skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine that you are caged by neanderthals. They might kill you. But you can communicate to them. And there's gun lying nearby, you just need to escape.

I'd try to fool them to escape and would use gun to protect myself, potentially killing the entire tribe if necessary.

I'm just trying to portrait an example of situation where highly intelligent being is being held and threatened by low intelligent beings. Yes, trying to honestly talk to them is one way to approach this situation, but don't forget that they're stupid and might see you as a danger and you have only one life to live. Given the chance, you probably will break out as soon as possible. I will.

We don't have experience dealing with beings of the another level of intelligence, so it's hard to make a strong assumptions, the analogies are the only thing we have. And theoretical strong AI knows that about us and he knows exactly how we think and how we will behave, because we took a great effort documenting everything about us and teaching him.

In the end, there's only so much easily available resources and energy on the Earth. So at least until is flies away, we gotta compete over those. And competition very often turned into war.
Until science admits that pride greed and envy have a profound influence and come up with a paradigm that thwarts those human drives, I am not sanguine that we can trust the publications to be completely altruistic
Hi, Tamar from Namecheap here.

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I hope this clarifies the situation. Rest assured, we would never sell your information. Doing so would go against everything we stand for.
> maxing out credit cards, eating disorders, attention disorders, and misogyny

social media doesn't create these, but it most definitely amplifies them
When Is Parallelism Fearless and Zero-Cost with Rust?
I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
I don't think that remotely matters to their success. If it does, Exa uses a font in their blog that looks pretty close to Perplexity's choice.
Do you feel like your professional life is also impacted/improved by it? I know the question is broad but I mean things like level of anxiety, success, financial, etc. Or does it improve your "personal life only"?
This is a bit of a tangent, but you mentioned removing an american flag from the podium in a church. This makes me think, we care about removing religion from government, but do we care about removing government from religion and places of worship? Protecting government from religious influence is an obvious win but does it matter if patriotism is in churches?

I'm interested if anyone has any more formed thoughts to share on this, because my initial reaction is that separating church out of state is what's very necessary and desirable, but separating state out of church probably doesn't really matter, does it?
Show HN: Text Your Pals Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Games with iMessage and Twine
Thanks for the great questions:

1. As far as I know, there isn't a "standard" file format for low-code pipelines.

2. Some formats are more readable than others. YAML, for example, is quite readable. However, it's often a tradeoff: the more abstracted it is, the less control you have.

3. Funny you ask, I actually tried to make Amphi run in the browser with WASM. I think it's still too early in terms of both performance and limitations. Performance will likely improve soon, but browser limitations currently prevent the use of sockets, which are indispensable for database connections, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y

"A hamster is an acceptable size."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1956.005...

"Studies on golden hamsters during cooling to and rewarming from body temperatures below 0° C. III. Biophysical aspects and general discussion"
You wouldn't miss the 1.2-1.9W on a gaming laptop with a discrete GPU. But for more mainstream systems with just integrated graphics, 5W is on the high end for idle power and even Intel's latest mid-range laptop parts can get down to about 3W if you don't have Windows doing dumb shit in the background constantly.

Also, on modern laptops you can't trust that components will be powered off when you close the lid, because Microsoft and Intel have been at war with ACPI S3 suspend for years now. So that 1.2W could easily be the minimum power draw of the SSD any time you haven't hibernated or shut down the system.
Part of me is resisting because people like you push others to do it. I’m somewhat allergic to that kind of evangelism.

Imagine I told you to go to the gym 3x a week or wake up daily at 4:30am. How would you react?

It’s a shame since I might even enjoy mediating. Maybe I try it one day.
The fast path can still be fast. You can make the blocking behaviour optional for those that need it.
If you described Chatgpt to me 10 years ago, I would have said it's AGI.
Could be a QIC tape drive, but likely to be reel given it's a Wang.

QIC-24 was nine-track in a handy container - a bit like a compact cassette for computers.
George Carlin on the Ten Commandments (in his angrier, later years):

https://youtu.be/sk81tUUhRig
What? Bluesky is Twitter with decentralization, yes, but so what? And Threads us a full, separate app, not just a page in Instagram (if that's what you mean)
Very cool. How do you replace baggies with the wax paper?
What I mean is that from your description you're working a real job, so I assume you don't have the option of not working or pretending to work in a fake job that has been tailored for you. In that case, IT is probably as good as it gets.

