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Менеджер другого попавшего в список музыканта поясняет: «И я, и мои коллеги были крайне недовольны тем, что публикация в большом СМИ — запрещенное оно в России или нет — подсвечивает имена, которые раньше в России на виду не были… Факт огласки на местные власти в регионах работает так: они видят его имя в СМИ и отказывают артисту в площадке».Представитель еще одной запрещенной группы менее сдержан — и в ответ на просьбу о комментарии предлагает корреспондентам «Медузы» пойти «на хуй». Такую реакцию он объясняет тем, что концерты его группы начали отменять именно после публикации «этих неофициальных и неподтвержденных списков». В такой же ситуации оказалась и еще одна группа, указанная в списке, рассказывает ее директор.

SCAVENGERS is a short film that was commissioned from Adult Swim and aired on Toonami in 2016. This short served as a proof of concept/pitch for the SCAVENGERS REIGN series that me and Joseph Bennett created for MAX.

Neither Vision Pro nor Humane's Ai Pin are 'the future’, but they’re both showcasing aspects that will /become/ the future. A pair of glasses, running an OS like visionOS, with advanced multimodal AI smarts. That's the next product that can truly change the world, something anybody and everybody can wear all day every day, and give the smartphone a run for its money; what we have now are science projects — really cool science projects — but science projects nonetheless

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A 2021 study by Brown University estimated that 30,177 veterans of post-9/11 conflicts had died by suicide. When compared to the 7,057 personnel killed in the conflicts, at least four times as many veterans died by suicide than personnel were killed during the post-9/11 conflicts.[10]

«Я могу посмотреть фильм месячной давности, и по большей части он для меня новый, — пишет журналист и тренер по хоккею Эд Лабин.

Он считает, что работа ChatGPT, который лишен мысленных образов, но способен обрабатывать и понимать информацию, похожа на опыт людей с афантазией.

А Том — создал первое сообщество поддержки людей с афантазией Aphantasia Network. Сейчас 60 тысяч человек подписаны на рассылку Тома об этом состоянии.

«Зато в случае расставания тебе легко. Ты просто не думаешь о человеке, раз не можешь его представить».

Google does not allow its employees to contribute to projects under public domain equivalent licenses like the WTFPL (and Unlicense CC0), while allowing contributions to 0BSD licensed and US government PD projects.[22]

In addition, research shows that both motivation and hope stem from the combination of a clear, desired outcome, the belief that you can succeed, and a path to get there. The burgeoning field of positive psychology has flipped many old assumptions, finding that humans are not driven solely by their pasts, but rather are actually drawn forward by their own views of the future — a concept psychologists refer to as “prospection.”
Put simply, your behavior in the present is largely shaped by your view of your own future. If your future is clear, exciting, and something you believe you can create, then your behavior in the present will reflect that.

So for GCC 14, I've added the ability for the analyzer to emit text-based diagrams visualizing the spatial relationships in a predicted buffer overflow. For the above example (which you can try here in Compiler Explorer) it emits the diagram shown in Figure 1.

AI & the Web: Understanding and managing the impact of Machine Learning models on the Web

The slogan "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" refers to use of phone books.

“The main goal is to take away misconceptions and promote empathy,” he said. “When I was in the Freedom party, we always said Islam is alien to us; Islam has nothing to do with Europe. And of course, when you look at Spain, for example, at Andalucía, it is nonsense.”

He was once Geert Wilders’ right-hand man, crafting Freedom party (PVV) messaging that described Islam as a “lie” and pushed for the Qur’an and mosques to be banned in the Netherlands.One decade on, Joram van Klaveren is a Muslim convert – the second politician from the far-right PVV to convert – and actively working to dismantle the myths he once peddled.

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Experience has shown that guardrails in text-generating systems are often simultaneously too lax in some cases and too restrictive in others.

a senior software engineer at Midjourney took part in a conversation in February 2022 about how to evade copyright law by “laundering” data “through a fine tuned codex.”

In response to criticism, he has decided to label certain misinformation, rather than take it down, arguing that removing content tends to reinforce conspiracy theories

This includes taking down a bot run by late Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny which gave recommendations on how Russians should vote to unseat politicians from Putin’s party. Telegram has previously blamed these instances on pressure from the app stores.

several hundred external contractor moderators

Last month, it emerged in the Israeli press that a psychological warfare unit of the IDF, or Israel Defense Forces, had run an unauthorised Telegram Channel entitled “72 Virgins — Uncensored” that posted graphic and violent content, such as videos of corpses, allegedly Hamas members, targeted at its own citizens.

It is the only platform that continues to allow Iran-linked militant groups to operate and disseminate their content, including Hamas, Hizbollah and a variety of Iraqi militia groups.

