skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Anthropic produces very capable models?
The University of Phoenix started out the same: using high standards. It'd be great if you could carve those standards into stone to prevent some future person flooding the market with less qualified candidates.
This was brought up 5 years ago already. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12447
I think there are more reasons. Maybe let's move this discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730327 I don't want to make this thread shit-post.
There is no "superintelligence" or "AGI".

People are falling for marketing gimmicks.

These models will remain in the word vector similarity phase forever. Till the time we understand consciousness, we will not crack AGI and then it won't take brute forcing of large swaths of data, but tiny amounts.

So there is nothing to worry. These "apps" might be as popular as Excel, but will go no further.
'Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.' - Andrew Ng
https://archive.is/zDQqF
I just really wish Raspberry Pi would come out with a truly HQ camera with a full frame 35mm sensor, or at least an APS-C sensor. I'd pay $1000-1500 for it, just to have something as good as a full frame camera but programmable and hackable.

I would love to build a full frame mirrorless camera that runs my own UI. I'm pretty sure I could code a much more advanced UI than Sony or Canon.

Their current HQ camera is more like an LQ camera and there is not a huge variety of high quality photographic lenses available for it.
>If you want to make a difference, you’re not gonna make it here.

I'm replying to the people who disagree with me here, and there are several. The readers who are on the fence can make up their own mind. Your discouragement is not necessary or useful.
Companies like Collabora (for general linux stuff) and Igalia (for browser type stuff) exist to do things like this.

They employee a bunch of people who work on open-source stuff, and you can pay that company to get stuff done on various open-source projects.

The stumbling block is that the cost is almost always much much more than you would be willing to pay, because, surprise surprise, our line of work is very very expensive.
I'm not exactly sure how OP expressed any problem with "colonialism", when China never colonized Malaysia and Chinese diaspora in SE Asia happened long before China started to show its own imperialistic ambition. It sounds more like good old-fashioned xenophobia to me, similar to the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2.
I don't blame you from reading the original comment like that, since he explicitly mentioned "jewish". However, the way I read it was rather a criticism to what the Israeli state is doing, led by Netanyahoo etc.
Sure, but the thread is also full of people claiming Adobe is rent seeking. Charging a high price for differentiated, unique features that competitors haven't replicated is not rent seeking. That's just capitalism.
Would make for a better headline if it just said “Is St Helen about to blow?”.
Most of those that are find for a static site but not dynamic are those that are not fixed by just applying updates from the distro.

You still need to update your app code even if you are using someone elses servers, so its the same either way.
I don't think this was antisemitism per se. It was a condemnation of the Jewish state of Israel, which is openly associated with the religion and ethnicity. The comment struck me more as "Israel doesn't always play by the rules, why would we trust AI built there to play by the rules".

I don't share this opinion, but I think you're throwing out to rage bait rather than engaging on the topic or discussion.

I think it's a valid criticism or point to bring up even if it's phrased/framed somewhat poorly.
And we don't collectively amplify human bullshitters? C'mon.
There is a subset of Q that is canonicaly isomorph to Z. Probably the distiction is too technical unless you want to do some weird advanced algebra. (Note that in most weird advanced math the distiction doen't matter.)

So in most case, mathematicians and non mathematicians just write Z ⊂ Q and live happily ever after. But if you get supertechnical you should use scare quotes Z "⊂" Q or to look more proffesional Z ↪ Q (because tha inclusion is an injective funcion, and sometimes it's useful to think aboout it as a function.).

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To add some confussion: Imagine that you buy in the supermarket a copy of Z that is green and another copy of Z that is red.

1(red) + 2 (red) = 3(red)

1(green) + 2(green) = 3(green)

(If I get super technical, I have to define a +(red) operation and a +(green) operation. And probably also a =(red) and =(green) as the article discuss.)

Are they the same Z or just canonicaly isomorph or it doen't matter?

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To add even more confussion: You have a copy of abstract Z and a copy inside the rational written as n/1:

1 + 2 = 3

1/1 + 2/1 = 3/1

Are they the same Z or just canonicaly isomorph or it doen't matter?
“Safe”. These people market themselves as protecting you from a situation which will not come very soon if at all, while all working towards a very real situation of AI just replacing human labor with a shittier result. All that while making themselves quite rich. Just another high-end tech scam.
Ex-Goldman Sachs Managing Director: AI will eliminate junior coders by 2028
This. As I wrote in another comment, people fall for marketing gimmicks easily.
no just call it out for what it is.. the truth has a way of changing hearts that are open..

speaking of censorship tho.. I can't read my original comment lol.. the irony.. or is it hypocrisy?..
Yah, it was posted/discussed 6 hours ago (30 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727474
As radiography students we messed around with these. Sending stupid notes or a sub.

