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The Alignment Problem was a stand out read for me this year; it should be required reading for anyone training and deploying ML models. Incredibly well researched and chockablock with real world examples.

I don't mean to come across as patronising or holier-than-thou, but regardless of what you think about someone, reductive name calling is antithetical to civil discourse.

Annoyingly, HN logic strips out the URI fragment, here's the comment in question.

https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/287#issuecomment-128...

Surely it's not a coincidence that on the day FTX announces bankruptcy, this gigantic hack occurs?

Some folks in this thread are speculating this might've been an inside job.

I suspect, it's likelier that hackers had been aware of a vulnerability for some time, had a plan to drain these funds, but decided to hasten the timeline on the basis of the news FTX was going under.

It's clearly not an apples for apples comparison. Op said "for an organisation", not for a company without fulfilment centers, drivers, etc.

What did the process look like? Did you find out first from HR, from Zuck's memo, your manager, or was your laptop just remotely KO'd?

If you think 85,000 if a lot (it is), Amazon employs a whopping 1.6m.

> In 2021, the American multinational e-commerce company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, employed 1,608,000 full- and part-time employees.[1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-...

One of my pet peeves is that, even where there are doors on these supermarket fridges, I've found that it's common for staff to lock them in the open position to streamline shelf stacking (presumably), then fail to unlock them.

I'm so irritated by this phenomenon I'll unlock those doors to close them.

In the news section:

> 2022 Wreck of Äpplet warship, sistership to Vasa, found in Sweden.

For anyone who’s not been to Stockholm and seen the Vasa, I thoroughly recommend you push it to your things-to-see-before-I-die list.

While I agree that the permissions seem over and above what's necessary, there's a trivial solution available that I've been using for many years: create a Google account (or several!) that's exclusively used for _untrusted_ services. Would you really care if this - or any - app has access to an empty calendar, can access its empty Drive, or ends up adding an irrelevant email address to a spam list?

(By the way, it's not lost on me that you probably already do have such a setup, it's just, I know far too many folks who don't!)

Revolut also [1]

[1]. https://developer.revolut.com/

> Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.

This same thing happened to me. I was trying to register an obscure domain name (never before registered), left it for several hours, then came back to find it snapped up. The chances this was done without inside information on my lookups are surely slim. And with all the personal stories flying round like yours, I'm also inclined to believe a GoDaddy employee (or GoDaddy themselves!) sniped it.

This actually seems a reasonable enough solution to the bot problem, but doesn’t address the fake content problem. A human can still upload fake stuff.

Compare the content of today to two years ago. Now extrapolate from that. Right now, sure. In another two years?

A quick Google suggests the author is correct here, in that etymologically robota initially meant forced labour.

Estonia is in NATO, an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies. Maybe I'm trivialising the issue, but that fact alone seems a large enough deterrent to any potential Russian offensive.

Steven Bartlett has a really insightful with Tom Blomfield about this [1], and then also with Starling CEO Anne Boden [2]. While I'm generally not a great fan of his podcast, these two I found to be fascinating.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/e86-monzo-ceo-on-death...

[2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e107-starling-bank-bui...

You mean, the abstract?

I keep rattling my brain trying to discern what the implications of hyper advanced generative models like this will be. It's a double edged sword. While there's obvious tangible benefits from such models such as democratising art, the flip side seems like pure science fiction dystopia.

In my mind, the main eras of content on the internet look something like this:

Epoch 1: Pure, unblemished user generated content. Message boards and forums rule.

Epoch 2: More user generated content + a healthy mix of recycled user generated content. e.g. Reddit.

Epoch 3 (Now): Fake user generated content (limits to how much because humans still have to generate it). e.g. Amazon reviews, Cambridge Analytica.

Epoch 4: Advanced generative models means (essentially) zero friction for creating picture and text content. GPT3, Dalle-2.

Epoch 5: Generative models for videos, game over.

IMO, the future of the internet feels like a totally disastrous (un)reality. If addictive content recommended by the likes of TikTok has proven anything, it's that users ultimately don't care _what_ the content is, as long as it keeps their attention. It doesn't matter if it comes from a human or a machine. The difference is that in a world where the marginal cost of generating content is essentially zero, that content can and will be created and manipulated by large malicious actors to sway public opinion.

The Dead Internet Theory will fast become reality. This terrifies me.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...

A while back I had to perform an entity resolution task on several million entities.

We arrived at a point in the algorithm where we had a long list of connected components by ids that needed to be reduced into a mutually independent set of components, e.g. ({112, 531, 25}, {25, 238, 39, 901}, {43, 111}, ...)

After much head banging about working out way to do this that wouldn't lead to an out-of-memory error, we found the Disjoint Set Forest Data Structure and our prayers were answered.

I was very grateful for it!

Most countries have incredibly sub-par banking systems that work against the consumer. The UK is really on another level, though many countries are catching up.

I can't speak for Monzo but Revolut have presence in Singapore, and the product is incredibly feature rich.

While the U.K. and its allies may have been aware of the Holocaust prior to the end of the war, there wasn’t exactly a lot they could do; they were already at war with the Nazis.

Provocative and bold statements like yours require robust and trustworthy sources. Please provide.

Your replies and original comment so far have read like you have an anti-British agenda.

I can't help but think one of the most appealing aspects of Hitler would've been his ability to deliver passionate speeches.

For example, I have no idea what he's saying in this speech [1], but the tone at which he delivers it is undeniably quite mesmerising, especially when compared to the tone of, say, Joe Biden [2].

In a time where radio ruled, it's hard not to think he wouldn't stand out, irregardless of the content contained in his speeches.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3N_2r6R-o

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c6R6nllpsc

AFAIK: the British Empire caused much suffering, but your comment is a blatant fabrication of it operated. For example, the British East India Company succeeded in gaining control in India not through war, but by striking deals with (or strong arming) local rulers and land owning elite, whom they rarely interfered with directly but instead used them for collecting taxes and enforcing law and order. The size of the British military in India was apparently very small.

I just clicked a link to read an article on The Economist [1] and it made me appreciate that, even though I can't read the article, it's SO much nicer to have a message inline with the subscription offer instead of as a popup.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/07/14/europes-winter-...

I think actually it's: do it bigly AND do it in coordination with other folks across a number of institutions.

If it's just you doing it bigly, then you're in for a bad time (see Nicholas William Leeson [1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson

Wow you're right, huge difference in the sizes of the "full res" images:

> MIRI: Full Res, 1306 X 1133, TIF (1.78 MB) [1]

> NIR Cam: Full Res, 4833 X 4501, TIF (24.06 MB) [2]

Maybe it's a mistake, they suggest it should offer an "incredible amount of detail":

  This Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) image also offers an _incredible amount of detail_, including a cache of distant galaxies in the background. 

[1] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/033/01G...

[2] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/033/01G...

I agree that the feeling of immersion is at stake here (I feel this is why it was so off-putting to see Ed Sheeran in GoT scene), but I think this actually depends on the actor. There's so many that lack the talent or the will to mix it up, and consequently just playing themselves in roles. Chris Evans, Megan Fox, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Statham are some examples that come to mind.

Then there's others, like Daniel Day Lewis, Di Caprio, Ralph Fiennes, etc. who's roles comes across as being fiercely distinct and yet still utterly convincing.

This is a total paraphrase and possibly a mis-creditation, but I'm pretty sure Ian McKellen said something along the lines of "When you watch good actors, you think, they're a good actor. When you watch great actors, you actually believe they're a real person."