skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought from day one that the name «OpenAI» would at best be a slight misnomer, and at worst indicative of a misguided approach. If AGI is close to being achieved, sharing key details of the approach to any actors at all could trigger a Manhattan Project-type global arms race where safety was compromised and the whole thing became insanely risky for the future of humanity.

Glad to see that the team is taking a pragmatic safety-first approach here, as well as towards the near-term economical realities of funding a very expensive project to ensure the fastest possible progress.

In the early days of OpenAI, my thoughts were that the project had good intentions, but a misguided focus. The last year has changed that, though. They absolutely seem to be on the right track. Very excited to see their progress over the next years.
> At the very least they need to give brand owners the tools to protect their brands- an option to put non-authorized resellers' shipments into a separate comingled bin, and have all the authorized resellers in another.

As a brand I think you can stop others listing your products. I tried to sell something a while back and was refused because I was a third party seller.
+1 on all fronts. Rewrites/big refactors can be tremendously helpful 3-4 years in a big project's life. At least on the stuff I've worked on, that's around the time that accumulated tech debt has built up and the problem domain the we were hoping to solve is now well understood with production traffic.
Foreign interferences have long been the main talking point of CCP and HK establishment, but it's mostly a smokescreen or misjudgement of the current protests, if you ask me.
I don't understand what a privatized prison system has to do anything with the rest of your argument which seems to be more of a rant than anything.

Democracy isn't new its older than communism. Democracy also took time to develop in the West. It's unfathomable to someone who has never been fed information that the Party didn't change.
Your local adjustments aren't competitive, though. I live in a low cost of living area, but I could easily make at least 50% more than what your salary calculator shows at any of a number of local companies. And, in practice, I work remotely for a Silicon Valley company and make even more than that (while still saving them money relative to SV rates).
I'm a believer that we are super sophisticated molecular machines, embodied in matter.

Can you provide some material that supports your claim that AGI is metaphysically impossible - I always like hearing from people with views opposite to myself.
From Table 3 Fasting Blood Measurement Baseline:

> PYY (pg/mL) 25.1 ± 1.9 34.3 ± 1.9

PYY is a hormone which regulates feeding in humans. From another study:

> Several lines of evidence suggest that low circulating PYY concentrations predispose towards the development and or maintenance of obesity. [0]

A highly processed diet reduces the levels of PYY in the blood by around 30-40%. That's pretty damning evidence.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670018/
Point 3 seems to redefine “rewrite” as “partial rewrite”, which is essentially in the spirit of “never rewrite the [whole] code[base] from scratch”. Am I missing something?

Edit: Clarified quote of original rule.
I canceled my Prime ages ago, and have pretty much entirely stopped ordering from Amazon. It's impossible to navigate their storefront to find the legit items, and then you hear stories like these where even the legit items are fraudulent. I just can't be bothered. Mostly I buy locally these days, or buy direct from book publishers and electronics manufacturers (or even more often, simply not buy). I've switched to using eBay for one-off items that are hard to find locally. eBay's system was designed from the beginning to make fraud easier to detect.

WRT Prime specifically, it's kind of a self-feeding problem. As Amazon's reputation tanks, you stop buying things, which makes Prime's value also tank.
It is large industry.
More than one of my acquaintances got their green card and then citizenship by paying $20-$30k for fake marriage to a US citizen.
The other commenters answered your first question about the sale of flow to HFT firms.

Regarding your second question, I wouldn't recommend trading a lot of size on Robinhood, or using market order in general, but brokerages that charge commissions do not necessarily offer better execution than Robinhood, many of them still route your flow to an HFT firm or have less than stellar order routing systems.
The hack I used to use to inject CSS into the app for a dark theme is no longer viable. So that changed.
You could make the rational (but... somewhat outrage-triggering) argument that it's cognitively-dissonant to both believe that teens cannot consent to sex with an adult but they CAN consent to a far more permanent and invasive gender change performed by adults (I just googled; hormone-blocking treatment usually begins at puberty onset)

And you could (probably) rationally argue against that argument

Or you could just deplatform anyone making the original argument against it and accomplish nothing
and that's really just the cost the actual mission. Consider the impact of having to prepare a program that meets acceptable risk levels for humans vs. machines. This is a huge consideration. I'm not suggesting unmanned exploration can take a trial and error approach, but losing a robot is sad & expensive while losing a human astronaut can terminate the entire program.
Yeah, in this release they're not saying they're doing research towards AI, or even that they're researching AI. They're saying that they're "building artificial general intelligence" and developing a platform that "will scale to AGI." (emphasis mine) They're also calling what they're actually building "pre-AGI."
Where's the rudder? How do they propose to control yaw without a rudder? Perhaps those long winglet-feathers can be modulated for yaw control?
The question why would I need to do that?

