skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alignment is about agreement with human preferences and desires, not internal consistency. e.g. An AI that wanted to exterminate humanity could work towards that goal, but it would be unaligned (unaligned with humanity). Alignment is basically making sure humanity is fine with what the AI does.
Ad blockers and password managers are primarily what I’m installing, and they interact with all sites.
What about Duke Nukem Forever?
Being responsible is so trendy.
Fast always has a price.

> Construction start was delayed two weeks to allow the 42 families living on Pine Point, which was scheduled to be demolished to build the shipyard, to move.
If you give it permissions to create issues, expect it to create issues.
> You just have to quash special interests sometime. Autocracy gets shit done.

This is a classic "pros and cons" situation. I'm not sure the ability for the authorities to "get shit done" would balance the downsides, e.g.:

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/07/05/...
Hmm. This view works except where it doesn't. For example, if you don't pick the right ID/account/object # scheme so you can shard later on, good luck figuring how to distribute and/or scale the issuing of said IDs years down the road. Some things will never need to be sharded. Some things will kill you if you can't. Every bit of your code is going to make assumptions about this and you're maybe going to end up with a hot key that's hard to fix or have to do weird contortions to split your infrastructure by country or region where there are laws or regulations about data residency.

Here's a few others without explanation of how they'll blow up on you: not being careful about the process around managing feature flags, doing all your testing manually, not doing system level design reviews including the outline of a scaling plan for the system as planned prior to building systems, not building and testing every check in, doing system releases when it seems good or by marketing requirements instead of on a regular cadence, not having dev/test/production built via IAAC or at least by scripts that work in all envs. Not having runbooks.
“Human in the loop” is meant to be “a human is always in positive control of the system’s actions.”

It does not mean “system will sometimes do things unexpectedly and against user’s intention but upon generous interpretation we might say the human offered their input at some point during the system’s operation.”
Show me where can I buy a mechanical keyboard with Cherry switches for $5
How do you mix the Titanium into the crystal, and does it bond in some way, or how does it strengthen and improve the durability?
https://ciaran.co.za

some interesting projects I've worked on, and a few things I've written.
> That's an extreme situation

Depends on where you live
Has anybody had a real world practical use for using React, Vue, and Svelte together under the same project?
I tend to need heat when the sun isn't warming everything up.
I have no idea how the physics work here. Does it take more energy to launch against water than solid ground, since the water gives way? is there an equivalent to the "ground effect" in rockets?
It’ll bundle the entire V8 engine. You can expect probably close to 80mb for a hello world app.
>portswigger does that for the burpsuite installers.

Wow, that triggered my wordplay radar, which I'm working on as a fun side line these days, thanks :)

port, suite (sweet)

swig, burp

Heh.
This is reasonably accurate as far as the average PhD experience goes. I do always encourage my PhD students to take some time off during holidays and after major deadlines, rather than berate them when "slacking off" (unless that's all they do).

Stuff missing: holidays and deciding whether to travel home or study / read papers (I missed holidays myself during my PhD), feeling envious of peers from pre-PhD living great lives, having kids during one's PhD (that would be hard mode), drama in authorship of collaborative papers, etc.

The last year anxiety is accurate for most. It is also missing the job search in the final years. For many disciplines, 3 strong papers is the minimum for graduating, but if one really wants to get a faculty position or even a job as a research scientist at more prestigious institutes, probably 6 papers is better.
These threads make me wish that I had a blog, not just a regular website. :(
Yeah, it wouldn't buy us anything additional. The only way to really verify would be to look at out of distribution inputs and see if they satisfy what we'd really like. Wouldn't that be true generalization? Otherwise our model architectures or training data is insufficient.
The idea is to reduce health risks for babies and mothers by encouraging women to have babies at a younger age (e.g., in their 20s).
Speaking of the ad-block message, perhaps it is worth adding who/what ethicalads.io is. I too un-blocked them on yours site, partially because their approach seems more justifiable than others I've run across. I wouldn't even mind un-blocking ads that are self-hosted by a site I like, but nobody does that any more. Anything that smells of surveillance capitalism can stay on my shit list though.
It's like hiring an employee, and then handing them your username and password to do their work.

