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> The extinction risk from unaligned supterintelligent AGI is real, it's just often dismissed (imo) because it's outside the window of risks that are acceptable and high status to take seriously.

No. It’s not taken seriously because it’s fundamentally unserious. It’s religion. Sometime in the near future this all powerful being will kill us all by somehow grabbing all power over the physical world by being so clever to trick us until it is too late. This is literally the plot to a B-movie. Not only is there no evidence for this even existing in the near future, there’s no theoretical understanding how one would even do this, nor why someone would even hook it up to all these physical systems. I guess we’re supposed to just take it on faith that this Forbin Project is going to just spontaneously hack its way into every system without anyone noticing.

It’s bullshit. It’s pure bullshit funded and spread by the very people that do not want us to worry about real implications of real systems today. Care not about your racist algorithms! For someday soon, a giant squid robot will turn you into a giant inefficient battery in a VR world, or maybe just kill you and wear your flesh as to lure more humans to their violent deaths!

Anyone that takes this seriously, is the exact same type of rube that fell for apocalyptic cults for millennia.
Same here on Firefox Android.
Honestly, it's pretty reasonable. This is what it looks like when you really treat your party as separate from governance. They are not using public funds for their advertising.

Contrast this with the last Conservative government, which made all of its publicly funded announcements from "The Harper Government" instead of "The Government of Canada."

https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2012/06/harper-governm...
Unfortunately, the same feature makes listening to French difficult. The phrases "il parle" and "ils parlaient" (he speaks/they speak) sound almost identical. The latter ends in five silent letters.

It's usually clear from context, and easily understood by a native speaker. But a non-fluent speaker may be having trouble following the context, and lacking the additional clue of conjugation isn't helping.

I do a decent job at following written French, but spoken French remains a challenge (unless specifically over-emphasized for small children and stupid foreigners). I watch French television with subtitles on.
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Same, I think this is a great idea and would like to submit mine as well -- maybe an "add" feature on the page would make sense, or re-inquire here at intervals, maybe monthly/yearly?
Maybe there could be a Harvard Lite online academy that wouldn't need any extra buildings and just a little staff, but supply very high quality courses.

Also, it could be available to English-speaking people worldwide, including places like Africa, where wider availability high-quality education could make a huge difference - wouldn't that be a win for anyone who is concerned about social justice?
Because people don't like face value statements they don't like so they try to find a conspiracy that fits their narrative better.
Given the short attention spans of today and the unlikeliness that your audience will remember to come back for your follow up communication, I’d say an initial press release is a good time and place to remind folks that there’s a bigger issue at play and this is just one example of it.

If letting the bigger issue go ignored and unaddressed means more children will act like this, they have a duty to mention the threat to the public.
compare to pyspy, which is out of process and reads process memory to reconstruct stack frames as a sampler, which means marginal overhead for the program, re safer to use in prod. it would be interesting to see a function entry/exit on linux via epbf attached to USDT.
Interesting, does this give you a noticeable benefit for text, or does this mostly apply to images or video?
Well... To be fair, this _is_ HN. ;)
Yes, exactly. There is a ton of friction.
> Addressing what drove these children to these ends should not be anybody's primary concern

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Solve that problem, and it would stand to reason that "these ends" would diminish.
We make an e-commerce subscription that uses a smart scale to trigger re-orders at the perfect time. The timing is dynamic for each customer’s usage patterns.

The scale lasts 1.5yrs per battery charge. Our customers cancel subscriptions at a way lower rate compared to typical subscriptions because their experience is way better.

We bootstrapped to over 100 customers. We 3D printed the devices and hand soldered dev boards for the internals.

We manufacture the device ourselves in China, now.

Company is bottomless.com, though we are now focused mostly on integrations with third party e-commerce sites over direct customer acquisition.
Wait, you are situated in Flensburg but not shipping to EU? That seems rather interesting... Do you also manufacture in germany or have you sourced that out?
I would call all parties right extremists who deny or relativate the Holocaust, consider shooting people at the borders and so on.
yup. after that you can use the global var DATA to access the data injected after the __END__
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Build, build, build, and build some more, then build, oh and you should build more.

It's taking on a challenge big or small and seeing it through no matter what it takes. You'll get stuck for hours, days, sometimes weeks, you'll get frustrated, tired, annoyed, but you just refuse to give up and eventually get it done.

Those are the moments that bolster your confidence and you realize you are capable of achieving seemingly impossible things.

That confidence of "sure I can figure it out" is what you need to feed and grow as a programmer and probably in many other professions.

Best way imo is to pick reasonable small contained projects, and slowly ramp up and take on bigger challenges. If you take on too much, shelve it, do something smaller, then return to it later.

