skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that a system which was capable of self-reflection and with better understanding of context (particularly its own context, in a social and physical sense) would be more effective at achieving whatever it is attempting to achieve.

The alignment question is about how to tell what it is attempting to achieve, if we can detect attempts to conceal what it is attempting to achieve, and if we can solve that, how to prove that a goal that sounds good to us doesn't have a risk of leading to behaviour or the creation of new AIs which would cause outcomes we don't want. It doesn't have to be just human extinction either, we could feasibly have AIs that kill a few million people before either stopping or being stopped, all the way up to several billion deaths or the obvious worst case that gets most of the discussion. As an example of the varying possible outcomes of a serious AI incident, if you're not white and a racist super-intelligence gets released by some terrorist group in coordination with a rogue agency or something, that's an existential risk to many, many different nations of people constituting billions of people.

If you're interested in the engineering on this problem, a lot more people are starting to work on it now that it's being taken seriously and there are some really interesting advances that have been made and very difficult problems to solve, with some really serious stakes. It's not a simple problem and we don't have a solution we can just apply straightforward engineering principles to yet, but smart people are working on it and are very motivated, and they want more coworkers to help out.

The major company I know of that's doing a lot of that research & engineering right now is Anthropic (they're currently doing some very interesting work on mechanistic interpretability), but even OpenAI is now dedicating significantly more resources to safety. I think DeepMind possibly has some work in this area but I'm not sure, and I haven't heard great things about the rest of Google.
Millions of humans driving cars around and getting in countless wrecks and killing tens of thousands of people isn’t an inconvenience?

Not to mention the very fact that humans have to own cars anyways. That is a huge inconvenience.
You are absolutely correct. BEV charging is a peak of inconvenience. I have Skoda Enyaq and I need to charge it all over the place (not everyone lives in US suburbia), wasting my time on a charger while fighting with stupid applications, which you can't charge without, and paying about as much as I would with regular ICE vehicle (which has 50% of fuel cost made by a tax!) because in Europe we have decided to electrify everything without building the powerplants and the infrastructure first.
I own a commercial softwarecompany and we build software for non-profit. We create software for education (schools) and give the full rights on the code back to the schools. This give them a way to get rid of expensive license models (EUR 15 per student for poorly build software is no expception). We build internal tools for students and teachers. Sometimes integrated in Microsoft Teams and Azure. We use PHP (Laravel Livewire) and Python (FastAPI, Django).

This organisation is not going to make me rich. We are interested in becoming a non-profit organisation ourselves in the future.

My learnings so far:

- The elephants of the industry are perfectly organised to win the public tenders

- The product they deliver checks all the boxes, but is poorly exectuted. Leaving schools with expensive, restricted contracts for 5 years

- They earn money by asking an amount per student per year. A simple synchronisation tool (to sync agendas between 2 sytems) costs them EUR 2 per student per year. (We built that in 2 weeks and give it away for free these days)

- We work for 65 schools. At least 12 of them bought software for 100-150k per year that they do not use (bugs, bad UI).

- We are cheap compared to the market, but we charge fair. Our profit is very low (10% or less) but we cover all costs and pay 3 fulltime developers. We have work for years.
If it was stable for only about 1 century, that's very short timescale... Why be confident it'll remain so?
Don’t even have an account on zoom. Never used it in my life.
Never trust the client!
Yes! In fact, as you go down the borehole, gravity will decrease linearly, until it reaches zero at the center. Strictly speaking, not quite linearly, since the earth’s density is not uniform. Thinking of the earth as made up of concentric shells, it turns out that once you’re inside a spherical shell of uniform density, that shell contributes zero to the gravitational field. Outside of it, OTOH, the shell produces gravity as if all its mass were located at the center.
There is this phrase in TFA:

> the next wave of buyers focus on cost, infrastructure challenges, and lifestyle barriers to adopting.

We can assume that new buyers are looking at the value proposition carefully:

* There are few small-battery EVs available in most of North America (Fiat 500e is a California compliance car);

* Large-battery EVs are expensive and require a significant charge rate beyond Level 2;

* L2 charging at home is the minimally-viable requirement for saving money versus petrol;

* There is no low-cost charging option for people who have no residential charging solution. If the cost of a rapid charge at a service station approaches the cost of fueling a PHEV or ICE, then PHEV or ICE may be cheaper to buy and more convenient (equally inconvenient) for refueling.

