skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think AI alignment folk are uninterested in addressing them. I think they do see as a red flag the fact that it's so hard even for corporations to craft incentive schemes that consistently reward good behavior without being hacked and gamed for bad results, and that's when the incentives are being followed humans who we have a lot of experience with.
With no disrespect intended towards your friend: I think there's broad social agreement that anybody who plays video games for 14 hours a day is probably intolerable in anything except a completely lopsided relationship.

Put another way: that leaves 10 hours a day for eating, sleeping, and the actual things that make relationships work (quality time, sharing responsibilities, etc.). Unless your friend didn't sleep, he probably wasn't being a very attentive partner.
Having played the game a bit, its primary theme appears to be the fictional USSR imploding from its own hubris.
A lot of us aren't gonna leave 5x the wage on the table.
>Our findings reveal that when organizations hire employees from other, unhealthy organizations (those with a high prevalence of mental disorders), they “implant” depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders into their workforces. Employees leaving unhealthy organizations act as “carriers” of these disorders regardless of whether they themselves have received a formal diagnosis of a mental disorder. The effect is especially pronounced if the newcomer holds a managerial position.

The study sounds like it is trying to blame the problem on the suffers (the "contagion" of their depression), but the obvious explanation of this is that by hiring from organizations with high stress, you're likely to be hiring perpetrators. That explains why it is not more likely to happen when the individual being hired is diagnosed ("Employees leaving unhealthy organizations act as “carriers” of these disorders regardless of whether they themselves have received a formal diagnosis"), and also why it is more likely to happen when they enter a position of power ("The effect is especially pronounced if the newcomer holds a managerial position.").

I am also not sure if the social contagion model has a lot of evidence for it. If you apply epidemiological models to any data you will get fits for epidemiological model parameters, and those will have a built-in epidemiological interpretation - but without prior knowledge that mental disorders are contagious (I thought most were definitely not?) you would just be making blind nonlinear curve fits to generic functions with many possible explanations.
Super minor language nitpick, but I thought you might want to know. There are a couple places where you seem to have mixed up empathetic and emphatic. One section is titled “Emphethatic”. I’m not sure if you were trying to make a portmanteau or just misspelled it, but I was confused by it. Other than that, I appreciate you taking the time to write up something like this. Wish it existed when I interviewed in my younger days. (MS also asked me the manhole cover question.)
Men wearing nail polish is definitely not normalized in our western or eastern society.
The loss of privacy comes not from actions taken at the Amazon store, but from having the app installed on the phone 24/7, including when you’re not at the Amazon store.

A somewhat similar example would be using Facebook purely through its Tor onion address, while simultaneously blocking facebook.com on your home network. The point is not to keep Meta from having any information about you, but to limit Meta to information it can acquire from your direct interactions, as opposed to the piles of unrelated browsing history it normally acquires through IP address correlation and Like buttons.
Vets and psychotherapists are not “the general public”.

Every item I listed has a clear and valuable purpose, but only in specific contexts.
Governments (such as Saudi Arabia) often buy expensive hacking software from the companies abroad (such as NSO in Israel), needless to say with citizens tax money. Such software can hack into any phone, even with zero click. A mere phone number would be enough. They also have internal hacking teams and APTs, with own hacking tools.

Further, if you are in a country that manufactures key closed source components of the phone, you should assume that the government of that country can access the phone with the help of a backdoor or zero days embedded in the closed source software or hardware. iPhone is a good example.

Sandboxing in desktop is worse. Still you can better lock down a laptop if you know what you’re doing, since a computer is not linked to a phone number and you can leverage the flexibility.
you could rename willpower with energy and get to a similar point, but at least for me, i feel willpower is what is driving me throughout the day. i don't see where the guilt should come from? if i run out of willpower or energy i need to rest and relax. every evening i reach that point. why should i feel guilty about that? there is nothing wrong with willpower running out. when i reach that point i know that i deserve a rest.

decision fatigue is another aspect of this. to many decisions to make and you are getting tired of that. i solve that by automating many things. (like watching tv or listening to books, i have them on a schedule, and the only time i need to make a decision is when i need to find something new to watch which happens every few months.
If you're open for exploration, what are your thoughts on organisms rights to self defense? What level of self defense should they be able to have if another organism is trying to end their life?
Yup, it's all tradeoffs, and my preferred tradeoffs won't match yours.
Think I figured it out
I refuse them. If I'm looking for a job I don't have half a day for some pointless thing. Interview me in the standard way, a few hour long interview, one at least with coding. When I interviewed at Microsoft and Google a few years ago, take home assignments were not part of the deal.

Last 10 years no take home. Today it's coding something in a vc meeting, maybe in a web browser or coding env. Maybe beginners do some coding.
Swerving around an obstacle in the road you might do this
Are there any internationally relevant internet companies in Europe?

