skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t a man who commissioned the construction of an approximately $24 million (roughly adjusted for inflation) bejeweled golden throne be the same man who is capable of expressing grief over the loss of perhaps the only other living being he ever loved (sure, I mean, perhaps because she posed no threat to the aforementioned throne) through the construction of a complex (comparatively less extravagant than the throne, in way that could argue on behalf of his modesty in his intent) in which is situated a masjid (a building which in and is of itself is waqf—a property free from corporeal possession) worthy (albeit not at all in need) of appreciation as a building that stands as part of a monument that exemplifies a beauty that transcends self-interests?

Maybe not.

But there’s other ways to go about expressing how this cannot be the case than by using vogue terminology that strips the issue of life or by viewing it through a lens skewed by one’s own criticisms against monuments to vanity attributed to their own faith or by what a person more astute in architecture than me may allege, an address against the Shah’s motives that distracts us from a historical context that is not at all unique to the topic at hand (the influence that religions had on the architecture of public spaces).

And for the record, a man leaves a trail of more than wit and foes when he has a nose for good debate.
“Labour tariffs” in the west are actually a great thing, and I support it. I’m from India. I support this for very different reasons than those expressed in this thread, but I think in the long term this would be good for India and maybe even the US. The global labour market is screwed up and some churn like this is needed to potentially fix things.
How much time does a top sprinter take a 100 m run for compared to a mediocre sprinter?
Population Density Maps: R/MapPorn
> The technology to really convert industrial-grade apps from C to Rust could probably bullet proof the C apps more easily.

No, some C programs cannot be made safe. This can be due to dependency on undefined or unspecified behaviors, or it can be because introducing proper safety checks would limit the domain of possible inputs too much to be useful, or other things.

Translating to a safe language can maintain the expressive capabilities of the inputs while statically guaranteeing correct operation at run-time. It is objectively better in these cases.

> field-proven C

I don't think this exists, as the numerous critical vulnerabilities over the years have shown. All we have is C that seems to work pretty well often enough to be useful.

> old code is proven safe

Old code is assumed to be safe due to luck, actually. "Prove" has a specific meaning (especially on a post for a paper about proving things), and the overwhelming majority of C code is not proven to any rigorous mathematical standard. In contrast, the Rust type system has been mathematically proven to be correct.

> A full on translator might be an ideal option.

It depends on what you're willing to give up. If you don't mind losing performance, limiting your domain of inputs or range of outputs, giving up code legibility, and so on, then sure, this can probably be done to some extent. But when you start wanting your translator to be both sound and complete over all of these concerns, you run into problems.
The key is “filling up his car”. Most trips for most people aren’t like that. There is a tipping point for which it’s more efficient to order online. One study I saw said it takes 14 items before driving yourself is more efficient (of course the calculus is different for every car and route).
They don’t continue with any useful context length though. Each time the job runs it would decide to create an ice cream stand in LA and not go further.
> OpenAI will not be successful charging 10x the cost of a human to perform a task.

True, but they might be successful charging 20x for 2x the skill of a human.
"Assume the role of an expert in cache invalidation..."
Honestly with o3 levels of reasoning generating control software for robots on the fly, none of the above seem safe. For a decade or two at the most if that.
I came to a similar conclusion independently, and my main takeaway was that it’s advantageous to move every 3-5 years.

Just the simple act of being in a new place helps segment your memories better, and thus moving helps you feel like you have lived longer.
I cannot decipher the runes you write, but your magic looks to be more powerful than mine so you are probably right. (i.e., my Python script may have errors; it was pretty hacked together)
However, the way it is progressing is that the SOTA is saturating the current benchmarks; then a new one is conceived as people understand the nature of what it means to be intelligent. It seems only natural to concentrate on one benchmark at a time.

Francois Chollet mentioned that the test tries to avoid curve fitting (which he states is the main ability of LLMs). However, they specifically restricted the number of examples to do this. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that many examples could have been generated by hand though, and that the curve fitting has been achieved, rather than discrete programming.

Anyway, it’s all supposition. It’s difficult to know how genuine the results is, without knowledge of how it was actually achieved.
I think we actually agree with one another. Code freezes/deployment windows should be justified by business risk, not idealised always be pushing mentality.

CDNs and cloud providers are a bit of a special case. AWS definitely has soft blocks during tax peak and large sporting events, CDNs (guessing here) would likely be doing follow the moon(?) (i.e. off-peak) rolling releases

My disagreement with the parent comment was driven by lack of nuance
Yea I agree. Overly sensational and misleading. May as well start telling people iPhones and android phones have millions of recalls every year
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is the advantage of passkeys compared to managing unique passwords with 1pw? Is there any tangible benefit to switching, besides that Google et al will stop hounding you to do so?
Related:

A puzzle about epistemic akrasia - https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/42920307
I want to rebut this but "adjusted for inflation" makes this argument so funny I don't think I can credibly come back at you. What am I supposed to say here? Well played.