A team of only seven system administrators manages more than 80,000 servers, owned by the company and distributed globally, which Durov says would typically take hundreds of people to manage. “The team didn’t have any option other than to automate things at an extreme level,” Durov explains. “As a result, we became so greatly cost efficient.”

Over the years, he has insisted he is a diehard free speech libertarian.

Each morning, he says, with “no exceptions”, he wakes and embarks on 200 push-ups and 100 sit-ups before taking an ice bath

A hands-on leader, he prefers the title “product manager” to chief executive

The Internet Archive, for example, simply announced in 2017 that it was no longer abiding by the rules of robots.txt.

There are also crawlers used for both web search and AI.

According to a study from last fall by Originality.AI, 306 of the top 1,000 sites on the web blocked GPTBot, but only 85 blocked Google-Extended and 28 blocked anthropic-ai.

A study by Ben Welsh, the news applications editor at Reuters, found that 606 of 1,156 surveyed publishers had blocked GPTBot in their robots.txt file.

Nowadays, it’s usually less about the resources that are used on the website and more about personal preferences,

Amazon’s crawlers traipse the web looking for product information, and according to a recent antitrust suit, the company uses that information to punish sellers who offer better deals away from Amazon

Microsoft licenses its database to other search engines and companies

It’s a mini constitution for the internet, written in code.

The robots.txt file governs a give and take; AI feels to many like all take and no give. But there’s now so much money in AI, and the technological state of the art is changing so fast that many site owners can’t keep up. And the fundamental agreement behind robots.txt, and the web as a whole — which for so long amounted to “everybody just be cool” — may not be able to keep up either.

There is currently no consensus as to which tasks AI tends to excel at.

Moravec's paradox is the observation in artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources

"In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best"

Sometimes markets get stuck because there is a disconnect between what something costs and what you get. It costs the individuals on the board of a public company nothing to pay more, they get bragging rights and a CEO who is focused on money. And that works until the next board leapfrogs them. The boards themselves should be lobbying to end this practice, but they won't because… guess what… the folks on the boards are the CEOs of other companies. It's stuck.

«Неправильно, что в самом сердце России, на Красной площади, стоит гроб с мертвым человеком. Если решение о захоронении тела Ленина будет принято, то оно будет самым верным с исторической точки зрения», — писал Кадыров в своем телеграм-канале.

I know Wirth was horrified by the repulsive syntax choices of today's dominant languages; he could never accept that a = b should mean something different from b = a, or that a = a + 1 should even be considered meaningful. The folly of straying away from conventions of mathematics carefully refined over several centuries (for example by distorting "=" to mean assignment and resorting to a special symbol for equality, rather than the obviously better reverse) depressed him. I remain convinced that the community will eventually come back to its senses and start treating language design seriously again.

One of the Xerox contributions was the generalized use of the mouse (the invention of Doug Englebart at the nearby SRI, then the Stanford Research Institute). Wirth immediately seized on the idea and helped found the Logitech company, which soon became, and remains today, a world leader in mouse technology.

Another key component of Pascal's success was the implementation technique, using a specially designed intermediate language, P-Code, the ancestor of today's virtual machines. Back then the diversity of hardware architectures was a major obstacle to the spread of any programming language; Wirth's ETH compiler produced P-Code, enabling anyone to port Pascal to a new computer type by writing a translator from P-Code to the appropriate machine code, a relatively simple task.

Even though everything is only temporary, this storage still costs Signal around $1.3 million dollars per year.

The cost of these registration services for verifying phone numbers when people first install Signal, or when they re-register on a new device, currently averages around $6 million dollars per year.

We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

then later invent new terms like “data lake” when their unquenchable thirst for more of your private information can no longer fit within the confines of a single warehouse

$6 million dollars per year.

These include the temporary storage of end-to-end encrypted data for message delivery

We plan to examine cross-class friendships across the United Kingdom

You have to be a fair way up the earnings scale to be a net taxpayer

But the growth in international student numbers has been concentrated in the cheapest universities with the lowest entry requirements

it’s had no effect on the numbers coming from rich countries, but has made a huge difference to the numbers coming from poorer countries.

due to concerns that it would lead to an increase in low-wage migration and universities marketing themselves on post-study employment potential rather than educational quality

and have instead allowed people to come and do low wage work.

309,000 work (15%)

British Indians, Chinese-Canadians and Nigerian-Americans all earn more than their white compatriots, suggesting racism is not the main determinant of their life chances.

A realistic number of workers should be admitted—and selected primarily by market forces, such as visa auctions.

Calling for the abolition of border controls, as some American radicals do, terrifies the median voter. Insisting that everyone should be defined by race and given a pecking order with the majority group ranked last, and then demanding that America admit millions more members of minority groups, is a recipe for ensuring Mr Trump’s re-election

Провождение 3-4 часа в день в кафе

Однодневная поездка в Гамбург с Игорем и встреча там с Толей, 4 августа.
Грибной трип с Игорем и Темой, 1 сентября.

