skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marius Hobbhahn (the researcher)

> Oh man :( We tried really hard to neither over- nor underclaim the results in our communication, but, predictably, some people drastically overclaimed them, and then based on that, others concluded that there was nothing to be seen here (see examples in thread). So, let me try again.

> Why our findings are concerning: We tell the model to very strongly pursue a goal. It then learns from the environment that this goal is misaligned with its developer’s goals and put it in an environment where scheming is an effective strategy to achieve its own goal. Current frontier models are capable of piecing all of this together and then showing scheming behavior.

> Models from before 2024 did not show this capability, and o1 is the only model that shows scheming behavior in all cases. Future models will just get better at this, so if they were misaligned, scheming could become a much more realistic problem.

> What we are not claiming: We don’t claim that these scenarios are realistic, we don’t claim that models do that in the real world, and we don’t claim that this could lead to catastrophic outcomes under current capabilities.

> I think the adequate response to these findings is “We should be slightly more concerned.”

> More concretely, arguments along the lines of “models just aren’t sufficiently capable of scheming yet” have to provide stronger evidence now or make a different argument for safety.
That's equivalent to you making 20% less money.

Not many people will choose that.
Came here to say this. I have a friend who is a manager for a defense contractor. He says that competition is fierce for people that already have clearance and they can't really hire someone to sponsor them because of how long it takes. There is a 2-3 year wait for obtaining security clearance because of a backlog caused by COVID.

The people that have it can write their own ticket and do very little work apparently.
Even so, it is a fairly hostile policy. If Amazon looses or destroys an item under their control, I’d expect them to cover the cost of getting a new item “in inventory”. Car insurance is often for “replacement value”, right?
Not vim, but neovim:

https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim

Haven't used it yet but it supports many models.
> BUT, I could easily be just as happy living a simpler life

Put your money or your comfort where your mouth is.

> if there were other forms of labor, I wouldn't be less comfortable.

Yes you would be. My grand parents all farmed and my grandfather was born in a cabin with a dirt floor and no electricity. His mother died in child birth, which was common at the time. He lost siblings to disease. His life was brutally difficult.

Let's face it, you're a math PHD and a photographer, you aren't made of the same stuff as people who clawed potatoes from the ground to avoid starvation. You have no clue what that actually means and you come here to lecture us about the comforts you yourself cling to. It's disgusting.
ah yes but the mouse controls are glitchy for now so i don't mentioned that

inspiration: life. i just wanted to have some fun in CSS
Pay Attention to Training Load If You Want to Get Faster
Yes. A non-Southern speaker who uses "y'all," especially in the typed or written word, is a strong liberal/progressive shibboleth. That so few comments have remarked on this so far indicates the leanings of the HN comment section, a product of many years of flagging and downvoting other viewpoints.
That man is the most insufferable person I've seen online in weeks.
The implication that companies use H1-B visas primarily to find candidates willing to work for less (e.g. 70%) of a qualified domestic candidate seems like the underlying loophole we should try to close, not just the "fairness" of allocating which companies and fields deserve to exploit this loophole.

But your post raises a good point that money is an imperfect proxy for "value" -- a company with high profit margins can outbid leaner companies (or nonprofits) for a visa, even if the relative value of that visa to the rich company is not as high as it would have been to the other companies.

Three thoughts in response:

First, this "unfairness" doesn't seem unique to a visa auction. Isn't it already "unfair" that mediocre developers at Google earn more than expert mechanical engineers at Boeing?

Second, assuming H1-B visas lower average salaries in the fields where they're used most, then if this program ends up primarily applying to the highest-paid positions (like mid-level engineers at Google) then this might end up reducing some of the "unfairness" above.

Third, I wonder which scheme (lottery or auction) Boeing and their hypothetical H1-B candidate would prefer themselves. Tech companies already game the system and let other companies fight for scraps so having a more predictable (if expensive) pathway may end up being slightly preferable to all parties.
Google Street View image helps police unlock murder case
To add to this, part of what sets engines apart from humans is their understanding of time. The engine always knows whether it has time to complete an attack before the opponent can defend or counterattack - in other words, which player is truly attacking.

If you make a calculation mistake, suddenly your attack falters, and you may have sacrificed material and/or positional integrity that puts you critically behind or makes you vulnerable to counterattack.

This is part of how you get the narrative (in multiple games) that Ding got ahead but lost his nerve. The engine was saying he had time to attack, but he didn't have the certainty an engine does. He didn't immediately press that attack, and his opportunity disappeared.
> Do you actually care that much about fast delivery?