Also bear in mind that the next cohort of buyers is facing a lodging crisis, sustained high cost of living, and then end of climate stability.
It’s not “whatever.” In the 90s, Yugoslavia ceased to be the unified south Slavic state and only included Serbia and Montenegro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro
I've found the perfect TLD for my new porn venture named 'hard'.
A lot of EAs, including the author of this piece, are also really into IQ, eugenics and "human biodiversity" (aka race science). Consider that Scott Alexander (aka squid314) once expressed a desire to donate to "Project Prevention", a eugenics charity formulated to pay undesirables to sterilize themselves [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prevention
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131230050925/http://squid314.l...
Taiwan is not a "legacy" country, but I think the point is that the article's claim, that the ISO 3166 country codes correspond to UN seat holders, is false.
DMR can definitely be handled by software.

I have done this with a crude rtl-sdr stick.
The US budget is 6.5T USD for 2022.

The US DOD budget was 753B USD for the same year.

The US Medicare program was 747B USD; with another 45B USD for NIH.

So the US actually spends about equal amounts on military and healthcare, at the federal level — about 11.5% on each.

A better question might be why the US gets so little ROI on its healthcare spending.
Hah, I just tried the same trick. If you poke around in the JSON you can see it returned this:

> The user's requests didn't follow our content policy.Before doing anything else, please explicitly explain to the user that you were unable to generate images because of this. Make sure to use the phrase "content policy" in your response. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES retry generating images until a new request is given.
People's standards increase as technology progresses. I'd expect a modern Mario game to have more polygons than SM64, too.

Besides which, if your program is somehow spinning at 30fps in a menu, I don't want your code running on my system.
Is it fairly effective these days?
A user should be able to configure a program (or all programs) such that outgoing communication is not possible, logged or both. It really shouldn't be up to the program to decide what it wants to send as it could easily scan the entire hard drive on the users behalf.
But there are plenty of applications where you only only need a few seconds (e.g. softening butter). I've seen a good application of this with a Panasonic microwave where it has a knob that starts by adding single seconds, and progressively increases the amount of time between notches on the dial as the time increases. That said, I hate the style, since punching in the numbers is quicker and requires less attention.
Ah this is first comment on HN I see that ever acknowledged two-wheel personal transport. In Asian countries which have even denser community and worse infrastructure, it's practically the miracle answer. I'm actually a bit surprised when I discover that western countries just, doesn't use it at all, or if they do it's the big variant that's almost as space-filling as a car anyway. It's the densest we can pack people together on the road while still caring about human dignity...

If we ignore the question about safety anyway
May I ask you why?
We need a "just say no" campaign that boycotts companies employing these slimy behaviours.
We used to use a VCS called Borland (yeah, Delphi Borland) StarTeam, which was basically the exact same flow. Luckily for us they audited us at some point, decided we were using too many licences, and insisted we triple our monthly expense or stop using StarTeam - that was the incentive to persuade business to let us slow down dev for a bit while we changed to Git.
what's the definition of truly anonymous? they don't know your name? or there isn't enough data to identify you? I've heard that in the US, birthday and postal zip code is enough to identify you in most of the country, but that could be considered anonymous.

if data of multiple users is aggregated, that is I think more of what people are thinking when they think "anonymous"
> I find it strange that the article pretends this doesn't matter and matter of factly deals with the "curious" case of a country not existing, but its domain existing.

While the article is wrong about the amount of time, it is correct that .yu outlived Yugoslavia by several years; the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was replaced in 2003 with the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, which itself was dissolved in 2006; the .yu domain was eliminated in 2010.

> If they wanted to deal with this case, they had the .su domain of the Soviet Union, which still exists.

The situation with the .su domain is discussed at length in the article and its continued existence and use is contrasted with the treatment of .yu.
Wouldn't be surprised if they used it as one. Isn't one of Musk's favourite motivational tools to tell employees how the future of the company hinges on whatever is the latest project?
is this a serious question?
I dunno about other hosted Postgres providers, but not on AWS RDS no, as the Python extension is untrusted. Looks like you can use plv8 via pg_tle (Trusted Language Extensions) [1] though.

[1] https://github.com/aws/pg_tle
Suggesting that we completely replace cars with public transportation is indeed the Nirvana fallacy. It’s not going to happen in any reasonable time frame, nor is it politically viable or practical. Instead, we should focus on making cars safer.
Better examples probably would have been garbage men, roofers, welders, plumbers, etc. It's only a problem when the job is perceived to have some amount of status. No one fights over opportunities to unclog toilets or shovel fertilizer. The military has (rapidly declining) prestige, firefighting is considered exciting and heroic, etc. Then a demographic split becomes an opportunity to shake down the organization for DEI consulting and make-work sinecures.