Are GLP-1 agonists “forever” drugs that people have to take indefinitely to preserve weight loss?
Right now it appears they may be, though the jury is still out. Researchers reported that 1 year after people stopped therapy, two-thirds of their lost body weight returned. For researchers who increasingly consider obesity a chronic condition, the need for ongoing treatment isn’t surprising. But the drugs’ cost can be prohibitive, with a sticker price of more than $1000 a month, and the prospect of lifelong use troubles many.
Against this backdrop, the next chapter is already unfolding: therapies that mimic multiple hormones and appear to be even more slimming. One, Eli Lilly & Co.’s tirzepatide, was approved in the U.S. in November for weight loss after being greenlit last year for diabetes; a large clinical trial reported that those taking it lost up to 21% of their body weight.

AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;
AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).

social scoring based on social behaviour or personal characteristics;

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, filed a lengthy whistleblower complaint about the company submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission in July. In it, he said he believed the governments of India, Nigeria and Russia had each tried to get Twitter to hire hand-picked people as full-time employees who would potentially spy on users.

He received hundreds of thousands of dollars and used some of that money to put a down payment on a home in Seattle, Wash.

The Saudi government severely penalizes anti-government expression on social media sites like Twitter. In April, courts sentenced Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi citizen and 34-year-old mother of two children, to 34 years in prison for tweets protesting the government.

What keeps him up at night these days is something far more prosaic: an urban coyote that has colonized the grounds of his $27 million home in San Francisco. “This coyote moved into my house and scratches on the door outside,” he says, picking up his iPhone and, with a couple of taps, flipping the screen around to reveal a picture of the animal lounging on an outdoor sofa. “It’s very cute, but it’s very annoying at night.”

Or as Altman puts it, “Stuff only gets better because people show up and work. No one else is coming to save the day. You’ve just got to do it.”

And while mission is a powerful draw for OpenAI employees, so too is money. Nearly every full-time OpenAI employee has financial interests in OpenAI’s success, including former board members Brockman and Sutskever. (Altman, who draws a salary of $65,000, does not have equity beyond an indirect investment through his stake in YC.) A tender offer to let OpenAI employees sell shares at an $86 billion valuation to outside investors was planned for a week after Altman’s firing; employees who stood to earn millions by December feared that option would vanish. “It’s unprecedented in history to see a company go potentially to zero if everybody walks,” says one of the people familiar with the board’s discussions. “It’s unsurprising that employees banded together in the face of that particular threat.”

Asked on a walk through OpenAI’s headquarters whether he has a vision of the future to help make sense of his various investments and interests, Altman says simply, “Abundance. That’s it.” The pursuits of fusion and superintelligence are cornerstones of the more equitable and prosperous future he envisions: “If we get abundant intelligence and abundant energy,” he says, “that will do more to help people than anything else I can possibly think of.”

Soon after becoming the leader of YC, Altman visited the headquarters of the nuclear-fusion startup Helion in Redmond, Wash. CEO David Kirtley recalls Altman showing up with a stack of physics textbooks and quizzing him about the design choices behind Helion’s prototype reactor. What shone through, Kirtley recalls, was Altman’s obsession with scalability. Assuming you could solve the scientific problem, how could you build enough reactors fast enough to meet the energy needs of the U.S.? What about the world? Helion was among the first hard-tech companies to join YC. Altman also wrote a personal check for $9.5 million and has since forked over an additional $375 million to Helion—his largest personal investment. “I think that’s the responsibility of capitalism,” Altman says. “You take big swings at things that are important to get done.”

Fortuyn was assassinated during the 2002 Dutch national election campaign[9][10][11] by Volkert van der Graaf, a left-wing environmentalist and animal rights activist.[12] In court at his trial, van der Graaf said he murdered Fortuyn to stop him from exploiting Muslims as "scapegoats" and targeting "the weak members of society" in seeking political power.[13][14][15] The LPF went on to poll in second place during the election but went into decline soon after.

After freeing themselves from the church, people want to liberate themselves from the secularised counterpart of Christianity, humanism, also called social democracy. It is not without reason that the right wing of the electorate likes to use the phrase, always with mild disgust, “leftist church” to refer to their opponents inside politics and beyond. Unlike in the US, many Dutch people believe that religion is something for the stupid, for people who are not yet enlightened.

To be fair, the Netherlands was once “pillarised”. Before being secularised, people were Catholic, Protestant, Reformed, socialist or liberal, and for as long as most citizens remained loyal to those pillars, they sought politicians for whom the same applied. Secularisation and depillarisation were considered a great liberation – the somewhat sentimental sense that something had been lost in that liberation only set in later. What was left of you without a pillar to cling to? “Dutch” turned out to be too feeble as an identity on its own. As Queen Máxima put it in 2007, when she was still a princess: “The Dutchman does not exist.”