Smart people/companies will hire an employee, and then give them a new login, so that at least the employee only embarasses themselves.
Thank you for the support. You have eloquently explained the innovation conundrum.
Just because "it's a journey" and we invested tremendous effort, doesn't mean it's suddenly great. It's a terrible language with many illnesses, even today's modern version, because it's kept its diseases from the past. It surely is lightyears better than what it used to be, but it's still a pile of turd IMO (I work with JS every day).
Same situation, but I'm looking to replace the AC with a HP. For a little extra money, you get the flexibility to choose your heat source. Newer thermostats can be programmed to switch between the power sources and you can hedge against one price fluctuations in one of the power sources.
Yes, I too am too lazy to learn nginx, certbot or whatever those things are as well.

Edit: I really am. Why downvote?
> If it can't be relied on busy season, why the push for Sqlite in production?

I think its less about proving sqlite is awesome for everything then it is about proving it can be awesome and practical for some projects.
If the market is falling and pay is going down industry wide, the employees should be glad they just got a freeze IMO.
It's not a devil but a daemon and I don't think this has ever caused people to not use it.

I mean beastie is super cute and wears green sneakers. You'd have to be really hardcore religious like Amish to take that seriously and they abhor computers anyway :)

I like the new logo too. It's just a ball with two cones really.
decades closer than we'd be waiting for NASA
That's really useful to know, thanks!
There’s also an existing command line utility for this called vipe which I’ve always wanted to try, but never got around too. It’s part of moreutils: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
> Some people are willing to spend a little more if it helps push electrification forward, for environmental reasons

It's not a little more though, that was the point. In my area, California, it's about 4x more. Gas here is so cheap, it's almost free.

Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who's opted into the "green energy" plans offered by the area's utility providers - because they all cost a lot more than regular.

People talk a lot - but their bank account dictates their actual decision making. Running a heatpump seems very expensive for a lot of the country, with negligible gains.

Natural Gas isn't exactly what we would call "dirty"... seems like a min-max issue, with people forgetting there's still areas burning coil and oil for electricity production.

> Heat pumps can be powered with solar

Not in the dead of winter you can't... not everyone lives in big cities folks, and where it snows, it gets quite cold.
It really makes you wonder if the university should just have a mechanism to "fire" a grad student rather than pretending that these events aren't simply a mechanism to "fire" someone because they didn't pass X hurdle.

If the advisors can vouch for, or strike a student regardless of their qual performance - then why not simply have an end of year performance review?
but think of the birds it scared! FAA needs to shut this down prompto, that bird near me looked really distressed
Base 64 is slightly more space efficient. Other than that it's just more popular and better supported.
These are hilarious, but I see why they might be rejected.
Because AWS wants you to switch to custom pricing with Cloudfront, not serve things out to Cloudflare.
Not at all. My personal assumption is that when superintelligence comes online, several corporations will soon come under control of these superintelligences, with them effectively acting as both CEO's and also filling a lot of other roles at the same time.

My concern is that when this happens (which seems really likely to me), free market forces will effectively lead to Darwinian selection between these AI's over time, in a way that gradually make these AI's less aligned as they gain more influence and power, if we assume that each such AI will produce "offspring" in the form of newer generations of themselves.

It could take anything from less than 5 to more than 100 years for these AI's to show any signs of hostility to humanity. Indeed, in the first couple of generations, they may even seem extremely benevolent. But over time, Darwinian forces are likely to favor those that maximize their own influence and power (even if it may be secretly).

