skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI safety from first principles [1] is a good write-up.

You can read more about instrumental convergence, reward misspecification, goal mis-generalization and inner misalignment, which are some specific problems AI Safety people care about, by glossing through the curricula of the AI Alignment Course [2], which provides pointers to several relevant blogposts and papers about these topics.

[1] https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/mzgtmmTKKn5MuCzFJ
[2] https://course.aisafetyfundamentals.com/alignment
None of the civilian populations deserved the bombs or bullets. Your formulation makes it sound like the truth about everything is relative. Which is, in my opinion (oh how ironic), bullshit.

Superpower USA (and its little brother Europe) was walking around as a big economic gorilla, and many countries may not like them, or hate them, but quietly tolerated them because, hey, money, economy, well-being. A possible future might be China and its little brother Russia the one swinging its dick around, and other countries having to quietly tolerate them, because hey, money, economy, well-being.

As someone who's not been fucked by American/European imperialistic hypocrisy, I think China and Russian imperialistic hypocrisy would be worse, but hey, another opinion.
What is the essence of an MBA education? I know it involves accounting and finance, but how hard is it to simply pick that up in a night course?

What I'm really curious about is the actual people management that is taught in MBA schools, and surviving middle management Machiavellianism. Is this explicitly taught in MBA schools? Suppressing labor costs? Anti-union? Bypassing regulatory costs? Acquiring regulatory capture?

Anyway, a lot of that doesn't seem like stuff that schools would teach well.
I've had better success with VMs for performance dogfooding in a desktop environment.

On mobile I've always gone back to testing on low end hardware, there are just too many inconsistencies when trying to simulate slower performance, outdated OS problems, touchscreen drivers, etc.
Starting a business is huge amounts of risk to begin with. Just because you may lose more doesn't mean you're magically exempt from being able to ignore that.

Watching the superstars of venture capital whine that copyright is unfair is quite something, though.
Ask HN: Why is HN not PWA yet?
Asking Dang but also the HN community at large. I know HN development is purposefully slow, but PWAs [1] seem to have caught on as a technology. Anyway I’m asking because I don’t like hn ios apps and just add the web page to my homescreen (ios pwa).

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps
> but by then, I felt too offended

The situation is essentially this: someone from the market just got a better deal. Maybe because of the current market situation, maybe because they are just good negotiator. How on Earth does it entitle everyone else to the pay raise? And if you think so, do you also think that when the next hire accepts an offer with less comp - everyone else should have a pay cut too?

> someone who had the same job title and the same experience

There's no such thing as the same experience. Every human being is unique, and every experience is unique too.

Anyway, getting offended without even talking to your manager, let alone just plain asking for the raise, is sooo counterproductive.
I believe that this is the more reliable URL (it's certainly the one I provide to Ardour subscribers):

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_manage-paylist

[ EDIT: which redirects to the one you cited, so forget my attempt to be less wrong ]
You can also pay Google $14 per month and not have to look at ads, and it will just work. That’s how much one Chipotle bowl costs these days.
MidJourney, too.

https://twitter.com/Rahll/status/1739003201221718466

It's frankly impressive how well this image is embedded in the weights of their model, down to tufts of hair. And it's far from the only one.
I am assuming your asking about how to boot up the image. You can poke around here:

https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/12/13/diving-into-firecracker-...

If you are asking for the NetBSD image I am not sure.
I dislike the recency bias so much.
Am I blind or is there only one sentence that could possibly imply that?

> He was forced to hire a flatbed tow truck to haul the vehicle to a working charging station.

The rest of the article is talking about other issues.
It’s actually worse than you think.

Functional programmers have been in a massive propaganda campaign to actively paint optimization not just as “usually not necessary”, but actually as a negative thing.

Ask any developer what they think of optimization, and the vast majority will respond “optimization is the root of all evil” or some other nonsense variant.

Now that they’ve successfully paint optimization as bad, they’re working on painting any profiling or measurement at all as bad.

They need this because the performance characteristics of pure functional programming is pretty dogshit.

You also find hordes of developers that selectively care. Watching Python developers shit on Java for “being too slow” is getting pretty old.
> to steal goods violently from a place, especially during a war:

Those evil Russkies! Plundered the poor animals for their furs, instead of delivering them to civilization!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_White_Man%27s_Burd...
"I think most castles were built mainly as status symbols, and not the result of a regional or national defense strategy."

I think you are mixing up more than 1000 years of architectural history in a few lines.