Hi everyone,
Beginning today, I'll be transitioning into a new role here at HashiCorp as an individual contributor focused on engineering.

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Typically, you can expect to poison 20% or more of all images to have an effect.

Zhao admits there is a risk that people might abuse the data poisoning technique for malicious uses. However, he says attackers would need thousands of poisoned samples to inflict real damage on larger, more powerful models, as they are trained on billions of data samples.

The poisoned data is very difficult to remove, as it requires tech companies to painstakingly find and delete each corrupted sample.

MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research,

While interviewing post-FB to other companies as an SRE-type-engineer, it seemed to me that outside of FANN it's not common to give engineers a very wide scope. One company asked me whether I'd like to join the monitoring team or the container team, to which I replied "why can't I work in whatever team needs me the most, and switch whenever needed?". They didn't like that.

We kept only the first 50 tokens of each sample that serve as a prefix

If the BLEU score between the completion and original sample is higher than 0.75, this specific sample is deemed memorized.

Сам он объяснил это тем, что устал убеждать союзников в том, что с их помощью Украина может победить российскую армию. «Никто так не верит в нашу победу, как я. Никто», — сказал Зеленский в интервью изданию после этого визита

От Каира до Иерусалима 726 километров. Согласно гугл-картам, этот путь человек может преодолеть пешком примерно за шесть дней. Моисей же водил вышедших из Египта евреев по пустыне 40 лет. Почему? Мы знаем ответ на этот вопрос. Шутливая его версия звучит так: «Чтобы найти на Ближнем Востоке единственное место, где нет ни нефти, ни газа». Настоящая же причина в другом: Моисей ждал, чтобы умер последний из рожденных в рабстве, потому что рабы не могут выстроить свободное общество.

ведь лишь искусство способно сформулировать для человеческой жизни правила таким образом, чтобы они воспринимались именно как правила, а не как приглашение к спору

«Русская литература не спасла от ГУЛАГа, но помогала выжить в стране-ГУЛАГе»

Богатейшая культура — литература, музыка, кино — не уберегли Германию от нацизма и Гитлера. Японию — от военных преступлений в Китае. Не уберегли Соединенные Штаты от войн во Вьетнаме, Ираке и Афганистане, от бомбардировок Белграда. Иран — от режима аятолл.

n a polarised age, lots of people infer their opinions from their political allegiance rather than the other way round. This, thinks Mr Mounk, is part of the new ideology’s appeal: it furnishes an all-purpose vocabulary to apply to any conflict. In this schema, the powerless can do no wrong, least of all to the powerful—and nobody can be both

Many young voters do not have direct memories of the attacks of September 11th 2001, a calamity which shaped older Americans’ views of Islamist terrorists such as Hamas.

In Germany, for instance, where a synagogue has been firebombed and stars of David daubed on Jewish homes, some Islamists exist in “parallel societies”, relying on digital and overseas news, says Felix Klein, the federal commissioner for antisemitism. So, he adds, do many on the far right, which commits most of the country’s antisemitic crimes. (There, as in America, the two groups have made common cause online.)

Demand for disinformation, reckons Peter Pomerantsev of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is an even bigger problem than supply. In wartime, “people are looking for reasons to confirm their biases,” he says glumly. “It isn’t about the facts.”

Awareness of Nazism and the Holocaust, meanwhile, which for decades coloured German attitudes to Israel and antisemitism, is waning. Some Muslims, says Professor Julia Bernstein of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, think this awful past “is not our history”, and that they are now the real victims of prejudice in Germany.

So while they seem to be the same temperature initially, the microwaved liquid will cool faster than the coffee pot because the centre of the microwaved liquid being colder; will help cool the edge which is what is felt.

The Royal College of Anaesthetists is to consider whether it has confidence in the UK National Health Service's recruitment process, following revelations that it made serious mistakes in selecting candidates owing to inappropriate and poorly managed use of Microsoft Excel.
Last week The Register exclusively revealed that the body responsible for recruitment – the Anaesthetic National Recruitment Office (ANRO) – told all candidates for positions in Wales they were "unappointable" despite some of them achieving the highest interview scores.
A subsequent Significant Incident Review showed how seven differently formatted spreadsheets were combined into one using manual processes. An error meant "rank" was confused with the interview score, and the best candidate got a score of one. Since there were only 24 candidates, all were considered below the threshold interview score to be considered appointable.

It’s much more affordable than London or New York or Los Angeles, with robust housing growth driven by infill-friendly land-use policy

It used to be that urban growth was limited by the political and logistical possibilities of obtaining food. Today it’s largely limited by zoning.