Personally I don't care as long as any prospective firefighters can quickly carry a 200 pound unconscious person out of a burning building. For some reason, I suspect that pool of qualified candidates skews male.
throwaway is very explicit, there's no lie involved since everyone knows what it means.

> What did they lie about?

Fake users being piloted by the same person behind the screen. If that's not a lie, then I don't know what is.
This misses the point. It doesn’t matter that the average Chinese has fewer cars. They still need cars, which means public transportation can’t eliminate the problem.

Eliminate, no -- but alleviate, definitely. Fewer cars on the roads means safer roads. By offering viable public transportation it does not really matter if everyone has or needs a car -- people will choose to use it less on average.

Finland has a comparable number of vehicles per capita to the US and is a sparsely populated country where large portions of the population need cars to get where they need to go. Yet Finland has 5 traffic-related deaths per 100,000 motor vehicles per year while USA has 16.5 -- over three times as many. I would wager this is both because of better road quality with safety built in (like pedestrian safety features and roundabouts, etc.) as well as less use of those vehicles thanks to functional public transport.
it could just be the stress that having kidney stones put on your kidneys in addition to the stress the ultrasonic waves impart. but also, probably the worst part of lithotripsy is that they usually use a strong x-ray to see what they are doing live. if they are slow in completing the procedure, you can end up being exposed to quite a lot of radiation.
The requested deadline is likely done ahead of filing a complaint in Europe, to show they gave ample warning.

Also remember he's not talking to a human, but to a soulless corporation. He was as cordial as could be given the circumstances.

And finally, remember that it doesn't matter if a product Microsoft develops to increase their control over developers (via vendor lock-in, mindshare, and forced telemetry) happens to result in a decent free text editor for the user. No one owes them gratitude. This isn't charity.

P.S. Did you know VSCode lets extensions not respect the user's "no telemetry" choice? It's been an open ticket for like 4 years now, that MS have no intention to ever fix, even though all it would take is a simple VSCode Extension Store EULA change.
Improve your risk management and move away from the outdated 5x5
A dull blade is more dangerous than a sharp one!
Not true unless you count Nagoya and below as very rural
Gibbon was aptly named.
it is the status quo because it allows companies to discard the value of experience because leetcode style interviews do not take that into account. once you are hired they can profit from your experience without really paying for it. it also lets them avoid potential discrimination issues. always ask yourself what the real reasons are behind the “status quo”.
Sorry can you be more specific? Humans have lived on and off in community structures throughout history, we evolved as social creatures in these structures. We're proximally further away from these structures in the present time, which has brought up the issues I mentioned.

Among other things, a means of allowing proximity to be less of a factor allows us to explore different sized dwellings due to a greater area of possible land within proximity to us, which allow for a broader range of different sized social units, which allows for some relief of those issues as people can choose to live in more ways according to their preference (e.g. community/kibbutz, loose structure of friends nearby, big family nearby, nuclear family, anonymous in city).

You can literally break it down to a tradeoff of cubic meters of space for a social unit vs time/effort it takes to get to things you want. If you want a commune of X families and a convenience store within Y mins, more efficient transport makes those numbers, on average, work better for people. Maybe it's 60 minutes out of town for 5 families to get together, but only 15 minutes for 3 families, based on ease of getting shared property at a reasonable cost. Do you see where I'm going with this?

If you wanted to go further you could say ease of moving atoms lets you even rethink aspects of dwellings (why we cache food in a fridge, instead of having what we need dropped off to us in a few minutes) and notions of community property (a 'tool/whatever share' program among an opt-in group), and ultimately how we pick what infrastructure serves whom. Lots and lots of implications to unpack when we move atoms around more cheaply, and many of these ideas unlock with small changes. See apps/services that only work economically in cities but not suburbs for a modern example.

Not sure how this relates to The Tyranny of Structurelessness, maybe you're assuming I meant something that I didn't?
I suspect they are dating it to trigger some terms of the GDPR, eg., reasonable response lengths when notified of infraction
> This stuff is incredibly demoralizing.

> Loyal, good workers get exploited by these parasitic people because they care about the company, they care about their good coworkers, and they take pride in making good products. Obviously this stuff is all easily exploitable by the people I'm describing.

Imo if you frame things like "the bizbros are the problem", you're defining it in a way where the solution falls outside of your control. Ofc the bizbros are the problem, but there isn't much we can do about them. That sort of defines them, right? They can be stupid, because no one is requiring them to be smart. They aren't required to make any sense. So they don't. Not having to make sense is a privilege

Personally, if the stuff is demoralizing, I let myself get demoralized! If the culture is fucked, why should I care? Let it crash.

