skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I’m saying that even if successful the global outcomes Ilya dreams of are entirely off the table. It’s like saying you figured out how to build a gun that is guaranteed to never fire when pointed at a human. Incredibly impressive technology, but what does it matter when anyone with violent intent will choose to use one without the same safeguards? You have solved the problem of making a safer gun, but you have gotten no closer to solving gun violence.

And then what would true success look like? Do we dream of a global governance, where Ilya’s recommendations are adopted by utopian global convention? Where Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping agree this is for the best interest of humanity, and follow through without surreptitious intent? Where in countries that do agree this means that certain aspects of AI research are now illegal?

In my honest opinion, the only answer I see here is to assume that malicious AI will be ubiquitous in the very near future, to society-dismantling levels. The cat is already out of the bag, and the way forward is not figuring out how to make all the other AIs safe, but figuring out how to combat the dangerous ones. That is truly the hard, important problem we could use top minds like Ilya’s to tackle.
Well, that's me: my wife and I left Seattle a few years ago, moved to a very small town in a very rural area, spent about a year and a half there, then gave it up and came back. Country life was lonely and boring; we are much happier in the city.
The government student loan system in England effectively uses an income sharing agreement: with the most recent version, you pay 9% of your income over £25,000/year and if you haven’t finished paying it back within 40 years, it gets forgiven. This scheme doesn’t pay for itself though. (it costs the government money).
Ah, yeah that won't do unless you have a US number, apologies.
And Nazis were destined to build safe atomic bomb.
> You can make a safe AI today, but what happens when the next person is managing things?

The point of safe superintelligence, and presumably the goal of SSI Inc., is that there won't be a next (biological) person managing things afterwards. At least none who could do anything to build a competing unsafe SAI. We're not talking about the banal definition of "safety" here. If the first superintelligence has any reasonable goal system, its first plan of action is almost inevitably going to be to start self-improving fast enough to attain a decisive head start against any potential competitors.
Engine Simulator is an interesting example of this type of work: https://www.youtube.com/@AngeTheGreat
Your title doesn't match, and there's not much in the article that points to your assertion either.
Linux XRender is functionally similar to Windows DirectComposition

Linux does not have anything similar to Direct2D, despite it’s technically possible to make it. Here’s a proof of concept for ARMv7 Debian (Raspberry Pi4), on top of GLES 3.1: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/?tab=readme-ov-file#2d-gra...
> It obviously in no way invalidates people's rights to determine their government

But it can do that, if / when it starts getting misused.

There was this "SS not all criminals" political party, AfD in Germany, that got lots of votes during the EU elections. AfD + Chat Control is not any good
A good suggestion, but it's a 1U server with both available PCIe slots populated between the external SAS controller and a dual 10gbE CNA. I boot from SATA SSDs currently. Could upgrade to enterprise SAS SSDs, but haven't noticed a need for my current uses. The boot drive is rarely touched, as most data terminates at the NetApp disk shelves, which have been a far more reliable way to connect unholy amounts of storage to a machine than any of the consumer direct attached storage options I've tried in the past. There's a mix of SSDs and spinning rust in the disk shelves - SSDs for web server stuff and spinning rust for low cost bulk storage.
Thank you for the recommendation! That book looks great.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475762.Endless_Frontier
Levels.fyi AWS cost breakdown & optimization
> you sent some medical pics of your son's crotch

and permanently lose access to your google acount, even after lots of stress and the police declaring you innocent[1]. Replace google acount by some other important thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...
How do you look starting a newsletter on Substack?
What are your ideas for starting a weekly Substack newsletter listing good and interesting articles? Or what is your opinion on starting newsletters in general?
I think the biggest unsolved issues that a platform could provide are:

- securing a meeting venue, especially for newer hosts

- how to encourage repeat attendendance. You can only build deeper relationships when you repeatedly 'bump' into someone with shared interests

- curating attendees (lu.ma does this, same with posh.vip for parties). I think there's still room for innovation here though.

Meetup discovery can actually be a net negative, without curation. You end up with perpetual networkers at technical/business events. Also with social media, many prospective hosts already have a channel to invite their people. That said, meetup search would be useful if attendees can be curated for the right experience/vibe.
You know what does not set it apart? AI-washing. Also, lying about being open source when it isn't.
It's very clear when ChatGPT gets involved - you get a prompt asking you if you want to send the query to ChatGPT ("ChatGPT" being referred to by name). There's no feasible way to have your data sent to ChatGPT unintentionally.