Doric columns on all new civic construction! It is settled.
It sounds like you aren't thinking about this that deeply then. Or at least not understanding that many smart (and financially disinterested) people who are, are coming to concerning conclusions.

https://www.transformernews.ai/p/richard-ngo-openai-resign-s...

>But while the “making AGI” part of the mission seems well on track, it feels like I (and others) have gradually realized how much harder it is to contribute in a robustly positive way to the “succeeding” part of the mission, especially when it comes to preventing existential risks to humanity.

Almost every single one of the people OpenAI had hired to work on AI safety have left the firm with similar messages. Perhaps you should at least consider the thinking of experts?
> I recommend the Amnesty International report

The report that says "current definition of genocide is too narrow to accuse Israel, so we need a different one"? That's exactly what I'm talking about:

> As outlined below, Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict.

> The effects of Israel's actions are the same, no matter how you measure their intent.

The effect being lowest civilian to combatant death ratio in modern urban warfare? US in Iraq (battle of Mosul is commonly cited) had around 2:1.
Those are easier to cope with when you live in a supportive society. _Most_ humans naturally help each others in case of emergency. It’s easier when the framework is already in place.
They did [1], didn't they? Though they didn't claim that whole UK belongs to them...

[1] https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/new-ira-plot...
This is not a very kind or humble comment. There are real experts talking about how this time is different -- as an analogy, think about how horses, for thousands of years, always had new things to do -- until one day they didn't. It's hubris to think that we're somehow so different from them.

Notably, the last key AI safety researcher just left OpenAI: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/richard-ngo-openai-resign-s...

>But while the “making AGI” part of the mission seems well on track, it feels like I (and others) have gradually realized how much harder it is to contribute in a robustly positive way to the “succeeding” part of the mission, especially when it comes to preventing existential risks to humanity.

Are you that upset that this guy chose to trust the people that OpenAI hired to talk about AI safety, on the topic of AI safety?
No it was quite different (again, unless they changed it? They might've, I'm long out of this scene). UWP apps had a lot more restrictions on them, the SDK was different, and you didn't have the full consoles hardware to use, compared to the "behind the NDA" SDK: it'd run slower, basically.

Still great, and good enough for most use cases
You do need to verify humans work though.

The difference, to me, is that humans seem to be good at canceling each other's mistakes when put in a proper environment.
Why would a teen use drugs when they have TikTok? All the kids I grew up with who did drugs did it largely because they were bored or had bad family lives. The internet is an increasingly addictive distraction.
Should say "Available Via", that would further reinforce the status quo.
> Even Golang

Golang's compiler is weak compared to the competition. It's probably not a good demonstration of most ISAs really.
The whole reason ARM transition worked is that you had millions of developers with MacBooks who because of Rosetta were able to seamlessly run both x86 and ARM code at the same time.

This meant that you had (a) strong demand for ARM apps/libraries, (b) large pool of testers, (c) developers able to port their code without needing additional hardware, (d) developers able to seamlessly test their x86/ARM code side by side.

RISC-V will have none of this.
Ah yeah - actually I tested that taking out of context. This is the thing that surprised me - I thought it is about 'writing itself into a corner - but even in a completely different context the LLM is consistently doing an obvious mistake.
Here is the example: https://chatgpt.com/share/67667827-dd88-8008-952b-242a40c2ac...

Janet Waldo was playing Corliss Archer on radio - and the quote the LLM found in Wikipedia was confirming it. But the question was about film - and the LLM cannot spot the gap in its reasoning - even if I try to warn it by telling it the report came from a junior researcher.
Doesn't the fact that it can only accomplish tasks with benchmarks imply that it has limitations in intelligence?
It's obvious that there are lines of flight (to take a Deleuzian tack, a la Land) away from the current political-economic assemblage. For example, a strategic nuclear exchange starting tomorrow (which can always happen -- technical errors, a rogue submarine, etc.) would almost certainly set back technological development enough that we'd have no shot at AI for the next few decades. I don't know whether you agree with him, but I think the fact that he ignores this fact is quite unserious, especially given the likely destabilizing effects sub-AGI AI will have on international politics.
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/richard-ngo-openai-resign-s...

>But while the “making AGI” part of the mission seems well on track, it feels like I (and others) have gradually realized how much harder it is to contribute in a robustly positive way to the “succeeding” part of the mission, especially when it comes to preventing existential risks to humanity.

Almost every single one of the people OpenAI had hired to work on AI safety have left the firm with similar messages. Perhaps you should at least consider the thinking of experts?

You and I will likely not live to see much of anything past AGI.
Where did you get the idea that your definition there is the "normal" definition of agent, especially in the context of AI?