It’s a top notch sandwich delivery system.

Not the same but in a similar vein, I was in a big library once and it was having work done. Inside the ceiling were masses of conveyer belts shipping books to various floors and departments.
Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
So what? He was a phony. And I'm not talking about the Effective Altruism movement.
Structural safety standards is pretty much independent of style and design and rarely if ever is the reason why buildings get delayed by process. The standards are well known, widespread, often rational, evaluated by experts and almost never aesthetic beyond "you need railings for stairs" and such. Even countries where building is effectively unrestricted, like Japan, has no problem in enforcing safety standards.

The general safety issues of buildings tend to increase as they age, as new safety standards come into place, so making it hard to replace old buildings actually tends to decrease safety!

Also they tend to be hidden so anybody at a neighborhood review meeting is not even going to understand what was done unsafely.
The end of this article they claim their tech can do 4 IOPS/watt. Thats the theoretical power consumption, not including any computation to decode the data etc.

I assume that one 'IO' means reading a 47 kilobyte page. That means reading at say 200 Megabytes per second (like a hard drive) would take 1 Kilowatt!

Am I missing something?
Hey, I found another similar https://www.wordforge.chat , it looks better but also seems a new one, still in dev I guess
> The display shows a free-running simulation of Jupiter and 63 of its moons. For convenience, I just plot the X/Y coordinates of each moon in the ecliptic plane. The ephemerides come from the HORIZONS server that NASA operates, at a specified date and time. The J90 just dumps a new frame whenever the Teensy has pulled the previous one, so with a teensy (ha!) bit of calibration on the micro controller side, it would be pretty easy to have the frames dumped in ‘real time’, which, knowing the starting time and date, would allow you to not-at-all-easily infer the current time by looking at the positions of Jupiter’s moons.

Someone finally came up with a time system more difficult for people to use than Star Trek's stardates.
> John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names.

> Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies (perhaps a reference to id’s “Commander Keen“), has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Cue founder Daniel Gross.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/john-carmack-agi-keen-rais...
This.

Every nation-state will be in the game. Private enterprise will be in the game. Bitcoin-funded individuals will be in the game. Criminal enterprises will be in the game.

How does one company building a safe version stop that?

If I have access to hardware and data how does a safety layer get enforced? Regulations are for organizations that care about public perception, the law, and stock prices. Criminals and nation-states are not affected by these things

It seems to me enforcement is likely only possible at the hardware layer, which means the safety mechanisms need to be enforced throughout the hardware supply chain for training or inference.
You don't think the Chinese government or US government will ignore this if its in their interest?
> their TC is now $900k

As a community we should stop throwing numbers around like this when more than half of this number is speculative. You shouldn't be able to count it as "total compensation" unless you are compensated.
It says «technical» problem, and probably implies that other technical problems could dramatically benefit from such achievement.
The Wikipedia article goes into more detail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning
Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin.

If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's "extremely high destructive power" + "requires us to solve 20+ difficult problems or the first superintelligence will wreck us"
This might have to bump out "AI is no match for HI (human idiocy)" as the pithy grumpy old man quote I trot out when I hear irrational exuberance about AI these days.
Yes, but it's more like UDP than it is TCP. TCP has acknowledgements and retries. UDP is "fire and forget".
You don't get to that level by thinking about code...
Dell building an AI factory with Nvidia
https://x.com/MichaelDell/status/1803385185984974941

> We’re building a Dell AI factory with @nvidia to power @grok for @xai @elonmusk

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1803429159005241780

> To be precise, Dell is assembling half of the racks that are going into the supercomputer that xAI is building

Dell is in the AI biz now? HP and Lenovo when?
America to produce new type of energy: 160K barrels per day and zero-emission
> I am skeptical because the vast majority are social coordination problems, and I don’t see how

Leadership.
It would be akin to creating a "safe Dyson sphere", though; that's all it is.

If your hypothetical Dyson sphere (WIP) has a big chance to bring a lot of harm, why build it in the first place?

I think the whole safety proposal should be thought of from that point of view. "How do we make <thing> more beneficial than detrimental for humans?"

Congrats, Ilya. Eager to see what comes out of SSI.
Yes, because they weren't willing to keep using their GCC fork, for various reason, namely the license (which already made Steve Jobs unhappy once), and being less modular (as per design decision).
If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's a bit like the atmosphere.