Some China scholars have told me over the years that the real concern is a super-giant city that could become a single point of failure in case of mass protests

The planning regime in London is so hostile to redevelopment that relative to the preservationist baseline, German bombings during World War II turn out to have had net economic benefits to the city by allowing for higher-density redevelopment

The unusual history of Singapore and its divorce from Malaysia make it an extreme case

London is so expensive that land and structures freed up by the departure of government institutions would be swiftly reused by other interests. Northern England, which is cheaper and poorer, would benefit from the jobs.

It seems like pre-modern economies couldn’t really sustain cities without the city actually ruling over a hinterland that it administered.

The most up-to-date data source we could find on the sizes of cities over time comes from Stanford’s Ian Morris.

models learn a representation of places that—after a linear transformation—is more or less consistent with their location on a map.

Read the paper here.

Intuit, which profits from tax prep software, has lobbied against programs like this pilot for over a decade. It’s insisted, then as now, that taxpayers already have free alternatives, but not everyone sees it that way.

Apparently Netherlands has a very high rate of part-time careers. Statstics
suggest that they are the highest in the world by a large margin.

Another, even more lightweight option for irriationally risk-averse
traditionalists is to offer 90% jobs, resulting in an extra day every 2
weeks

I grew up in the Netherlands, but I moved to Canada for my first programmer
job at age 20

But no human pathogen is known to use bedbugs as a vector—perhaps because there has not been time for one to evolve the ability.

sextupled (see chart)

The story is not so much one of bad hygiene and dirty trains as it is another cautionary tale of globalisation, climate change and evolutionary biology. Warm cities provide ideal environments for bedbugs

Like bacteria, the insects are becoming resistant to the chemicals used to kill them

At 30km/h, the braking distance is 13 metres, less than half of that at 50km/h (27 metres). With a maximum speed of 30km/h, we expect 20 to 30% fewer serious accidents. The probability of a pedestrian surviving an accident in which the car was moving at 30km/h is 95%. We also think traffic noise will be cut in half. The city will be quieter and a more pleasant place to be in.

Ключевая компания на этом рынке — тайваньская TSMC. Она производит около 90% всех микрочипов в мире.

The study, titled "Apoptotic stress causes mtDNA release during senescence and drives the SASP," is published in Nature. It investigates why aged and damage cells cause inflammation, and how that process could be halted in order to promote healthy aging and even improve treatments for diseases such as cancer.

BankCo uses a secure data environment to access the information, and gives access to this environment to its collaborators when it shares the anonymised information.

inference with other available information;

As the information is shared only with known financial institutions, the risk of attackers is lower, so BankCo decides to apply less noise.

As an audio engineer, I prefer not to use sounds like dings or rings as reminders while I’m working. Instead, I rely on my sense of smell. When I need to remember an important meeting, I place a slice of bread in my toaster oven, which is connected to a Wemo smart plug. Then, I ask my Google Assistant to turn on the toaster five minutes before the event. When I smell toast, it reminds me that I have a meeting in a few minutes.

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2].

В человеке должно быть все прекрасно: и лицо, и одежда, и душа, и мысли. Она прекрасна, спора нет, но... ведь она только ест, спит, гуляет, чарует всех нас своею красотой — и больше ничего. У нее нет никаких обязанностей, на нее работают другие... Ведь так? А праздная жизнь не может быть чистою.

Астров. Женщина может быть другом мужчины лишь в такой последовательности: сначала приятель, потом любовница, а затем уж друг.
Войницкий. Пошляческая философия.
Астров. Как? Да... Надо сознаться,— становлюсь пошляком.

Войницкий. Он там... у меня ночует

Елена Андреевна. Погоди, имей терпение: через пять-шесть лет и я буду стара

Всю жизнь работать для науки, привыкнуть к своему кабинету, к аудитории, к почтенным товарищам — и вдруг, ни с того, ни с сего, очутиться в этом склепе, каждый день видеть тут глупых людей, слушать ничтожные разговоры.

Елена Андреевна. Замолчи! Ты меня замучил!

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Елена Андреевна. Ах, и лень, и скучно! Все бранят моего мужа, все смотрят на меня с сожалением: несчастная, у нее старый муж! Это участие ко мне — о, как я его понимаю! Вот как сказал сейчас Астров: все вы безрассудно губите леса, и скоро на земле ничего не останется. Точно так вы безрассудно губите человека, и скоро, благодаря вам, на земле не останется ни верности, ни чистоты, ни способности жертвовать собою. Почему вы не можете видеть равнодушно женщину, если она не ваша? Потому что — прав этот доктор — во всех вас сидит бес разрушения. Вам не жаль ни лесов, ни птиц, ни женщин, ни друг друга...
Войницкий. Не люблю я этой философии!

Мария Васильевна. Интересно, но как-то странно. Опровергает то, что семь лет назад сам же защищал. Это ужасно!

Заткни фонтан, Вафля

Кто изменяет жене или мужу, тот, значит, неверный человек, тот может изменить и отечеству!

