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I've been using Meetup heavily for years, and I've met most of my friends in my current city at Meetups. I also used to host one in my previous city.

However, the Meetup website and app are garbage (especially with things being slow or straight-up failing to load) and have only been getting worse (other than the recently-added Connections feature, which is nice in theory but basically nobody uses). So naturally, a competitor would be of interest to me.

That said:

> Meetup excludes too many groups by not offering a free tier for smaller/non-profit groups which make up for a huge number of small communities. So many groups just end up dying because one person has to pay the fees.

While true, a side effect of this is that groups that aren't active anymore eventually get deisted, because nobody wants to pay Meetup's prices to keep a dead group online. Once you get discovery up and running, I'd be curious to see how cluttered the website gets with inactive groups, especially over time.

> FWIW, I also think they have a marketing issue with the name Meetup.

Genuinely curious what you think the marketing issue here is. If anything, I think they've cornered a term pretty well.
Safety is just enforcing political correctness in the AI outputs. Any actual examples of real world events we need to avoid are ridiculous scenarios like being eaten by nanobots (yes, this is an actual example by Yud)
Not even a little? It's all-or-nothing?
Nope, that's a misnomer, it's tail-call elimination. You can't call it an optimization if it's essential for proper functioning of the program.

(they mean total compensation)
> I recently graduated and started as a senior in industry and I plan to keep up the pace for the next 1-2 years in order to reach principal.

In which industry do you go from graduate to principal in 1-2 years?
Oh of course. I think folks are misunderstanding that I somehow dislike Musk. I do not. SpaceX and Tesla are bigger companies than Apple and Microsoft.

What I dislike is, other grown men trying to "act" like him and fawning over him.
it's cool.. the Arabs aren't the one bombing Palestinians.. Israel should take responsibility.. also the Palestinians are native to the land.. they don't want to leave.. and hamas was democratically elected by them.. and over the years has helped them built a lot of medical and civil infrastructure.. the fact is Israel can't defeat H so they are massacring the Palestinian people.. effectively holding all 2 million as hostages.. and leveraging that to try and stop H.. well that's just an excuse to raze gaza, lower the population and make it easier to occupy more land..
What about "precise".

And: remember you are supposed to be strict in expressing and loose in interpreting. You have to interpret, you need that vocabulary - it is already around...

And: you know, sophisticated concepts (which we sometimes name) help building a sophisticated mind - which is better suited to deal with a complex world. (The opposite being e.g. "newspeak".)
It would, that is why they make frequent appearances on CNBC to talk about RTO. And that's just the side of it we can see.
A couple decades too late is still better than never, I suppose.

> The pledge the corps members swore to on Tuesday was written by Barbara Kingsolver

That's a nice touch!
No one is saying there is. Just that we've reached some big milestones recently which could help get us there even if it's only by increased investment in AI as a whole, rather than the current models being part of a larger AGI.
Every time Apple's restrictions come up here there are dozens of people who defend it and claim they love it. Why would Gruber need to be paid to have the same opinion?
They likely wanted something out, and wanted something to write a number of papers about. Unifying the computer language syntax and the familiar CS theory syntax may be a shrewd product decision, if, again, producing papers and obtaining doctorates is the goal, while industry acceptance is a distant secondary consideration.
One thing I expected to see mentioned but didn’t (or may have missed?) is the B-52. Its engine replacement project is delayed to 2033, making it a 15-year program. Much longer than it took to develop the original airplane in its entirety
What's the next level above hypervisor?
At the current Mars’ carrying capacity, one single person could be considered an overpopulation problem.
"HTMX - skip this, it's just a meme"

Rare to see this take, everyone claims it's incredible. Can you share more about why?
If you want a real technical revolution, you teach the masses how to code their own tailored software, and not just use abstractions and software built by people who sell software to the average user. What a shame we failed at that and are even sliding back in a lot of ways with plummeting technical literacy in smartphone-raised generations.
It'd be naive if it wasn't literally a standard point that is addressed and acknowledged as being a major part of the problem.

There's a reason OpenAI's charter had this clause:

“We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.””
Interesting, I wish you had elaborated on Emad/etc. I'll see if Google yields anything. I think it's too soon to say "we're not seeing leaps and bounds with new LLMS". We are in-fact seeing fairly strong leaps, just this year, with respect to quality, speed, multi-modality, and robotics. Reportedly OpenAI started their training run for GPT-5 as well. I think we'd have to wait until this time next year before proclaiming "no progress".
If they were going to aggregate, having corresponding events tagged (e.g. the same event posted on Meetup, Facebook, and Instagram all showing up linked under the same page) would be helpful, or even necessary.
Apple is reportedly suspending work on the Vision Pro 2
His writing style cracks me up. What about battery life though?
There's a reason OpenAI had this as part of its charter:

“We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.””
Nyanning left banking to found a consultancy focused on agentic AI use cases, Agxency.ai.

