skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was doing my undergrad, the university published statistics saying something to the tune of "the average engineering graduate goes on to earn a $60k salary at their first job."

If only I knew at the time I could have simply taken the university to court because my starting salary out of school was $55k.
Depends, I've come across plenty of people who act like what you say there, probably because it's a variant on the natural human tendency to cast blame on something besides ourselves, but... these days, things move so fast and we lean on so many amateur part-time projects, that bugs or shortcomings in the libraries etc. we use are not uncommon. The fine art is partially in knowing when it's extremely unlikely you hit a bug (gcc), vs. very likely (JS library with five stars on Github).

But more importantly, in digging in -- to me, that's a big part that's missing in leveling up the next generation -- like hey, there's a stack trace, let's go look at the lines of code in our source libraries and think about them instead of flailing around randomly like most people seem to.
Well, yes¹: if it actually contributes to intelligent action, this is exactly the goal - you nailed it. Safer, more sensible action for individuals, communities, and statal entities. "Less mistakes in the future" - that would be a good motto.

(¹: whether basing a [successful in substance] "safe super intelligence" lab in an environment with imperfect record would improve safety.)

--

And now let us see if the sniper can come up with a good argument...
It wasn't that OpenAI was open as in "open source" but rather that its stated mission was to research AI such that all could benefit from it (open), as well as to ensure that it could not be controlled by any one player, rather than to develop commercial products to sell and make a return on (closed).
This is not a trivial point. Selective pressures will push AI towards unsafe directions due to arms race dynamics between companies and between nations. The only way, other than global regulation, would be to be so far ahead that you can afford to be safe without threatening your own existence.
I mean, that is the difference between using something because it's the flavor of the day and using something because it's the best tool for the job.
Weren’t they vastly misselling their success rate? They said sign this agreement, we offer 9X% rate of success! Then it turned out to not be the case. TFA:

> Most students weren't hired. What little money the school made came from quietly reselling student debt to hedge funds.

Legally sound, probably? Morally unsound, definitely.
I don't have anything to say, technical-wise, but this is absurd and I love it.
When the privatised entity has sufficient competition and operates in a competitive market. Mail, rail and water are good examples of privatised monopolies in the UK, and they've all gone bloody terribly.
They need to work out a way for the costs to actually go towards targeted local cleanup operations which is no easy feat considering you need to extract them from all of society that produces trash. You'd have to create probably a new government agency that staffs cities with sufficient trash pickup. It would probably be in the billions in labor considering trash is often just as prolific in a tiny town of 400 people as it is in the big cities.

What would be perhaps more realistic is regulating packaging and other materials such that they can degrade safely in place with the assumption they will be littered and not properly recycled.
>Life expectancy for men in the US is about 74 to 76 years

that's life expectancy at birth. The life expectancy of a man who is 70 yo today, having already not died of all the causes that harvest young men, is 13+ years more (without accounting for other aspects of their demographic)

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
I did a bunch of stuff with PID back in the day, but honestly this is the first time I'm forcing my brain to look at the word "absement" to describe the integral portion. Looking back, I must have encountered the word many times in the past, but my brain just didn't process the label. I mentally knew and fully understood the concept, and did code / systems implementation involving it, but never really knew the term.

I also distinctly remember being about to go into an exam in undergrad EE, and having a decades-older MechE ask if I knew about "jerk". I had a temporary panic because I didn't know the term - but then when they started explaining it, I already knew it all, I just had never been exposed to the term "jerk" as the word to use for it.

So maybe it's just a terminology thing? I've been in situations where I definitely knew the concept thoroughly, both absement and jerk, but didn't know those labels.
Of this list, I'd choose React. It's the most supported, has a lot of well-maintained components, and I've found it the easiest to hire for.

If you're interested in another option, I really recommend looking into Solid.js. It's not as mature or component-rich, but it does a great job of solving some issues with React. The biggest benefit to me is the "signals" system. It allows you to use state between components without having to use a Redux pattern or pass layer after layer of props. I also love that it's compiled, which keeps the end product small and quick, but also can help find some issues before runtime.
It's a beautiful system, wherein "criminality" can be used to label and control any and all persons who disagree with the whim of the incumbent class.

Perhaps this isn't a system we should be trying to emulate with a technology that promises to free us of our current inefficiencies or miseries.
Implicit in your first 2 sentences is the assumption that anything legal can't or shouldn't be controversial. I vehemently disagree with that idea.
Vanilla Web Components (probably with Lit.dev). They've come a long way in the past decade, and if you decide to go full framework later you can bring your components with you.
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Because the agreement way pay if-and-only-if you get a job as a software developer making >$50k annual salary.