It takes a lot of time, effort and perseverance, but as long as you keep going you'll get there in the end.
Good point, but not exactly correct. If R is a relation on A x B and S is a relation on B x C then SR = {(a, c) | aRb and bSc for some b in B}. The join uses (a, b, c) in the comprehension.
Heres an OPML with all the feeds I could detect from the list! https://gist.github.com/Josh-Tucker/030b8cba6557927a27f1c7e6...
I'd contest that Kelvins, being the same as centigrade degrees but counting from absolute zero, have a case for being called degrees too.

On a side note, it would be awesome if all temperatures were in Kelvins.
Seems pretty logical so far. Nuked 80 percent of the staff and they are putting out 5x as many features as they used to
Well, that argument didn't work for a lot of other things. Wheels are more energy efficient than legs, steel more resilient than tortoise shell or rhino skin, motors more powerful than muscles, aircraft fly higher and faster than birds, ladders reach higher than Giraffes much more easily, bulldozers dig faster than any digging creature, speakers and airhorns are louder than any animal cry or roar, ancient computers remember more raw data than humans do, electronics can react faster than human reactions. Human working memory is ~7 items after 80 billion neurons, far outdone by an 8-bit computer of the 1980s.

Why think 'intelligence' is somehow different?
> the world is still investing untold millions of dollars, and untold person-years of effort

because of the positive ROI
Both were nice, but $250M nice surprises me. I expect you could spend $25M and I’d enjoy it as much.
Actually, Runescape one of the most successful MMOs ever was a Java applet. Java is much more effective at complex object-oriented modeling and an MMO is a canonical example of where OOP not only shines but is necessary. Before ES6, there were half a dozen styles of approximating classes in JavaScript, the main one being with closure-returning-functions. Even utilizing these clever tricks to make JavaScript a decent language, the runtime would not have been powerful enough to run a game like Runescape. For a very long time, JavaScript was primitive in even managing media. Flash allowed Youtube to bridge the gap of playing videos in the browser. JavaScript-based web apps to stream music didn't become prominent until the 2010s, a decade and half after JavaScript was invented. Yahoo music, the prominent web-based music player in the 2000s, used a Flash plugin. So Indeed, Flash and Java did some solve a lot of problems that JavaScript did not. JavaScript won out because it was browser-native and now WebAssembly is gaining traction because JavaScript is still not that great. TypeScript is solid, but that took years of development and Microsoft resources to launch.
A newspaper doesn't monetize #1 (People come and hang out). Facebook is, first and foremost, a social media platform. People go there to learn about what other people they know are doing. So the cafe and Facebook have the most in common there. The cafe monetizes that hang out by selling you coffee and Facebook monetizes that by showing you ads.

Newspapers are very much secondary to both businesses. They enhance the experience but are not fundamental to it. They also both provide a service to those newspapers by providing a point of distribution. People might, as part of their experience in the cafe/Facebook, read the newspaper.
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That sounds logical. Federation without conditions would make no sense at all for Meta. You could then run an ad-free Threads copy, create any client you want, easily train your AI on their content.

Surely if such deals materialize, many idealistic Mastodon instances will defederate with Meta. A few big Mastodon instances might not. Next, the idealistic Mastodon instances will defederate with the Meta-compatible Mastodon instances.

Which...makes large Mastodon instances pretty pointless. They'll be largely isolated from the rest of the Mastodon part of the fediverse. They can interact with Threads users, but in that case...why wouldn't users simply use Threads?
It was designed in #915 (read just the OP and the linked PRs at the end) and the implementation pretty much follows it closely, at least for the Metal backend. The CUDA and OpenCL backends are currently slightly coupled in ggml as they started developing before #915, but I think we'll resolve this eventually.

#915 - https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/915
The user you're replying to appears unconnected to Kioma, so I don't think they have any winning-over to do here.
>While the RAIL organization suggests adding the word “Open” to RAIL licenses that include similar open-access and free-use as open source (i.e. OpenRAIL-M), this is confusing since the license is not open source so long as it includes usage restrictions. A better name would be EthicalRAIL-M. Using the term “ethical” to describe this category license clearly indicates its functional difference from open source licenses.

I don't even think we should be using the word "ethical" because it implies that anything more permissive is unethical. We should call these morality clause licenses.

The question of whether or not we should have morality clauses involved is complicated. Most bad actors do not give a shit about the licensing status of the code they are using. And these licenses also cause headaches for people who want to follow the rules[0] and avoid copyleft trolling[1]. On the other hand, the morality clauses in OpenRAIL-M are relatively straightforward and non-obnoxious.