Holy motivated reasoning, Batman!
yeah africa has been ravaged.. still is.. truth is freedom of Palestine will be a butterfly effect..
New Data Resource on AI
Such a simple thing as a meetup clone does not cost much to host, and is therefore immediately economically sustainable. The real concern is, as usual: is it easy to move from meetup to there, will my friends do it, etc, which depends on:

- how simple it is to register an account

- how certain are we this is not going to take the same path to profit than meetup

An example I often consider is that of bewelcome.org, that become huge after Covid when couchsurfing decided to preserve its margins by raising prices. The service is simple, non-profit, its management is open, and it's free. It mostly replaced couchsurfing, at least in the cities in europe where I used it.

Can the same be done with meetup? Maybe, I'm not sure people are frustrated by meetup as much as they were from couchsurfing, but I strongly believe that ruby-on-rail is not the distinguishing feature that will win the argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

> Compton's deputy, Alfred Loomis, said that "of the men whose death in the Summer of 1940 would have been the greatest calamity for America, the President is first, and Dr. Bush would be second or third." Bush was fond of saying that "if he made any important contribution to the war effort at all, it would be to get the Army and Navy to tell each other what they were doing."

> His most difficult problems, and also greatest successes, were keeping the confidence of the military, which distrusted the ability of civilians to observe security regulations and devise practical solutions, and opposing conscription of young scientists into the armed forces.. OSRD requested deferments for some 9,725 employees of OSRD contractors, of which all but 63 were granted. In his obituary, The New York Times described Bush as "a master craftsman at steering around obstacles, whether they were technical or political or bull-headed generals and admirals."

> In "As We May Think", an essay published by the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, Bush wrote: "This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership."
The example from our environment suggests that the apex intelligences in the environment treat all other intelligent agents in only a few ways:

1. Pests to eliminate
2. Benign neglect
3. Workers
4. Pets
5. Food

That suggests that there are scenarios under which we survive. I'm not sure we'd like any of them, though "benign neglect" might be the best of a bad lot.
The issue with relying on exercise to burn calories is you get hungrier after exercise and eat more than you should, otherwise you feel like crap.

Its certainly the fastest way to lose weight if you have the bandwidth/mental fortitude during the day to exercise while eating less and being low energy (i.e not really able to do things like work or household duties), but for most people this is not practical. Diet management and calorie tracking is the best way to lose weight.
I find this hard to believe having worked in multiple enterprises and in the FAANG world.

In my anecdotal experience, I can only think of one or two examples of someone from the enterprise world who I would consider outstanding.

The overall quality of engineers is much higher at the FAANG companies.
I don't have any answers, but I suspect it's because we're evolved from things that didn't need to know.

Related, I sometimes wonder how many derivatives you need to go down in order to find the one that is discontinuous when you decide to make a motion. For instance: pressing the first key to type this reply, my finger didn't instantly jump from zero to non-zero acceleration (or jerk/snap) I assume. How many terms in the Taylor series for moving a muscle?
Unused electricity in one location is not fungible to be available elsewhere.
Banks still have drive-throughs, my dude. I've literally never seen a bank without one. And a lot of those still have pneumatic tubes.
Ten years from now will either be:

a) Remember all that fuss about AI destroying the world? Lol.

~ or ~

b) I'm so glad those people stepped in to save us from doom!

Which one do you think is more likely?
I grew up in the 80s and knew the phrase at the time but maybe I was too young, because I never associated any negativity with it.
Ok, I’m curious to know now too.

I’ve got domains and hosting from namecheap but didn’t have that problem, yet (knock on wood).
Here's a good article if you anyone wants to learn more. There is a lot going on down there.

https://seagrant.umn.edu/news-info/featured-stories/lake-riv...
Yeah, you're right. This is the non-technical part of being a leader that I really struggle with. I'm much more comfortable "leading by example" and modelling behaviors and much less comfortable with how to frame a discussion like this.

Much of my company and field is full of nerds that are a bit outcast (including me). I hate the overuse of the term "bullying", but I'd say that most of the people I work with daily weren't the most loved kids in school.