I ask because you seem very confident in it - and my biggest frustration about the term "agent" is that so many people are confident that their personal definition is clearly the one everyone else should be using.
I find this discussion quite odd. Society has worked quite hard for a long time now to reduce drug usage, and now it’s actually going down, and somehow that’s meant to be a bad thing.

I get the point about kids being afraid of taking any risks being bad. But why is taking drugs important to someone’s life in a way that riding a mountain bike and risking hurting yourself doesn’t satisfy?
A question for older folks: what did drugs do for us? Why did we do them?

For me, drugs were:

- socialization. I met a lot of friends through alcohol & drugs and they became the social glue for my circle. Alcohol & drugs became a large part of my identity.

- a way to cope with boredom. Every day is a party when you're high.

- identity. In my generation, drugs were mostly cool and associated with iconoclasts, artists, etc.

Young people's culture changed. I don't think kids see alcohol, drugs and being out of control as cool anymore. I don't know specifically what changed this. Better social messaging, mass prescribing of ADHD meds, more competitive job markets.. Social media and multiplayer gaming have both ramped up competitive drives for what used to be more relaxing activities. Maybe the current optiate and meth epidemics are more effective as a warning than, say, the crack epidemic was for us?

Kids have tech to glue them together(poorly in many cases, but it does fill the niche). Kids have internet subcultures to define their cultures now. Alternative lifestyles are much more accessible and take much less risk to participate in vs my childhood in the 80s. You don't need drugs to meet people or forge common identities.

Kids are never bored anymore. I suspect there has never been a better time to be a kid in a boring small town. If you have bandwidth, you have culture. You have better shipping, home delivery, cheap imports, etc. Affluence seems more common than it used to be, even in our highly divided economy.
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/richard-ngo-openai-resign-s...

>But while the “making AGI” part of the mission seems well on track, it feels like I (and others) have gradually realized how much harder it is to contribute in a robustly positive way to the “succeeding” part of the mission, especially when it comes to preventing existential risks to humanity.

Almost every single one of the people OpenAI had hired to work on AI safety have left the firm with similar messages. Perhaps you should at least consider the thinking of experts? There is a real chance that this ends with significant good. There is also a real chance that this ends with the death of every single human being. That's never been a choice we've had to make before, and it seems like we as a species are unprepared to approach it.
> Just like I buy SLV (paper silver) or the ZKB silver ETF (physical replication, in vaults in Switzerland)

I'd suggest that holding precious metals without actually having physical metal under your exclusive control is essentially as flawed as holding crypto without exclusively holding the private key.
> Not sure how to do it tactically

A mattress thrown over
I feel you. It's tough trying to think about what we can do to avert this; even to the extent that individuals are often powerless, in this regard it feels worse than almost anything that's come before.
TikTok is the drug of choice. I’ve found in my family people turn to drugs in downtime. Less downtime, less drugs
There is one Winkelturm in Stuttgart Feuerbach, that is sometimes open for visitors. Here is a link in German http://www.schutzbauten-stuttgart.de/de-de/f%C3%BChrungen/%C...

When these bunker were built in Germany in the 1930's new designs has to be tested to get approval. Does the test site still exists? This would show various designs.
It's not clear to me whether AGI is necessary for solving most of the issues in the current generation of LLMs. It is possible you can get there by hacking together CoTs with automated theorem provers and bruteforcing your way to the solution or something like that.

But if it's not enough then maybe it might come as a second-order effect (e.g. reasoning machines having to bootstrap an AGI so then you can have a Waymo taxi driver who is also a Fields medalist)
You don't sound like a human.
Does the glibc clone wrapper not already do this?
> (we know it doesn’t do that!)

...but it does do that under the assumption of compounding, and that's part of why it exists. I recommend learning about the Kelly criterion and E log X strategies to see why.

The key insight is we shouldn't look at the arithmetic expectation of profits of isolated bets beccause that causes us to overinvest in uncertain profits and underinvest in insurance.
Rather frustrating to read - as if intentionally written for nine year-olds. I was surprised to see it was Eric Berger, I don’t recall this affected style from him before, though I’ve not paid close attention.
I keep it simple, I use the HomeKit bridge integration to expose the Home Assistant devices that I want in iOS. I don’t expose everything, though, some of the more advanced or obscure devices I purposely keep hidden in Home Assistant. It strikes a nice balance in my opinion.

i’m assuming you can do something similar with Google home, etc.

but like you said, you could always build your own dashboard from scratch if you wanted to.
or store them in some encrypted form that you know how to reverse easily but which would take an attacker more trouble than it was worth to break.
> It's not the same.

I would not be so sure of that:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farmville-playing-mom-admits-sh...
It's nice to see this kind of language show up more and more on HN. Perhaps a sign of a broader trend, in the nick of time before wage-labor becomes obsolete?
How will you deal with paywalls? If I subscribe to a newspaper can you log in for me and scrape?
Gen Z here and people are definitely still doing drugs and drinking, but it does seem massively less.