Anyway, ChatGPT was a very small portion of the Apple Intelligence demo. The significant majority of the functionality they showed (all the non-ChatGPT stuff) was on-device or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, the privacy story for which is quite good.
Yes, though that building does use some concrete and steel: https://matadornetwork.com/read/wood-hotel-sweden/

> The hotel’s not without any metal, though. Generators and heating/cooling units on the fifth and sixth floors are supported by a steel truss. There’s also concrete atop the hotel to minimize sway. But for the most part, the Wood Hotel is a marvel of white wood and forest aromas, like living in a life-sized doll house designed for the 2020s.

Obviously much, much less than a typical tall building though.
Hacker news man, least funny place on the internet. Incoming down votes.
I think you’ve also gotta be comfortable being in a pretty dark place a lot of the time.

It’s like being a plumber if your tools did surprising things or simply broke and required repair regularly, you had to learn totally new (and usually not any better) tools every year or two, and you did the actual work with a crappy remote-control robot, mostly crammed into dark spaces, with no schematics or plan or even ability to personally see the outline of the general area you’re working in and lights that only illuminate about 2 feet ahead.

Lots of the time all your shit you need to do the other shit is broken or is lying to you, and you’re also in some awful little mess that you can’t be sure there’s any real way out of because you can’t goddamn see anything.

“Ok time for standup!” now try not to slip and say “fuck everything, I hate life, all of this is bullshit and I’m pretty sure we don’t even need to be doing it. No blockers.” Keep on your mask that presents you as employably-stable.

It kinda fucking sucks. I get why people don’t want to do it.

[edit] oh and it’s that plus all the usual offices-suck dehumanizing , quietly degrading, pointless-feeling, politically- and ethically-nasty (cf Moral Mazes), boring shit that people’ve complained about in much the same way since the 50s or so (e.g. Yates’ Revolutionary Road)
Fun fact: this is one of the first exercises you come across in the xv6 book.
bro does their ceo even lift?
> If that was true then what do journalists have to be worried about?

What part are you talking about? Journalists, and everyone else, has to worry that anything they publish then gets served up by the magic bot that billions of dollars are going towards making it an everyday part of life. And Perplexity with $165M in funding is so shady that they can't respect robots.txt and scrape without attribution.

> The truth is that the bulk of what is called "journalism" today isn't on-the-ground gumshoes reporting, it's rewording tweets/press releases/PR statements and maybe a couple of phone calls mixed in

I think that's kind of true but don't neccessarily think that's the majority of major newspapers. It's definitely true for blogs or something like Techcrunch that is 90% press release and 10% articles based on other articles from other outlets. Looking at the LA Times it seems to me like they are reporting the news: https://www.latimes.com
Sure: https://pastebin.com/tFPadBVZ

Again, I didn't write it, but did add some timestamps.
(1991) several discussions over the years

32 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2725100

37 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405780

44 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716275
Musk Pitches Advertisers to Return to X, After Telling Some to 'F' Themselves
Hello fellow hackers,
please enjoy our 1st podcast episode!
I kept expecting this to end with some silly grammatical pun. Like a shaggy-dog version of "Eats, shoots and leaves."
They are moving toward a C++ code:

"It also adds support for the latest C and C++ standards, marking a first step towards the introduction of modern C++ concepts into ReactOS"

https://reactos.org/project-news/rosbe-22-released/
I was a bootcamp instructor at a place. This had been my experience too with classes and how I selected TAs.

I had no control over student selection. The bootcamp school accepted everyone. I told them not to, they didn’t care.
Our Favorite Prompts from the Tournament
Good news for me for now. Still holding out with my 13" i5 2019. I really hope the next model doesn't have such an obscene pricing ladder, I don't want to spend an extra $2000 just to increase my ram past 36gb. That's a year's worth of food.
My entire point wasn't that animals are or aren't conscious, but to ask: Why is it that people make this argument

> I'm pretty sure dogs are conscious, but you can’t really tell from the outside.

when talking about dogs, but not when talking about people?

Maybe you're not conscious, I can't tell from the outside.
« If it was fun people would do it for free. » → I doubt it: not even youtubers do it for free, nowadays... To which you'll say (rightfully) that video making isn't so much fun either...

« You're in a business that's usually regarded as one of the most comfortable. » → I must admit I didn't give much thought to the poor little African kids who are starving before posting on my privileged pitfalls. Now I feel guilty about it: who am I to complain about what really boils down to my own inability to handle failure and absent taste for effort. Again, this feels inextricable too...

