skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the end, the alignment problems that plague AI safety research are all playing out in company structures every day. It's hard to give a metric that measures your intended outcome, and any proxy leads to unintended consequences once there's an easier way to reach that proxy.

I've actually pointed this out as a fallacy of the premise of current alignment theory. That being we simply need to apply humanities values for the AI to be properly aligned. However, every alignment problem can also be seen as an existing human problem for which we have never resolved.
I like cryptocurrency overall, but the bar for convenient purchases is really high. For anyone to care, it'd better be as easy as tapping my credit card on the terminal... which even Apple Pay isn't.
That sounds like the perfect defence even if it were cache leakage!

EVL Co: "It's just the AI making stuff up. Any resemblance to a real conversation or contact information is purely coincidental."

User: "but I contacted the email and the person's name matched... and she said she had just used your product and that these inputs I listed for her sounded familiar".

EVL Co: "Look, you just don't understand statistics is all. Trust us. Coincidence. Happens all the time. No breach to see here... Press one to complete our survey regarding this automated customer service call."
executives exist regardless of union exists or not, execs are hired by shareholders and employees have no vote into this
They do this intentionally to force their own applications on customers. It used to be easy, the app showed a prompt and you said yes make it default and that was largely it and it would appear in the start menu and on the taskbar. If you went to a file you just opened with chose an app and it defaulted.

Nowadays every big Windows update seems to reset back to defaults, now this is thr 17th time I have said I don't want Edge as the default and even then the taskbar search has to go to Edge so that gets turned off. You have to go into the settings and there are loads of different categories for default apps and it doesn't always show the one you are using so you have to browse for it. They have hidden the Open With although it does at least give you Always or Just once as options when you select an app, but they intentionally group the Microsoft apps in a special area at the top and it gets reset randomly on some updates.

This all seems like the usual dark patterns from Microsoft to promote their own solutions. Seems odd to acknowledge it. They have consistently made many of these aspects worse in Windows on purpose to trick and confuse users. I am a little skeptical that they intend to fix it.
yep, so now we're back to 9k+9k = 18k amazonians laid off again
It sounds to me that you're just describing the supply-demand curve of employment, i.e. capitalism as prescribed. Are you suggesting an alternative approach?
> why are people like you are so hung up on this "coup vs revolution" thing? What exactly are you trying to achieve by playing with words here?

The reason the "coup vs revolution thing" matters so much is precisely what determines when the war started. If the CIA/State Dept hadn't been involved then and wasn't now treating this as a proxy war, then you would be right to think it all started when Putin rolled tanks into Crimea with no provocation. But we know that isn't what happened and we know the US was involved back then and is funding and arming Ukraine now in a proxy fight against Russia, and since we know all this we can't just blithely claim the war started the day Putin rolled into Crimea.

Putin didn't just decide one day to invade, whether you call it a revolution or a coup, the fact is the democratically elected government of Ukraine had just been overthrown, destabilizing the region and putting millions of Russians in harms way.

Now if you want to make the case that was a shitty justification for an invasion, ok - but that is a different conversation. I would argue it was at least as justified as our invasion of Iraq, Syria etc.

> It seems we are in agreement that first act of war was occupation and annexation of Crimea?

Crimeans voted to become part of Russia after they saw their democratically elected government overthrown in 2014 though, you keep ignoring that part. You ask me why I don't just take your word for it since you were there, but what about the opinions of countless Crimeans who voted to break away from what they saw as a newly installed western-backed puppet government? Their position matters less than yours? And that's to say nothing about the people on Donetsk and Luhansk who also wanted nothing to do with what they saw as an illegitimate government that had just overthrown a democratically elected one, and they've had to deal with periodic shelling since then and the government trying to outlaw anything related to their heritage such as their language, their church their media outlets etc.
It adds a much slower CPU /s

The VisionFive 2 is currently the best RISC-V SBC option, at least until TH1520 becomes available (next month?), depending on the price.

I can vouch for the VF2 hardware - works well. Alas PCIe is oddly slow, but I'm hopeful that firmware will improve that.

EDIT: The Pine Star64 is (should be) the exact same SOC, so it should be basically the same as VF2 (small differences like PCIe edge connector instead of an M.2 slot, etc).
Ask HN: Should I sign a pay cut agreement?
Hi!

My employer recently announced a 10% pay cut across the board. Where I live(South Africa), employee consent is required.

The company sent out a document asking us to sign in agreement.

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This is the state of things now:

* Company laid an unknown number of employees off, and laid them off without letting employees know until a week later in a meeting where they announced pay cuts

* The company is pretty much full remote and the office is a nice-to-have. It is in a very expensive part of town.