Spotify comes to mind. Then .. I can't think of anything. No search engine. No browser. No operating system. No social network. No ecommerce company. No cloud computing platform. No financial services company. No transportation company. No travel company. No nothing.

Except for a $20B music aggregator, there is not a single sector of the web where European companies managed to get a foot in the door. The whole fabric of the internet used in Europe and worldwide is made outside of Europe.

But Europe seems to have learned nothing from suffocating their internet industry. Instead of wafting fresh air to the patient, governments just recently decided to give him the ultimate death pill: The GDPR.

We can only wait and see with what bureaucratic monsters Europe will prevent the emergence of an AI industry.
Yes, OP is misinformed and wrong and so are many comments here.

Office 365 Teams works in Firefox.

Source: Me, right now.
Yeah or just test the user agent.
Yeah I would consider pet owners and people with depression (so groups of people that benefit from this specific tool) a part of general public, both are fairly large groups.
> “The stacking of jobs has always existed, but it’s usually been done by workers who’ve needed to as a means of economic survival,” explains Meredith Meyer Grelli, assistant teaching professor of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, based in Pittsburgh, US.

I see very little evidence in this article to suggest that something different is happening. Gen Z (is it actually only Gen Z?) is stacking multiple jobs because job security and wages are at historically low levels for most of the population.
Most people on hacker news and most people in tech do not work for faangs. These salaries of $250,000 or $200,000 or even $150,000 seem unreachable. But these faang salaries have *.

You signup for a new Amazon job. You are a senior developer you expect to make $400,000 with the stocks/salary. Your base outside of California is 139,000 or 129,000. After year 1 only 5% vests.. after year two 15%.. the average employment length is 1.5 years. So you end up with $140,000/150,000 for working 16 hour days. If you manage to stay 10 years you could retire..(you have to because at this point you hate life) but they don't want people staying at the same level so you need to get a promotion when the 4 year vest up or you will be at your base. Getting one takes the right project and is hard and requires a breakthrough project.

Most people 95% of developers never worked at a faang and those who have, on average worked for 1.5 years. Very few are still employed or seeking faang employment. Faangs make popular entry level position but very difficult to keep for life but if you can survive many years you usually leave the field or create your own startup because of burnout. Faang adjacent companies can be the worst of all worlds same issues worse pay/upside.
"It's not about the nail"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

People don't want their problems solving, they want to whine.

It helps to start a conversation like this with "do you want me to listen or to offer help"
When his first book came out, Internet was geeks-only, Amazon didn't exist, and you had to order the physical book directly from him, as I recall. Maybe your bookstore would order it for you.

Nonetheless, it became a cult sensation. Now that's a debut book.
> A lot of the commenters in this thread (and elsewhere on HN) flat out refuse to do take-home assignments, live algorithms coding, 4+ hours of onsite rounds, etc.

Well, I personally have always refused to do take-home interviews but happily will do live coding and systems design interviews.

For me it's about respect and power imbalance. A company asking me to do work without them putting in equal effort sets a tone for a culture I personally don't ever want to be a part of.

Like I find take-home interviews disrespectful.

Time-bounded interviews with an interviewer also there (aka FAANG style onsites with 4 hours of interviews) is far and away my preferred process, especially if I can do them all at once. One problem I've seen in a remote friendly world is companies wanting to spread the interviews out over multiple days.
Classic McEliece
At least the Pleiades are visible from the Australia for part of the year. So your misconception could have been worse.

Toyota sells a range of trucks in the USA named using North American geographical names. Perhaps it’s a Japanese thing?
> So where are all you interviewing that pays competitively without this "traditional" interview loop?

You see people on HN balk at 500k+ engineering jobs even existing, so I think that's your answer.
Today I made an app that allows you to write perfect SD prompts.

Just enter what you need, and your prompt will be refined/ edited to be more specific.

http://prompter.lennard.codes

I'm using ChatGPT, but soon will integrate LeapML's awesome API to create images from the refined prompts.

What do you think? I will drop an update with some of the results soon.
https://archive.is/nH3Gp
I'm talking about features that FP languages have (like do-notation) and imperative languages do not, rather than the other way around (like enforced pure functions).

you cannot write Python like Haskell (for example) because Python lacks the necessary features.
You don’t need to track users individually to do analytics.

A simple example of “why have analytics” is if you are selling physical goods through website, you need to keep track of sales so you can plan your next resupply of inventory. If you don’t know which t-shirt is selling the most, you won’t order enough of that one.