[0] This also applies to "non-commercial" licensing, since that is a concept entirely foreign to copyright law. As far as I'm concerned the 'NC' clause in Creative Commons just means 'OK to torrent'.

[1] A practice in which people abuse copyleft licenses to try and extract licensing agreements for minor license violations. The forgiveness periods added to GPLv3 and later versions of Creative Commons are specifically to prevent this behavior.
I have read and understood the article. It is all speculation about what might or might not be necessary.
The author has misread the statute. The notice and the statutory language from which it derives (Title 17, sec. 108 (d) and (e)) are about the conditions under which the library is released from liability for copyright violations. No statement is made about conditions under which the user is released from copyright liability.

Each paragraph in 108 lays out various situations under which libraries and archives are permitted to furnish copies without liability (without this, no library would dare).

Paragraphs (d) and (e) are the relevant ones (dealing with one component of a larger collection or to an entire work if necessary, respectively). Clause (1) of each paragraph describes a situation where the copy is to become property of the user making the request (so, I walk up to a copy machine, make a copy, and take possession of the copy). In this situation, the library is released from liability if two conditions hold: a) "the library ... has had no notice that the copy ... would be used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research". (Note that this is the source of the quote in the posted notice.) Naturally, that condition holds for self-service copy machines. b) "the library ... displays prominently ... a warning of copyright...". Said warning just recaps 108 (d) and (e).

I do not find any lie here.
Not mine, but was impressed with IceWhale technologies. They shipped a custom SBC (Zimaboard) during the covid electronics supply chain shitshow. Was delayed as a result but they came through with solid execution eventually.
Hey now, that's 50% of the work required to get a free t-shirt every October.

Add a couple typo correction commits and you're dressed for the next year.
I understand that there is additional meaning beyond just “tech” and “bro”. But the parent asked why I brought up identity politics, and I don’t think I am incorrect to say that “techbro” is inextricably linked to being young, male, affluent, and working in tech. Would you disagree?

I agree that stereotypes have their uses in popular culture. And often there is some basis for stereotypes in reality. But people should at least be aware when they are using stereotypes, of their inherent imprecision, and why people find them offensive/hurtful. Do you agree that “techbro” is a stereotype?

And I think we should be careful not to build our world views on top of stereotypes. I.e. a world view that the tech industry is run by a bunch of techbros who don’t understand or care about humanity is a gross oversimplification.
AV receivers are nice because a lot of them have the schematics and parts list right in the service manual. This is the one that I repaired: https://yamahaservicemanual.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/y...

The part in question: https://i.imgur.com/hZDA08y.jpg

Repaired: https://i.imgur.com/IMbBUeN.jpg

Start with a visual inspection, looking for any components which appear to be visibly damaged. For capacitors this would be something bulging, but if something has failed thermally the chip might be burned. If you see anything burned, though, I would exercise caution before proceeding.

After that, measure the output of each power supply with a multimeter and confirm that it is at the appropriate voltage level. If you find something which is off, you need to confirm that all of the additional components supporting the power supply are present and functioning. You can measure resistors on the PCB with a multimeter.

Some AV Receivers will also fail after a number of heating / cooling cycles. In this case, the solder joints on the relays have gone bad (physically disconnected) and they can just be soldered again to correct the problem.

Honestly, AV Receivers are a great place to start since they are generally both well documented and designed to be serviced.

edit: one other thing -- you can check the clock output of different crystals / oscillators, etc, if you have an oscilloscope. This can be useful to know if the clock is operating at all, and, if it is, confirm that it is clocking at the appropriate rate.
Having worked at some startups I think there are a lot of problems too

- too many startups are founded by non-technical people. This almost inevitably ends in disaster, unless they have a technical co-founder with equal levels of decision and control

- because invariably the money is not the founder's they aren't thinking of ways to save money. Some VC funds like a16z are partially to blame for this by telling the startups they invest in that sometimes it's a good idea to burn money in order to grab land, but the point where it doesn't make sense to spend more effort on efficiency is not one which a lot of startups reach.

- a lot of the business models make zero sense, have zero testing performed on and no data gathered to attempt to validate. Just like you wouldn't build a train without some computer simulations and test models, and wouldn't launch it without test runs you shouldn't do the same for a startup
I think that bullshitting is just part of human nature (or at least of the current global society/ies). You just need a critical mass to see it properly. When a community/social network is small, it's either bullshit free or completely full of bullshit. When it's big enough, the bullshit quantity will converge regardless the initial value.
Fun fact on the Eiffel Tower: during the Chicago World's Fair, they wanted to build something that would rival the Eiffel Tower. After a LOT of proposals, and work, and time, they came up with... the Ferris wheel.
I believe Cyder was explaining his (and my) understanding of what this new Brave feature is trying to prevent. That is the kind of behavior that this feature is putting a stop to, localhost connections.
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> LLMs also do not have a stream of subconscious experience

I think it is a stretch to claim this without evidence.

