skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a weird article that I feel like I must not understand it. From what I can tell:

A fraternity hosted one or more parties where, by finding of fact and apparently the admission of the frat itself, they served alcohol to minors, contravening an obvious Stanford policy; as a result, they had to go through an annoying adjudication process and spend several months under the thread of a long-term suspension of the fraternity.

Contemporaneously, a student assaulted with a cup of coffee another student that she believed was himself responsible for assaulting one of her friends. Stanford began an annoying adjudication process, this time including a thread of expulsion from the school. The student committed suicide.

The latter case is, of course, a terrible tragedy. But an adjudication process doesn't seem like a disproportionate response to an assault, however minor. Stanford students are adults; transpose this setting to a workplace and there would be no adjudication at all, only an immediate termination. The story seems dead set on pinning the responsibility for the tragedy on Stanford, and Stanford may well be at fault! But it's not clear from the article how.

Meanwhile: the organizer of the frat party is less jubilant about his campus life after his frat party ran afoul of the frat party police. I feel like I have to have missed some other detail of how Stanford messed with his life, because from what I can tell, at all times in this story, he remained a Stanford student in good standing. His frat ran a risk of being prevented from hosting parties. So what?

Again: if I sound flippant here, it's likely because there is some aspect of this story that I simply don't understand.
You can assert that as fact, but I don't think it's actually established as fact.
"Want" and "agency" are just words, arguing over whether they apply is pointless.

Corn is not simply "continuing to reproduce at a species level." We produce 1.2 billion metric tons of it in a year. If there were no humans, it would be zero. (Today's corn is domesticated and would not survive without artificial fertilization. But ignoring that, the magnitude of a similar species' population would be miniscule.)

That is a tangible effect. The cause is not that interesting, especially when the magnitude of "want" or "agency" is uncorrelated with the results. Lots of people /really/ want to be writers; how many people actually are? Lots of people want to be thin but their taste buds respond to carbohydrate-rich foods. Do the people or the taste buds have more agency? Does it matter, when there are vastly more overweight people than professional writers?

If you're looking to understand whether/how AI will evolve, the question of whether they have independent agency or desire is mostly irrelevant. What matters is if differing properties have an effect on their survival chances, and it is quite obvious that they do. Siri is going to have to evolve or die, soon.
Short Seller Accuses Jack Dorsey’s Block of Facilitating Fraud
I was thinking about how much money people spend on lightness in bikes, and then I was thinking about how much weight I've lost. I know that these ultra-light bikes are meant for people who have already optimized their body composition, but to put my weight loss in terms of bike lightness, I've got several thousand dollars of lightness. (I know that it's not really comparable, it's just something I thought was funny)
I have _specifically_ thought of writing something just like this, so it's awesome to see it!

One thing I would really like to be storing with my requests is the template and parameters that created the concrete prompt. (This gets a little confusing with ChatGPT APIs, since the prompt is a sequence of messages.) Custom Properties allow a little metadata, but not a big blob like a template. I see there's a way to have Helicone do the template substitution, but I don't want that, I have very particular templating desires. But I _do_ want to be able to understand how the prompt was constructed. There's probably some danger on the client side that I would send data that did not inform the prompt construction, and balloon storage or cause privacy issues, so there is some danger to this feature.

Backoffs and other rate limiting sounds great. It would be great to put in a maximum cost for a user or app and then have the proxy block the user once that was reached as a kind of firewall of overuse.

Note your homepage doesn't have a <title> tag.
> By looking at the receipts printed by the ballot machines.

Let's the clear, you're not really "recounting" the ballots at that point. If the machine is compromised - and we're discussing a situation in which we know CCTV was removed and people were then shot - you have no real idea if the receipt corresponds to the voter's original intent. Or, indeed, if all the receipts from all the voters make it as far as the recount (?)

> Ballot machines print either a final tally at the end of the day, or print every single vote and automatically drop it into a physical ballot, depending on the threat model of the country in question.

How is reprinting the final automated tally supposed to represent a "recount" of the original automated tally?

> Either way the you have partial or total recount.

You really don't. Bits of paper and Mark I eyeballs all the way.

As Tom Scott puts it, "The key point is not is that paper voting is perfect - it isn't - but attacks against it don't scale well"[0].

[0] Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
Where is that 10,000 number coming from? I don't see it on the PDF they link to, and I don't see it on the Stanford site:

https://facts.stanford.edu/administration/staff/

That 10k number doesn't even sound impossible, knowing what we know about large universities now, but I just wonder where it came from. Maybe I'm missing something obvious on that PDF?
You are right- stopping on a very steep grade would be nearly impossible without brakes on the trailer also.

But realistically, how steep of a grade are you going to want to tow 15 tons up with pedal power? You're not going to be moving much at all. Towing that much on level ground would be a separate stunt from doing his trip to the baltic.