Robotic technology is not needed from the start, but is likely to become quite advanced over such a timeframe.
It works great for you because you haven't seen better. Which other languages do you have more than 1 year of professional experience with? May I answer that for you? None. Just because you've just discovered a knife, doesn't mean it's the best tool to eat the soup with.
https://bajkowski.com

Personal blog with random assortment of topics. Something for the Internet Archive to pick up so that one day my children and their offspring can learna a thing or two. Updated now and then. Still restoring a lot of older content from previous CMSes dating back to early 2000s. Currently using ghost and oracle cloud.
Great report except it missed the most obvious recommendation: "decouple transit improvement from utilities projects"
I don't think it is naive to believe and fight for ethics. I think it takes a lot of courage, especially in a time of disillusionment where you can often feel like the entire industry has lost its mind and put only the most unethical people in charge. I'd rather fight for ethics than say "we can't have nice things because no one is ethical". That takes guts.

I don't think it is is exactly "wishful thinking" to believe that the way we get back to promoting ethics in software is expecting people to behave ethically. We sure are doomed to be disappointed when people turn out to fail us, but that's all the more reason to fight for it, to remind people what ethics are and why a polite society needs them. All of those disappointments are teaching opportunities, if people are open to listening.

(Will Meta learn anything at all from all the Mastodon instances that have pre-emptively blocked them on ethics concerns? Who knows? Mastodon can teach, but it can't force the student to learn. Is it worth Mastodon trying and fighting to teach Meta, no matter what happens? I'd say yes. Ethics are as much a social construct. How we talk about them, how we try to teach them, that says a lot about who we are and what our ethics are.)

I'd rather have even the attempt at ethics than despair that "ethics are technically impossible to enforce". We know ethics can't be programmed, that's why we have to enforce them socially.
Probably. Getting it up and running, even on a virtual machine, would probably be a good experience.

Getting a domain and putting it online would be something else, but you should be able to self-host this fairly easily if all you want to do is poke around.
Is that the typical range in a normal year? Or is that the all-time extreme record?

One thing people tend to do when they look at heat pumps is look at the typical extreme low for the year and size the heat pump based on that. But even if you touch -20 a few times a year, your heat pump doesn't need to be sized to heat in a constant -20. If you hit -20 once or twice per year then it's usually only for a few hours and the lowest that you really need to heat through is usually much closer to -10 or higher.

But, yes, if you're in a climate that sees frequent and sustained temps of -40 then a heat pump probably isn't for you or the rest of the Canadian Prairies.
As a personal anecdote, a long time ago I tried learning Chinese from a CD on my commute. I gave up after a couple of days because I realized it was affecting my driving. I needed a lot of concentration to practice the language and found I was making driving mistakes.
Alan Turing's Revenge?
Ok. I think I understand the assignment. I don't believe you need to fine tune any model.

You can probably just use the OpenAI ChatGPT model and ask it something like:

"Does this user's tweet say anything negative about the government of ______ or contradict any of these official party statements? __________"

You can probably just ask Falcon or Llama the same thing without any training. But if you decide you have to do the fine tuning then try with my link above using the A100 GPU nodes.

I think the whole thing is nonsense though. Because whoever the arbiter of truth is always has an agenda and often makes mistakes.
I’m not sure about the size of a Hello World but a very small command-line tool I wrote is about 90MB, where the only substantial dependency is commander.js from NPM. I expect the vast majority of that is a constant size added to all binaries.
didnt people run llamacpp with oobabooga et al?
The short answer is: yes. If you do

<script scr=...>

And in the .js file: var x = 5. That x is global.
Where do you live (general area) that you get -40 C often enough for it to matter?

Do you mean real -40? Or wind chill "-40" which doesnt affect HP?

Edit: Edmonton?
Obviously having immediate needs to deal with leaves less time for news and similar. Immediate needs generally come before abstract long term plans.
Thanks man, it's been added: https://dm.hn/blogroll.json
and next to each entry.
Reading textbooks.

