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> The investor argued that the founders were “working for equity,”

If you are working for equity, then you should be paid in preferential shares. I would like to see the investor respond to that.

> if your market rate is $250,000 per year and you can make your finances work by paying yourself $150,000

In theory you should also be getting $100k worth of preferential shares because you are investing cash equivalent.
Why do we need to shut it down? It’s not that powerful at all.
Part of my problem is that I'm specifically interested in things (indication LED color) that are out of gamut for sRGB. If the original thing doesn't even display properly, I can't exactly hold out hope that the simulated thing will be anything close to the true experience, can I?
Can we switch the link to https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6Wjw ?

The blog doesn't really provide any additional information, and it obscures that you'll have to watch the video to hear her arguments (and I've gathered that many people are only here for text content & abstain from videos).
No! This is the most seismic and fundamentally perspective changing news that I have heard from a physicist in my life. It needs this strong title.

My entire life, as I imagine has been the case for many older nerds, has been one of imagining traveling to the stars, but to only have that possibility become more and more clearly shown to be impossible. Impossible because faster than light travel is impossible. Impossible, because the time-dilation makes the travel a one way trip. I canna break the laws of physics cap’n!

If the laws of physics do not forbid it, it changes everything! It provides hope, it means the search is worth the effort. It allows my kids to dream!

I am very happy about this article!
First you quote yourself mentioning this CIA conspiracy elsewhere in this thread, then mention this green account, your "homie", with the same conspiracy.

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, just it is obvious you two are the same people, but I do not understand creating a throwaway account and then doxing yourself 10 days later.

I guess you hoped the throwaway account felt more credible.
I think of Emacs as a tool for making tools. Shell-maker is a tool for making tools for a tool for making tools.
> The difference is that a lithium battery facility can be installed and functional in 12-24 months.

These things aren't comparable without putting it together as a system.

> A nuclear plant takes 12-24 years.

You're thinking about wild outliers there. It's around 6.5 years median [1].

[1] https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/nuclear-construction-ti...
She seems to have good credentials and mostly sticks to claims that seem to have some evidence...but her penchant for clickbait titles and other YouTube algorithm hacking commentary makes it hard to take her seriously.
This is an excellent breakdown. The one thing I would quibble with is the characterization of summer salary. It's better to think of the 9-month pay idea as an accounting trick that has two purposes:
1. A benefit for faculty, since they get to be paid extra if they get grants.
2. An accounting approach for the NSF to limit how much any one faculty member can get in grant funding and account to Congress that the faculty are actually participating in the research.
It does, as the article says, create the possibility of significant swings in compensation, similar to a bonus scheme.
There is plenty of history in the tech industry to show that valuations are not terribly meaningful. Theranos?

OP claims Tesla brand has suffered greatly due to Musk "behaving badly". Implicit that everybody in the universe must agree with him what is good and bad behavior and his anecdotal personal subjective opinion is worth anything.

Meanwhile back in reality these things are tracked. The Tesla brand is presently the #1 car brand in the world and has done nothing but swing upwards in recent years.

The literal opposite of the fiction peddled. This makes such claims look petty to the point of derangement. What next, an invitation to stick little pins into a Musk voodoo doll?

Your contribution: herp derp Theranos.

You didn't even read what you are responding to which has zilch to do with market caps and valuations. Just copy paste "I hate Musk and am blinded by inept rage" in all these threads and be done with it.
I guess we’re ignoring the fact that human labour is not exactly “zero emissions”, and old-school shipping like this is a lot more labour intensive. If you factor that in, I wouldn’t be surprised if the climate impact is higher than modern shipping.
https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/ is the one-stop-shop for current energy situation in Australia.

Anecdotal: SA was pushing towards clean energy notably before the battery came in, but in turn, had a very unstable grid, and the things like energy trading et al. were tied up in international ownership iirc (needing authorization to do a large energy trade required someone from France giving approval, timezones didn't match up, and the grid fully shut down for a significant period of time)

After the battery was put in and operational, (noting that other things may also have been happening that I'm not aware of), the grid ended up being a lot more stable. Almost a night-and-day feeling to the change.

Overall the local sentiment about it is "electricity is too expensive", https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-15/australian-energy-reg... A very hot topic.
It won't iterate on its own, but you can do it. You can ask it for a list of things to try, and they will be different alternatives. You can also tell it the result of an experiment and it will often figure out what to fix.

If you follow the link I shared, some researchers automated asking GPT4 to write tests, running the tests in a sandbox, and feeding the results back in.
In my opinion they are on track to meet the 1.8M deliveries forecast. The only question is how much margins were hit with the price drops.
The curve she shows is not a closed timelike curve. There are no CTCs in special relativity. A particle going faster than light moves on a spacelike curve. I'm surprised she'd get that wrong.

