skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note at offer time candidates do not know how many PPUs they will be receiving or how many exist in total. This is important because it’s not clear to candidates if they are receiving 1% or 0.001% of profits for instance. Even when giving options, some startups are often unclear or simply do not share the total number of outstanding shares. That said, this is generally considered bad practice and unfavorable for employees. Additionally, tender offers are not guaranteed to happen and the cadence may also not be known.

> PPUs also are restricted by a 2-year lock, meaning that if there’s a liquidation event, a new hire can’t sell their units within their first 2 years. Another key difference is that the growth is currently capped at 10x. Similar to their overall company structure, the PPUs are capped at a growth of 10 times the original value. So in the offer example above, the candidate received $2M worth of PPUs, which means that their capped amount they could sell them for would be $20M

> The most recent liquidation event we’re aware of happened during a tender offer earlier this year. It was during this event that some early employees were able to sell their profit participation units. It’s difficult to know how often these events happen and who is allowed to sell, though, as it’s on company discretion.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html

Edit:

I’m realizing we had the exact same conversation a month ago. It sounds like you have more insider information.
Nobody knows what's going on
At what ratio does it make sense to stop? If 35000 want it and 500 don't, do you just abandon it? If 35000 want it and 1 doesn't? That would make the ultimate veto machine. I would charge to not protest. I can wheel out an old woman in a wheelchair on demand, even.
I’m working on similar system. My plan is to have multiple terminal states for the tasks:

Closed - Passed

Closed - Failed

Closed - Waived

When you hit that Waived state, it should include a note explaining why it was waived. This could be “parent transaction dropped below threshold amount, so we don’t need this control” or “Executive X signed off on it”.

I’m not sure about the auto-skip thing you propose, just from a UX perspective. I don’t want my task list cluttered up with unnecessary things. Still, I am struggling with precisely where to store the business logic about which tasks are needed when. I’m leaning towards implementing that in a reporting layer. Validation would happen in the background and raise warnings, rather than hard stopping people.

The theory there is that the people doing the work generally know what’s needed better than the system does. Thus the system just provides gentle reminders about the typical case, which users can make the choice to suppress.
When I was young, I enjoyed every event the city had to offer. As I age, I have started seeing things differently, and my priorities have changed. I cannot party as much as before; noise and traffic bother me, and tranquil spaces have a lot of allure for me now. So, I understand the division Barcelonans are facing as they are certainly on a spectrum: some want action, while others just do not want to be disrupted. My solution was to move to a quieter place, which was a hard decision as I had to leave my beloved city to the new generations who will enjoy all the energy and craziness that makes it an amazing city.
The thing about floating bridges is they don't need to span a waterway. The just need to link the part where getting onto the bridge then the bridge itself move to the exit section.

Floating bridges also don't necessarily need to have fixed points to load and unload. With suitable stabilisation and propulsion, they should be able to move to any number of loading and unloading points. We could have a floating bridge per train, vehicle, or any unit or set of users.
> if gen3D is going to be a thing then they need to listen to the people actually doing 3D work, not just chasing benchmarks invented by other gen3D researchers.

Completely agree. I used to take an interest in reserach into non photorealistic rendering. The same thing happened there. Paper after paper detailing 'novel' approaches to yet another cross hatch algorithm that no artist was ever going to use.
There's no logic on earth that can simultaneously say that ISA is slavery and an income tax isn't. The only difference is that you have to give your consent for ISA.
> Well, requiring a material to withstand a higher temperature is an added constraint, so of course it's going to increase cost.

This reasoning sounds good in theory, but practice and theory sometimes differ. The steel in reactors is subject to neutron embrittlement. In order to avoid that, you need special steel. Which happens to also withstand much higher temperatures. So no, it's not an additional constraint.

> that the apples-to-apples comparison you're trying to make ignores power density.

The strange thing is that the second part of your argument had nothing to do with TRISO. Not sure why you brought it up. You said that this is a tradeoff of passive safety. If you want passive safety, all things being equal, you need to accept lower power density.

However, all things are not equal. When you use TRISO as a fuel, that can withstand absolutely huge temperatures, in excess of 2000°C. Since radiative cooling is governed by the Sefen-Boltzman equation (i.e. the radiated power is proportional to the 4th power of the temperature), if the pebbles reach high temperatures, they get rid of a lot of heat by radiation, which is then absorbed by the steel pressure vessel and conducted outside.

Additionally, when you use TRISO in the form of pebbles, you recirculate the pebbles. You take them out and let them "rest", and then put them back later, so you limit the decay heat.