* Lunches once a week are catered at the office

* I asked what happens if one were not to sign, and the response was "Oh, we haven't thought about that. We're hoping that everyone pulls together."

* The situation will be reviewed quarterly

* Company says they don't expect it to last very long, also citing this for why they kept the office

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A few things stand out to me and feel like red flags, namely:

* They chose to cut salaries rather than cut the office rent and catered lunch/snack expenses

* They have no plan should someone not sign. I would think they would have planned that out, specially since they went on about how long it took them to make this decision.

* Layoffs were hidden until an announcement, which was also ambiguous where people thought it was still coming.

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My options are to sign and take a pay cut, or refuse to sign and see what happens. Law here says I am entitled to what effectively comes to a layoff, but I can't predict what the company will do.

The pay cut also makes my life a lot harder since we were already on a tight budget.

I would appreciate any thoughts, knowledge, or advice you might have.

I know you are not a lawyer and I am not expecting you to be, but lawyers can't speak to real world experience from others in the industry. I am currently finding a lawyer to assist.
The pope didn’t demand it
Wouldn't the explanation be that there never was any paradox, but rather we just hadn't noticed the alien probes yet? This is in contrast to the hypothetical scenario of finding microbial life on Mars, which as Nick Bostrom is fond of explaining [0], "would be very bad news" because it would imply the Great Filter is ahead of us.

[0] (timestamped) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vD4df_63wo&t=382s
Yeah, I figure if a bash script goes over ~10-20 lines, or involves really long lines, or quotes within quotes within quotes of different kinds, it's time to move on to Python or similar.
I'm one of the no-license London populace, and travel more frequently than most. I don't find that it has limited me at all. On the occasions when I absolutely need a car instead of the existing options, taxis are available.
It's like that saying that it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end. So, it's not declining population that endangers us, it's the sudden drop in fertility rates that threatens us with a world of elderly people outbidding each other into utter destitution to get basic care from the few working-age people remaining. If the replacement rates do not drop to levels too low (~< 2.1), a new equilibrium will be eventually reached, but with a lot of trouble meanwhile. It doesn't help all the productivity gains from the last decades were mostly pocketed by the super-rich, instead of shared with the workforce.
Lol, what? NPM is amazing
The share of forked firefox users is smaller than you think
Don't shoot me for being facetious but I'm picturing someone making chicken-like pecking/bobbing motions with their head to select things.
Even today Python 3 makes conversion between bytes and Unicode and ascii too hard.

After many years Python programming I still have to look up which direction encode and decode point when converting bytes/strings/whatever.

Python 3 still suffers from not having simple, explicit functions for converting such a string_to_ascii or whatever. Python was meant to be about providing explicit obvious one way to do something but encode and decode are a giant fail in this area and I think this is a primary reason why Python 2 to Python 3 was so hard for people.

I am quite pessimistic about this. Still not fixed or even acknowledged as a problem today.

If developers have to keep looking something up over and over then the developer is thick or the programming language has failed usability in that area.
A few localities in the US have tried things like this too. Fire all cops, fold city police department into surrounding county police department, re-hire fired city cops who meet certain criteria.

Back in 2020 amidst the George Floyd murder and subsequent protests, a lot was written about such a program in Camden, NJ: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/06/11/police-reform-camden.... However I don't know if things are still going well.
Configuration that also has to be done without a keyboard…
> Micro-USB

Honestly??
> Also, I don't think it's a coincidence how closely his physical appearance matches that of the stereotypical Q-Anon believer.

Ngl, my experiences in life processed and summarized by my gut and intuition lead me to believe there is some truth in Physiognomy. I suppose it probably has more to do with fashion choices than bone structure... but still.
> "we'd all be better off if people weren't allowed to effectively pay for things with their attention."

Recently I got an advert like "unsold camper vans being sold off cheap in UK". It's the kind of Taboola/Outbrain title that I didn't believe was true but I was watching some camping content[1] and I clicked the ad. Who knows, maybe it would be interesting to see how much they were discounted and maybe it would support the site I was on. It took me to a page of 'best searches' which had nothing to do with camper vans or any specific sale. The searches were things like 'biggest car dealership uk'. I clicked one, it took me to a Yahoo! search for that generic and unrelated search term.

I have no idea what created any 'value' anywhere in that. Who paid someone to make a website with generic searches to Yahoo!? Who paid someone to run a lying advert pointing to an unrelated link to a Yahoo! search?

Who thinks that "my attention effectively paid for something" in that couple of minutes is real and not laughable delusion?