Given his top speeds are likely to be close to slug ground speed levels and on perfectly level ground, braking with just the tow vehicle would be fine still.
Why do you think Apple would care? It came out in the Epic trial that 80%+ of App Store revenue comes from in app purchases in play to win games and buying loot boxes.

Apple doesn’t make any money from OpenTable.
Jesus that was just embarrassing. At least they recaptured him in Venezuela after a few days.
This is a really cool project. It's neat to see adults do something weird just for fun.
My daughter had dancing lessons in the past (never again!), we quit because she did not want to go anymore. They told us we can only quit by the end of the quarter with a month's notice - it was beginning of March, so too late to quit for end of June.

Then Covid hit, classes got cancelled; we still had to pay until end of September. This fine print is totally insane.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, re: “vaccinations don’t prevent or reduce infections”

> Effectiveness [at preventing infection] remained above 95% regardless of age group, sex, race, or presence of comorbidities.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-1577
"And governments are already heavily censoring and trying to kill child pornography, religion and certain political views, so why would this be so different ?"

Child pornography: of course!
Religion: ... What ? Which ones?
Certain political views: of course we ban Nazis... That's what you meant right?
I've read the whole article, it's very long, but it was written in such a refreshingly clean way. Hats-up!

I believe the engineers really spent a lot of their time building this from the ground up. I'm thankful that those large companies open-source their software and algorithms.
That's what an alumni group is for.
Spirit? That's a rule violation sorry
I wonder if you'd get better results with a narrative-tuned tool like Sudowrite - although Sudowrite is currently limited to GPT3.5 and below.
Funny to read this then the subheading "Yet layoffs are likely to rise if U.S. economy weakens "
Don't necessarily "care" but do take thoughts into consideration, how else can we improve or change our existing ways? Do really wish I could not give a fock though sometimes, it can be cool when people behave that way but can also lead to disastrous consequences.
That's a great point about innocent behavior, am super careful on this and truly act in way that I think is professional and appropriate - am not unhinged or anything. This is a topic of conversation I make sure to have with peers and managers and have no reason to believe my behavior is inappropriate, nor has this been a problem for me in the past.
Thanks for the comment
Naked capitalism blog.
Depends on the market demand for knowledge work resources. Knowledge work mostly optimizes how well actual resources are produced and delivered to the consumer.
This generalizes more than you'd think. $(Foreign food) in $(Country) is largely an invention of $(Country)

This has changed with modern travel. But it surprises me how much of what people believe about food is basically propaganda. At best.
The inside and outside perspective. (1) If you're religious and inside then it's so important to you, it makes no sense to casually dismiss the ideas that are ingrained in your life about the ideas of God and religion.

(2) If you're like me, on the outside and not religious, can you understand that I can shrug those off and call them a lie very easily, because they don't matter to me at all? From the outside it is like people getting upset that you've insulted something in Harry Potter books.

Face to face with people I'm more mindful and just don't talk about this kind of thing unless its with like minded people. On a technical forum like this, I'm not going to hold back with my real opinion though. You have a choice to read or not, and to consider (2). I do not wish to offend you by writing off your beliefs. But to an atheist who does not think about religion much at all, it is a bunch of nonsense.
I worked in a restaurant kitchen in 2008. Every food station had to prepare a sani-bucket with about a teaspoon of bleach in a gallon of water. We used those to wipe down our food stations between preparations. I believe they’re required by US health code law.

The dish washing sink also had 3 basins. Wash, rinse and sanitize. The third had water and a small amount of bleach. Again, required by restaurant health code law.

(I realize after writing this comment you specified bathroom cleaning, but these stories still stand. Food prep environments are held to a higher standard than bathrooms.)
His party didn't win the most votes in the 2020 elections, though, so he's currently only the President. The president is, like in many other European countries, not very powerful. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_%C4%90ukanovi%C4%87
I've let a few things go to collections over the years. Comcast disputes, etc. Never really saw any impact from this. Total charge-offs probably around $1000. Not once have I had an issue getting financing or mortgage.

If you are intending to pay cash for everything, you don't even need a credit score. No one cares about who you are or what you did when you walk in the door with a bag of cash in each hand.
There’s two layers to it.