Anyway, enough theory, let's look at actual numbers. The American designs Xe-100 and NuScale are perfect for our comparison. They both have a thermal output of 200 MW. NuScale is a PWR and has a lower efficiency, so the electrical output is 60 MW, while the Xe-100 produces 82.5 MWe. NuScale's reactor pressure vessel has a volume of 129 m3, and Xe-100 has 390 m3, so larger by a factor of 3. If we only care about the electricity output, then Xe-100 needs 4.73 m3/MWe, while NuScale 2.15 m3/MWe, the ratio is only 2.15.

However, because the Xe-100 has to withstand much lower pressures, the mass of the pressure vessel is 274 tons, vs 260 tons for NuScale. Per MWe, the Xe-100 vessel is actually 23% lighter.

[1] https://aris.iaea.org/Publications/SMR_Book_2020.pdf

[2] https://aris.iaea.org/PDF/NuScale-NPM200_2020.pdf
I remember the same thing at Sacramento City College around 2003-05 when I was taking classes as a high school student. It was hard to reserve a PC in the library running Windows XP; sometimes there were long lines. However, the Macs in the library running Mac OS 9 were usually available. Because I grew up on System 7 in elementary school, I had no problem using Mac OS 9. In addition, the graphics communication department had a lab open to all students whenever no classes were using the lab. That lab had dozens of Power Mac G4s running Mac OS X Jaguar. That was my favorite lab on campus. But once I started taking computer science classes, we had exclusive access to labs running Windows XP that were stocked with development tools such as Visual Studio.

After high school I went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where the CS department highly encouraged the use of Unix, whether it was Solaris on servers, Linux on desktops, and Mac OS X, “bougie Unix” for those who could afford MacBooks. Most CS students at Cal Poly only used Windows for games and for non-CS courses that required Windows-only software tools.
I think it would be better if somehow the goverment can take over all those first week trainings (except those tailored to the company). Each training has a 5 year certification so we slaves don't have to do it everytime we switch jobs.

Those trainings are most likely for deniability towards future lawsuits anyway.
I think you are assuming it is goal seeking, goal seeking is mostly biological/conscious construct. A super intelligent species would likely want to preserve everything, because how are you super intelligent if you have destruction as your primary function instead of order.
Very happy for Ilya. Smart, right and timely move.
As I said either advance or die. Reducing energy consumption isn’t an option, it will continue to grow unbound.
I suspect the government gets much more than that, because it also taxes it.
Well, Rome is a really transit/space wise difficult city. Barcelona is much different (e.g. and it was just an exhibition). Barcelona is one of the best cities to move by public transportation.
I was expecting some sort of instagram influencer nonsense.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/instagram-spain-toxic-int...

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/instagrammers-siberian...
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It's a fork of a fork of Puppy Linux by one of the original authors:

https://easyos.org/about/easyos-forum-amp-other-links.html

"Please note that EasyOS is not Puppy Linux. EasyOS forked from Quirky Linux in 2017 (and Quirky forked from Puppy in 2013), and is a major rethink, including core support for containers. Barry created Puppy Linux in 2003 and remained at the helm until 2013, before turning control over to the "Puppy Community".

Barry still scans the Puppy Forum, and there is a lot of "cross pollination" with EasyOS, in particular sharing of PET packages. However, Barry cannot provide help if you have any issues with installing or using Puppy. Nor is it appropriate to post such questions to the EasyOS section of the forum."
> /home should hence be created on first boot

> tied to the "system is being factory reset" special state

These should have been handled by the distro's installer. They're warning signs of scope creep; their init is trying to do so much that qualified sysadmins can't fully understand it all.
[Spoiler Alert] Subnautica is amazing! I remember the first time I discovered the huge turtle whales - it was such a surreal feeling. The world design of the game does such a good job of offering a guided exploration that feels completely natural. The contours of Subnautica's world guide you into specific areas and every area has something new to offer - it truly feels like exploring another planet.

Moreover, the sense of fear that I felt when I saw a dangerous looking creature was quite stronger than what I have felt playing several 'horror' games.

Unfortunately, I stopped playing when progressing became too dependent on farming and building - two things that I do not like. I would love to play an exploration only version of the game.
Genuine question - not defending Apple/google - does your pwa not use a dedicated server / db for user’s data? And then localstorage just as a cache if needed?
Well maybe indentured servitude is fine too?
> How is requiring the user to open a completely different application a better "user experience" than installing it from the web page they're already on?

Because it is strange and different. If Web apps were standard going to the iOS App Store would be weird. It’s not so PWAs are weird. Just give them an app, don’t make them work to install it.
> Speed is not the issue.

Speed substantially increases the severity of collisions when they do happen. A non-fatal collision at 70mph might be a fatal one at 80mph.
No we cannot. A small percentage of humans are wired with a strong territorial mind and/or a greedy personality. It's in the gene. Some of them eventually become leaders.
In a city of almost 6 million, 500 people protested a show enjoyed by 38000 others.