Войницкий. Да... Очень. (Зевает.) С тех пор, как здесь живет профессор со своею супругой, жизнь выбилась из колеи... Сплю не вовремя, за завтраком и обедом ем разные кабули, пью вина... не здорово все это! Прежде минуты свободной не было, я и Соня работали — мое почтение, а теперь работает одна Соня, а я сплю, ем, пью... Нехорошо!

Нет. Я не каждый день водку пью. К тому же душно.

Learn three chords, start a band, and go on tour. Ride a bicycle
as far as you can. Go WWOOFing
or start a community garden in your neighborhood. Put together a traveling
puppet show. Build a drone to engage the emerging drones
controlled by domestic police. Do whatever — but make it uncomfortable (like leaving prison!) and make it count.

I know that by making choices designed to land me in the first
class cabin, it would be difficult to avoid also inheriting the dreariness associated with its current occupants.

I recently got around to reading Aaron Cometbus’
enjoyable “Cometbus #54, In China With Green Day?!!” One of my favorite quotes was:




Some things are like that—they strike you as repugnant for instinctive
reasons, probably having to do with your culture and the way you were
raised. The French word “gauche” comes to mind, but I preferred the
Hebrew word “treyf.” Literally, it means not kosher, but I also use it
to describe things like cars, bars, strip clubs, guns, dogs, rock-n-roll,
and football games. Things that are treyf, you avoid, not because you
hate them per se, but because in avoiding them you keep yourself from
becoming like the people you hate.


– Aaron Cometbus, “Cometbus #54”




The concept resonates with me for the same reasons. Like Aaron, I have my own list of things that
are treyf, not because I find them necessarily unenjoyable, but because they add up to something
that I ultimately dislike.

“Elon is cutting off his support,” Altman said in a panicky call to Reid Hoffman. “What do we do?” Hoffman volunteered to keep the company afloat, paying overhead and salaries.

Its offices look like an Architectural Digest spread. I have visited virtually every major tech company in Silicon Valley and beyond, and not one surpasses the coffee options in the lobby of OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco.

“Sam has been extremely helpful, but also very savvy, in the way that he has dealt with members of Congress,” says Richard Blumenthal, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He contrasts Altman’s behavior with that of the younger Bill Gates, who unwisely stonewalled legislators when Microsoft was under antitrust investigations in the 1990s. “Altman, by contrast, was happy to spend an hour or more sitting with me to try to educate me,” says Blumenthal. “He didn’t come with an army of lobbyists or minders. He demonstrated ChatGPT. It was mind-blowing.”

comedian Sarah Silverman, who are suing OpenAI for using their content to train its models. One hint of OpenAI’s path: partnerships with news and photo agencies like the Associated Press and Shutterstock to provide content for its models without questions of who owns what.

One study indicated that more recent versions of GPT, which have improved safety features, are actually dumber than previous versions, making errors in basic math problems that earlier programs had aced. (Altman says that OpenAI’s data doesn’t confirm this. “Wasn’t that study retracted?” he asks. No.)

OpenAI was stunned at the reaction to ChatGPT. “Our internal excitement was more focused on GPT-4,” says Murati, the CTO. “And so we didn’t think ChatGPT was really going to change everything.” To the contrary, it galvanized the public to the reality that AI had to be dealt with, now.

OpenAI now charges customers who use its products frequently. But OpenAI insists that its true strategy is to provide a soft landing for the singularity. “It doesn’t make sense to just build AGI in secret and drop it on the world,” Altman says. “Look back at the industrial revolution—everyone agrees it was great for the world,” says Sandhini Agarwal, an OpenAI policy researcher. “But the first 50 years were really painful. There was a lot of job loss, a lot of poverty, and then the world adapted. We’re trying to think how we can make the period before adaptation of AGI as painless as possible.”

A dreamer is in a situation akin to someone suffering from schizophrenia—an illness often marked by a profound difficulty in distinguishing between self and other. Healthy people can’t typically tickle themselves, but people with schizophrenia can; yet researchers have found that, if healthy people woken from REM sleep tickle themselves, they often respond to their own touch as if it’s someone else’s.

According to research by Imperial College academics Ana-Maria Cretu and Shubham Jain, published last May, AI driven Client Side Scanning systems could be quietly tweaked to perform facial recognition on user devices without the user’s knowledge. They warned of more vulnerabilities that have yet to be identified.

safer

These tools are used by companies such as Vimeo, Flickr and OpenAI – the creator of chatbot ChatGPT and one of many beneficiaries of Kutcher’s IT investments – and by law enforcement agencies across the globe.

Though registered in the EU lobby database as a charity, Thorn sells its AI tools on the market for a profit; since 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security, for example, has purchased software licences from Thorn for a total of $4.3 million.

“But someone must also speak for the children.”

That campaign faces a major test in October when Johansson’s proposal is put to a vote in the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament.