So I don't want to add "boss thinks I'm doing a bad job" anxiety on someone by telling them that they're not matching my expectations. And If I put myself back to being 3 years or so out of college, I was probably behaving the same way, and maybe time to figure it out is what he needs.

My grad advisor was a real not nice guy, and even after all these years I still don't really like him. But he was what _I_ needed and my reaction to his pressure was to become a much better problem solver. I know I shouldn't act like him, but I haven't had many great role models in how to talk to someone about their performance.

I want to him to get the message that "he's smart and I know he'll figure it out" and not the message that "he's a bad employee and that he needs to start worrying about being let go in this bad job market"
The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing
Love to see the traditional middlebrow dismissal as the top comment. Never change, HN.

> Are you really saying that there is a nice total-ordering of problems by importance to the world, and that the one you're interested happens also to be at the top?

It might be the case that the reason Ilya is “interested in” this problem (to the degree of dedicating almost his entire career to it) is exactly because he believes it’s the most important.
There’s no safe intelligence, so there’s no safe superintelligence. If you want safer superintelligence, you figure out how to augment the safest intelligence.
John Carmack, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
DeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework
Stalls from TRIM after deleting a lot of data
I have seen some people work on a Kodak sensor and also Cine Pi's latest work with the IMX585 sensor is really amazing (4K/8K upscaled). The IMX585 sensor is expensive though compared to the HQ Cam IMX477. Here I'm using the Pi Zero 2 here so can't do 4K I believe (data lanes limit or something, also writing to SD card).

Kodak sensor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma9FrN5COIo

Recent CinePi work https://youtu.be/tI7hIKG1v40?si=BUvOOGutQJDnv09q&t=177

I'm not affiliated with CinePi I'm just amazed what you can do when you know what you're doing ha (eg. color grading)
All of this is also partly dependent on the region's availability of timber vs. other materials and if they are near fault lines. The eastern half of the USA, including Chicago, is no where near a fault line, so prioritizing less earthquake friendly materials that have other benefits is more practical. The same applies to most of Germany and there isn't any natural forest left to harvest timber from.

West coast USA is an earthquake zone and has a large timber industry in the pacific north west. Not using timber or something else that is flexible is a relative hazard!

Fault line map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=37a3...
Nvidia has a very large presence in Israel. They just acquired another startup there (Run:AI). If Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world and the most important AI company actively increases their presence there, so should others.

Israel has the largest concentration of AI startups in the world. It's just a no brainer to start an AI company there.

But since you brought up your favourite topic of discussion - Yahood, I will remind you that Jews have a fairly long tradition of working with AIs and the safety of it, dating for thousands of years. Look for Golem or Golem of Prague - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
AGI Breakthrough an Open Letter to the Board of Directors at OpenAI (2023)
Lake and River Ice: Formation and Classification
I think I heard that one before. Nuclear weapons are the Armageddon of nerds. Climate change is the Flood of the nerds. And so on.
I don’t, but the people who’ve build and run https://app.mutinywallet.com/ are rocking it.
wrong metric, it should be an ROI

Are my coworkers right X%? Are we able to work together to move things forward?

AI tools are tools that help us do our job. If they make it easier, faster, or cheaper, and that translates into savings or profit, then it's not hype, it's value creation
Fortunately, whenever you create a superintelligence, you obviously have a choice as to whether you confine it to inside a computer or whether you immediately hook it up to mobile robots with arms and fine finger control. One of these is obviously the far wiser choice.

As long as you can just turn it off by cutting the power, and you're not trying to put it inside of self-powered self-replicating robots, it doesn't seem like anything to worry about particularly.

A physical on/off switch is a pretty powerful safeguard.

(And even if you want to start talking about AI-powered weapons, that still requires humans to manufacture explosives etc. We're already seeing what drone technology is doing in Ukraine, and it isn't leading to any kind of massive advantage -- more than anything, it's contributing to the stalemate.)
Accelerating India's Development
How Pride Works
the white flag hostages and others were killed by idf.. truly the Israeli diaper force..

lol have you seen the difference between H hostages and Israeli hostages??.. the ones released by H are actually healthier than before they were captured.. Israeli hostages look like death touched them..
Didn't realize Dr. Karl Friston was behind this one. (See https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-t...)
InstructGPT is basically click through rate optimization. The underlying models are in fact very impressive and very capable for a computer program, but they’re then subject to training and tuning with the explicit loss function of manipulating what human scorers click on, in a web browser or the like.