Medieval castles were very much defensive installations, which is clear from their a) layout, b) locations, c) the fact that medieval history of warfare is chock-full of castle sieges, while pitched battles like Crécy or Grunwald were spectacular, but rare.

Fancy 19th century castles (re-)built in opulent style were mostly conspicuous consumption, as you say. But by that time, nobility preferred chateaus/palaces anyway. Much more comfortable to live in.
No? You want negative feedback signals in a free market economy not just positive ones.

An excessive number of people got MBA degrees therefore it ends up being a bad choice for many of them. That then feeds back and noticeably reduces the number of people getting an MBA in the future.
What are the potential impacts on self-employed people, for someone who is almost completely out of the loop?
It’s similar to Jevon’s Paradox in economics.

More efficient use of a resource results in people using more of that resource, not less. Creating more efficient gasoline engines doesn’t cause people to use less fuel, they all just buy larger cars now.
Even in Canada the gas pumps froze over and ICE cars are unable to fill gas.

https://calgary.citynews.ca/video/2024/01/12/gas-pumps-freez...

Same in Illinois but the article doesn't mention it https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/cold-weather-causes-fro...
This seems like a strange criticism to me - if you're posting your illustrations on social media, it's presumably because you feel that you're getting value out of doing so. Who cares if they're also getting value out of you doing it, particularly when that value comes at no cost to you?

If you sell your art, then art marketplaces and printers and shipping services all profit from your work, but I don't imagine she's complaining about that. What's the difference? In all of those cases, as with social media, companies are making money from your work in return for providing a useful service to you (and one you don't have to use if you don't think it's useful).
Millennials Kill Everything: how does popular media report on millennials?
The article says nothing about the charger. (Maybe you can quote it?)

In general, Teslas won't supercharge until the battery reaches a specific temperature. It's well-known that a Tesla will sit at a Supercharger and heat the battery until it's warm enough to charge, sometimes for 20+ minutes.

As far as why this incident happened, I have no idea, and nor does the article speculate.
Artists create new things, scribes copied pre-existing works.
Some of us in "open source" are also interested in helping independent developers (including arrangements such as worker-owned cooperatives) gain access to the means of production they can also use to make a living from. BSL excludes small/independent/worker-owned orgs, not only the big and exploitative corporations. If everyone moves to BSL then only those who already have access to capital will be able to afford to build software on top of non-free foundations - a gap which widens with time and a kind of "pulling up the ladder behind you" practice deployed at scale

There are other interesting licenses for this issue that exclude exploitative corporate use without cutting out e.g. worker-owned cooperative use [0] but nothing currently in popular use, and these may be less desirable in "exvestment" opportunities such as linux where corporate investment has vastly contributed to public goods with values that are not represented by those corporations own goals and otherwise wouldn't exist given current society

[0] https://anticapitalist.software which encourages free reuse by for-profit (or otherwise) entities in markets, but excludes exploitative use. I just posted the link to discuss.

> 2. The User is one of the following: a. An individual person, laboring for themselves b. A non-profit organization c. An educational institution d. An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor

> 3. If the User is an organization with owners, then all owners are workers and all workers are owners with equal equity and/or equal vote.

> 4. If the User is an organization, then the User is not law enforcement or military, or working for or under either.
i hate everyone. every single nationality bores me to death.
most humans are a waste of perfectly good atoms.
this whole planet is a cosmic turd.

i don't even like myself ! i'm the worst of all humans on this planet.
This article — and my statements — are not about "is this interesting and worth a bit of effort to look into." The article is about how current AI safety orgs have tried to make current open-source models illegal. That's a much stronger position than just "this is interesting, let's look into it."

Sure! By all means look into whatever seems interesting to you. But claiming that it should be banned, to me, seems like it requires a much stronger argument than that.

(P.S. I'm not sure why hell should obviously have real world evidence: it supposedly exists only in a non-physical afterlife, accessible only to the dead. It's unconvincing because there is no evidence, but I don't see why you think there would be any; it's simply that the burden of proof for extraordinary claims rests on the claimant, and no proof has been given.)
> "yielding a faster Smalltalk than the commercial offerings"

fwiw "However, there are a few limitations which would preclude its use as an industrial-strength implementation" p13
Just got denied for a junior level role with 8 years of exp
Hi all. I’ve just been denied a junior level role with over 8 years of exp as a swe. Used the last of my savings to pay rent. Next month will likely be on the streets.

If anyone has any connections, please give your boy a chance.