Btw. no, this is not how OOP works. With the method I outlayed I have very easy time to achieve idempotency, the thing you suggested makes it harder because the objects have internal state and the method calls can depend on those.
This looks a bit like https://metabase.com -- anyone used both and can make a comparison?
The very problems that were caused by not having native apps.

Thank you for making my point for me.
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Peter Singer was one of the signers of this letter, a name people outside of philosophy may recognize.
This is just too obvious and they tried to get attention, which isn't really like what China gov would do.
The HK gov's announcement and action so far are de-escalating the situation, it just not making any sense to support/allow such thing from happening. The aggressive protesters are only ones i could see benefits from it
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I'm a big fan of fathom and have been using it for my personal sites for about six months now- I've completely ditched Google Analytics and other providers.

When I heard that the new version wasn't going to be open source it was disappointing- both for the simple fact that I value open source, and also for how it wasn't really announced so much as heavily implied until I actually asked. Knowing that you've listened to the community and are going to open source the new version as well is a huge relief for me, and will definitely result in me promoting your product again.

I would say from a communication standpoint things could have been clearer, and I'm sure you'll work on that. From a timeline standpoint I think it would be nice if the open source and hosted versions eventually were released together, but with a full rewrite I also understand that you probably want to clean it up and make sure it's in good shape before doing so. That being said if you want some help with alpha testing the open source version I'd be happy to assist, and I'm sure others would as well.
If you can land a ship on the moon, you can land an ICBM on a house in Moscow. It was less about launching from the moon. It was more about getting it to land where you want.
This sure feels a lot like an attempt to spread FUD for profit.
Read the title as "Airbnb has unveiled..", and got pretty nervous.
I was doing this with qbasic back in the day.
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Neither do I, unless the CCP can't keep the economic growth engine running.
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Chat apps have been around for literally decades. There’s plenty of prior and current competing apps that do essentially the same thing and use a fraction of the resources.
How is a disguised return 0 anything remotely resembling a good question? I highly suspect most people who are "unable to answer" are actually just misunderstanding the question, since it's phrased in such a bizarre way. The way you phrased it, I'm not even 100% sure that "return 0" is the answer you're looking for!
I completely agree, but this would fall under point 1 for me.

See Twitter for a good example of where business interests and API stability intersect in negative ways. I would make the point that if you don't trust a business to keep their official API stable, you probably shouldn't be building a community around their tools in the first place, regardless of whether or not they have a native app.
I put together a tech focused version here [0] but it's still pretty small. Can I add you to the list? Happy to share how much you pay and more details about application process?

[0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...
1) :)

2) Thank you! Is it really flagged? That's too bad. And funny, in a sad way.
I'm definitely not suggesting something black and white. Maybe don't take a short paragraph as indicative of my entire thought on a topic.

I agree that there are bad people everywhere. But practicing many kinds of badness requires power over others. So it's entirely unsurprising that people who like those kinds of badness will disproportionately seek power.

And I'm hardly the first to observe this. As Douglas Adams wrote: "It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it..."
I think that the lack of a hundred or a thousand 10x advances (you may be more pessimistic than me) does not merit calling your work pre-AGI.
> There are people who believe that ideas exist that are both bad and that cannot be defeated rationally, but I think they are wrong.

Ok, so what does it look like when someone's argument is defeated rationally?

Who is the referee of when the defeat occurs?

What happens to that person if they don't agree with the referee, and persist in their irrational argument?

> you just wait and let that sink in because most of them will go quiet.

What should you do if they don't go quiet?

What should you do if they never go quiet, no matter what you say?

EDIT - it is incredibly apt that this comment is getting downvoted :-)
> Now I'm just annoyed that more teams I've been on haven't set this up!

For most people, it would be just a read-only copy. And the value of that is fairly small.
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I mean Chinese civilization, not just communism.
Hire too many employees, build out too much capacity without a market that can provide the necessary demand, operating costs get too high, and you're done. Of course if the terms of investments and the discipline of the founders are combined able to regulate the growth rate, these things become less of a problem.
There's this classic article on the topic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I don't doubt that, it was just an attempt to put the numbers in pespective, if you believe that it is only 1 month or 15 days of wage it is ok as well, but what was the actual inconvenience to them?