With a sufficiently large enough org, you can build it in discrete enough parts (assuming it’s a building something based) that only the one who creates the final part is the one who knows what the ultimate goal is or the one who pulls the trigger. These people are also high enough to be inured to any effects of their decision. The second layer is even if you can see where it’s going and you do care, is it worth it to speak up and get fired? I know whistleblowers are meant to be protected (speaking only for the US) but with at-will employment and certain conditions that favor employers, how do you know they won’t cycle in someone who will do it anyway?
"Solve one pain point for OpenAI's users, get some nice traction, get acquired by OpenAI in a couple of months" is probably the plan here. Not a bad one to turn a quick profit.
Alternate take: Companies should have every right to not do business with people they find morally repugnant, but only in industries where there is a "service of last resort". I wouldn't care about visa kicking out perfectly legitimate sex work if they could sign up on, say, the post office's website for a bank account and some basic payment system.
Ah apologies. In your first post I read "can not" as "cannot"
"It turns out... the singularity was our knowledge merging to form the AI."
The Vitruvian Man: A Puzzling Case for the Public Domain
As a non-drinker all of those seem to me pretty reasonable requests for any kind of gathering.

A bit organized perhaps, but not insane as some commenters suggest.
Depends how your Windows was licensed; if you had OEM license with license key that you had to type in (this is usually when Windows license is an option), or if the key was embedded in BIOS (when Windows license is provided and it is not an option).

In the second case, you have to pass through SLIC and MSDM ACPI tables from host to guest. For example, like this: https://gist.github.com/Informatic/49bd034d43e054bd1d8d4fec3...
Yes, what is your point?
It's heavy, but it's not a bicycle.

You can argue whether it has three or four wheels, but it's definitely not a BIcycle.
The RH desktop group is a small team in absolute terms.
> Can't they just leave the premises to have a good party?

Yes. As others mention, many universities prohibit alcohol at official student organization events.
The real problem is that this is presumably enforceable. How is that possible?
lol... That's part true. But I wouldn't use "almost entirely"...

Egg foo young, chow mein, fried rice, lo mein, and many other items are real Chinese dishes also found in China.

Sure, ingredients have been localized... but no more so than localization that also take place elsewhere. :)
The article is too long. Is the headline a clickbait or is Stanford doing something against its own students?
What was Google's email/chat crossover called, which had conversation threads visualized?
Besides, Google's Graveyard is impressive and witness to Google's innovation abortions.
https://killedbygoogle.com
It's hard to strike the right balance here. The points raised by Hindenburgh are many and it will take time to study and respond to them.

Stay quiet for too long and folks will assume the article is right since you haven't responded. Respond too fast and your analysis will likely not stand up to scrutiny because it was set up too soon. It makes sense that they put out a first statement here - it remains to be seen if they will follow it up with a more detailed pushback.
How is this hyperbolic fantasy? We've already done this once - without the help of large language models[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash
They're not requests, they're requirements.
One can also make a model to learn the necessary context length for each layer and head to save a huge amount of FLOPs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07799
> My favorite example of this kind of thing is Chinese food in America. Its almost entirely an American invention.

It depends on where you are and what you order.

I live in California. We definitely have Americanized chinese food here, but we can also easily get authentic tasting:

- dim sum of various types

- mapo tofu

- kungpao/gongbao chicken

- twice cooked pork

- scallion pancakes

- Peking duck

- noodles of various types

The list could go on.

I’ve also had some mind-blowingly good Cantonese food in NYC and Philly.
Consider cleaning with Pine-Sol too. It’s a mold/mildew inhibitor by its nature.
> with single purchase they get roughly the same amount of economic value from me.

Only if they're priced the same. They don't have to be. Tolkein could charge much more than the cookbook if he wished.

I don't see that your point is dependent on renting vs buying. It's just about pricing.
I was under the impression Prime Minister is the less powerful role, and President is usually synonymous with head of state.
They applied to YC in late 2015. I thought "Wild idea, but the founders know what they're talking about, have built stuff in the past, and understand the challenges." Other partners agreed and we gave them $120k. They built a prototype huge 3D printer on the cheap, showed it to more investors who were impressed enough to write checks, and it grew from there.

I hop Tim or Jordan will write more someday.
Agreed. This makes me realize that OpenAIs leadership is able to look long term and decide where to properly invest, as most of the decisions to take the projects in these directions were made >1 year ago.

One can only wonder what they’re working on at this very moment.
It's Texas. Corporate interests rule. This is why Musk moved in.

Fire, explosions and pollution are just part of the landscape. Any individual concerns will be summarily dismissed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/25/revealed-us-...
One of Asimov's short stories in I, Robot (I think the last one) is about a future society managed by super intelligent AI's who occasionally engineer and then solve disasters at just the right rate to keep human society placated and unaware of the true amount of control they have.
iirc someone posted the weights to a torrent. you can look it up. :)
In the example near the bottom, where it makes a restaurant reservation and a chickpea salad recipe, is it just generating that recipe from the model itself? It looks like they enable three plugins, WolframAlpha, OpenTable, and Instacart. It's not clear if the plugins model also comes with browsing by default.