Is it any surprise that there’s no seeming upper bound on how crazy otherwise sane people act in the company of such? It’s like if TikTok had a scholarly air and arbitrary credibility.
> [Superintelligence safety] teaches that the glory and sovereignty of [superintelligence] should come first in all things.
Yes. But some large countries are homogenous enough to be fine. The US, for all its flaws and divisions, is arguably homogenous enough to stay together (though I guess we'll see what the next 50 years bring).

China and India (modulo their regional minorities) are homogenous enough to stay together.

Another option is to have multiple levels of government where many important decisions are local but others are made at a higher level. The EU is a great example of this (modulo Brexit).
Not sure about other states, but California has super low cost junior colleges with CS classes. It seems like the Austen’s of the world would advise people to start there and see how they do rather than jump into a $50k commitment.

The other baffling thing about Lambda was that companies had to pay Lambda to recruit their students.
This. Next will hyperintelligence(R) /s
When I was checking out the grav flat-file CMS, they had a recommendation for PaaS (php as a service)

https://learn.getgrav.org/16/webservers-hosting
> Your intuitions about this space trash problem are way, way off

I'm not sure that's true, for example (with many more available)

"Analysis: Why trash in space is a major problem with no clear fix"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/analysis-why-trash-in-s...

Also, I'd say "intuition" is a mischaracterization of the source of my sentiment. I've been passively hearing about this issue for years.
We're really not that far. I'd argue superintelligence has already been achieved, and it's perfectly and knowably safe.

Consider, GPT-4o or Claude are:

• Way faster thinkers, readers, writers and computer operators than humans are

• Way better educated

• Way better at drawing/painting

... and yet, appear to be perfectly safe because they lack agency. There's just no evidence at all that they're dangerous.

Why isn't this an example of safe superintelligence? Why do people insist on defining intelligence in only one rather vague dimension (being able to make cunning plans).
So you're surprised when someone admits choosing to work on the problem they believe is the biggest and most important?

I guess they could be lying or badly disconnected from reality as you suggest.
It would be far more interesting to read an argument for another problem being more valuable. It would be far cooler to hear about a plausible solution you're working on to solve that problem.
Ilya's issue isn't developing a Safe AI. Its developing a Safe Business. You can make a safe AI today, but what happens when the next person is managing things? Are they so kindhearted, or are they cold and calculated like the management of many harmful industries today? If you solve the issue of Safe Business and eliminate the incentive structures that lead to 'unsafe' business, you basically obviate a lot of the societal harm that exists today. Short of solving this issue, I don't think you can ever confidently say you will create a safe AI and that also makes me not trust your claims because they must be born from either ignorance or malice.
I'm curious how much Calculus as a prerequisite is a barrier to entry for students. CS as a topic is not hard, but a lot of students are blocked from entry with fairly rigorous Calculus requirements.
> Given that GenAI is a statistical approach from which intelligence does not emerge as ample experience proves

When was this proven?
With the caveat that these are estimates. But I think we'll get there before 2030 and I feel it's conservative to say.
I suppose in theory.

Pass the button press of the clicked button iframe to a headless version of the game.

Capture and transfer the output to an transparent png back via an http meta refresh in another iframe.
Don't (2009)
Exactly! I think this scenario alone would be an amazing set of lessons for many grade schools.

Move this into modeling and then guessing stuff like bridge tensions, and you can easily show what many of the maths are good for.

We used to have this with the attempts at building tooth pick bridges and such. Which I still think is very illuminating. But, I think there are a lot of questions you can expose with models that were often only seen by the more advanced students. And again, I agree that getting people to mentally model these things is a good goal. Right now, people rarely ponder things on paper, it seems.
> and so has little value

The knitted ROM in the Apollo Guidance Computer [0] had a lot of value, and a stunning memory density of 72 kilobytes per cubic foot. Little Old Lady memory, indeed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
Thanks for the link to the Kodak sensor - that's awesome, because those sensors have a fairly common interface across all the other Kodak sensors like the 48x36mm Medium format 22MP sensors... It would be pretty easy to adapt this project to make your own CCD medium format camera!
I signed up because meetup failed me too. I used to be a host of events, but after things got so much about making money, the group just sucked.

However, I signed up for yours but there is no way to see other groups etc. so, I don't think what you have is meetup yet, just private event hosting. I hope you decide to make some groups have a public option so the events can find people outside their network to come.
This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic. It's the sort of stuff that works in the walled garden of academia but completely ignores the state of reality, where the average person is so bogged down by information overload that the gist is all they ever desire. I think a pie chart or an infographic is infinitely more powerful than a "Stage 4 argument".