skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person from that team. But requests for a fraction of that compute were often denied, blocking the team from doing their work.

So…

The team that was supposed to control and align super-human intelligence was unable to align merely human intelligence to give them compute?

Maybe that was part of the test.
The reason why platforms such as Discord, Facebook, etc don't give open access to your content isn't because they don't want a predatory ML company to vacuum up your content, rather it's because they want to sell access to your content to the predatory ML companies. Meta already trains its own AI on Facebook and Instagram user content. Discord's business model (host an unlimited amount of data for free in perpetuity) is inherently unsustainable, so it's likely they'll start selling user data to ML companies within a few years (assuming the AI boom lasts that long).
Is there a company out there building large orbital teapots? If so, you analogy is a good one. But I haven't heard of said company
I'm not equivocating them.

I'm stating plainly: I don't see what differences between AI and human brains are relevant to the enforcement of copyright.

What is fundamentally changed by an LLM with respect to these three thought frameworks?
Tbf, that's a perfectly reasonable reaction from your sister.
Thanks for posting OP! (I'm the template author)

I've used Middleman for years to build my personal site(https://harrisonbroadbent.com) and other blogs(https://dumbph.com). I figured it was time I give back to the community; I hope a few of you find this template useful!

Middleman's heyday has long passed, but the tech is still solid and stable. I'm 7+ years into running my personal site with it, and I'm hoping that by modernising it with TailwindCSS, I can keep it chugging along for many more years.
Related: if you use Emacs it has the Calc package which supports computer algebra. I recently published an interface for Calc that makes it significantly easier to use and wrote about it here. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/mathing-in-emacs-with-casual.h...
You have to look up Drew Berry, a lot of his work is here: https://youtube.com/@wehimovies?si=aQeGjTfRxbhgITk8
Non-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159
Yeah, this is a very American value.

I remember being at the gym in England in the middle of the day with my American wife and the TVs were showing a BBC show about body positivity which basically involved full frontal nudity of all the participants. She was very surprised. To me, it was just Tuesday.

Another time in Switzerland I was watching an evening game show and the host inexplicably undressed. Here's a pic seconds before the real action: https://imgur.com/a/n3iLhps

Europe isn't for beginners lol
Shit can and must be troubleshooted with domain-specific tools.

DNS: I do have an ongoing problem specific to Unbound where it refuses to serve some entries in a transparent zone of DHCP-registered addresses that have written to config files properly but it insists on refusing to resolve certain hosts nondeterministically. But that's the only problem I have had in a long while because mostly infrastructure works out of necessity and scale.
This big shakeup could just be a garden-variety "too many big egos in the room" situation. These folks have achieved a tech celebrity status that transcends anything else I can recall in recent memory.
There was one such group but they determined it was impossible because of Rice's theorem and other limitations of formal systems for computation. Logical incompleteness, Tarski's theorem, and Rice's theorem are the main meta-theoretical results that make alignment fundamentally unsolvable. If you're really concerned about robots taking over the world then understanding basic computational theory should be a prerequisite but most people are not willing to spend the time to learn the theory and instead focus on vague and ill-defined science fiction concepts which are very unlikely to be actually physically possible/implementable because of various physical and formal limitations of computers.

I've decided anyone concerned about these issues knows almost nothing about computability theory so their theories are either nonsensical or just outright crazy. Very few understand the required formal concepts to have any useful ideas about how computers should be programmed to prevent "unsafe" results (which is often left just as ill-defined as most everything on AI safety and alignment research).
look into the Portia spider - fun rabbit hole!
That's some very good recommendations you made here. I'm adding all 3 at the end, thank you.
Yes, this is a big weakness. Seems tied in large part to not tackling versions as well as they could have done.
They aren’t viral receptors, it’s that HIV evolved to bind to a natural receptor that was already there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD4
China's Mock-Up of Destroyer US Arleigh Burke Floats Out to Sea
Severe Weather 101: Lightning Detection
Signs of Alzheimer's were everywhere. Then his brain improved
You can still emulate this to an extent with a wrapper function:

function selfBind(f) {
return function g(...args) {
return f.call(this, g, ...args);
};
}

let add = selfBind(function (callee, a) {
return a + callee.amount;
});
add.amount = 2;
/* ... */

Though obviously it isn't quite as straightforward as 'arguments.callee'.
I don't think any of us will live to see AI smarter than a rat. So I am not concerned whether this team was going to superalign anything.