FWIW I'm not buying her argument that the comoving frame represents a preferred frame in SR either. She glosses over quite some fundamental questions there. I'd love to see this written up as a proper paper.
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AIs are rapidly increasing in optimizing power.
> Leather artisans spend at least 15 hours making each Hermès bag by hand... which sells for €22,000... Hermès has said salaries for artisans begin ‘well above’ the French minimum wage...

OK, but how much above, given the €1,500/hour value they're generating? (I don't doubt there are costs of goods and marketing and retail and whatnot, but French minimum wage is a bit over €11/hour.)
On the contrary, it's totally unnecessary and the same level of effort will come about naturally from market and industry/academic incentives. Cern was needed because nobody would spend the money on high energy physics otherwise.
Interesting, did the VMS team publish something about the emulation? That would be interesting for my OS course...
I have worked on Ambry for a few years now. This paper is a bit old, but captures most of the core concepts of Ambry.

Some of the most fascinating parts of the journey after this paper have been scaling the system to support hundreds of GiBps of throughput per cluster, multiple workloads supporting other databases and stream processing systems, and rethinking the replication to make it compatible with public cloud. Checkout the GitHub repo to learn more https://github.com/linkedin/ambry
It's an interesting idea, and ideas that are not impossible have a tendency to become practical. But there's a really big "but" in this one: Unless you can start traveling faster than light without accelerating your mass (or without having any mass) to the speed of light, it still takes an infinite amount of energy.
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You're right, but it's still a country where iPhone beats Android.
Seriously, you can download the Vicuna model and run it locally with llama.cpp. I've done it!
> Personally though I am tried of Europeans being arrogant enough to claim their way is the correct, proper and only way, and that Americans are all being taken advantage of, abused, etc because we do not get 150 days off a year and do not allow our government to control our health........

Ah. The American arrogance shines through. "Government controlling health" and "these lazy Europeans with their 150 days of vacation".

> allow me to give my privileged position as an example. I created my own Safety net.

So, double arrogance.

> It is untrue that America lacks any safety nets for people. One of the most often cited negative about America by Europeans is actually one of those safety nets. Bankruptcy

This is not a safety net. It's the last resort. And yes, Europe has laws around bankruptcy, too.

> Then there are TON of government programs for Poor people.

I don't want to become poor before safety nets kick in. I don't want to be beholden to my employer for my medical insurance. I don't want to have only 10-14 days on average to spend time with my family or with my kids. Etc.

Oh, sorry, that's my European arrogance talking.

> In reality is the working lower middle class that have it the worst, people above the 25th percentile of income, and below the 75th percentile of income.

According to various models, it's anywhere from 30% to 45% of people, with actual numbers probably being worse: https://www.hamiltonproject.org/assets/legacy/files/download...
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We would all benefit from remembering this one

> 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
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Are there any other ARM64 Windows laptops which are further along in terms of unofficial Linux support ?
Going back through my history, it's actually an episode of the Criminal podcast: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-211-crazy-eddie-3-17-2023...
Some people want to avoid tying their own projects to certain vendors, and this information is helpful to them. See also Oracle, IBM, etc.

Microsoft has done quite a lot to rehabilitate their image, a decade ago few would be so quick to defend them.
To a certain extent we are already extremely vulnerable to an EMP attack, from people living with a pacemaker, to vehicles relying on an Electronic Control Unit to perform fundamental things.
Not sure I trust the salaries mentioned, it quotes Glassdoor when stating bank tellers have a salary of 14k which seems absurdly low, the first search on Glassdoor says 39k https://www.glassdoor.fr/Salaires/paris-bank-teller-salaire-...
Of all the terrible things people do or things that happen on this planet AGI somehow taking over is near the bottom of the list. We are on the brink of nuclear war right now. Irresponsible scientists caused a worldwide pandemic in 2020. I am not afraid of some computer running on energy and infrastructure that takes legions of humans to maintain.

I am still more afraid of other humans than an AI.
In my opinion this type of comment is the core problem with AI alignment these days.

The current GPT models are not going to "wake up" or accidentally take over the world. This is very obvious.

Forcing everyone who is conscientious to copy and paste the output of these relatively weak models is not going to save us from anything.

If you want people to take AI regulations seriously, you have to do it in a reasonable way. Which means understanding the nuance of the dangers.

Executing "arbitrary code" that InstructGPT models outputs based on your instructions is not a danger.

People need to be able to distinguish different levels of autonomy and speed.