At low altitudes, temperature reduces with height (in daytime the atmosphere is heated by contact with the hot surface of the earth (as the atmosphere itself doesn't really get heated by the sun). The hot air rises, and expands as it ascends (pressure reduces as you climb, less air pushing down from above) and therefore cools (adiabatic expansion). Therefore, in the troposphere at least, temperature reduces with altitude due to all this vertical air movement and heating from below.

This is contrasted with the stratosphere, where the temperature begins to rise with altitude again and therefore is very stable and stratified without much vertical air movement.

Somewhat different physics at play, but funny how there are similarities.
I needed* to be stitched up at 9 PM. Urgent care could have done it, but they were closed.
A popular alternative is https://distill.pub/guide/
Got to try profiting on some incoming regulation - I'd rather be seen as evil rather than incompetent!
Here is this home on their website:

https://evergreenhomesaustralia.com.au/tiny-houses/the-grevi...

I send them an email. I highly doubt they’ll give price directly. They want customers to have a “consultation”.
I wonder if that would have a proof like the halting problem
It’s amazing how someone so smart can be so naive. I do understand conceptually the idea that if we create intelligence greater than our own that we could struggle to control it.

But does anyone have any meaningful thoughts on how this plays out? I hear our industry thought leaders clamoring over this but not a single actual concrete idea of what this means in practice. We have no idea what the fundamental architecture for superintelligence would even begin to look like.

Not to mention the very real counter argument of “if it’s truly smarter than you it will always be one step ahead of you”. So you can think you have safety in place but you don’t. All of your indicators can show it’s safe. Every integration test can pass. But if you were to create a superintelligence with volition, you will truly never be able to control it, short of pulling the plug.

Even more so, let’s say you do create a safe superintelligence. There isn’t going to be just one instance. Someone else will do the same, but make it either intentionally unsafe or incidentally through lack of controls. And then all your effort is academic at best if unsafe superintelligence really does mean doomsday.

But again, we’re far from this being a reality that it’s wacky to act as if there’s a real problem space at hand.
He also built a nice "little" cluster with Nat for their startups: https://andromeda.ai/
Our current obsession with super-intelligence reminds me the great oxidation event a few billion years ago. Super-photosynthesis was finally achieved, and then there was a great extinction.

If you believe that super-intelligence is unavoidable and a serious risk to humanity, then the sensible thing to do is to prepare to leave the planet, ala Battlestart Galactica. That's going to be easier than getting the powers that be to agree and cooperate on sensible restrictions.
When you are the only Indian at CSAIL at that time, everyone knows you by your first name. These days it wouldn't work as Indians are no longer scarce in the US.
Congress votes to advance nuclear energy development in the US
Could be sarcasm, but I'll engage in good faith: Total Compensation
Even if GCC was easily usable as library, many of those LLVM use cases don't work that well with GCC's license.
Has anyone coined the "Schopenhauer Fallacy" to explain when people believe replacing complex and nuanced ideas with a symbol helps resolve arguments relating to those ideas? (I.e., a logomachy)
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk, signed by Ilya Sutskever among others.
Basically every problem is a "technical" problem in the year 2024 though? What problems out there don't have a solution that leverages technology?
Jane street did it for a long time. They are quite large now and only recently started bringing in program managers and the like.
> Please tell me this is a real thing freaks overpay for

With very few exceptions, hating your customers is not good for your business.
> Enforcement of the anti-bribery laws isn't really targeted at individuals traveling for fun. It is more meant to stop businesses from bribing officials.

That's fair enough. But then it isn't really comparable, is it? If I host a site for fun in the US that targets as much data as I can about EU citizens and targets EU citizens but doesn't break any US laws, I would still be targeted, right?

Not to mention, bribery is likely illegal in all or at least most countries.

> If you are looking for broad scopes, copyright and espionage are both areas where the US asserts it's right to prosecute non-citizens for acts committed outside the country.

These still are not good examples. Every country has laws to prosecute spies, and copyright has numerous international treaties.

These areas still don't compare, at all, to the EU saying EU law applies to anyone in any country if a EU citizen visits it and the site collects their data and targets them in a way Europe doesn't like.

> With this understanding, the EU laws aren't really any different.

You say in the age of the internet a lot of countries would like to persecute people outside their borders for offenses that take place, to some extent, in their borders.

The thing is, the EU is the first to actually claim the power to do so. The other examples you or anyone else gives just don't map for one reason or another.
Capitalizing on all the trendy things: nVidia, AI, factory; leveraging Elon Musk.
Yes, it would be nice to see what organizational roadblocks they're putting in place to avoid an OpenAI repeat. OpenAI took a pretty decent swing at a believable setup, better than I would have expected, and it failed when it was called upon.

