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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]

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.”