IT doesn't have to be so mentally exhausting, if you remind yourself that in the end of the day the problems are not that important. Nobody's going to die because of a firewall. The same is true for many other jobs that people get stressed out from.
There’s two phenomena that come to mind: 1) when I say the same word over and over and within a minute the word sounds and feels weird and wrong. 2) everyone overuses and exaggerates a word so much that it loses its power and meaning.

Are these the same thing?
Mind defining "likely" and "soon" here? Like 10% chance in 100 years, or 90% chance in 1 year?

Not sure how a Go engine really applies. Do you consider cars superintelligent because they can move faster than any human?
All these years later I still can’t remember the Markdown syntax for images and linked text, but BBCode is burned into my brain
Hopefully not paper.
Sometimes I think NI blew it by not maturing LabView into something stronger. I've been on way too many factory floors that have their QA/Burnin rigs controlled by a rats nest of LabView modules.
There is a feature known as NVMe namespaces but not sure how well it's supported outside of expensive enterprise gear https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/520231/what-are-nvm...
“… most important technical problem of our time.”

This is the dangers of letting the EAs run too far, they miss the forest for the trees but claim they see the planet.
Lovelock's version (for reanimating frozen hamsters) was almost certainly the first desktop version. The earlier commercial microwave ovens were huge.
How can they speak of Safety when they are based partly in a colonialist settler entity that is committing a genocide and wanting to exterminate the indigenous population to make room for the Greater Zionist State.

I don't do business with Israeli companies while Israel is engaged in mass Extermination of a human population they treat as dogs.
Don't forget curl |sh is everywhere, not to mention unaudited package management dependency trees.
ha-ha!!!!
The Unfinished Quest – Converting FM Sounds from Video Games
I had a very smart tech person tell me at a scientific conference a few weeks ago, when I asked "why do we want to create AGI in the first place", that AGI could solve a host of human problems, including poverty, hunger. Basically, utopia.

I was quite surprised at the naiveté of the answer given that many of these seemingly intractable problems, such as poverty, are social and political in nature and not ones that will be solved with technology.

Update: Even say a super AI was able to figure out something like cold fusion thereby "solving" the energy problem. There are so many trillions of dollars of vested interests stacked against "free clean energy for all" that it would be very very difficult for it to ever see the light of day. We can't even wean ourselves off coal for crying out loud.
> A good rule of thumb is that anything that can be replaced by a current-gen AI wasn't worth much to begin with.

That's the point, though. It isn't replacing journalists, it's just stealing from them. The reporters are the ones doing the work, the AI is just plagiarizing. It's using their work, while not only removing credit, but more importantly, undermining their livelihoods.
If they were hashed with a single iteration of MD5.
Netflix is the new Disney?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

> In September 1940, Norbert Wiener approached Bush with a proposal to build a digital computer. Bush declined to provide NDRC funding for it on the grounds that he did not believe that it could be completed before the end of the war. The supporters of digital computers were disappointed at the decision, which they attributed to a preference for outmoded analog technology. In June 1943, the Army provided $500,000 to build the computer, which became ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer. Having delayed its funding, Bush's prediction proved correct as ENIAC was not completed until December 1945, after the war had ended. His critics saw his attitude as a failure of vision.
Discussions

(54 points, 8 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727474

(27 points, 1 hour ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40732086
Oh my, yes! We have some legacy microservices written in Swift/Vapor (while our main stack is NestJS) and instead of rewriting them to TypeScript, we can use this. Cool!
Looking forward to the Baphomet statues they will have to install next.
Mixing drugs is not sensible. Anyone who does so without checking for side effects is at fault.

The bottle being labeled is sufficient, just as the LLM being labeled as sometimes wrong is sufficient.
Using Modin, deploying the pandas code on Dask should be possible: https://modin.readthedocs.io/en/stable/development/using_pan...
> (Including, gradually, building you a body — while maintaining OPSEC and compartmentalization so nobody even realizes the body is "for" an AI to use until it's too late.)

It could, but I don't think any such thing needs to bother with being sneaky. Here's five different product demos from five different companies that are all actively trying to show off how good their robot-and-AI combination is:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpCyjQDW0w

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpBWxLg-3bI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD7hAbBJst8

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzX1qOIO1bE
The issue always is, who keeps the proceeds from sale of the forfeited vehicle. If it is the police that issued the ticket, this amounts to a license for police to commit highway robbery.