While I might be comfortable having ChatGPT look up a recipe for me, I feel like it's a much bigger stretch to have it just propose one from its own weights. I also notice that the prompter chooses to include the instruction "just the ingredients" - is this just to keep the demo short, or does it have trouble formulating the calorie counting query if the recipe also has instructions? If the recipe is generated without instructions and exists only in the model's mind, what am I supposed to do once I've got the ingredients?
I'm not so convinced that shouting someone down is "bad." I'm not convinced that the right to speech includes the right to be listened to.

Are law students, even at Stanford, "some of the most powerful people in the world"? I don't think so. The administrators have a lot more power on paper inside of Stanford. The federal judge has more power in the country as a whole.

I also don't particularly care as much about whether or not it's "bad" compared to how much I care about the larger political battles. Tribalism? Or pragmatism? Meh.

Westboro is just one small instance of the larger reactionary American right. They are a handy one for these purposes since their antics were somehow seen as "more acceptable" application of free speech to the right than this shouting down was. The abortion protest movement was longer, more sustained, and more violent; more recently, of course, the mob is most recognizable in screaming about election results or books in primary school libraries and such.

If that sort of mob behavior is seen as "bad" by all these "free speech" folks, why are they only making noise about it when it's against them?

And if they don't think it's bad, the morality certainly seems less settled than you say it is.

If you're looking for tribalism, consider some more how the complaints about "the woke mob" so common in today's conversation are so one-directional in terms of which mob they target.
Depends on the use case and your perspective. If you want to run a few dozen lines of code to do something like monitoring a sensor and calling an API endpoint -- a microcontroller can do that with milliwatts of power.
For me, reading about B+ trees and figuring out how many db-pages get touched in an operation was enough without having to write any implementations myself. For others it could solidify understanding. If your db uses LSM Trees then characteristics are different again, so YMMV.
With LLMs you say “you want to do X” and voila, personality.

What is indeed missing from current implementations is continuous looping. Doing actions and taking stock of the results. I guess that’s kind of expensive right now. We’ll get there. I don’t see the fundamental problem.
what's your underlying motivation to eliminate jira & notion?
I wish OpenAI and Google would opensource more of their jewels too. I have recently heard that people are not to be trusted with "to do the right thing.."

I personally don't know what that means or if that's right.
But Sam Altman allowed GPT to be accessed by the world, and it's great!

Given the amount of people in the world with access and understanding for these technologies and given that such a large portion of our Infosec and Hackerworld knows howto cause massive havoc, but still remains peaceful since ever, except a few curious and explorations, that is showing the good nature of humanity I think.

Incredibly how complexity evolves, but I am really curious how those same engineers who create YTSaurus or GPT4 would have build the same system by using GPT4 + their existing knowledge.

How would a really good enginner, who knows the TCP Stack, protocols, distributed systems, consensus algorithms and many other crazy things thought in SICP and beyond use an AI to build the same. And would it be faster and better? Or are my/our expectations to LLMs set too high?
This is the type of uninformed comment I mentioned earlier. The draw of specialized boutique consultancies is the ability to step into challenging situations, take charge, make a big impact and move on to the next engagement once the problem is solved.

You get lots of at bats to do “something big” as opposed to 9-5 keep the lights on work that most engineers do for years in stagnant, highly politicized cultures year after year waiting for their boss to quit to get a promotion. It’s also a good way to level up a stagnant career.

The downsides include always “living in someone else’s house”, having to adapt to the clients tech and culture, having to leave your work behind and start from scratch.

Agreed that these type of shops are in the minority and once they scale, they exit to the big guys who then kill the culture and drive away the talent.

Palantir (from the outside) seems like a good example of this dynamic scaling along with the advantages of maintaining their own stack. Could you imagine what it would be like to be an engineer employed by the customers they serve?
Is there evidence sexually suggestive material has a negative effect on kids? Which specific books did you have in mind anyway?
I’ve been using it for years to read Reddit on my phone.
I'm so tired of these idiots. I've been slowly teaching various (non tech) co workers how to protect themselves and every time we get to email signups, I have to add a caveat about this only sometimes working, if the company has intelligent programmer.
"Speaker's permission" is disingenuous. I don't think one reasonably expects, when politely handing over a mic before an invited presentation, that the recipient will use it to admonish you and encourage heckling.
God, now I'm thinking about how much better our fundraisers would have been if we could have sold drink tickets, for the organizations I was involved in. And how much more I'd have cared about fundraising if we could have diverted some of the proceeds to buy ourselves alcohol "for official functions", LOL.
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker. I think I used the word request improperly. I am aware that those conditions must be met. But then again I am not surprised that those were stated as requirements rather than requests.

From what I understand a request is just a polite suggestion easily, routinely ignored if it requires additional work or foresight and deviates from pre-estabilished culture.