Not all Hollywood directors are DGA members. Notable exceptions include George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez.[12] Quentin Tarantino directed six feature films before becoming a DGA member, in 2012.[14] Those who are not members of the guild are unable to direct for the larger movie studios, which are signatories to the guild's agreements that all directors must be guild members.[12]

We should seek to win the race to global AI technological superiority and ensure that China does not.

But, using the principles I described above, think of what it would mean for literally all existing human labor to be replaced by machines.It would mean a takeoff rate of economic productivity growth that would be absolutely stratospheric, far beyond any historical precedent. Prices of existing goods and services would drop across the board to virtually zero. Consumer welfare would skyrocket. Consumer spending power would skyrocket. New demand in the economy would explode. Entrepreneurs would create dizzying arrays of new industries, products, and services, and employ as many people and AI as they could as fast as possible to meet all the new demand.

And the reality, which is obvious to everyone in the Bay Area but probably not outside of it, is that “AI risk” has developed into a cult, which has suddenly emerged into the daylight of global press attention and the public conversation. This cult has pulled in not just fringe characters, but also some actual industry experts and a not small number of wealthy donors – including, until recently, Sam Bankman-Fried. And it’s developed a full panoply of cult behaviors and beliefs.

In short, AI doesn’t want, it doesn’t have goals, it doesn’t want to kill you, because it’s not alive. And AI is a machine – is not going to come alive any more than your toaster will.

creation of new jobs

Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love.

The most validated core conclusion of social science across many decades and thousands of studies is that human intelligence makes a very broad range of life outcomes better.

The application of mathematics and software code to teach computers how to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge in ways similar to how people do it

Google's record on pervasive tracking is disappointing, but it allows the company to build a great search engine we all love and use.

Targeting advertising is creepy, but the whole swathe of small businesses couldn't exist without it.

While the foundational theoretical part could be interpreted generously and can spark interesting discussions (e.g. the concept of three modernities is a useful framework), once the book gets to real world examples it becomes just too ridiculous.

"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience."

Life is more enjoyable in a create-fail-learn loop than a consume-criticize-gloat loop.

Александр Гаврилов, председатель оргкомитета премии «Просветитель», вспоминает, что с начала нулевых и до середины десятых самым успешным научпопом считались книги об устройстве мира: движении планет или тайнах ДНК. Все попытки говорить с читателем о современности, считает Гаврилов, не имели коммерческого успеха. Но по мере приближения к войне — которую, как полагает эксперт, рынок предугадал, — книг о текущей общественной проблематике становилось все больше, и Individuum как раз собрал вокруг себя аудиторию, которую волновали эти изменения.

When spam is detected, clear the form (so all the info needs to re-typed) and throw an error, eg: "Our servers are bearly managing. Try again later."
Disable pasting in all text areas. We can't make it too easy.
Every 5 to 10 seconds the element focus switches to a different input so while they're typing in one area, they may accidentally start typing in another in a mildly annoying way.
And finally to top it off, if/when they finally manage to submit the form again, throw a different error, eg: "Ensure content contains necessary parameters."
Repeat.

Blue is one of the rarest colors to appear in nature, which makes blue coloration in animals particularly fascinating. To appear blue, an object needs to absorb very small amounts of energy while reflecting high-energy blue light. Generating molecules capable of absorbing this energy is complex, making blue in nature relatively rare. What's even more fascinating is its ability to not only display blue but also a beautiful violet hue, creating a remarkable iridescent effect.

Тунея́дство (от церк.-слав. туне «даром, без платы; напрасно; без причины» + ясти «есть, питаться»)

Swift 5.9 also includes smaller, quality-of-life changes to the language, like the ability to use if and switch as expressions for variable assignment and return values

The new consume operator tells Swift to deinitialize a variable and transfer its contents without copying it. The consuming and borrowing parameter modifiers provide hints that Swift can use to eliminate unnecessary copying and reference-counting operations when passing a parameter.

Спецслужбы успешно взломают гаджет, если на телефоне есть хотя бы одно приложение, уязвимое для этой шпионской программы (просчитать риски очень сложно: иногда такие уязвимости есть даже в приложениях, предустановленных самой Apple)

комитета Европарламента по вопросам использования Pegasus (PEGA)

На протяжении нескольких лет организация систематически тестировала гаджеты журналистов и активистов из РФ

Совещание про Pegasus в кабинете у Тимченко затянулось до того момента, когда создатель ЧВК Вагнера Евгений Пригожин объявил о начале своего «похода на Москву».

The case centers on whether Google illegally cemented its dominance and squashed competition by paying Apple and other companies to make its internet search engine the default on the iPhone as well as on other devices and platforms.