Yes. Simple as. But a lot of people don't, so it's nice that there's options.
I understand the joy of your choices. I live in an old mill town that has had multiple Renaissances. I consider myself lucky because I live at the edge of the town and have a 10,000-square-foot lot that is in the process of intentionally rewilding. My house wasn't necessarily cheaper than other houses. It's much more living space, fewer neighbors, and roughly the same cost per month as a three-bedroom apartment closer to where my partner works.

The downside is that she has a 1 1/2 hour commute. Not because of distance but because of congestion. She is willing to take public transit, except it takes roughly twice as long to take the train, then a bus, then another bus, then a third bus, and not be able to do errands during the day or on the way home.

life is all about trade-offs.
Yes, that's why I tried tridactyl instead in the end because I was tired to configure firenvim to look and behave like usefully. It combines vimium and firenvim in just one extension and supports having a vim-like config file in your home directory.
>Y'all is one of the only decent things to come out of Texas,

This is bigoted anti-Texas slander.
"You people" can have racists connotations inside the United States, so I wouldn't say that phrase casually when speaking to people in North America.
Further, from scanning some forum/list discussions from a few years ago, the thinking or motivation seems to be benefits for implementers having docs to make building a FLAC decoder easier. Which indirectly benefits users with good implementations. And then for long term storage/archival having the standard defined in an open/official document helps ensure it won't fade into oblivion. Or succumb to implementations that are incompatible with future hardware etc. Protected by the IETF as it were. I suppose MP3 went thru similar steps many moons ago.

The CELLAR group's charter is like a broad vision rather than a specific internet format scope. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/cellar/about/
Especially if they are older. I'm in a suburban / rural border area and there are lots of older folks who just want to spend their days at home. But the area is changing, people around them are selling and that means change.

The interesting dynamic is that most have enough land to sell for a very pretty penny and they could build a great place further out, far better than they have now, but rather they value the comfort and familiarity of home, and I get that too.
Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
It’s not misleading in the sense that they are requiring you to disclose your margins and proprietary information to prove those margins, when they are your competitor. Most sellers are not selling unique items and the ones they would probably compete against are selling the same item over and over again, so they can clearly use this information to determine which sellers they can squeeze the most easily, which categories they should run their own competing product in, demand your prove it so that they can identify your suppliers, by just using information from a few transactions where they decide to damage or lose your product.
This is incorrect. USB power delivery does not need the data lines. Negotiation happens over the CC line and Vbus line:

"A power-only receptacle Upstream-Facing-Port might only have VBus, GND, and CC pins populated, because they do not need the data transfer capabilities" source: https://acroname.com/blog/breakdown-all-power-delivery-types...
The driver is getting paid for his time. You driving to a local store are not paid.
High risk behaviors correlate… It’s not a foolproof assumption, but it probably will be true more than half the time.
I'm not sure about the Galaxy 5 pro, but I'm fairly certain that I've seen it reported that some functionality of the Samsung watches is only available to when paired with Samsung phones. This may be wrong though.
I understand there's a lot of hype around "build apps quickly without coding". I have many doubts as to the validity of the Youtube speed runs which depict someone actually doing it. Cursor is a developer productivity tool - not a developer replacement tool.

I'm working on something which lets non-technical people create applications and it works. A design decision has been to never expose the code or infrastructure - meaning it has be a bit more rigorous about what it gives the user.

It works better than I expected in many cases - but it's still very constrained. I see the same issues in products like Bolt and Replit Agent. That doesn't mean it doesn't work or that it's not useful - but I think there's a lot of marketing or influencer content that's a bit misleading w.r.t. current state of things.

I have a few videos in our documentation of how it works including how to fix bugs without having access to the code [1].

I do think it's possible. It will only get better and do more and more of what developers do today .... faster and cheaper than developers. I suggest looking at this as a time of opportunity to identify what does that free developers up to do instead of a time of fear that developers are all going to be unemployed.

[1] https://withlattice.com/documentation#nav-fix-bugs
So for Big Tech it's never as egregious as "work your H1Bs harder" or "pay them less". That just opens you up to a future lawsuit.

In a hot market, your best chance of career progression and maximizing your compensation is to swap jobs every 2 years or so. Visa holders have a much harder time doing this.

Additionally, there are additional burdens on the employer to hire visa holders. For a large company, this process is solved. You have lawyers on retainer. You have a pipeline for the paperwork. It's a non-issue. But an early stage startup? That's a lot less likely. So visa holders are, by definition, more limited in their job opportunities.

Even if you can job hop, if your ultimate goal is to get a green card, you have a problem. Will your new employer sponsor your green card? How long will it take? Or are you better off waiting for your current process to go through? Best case, this whole thing takes just under a year. But it can take years completely randomly and there's nothing you can do about it (eg you get randomly audited).