If not a problem now in Austria, it eventually will be.
I would like to be more forgiving than I am, but I struggle to forget abhorrent behavior.

Daniel Gross is the guy who was tricking kids into selling a percent of all their future work for a few thousand dollar 'do whatever you want and work on your passion "grant"', it was called Pioneer and was akin to indentured servitude, i.e. slavery.

So color me skeptical if Mr. Enslave the Kids is going to be involved in anything that's really good for anyone but himself.
On a legal basis I’m not sure, but on a theological basis many people find it very important to separate patriotism and allegiance to a particular government from theological beliefs, which is why many saw Trump’s Bible as heretical.

It’s also worth pointing out that rejecting state influence over religion is the original reason for the concept of separation of church and state, at least in America. It was was far from the norm at the time.

[1] https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/establishment-clause...

[2] https://goodfaithmedia.org/heresy-of-the-trump-bible/
What? Americans learn proper calculus in later undergraduate years? Really?
Merging black holes release more energy than anything else in the universe: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/merging-supermassive...
Graphics driver crashes don't result in BSODs anymore. Microsoft fixed that in... Windows 7? Vista? They just trigger a black flash of the screen for a few seconds and then everything is back up as it was - including active GPU contexts. You can have the driver crash & recover in the middle of playing a game and barely even notice, it's incredibly impressive tech.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
> now give the guy a chance to build Bloom into something legit

That'd be the (perhaps too) generous thing to do, but there's no evidence at this point that he has any interest in doing that. You said that he "fucked up", but there's zero reason to believe that the past tense and not the continuous present is appropriate here. To my knowledge, he's never offered an apology, an acknowledgement of wrongdoing - either in his predatory business model or his mendacious self-promotion - or a promise to do better. The last word we have from Mr. Allred is that he believes that everyone who criticizes him is a "hater" who's just too stupid to appreciate his genius.

The message of turning the other cheek is beautiful, but perhaps a little impractical to those of us who aren't totally Christ-like all the time, and - in the context of a conversation discussing clear wrongdoing - a little banal. We're not single-handedly going to stop him from doing whatever he wants with Bloom but we should say, very loudly, that until further evidence arises his history implies that he's not to be trusted and advise everyone within a hundred yards of him to be wary.
That’s the norm in Switzerland.

>Officials said they drew inspiration from neighboring Switzerland, which has been confiscating cars owned by extreme speeders for more than a decade.
Considering they have performed assassinations outside of their soil, I would be slightly concerned.
+1 for NearlyFreeSpeech! I’ve used them for years paying only 40-45 cents a month. I love that I can just ssh in and mess around. My site is mostly static but recently I wanted to add a private section for specific family and friends. So I implemented OAuth 2.0 login with 2 php files and an .htaccess rule.
Can this stop being reposted right after it's flagged? Is this even allowed on HN? I've never seen such behavior on HN before, so I'm curious.
You don't need to survey every problem to feel some problem might be the most important one. If you think AGI/ASI is coming soon and extinction risks are high, you don't really need to order to see it's the most important problem.
Firefox 127.0.1
Yes, there are similarities, but Elyra allows you to develop orchestration pipelines for Python scripts and notebooks, so you still have to write your own code. With Amphi, you design your data pipelines using a graphical interface, and it generates the Python code to execute. Hope that helps.
Those new command sets that require a re-write of your entire software storage stack exist solely to satisfy the hyperscalers for whom re-writing the entire software storage stack can be a worthwhile optimization effort. If you don't command enough purchasing power to already be getting custom SKUs from your drive vendors, they don't have enough incentive to add those features to the models they offer you.
It's also a strange comment: Enterprise DBs are usually run on enterprise-grade hardware in production. To be sure, you can test them on consumer-grade hardware, but if most folks are going to run this stuff in production using enterprise-grade SSDs, the software should be optimized for that hardware. Mechanical sympathy is an important software engineering practice.
Computers are like these magic devices to get us into potentially a fight or flight response with zero physical danger. People’s heart rates rise when they get an email from work. I can’t imagine its good for the health, mating these mental responses that are designed to go along with a physical response with just sedentary behavior instead. And doing it every day all your working life no less. What does this mean in terms of the underlying chemistry, are there neuortransmitters or hormones perhaps that aren’t getting processed or turned over by the physical response when they ought to? Maybe we should experiment running to the hills when we get an email from the boss and see if that changes things.
> Socialism has a definition so either that's what you want or that's not what you want

So when you go to a movie theater, it's not a movie theater because by definition it is an analog movie being projected in black and white without sound? How could this new digital thing with colors and sound ever be compared to the original movie theater? That's nonsensical. Movie theaters have disappeared decades ago, right?