Now you might say “that’s not analytics” but you would be wrong. Analytics and tracking are different things; that’s why we have different words for them. And the use of analytics predates tracking by decades.
That's a pretty wild tradeoff though!
I wouldn't say without the fun... It makes for a good reinforcement of my landing skillz.
any ability to install these as system (macOS) screensavers?
Your question and larger post don't present anything new to me, and I'm just a casual reader of the idea space (but I've been around since SL4). Some brief thoughts:

1. Congrats on recognizing that it's a hard (perhaps impossibly so, at least with the time left) problem! Too many (not any of the alignment people) have thought it's a trivial matter, or that Friendliness (the old word) will just "emerge", or that somehow being "superintelligent" will cause it to just smoke weed and play games all day like some super smart dorm room friend so there's nothing to worry about, or...

2. The idea of Friendliness or Aligned values is a difficult one purely from definitions alone, yes, let alone implementation, so that's part of what makes it such a hard problem. The idea of an AI tiling the solar system with smiley faces was once a response to a serious suggestion that one can just train the AI to optimize "human happiness". Imagine trying to formally model something like "If AI-Gandhi was offered a pill that made AI-Gandhi 2x smarter but also want to destroy the world, we know AI-Gandhi would not take such a pill because [...]" What's the [...]? A proof about its values? For actual Gandhi, we might as humans say "because he's Gandhi, and Gandhi does not want to destroy the world, and does not want to want to destroy the world". On the topic of the submission, I hope that any who take the course can by the end demonstrate many issues with things like the old and obsolete Coherent Extrapolated Volition proposal.

3. Containment is of course folly, you can look up the old AI Box arguments if you wanted more on that from back in the day. Hence the focus on Friendly (and more modernly, Aligned) AI.

4. I, an approximately +1 std dev IQ human, fully expect that it'd be no challenge for a -1 std dev IQ human to dig a pitfall trap that could not only contain me but kill me. Because gravity still applies even if I'm smarter than my adversary. Sure, an AGI will figure things out about physics that we don't know, and math too, but physics will still apply, I would bet that even a superintelligent AGI will never find a way to break the speed of light and travel the universe. But perhaps we're very wrong about special relativity. We'd have to be very wrong about everything if our proofs from first order logic are somehow awry. But that too highlights the level of challenge to the problem: we have to prove the AI is Friendly, with the reliability of first order logic. As a matter of fact humans can do things perfectly, your CPU is executing billions of instructions perfectly every second. (Or to be fair, there are errors, but those are modeled accurately and through correction and redundancy (with multiple systems for things that go into space) we can drive the probability of a total failure as low as we please.)
Yes but you can also compete on using as little throttle/booster as possible! IMO the perfect landing is one where you engage the engine at the exact right moment to touch down at <1mph, and you engage a booster only once in order to be upright. Engine and booster use aren't part of the score though.

The older commits were part of a previous idea that I abandoned, then a few weeks ago I deleted almost everything and gave it another try.

Thanks for playing!
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That's true assuming the sample is not biased.

I'd be interested to see a kaplan-meyer curve for the two groups.
This is a very good explanation.

It's sad that these terms are so counterintuitive. I still regularly have to clarify the confusion between undefined and unspecified behavior. And to be fair, "define" and "specify" are basically synonyms in everyday language, it's evil that these terms have so wildly different meanings. Quite a bit of confusion is caused by people not fully understanding that "unsafe" in Rust actually just means "unchecked", i.e. not verified by the compiler, and not necessarily "insecure".

Now we add "unsound" to the mix, and I fear that all of this is simply too hard to learn.

Maybe we should reverse all those terms to be positive, and also use words in their intuitive meaning, and also avoid confusing almost-synonyms. Here's a quick attempt:

1. "Well-behaved" code would be code that only accesses memory correctly. (That's not fully precise enough. What I actually mean of course is "no UB", but that's hard to put into words if you don't already know what UB is. Let's say well-behaved code only does "allowed stuff".)

2. "Checked" code is code verified by Rust's compiler to be well-behaved if certain invariants are fulfilled. Code is always checked by default unless you opt out with a special keyword (confusingly called "unsafe").

3. "Sound" code is well-behaved code (that may or may not be checked by the compiler) with the additional restriction that will remain well-behaved no matter how it's embedded into checked code. This is what enables "safe abstractions". Checked code is automatically sound by this definition, but alternatively, unchecked code could also be sound, which would have to be manually verified somehow. To do this, you obviously need to know which assumptions the checker makes in its reasoning.

(Edit: Reworded a bit to address an unexpected source confusion. What's now called "well-behaved" was called "safe", but that has multiple meanings. Some of the responses in the thread apply to the old version.)
If ChatGPT decreased my enthusiasm for anything it would be the internet but I am the sort of person who has read books on the design and construction of vacuum tubes and did so long after Shockley and his transistor, it is interesting stuff.
It uses SageMath. Replace ".nbits()" with ".bit_length()" for normal Python (documentation says nbits is an alias: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/rings_standard/sa... ).