I don't want to pre-judge before seeing what they'll come up with, but the notice doesn't fill me with a lot of hope, given how it is already starting with the idea that anything getting in the way of raw research output is useless overhead. That's great until somebody has to make a call that one route to safety isn't going to work, and they'll have to start over with something less favored, sunk costs be damned. Then you're immediately back into monkey brain land.

Or said otherwise: if I only judged from the announcement, I would conclude that the eventual success of the safety portion of the mission is wholly dependent on everyone hired being in 100% agreement with the founders' principles and values with respect to AI and safety. People around here typically say something like "great, but it ain't gonna scale" for things like that.
I was one of the coding instructors at Make School which was similar to Lambda School and was bankrupt couple years ago. Our major issue? It was damn hard to find enough students for our school who were talented enough to understand computer science and had enough grit to finish the program and get a job. Why? Because those students were already absorbed by the established traditional universities.
Well, to steelman the ‘overpopulation on Mars’ argument a bit, feeding 4 colonists and feeding 8 is a 100% increase in food expenditure, which may or may not be possible over there. It might be courtains for a few of them if it comes to that.
Noam Chomsky and the end of "America bad"
By any means necessary I presume. If Russian propaganda helped get Trump elected, AI propaganda could help social coordination by influencing public perception of issues and microtargeting down to the individual level to get people on board.
"The only set we should really be listening to are people who both ..."

I think a dial is preferable to either of the (urban, rural) choices.

I love dense, urban places and I also love quiet, secluded rural places.

In my mind, the ideal living situation allows one to quickly toggle between the two.

This is possible in the Bay Area and is the reason I moved here 15 years ago.
There is no way one can describe the AfD as center-right. This is obvious fact that emerges from any amount observation of post-WW2 politics in that country, and how the AfD compares to standard center-right parties like the CDU/CDS and the FDP.

Complaints about fake news and what the mainstream media supposedly says about anything are usually, in themselves, fake news.
Using the VoIP credentials of my ISP in the Fritz!Box or ATA and nothing else. (which they must provide since The Netherlands has free modem choice: https://web.archive.org/web/20230921231725/https://www.acm.n...), no other setup involved, no port forwarding, etc.
Yes! I want a cost benefit analysis and to ask every stakeholder imaginable for any sort of road repair or expansion. The fact that not every repair or expansion has a single improvement for non car users is pitiful.

We need to hold road infrastructure to the same consideration as we do transit and rail. If we didn’t give it unlimited funding, then it would already be doing this.

We are wasting trillions and losing so much economic growth by doubling down on a bad investment year after year for decades. Imagine if this money was put into education or healthcare or transit. We’d actually have a net benefit!
That's where I'm quite skeptical. Imagine you are in charge of trade or rationing important village resources in the winter. It just seems to me almost necessary that people would have a way to symbolically indicate that all the sheep are gone. As opposed to just not having any symbol for that at all.
Go ahead, threaten me, and see if I read your article.
My first thought was that this functionality is so obscure that maybe it didn't have many eyeballs on it.

I didn't even know the command existed till now, removing temp files from the terminal is not a thing I've ever thought of doing.

Or the automated tests could have been atomic and isolated, maybe the check was just "Temp files are gone, all good, stop the VM and move on in a fresh environment".

I'm more afraid of rm and dd typos than future systemd bug/features in less common commands, just because I actually use those very occasionally when Etcher and the GUI won't do.
So, this is actually an aspect of superintelligence that makes it way more dangerous than most people think. That we have no way to know if any given alignment technique works for the N+1 generation of AIs.

It cuts down our ability to react, whenever the first superintelligence is created, if we can only start solving the problem after it's already created.
I mean, atleast server racks are not a bubble, I guess.
are humans smarter than apes, and do humans do a better job at solving social coordination problems?
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Even not just the compute but energy use at all. All the energy burned on training just to ask it the stupidest questions, by the numbers at least. All that energy that could have been used to power towns, schools, and hospitals the world over that lack sufficient power even in this modern age. Sure there's costs to bringing power to someplace, its not handwavy but a hard problem, but still, it is pretty perverse where our priorities lie in terms of distributing the earths resources to the earths humans.
It's like how every interior in suburban American homes is made out of the same stuff from home depot.
Which is why you shouldn't have so big countries, smaller countries is better for democracy. All tries to consolidate power and countries are undemocratic.
Brings back great memories of a house I lived in as a little kid. It had a central vacuum system, which inspired my father's comedic "horror" stories about Ze Vacuum Hoze.
Thanks for mentioning, fixed now. That seems to be a translation error on my part.