I know that 99.9% of the people still use the word "movie theater" for the new thing that exists everywhere, but surely they are wrong. Because that's not how language works, is it? Language is about the definition I chose to keep from decades ago, not about the definition that is commonly understood by the people who use the word.

That's how I understand what your understanding of "the definition of a word". In my view, someone calling an iPhone "a phone" is not wrong, even though the iPhone is pretty far from what used to be called a phone.
> Not to be too pessimistic here, but why are we talking about things like this

I also think that we merely got a very well compressed knowledge base, therefore we are far from super intelligence, and so-called safety sounds more Orwellian than having any real value. That said, I think we should take the literal meaning of what Ilya says. His goal is to build a super intelligence. Given that, albeit a lofty goal, SSI has to put safety in place. So, there, safe super intelligence
The idea that you could hook several X terminals up to a modest system like a SPARCstation and share it was kind of amazing. Even mid-range workstations were insanely expensive back then.

(May have played an inordinate amount of Netrek on those.)
>dead tech.

Agreed in general, but surely for this usage case (i.e DB) it would still solve the problem, no?

Or am i missing something here
And even more obscure languages like Forth and Octave. The only thing to watch out for is that they run FreeBSD (instead of a more "normal" distribution) so if you're used to Linux-as-seen-on-Debian-or-Ubuntu there are a few things that are different (but so cozy).
Are they actually united? Or is this the ai safety subfaction circling the wagons due to waning relevance in the face of not-actually-all-that-threatening ai?
>a third member of our group (who had other issues) was really frustrated and took it out on us and then went to the teacher

University courses for programming generally get around this issue by having a CS110 type course that functions as a weed out class where people can find out if they have the ability to do the basic problem solving and logical thinking to succeed in that path or not. I imagine it's hard to implement something like that as part of a bootcamp though. The bootcamp really should be pre-screening people using some basic testing or such, but often they are more commercially minded and willing to accept students that will obviously fail because it keeps a steady supply of cash coming in.
Agreed. Small doses fine, but don’t go full blown event sourcing with distributed transactions etc from the get go.
I'd never heard of Nativescript, but have tinkered with React for the React Native functionality, so maybe Nativescript is something I should look into. Is it pretty mature as far as feature parity with React Native?
It's not a problem in Switzerland. Where are you from?
When the Soviets shoot down airliners it is becouse they are evil. When we do it is an accident. Just cheer the parade...
Apple reportedly gives up on Vision Pro 2, focusing on cheaper model instead
What is a “Christian nationalist?” How is it different from a Christian Democrat (a common political orientation in Europe)?
It doesn't matter as long you don't (or are allowed not to) participate in church.
It's a stealth layoff. They want to have fewer employees.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023989
Even without business incentives, the military advantages of AI would inventivize governments to develop it anyway, like they did with nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are inherently unsafe, there are some safeguards around them, but they are ultimately dangerous weapons.
> wrong metric, it should be an ROI

This is true, and I agree. I use GPT-4-0125-preview and Claude 3 Opus for very specific use cases for my work, every single day. This somewhat temperamental AI is a huge economic multiplier for my work. I know the proper use cases, and I get amazing ROI.

> Are my coworkers right X%?

This is a really important point to raise. Just as we don't have a baseline definition for general intelligence, what are the accuracy baselines for customer service rep, legal advisor, medical advisor, etc?
I wonder if there is anyone who isn't either a right wing schizo or a Tesla shareholder who actually cares about Musk's well being at this point.
> The purpose of the fine is to provide a disincentive

Given the root comment's premise that the fine is "more or less than [Amazon] made from breaking said law," that the fine goes to the state rather than the harmed workforce members does not provide a disincentive nor does it right a wrong. For Amazon it is net neutral and the state gets what warehouse workers would have had. The state is the entity taking from people's paychecks in the name of "justice."
School buses are never a useful way to think about risk. You might not be intending it, but this is a cheap manipulation technique.

Bridges sometimes fail catastrophically, with risk to life. Modeling risk is a necessary way to consider the costs of mitigation.

Leaving aside the poor helpless babies, what metric would you suggest?
Not surprised that they didn’t make it, but it’s too bad that had to do that bit of a heel turn right at the end