They went after people not meeting the conditions. Simple as that.
Any usage of the word "safe" without an accompanying precise definition of it is utter null and void.
True, but coastlines are well covered. Assuming the pollution comes from the coast it should be fairly easy to determine what the hotspots are (see Po river on the map in the article).
"Inspiration from someone who doesn't exist and therefor accomplished nothing." - Ficto the advice giver
I would be happy to see a good meetup alternative. You might want to consider hiding the numbers of groups and events until you have numbers that are likely to impress anyone viewing them. No shame at all in starting small (there's really no other way to start). But you might turn away potential users who think you're likely to disappear.
First discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39969563

Feels like a hit piece against "rich donors". The "flubbed" test only ran for 20 minutes over two weeks, hardly long enough to claim it succeeded or failed. The test was supposed to run for months.

The test was cancelled because the city officials were surprised that it existed, then they claimed it was unpermitted, then they claimed it was unsafe. The safety issue was rejected by the city's own consultants.
If you like react/mobx, why not Vue? That's the combo that eventually got me on Vue 3.
SSI, a very interesting name for a company advancing AI! "Solid State Intelligence" or SSI was also the name of the malevolent entity described in the biography of John C. Lilly [0][1]. It was a network of "computers" (computation-capable solid state systems) that was first engineered by humans and then developed into something autonomous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly

[1] http://johnclilly.com/
Our current meatware AGIs (corporations) are lawless as fuck and have effectively no ethics at all, which doesn’t bode well.
Imagine people 50 years ago founding "Safe Personal Computer Inc".

Enough said...
We need new math to do what you are thinking of. Highly probable word slot machine is the best we can do right now.
How about the Emma Marsk loaded with SSD drives?
Hello from APL! (And also Haskell, to a smaller extent.)

I bet all these languages come from people with a thick CS theory background, and thus a tradition and a need to write formulae on a blackboard.

Unlike a keyboard, a blackboard is a graphical device, it's slow to produce long character strings, but basically any one glyph takes about the same time to write, be it an x, ≡, ∉, ⊕, ℵ, etc.

Then you want to plainly represent the same concepts in the computer language, et voilà.
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> Presumably if Amsterdam was a "car-dominated hellscape" it was because cars were forcing themselves into a city that was designed for people and carts.

Your presumption is incorrect.

I mean, originally it wasn't designed for cars obviously, but eventually the streets were redesigned around cars, which caused it to become a car-dominated hellscape, yes. You can find a few transition photos here: https://exploring-and-observing-cities.org/2016/01/11/amster...

Compared to an average US city, it was probably still a bit more pedestrian-friendly even then, but nowhere close to as walk- and especially bike-friendly as it is now.

> Wide streets can get wide sidewalks planted with pretty trees, but that doesn't necessarily turn it into a "neighborhood" the way you might see in a city like Amsterdam.

Adding/having density and pedestrian- or bike-friendly design is exactly how you get neighborhoods like in Amsterdam.
I'm no web developer but I know that my company completed a migration to Vue a few years ago. When I've seen this conversation in my travels the answers are usually, React for Ecosystem/Legacy, Vue for new projects. But again I'm no web dev
If paying your student loans was contingent on you making $60k, you made $55k, and they came knocking at your door demanding money yes I do think you have grounds to sue and not pay them.

I don't care one iota about the legal minutiae that says they're technically allowed to collect, it is blatantly obvious what the students thought they were signing and so it's really hard to argue "no actually they agreed to <this other thing>." If you present paperwork that you say is the legalese version of the agreement you discussed, have the other party sign it on that basis, and then it isn't that is the lowest hanging fruit of contracts that should be thrown out.
Anyone know how to get mail to join@ssi.inc to not bounce back as spam? :-) (I promise, I'm not a spammer! Looks like a "bulk sender bounce" -- maybe some relay?)
And then you forgot to add "I had to stick it behind cloudflare because someone decided to DDOS it and send me 500GB/s traffic for no apparent reason at all.

The early web was the wild west. The modern web has turned into small fry trying to hide in the shadows of megalodons so they don't get ate by a goliath.
very confusing UI
I really like this answer.

It is cool that ReactOS can run windows drivers natively, though that seems to go against the values of open source
City street but going slow sounds like a bike-lane type robot. The most comparable existing robotics companies to that are probably Refraction AI, Vayu, and Intermode. Nuro is small, but still fast enough to be considered comparable to a car. So I would look at the former three and see how they are navigating this regulatory space (no pun intended). And no, most VCs don't mentor you through that, because most are not interested in companies that sell to cities, because it's a hard market to sell to, so they don't have any experience in it.