The problem is that OpenAI's software, especially GPT-4o, is primed for dangerous misuse, and the demo videos of GPT-4o seemed "misaligned" with any reasonable standards of AI safety. Even if Leike/Sutskever have delusions of grandeur about AGI, at least they cared about the idea of AI safety. It seems like pushing the team out meant getting rid of a lot of internal critics (and implicitly threatening anyone else who might speak up).
> they think God gave them the right to dominate half of the world, they will tell it to my face that genocide my nation is not personal, it is geo politics

This part could well apply to Americans.
This comes at a very opportune time in my life. when, my ward enters their HS -Junior year and they are taking SVC. Question to the Author(in case they are monitoring this thread), is it appropriate for a High-schooler with just an intro to Python?
I had found it in several species of pelagic dolphins and beaked whales. Is not uncommon in some cetaceans but the beaks are very plain, square. Lacking distinctive features aren't really easy to identify, except after discarding all the other species.

A curious fact of the species is that the lights are enclosed into skin folders shaped as eyelids, so the animal can hide it, show it partially, or blink at will. Those are among the biggest light producing organs evolved by a life-being (if not the biggest known).
I still have Frhed instaled on my Windows machine. Last release was 9 years ago, but works as well now as it did then.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/
Amazing, I’m obsessed with niche machines like these. The more oddly specific, the better.
Yup, just like the phones.

I see lots more Macs at colleges these days, and where friends work, there is usually the choice of either. I only get the choice of a Mac, but I do work at Apple… [grin]
I think Microsoft may have tried that. How else could they have created 80 million lines of Microsoft Office code?
Shark skin technology. Good. But do they have shark lung technology? Boeing planes are practically amphibious these days...
It does, some PTSD therapies explicitly teach people with PTSD how to stim.
Related:

Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909939 - Sept 2019 (219 comments)
Because addictions are hard to get off and it is not just a question of willingness? Most smokers tried to stop at least once.
Because some people may have disabilities that may impede their ability to quit?
Because of collective costs?
Because of family costs?
Also much more light from big windows making a nicer interior, and an exterior much easier to clean.
Agreed. But also beware of customers who want to pay one-time fees for ongoing-need products, or to rephrase it; Ignore all pricing feedback you get from Hackernews.

On HN you're mostly talking to a niche of people who are both a) consumers and b) spend all day in code, not end-user tools.

Consumers, as a rule of thumb, mostly consume, and irrationally value their time at $0. They don't build things like companies do, so don't perceive any monetary value in doing something more efficiently via software like a company would. They'll waste hours of their life to save $5, because what would they be doing otherwise? Scrolling Instagram or watching YouTube, so who cares.

Coders, as a rule of thumb, mostly code, and irrationally value the code of other people at $0. In the back of their mind they always believe they can "code up a better replacement in a weekend." Even though this is 99.99% of the time not true.

So the intersection of these two groups could be the worst software market on earth.
My grandfather was a SMSgt in the Air Force. That didn't stop an allegedly drunk Navy surgeon from giving his wife, my grandmother, a radical hysterectomy without consent during a hernia operation. Can anyone seriously doubt the outcome would've been different if he were a flag officer instead?
Here at CrapCorp, we are looking for intensely driven individuals who will eagerly sacrifice their health and happiness (and, in some cases, their very lives) to bring increased wealth to our executives and shareholders.

For those that do make the ultimate sacrifice, we offer a commemorative "thanks for your effort to increase shareholder value" plaque, which may be displayed with pride at your interment site, or by your next of kin.
Imagine working toward a milestone that has no final, universally-accepted definition. How does one know when this milestone is reached. Then imagine that the people tasked with reaching the milestone are also the ones responsible for creating a test for whether it has been reached.
People tend to have personality inertia. By that I mean that people do what they do regardless of their environment or circumstances. If you’re someone that’s driven to achieve wealth, status and power, the drive doesn’t suddenly disappear once you’ve achieved some level of it. If you’re someone who isn’t similarly driven, then you are unlikely to achieve any anyway so the question becomes moot.
A hamburger isn't particularly unhealthy depending on what you put on it.
Improve your logs.