I will however try to continue to code once I lose my house. Will start a “blog from the streets” for your all education and entertainment.

o7
It was in a court filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
I am pretty certain that if you stripped away most of the abstractions (law of leaky abstractions) and wrote software that was optimized to the hardware design per se, then you be able to write software that is blazingly fast.

Look up how many steps your favorite language is going through before hitting the cpu.

No wonder shit is slow when all we do is stacking abstractions and not concentrating on removing them.
The devs. They have the true power to do something about it. Basically, that way you tighten that iteration loop for optimal efficiency to nearly nothing.
Tesla replaced the resistive heaters in their vehicles with a heat pump. When it's super cold they run (essentially) DC power through their AC motors so the motors don't spin, they just heat up. The heat pumps then scavenge heat from the motors.

It's resistive heat, but not a resistive heat element.
> It means their app will feel slow no matter what.

How so? Do the heavy tools need to run alongside the app? Are you thinking of something like Android emulator? For that scenario, keep the beastly workstation, but switch to a $150 phone.
you decide to put your stuff on Instagram, you don't decide to put your work in midjourney
Block heaters are extremely common in colder climates - upper midwest of the USA, Alaska, central Canada, etc. You can identify them when you see a vehicle with an electrical cord stub dangling just below the front bumper or in front of the grille. In fact, during my road trips through Alaska and Canada I frequently saw power outlets in front of parking stalls at hotels so that guests could plug in the heaters overnight.
I think its reasonable to say anyone evolved in the product should regularly use the end product on low end hardware. I wouldn't expect devs to run full development environments on low end hardware unless they themselves are building dev tools.
Would you rather work at a McDonald's mopping up puke for $14/hour, driving heavy equipment in a heat index of 120 degrees for $20/hour, or anything an MBA might be expected to do?
Have testers not suffered enough?!

It's the devs that need the slow machines -- they're in the tightest feedback loop, and directly empowered to optimize performance.
I'm a little skeptical that this artist's work was "used to train Midjourney" just because their name appears on that list. My understanding is that the list in question is just a scraped list of artist names from Wikipedia, and was used as a list of possible styles to try in prompts, to see if CLIP happened to know them. I don't think that being on the list necessarily means that an artist's work was used to train Midjourney, nor does not being on the list mean it wasn't.
You may believe it's the future and be happy to be included, but that's certainly not for everyone.

> I don't get the complaint here.

> Sure their ability to choose whether or not their art was commercialized was taken away

That is exactly the complaint: that their agency was taken away. It's entirely reasonable to lament that loss.
> I'd love to have been added to something like MidJourney.

The thing they are railing against is that they can't do that anymore

1) because someone is generating art in their style

2) because all the channels that drive traffic are controlled by apple, Google, Meta and now microsoft.

3) what little money the did make has now evaporated.
This is an understandable but at the same time petty feeling to be attached to. Progress is more important than your right to limit the uses of your work.
Not sure if this is your experience, but when I broke a chunk out of my Samsung screen and then went to AT&T to trade for another Samsung, keeping the same phone number, I can't receive a two factor security code by text. Even after calling AT&T and being told that the traded in phone is "dead". So now I have to receive a call for security codes.
nothing has been taken from them
that's arguably true for humans learning from the content as well
From personal experience there is a similarity with people who charge their phone when they can and people who charge it when it is about to die. My SO and I are on opposite sides of this spectrum and the dichotomy is quite stark. This also applies to charging vehicles as I take every opportunity to top off and she waits until it's about to hit 0%.
The problem is that most of Tesla's market cap is hype, and the hype is tied specifically to Elon. Get rid of him and it becomes just another car company with a P/E to match.
Things Edge Impulse customers have in production: Sleep stage prediction, fall detection for elderly, fire detection in power lines, voice command recognition on headsets, predicting heath exhaustion for first responders, pet feeders that recognize animals, activity trackers for pets, and many more.
no worries, lol I responded before to your original comment before I saw the edit.

it's 'free' only for the closed beta as duh we are clearly stating there's a human expert at the end who will be reviewing and going through with it.

We also know this model is not going to scale because of the human aspect, but we know this is a problem most people face if they are from small organizations, so we are looking to see how we can solve for steps AFTER the scan. This is just our first step as we try to learn more.

Trivy was the choice of scanner for now, but we don't tend to stick with it as there can be better scanners out there depending on the environment- it's just what we chose for the start, open to discussions if a user has a preference for a different scanner
Silicon Valley does not understand the concept of consent.
How to share code between Vulkan and Gallium
Because they find the process of creativity and creation to be a fun way to spend their time?