[1] I have no intention of buying a camper van, so even if the ad was honest and accurate it wouldn't have added any value to anything. Point is, it wasn't, and most ads like that aren't.
I’m expecting to hear that a lot. A lot of people spent more time with their families during the pandemic and now they’re seeing that as a direct tradeoff for going have to work. People were used to that but now every day they’re sitting in traffic thinking that they’re doing that instead of being with their kids, just so they can sit in a cubicle looking at the same computer.
> What projects can I start with?

It's like asking people on the internet what you should eat for dinner or who you should marry. Unless you don't learn programming just for the sake of it (assuming that's true based on the question you are asking), you either haven't learned enough yet to broaden your horizons to get ideas, or don't have enough geeky hobbies to put your new skills in motion. Have fun finding out what it is.
That will only make it worse, what decent person would go into a job that blacklists you from other jobs?
SQL injection for LLLM
If you want to just dick around a bit check out https://www.banana.dev/

They offer serverless GPU deployments, pretty hassle free (compared to using AWS or azure)
I'm so sad about modern pinball closing. It was such a gem.
In my opinion, the dev role will slowly shift towards debugging and writing logic-heavy code.
Most software that uses statistical algorithms can't make guarantees about certain outcomes. For example, Netflix can't be sure that you'll actually like its recommendations. However, they do have aggregate measures that give a holistic picture on their algorithm's behavior. We can do the same for LLMs: have big-picture summaries that speak to their behavior in aggregate. We can also restrict their action-space by programming deterministic rules or filters on top of their output. While these algorithms will never be as deterministic as a simple circuit, there are measure you can take to restrict and understand their behavior.
In what ways are the existing police services "capitalist"?

All of the police services that I'm familiar with in places like the US, Canada, and Europe lack the fundamental traits of capitalism.

For example, they're the creations of centralized, monopolistic (and often quite socialist) governments, and funded with taxpayer money, rather than arising from the private sector.

As such, there's no competition. Residents and visitors don't get to individually choose which, if any, police service(s) they'll voluntarily receive services from, and what compensation they'll provide, if any. They can't just switch to some other police service if they're dissatisfied with one they've already been choosing to use. They can't unilaterally opt out of dealing with a particular police service.

Entry to the market is also extremely limited. An individual can't just declare himself to be a police officer, and then start offering policing services. An organization of such people can't declare themselves to be a police force.

Unionization of police officers is quite common, as well.

While private security may be available in some areas, it's typically very limited, with no real ability to intervene. They merely monitor an area for trouble, and alert the government's police service(s) if anything arises.

The problems with policing today seem to me to be due to its highly-socialist nature.
It's disappointing to not see any mention of VRChat in articles like this. It's niche, but vrchat has a pretty large and consistent fanbase.

Meta gets all the headlines because they tried to create the same thing and ended up lighting billions of dollars on fire.
I need a 3D printing database to support crisis response
Is there a 3D printing database that tracks compliance and use rights?

I need to build a crisis response playbook that comes with a 3D printing database that's wired to supply producers who have machines and materials with the necessary files that meet compliance and use rights requirements. Maybe I need to provide supplies to New Orleans after Katrina, or mass produce N95 masks, or print turbine parts for in-field tank repairs without breaking the manufacturer's warranty, or just print new blades for a bunch of DJI drones.

Things like
https://www.thingiverse.com/
https://cults3d.com/en
https://www.myminifactory.com/
http://www.3dshook.com/

with medical and aerospace grade compliance, change management, and use rights documentation.
>You've done it a lot, we've asked you to stop,

I know this is probably boilerplate but if it's not I'd be really interested in seeing where you've called me out previously because as far as I know you haven't.
In most cases, we build these transformations in a matter of seconds. Furthermore, we can detect changes from either source or destination and change the transformation accordingly, reducing maintenance burden as well.
> no single person does or ever did own such an amount in liquid assets which he could sell transfer the proceeds to someone in a short period of time

You seem to be confusing three similar, but fundamentally different things: physical cash, liquid assets, and being able to transfer in short period of time.

Just because billionaire's assets are illiquid, it doesn't mean they can't transfer $10B in a short period of time. It simply means that portion of value will be lost during that transfer.

> What private person could have that much cash stored somewhere? And most importantly why?

Elon had $20B in cash (i.e. liquid assets) after selling 10% of his Tesla shares. He lost some value in the process, but afterwards he had $20B of liquid assets, which debunks your statement.

Arguably, same will happen to $10B of BTC, given that such transaction(s) would be public and will raise concerns.

And that's just Elon Musk, we're not even talking about western adversaries, like Putin or Xi, who have access to even more assets.

And if we're thinking of BTC simply replacing physical cash, then you can even build fractional reserve system on top of it.