Use structured logging (JSON with timestamp, trace ID, source, body, log level).

Use trace IDs.

Don’t log too much.

Log enough to reproduce issues—body should include relevant information, most likely the input parameters to the function doing the logging.

Use the right log store—probably ElasticSearch based.

Don’t keep too many old logs—accumulate statistics and delete the logs themselves after 30-90 days.

Now, get better at analyzing your logs.

Understand and use the query language your logging system uses to produce efficient queries.

Do a quick query on a small time range to quickly test a hypothesis, before running your query against longer time ranges that will take more time to complete.

Understand all the kinds of messages your logs are emitting and what issues those messages point to—you should be able to grep “log” and get a list of all the log messages that might be used.

Identify the time range that you’re interested in based on when your issue started.

Find any system changes (deploys, config changes, traffic spikes) that occurred upstream of the issue based on timing.

Measure base rates and discover anomalies.

Use the trace IDs to put together the story of requests that failed.

Keep detailed notes about your investigation so that you can explore and backtrack different possibilities.

Write down the root cause as a tree of “why’s”.

Make your fix and check!
Does this film operate on the same principle as Myth Buster's golf ball car?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUiGhyHC-1A
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389267
m = [[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9]]
Would you do research on something that could get you a prison sentence for researching it?

And that’s why the war on drugs is inhibiting the subject. Most facilities aren’t willing to go through the process to get permission.
Author is Belarusian, not Russian, contrary to what many other comments say.
The article itself is inconsistent. I know the difference, but I am not native and I don't know what that bacteria is. I did assume it is an antibacterial vaccine due to: "Most farmers vaccinate their cows for diseases every single year, but it's illegal to vaccinate the hive".
That's a not widely held belief of the French protesters in America. I suspect most of us (certainly most of the people I know) see the various strikes in the news and are happy we don't live there.

On a personal anecdote, I recall a French student who attended my university in America comment at one point how surprised he was by the amount of content our courses got through, since we weren't frequently interrupted by strikes of one sort or another.

That said, I do agree with the most of the rest of your points. Plenty of people here have overly romanticized views of protest and civil disobedience.
It's the same panel as a Huawei Mateview? I have two, it's one of the best monitors of all time. The only downside is the lack of a VESA mount (and the steep price, but slightly cheaper than this).

The extra strip of pixels below really makes all the difference, 3:2 is so much better than 16:9 for actual work, be it programming or general office work.

Couldn't care less about the 60Hz refresh rate, really makes zero difference for development and web browsing.
2200 tons of kerosene... that number would be much more meaningful with a total to relate it to :(
Bit OT, but the video is hard to watch. I wanted to see the car but the video is extremely chopped.
Top executive exit pay packages tend to be negotiated when they’re being hired not when they’re being fired. If you recognize this fact, the numbers make more sense. You’re more likely to promise someone a generous exit package when you think they’re going to save you rather than when it’s clear they’re screwing up.
>most theoretical physicists use Mathematica for their professional work.

They do not.
Running multiple Flutter applications on a single web page
It is a known fact that when a Flutter application is compiled for the web, we can run only one Flutter application at a time on a page. When we try to integrate multiple Flutter apps into a page, it throws an error due to a conflict in the _flutter object name space variables.

Running multiple Flutter apps on a single web page is an essential component of having a micro-frontend up and running in Flutter space too. Also, we can integrate multiple smaller Flutter apps into an existing project for greater composability.

Here I demonstrate how we can run multiple Flutter apps on a single page without any external libraries. This is purely on a research stage and not production ready.
"continue" is now the most important word in the english language right after "No" right now.

This causes the LLM to orbit around some point in the latent space, but doesn't cause it to explore. You have to tell it to pick a direction and there is no better direction than a question.
I think there is a very good chance this game was played at night when there would be few or no people in the park. They do not mention time of day in the post, but most urban capture the flag games are played at night.
People think of the 250lb and 1000 steps in the context of one meal, or maybe a 6 month diet. But 250lb is not added in one meal, or over 6 months. It usually takes a couple of decades.