This story has already gained more traction on Hacker News than in Barcelona.
but the line must go up!

So to the offices sheeplings!
I am in Canada and I still get the German page
I hope you have some advanced predictions about what capabilities the current paradigm would and would not successfully generate.

Separately, it's very clear that LLMs have "world models" in most useful senses of the term. Ex: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nmxzr2zsjNtjaHh7x/actually-o...

I don't give much credit to the claim that it's impossible for current approaches to get us to any specific type or level of capabilities. We're doing program search over a very wide space of programs; what that can result in is an empirical question about both the space of possible programs and the training procedure (including the data distribution). Unfortunately it's one where we don't have a good way of making advance predictions, rather than "try it and find out".
They were great for landlords in the 70s torching buildings. They provide a path to the roof that turns into a little firestorm.

Basically, by the time anyone notices anything, you have about 5-7 minutes until the roof is involved and the building is a total loss. Unmodified balloon frame buildings are similar.
They didn't say constant maintenance, they said endless maintenance. 20 minutes a month is a never ending commitment of time. They have better things to think about.
I wonder if it would be quicker to acquire existing centers or warehouses.
Pairs of nodes, I believe. The connectivity is usually an edge weight between the ROI "nodes," the graph points.
Maybe you're being a little tongue-in-cheek about the crypto thing, but, assuming you are at least a little sincere: I think if you drop the benefit of hindsight and change the proposition to "changing careers to one that you are well suited to (apparently) which the market favors" vs "gambling your net worth with no backup plan", I think just about anyone would say you did the right thing.
For those who need a structured intro, for me it was through mastering buoyancy control in SCUBA diving [1]. You’re watching and controlling your breathing and multiple environmental variables. Once you’ve felt what that’s like it’s much easier to recreate it on land.

[1] https://www.tdisdi.com/sdi/get-certified/advanced-buoyancy/
SSI? I hope that their first product is called Gold Box.
No, but it's not exactly hard to retopo bad geometry.

You can download the models from Hugging Face.
They will eat into senior programmers first and we will go from there.
I dunno. Isn't HN an example of a "mildly dynamic website"?
"Events like these" is relative; it seems to depend on the specific event being discussed.

Infamously, FIFA events (World Cups in particular) have been increasingly planned and executed without regard for the wellbeing of the local people and economy. They're hosting one of the upcoming World Cups in (among others) my city, Toronto, and I've rarely been less enthusiastic about a thing in my life.
An Overview of QEMU Storage Features (2020)
There's a huge parallel to this mentioned in the next paragraph of the article. The 'research contract' is the foundational element of the National Science Foundation (which Bush brought into being) and is a core funding source for science in the U.S. ($9 billion last year).
If you take out the circular cross-references in your definitions, they sound the same:

> Christian nationalists typically seek to promote Christian values and influence in the political sphere, often with the goal of shaping the country's laws and policies to align with their interpretation of Christian doctrine

> Christian Democracy is more focused on applying Christian social teachings to the political realm

Christian doctrine is all about "the common good and the dignity of the human person." That encompasses both the stuff secular liberals like (such as "provide for the poor") and the stuff secular liberals hate (such as "human life has dignity at conception" or "sex is for procreation").

I think there is a clear line to be drawn when you talk about a "Christian state"--a state that restricts the right of religious minorities to freely practice their religion. That, I think could properly be called "Christian nationalism." But very few people want that.
Artificial Intelligence UK takes top spot in Europe for GenAI startups
No, in context it's totally different. My bad, sorry!
At the point in my talk timestamped here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEKnA69M8eg&t=2279s , I make the case that a key part of his Memex vision - trails & trail-blazing as outlined in As We May Think, we haven't seen formally materialized yet...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEKnA69M8eg&t=2279s

Closest I think we get is tweetorials, but would be closer if tweets had anchors to text in e-books & long-form documents, arriving upon which I could be presented with a selection of people in my social/academic network who had already taken off from that particular anchor point; and whose path ('trail' really is the ideal term) I could follow along onward to the next anchor point that they were inspired to find.
You know what crowds the sidewalks worse than wheel bins? Having that same volume of trash bagged and leaking all over the place sustaining local rat populations. Honestly everything you mentioned as a potential con sounds like an improvement to the existing state of affairs.
Of course, but this isn't relevant to the consideration of whether UK student loans being are equivalent to an income share agreement.

If the point were relevant, then we might as well consider government spending on K-12 schooling the same way.

But general taxation is obviously not what we're talking about here. We're talking about the extra money someone pays in return for the government supporting their degree.
Surely concrete is going to be hell of a constraint for both compute (datacenters) and power for said compute (power plants).