Monopoly trials can change the direction of industries. In 1984, under pressure from the Justice Department, AT&T split itself into seven regional telecom companies. The breakup transformed the telecommunications industry by making it more competitive at the dawn of the mobile phone era.But the effects of the government’s antitrust battle with Microsoft in the early 2000s were less clear cut. The two sides eventually settled after Microsoft agreed to end certain contracts with PC makers that blocked rival software makers.Some tech executives said the Justice Department’s actions made Microsoft more cautious, clearing the way for start-ups like Google to compete in the next era of computing. Bill Gates, a Microsoft founder, has blamed the hangover from the antitrust suit for the company’s slow entry into mobile technology and the failure of its Windows phone. But others have argued that the settlement did little to increase competition.

Fireworks are expected at the trial, which is scheduled to last 10 weeks. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, as well as executives from Apple and other tech companies will probably be called as witnesses.Judge Amit P. Mehta, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014, is presiding over the trial, which will not have a jury, and he will issue the final ruling.

By contrast, consumer software tools that enhance human agency, that serve us when we are most creative and intentional, are often built by hobbyists and used by a handful of nerds

Here’s what I’ve been able to piece together about the marginal user. Let’s call him Marl. The first thing you need to know about Marl is that he has the attention span of a goldfish on acid. Once Marl opens your app, you have about 1.3 seconds to catch his attention with a shiny image or triggering headline, otherwise he’ll swipe back to TikTok and never open your app again.Marl’s tolerance for user interface complexity is zero. As far as you can tell he only has one working thumb, and the only thing that thumb can do is flick upwards in a repetitive, zombielike scrolling motion. As a product designer concerned about the wellbeing of your users, you might wonder - does Marl really want to be hate-reading Trump articles for 6 hours every night? Is Marl okay? You might think to add a setting where Marl can enter his preferences about the content he sees: less politics, more sports, simple stuff like that. But Marl will never click through any of your hamburger menus, never change any setting to a non-default. You might think Marl just doesn’t know about the settings. You might think to make things more convenient for Marl, perhaps add a little “see less like this” button below a piece of content. Oh boy, are you ever wrong. This absolutely infuriates Marl. On the margin, the handful of pixels occupied by your well-intentioned little button replaced pixels that contained a triggering headline or a cute image of a puppy. Insufficiently stimulated, Marl throws a fit and swipes over to TikTok, never to return to your app. Your feature decreases DAUs in the A/B test. In the launch committee meeting, you mumble something about “user agency” as your VP looks at you with pity and scorn. Your button doesn’t get deployed. You don’t get your promotion. Your wife leaves you. Probably for Marl.

Markets are cultural acidA recurrent thought, inspired by Jane Jacobs, James Scott, WEIRD psychology in general, globalism. It really feels like something valuable is lost when you open up unrestricted market competition - the ease and liquidity of optimizing for money systematically erodes all other forms of value.Most obvious among friends if you start quantifying the value your friends have to you, relative values of gifts and services etc. Business relationships and personal relationships are not fully compatible.Counterargument: markets are just another tool, and one that pushes towards more cooperation and cultural creation, not less (due to more positive-sum bargains being possible).

It is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.

Psilocybin is present in varying concentrations in over 200 species of Basidiomycota mushrooms.

After the defeat of the Aztecs, the Spanish forbade traditional religious practices and rituals that they considered "pagan idolatry", including ceremonial mushroom use. For the next four centuries, the Indians of Mesoamerica hid their use of entheogens from the Spanish authorities.

A 2011 prospective study by Roland R. Griffiths and colleagues suggests that a single high dosage of psilocybin can cause long-term changes in the personality of its users. About half of the study participants—described as healthy, "spiritually active", and many possessing postgraduate degrees—showed an increase in the personality dimension of openness (assessed using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory), and this positive effect was apparent more than a year after the psilocybin session. According to the study authors, the finding is significant because "no study has prospectively demonstrated personality change in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event".[14] A further study by Griffiths in 2017 found that doses of 20 to 30mg/70kg psilocybin inducing mystical-type experiences brought more lasting changes to traits including altruism, gratitude, forgiveness and feeling close to others when they were combined with a regular meditation practice and an extensive spiritual practice support program.

A central puzzle in evolutionary biology is that of spontaneous altruism. When two creatures interact, why might one sacrifice something of value in order to help the other? Why, if I’m rich, might I want to help the poor? In one view of the problem, there’s no good reason for it. By giving, I become poorer. Why would I want that? Naturally, there’s another view — one which takes advantage of the ergodicity concept — which says it’s not so much about zero-sum giving and receiving but rather about behaving in a way that benefits all in the long run. As Khalil Gibran put it, “They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”

This situation bears similarities to Fortran, where the value of the existing validated code for physics simulations and other scientific computations consistently outweighs the costs associated with using one of the oldest programming languages in existence. You can still get a job today as a Fortran programmer—although you’ll probably need to be able to get a security clearance, since those jobs are mostly at U.S. federal defense or energy labs like the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.