Let's say that's 10,0000 days. Because I'm Australian and like round numbers and am lazy (these numbers are all very rounded), call 250lb 100kg. 1,0000 steps a day consumes about 20 kiljoule. If those kilojoules come from eating fat, you either add 1/2 a gram of fat or walk those 1,000 steps.

I know, 1/2 a gram, 0.02oz - almost insignificant, right? Now multiply it by 10,000 and see that over those decades it contributed 50kg of the 100kg we are talking about.

For the same reason exercise doesn't make a lot off difference to a 6 month or even 2 year diet. But when you are trying to explain to difference between trim Koreans and 250lb Americans those extra 3,000 steps a day explain the entire difference, then some.
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You are saying the artist-wannabe that was the head of the German government copied his modernist preferences... from Russia?
You are thinking of going up against an entity worth billions of dollars and somehow winning? That doesn't happen outside of movies. You'll accept whatever they decide, or end up like those Boeing whistleblowers if you make yourself enough of a nuisance.
This is a web version of the spreadsheet, right?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19jzLgRruG9kjUQNKtCg1...
Submitted for consideration: Perhaps situations when the populace "panics" and does something stupid are usually also the times you couldn't have kept it secret anyway.
One or two years ago I accidentally watched one of these for a live SpaceX launch, when it came up at the top on Roku's search. They switched over to an ad five seconds before liftoff.
So you agree that your initial statement about 200km² of forest being cut down is incorrect? Which is mostly what I took issue with. If we agree there now, I am happy.

However regarding the study you linked, while it does show a downward trend in burned area, I am not sure how that relates to our "debate"? It clearly shows that the reduction of burned area each year is down mostly because of humans burning down fewer wooded areas intentionally (3.3.1). Meanwhile the area burned down because of the effects of climate change is actually up (3.3.2). Which does match up with the studies I linked to. However, the study you linked actually only covers up to 2007, which is soon close to 20 years ago. Meanwhile what I linked to covers until 2021. There has been a significant increase in global temperatures in that time (~0.5°C, which considering the limit from Paris is 1.5°C), as such it is very likely the impact of global warming has increased for the time periods after the ones covered in the study. And your study also shows no significant decrease in burned area each year in Europe, so it doesn't really say much about Germany. It also only covers burning. Most of the recent area reduction actually hasn't necessarily been through burning. Plenty of trees died because of drought and then either not having the necessary water to grow or failing to defend against harmful insects and similar.

Climate change won't necessarily burn your house down or make you drown in rising sea levels. Most people will probably be impacted by food shortages, diseases spreading, wars and other factors. As such I am a bit confused about why you linked that study. It seems to focus on a rather narrow factor of forest reduction. But it doesn't cover much of the recent times with the highest temperature increases (https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...), doesn't disagree with any of my statements and only says the amount of reduction reduced. It doesn't say that forests actually started to increase (because they didn't).

Considering how upset you seemed about humans cutting trees down, I just don't follow what you are trying to argue about anymore? Did you just want to point out, that from 1940 until 2007 the area lost each year to fire reduced by around 30%, so clearly climate change is not that big of a problem, even though the study says the impact of climate change is increasing and in Germany we lost about 5% of the total forested area in 4 years in a later period not covered by your study and burning isn't the only reason for losing forests? It probably would help me, if you tied your argument into the previous discussion. From my perspective it seems to mostly just agree with what I said, in which case I don't understand, why I would have to be more open to debate, since there doesn't seem to be anything to debate?

I probably must have misunderstood you somewhere, so please enlighten me, if that is the case. Apart from that, have a nice day and sorry that I seem to not understand what you are trying to tell me!
Not mitigating climate change personally. Mitigating the effects of climate change personally.

So, choosing not to live in a house that's right on a low bank shore... Because it's likely to flood and disrupt your life. Be sure to have defensable space around your home, because wildfires are happening in more places. Consider access to drinking water and how to shelter your home from heat.
The field of study is called linguistic typology.

During my linguistic studies, the course material was comprised of the Oxford and Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (and a bunch of papers on specific linguistic features). But the Oxford handbook is a very good start.

It's a very cool field of study that will allow you to identify commonalities across languages and the differences between them. A good typologist should be able the be dropped in a completely unknown language context and learn the features from use (which was basically our exam).