You'll also need to remove the IPython import if not using a notebook.

Curiously, the listed output includes:

First 5 primes found and last five primes found [2, 3, 11, 13, 17]
... [4194295, 4194299, 4194301, 4194305, 4194307]

5 and 7 are not on that list. And 4194295 = 5 * 7 * 293 * 409 is not prime, and 4194299 = 29 * 61 * 2371 is also not prime. And 4194305 is clearly not prime either.

How is this supposed to be a prime sieve?
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Yeah this is something I thought about quite hard before I moved countries. I didn't want my kid to be at the mercy of some teacher who might not like him.

So then I ended up where we have this one time test, which stresses the hell out of everyone. Luckily he did well on it, school decisions came out last week and he got what he wanted.

I'm not actually sure which is better, part of why I thought maybe teacher recommendations would have been better was that my kid would undoubtedly get recommended if that were the system, he just happens to have that thing that teachers recognise. But even so he could have had a bad day and not made it in the system we actually live in.
OpenAI mentions AI Alignment and they are currently at the forefront of pushing AI on the world so it is not just that community, though I wouldn't be surprised if many employees at OpenAI participate there.

https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-alignment-research
> block any others.

I get all the rest but not this part. A banner should work plenty?
Seriously one of the stupidest regulations I've ever seen. It would have been nice if they would have at least had the forethought to enforce regulation on a do not track header.
I used Blue Apron for a while and got an unreasonable amount of salmon for some reason. It's been almost 6 years and I can still barely eat salmon after that. So I can definitely understand where the prisoners were coming from on this one.
One thing to say to this.. I work at a company and have personally setup quite a few mail servers for mass email sending and warming up IPs.. not fun..

(these are all legitimate interest emails)

I was in a meeting with a couple of people from the team and a QA engineer mentioned that everytime he's done with an email in gmail, he spams it off... _wut_..

Whilst yes, we have been blacklisted a handful of times and, based on spam reports (feedback loops), people do mark emails as spam for completely nonsensical reasons... e.g. users signing up, (getting and using the activation email), using the service and then spamming the activation email.

Edit: I definitely think there's a bell curve for sending your own emails:

* If you have a very small platform (at least in my experience), reputation doesn't mean that much, emails are generally accepted by providers (assuming IPs that you used haven't been previously used for spammy activity), so self-hosting might make some sense (though a third-party probably wouldn't be too expensive if you did want to).

* If you start sending 100s-1000s of emails/day, I guess some third party solution would make sense, since running dedicated IPs/domains and servers just for sending emails might not be beneficial.

* As you go to sending 100K+ emails a day, personally, I think setting up servers starts making more sense
> The power bill savings aren't worth the decreased hardware life.

For consumer usage I find this hard to believe. I only use my laptop/desktop's spinning disks like 2h a day at most. Then there are hybrid disks or systems that are likely sleeping the disks when use is infrequent.
Can you point to any evidence or examples of this? I don't find it a convincing counterargument at all.
Is it? At my current wage I make enough to pay for all my family's needs and retire at 50.

Could I use more money? Probably. But would I be happier with more? The research suggests I wouldn't.
It’s goodbye to The Daily Swig
> It's not the AI that's the issue, it's the use of it that's the problem. Ban social scoring, not the AI, the tool doesn't matter.

This seems backwards and contrary to lessons learned in the past. Once the thing exists, prohibition is infeasible and expensive. Supply will find a way to reaech demand regardless of your multi-billion dollar efforts to prevent that.

It's better to stop $NEFARIOUS_THING being invented in the first place, if possible, and if any regulations that achieve this don't have too many unintended side effects.
A new class of drugs for weight loss could end obesity
More accurately: they are in an area that dropped to zero foot traffic during covid and never really recovered. I think the literal number of people that go past the store on 6th is lower than the number of crimes committed in most areas.
https://archive.fo/4eE2y
People who mark things as junk mail or spam typically have no idea that this action can have an upstream impact on spam filtering algorithms.

They typically have no idea how any of this stuff works and just assume that the purpose of marking something is spam is to prevent them from seeing any more of it, personally, in the future. It doesn't occur to them that their preference thus exerts a small influence over the experience of potentially millions of other people.

In the decades past, when preferences weren't so tightly linked to each other among otherwise unaffiliated users, the simple definition of spam as " stuff I'm not interested in seeing in my inbox" was completely sufficient to inform a user's decisions about using the spam button. But today that definition is something closer to "stuff I'm not interested in seeing and that I am fairly certain few if any other people are interested in seeing, either."