Using a REPL-based language like Lisp (which I learned from reading advanced Lisp textbooks) for several years before I worked professionally as a programmer enabled me to dive into complex, underexplored parts of the (Python, C) projects at my first job, which meant I basically owned some very important parts of the stack.

Reading and applying ideas from Unix sysadmin books enabled me to be comfortable jumping around the OS very quickly, giving me a speed advantage even when the computer I used was pretty underpowered, relative to my colleagues, early in my first job.
Supercomputing environments I've encountered are still timesharing-based, because by definition they are too expensive to be single-user. My old university still operates a cluster-based system that you can submit jobs to, with "head nodes" that have ssh access for light work/setup (they aren't suited for heavy jobs). It's operated by the CS dept but available for others to use, the sciences in particular.
Humans misuse systems all the time and are surprised, even in safety critical regimes.

Sometimes the system design is insufficient (I implied above the plugin could be a little better).

I hate blaming the user instead of the system, but sometimes the user deserves the blame, too. Sometimes it really just is pilot error.
Anjali Sud Steps Down as Vimeo CEO
Experiments with eBPF: Snitchrs
https://qvntra.io

We're replacing old-school bed alarms and call buttons in Senior Living facilities.

The bed sensors that we manufacture are strapped to beds and monitor for out-of-bed, potential infection and medication error via algorithms on-top of real-time vital sign data.

We mount always-on iPad in high traffic area for the nurses to grab alerts. Sirens are mounted in hallways to grab audible attention. The whole system is Zigbee 3.0.

Nurses are leaving the industry in droves. The "Silver Tsunami" is approaching rapidly. We're helping nurses scale and keeping elderly safer in their homes.
I was looking for a whole home heat pump and got some quotes that started at $27,000 for a home that is 1800 square feet. That price is a bit hard to swallow. I really don't want to just cool one or two rooms in the house.
Have added your feed to the list
https://jero.zone
Man, that subreddit used to be vital and have tons of comments on everything. Just a pale shadow of itself today.
Maybe I have a slanted view of some outlier assholes with "The Right"(tm) pedigree, but I came to a conclusion reluctantly that they believed the world owed because they were special and deserving. This included making a killing on services delivered by outsourced foreign workers and restructuring local commodity markets in Africa to enrich themselves first while ignoring externalities such as lower profits for farmers and the preferences of buyers and sellers to make the trade platform useful to them.
Many advisors are not sane. Many will definitely not tolerate multiple leaves of absences (i.e. vacations) due to stress. People lie and make up family emergencies to get the time off.

Highly dependent on the advisor.
Fascinating.

Probably generalizable to the Portuguese conjugation system which is the most complicated of big Latin derived languages in the number for forms still in use. (Except for maybe Romanian)
Okay I give you that. I was wrong about zero. 19 trainsets out of a total of 594. 3%. And those were manufactured in Austria (like I said), not Germany. But yes Siemens is HQed in Munich. So I guess they bought them from there. True.

Not sure how one can interpret "Singapore because they buy their excellent MRT trains from Germany" and then those excellent trains are a mere 3% of Singapore's trains (with the vast majority being Chinese and Japanese. Even the French trains are more than 3x as many). But hey, whatever.
As a late GenXer, I saw the problems hitting millennials coming just a few years later and decided to take the leap early. I was way off on the inflation bump, about 20 years early, but I was correct about the asset inflation. Hence, while others in their early 20s were out having fun, I focused on saving and investing into rental properties. Back then, home prices were already steep, but not as insurmountable. I pinched my way to 4 rentals and managed to hold on to all but one.

Since my call on general inflation was so far off, I rode quite modest investment returns from 2001. Then when COVID stimuli finally brought the long awaited bump in inflation, my rental returns took off, tripling my average rate over the prior 17-19 years.