Let's bring it to the extreme, 35,000 US$ for the hassle of making four (fruitless) interviews?
I'm not especially interested in the "uneducated fools"—prod your average Christian, say, and it quickly becomes clear they barely understand the core tenets of their own sect and the sources of their beliefs, let alone even basic apologetics. "Become more knowledgable about the foundations and core beliefs of [faith] than the average adherent" is usually the work of a few days of casual research. Those folks believe because they just don't ever question it at all, which I find kind of dumbfounding seeing as they also profess their belief that it's all of actual no-BS cosmic importance so you'd think they could at least be bothered to read a book or two, but it's not hard to understand why they believe. Their actions are baffling, but not their belief. Then again folks of all sorts believe tons of stuff they don't act on particularly well, so maybe that's all it is. The above about how it's easy to become more knowledgable than the average faithful is true of most stuff people believe, not just religion—but then again, climate change, to pick an example, doesn't claim to have significance to one's eternal soul, so I'd say the stakes of even that are somewhat lower. But anyway, this part's not that interesting to me.

It's the ones who have wrestled with the stuff that I have trouble getting in the heads of. Do they all believe? Do even most of them? Surely not in the same way as those covered above—surely their faith is qualitatively different from that—but then, how? Or those who claim to be devout but hold serious secular power—are they really? Even most of them? And again, my trouble is with specific sets of stories and dogmas, not general "I like to think there's a higher power" stuff, which I have an easier time "getting", and in fact it's hard for me to understand that any significant portion of thoughtful religious aren't more or less of that variety and do believe they've joined a mostly or entirely correct religion, miracles and supernatural occurrences and all being actually true.

And that's before we throw in cultural and time gaps. What was the faith of the abbot or abbess of a 13th century monastic community like? What was it like in their heads? To what degree did a Pope, considering whether to grant one of these communities recognition, see their duty as political versus carrying out the will and protecting the interests of an almighty deity that became a person (only kind of, sort of, but not really—it's complicated, if you want to avoid heresy) then died, then some fly on the wall might have actually seen the dude's corpse re-animate—imagine the sight!—and some real, actual angels push a stone around, and all that really happened. That's where I get lost, trying to tease out motivations based on faith versus those where the faith's something else—social posturing, maybe.
I suppose the important bit is really that there's universal buy in (and with the moon landing thing that was supported by making it a matter of national pride).

With incremental progress you risk things looking invisible (just like AI is always just the things we can't yet do, while newly possible tasks are merely computations).

"Do some notable thing in two terms" monument building exercises risk being shot down on budget reasons when any part of government ends up under new management (see Congress).

So I guess you can go incremental (but solve the visibility bit somehow) or grand vision. Right now, NASA seems to be going through the worst of all.
I think there was a joke in there ;-)
I got the dark theme to work. Would you be interested in a write up?
interesting, so I checked out mirc and reported it's windows-only(hope to save someone sometime), and since I used irc over browser so I added some info for that. Still, obviously someone disliked this sort of comments and downvoted, I'm always surprised by downvotes like this sort, any bystander can shed some lights? Am I supposed to always write a cheerful comment for basic neutral truths?
Early warning satellites would be a heck of a lot easier to install than the missiles. Basically once someone started building such a plant it would be impossible to hide what you're doing.

You'd never get first strike launching from the Moon, regular ICBMs would be all over you long before the moon IPBMs made the 1 day journey back to Earth. Even with the faster travel speed from only having to accelerate out of the Moon's gravity well, you're talking about a distance of 384,000km vs. 8,000km. Your missiles arrive to a planet that is already a radioactive moonscape.
I see your point I just wanted to point out that there are different challenges for us than for nature. Flying like a bird has dirrent challanges than flying with a Boeing 747, even though these challenges might share a subset of the physics, like the Bernoulli’s principle.
I don't know, it seems backwards to me.
Is there a way to allow shorts without having to manage margin and having to carry risk on the balance sheet? They have to deal with two counterparties (you, and whomever is lending you the shares). I am not sure how they could economically offer free short trades.
They are selling order flow to the market makers. Market makers want retail orders and not hedge fund orders since assumption is hedge funds may be operating on more knowledge than the market maker. Eg: satellite pictures of parking lots to predict earnings report for retailers
Metabase is much more for data visualization. As far as I know it doesn't really have any ETL features.

I could actually see this being pretty useful as an ETL layer to go along with Metabase if someone were trying to build a free/open source BI stack.
But not iOS.

So for me that means Nextcloud. And that works pretty great too!
> memory-efficient.

Not how I'd describe a text editor that consumes 700MB+ of RAM at any given time.
The Lincoln Aviator uses cameras to read the road, smooth out big potholes
Buying real estate counts as "investment" and with the Quebec program, there is zero risk because that 1.2 million is fully guaranteed.
the company I'm referring to is one of the biggest banks in northern Europe and they do automated mails to people who want those mails because they've paid a lot of money for the service.