It's when we get to high levels of autonomy and performance that we run into danger. Which we are really at the cusp.

But when you fail to differentiate between systems that are obviously not dangerous and future/more autonomous agents that possibly are, that makes it impossible to take the concerns seriously. And actually harder for people to understand the problems with full autonomy and superintelligent models.
It's widely presumed within faang-type-of companies that anything an employee says or does can be interpreted as an official company statement, especially by the press. As a result, many of these companies offer, often mandatory, trainings that underscore the importance of speaking carefully in public, since one's words can end up on the front page of a popular newspaper.

Although I don't know how FB rolls internally, it seems more likely than not to me, that it was ack'd by someone higher up in the organization than line engineers or managers. Someone with a permission of speaking publicly for a given area of a company - doesn't need to be CEO, more like a VP/Director maybe.
Nothing in here about existential risk, as far as I can tell.
I think you’re really underestimating the sheer size of these codebases and how near impossible it would be to actually do this anonymously.
She's a professional YouTuber (among other work), those sites basically require you to do that sort of thing to get and maintain traction over the long term.

This one isn't particularily bad and the content is fine.
Tangential to the topic: articles like this one often talk about “waiting lists” for luxury items like Hermes bags and Rolex watches. To be clear, there is no waiting list, or at least not the type that is counted down with wall clock time.

Your ability to buy the item is solely a function of spend on buying the less popular items. If you’re a big spender, sometimes the “rare” item magically appears the same day for purchase.
Article is about prompt engineers (3 month old job type), not swes.
I fear the world will be structured such that we don’t get that kind of liberty. Surveillance capitalism has made me more pessimistic. Or realistic.
Is it clickbait? It’s slightly provocative but the content seems to live up to it.

She’s deconstructing absolutist nonsense into something less absolutist. It’s almost anti-clickbait.
Business owners get away with breaking violating the law. Small businesses are infamous for paying people under the table, stealing wages, not giving appropriate breaks, employing children etc.. The size of a business only affects the kind of laws they're likely to get away with breaking.
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I don't understand because the implication is that you'd use an external device, which would then have the same issues as the TV, no?
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Not a physicist, but for what is worth, my understanding is it's fairly realistic we could send probes to Alpha Centauri within a human lifetime or so using an approach like Breakthrough Starshot (regardless of whether that particular project succeeds).

https://youtu.be/fsARBnvUB2E
I appreciate where you're coming from but unfortunately I'm not able to support software that is backed by harmful corps like MS.
> you'd never see the reverse.

Excellent point!

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Does the NIST actually say anything here? Looks like mainly meta-level BS frameworks with no teeth.
Yanomamö are not prehistoric people, they live in the Amazon and are still alive.
From reading this letter, I don't understand:

* Why is there an assumption that AGI wants to domainate anything?

* Why does AGI want to dominate the physical universe?

* Why is AGI interested in "using our atoms"?

* How would any of the treaty countries possibly detect a non-treaty country's data center getting ready to train an AGI model? (for the purpose of bombing it?)

It seems like there are a ton of incredibly negative assumptions about the outcome of AGI combined with incredibly optimistic assumptions about our ability to detect anyone building it.
If they weren't paying attention to Black Mirror, the BSG reboot, the Terminator franchise, the Replicator arc of Stargate, every episode of Star Trek where the computer/Data/the holodeck/nanites went wrong, Ex-Machina, The Matrix franchise, Age of Ultron, basically any Asimov AI story, Blade Runner, 2001, or any folk tale about being careful what you ask of powers that take you literally from Midas to Fantasia…

"Oh, they're just fictional!"

…then I suggest attaching a rusty metal spike to the keyboard.

It won't do anything, it's easy to avoid, it'll just sit there looking dangerous.

Hopefully that would be enough just by itself.

And yes, this is a reference to a similar suggestion for making drivers pay more attention behind the wheel.
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Wait, but we don't actually even know what is happening inside GPT-4 on a fundamental level, to produce the output we see. We don't even know what is happening inside our own brains, really. How do the neurons turning on and off produce reasoning and consciousness? So in the same way, how can you say that GPT-4 is not AI, definitively, or at least a primordial form of one? Clearly, there's some arrangement of neurons that produces intelligence.

Maybe it's just a "stochastic parrot", but one can probably make a similarly dismissive-sounding and yet accurate description of how humans cognate. Sometimes quantity has its own quality. Maybe a big enough stochastic parrot becomes smart.
GPT-4 is pretty mind blowing. It can follow very complex prompts that 3.5 struggles with.
Cool, but why use OpenGL 3 and Python 2 instead of newer counterparts?
IMHO it's outrage-bait from an AI researcher who is likely oblivious to the costs of the computing infrastructure they use and thinks the overhead being charged on top of the grant award is outrageous because they don't have lab space and such.