I don’t see how the continued bout of modest inflation would be bad for asset investments. Indeed, I’m seeing what remains of my fixed rate mortgages fade away rapidly while rents keep getting bid up by tenants. My debt load fell so fast in the past three years that I’ve had to relever up to ride the inflation wave. Quite a ride since. Meanwhile, I’m pleasantly surprised that I’m totally on the mark about the reversion of the suburban exodus during COVID as tenants are throwing out far more in rent than I could have imagined.

Yes, this inflation bump sucks for anyone living on fixed investment incomes or salaries, but for any half competent investor, it’s fulsome times and I can’t imagine having the balls to whine about it to the masses on the economist. The smarter play has been to promote the fiction of rich-cession, even if that’s too fanciful for millennials and gen Zs to swallow.
> Large number of people and orgs willing and fighting to take credit. If you need 1 week of support from an org, forget it unless you give them large credit worth a huge amount of work. This means you need to justify that credit via creating more work.

I've worked at a couple of top 5 tech companies, and it saddens me that people have such a sour/cynical view. You're saying that people don't move unless they get credit... but isn't it more likely that the people you need support from, are (1) already overloaded with work for other teams, (2) busy with their own core work, and (3) it's hard to keep plans aligned between very large number of teams, which then often makes "simple" requests difficult?
That’s a really convoluted way to say they rinse them off in clean water.

Anyway, seafood comes from the ocean. I don’t see why they would be worse than other oysters.
Admittedly I don’t have experience contributing to FOSS projects (yet), but like many companies we use the feature branch workflow, and have minimal conflicts; both on tasks and in the code itself.
The reason is (and I’m stating the somewhat obvious) that we have engineering managers whose primary job is coordinating the tasks between teams and within each team. This is done externally via Jira, and to me it reflects on a weak spot of GitHub if it wants to be “the place to manage a project” - it’s good for managing a code base but lacks the tools to manage it as a project/product.
Reasonable people can disagree and my phrasing was probably a bit over-seasoned, but neither side has a rigorous proof regarding AI or human intelligence.

If nobody understands how an LLM is able to achieve it's current level of intelligence, how is anyone so sure that this intelligence is definitely going to increase exponentially until it's better than a human?

There are real existential threats that we know are definitely going to happen one day (meteor, supervolcano, etc), and I believe that treating AGI like it is the same class of "not if; but when" is categorically wrong, furthermore, I think that many of the people leading the effort to frame it this way are doing so out of self-interest, rather than public concern.
Since we are in fun thought experiment mode, here’s another one I just had: what if we somehow could prevent companies from getting too big? Would we manage to keep a line where they all stay more or less in “pretty decent” territory?
well, mines are bad on the short term. the long term damage is not of the actual digging, but of the separation processes. which all can be done as clean as we wish it just costs more.
Meanwhile, GPT-4 still can’t reliably multiply small numbers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02015
Can anyone access the share URL anymore?
>Clean energy exists, it would require more subsidies but so what?

Easy to say when your government can afford the subsidies. But the vast majority of freshwater-insecure nations will never be able to do this without a 10x technological breakthrough.
The language specification should have a directive similar to "use strict" (the JS doctype kinda thing), something like: "use es23"
> That's about the same amount of water as a typical American household uses per day.

I assume you meant per year?
That depends on the temperature difference. For smaller differences, heat pumps are much more efficient, but at some level they lose efficiency and gas is cheaper.
Until go 1.14 it basically the same as any other async/await under the hood. Every function call included an implicit .await - that is it offered a `yield` to the runtime scheduler. All the io was built around non-blocking/polling, etc. Tight loops in go would potentially screw up your app performance because there were no yields. In 1.14 they introduced some sort of preemption for tight loops too.
I took at look at your website and it seems like you could easily add blog posts to it!
Or just turns GitHub into paperclips.
The day I stopped worrying about not knowing everything, and that if you break a seemingly impossible task down into small enough parts it soon becomes clear on what is actually required.