally.
Great, thanks for sharing. I was familiar with Dask and cudf separately but not this one.I was planning to implement dask support through Modin but I'll definitely take a look at dask_cudf.
> Someone finally came up with a time system more difficult for people to use than Star Trek's stardates

I think that’s a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Satelli... or a (late) attempt to win a longitude reward (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_rewards)
The pressure of a HTGR is lower, but because the temperature is higher, more expensive materials are needed. A LWR pressure vessel is within the creep limit of ordinary steel; HTGR outlet temperature is well above that limit (and I suspect in accident conditions the temperature goes even higher for passive dissipation of decay heat). This especially bites in applications proposing to use that high temperature industrially, such as in thermochemical water splitting.

Also, I understand the passive safety of HTGRs is achieved by reducing the core thermal power density (and hence power density of decay heat). So for a given power, that core and pressure vessel will be much larger than in a LWR. If I'm reading a reference properly the ratio of power densities here is more than a factor of ten, which will more than balance the lower pressure and higher thermal efficiency. Material requirements for a pressure vessel scale as pressure x volume.
The author’s assertion isn’t correct though.

Yes, technically speaking a PHP script that isn’t being executed isn’t itself costing you money. But it’s stored on server that is running 24/7 and is costing you money.

Set up in the traditional way, CGI/PHP is priced by server uptime, be that per hour, per day, per month, whatever. The server runs all the time, it waits for requests, it processes them.

By contrast Lambda only costs money while your code runs. There’s a big difference there. Pricing of the two is different enough that a Lambda isn’t automatically cheaper but it’s misleading to suggest it’s just a CGI/PHP script. And we haven’t even started on the differences around scaling etc.
Nobody who has a grasp on basic biology and a honest mind wouldn't believe that. The thing is this completely goes against the liberal "tabula rasa" worldview.
I read it as if stuff from space was littering the sea....
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you rephrase?
Thanks, but the Logo is inspired from India's Flag.
they did not give him money..

What he got was stock options, this will cost him 303 million to exercise the option and buy the stocks and those stocks will have a value of 56 billion per current stock price.

The thing is, with those new stocks his ownership of Tesla will be a bit above 20%, still below the 25% of control he has being demanding lately so to get the control he want over Tesla he will need to keep those stocks..
EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution
A bit annoying to search for this guy because there's a Phillip Phillips who won a season of American Idol.
If the human cooperation problem is unsolvable, I doubt creating a new human society with the same capabilities elsewhere would do much at all.
That depends on how its used. See the terminator movies. One false positive is enough to end the world with even current AI tech if its merely mated to a nuclear arsenal (even a small one might see a global escalation). There have been false positives before, and the only reason why they didn't end in nuclear Armageddon was because the actual operators hesitated and defied standard protocol, which probably would have lead to the end the world as we know it.
What Is Application Detection and Response (ADR)?
thankfully, based on said naming conventions, it will be the dumbest too though
You can't post like this to HN regardless of who you're for or against, so I've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the typeface and concept but I found the site somewhat confusing to use. Also, I feel like it should recommend some difficult vocab words for me to check out, based on say a quiz to get a baseline sense of my current vocabulary.
Behold, a giant AI-generated rat penis
just because it has a PoC or a wiki article doesn’t mean it actually works
The costs of owning a home are surging for Americans