I was part of a project where we developed a Mobility Marketplace for some major cities. What I learned during that time is this: city politics is all about talking to everyone and their mother. Eventually the mayor needs to agree to it, and all he or she will do is ask everyone around them what they think. So you want everyone to give their blessing. "Everyone" here means all sorts of organizations from the department of transportation to business improvements consortia, to citizen groups, to the local AAA, the police, shop owner associations, you name it. You probably want to hire a consultant with that kind of network for intros and to coach you on how to approach each conversation. We had someone who had been selling to cities for over 20 years at the time and it was clear that we would have made many mistakes without her.

What's the application/city-function? Also, which city/state do you want to start in? It goes without saying that some cities/mayors are much more innovative than others.
SSI, here is "Safe SuperIntelligence Inc."
"Abolish" is hyperbole.

Insufficiently regulated capitalism fails to account for negative externalities. Much like a Paperclip Maximising AI.

One could even go as far as saying AGI alignment and economic resource allocation are isomorphic problems.
Is Safe the new Open that is promptly dropped once traction is achieved?
Yes, ice floating is super important in our system. Another biggie is the surface tension effect. Surface tension [1] plays a big part in the capillary action that allows trees to transport water and nutrients from deep in the ground up to the top of their trunk and branches. Surface tension is important throughout nature and many industrial processes as well. Water is incredible.

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/38556
Good Q. My understanding of "safe" in this context is a superintelligence that cannot escape its bounds. But that's not to say that's Ilya's definition.
> the superlatives in these sorts of announcements really annoy me

I've noticed this as well and they're making me wear my tinfoil hat more often than usual. I feel as if all of this (ALL OF IT) is just a large-scale distributed PR exercise to maintain the AI hype.
I really like how Vue lays things out; very clean and comprehensible. The official docs are pretty great, and there's generally one obvious forward path.

But if you're doing anything weird there's a lot more out in the world for React. Even though it's kind of a big mess, quantity has a quality all its own.
But can you write Doom with SSI?
For my new project I wanted to try something new but I ended up going with React again. At the end it was the right decision for me because of the libraries I ended up using. The community/ecosystem is just unparalleled. Whatever library you need there’s a big chance someone has built it for React. If you’re learning a new concept or tutorial there’s almost always a section about implementing it in, or the examples are in react.
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I'm pointing out the downsides of TRISO fuel. There are considerable.
Give it another two years of high interest rates washing people out into non-tech sales, finance, trades, whatever... but there are plenty out there, the bros are just far louder.
Isn't every VC-funded startup overly optimistic? I've seen pitch decks before where founders promise 10x growth over the next 2 years to an impossible projected revenue. It is obviously not going to happen, and indeed did not. Should those founders be criminally charged as well?
You can engineer systems that effectively have an off switch (sterilized progeny with short life or a certain environmental lethality condition e.g. dependent on you constantly supplying certain substance) as well as even an API (e.g. built in features that enable integration with other genetic techniques such as insertion sites for cloning).
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I know it wasn't the question, but: You can make anything work with any of those.
I doubt it. There were a number of attempts to create commercial holographic storage formats (primarily optical discs) in the early-mid 2000s, but none of them panned out. At this point, any new technology would need to show substantial advantages over flash memory and/or magnetic hard disks to be commercially useful; that's a very high bar to clear.
Are you trying to find a new role or build something for yourself?

Is an SPA actually required? You might be able to build what you need using tools that involve less mental and technical overhead. Take a look at htmx, UnPoly, Rails/Hotwire, Phoenix LiveView, and/or Laravel LiveWire. Or maybe even good old-fashioned server-rendered HTML if you don’t need to build something that’s highly interactive.
I love this: "Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures."
Maybe it takes a nation (tragically) built on genocide and slavery to be able to recognize (and thus prevent) the same in an AI.
Stage 5 is when you realize that all political/ethical arguments are variants of the Trolley Problem and highly dependent on non-falsifiable axioms. In other words, there is no Objectively Correct answer to any political/ethical argument.

I think the biggest fallacy is the idea that (a) there exists an Objectively Correct political position, and (b) my opponents would accept that position if only they weren't stupid or corrupt.

The genius of democracy is that it acknowledges this, and that the only way to decide is for everyone to vote their preference.

The challenge of democracy, of course, is that it works best when people are roughly equal in terms of knowledge, wealth, and culture. The more homogenous a society is, the more likely it is to choose policies that benefit all. But splintered societies lead to zero-sum, winner-take-all conflicts.
"and our business model means..."