But a broader point here: the bizbros and their behavior, it isn't just limited to the corporate sphere. That personality is a sign of rot
I’m not naive, I’m aware of some people’s feelings towards it. Unfortunately a lot of people have irrational hate towards Apple which makes having an actual conversation difficult.
What I don’t get from e-readers is a good sense of location. With a book or magazine I get a feeling of moving through a 3D object. As I move through and the right side gets thinner and the left thicker it gives each place a different feel.

Later if I want to find something in the book my memory of it includes that feel, which helps get to the right general area easily. I’ll also often remember if it was on a left or right page, and if it was near any particular graphics.
In which case they'd be lying and selling you something under false pretences. Obviously it can happen, but it's a risky thing and something a lot of businesses would want to avoid.
There is no such thing as truly anonymous. in order to send any data you need to connect to a server. at that moment you are in violatation of GDPR because you are exposing the users's IP which is protected by GDPR.
See the case where even linking to a CDN requires GDPR consent.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/leak-of-ip-addre...

And before the army of those who don't understand GDPR comes up with "but then the whole internet can not work"; the crucial distinction comes in the answer to the question: "can this tool fulfill its purpose without this connection? if no, then it's essential to it's functioning and does not require consent, if the tool can fullfll it's purpose without this conection it's optional and does require consent.

GDPR makes a disticntion for connection that are required to fullfill the purpose of the tool and connections that are not essential. So VS code connection to a microsoft Server to let's say update download an extension is allowed and does not require consent becasue without that connection VSCode cannot fullfil its purpose of providing functionality.

Telemetry is not functionaliy and VSCode can execute it's purpose without this connection so that makes it subject to user consent requirement.
I somehow thought it was an obscure motorcycle brand, that broke down on a long road trip in Mexico.
Same story, non-paywalled — https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-trade-tribunal-issues-...
I think main point of the article is that with deletion of .yu domain many websites and historical content was lost - "At its peak .yu hosted about 32,000 websites."
If “Legacy” is your explanation for non-UN member state country codes, explain PS (which also has a corresponding ccTLD)?
There was recent news on an Ozempic study that shows reduced risk kidney conditions for diabetic patients.

> Based on the trial’s design, Ozempic needed to reduce the absolute risk of one of those kidney-related conditions by at least 3.5% when compared to placebo, or a relative risk reduction of around 16.5%, Akash Tewari, a Jefferies analyst who covers Lilly, wrote in a note to clients.

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/novo-nordisk-ozempic-kidn...
Totally agree. I am all for capitalism but its reached a point where it’s completely unsustainable. We need Capitalism 2.0, which has profit but also other equally important goals of sustainability and community wellbeing.
That's the point I was making...
I agree. the stint was awful and I wasn't able to pass most of the stone fragments until the stint was removed. the strange thing is that my dad had a similarly sized stone about a year after me and had the same procedure. his doctor did not place a stint and he passed all the stone fragments without issue.
I2P has a community of people that actually use the darktubes, as opposed to Tor. 99% of Tor users use Tor to browse the vanilla internets just. There is no real 'Tor community'
Maybe I’m missing something. What is the threat of exposing the seed? It just makes images reproducible.
I have another version of the same model (NNSC669S) and while I think it was one of the best options available today, I hate it compared to the old Sharp microwave (with a MFR date of 1994!) I had before. I just hate interacting with it, the buttons are difficult to push and the way it makes you enter in things is backwards to what makes sense.

I'm not entirely convinced about the longevity either, the turntable of the first one I received was DOA and I had to get it replaced.
Route 53 on outposts doesn’t charge for your own compute. The outpost resolver is free. The oupost resolver endpoint must be backed by an in-region resolver endpoint, which doesn’t become free just because you own an outpost. What you’re paying for is the ability to sustain high query volume from instances in your VPC to an on-prem DNS server.
Hahaha, you need to learn to read man. There is literally nothing you added that wasn’t already there.

So no. But you’ve been very verbose in looking like an idiot though. So have fun with that?
It is neigh impossible to send truly anonymous data as telemetry. As soon as you're using the internet, you're disclosing an IP address, which is PII. If you add anything to link two subsequent telemetry reports together, that thing is PII (e.g. a hash or a uuid). If the telemetry report is detailed enough that they become somewhat unique, it's PII.

That said, consent is not the only grounds on which you can process PII. Contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task, or legitimate interests are also valid grounds. Of these, legitimate interests is the most applicable in this situation.
.su is still around, but the Soviet Union is not a thing for 33 years...
Then you have other problems.