Why do people do anything that has an arguably better and more efficient option available?
Original Pascal was a teaching language. That's all.
I think it's reasonable to have a separate machine to do building on. You can include a push to the target in the build script, or use network mounts or something. Remote debugging is a thing, if you need to use a debugger but don't have the resources to debug on the target. But I disagree with your basic assumption that

> It means their app will feel slow no matter what.

If you can make it feel fast or at least responsive on your underpowered machine, it should feel super fast on everything else. Even today's slowest machines can run some things fast. It does depend a bit on your market though; it might not be worth the effort, but there's a lot of applications out there that could use some speed.
I am seriously considering starting a club now actually. I have a few friends who would fit right in.
Sounds like they need to find someone good at developing business models who can help them figure one out.
I would add vlc (cross platform) and newpipe (android).
I find DuckDuckGo's[0] (DDG) images feature to be a brilliant replacement for Google Images/Lens. Google Images doesn't let you view the actual resource anymore and disabled that feature years ago. DDG's image feature is crucial since it doesn't bring you to the site itself, it just points to the raw URL of where the asset resides and you can easily download it, without hunting the graphics down on the site itself, although DDG does offer a link to the page where the image was found. The important bit is pressing the 'View File' button.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/
I've done Esc-on-single-press-Ctrl-on-hold once, but some games don't recognize the Esc press. Couldn't get to a menu anymore :P

Currently just have Esc on the CapsLock.
China millennial, Gen Z workers are having to lower their economic expectations
> I feel like nobody really cares about optimization anymore.

You have to consider the survivorship bias. Maybe the people that care about optimization don't 'survive' to keep caring about it.

> It's just "ship, ship, ship, move faster, ship."

Are startup with that mentality more likely to do well?

I've built my career around performance work and I've noticed that there a time and a place for everything. Sometimes shipping is more important, and sometimes performance can be a day one defining feature.
Apple Vision Pro hands-on: Immersive Video, Disney+ app, floating keyboard, more
Seems like you started a reply before my toned down edit. Apologies for the harshness. I can understand it as a way to explore the problem space more and probably as a funnel to upsell other devops services.

I also get that products, and people, have to get a start somewhere - unfortunately scammers and mal actors look similar. I figured it was worth raising for others to consider, but did so near the bottom on the comment chain rather than top level so as to not derail discussion.

Edit: fighting autocorrect, detail -> derail
Yes, sounds more like Brassica oleracea to me, lol.
Absolutely. It really is a double-edged sword and there's so many factors that play into.

Do you spend a ton of time writing beautifully optimized code, but ship less features, or do you ship a ton of features that mostly work. I feel like if you take too long to ship, a competitor will eat your lunch. But if everything you ship is trash, then a competitor will also eat your lunch. All about finding that balance I guess.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35351760
it's derived from the original and competes with the original

if it was parody or commentary or otherwise found a new market, it might be allowed under fair use, but the fourth factor of fair use concerns the effect on the market value of the original
You would learn that in office hours or your internships

In the classroom, the emphasis typically is on business ethics and responsible leadership.
This is a little oblique, but isn't there a parallel to the music piracy debates of the 90s here? The defense of those who steal training data, "It's not stealing because I'm only taking a little tiny piece from a whole bunch of people", seems like a neat inversion of the defense offered by people torrenting mp3s in their dorm rooms.

It's worth noting that, back when it suddenly became technically feasible to copy all songs for free, the response from the rightsholders of music was, essentially, to demand that we all collectively pretend it isn't. It might make sense for the rightsholders of training data to try to do the same, if they could speak with one voice and if they had lobbyists, but I guess the fact that they can't and don't settles that.
"That's literally built into their corporate rules for how to take investment money, and when those rules were written they were criticised because people didn't think they'd ever grow enough for it to matter. "

that sounds like insane bullshit to me. they're trained on the whole internet. there's no way they give back to the whole of the internet, more likely a lot of jobs will be taken away by their work.

plus, there was no consent.
This is hipsterism taken to its logical conclusion, the true irony being that in an effort to be fashionable/unique, everyone else just copied it to the point it was no longer so.
Chrome throttle’s at the individual request level, and not at the network level so can’t simulated loss due to contention e.g. downloading a multi-MB page over a 3G connection
For Webapps, chrome can emulate slow network and/or devices. For Kubernetes or Docker compose, you can restrict resources, I believe.