LLMs that are not being trained on the inputs do not have long-term memory though.
There’s not actually a way to stay engaged while also disengaging with content that upsets you, so no, do not go hang out with friends or build things when you get upset.

Learn how to get less upset.
Although I'm optimistic about this, a line popped out in the blog post stuck out to me: "deliberately training misaligned models".

I'm guessing they mean misaligned small or weak models, and misaligned in a non-dangerous way - but the idea of training models whose goal is adversarial brings to mind the idea of gain-of-function research.
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> Isn't the issue that Google/Facebook sell ads and make money from linking to news sources?

No. The law would apply even if Google and Facebook showed no ads on a same page as a link to a news article, and made no money from them. (And in fact, e.g. Google News does not show any ads.)

> Didn't Australia implement a similar law and get Google/Facebook to pay something?

Not really, no. Australia passed a law but didn't actually make it apply to anyone. (Yes, seriously, the law is defined to apply to a set of companies that the government designates at their whim, and they've so far not designated any companies). The deals that Google/Meta made with Australian news companies are the same kinds of deals they've made in countries all over the world without such a law, including Canada.

Those Australian deals will reportedly terminate if Google/Meta are designated as being in scope of the law, so now any news company with a deal has an incentive to argue against their designation while a company without a deal will argue for. In a similar vein, the deals in Canada are apparently going to be terminated due to this law.
I didn't even read article, and my point was entirely fulfilled by your response and other comments here. There are plenty of places where things are sub optimal but the amount of attention received by this is disproportionate. All I am saying is an observation
HN is for hackers to see an idea and perhaps get inspired to build off it in some way. People use it for finalized product announcements but that's not the core.
> but if the underlying training data doesn’t taint the output as a derivative work then labeling isn’t going to qualify by itself.

It depends. If each individual training item has a small impact on the output coefficients, then perhaps it's not a derivative work of them. But if there's a large creative process in determining model training procedure, deciding labelling strategies, and applying those-- perhaps those numbers are strongly derived from those things.
I watched "Air" with Matt Damon in the theater, and noticed it was an amazonstudios movie.

It was kind of ok, but wow it really lacked the polish that many hollywood movies have. It could have just been so much better.

I think nickle-and-diming movies will just lead to the sort of thing amazon is famous for. Lots of product, all of it cheaply made, with very little to differentiate it or make it memorable.

Personally I think there is also money in excellence.
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Could you elaborate a bit on what you don't like about GH Actions? Just curious as I have a lot of experience with Gitlab CI and relatively less with GH Actions.
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It's been a long time, but IIRC the split was due to direction on SMP. From what I recall, the FreeBSD team made the right call at the time.

https://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/dfly.html
This isn’t true, and even if it were, “most money possible” isn’t a meaningful metric.
Yes, it’s a free country. That’s why we have consensus.

1000 people misusing the term means the term changes. 1 person misusing the term is just a jerk.

I’m always suspicious when people overloading a term are all doing it for personal benefit (ie, promoting their product).

I think consensus is around OSI now, but it could change. I might not be right in the future, but I think I’m right now.
The linked video seems to have no context provided? What is a titan ML server? Is 7B actually that useful? How does the model compare to others? Etc…
In fact, the "factoring out" process shouldn't even be that hard: find the input vector that forces the ANN to output the copyrighted work verbatim. There should be some simple method of "baking in" the first step of the feedforward algorithm, applying that vector to the first layer of weights, and then considering the input layer as the first hidden layer of a network with 0 input nodes. It is now equivalent to a neural network that can only ever output a single copyrighted work, and therefore its weights exactly encode (bloatedly!) that work. The owner of the work holds copyright on those weights. Importantly, if I'm thinking about this right, the weights of this derived network are exactly the same as the original except in the first layer.

On the other hand, we need the original input vector for this to work, and one could argue that the network weights are simply the algorithm for decoding the input vector into the copyrighted work. So the originator holds copyright on the input vector, not the weights. Does it matter if the input vector has smaller information content than the original work? Clearly this argument relies on the input vector being the "actual encoding", and therefore must have at least as much information. If the input vector is an embedding of "please show me the latest Tom Clancy novel in full", this argument breaks down.

Okay, this is hard.
You need to test with very long occupation names. How do these tables break text?