Forgive my cynicism - but "our business model" means you are going to get investors, and those investors will want results, and they will be up your ass 24/7, and then your moral compass, if any, will inevitably just be broken down like a coffee bean in a burr grinder.

And in the middle of this hype cycle, when literally hundreds of billions are on the line, there is just no chance.

I am not holding my breath while waiting for a "Patagonia of AI" to show up.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/open-secrets-ukraine-in...

To summarize, there are many people in government who are interested in open source intelligence.

Traditional sources of intelligence are gathered with secret means and therefore must be restricted in distribution to prevent burning the source. This means you can have the best possible intelligence but be unable to a) act on it or b) distribute it to people who can.

The value proposition of using open-source intelligence is that you can distribute it very widely to decisionmakers since it's already "out in the open". Intelligence isn't about hoarding secrets for the sake of such; it's about getting information to people who can use it.

The political issue is that people assume that "secret = higher quality" when there's no inherent value to secrecy. So, spy agencies overinvest in secret-gathering, get a ton of info, and are unable to do anything with it.

Meanwhile, if someone posts a tank manual on the WarThunder gaming forums you can give that to every soldier that might encounter that tank.

This is doubly important in tech because many big tech companies play a significant role in national security but cannot get intelligence that would help protect them, and by extension, American interests.
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+1 truth.

The problem is not just governments, I am concerned about large organized crime organizations and corporations also.

I think I am on the losing side here, but my hopes are all for open source, open weights, and effective AI assistants that make peoples’ jobs easier and lives better. I would also like to see more effort shifted from LLMs back to RL, DL, and research on new ideas and approaches.
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Landfill is also a source of energy. Some cities have built power plants that are fueled by landfill emissions or through incineration of excess materials.
The NetBSD of AI? /s
"Cracked team" has rather different connotations.
Second this.

Vue sort of "just works" how you would expect it to work. You never really think about dependencies. Never really think about the render cycle. Rarely (maybe never) run into issues with over-render or performance. Vue 3 has been stable with only incremental improvements focused on DX. Big downside: tooling recently has had some instabilities.

State management and routing in Vue are top notch. Pinia is easy to use, works as you expect (rarely catches you off guard), and feels very ergonomic with Vue 3 composition API.

Vue SFCs are much nicer to work with than React and CSS modules -- or worse, CSS in JS (blech!).

Vue's `defineModel`, IMO, is a game changer for managing hierarchical state and simplifies and encourages refactoring[0].

Any project I work on myself, I use Vue.

React is a must have in your toolbox and experience because it has become the "enterprise" choice. Walmart.com, Target.com, tons of other retail websites are React. Amazon.com has React sprinkled in. Microsoft is big on React. Every team that's I've been on that's used it has done it poorly and had issues. Every team ended up with multiple state management paradigms because none of them were "just right". Every team had issues with troubleshooting over-renders and side effects. React is easy at the low end, but very, very challenging to do well at scale which is why I think it's fine in an enterprise context when you have teams enforcing rules, styles, and architecture. It's terrible for small teams moving fast because there's no "standard" React (whereas Vue has coalesced around Vue Router and Pinia, for example).

[0] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/01/a-conceptual-model-of-stat...
"We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead."

That sounds like a weird kind of lip service to safety. It really seems to assume you can just make these systems safe while you are going as fast as possible, which seems unlikely.
I would use SolidJS with SolidStart because I think technical merit is more important then something with a lot of social proof.
lol, true true...
Shared hosting is probably better, and AFAIK more common, for the mildly dynamic website. The host handles a lot of the admin tasks like OS updates that you have to handle yourself with a VPS.
To be a total snob about it, it's because the "what" is better in some places. If the best restaurant in town is a Cheesecake Factory or Olive Garden, and there are no reservations; hey, you do you.
Very cool, thanks for sharing. Does it support the pandas-like rapidsai dask_cudf framework? (https://docs.rapids.ai/api/dask-cudf/stable/)
Folks here might also be interested in https://calagator.org/ (portland's tech meetup calendar) which is open source and also in rails. https://github.com/calagator/calagator
Not sure about that. It might get Ilya in the history books, and maybe some of the other high profile people he recruits early on, but a junior researcher/developer who makes a high impact contribution could easily get overlooked. Whereas if that person can have their name as lead author on a published paper, it makes it much easier to measure individual contributions.
I mean, typically hosting a static site that's fine, but with the number of exploits these days and the ability for people to chain them together, maybe you don't even realize your box has been exploited?

Uptimes in years means your box, especially without updates has something it could be targeted with.