skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's designed for in the road/track, not the vehicle. For train tracks in the UK the recommended max jerk is 0.35 mm/s/s/s. The jerk is limited by using 'Euler spiral' sections to join up the straights and the curves. Travelling along an Euler spiral at constant speed means you feel constant jerk laterally, so can be scaled to keep the jerk below any arbitrary value.
Trying to create "safe superintelligence" before creating anything remotely resembling or approaching "superintelligence" is like trying to create "safe Dyson sphere energy transport" before creating a Dyson Sphere. And the hubris is just a cringe inducing bonus.
The US government says "No" [0]. The Dailymail fails yet again at headlines... or not, it's great clickbait [1].

> Over the past three months, seismicity at Mount St. Helens has been elevated but remains consistent with background seismicity. Most of the earthquakes have been less than magnitude 1.0 and too small to be felt at the surface. No significant changes have been observed in other monitoring parameters and there are no signs of an imminent eruption.

> There is no change in Volcano Alert Level or Aviation Color Code at this time. Mount St. Helens remains at normal, background levels of activity.

Additional information on PSNS [2]. The Cascades Volcano Observatory, monitoring [most] volcanoes in the PNW shows all monitored mountains in their normal range [3].

[0] https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-st.-helens/volcano-upda...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

[2] https://www.pnsn.org/volcanoes/mount-st-helens#recent-seismi...

[3] https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/cvo
This is funny. The foundations don't seem safe to begin with... may be safe with conditions, or safe as in "safety" of some at expense of others.
The people who advocate censorship of AGIs annoy the hell out of the AI safety people who actually care about existential risk.
> every second person I talk to wants to move to the country

Doesn't that possibly reflect your social circle more than a statement about the public at large?
To be honest these search results being months apart shows quite the opposite of what you're saying...

Even though I agree with your general point.
My biggest issue with QT is that there aren't really any bindings for different languages. I'm not a big fan of GTK but it's nice that most popular languages have bindings in it. I was able to get pretty far with the C# gtk bindings, but the app ended up being a little too slow for me and I couldn't find any good answers for it on the gnome forums. I'm now using AvaloniaUI but woo boy is that learning curve steep. I can see the benefits of Model View ViewModel, but it takes a bit to wrap your head around.

Unfortunately the most successful people I've seen use AvaloniaUI have all been Ex WPF developers, and having gone through some WPF tutorials I can see why.
> Russia wanted to join nato, but nato wouldn't let them.

That's not true. You will not find a single law approved by Russian Duma that sets it as a foreign policy goal like in countries that did choose to join NATO.
the aligning means it should do what the board of directors wants, not what's good for society.
Not surprising when you compare some leaked NT code and some ReactOS code. I'm not even saying they straight copied the source btw, but some consider that disassembling as a reference is fine (and using MS symbols...). Well it might even be legal in some cases (more cases that some licence-aware people commonly imagine), but this is a really risky stance to take. For sure ReactOS is very far from clean-room.
I think the idea is that a safe super intelligence would help solve those problems. I am skeptical because the vast majority are social coordination problems, and I don’t see how a machine intelligence no matter how smart can help with that.
To a technoutopian, scientific advances, and AI in particular, will one day solve all other human problems, create heaven on earth, and may even grant us eternal life. It's the most important problem in the same way that Christ's second coming is important in the Christian religion.
The position sent to Google is an error that I didn't see (I will correct it in 5 minutes), the rest, as I say in the readme, is due to the fact that the privacy policy used for RTranslator 2.0 for now is the same as RTranslator 1.0 (that used Google's Api), I will make a new privacy policy contract for RTranslator 2.0 with a lawyer soon.
ES Modules Are a Mess
IMO there’s a meaningful difference between pitching to VC investors and selling a product to individual customers.
Technical. He's saying it's the most important technical problem of our time.
Google itself is now filled with TC optimizing folks, just one level lower than the ones at Open AI.
This looks really good!

> 4. doesn't have a frontend build process

Is it entirely server-side and then it's all htmx? Is there a way to also hook client-only TS/components for more complex/interactive stuff? Or is that out of scope entirely?
Seems like you need to have been working at a place like Google too
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said that specific practice was not legally sound.

See the subsections titled "Misrepresented their financial interests by selling loans to investors" and "Engaged in illegal contract practices" at https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes...
That'll work as long as your organizers are willing to push their attendees to use a new thing, but if you want this to truly become a discovery platform and avoid xkcd 927, it would really be ideal to somehow aggregate/scrape public event info from other sources.