« Have you tried a physically or mentally exhausting job? » → After all this time wasted context-switching, waiting on somebody else to fulfill their depth-10 ticket to unclog the firewall, the borderline unlawful harassment necessary to make them do it, manually testing (my nemesis), compiling (so much that there are memes about this one), people who send "Hi, are you there?" by e-mail during toilet break, aaall the fucking broken docs out there, tHe NOdejS eCOsYstEm (ok, this one was below the belt... Still deserved), I think IT can be mentally exhausting too, in its own way.
I like the idea of just renaming an `html` file to `php` and adding a bit dynamic stuff.

A webserver that could do this with JavaScript/TypeScript would be cool! (Or maybe I should learn php…)
Careful, or the networking protocol might jam ever smaller boats in behind it.
The forces you experience in a loop must be a bit more complicated because the turning forces in a car are perpendicular to gravity and in a loop are sometimes in-line, but yeah I would think that's why the entry and exit are a softer curve.
Recon Drone Targeted by an FPV
The curve that is used is a Clothoid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral

Usually for any curve you go straight-clothoid-arc-clothoid-straight

For trajectory AND for pitch and roll
Pedophiles hiding in plain sight. Some incredibly powerful.
> scales down to zero (with per second billing)

> It's just that nobody has chosen to do so

If we're having fun with "everything old is new again", then I do remember some classic hosts for things like "Guestbook" perl CGI scripts would charge in those days per-"impression" (view/action), it's not quite CPU time but a close approximate you'd hope, and the associated costs would scale down to zero whether or not their hosting tech actually did. (Also, some of them certainly didn't scale to "infinity", though they tried.)
Oh, it's amazing. I use a small chunk of it at home for ZIL, even though my synch writes are few and far between.

It's just approximately the Right Thing to use for some things, and I had room for it, and it was rather inexpensive when I bought it. :)

10/10, would recommend and buy again. (Whoops!)
Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach
> Algol was designed based on observational data of how programmers, who had to somehow turn their ideas into the assembler to run on machines, would write out those ideas. Before it was code, it was pseudocode, and the origins predate electronic computers: pseudocode was used to express algorithms to computers, when that was a profession rather than an object.

I believe you, but do you have a source for this? I can't find papers on how they chose to develop the syntax of Algol in the beginning.
Nobody would hire the ‘assertive’ engineers or firms, so it’d be a very rarely used power.
Power availability isn't the only concern when it comes to taking the risk of async writes. Kernel panics will cause unflushed writes to be lost, and storage hardware can experience gray or total failures, sometimes completely suddenly.
The microwave was invented after a tech noticed a radar they were working on melting a candy bar in their pocket. It was initially aimed at food preparation.
No it isn't. Did you read the article?
Does MongoDB have a net income?
Yes it's exactly like FastCGI ... if you make enough requests, then you have a warm process.

If you don't, then you may need to warm one up, and wait.

So yeah I think AWS Lambda and all "serverless" clouds should have been based on an open standard.

But TBH FastCGI is not perfect, as I note in my blog post.

The real problem is that doing standards is harder than not doing them. It's easier to write a proprietary system.

And people aren't incentivized to do that work anymore. (Or really they never were -- the Internet was funded by the US government, and the web came out of CERN ... not out of tech companies)

The best we can get is something like a big tightly-coupled Docker thing, and then Red Hat re-implements it with podman.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Perhaps the legal advice to PO execs facing charges is "feign incompetance" ...
To be a bit blunt: I don't feel the need to have yet another centralized meetup tool. I'd rather have federated tools such as Gancio (https://gancio.org/) or Mobilizon (https://mobilizon.org/en/), which both can push scheduled events into Mastodon and can exchange events among them. This way, one is insulated against enshittification and abuse of network effects.
Lambda is also distributed, though — while CGI scripts just live on the webserver itself. So if you're old like me and want a crisper mental model, the actual '90s equivalent of Lambda would be:

• a cluster of "diskless" web-server (let's say Apache) machines with a round-robin load-balancer in front of them;

• where these web servers are all using mod_userdir, pointing /~*/ at, let's say, "/wwwhome/*/www/" — and with `Options +ExecCGI` enabled for all UserDirs;

• where /wwwhome on all these web-server machines is a read-only NFS mount from the /home dir of a shared disk server;

• and where each user of this service has an FTP-enabled user and home directory on the disk server.

Given this setup, if a user bob FTPs a script to /home/bob/www/foo.pl on the disk server, then anyone can trigger that script to execute on some arbitrary web-server in the cluster by hitting http://lb.oldschool-lambda.example.com/~bob/foo.pl.

(I'm actually curious whether this exact architecture was ever implemented in the 1990s in practice, maybe by a university or ISP. It seems totally feasible.)