The company I worked at before that also did automated mailing was only doing it because lots lawyers and numerous members of some other professions that required alerts regarding the laws affecting their jobs had paid lots of money to receive that email (well lots of money for a service that included alerting by email among many other things), and that email was setup to handle Outlook requirements because most people who received it were doing so on their outlook mails, ditto the current banking solution - for us webmail must remain a secondary consideration.

Anyway, given your condescending response I must say you made a nice choice for a user name.
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Except in this metaphor, in terms of features, performance, and sheer quality of experience, a Rolls Royce would be something like LimeChat, and Slack is a Ford Pinto
if risking blinding people during the eclipse due to counterfeit eclipse glasses was not sufficient to get Amazon to change, nothing will do so until someone actually dies.
It's missing the posted version of the site.
You didn't google hard enough: treatment at puberty would be hormone blockers, which are reversible.
A hundred times this; 500-1000mb of idle memory usage by a chat client is patently silly.
This recently posted article does a good job of explaining how Discount Brokerages make money.

tl;dr - order flow is $$$, but interest is even better.

1- Interest

2- Commissions

3- Asset Management

4- Securities Lending

5- Payment for Order Flow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276551

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
Nice -- I assumed there were at least one or two, didn't know there were so many!

Once Riot and Matrix pick up steam, I suspect the Electron debate will be even less of a real issue, since you can pretty safely build a native client for Matrix and know for sure that nobody on the corporate side is going to get annoyed and tell you stop.
Poorer people don't fly as often, so problem solved.
What is the goto for web if Redux is dead?

I am not super knowledgeable about all the exact architectures, but I thought mobile was just starting to adopt the redux architecture vs MVP, MVVM, etc
My project, XLA, will get you quite close to the nominal 900GB/s. :)
There's also an epidemic of imposter syndrome blooming within these "competitive" tech companies.

https://www.quora.com/Do-engineers-at-companies-like-Google-...

I put "competitive" in quotes, because you can't really have actual, honest competition if you exclude (or include fewer) African Americans, women, and people over a certain age who are "not a culture fit", as it says in the article. In that linked Quora post, it mentions a serious problem with this syndrome at Google in particular, and an internal list dedicated to it. When one is relatively young or inexperienced and one has a kickass job plus imposter syndrome, one might find it unsettling to be the boss of someone older/more experienced or perhaps more accomplished than one... (see Dan Lyons comedic output). ONe way around this is to avoid hiring anyone that distant from your own experience level.
I am neither a lawyer nor a DPO, I just worked on GDPR compliance in the past, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I went and reread parts of GDPR, and I think you are right, though not because of Article 26. I think it's pretty clear that after your ingestion the data has been in good faith anonymized to the degree that it is no longer personal, and therefore your analytics code should be exempt from consent rules.

The interesting question to me is whether a controller deciding to put your pixel on a page for analytics purposes counts as you processing on the controller's behalf to an extent requiring consent. I don't see any clause specifically regarding third party access to personal data (as opposed to third parties processing personal data), so I agree with your stance that it's most likely fine.
I would! I imagine others would be as well.
Their comment had nothing to do with IRC. It was comparing two chat clients and how Slack's Electron version is much worse than a native version.
I still don't quite understand the reasons for the amount of shit Redux gets these days–I find the code (especially when using Redux Starter Kit w/ Typescript) to be easy to debug, easy to read, and easy to maintain. To me, the boilerplate is evidence of a degree of abstraction that may not always be appropriate for every SPA, but in my experience, is still often a really useful and practical choice.
Your third point is arguing against the premise. A "partial rewrite" isn't a rewrite. That's the entire point.
See? A great comment buried in HN. So much for OP! (Haha only serious ...)
On the other hand, business people who don't care about their tech stack often have BIG blind spots in their conception of their desired solution, such as IT leaders that will slam the brakes on your solution if it doesn't fit into their vision of the technology world, who come out of the woodwork in the final hour and doom your project after a bunch of incorrect technology choices were made because the business folks neglected to warn you about these folks and their requirements in advance (even if you probe for this sort of thing, because the business folks choose to operate in a fiction where these people don't exist or are easily pacified).
Then you move on. Regardless of whether you or the other party benefitted from the discussion, at least any observers might have.
so communism is but an ephemeral and insignificant given the lengthy and turbulent history of China. It's only been around for roughly 70 years compared to the backdrop of many millenias.

Democracy has been in America for well over a 100 years, so it has china beat.