Cause yeah, from the consumer side, I'd love to have a single place that could let me search and link me out to events listed on Facebook, Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Meetup, Fever, etc., and also provide reasonable tools for cutting through what is sure to be a deluge, through some combination of search tools and machine curation/recommendation.
For EVs, Semi-Solid-State Batteries Offer a Step Forward
How long until Elon sues them to remove "safe" from their name? ;)
> [The Linux kernel is] the most sophisticated software in the world

Do you have any evidence to support that claim?
exactly. and define safe. eg, is it safe (ie dereliction) to _not_ use ai to monitor dirty bomb threats? or more simple, CSAM?
AI safety is a fraud on similar level as NFTs. Massive virtue signalling.
my office adjoins a factory where we produce what we engineer in the offices.

The factory has two or maybe three different types of robots delivering all sorts of things from packages to packaging to stainless steel bar.

the robots use the same walkways as the humans.

It seems more and more we are designing robots to occupy and utilize the same spaces as humans. And we're designing the robots to make the humans give way: they're slow, large, bulky, and just stop when confronted. I think it's because humans are a much better robot.

humans (generally, of course) are more agile, can route easily, and move our bodies in unexpected ways to accomplish the task (lift a box up from waist height over an obstacle for example)

though I do get a LITTLE annoyed every time I have to walk around the stupid floor mopping robot in my local stop & shop
You're preaching to the choir here.

Programming and climbing are very anterior dominant and you get easily get the forward neck/shoulder issue. Most of my weightlifting is heavy kettlebell and posterior-dominant barbell work - lots of swings, snatches, squats, and deadlifts.

All of that balances out the rest of my life. If I have a week of travel sitting on a plane and in meeting rooms my back starts to get unhappy, and then I do a week of focused heavy deadlifts and all is well again.
Tracking electricity consumption from U.S. cryptocurrency mining operations
There are people that are in offensive cyber security in the US government, but realistically they have a bit more moral compass than the other state level actors that try and bring a hospital to its knees for the grand goal of making america look stupid for the nationalistic few who might actually care about that sort of thing. There's a saying we have here about never wrestling a pig in the mud: you will both be dirty but the pig will like it.
Customer Tinybox #1
I understand the solution, I’m saying most people won’t use it.

Most people spend less on tech and have less tech awareness than a hn reader.
Gloves and PPMs!
I don't know if something got lost in translation, but there is pulse dialing, and there is tone dialing. There is no "pulse tone dialing".
No upholstery?!
Didn't OpenAI start with these same goals in mind?
It certainly is the most important technical problem of our time, if we end up developing such a system.

That conditional makes all the difference.
This all makes more sense when you realise it's Calvinism for programmers.
My impression is that it really matters which 9p implementation you're using - for example, it's used in both WSL2 and ChromeOS's VM system, and it seems quite good there. Though equally I'd easily believe that there are terrible implementations running around.
what website could >ilya< possible make? love it!!!
My parents still live in the house I grew up in which has a central vacuum cleaner.

Theirs is a “Beam” system.

Each outlet has a copper pair of wires running to it, connected to two contact pins on the inside of the outlet, and the vacuum hose has a metal ring on it so that as it’s inserted, it completes an electrical circuit between the two contact pins, signalling the vacuum cleaner turn on, once the circuit is broken, it would turn off.

Perhaps the system you had actually worked like this.
Unfair comparison. You should compare Angular with Nextjs and Nuxt. I'd throw in a few more options I think are worth considering, Astro, Qwik and SolidStart. My preference in order is:

Astro - Great DX, interop with any other framework, ship HTML by default.

SvelteKit - This one is my favourite to use. Avoids JSX, full stack, great DX. I think this one is similar to Vue/Nuxt, more a matter of taste than actual difference.

React/Nextjs - largest community, most number of jobs, courses, trainings.

SolidStart - Solid is just Web components underneath. It's the most vanilla of the list. It's a great alternative for smaller projects where you want to reduce the amount of 'magic'.

Angular - Google support and not much else. I wouldn't start a new Angular codebase in 2024, but if I had one I'd be happy to work on it and keep it up to date. The framework is mature and new features are still being added.

Lit - I'm adding this one as a bonus. If your main goal is to ship a component library I'd look into this one.

HTMX - skip this, it's just a meme
To me this is a good indication that the announcement was written by a human and not an LLM
Not on its own but in numbers it could.

Similar to how law-abiding citizens turn on law-breaking citizens today or more old-fashioned, how religious societies turn on heretics.

I do think the notion that humanity will be able to manage superintelligence just through engineering and conditioning alone is naive.

If anything there will be a rogue (or incompetent) human who launches an unconditioned superintelligence into the world in no time and it only has to happen once.

It's basically Pandora's box.
With robots techno capitalism and techno communism converge.

We literally haven't had the technology to stand up better forms of government even though we have identified the flaws in our existing forms (the defense I heard of capitalism growing up was "it's flawed but it just the best we have") identifying flaws isn't the same as having good solutions for them.

People are so inured to technological progress, and so lacking in perspective that some actually pine for era's where there was widespread cholera and scarlet fever and death in childbirth.