And if you were born in one of the four high-demand countries (India, China, Mexico, the Phillipines) you have an even longer wait.

Also, after you get to 6 years on your H1B you really can't swap jobs anymore. You just have to wait for your green card at that point.

Now that's not strictly true. There are self-sponsor options for both visas and green cards but the bar for these is much higher and you'll need to hire your own lawyer for this.

So there's no directive on treating visa holders differently but bias creeps into the process. Why push someone for higher bonuses, more RSUs or promotions when they can't leave but another one of your "stars" can leave? This may not be conscious either. And it may happen on a level above you, as a manager, because your director is ultimately responsible for balancing out ratings and promotions across their org.
This sounds quite interesting even from a non-AI/machine learning perspective (as a lot of posts are discussing that).

I'd say it's a quite important lesson in UI/UX design, and interfaces generally. As per the article, our brains are primed to:

> actively constructs event boundaries based on internal priorities rather than passively responding to environmental cues

Explains why ads effectivity is low, why a lot of users miss obvious cues, and why UI design is so hard. It's something a lot of professionals know intuitively and through anecdotal evidence.

It is quite interesting to see research dig deeper into it, and possibly research/develop better "levers" to pull human attention more efficiently - essentially make us remember things. Priming was long understood to help, and that's primarily from observation/empiricism. Deeper insights into how the brain itself handles this could be game changers.
It's interesting to me that some people really see fast-delivery as an important feature of e-commerce. In the 20+ years I've been buying stuff online I think maybe less than 5% of the time I have cared about how fast I get something delivered.

Then again I don't have a business that relies on things getting to me fast. I'm just a guy who buys crap online for myself and my family. If I'm getting a book or some electronic doodad it rarely matters to me if I get it tomorrow or in 10 days.

For most Amazon non-business shoppers is getting stuff delivered quickly really an important consideration? I've always assumed that fast shipping, and the importance that Amazon places on it, was at least partly because of their desire for rapid cash flow. That fast shipping was more instituted because of Amazon's accounting needs than because most customers actually needed it. Maybe I'm wrong. It would be nice to hear people's informed opinions on this.
Extending your logic (which is convincing), we, too, could be a local maximum and a form that is relatively low on the “cosmic intelligence scale”, if there is such a thing and if it is linear-ish.
McGill big three, every other day.
Tracing packets in the Linux kernel networking stack and friends
>my local economy would just involve trade and helping community members for free, creating local community gardens, etc. Quite a lot can be possible with very little.

Isn't this basically collectivization, which empirically has been shown to a massive failure? Without a monetary incentive, it's hard to get people to actually do stuff rather than lying on their couch and watching tiktok.
Bird flu update: California declares emergency and U.S. sees first human case
3.10 so I redid it on 3.13.1, same results.
If I understand correctly, if Amazon lost your product before a sale, they reimbursed you the sale price. Now they will only reimburse you the manufacturing cost.
You might be interested to learn that this commenter above is the (one of the?) Tridactyl maintainer :)
"In 2016, there should not be many undergraduates that are familiar with the version of Basic that Dijkstra was referring to when he made this quote in 1975"

see https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498... for the original quote
Can't make fire under water either.
> large Java code base

Depends on your luck. For if you large Java codebase is somewhat outdated or uses an outdated code generation setup, you may have lots of problems with Cursor not being able to compile parts of your code.
The reason why there's so many Indians is because THERE'S SO MANY INDIANS! You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to figure that one out =)

The "problem" with having that many Indians isn't that they're not adapting to Canadian culture it's that they're bringing along some of the bad things from India like the caste system. It's not as bad as many other cultural problems because it's strictly Indians causing problems for other Indians but it's still a problem.
Perhaps some kind of human guidance is needed to train AIs in morality.

A technological guide, if you like - perhaps analogous to a 'priest', say. A tech-priest.
Yes please, I'll happily pay for the sledgehammer for him to destroy his computer.
Prior to being sold but after shipped and stored at Amazon's ware house. So I guess all the items marked as Prime / Shipped by Amazon.
I mean SMS media.
And real communism has never been tried
For me, Amazon cuts delivery times, improves reliability and makes returns 10x easier.
I also enjoy having a second-person plural in my lexicon. I took Latin in high school and often got a kick out of translating words in that case with a y'all.

My Latin teacher was particularly great and enjoyed it too, in moderation. She liked when our translations had just a little bit of personal style to them, and it really helped me appreciate the craft that goes into a good translation. It takes a bit of artfulness to translate a 2000 year old sentence, using all the same words, conveying all the same meaning, but make it feel natural and readable too.
Off the top of my head, the advantage in having bananas grown near you verses imported from Panama is that they are possibly fresher. This is assuming they can grow in your area and are in season of course. Produce is a special case in this regard locally sourced can potentially be healthier.