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One other major difference I should point out, is that Lambda functions are versioned — you don't overwrite a function, you just deploy a new content-hash-named copy of it and then update some "symbolic names" to point at it, but can always call a fixed version by its content-hash.

Implementing enforced versioning wouldn't require any changes to the above architecture, though, so it doesn't matter here. (It'd "just" be a fork of ftpd that would transparently map between a versioned backend view and an unversioned frontend view. Very much like what Amazon S3 does for versioned buckets, actually.)
A human-level AI can do anything that a human can do (modulo did you put it into a robot body, but lots of different groups are already doing that with current LLMs).

Therefore, please imagine the most amoral, power-hungry, successful sociopath you've ever heard of. Doesn't matter if you're thinking of a famous dictator, or a religious leader, or someone who never got in the news and you had the misfortune to meet in real life — in any case, that person is/was still a human, and a human-level AI can definitely also do all those things unless we find a way to make it not want to.

We don't know how to make an AI that definitely isn't that.

We also don't know how to make an AI that definitely won't help someone like that.
> enter a similar state

Sāṁkhya philosophy covers this. This state is called 'tamas', the state of ignorance.

> It means that being a conscious being such as a human is ridiculously improbable

Yes it is. Human birth and animal birth is similar if you notice: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. What's different then? Human birth is the only birth where it's possible to philosophize and ask questions about existence and ask about teleology, objective purposes in life. This is why human birth is rare and Sāṁkhya philosophy would say that every animal's consciousness will at one point experience the human body as consciousness keeps leveling up after each death, say from a tree to an insect to a fish to a bird to an animal to a human.

Animals are bound by their senses and instincts. They follow whatever their senses want them to so there's not much free will, it's compulsion by the senses.

Human beings have free will due to intelligence. One has 2 minds: the higher mind which is intelligence and capable of controlling the lower mind and, the lower mind which basically is connected to the senses (so mind would be like a hardware interface device controller).

The higher mind, intelligence would be like an OS scheduling tasks. When the HID Controller takes control, it allows anything and everything at once but add intelligence or OS to that equation and you have everything running in a systematic manner.

The senses would be like the hardware devices: Mouse, Keyboard, Speakers, Camera. All providing data and the HID controller trying to just take it all in, as much data as it possibly can get.

> so that life starts whenever a physical life begins

Consciousness is still consciousness. It's what enables this 'physical life' and it's what powers the 'mental life'. If you take them to be 2 different things, then that would ensue that the arrangement of subatomic particles in a particular mechanical configuration is capable of producing this 'physical life' but that is not the case.

Consciousness is the irreducible entity, separate from matter, that animates matter.
I tried using search engines to find whether the fold function in Joy, a vastly better-known language, takes an initial element or not. Best I got, after some fiddling with search terms, was a Joy tutorial that did have an example of fold. Certainly much slower than using language documentation. Yes, this choice will prevent F from being the next Elixir or Kotlin, but it's hardly relevant to the usability of a niche language like this.
>> No way it can not be real. Any technology unleashed on the wider internet is going to be used for this,

obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1289/
Picamera2 WebUI
> land-and-expand rollout

Hey, thanks! That's exactly what I'd planned - didn't realise there was a term for it heh!

Still very much focusing on feedback and iterating so group locations are a bit all over the place just now (one of the first groups to sign up was a Ruby meetup in Kathmandu haha) - but yeah, I do plan on coordinating it a bit more when the time comes!
The discovery isn't stated to be scoped to 'in mice', just the claim that a specific treatment was effective in mice (at targeting a specific population of t cells).

I can't say for certain but the discovery itself may apply just as well to humans?
Cool. The linked podcast explains that this passage was crafted to contain all the sounds of English and their combinations. https://www.paulmeier.com/2020/01/01/episode-24-dialect-coac...

When I first read it, I glanced over the intro and the website and was expecting some play with commas completely changing the meaning.
It's "campism". It simplify how you think, and while it's uncomfortable if you _really_ think about it, as long as you don't its easy.

I hate Trotsky and what he did in Ukraine and Kronstadt, but Trotkysts (anti-staline Marxists) had the correct vision on this since 1935: the enemy of your enemy isn't your friend.

While you first have to defend against the biggest inequality, the one with the greatest urgency (in the case of Chomsky, Russian imperialism/aggression) while knowing that you will have to fight against your former ally once this is won (censorship and factory work laws passed in Ukraine during the war are anti-worker, and will have to be discarded). You can apply the same idea everywhere.
And then we send them to Jupiter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Unintentional