Also, we seem to be discussing a magical world where BTC became the major currency overnight, with no time for financial system to adapt. If we go back to the real world, I could totally entertain a thought experiment of BTC replacing USD. Not that I support it, but again, few lucky billionaires is the least of my concerns, given that we already have those in the current system.
The easiest distinction is being publicly optimistic and privately pessimistic. It seems "two faced" but it's not let me explain.

Being privately pessimistic has huge benefits, listed in the article and on other comments. Your planning becomes more effective, you're less starry-eyed with what actions you are actually taking. You become a foundation for those around you.

But being publicly pessimistic does not have the same benefits. While it's true you can gain a lot of fame/money by being pessimistic on social media, it's also internally destructive. You stop believing in yourself and those around you. It's the very reason why so many "critics" (I put this in quotations because 99.9% don't have any sort of standards) fail to be able to produce anything noteworthy in the fields they obsess over. They just become this sort of endless monotony of could've would've should've but projected onto others. Everyone knows a bunch of people like this, talented but they spend most of their time being so publicly pessimistic about whatever the subject is. Some workplaces are so toxic because the "decision maker" is nothing but a public pessimist.

It's so important to recognize what you are putting out into the world through your voice/words, and what is really happening when you are being publicly pessimistic. Are you actually criticizing for improvement, or are you creating a rift in a community? Sounds dramatic but this is what happens in a lot of open source communities, public pessimism becomes the norm because it's easier than criticism you are a part of fixing.
I don't think 100k is such a magic number anymore that you couldn't find takers for "Make more, without needing the overtime, but get fired more easily if you fuck up". Break things up so you do simple shit that doesn't need to carry a gun for today's pay, have big responsibility but also big rewards if you do the hard shit.

Look how few people in this discussion are saying "oh man that's so much money for that job, I'm gonna quit my job and become a cop." Want top-tier people? Then you have to compete with other top-tier opportunities.

But unfortunately that would really only be easy if you were starting brand new thing from scratch. Much harder with entrenched interests anyway.
I don't believe most people on HN would be surprised.
They literally brag about giving loans backed by non-liquid "lottery ticket" startup ISOs, which statistically are worth $0 95% of the time. And thats not even what caused the bank run. But now that the bank run happened, this is why no other bank wants to buy them

https://svb.com/startup-insights/venture-debt/how-does-ventu...
Well I for one thank unions for the weekends and 40-hour work week (in addition to many other great things we now give for granted).
Oh, it's definitely illegal in most every jurisdiction. I was never in the dark about that :P
Same. Then I tried Overload VR (Descent remake) with the Oculus and lasted about 50 seconds...
more to the point, the universe is computational in nature, and humans are, at best, subroutines with a shitty ABI
Something cynical about the BTC bros rooting/willing for a system to collapse that millions of people depend on just so that these guys can get hyper-rich/attain libertarian nirvana. Take a look at his feed and the BTC bros he retweets.
I've been blogging for I think over 15 years, probably closer to 20. My blog has come up in job interviews and I think I've had some recruiters reach out after reading my blog. I also referenced some of my technical blog posts when applying for work as a technical writer, which helped I think. But mostly I use my blog to process my own thoughts and help integrate my own learnings for myself. I also often refer back to my own blog posts when doing something... a few times I've Googled for something only to see my own blog come up and realize past-me already answered future-me's question. Having said that, there are times when I read my old blog posts and cringe at my old self. It also feels nice when people either leave comments or email me telling me my blog post helped them solve some problem. So overall, it's just been rewarding on a personal satisfaction level.
You can enter this bet for much, much cheaper with a proper options spread.
That surprises me because the poster case for free range parenting arrests is a family from Silver Springs MD, about 2 miles north of Washington DC. The second most notorious example being from Wilmette Illinois about 15 north of downtown Chicago and both well inside the accepted definitions of their respective metros. The third most infamous case is a mother from NYC. I guess your browser must be tuned into small town crime.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/living/feat-maryland-free-ran...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/09/05/mom...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/16/...

Here is a counter arguments against your school point:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/single-dad-barred-from-sending...
how exactly? looking at american unions I dont see a single effective at "stifling CEOs from becoming rich".

american automakers produce one of the low quality cars, and heavy lobbying from lawmakers is the only thing that keeps them afloat.
That doll popping out is creepy as hell.
The comparisons between the AR5 and AR6 are alarming. Now, under no emission scenarios other than low and very low which we are not tracking close to, we reach +2C at or just before 2050. Many reading this thread will see 3 degrees by the time they plan to retire. This comes with drought, undernourishment, and mass migration: https://sciencenorway.no/climate-climate-change/deadly-heat-...