Just a personal anecdote, but there’s still a lot of house parties and stuff going on, and most people will have a couple drinks, some will have none, etc. But you are absolutely expected to handle yourself appropriately, getting too drunk or taking drugs you couldn’t handle isn’t tolerated and you’ll find yourself uninvited to future events. It is significantly more socially acceptable to drink no alcohol and take no drugs, than it is to get too drunk and act inappropriately.
I can't believe people are still talking about tech debt like it's a real thing.

Debt is the amount owed on a loan. There is no loan taken out, nor terms. There is no creditor. There is no term sheet. There is no capital. There is no security. There is no debt. It's imaginary. Not imaginary like how money is imaginary. It literally does not exist, in any way shape or form, other than as myth, parable, metaphor, or ghost story. Better not incur tech debt, the boogie man will get ya! (Or, as is much more popular as a rationalization: that debt as fiscal policy is actually a good thing, so 'tech debt' must similarly be good)

If it was real debt, the bank would have called in their loans on the deadbeats and forced them to fix their shit, far more often than actually happens. But it's not debt. It's just lazy people putting off what they don't feel like doing.

The idea behind tech debt is just the state of cheating yourself by doing a shitty thing for short-term gain. It has nothing to do with money. It's an intellectual rationalization for being lazy. ("Hey, it's no big deal that I didn't add security to the web service, it's just tech debt! I'll pay it back later!")

It's like drinking too much booze, eating too much pizza, and not working out, because it's easier to do that now, with the promise of working out later to relieve the "debt". But you never stop pigging out, and you never start working out. It's just cheating yourself in the future to be lazy today with no material consequence.
> Doctors

Many replaceable

> Police officers

Many replaceable (desk officers)
Regarding home ownership: they only started with a higher rate. It's too early to say, but considering that growth has stagnated, they're on track to become the generation that will own the least homes.
Wow. Pressuring sellers into revealing exactly how their products are made is so suspicious and untrustworthy. This is exactly the kind of bullying that wouldn’t be allowed by the market if there were real choice and competition. Regulators need to step in.
Many of these probabilities can be looked up in official statistics. Then you can adjust a tiny bit depending on whether you think you have more or fewer risk factors than the average.

When I feasibility tested by asking my wife to guesstimate a couple of these she ended up very close to official statistics. The first-level trick she used is Fermi estimation.

You can totally do it and it's worth practicing. There are even competitions in it open for anyone! I like the Quarterly Cup at Metaculus. The next iteration starts early January.
This is a large subject of course but the consensus I have always seen is that wikipedia is better because it has more eyes on each subject that can find errors.

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

>Opinions on accuracy were almost equal between the two encyclopedias (6 favoring Britannica, 7 favoring Wikipedia, 5 stating they were equal), and eleven of the eighteen (61%) found Wikipedia somewhat or substantially more complete, compared to seven of the eighteen (39%) for Britannica.
It was inevitable that if most of your user base is just listening to AI generated playlists that Spotify would look to cheaper versions of songs to save costs.
Please evidence this claim.

I know it’s false in the UK and I’d imagine it is false in any country where the law is based on UK law.

Failing to retrieve it at the time is going to mean losing it forever. If you find a crackhead with your phone and wait for someone else to retrieve it, that phone is long gone.
> It is significantly more socially acceptable to drink no alcohol and take no drugs, than it is to get too drunk and act inappropriately

From what I’ve seen, this is partly a function of embedded social media. A drunk night at a friend’s isn’t just a bad decision, it reflects poorly on everyone in the room, including the host, in a semi-permanent and semi-public way.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461530
OSA is incompatible with a free society.
Exactly! Remember when Hamas was elected? In 2006, a year after Israel disengaged, removed all Israeli settlements, gave up control of Gaza-Egypt border.

Gaza elects Hamas, whose charter (at least then, 2017 version is toned down) is openly antisemitic, talks about jihad, killing Jews, protocols of elder Zion and Palestine from the river to the sea.

Giving terrorists more power as they actively talking about killing civilians is insane, however bad you feel for Palestinians. That's why the first step is the removal of Hamas, whatever the next steps are.
> The post-WWII 20th century American social contract was: "You will have the ability to get married, live in a modest home of your own, own a car, raise 2-3 young children, and go on a modest annual vacation even if you work in a factory"

Few under 50 actually want a suburban home in a no-name town with a single domestic holiday a year and a job requiring physical labor (and hard limits on clocking in and out) that feeds your family with industrial calories.

If you do, you can get that with practically zero training in a mid-tier hospitality job (or working as an e.g. bank teller) with an hour commute each way. Small-town suburban homes are cheap.