And also expect for higher water usage. Interesting times ahead.
He didn't leave because of technical reasons, he left because of ethical ones. I know this website is used to seeing this whole thing as "another iPhone moment" but I promise you it's bigger than that. Either that or I am way more insane than I know!

E: Jeez I said "subreddit" maybe I need to get back to work
I know what CLU the language is and its significance, but every time I read about CLU I still think: "Forget it, Mr. High and Mighty Master Control. You aren't making me talk."
Kinda, as long as it’s cool. If he said ‘this is all just plausible text generation’, I think you’d find his options severely limited compared to the alternatives.
Consistent or personalized AI video for YouTube
Hey ,

I've been working the last 2 days on https://consistentai.video/ , the goal was initially to make a personalized cartoon movie for my 3 year's old daughter to laugh.

let me know your feedbacks if this is something worth wasting time on it.

thanks
> The world design of the game does such a good job of offering a guided exploration that feels completely natural.

I must have been too dense to figure this game out. I gave it like 4-5 hours and couldn’t establish a sense of “ok this is the next goal” sense.
Probably. If you had shown ChatGPT to the LessWrong folks a decade ago, most would likely have called it AGI and said it was far to dangerous to share with the public, and that anyone who thought otherwise was a dangerous madman.
Love nearly free speech.

Although I wonder how often your family actually uses it.
As long as the stock is hot, sure.

If he crashes it by undermining what is making it hot, he’ll be worth a lot less. Depending on how hard he crashes the party, maybe worthless.

Though this party is going hard enough right now, I doubt he alone could do it.
They still will need a lot of materials for adapting those buildings for higher cooling and power needs.
it appears you want to debate the abortion issue on the merits when i’ve already said i agree with you. my point about public opinion was only in reference to public opinion being a gauge of general sexist attitudes and the degree to which being anti-abortion is intrinsically out of sexist motivations vs other differing beliefs.

on your second point, much of the material you’re describing is actively illegal - which is a different case. i agree with your point around moderation but feel conflicted with my intuition that the rules impacting speech should generally be publicly known and generally expansive. i am not sure what the reconciliation is. but i also don’t really know who andrew tate is, so can only really speak in the abstract
Affordability is great, but it'll be dictated by supply and demand. If, like contemporary SF, supply is strangled, then nothing will possibly fix affordability.
And also that F1 keeps all of the direct profits. The cities are supposed to recover that from taxes on associated sales, which never works out.

It's basically all about buying "prestige" with taxpayer money.
> Make for the perplexed

Chefs-kiss

That’s me every time I start a new project ;). Thanks for the chuckle, and please publish a book having that title.
> If gen3D is going to be a thing then they need to listen to the people actually doing 3D work, not just chasing benchmarks invented by other gen3D researchers.

This has been an issue for much longer than generative AI. In graphics, Siggraph papers have been publishing fully automated methods claiming “high quality” for decades that produce lower quality than human created assets or human-in-the-loop tools. Same is true of lots of other things in computer science, academics is just prone to over-automating because it’s fun and clever and because we can.

This is probably the natural course of events. People publishing papers and projects are going for maximum wow, not for maximum quality. Often this is smart grad students in school, and they have no access to 3d professionals, and need to get something published asap to meet funding/graduation goals.

We shouldn’t necessarily complain about it or get tired, but instead work on tech transfer. Borrow these ideas and bring them to 3d tooling. It takes time, and we have to vette them and figure out which will actually help people. Sometimes the ones that get lots of attention turn out to have no staying power.
Then we should start knocking down the less valuable office space and start putting up new living space.
Thank you for the explanation. Very interesting!
If you had enough energy because of “cold fusion”, you wouldn’t need the world to switch to it. You could just use it to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels from the air and water. I don’t think this is a panacea, but in principle, if a single medium-sized developed country actually had a big enough qualitative breakthrough in energy production, they could probably afford to either undercut the actual oil and gas industry or else just eat the cost of sucking all the extra CO2 out of the atmosphere. (Personally I think there are other possible approaches that may present easier solutions or mitigations; I don’t think this is literally the exact way we end up addressing climate change.)

Part of the supposed “social coordination problem”, from a certain perspective advanced by some environmentalists is the belief that ordinary people need to make serious qualitative sacrifices in their lives for the sake of stopping climate change. They might retreat to the motte of “the oil and gas companies are running the world” but in reality, their version of the “social coordination problem” is that ordinary people like being able to drive places or cook on a gas stove, and they’re frustrated and annoyed that they can’t scold them into abandoning these preferences. I personally am of the opinion that these people are creating more social coordination problems than they’re solving.

Nonetheless, as far fetched as it might seem that technological innovation can solve these problems, it seems even more far fetched that social coordination is going to solve them. And there’s a long history of these types of problems being either solved or made completely irrelevant by technological change. Which sometimes introduces completely new sets of problems, but then those get solved too.