Sadly, most researchers have zero appreciation for how much computing infrastructure costs, and how they think it's perfectly fine to store data for a several million dollar research grant, that involves multiple people's academic careers, on a USB hard drive they got at Best Buy because buying a proper server etc would cost too much.

You can see their attitude in how outraged they seem to be about having to pay a grad student $46k a year...
Link should go to the original story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/saudi-ara...

"As part of its strategy to diversify its economy away from oil ..."

Haven't we heard this story before?
A lot of this stuff just feels like Europe is going to end up locking itself out of any level of commercial innovation in the gov-tech space.

Open data etc I get. But a lot of the drives around only using actual open-src software just sounds insane if they don't want to be building everything from source and self-hosting forever.
reminds me a bit of this Elon Musk tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527774704018280448?s=20
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Last time I checked on master - 2-3 months ago - ?. was implemented, but ?? was still missing. Good to see the implementation finalized. I also saw `overload` for inlines, that's really nice, having to expose functions taking Any and dispatching on dynamic type was one of the pain points in Haxe for me. A shame it's only for inline functions for now. Local static vars is something I didn't see, it looks like static variables in functions in C, right? I'm not quite sure how useful that would be. I guess the scopes are not shared, so `static var instance` in one method is different than `instance` declared the same way in another function. Still, the properties with getters also work. Better errors are always welcome, custom defines... I know I wanted these at some point, but can't recall right now what for. Stdlib got a bit more of concurrency support with Condition and Semaphore - good, my target doesn't do threading, but has coroutines, so having more options to control concurrency is nice.

All in all, very nice release with null-related operators being the feature I missed the most. I'm not sure about default type parameters, and numerical suffixes don't matter on my platform (everything is a double on runtime), but numerical separators are nice. Steadily, Haxe gets easier to use and safer. Macros are becoming more ergonomic, too, which is great, as they're essential to effective Haxe programming.
Australia is the perfect location for solar + battery power, so I am glad they are taking that seriously. If energy becomes a lot cheaper there thanks to the plentiful renewables, that will be a great signal to the rest of the world about what you can do with solar.
And if you use host A like that enough you can also change the ssh escape key in your config.
Last week (week before?) I had a few days I couldn't login from firefox. They said to update your browser, and that firefox was a supported browser, but I was on the latest firefox. Works now though.
I’d argue they are not more generating the value than a printing press is generating the value of money.
IMHO luxury brands are generating their products value by means of marketing.
I see people saying things like this but I have yet to see anyone show data for a non-trivial workflow with human-level accuracy over a wide range of inputs, without a human in the loop.
The value add isn't all from the artisans - a good amount of that comes from their marketing and branding workers.
What would you think is holding back Meta and Google? Why can't they just scale up the compute they throw at the problem?

What are they tinkering on?
Hah! Yeah, pretty sure the Elyzee PR department gets cold sweats every time Macron does one of these interviews.

He has a bad case of "talking first, thinking later, checking with PR never", even about extremely touchy subjects.
It's much harder to sneak in an easter egg now that it's common practice to require all code to go through code review.
Treat them as spy. What are sedition laws are for?
I only paid my students $26,000 a year (listed as $2200 a month in the post). I wish I could have paid them many more times that like they deserve!
This article is piece of shit, seriously! That is not journalism but a paid advertisement in my opinion, going into great length to not be explicit but pretend workers are decently paid!

By comparison a bank teller earns between €14,000 and €24,000 on average, according to employment website Glassdoor.

This is completely crap, the minimum salary in France is 20500€ annually, and that gives 16236€ once employers taxes like social security and retirement have been deducted.

So a bank employee should have around at least 18/25k € at beginning once taxes are deducted.

But the important point is that the 22000$ bag will be manufactured mostly by a few days of work of 1 or 2 employees for the minimum salary, where LVMH boss will take so much margin that he is now the richest man on earth.

I don't understand how we can tolerate that. But at least there is no mystery why they have hard time to find skilled workers that want to enslave themselves for a misery salary .

As a reference, here is a more objective article of a few days ago about the real work conditions of the employees:

https://www-mediapart-fr.translate.goog/journal/economie-et-...

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I don't see liberty in having an AI tuned to me. Rather, I see that as being the exact surveillance you're pessimistic/realistic about.
Batteries are not in danger from an EMP. Sensitive electronic components are in danger. https://www.agilesurvival.com/emp-effect-batteries/