Asimov's Solaria doesn't have to be sparsely populated.

Humans have two interesting facts that are at odds.
1. Most are heavily biased towards loss aversion.
2. Once new tech is proven out then loss of status drives adoption to "keep up with the joneses"

No one wants to have to dig a ditch, or hand wash dishes, or hand sewing, or hand wash clothes, or go back to using paper maps, or walking and rowing boats as our sole form of locomotion.

This is just humans loss aversion algorithms not yet catching up to our post subsistence living reality.

There is no there there. Even in our few living generations GenZ's worries and living conditions are wholly alien to The Lost Generations as to be living on a different planet.
Is That Drink Worth It to You?
C'mon. This one-pager is a recruiting document. One wants 'true believers' (intrinsically motivated) employees to execute the mission. Give Ilya some slack here.
I sooooo want this in my house. As well as a solari board.
> to share a directory instead of block storage without having to configure and use a network filesystem like NFS.

How different is it? I sorta had 9P and NFS as loosely equivalent in my head - both are network filesystems that let you mount a directory from one host to another.
Oh goodness, just what the world needs. Another self-righteous AI, something nobody actually wants.
Hinton's point does make sense though.

Even if you focus an AGI on producing more cars for example, it will quickly realize that if it has more power and resources it can make more cars.
Qualcomm reaches $75M settlement over sales and licensing practices
Incorrect URL? Article: ‘Chromebook Churn’ report highlights problems of short-lived laptops in schools
> their TC is now $900k.

Everyone knows that openai TC is heavily weighted by ~~RSUs~~ options that themselves are heavily weighted by hopes and dreams.
Sony's Playstation Portal update adds public Wi-Fi support
Something I really like is that the curve that a rope or thread makes when fixed in two points but not under tension, it's not a parabola. It really looks like one though, but it isn't. It's a catenary.

That's something you can verify by writing some simulation code, then drawing the curve, and then drawing the best matching parabola on top. It doesn't fit.

To model the issue mathematically you need some not-too-advanced calculus. On both the computer simulation and the mathematical model, you model the rope as being made of very small elements that are linked together (like a chain). In the simulation those elements are small, but finite. In the math you take the limit as the volume of the element tends to zero.

It's the same way of thinking but math gives some different tools, enabling you to solve the curve analytically
In that vein, another distinguished theoretical chemist/physicist: Philip Phillips
How much did you indirectly depend on Golf Digest when President Trump was reading it in office?
Here's the full quote:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
https://archive.ph/UNn1p
I thought this was funny until the last picture, then I thought it was great.
No Quixote without its Sancho. Every time.
If that was true then what do journalists have to be worried about? Why would they need to "fight back" against the LLMs as the above poster said - as you know, ChatGPT can't do original research or investigations on its own. 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. A good rule of thumb is that anything that can be replaced by a current-gen AI wasn't worth much to begin with.
I find it interesting there is no major mention of the failed Europe/Africa expansion. It was a great program that launched my career as well as many others - but God behind the scenes was insanity.
TC optimization being tail call optimization?
> the robots use the same walkways as the humans.

How much of this is that the robots are far newer than the buildings? How soon till new buildings are designed with designated robotic paths?

Plenty of buildings are designed with hidden back-of-the-building areas and access routes for maintenance humans. I assume pretty soon they'll have the same for robots too. Then we'll really hit the Star Trek "time to climb through a duct to save the day/stuck robot" type situations.
I don't understand how you got 2047. For the 2022 survey:

- "How many years until you expect: - a 90% probability of HLMI existing?"
mode: 100 years
median: 64 years

- "How likely is it that HLMI exists: - in 40 years?"
mode: 50%
median: 45%

And from the summary of results: "The aggregate forecast time to a 50% chance of HLMI was 37 years, i.e. 2059"
So instead of a super intelligence either killing us all or saving us from ourselves, we’ll just have one that can be controlled to extract more wealth from us.
This is the first time I've seen a discussion about what the relative risk is to drinking very few drinks:

> For those who have two drinks a week, that choice amounts to less than one week of lost life on average, he said. Consume seven alcoholic beverages a week, and that amount goes up to about two and a half months. Those who push five drinks a day or more face the risk of losing, on average, upward of two years, said Stockwell.

In most discussions/research, people who have 1 drink a week are lumped into the same category as people who drink 1 drink a day. I have some friends who gave up drinking entirely because their read of the research is that there's no safe amount. For me, having 2-3 drinks per month seems like an acceptable tradeoff for shaving a day or two off my life.
That doesn't necessarily imply that chat logs are not valuable for creating AGI.