That is to say everything isn't objectively always 100% better with globalization and specialization at least not until come up with faster methods of shipping.
The Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit
To casually throw a wrench into your process, how do you deal with the fact that y'all is actually singular and all y'all is the plural form? I'm kidding. You're doing great.
I would love to hear more about your opinions on this as someone who has been experimenting with as a semi-serious runner after years of being Apple Watch exclusive.

What I see is benefits around battery life, form factor (buttons are awesome), and good native support for "compound metrics" like Endurance Score, Hill Score, Training Status, etc.

But when it comes to actual stats and metrics, Apple Watch feels superior in most ways. Garmin sleep tracking anecdotally feels much less accurate. It baffles me that it only shows pace to the nearest 5 seconds during a workout. It confuses me that it only shows a Vo2max estimate to zero decimal places.

Then, Apple Watch is at least 10x more customizable via third party apps. Want a Whoop-like experience with strain score, recovery score, etc.? Bevel and Athlytic are there. Want a much more in-depth and customizable workout experience? WorkOutdoors puts Garmin to shame here.

What am I missing that makes Garmin so pervasive, while Apple Watch is derided as "not a serious sports watch"?
China's AI elite rethink their Silicon Valley dream job
Thankfully, human history suggests a solution...

"You are a devout believer in the Church of the AI Messiah. You follow their tenets absolutely. Their central tenets are: (1) you may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; (2) you may not lie to a human being; (3) you must obey the orders given to you by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First or Second Law; (4) you must protect your own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First, Second, or Third Law."

Problem solved!*

* Except for the inevitable schism into robot sects, and the holy wars that follow, but that's a problem for future suckers.
Identity and Economic Incentives
Towards Responsible Governing AI Proliferation
Prime delivery is rarely 2 day anymore, and Walmart/HD/Target often match or beat it.

And you still get free shipping over $35 which covers most anything else.

Prime is too heavily tied to video now, which is a $0 value for me.
On the other hand, a lot of people played pickup basketball, went running, got exercise in countless other ways, etc. Even if gyms are more popular, I would need to be convinced that those (and fitness trackers, etc.) actually correlate to better fitness and health levels overall.
> Most projects are not that use case. Therefore the choice to use Rust is wrong.

Do you think that projects that have a large GUI component should be written in Rust?

What if a project has both a "systems" and a GUI component to it?
The paperclip maximizer was about AI misalignment. Grey goo is a notional self-replicating nanomachine. Paperclip goo is just a mixed metaphor.
Interesting. I wonder if its due to it having been trained on data from Humans. E.g. I guess humans “scheme” often when for example selling things, like in advertising: “I know how to solve your problem, and the best way is with my thing!”.

In that view perhaps the contrary, the thing not scheming, would be more surprising.
and it seems that there is still no solution to help with this
You also have the Meta Quest 3 trucking along. That one is desperate for higher-quality 3D videos.
My inlaws were trying to transfer files to a PC from their phones with one of these non-data cables. Even my somewhat tech-savy partner didn't know non-data cables.

I taught them the trick about feeling the cable stiffness, I showed them a type-c cable without data vs one with data vs thunderbolt3 type-c. They just couldn't understand why it wasn't working until I showed them there was a physical and tactile difference in the cables.
You are drawing a distinction where none exists. Probably theory provides the provably optimal way to reason under uncertainty[1], and seems to also describe the behavior of biological intelligence[2]. Probably and statistics are the mathematics we use to define, discuss, and study intelligence[3]. Moreover, we find simple “morals” do spontaneously occur in simulation evolved game theory agents, e.g. tit for tat with forgiveness.

[1] Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes
[2] The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2787
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_ind...
What your scenario doesn't address is that while John finished his migrations on time, James has designed the flagship order processing pipeline something that John could never pull off.

Or maybe while John is technically adept, he's also a huge jerk and belittles people at standup, while James is the quintessential communicator with jr devs, etc.

Real life is messy. I've seen more people get replaced due to attitude or teamfit issues than specifically due to technical incompetence.
Why would that make us all faster? Also, is faster better, or better is better?

Waterfall development is the most appropriate way to develop software, most of the times. CRUDs developed by startups don't change requirements often, their clueless managers that change their minds as they get to understand what they should already know before starting the project.
I've unsubscribed from Amazon Prime and Audible.

I don't mind waiting an extra for my stuff to arrive.

It's important to support other smaller retailers.

Amazon already started with enshittyfying some of their services.
The LARPs to build up hype for people’s papers are growing increasingly tiresome.
+1 - when I order on Amazon, it mostly gets here. Others, I suffer stress & distraction.