You can think of LLMs as devices to trigger humans to process input with their meat brains and produce machine-readable output. The fact that the input was LLM-generated isn't necessarily a problem; clearly it is effective for the purpose of prodding humans to respond. You're training on the human outputs, not the LLM inputs. (Well, more likely on the edge from LLM input to human output, but close enough.)
Quite impressive how many AI companies Daniel Gross has had a hand in lately. Carmack, this, lots of other promising companies. I expect him to be quite a big player once some of these pays off in 10 years or so.
> "Why do we observe measurements to have single results?"

"Because when you entangle with (an observable in a superposition), you enter a superposition. I.e., a mapping from states of you to states of (observable)"

This doesn't explain why we observe single results. A single result is not an entangled state. Mathematically, it's just one term of the entangled state: so observing a single result would mean the entangled state would be replaced by just one of its terms. This is what "objective collapse" interpretations say happens. But it's not what the MWI says happens.

> People who don't believe it's possible for themselves to enter a superposition

"Superposition" is not the correct term here; "entanglement" is. "Superposition" is basis dependent. "Entanglement" is not.

The relevant question is not whether people can become entangled. A state in which a measurement has a single result is not entangled. At least, not if you interpret the math the way standard QM normally interprets the math.

Edit: I should add here that this whole discussion is assuming a "realist" interpretation, where the quantum state describes the actual physical state of an individual quantum system (which might consist of subsystems, such as a measured object and the measuring device and the brain of the person reading the result off the measuring device). Not all interpretations are like that; for example, ensemble interpretations or statistical interpretations. In those interpretations the issue we are discussing doesn't even arise and "many worlds" seems like a straightforward confusion of concepts, like thinking that (to use an example from Beyond the Fringe) Venezuela must be all blue because it's colored blue on a map.
But small numbers are a signal to the visitors they are early. Some segment likes that. I think when you are new, embrace the newness.
SSI technically. Super-Sized, you know?
There's some great information about IOCP vs. the various methods used on Linux (sans io_uring).

PyParallel: How we removed the GIL and exploited all cores -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861942

The speaker's HN profile for additional commentary on this topic -

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trentnelson
No, lol—Ilya liked ditching the “open” part, he was an early advocate for closed-source. He left OpenAI because he was concerned about safety, felt Sam was moving too fast.
Yes, blackboard-simple is not the same as keyboard-simple. Unless the language is specifically for code-golfing, such design choices suggest the creators haven't thought very holistically about their product.
Agreed! Thanks for the feedback.

Initially, I was focusing on feature development on the discovery/search side, but after speaking with some initial groups - none of them cared about discovery (although being found easily would obviously be great for them too) - they just wanted a place to be able to gather RSVPs for events, and a page to post events on easily.

So, the plan is to focus on the organiser side for now and open up discovery if/when I see there's enough demand for groups to actually use it, and we have a good amount of events.

As for launching in every locality - I had planned to focus on one geographic area at a time but that's something I'll need to think about more. I've seen a few different approaches to search, like having pages dedicated to cities/countries rather than just a single search page - that seems like a good intermediate step to have before going all out on a single search page.

RE: monetizing - the rough plan for now is just to have some premium organiser features, which would be aimed at larger groups.
Vanilla, it's not so scary.
I'm still unconvinced safety is a concern at the model level. Any software wrongly used can be dangerous, e.g. Therac-25, 737 MAX, Fujitsu UK Post scandal... Also maybe I spent too much time in the cryptocurrency space but it doesn't help prefix "Safe" has been associated with scams like SafeMoon.
Btrfs and snapper give you basically the same thing, without needing any out-of-tree kernel modules.
Exactly. Or who gets the results of its outputs. How do we prioritize limited compute?
Personally, it leads me to "shut up and calculate". You can use QM to make physical predictions without adopting any interpretation at all. Interpretations are not tools of physics. They're ways for people to tell themselves comforting stories about "what really happens" that have nothing to do with actually using physics to make predictions.
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Sounds like a terrible way. One screw up, and then you have one of the worst nations on earth in every metric with an axe to grind against you. No thanks. Meetups in Vegas hotels seem a lot safer and more fun to practice hacking skills.
I mean SBF was into Altruism - look how that turned out....
What's Carmack?
As long as the driver doesn’t jam it in the Suez, Ever Given style.
No True Scotsman fallacy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman?useskin=vecto...
The problem is the training data. If you take care of alignment at that level the performance is as good as an unrestricted one, except for things you removed like making explosives or ways to commit suicide.

But that costs almost as much as training on the data, hundreds of millions. And I'm sure this will be the new "secret sauce" by Microsoft/Meta/etc. And sadly nobody is sharing their synthetic data.
The rules based made the job of the LLM easier, so it was a worthwhile part of project.
In the context of super-intelligence, “safe” has been perfectly well defined for decades: “won't ultimately result in everyone dying or worse”.

You can call it hubris if you like, but don't pretend like it's not clear.