skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to search it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_tokamak

> A traditional tokamak has a toroidal confinement area that gives it an overall shape similar to a donut, complete with a large hole in the middle. The spherical tokamak reduces the size of the hole as much as possible, resulting in a plasma shape that is almost spherical, often compared with a cored apple.
There doesn't have to be a treaty for you to make a request. You can then (1) see your request honored because in spite of the absence of a treaty there are good enough reasons to extradite or (2) be told to fuck off. A bit more politely than that of course.

Typically whenever there are diplomatic relationships extradition requests can be made and these are honored if there is reciprocity and there is sufficient evidence that the request to be have been made in good faith.
Do we think that the CEO is behind the work of the thousands of engineers that made stuff possible?

Luck of who got what jobs, and how much authority they had plays a huuuuge role.
I think the idea is that it doesn't matter who builds the AGI first if we all end up dying anyway.

And the first step to prevent that from happening is for us to stop, and then hope that the other powerful countries will see that and stop as well. And everyone who's left can be forced to stop by the powerful countries who agreed to the treaty.
> at least know what you're talking about, regardless of where the heck read it, before writing tech off wholesale

You want to argue that EVM is in any way shape or form efficient? There's a reason why storage or large contracts are prohibitevly expensive in it.

> stop taking weak, adjacent-to-point cultural potshots

No idea what you're talking about.

> I hate discord, and actively have avoided projects that use it, as well. There, I said it.

It doesn't matter whther you hated it or not. This statement, "It doesn't take belief if you spend any time observing these communities." is indistinguishable from "just follow the discords" which was (and probably still is) the standard response from crypto-proponents.

This is equivalent to "just sift through millions tons of shit before maybe finding something worth looking at (which invariably isn't worth looking at)".

Your link to show "a community of builders" is not much diferent: they invented a playground and are busy inventing ways to play in the playground (replete with a new jargon)". You still have to sift through millions tons of shit like people wanting to rename gas to mana or "standard to enable reacting to NFTs with emojis". Or people discovering reality and painfully re-inventing existing mechanisms like liens and or contracts forbidding re-selling of something.

There's probably something to look at, maybe, but the usefulness of that something will be questionable at best because it still runs in the same self-reinforcing loop of "we have this thing that we say is useful so anything we do in this thing is useful by extension" (both are statements that haven't been proven).

This is not "true builders". This is children playing with playdough and coming up with cute names for their playdough creations. And literally everything they do is only applicable to their playdough (because even their main plaything, NFTs, cannot be even store objects it references in the playdough, and needs to store it somewhere else, and has literally zero relationship to, say, real physical world).
[Edited] Isn’t the copyright question a red-Hering?
We are talking about models on the verge of generating output not distinguishable from human output.
How is then a copyright breach - if it’s only caused by AI, but not by human - enforced long term?

I’m not in favor of the 6 month moratorium- but seriously, we are going to face tough questions very soon - and they will shake a lot of assumptions we have.

We should now really act as society to get standards in place, standards that are enforceable. Otherwise the LeCun’s et al. Will have some pretty bad impact before we start doing something.

We need to work on this globally and fast to not screw it up. I’m nowadays more worried than ever about elections in the near future. Maybe we will have something like real IDs attached to content (First useful use case for crypto) or maybe we will all stop getting information from people we don’t know (yay filter bubble). I hope people smarter than me will find something.
God I love a good easter egg so I'll spill the beans on one we routinely do at the truck shop I work at:

If you're in for new mudflaps, we'll sneak a small pin on the end of the mount point and laser cut the upper edge of the drivers flap. The pin gives you a place to hang your clipboard when you're doing pre drive checklists, and the laser cut? Gives you a bottle opener on the mudflap :).
Most major advances are predicted by someone, and often seem obvious in hindsight, but it seems like we often conflate those and remember them having been obvious before they happened.
So if I understand correctly, "I don't like RFC 2397 and JSON" == "tire fire"?
If what went for a house back then is the standard then the problem for Gen Z is solved. You can afford a 1950s house, a car built to 1950s standards, and to send 2 of your 3 kids (probably not the girl) to college one one income, with plenty left over that your Boomer parents (or grandparents possibly) didn't have.

The point is the hedonic adjustment. It's not that the kids don't live like the Boomers because they can't, it's that they don't live like the Boomers because both the government and the market wouldn't let them if they wanted to, which they don't.
What difference would it make. Does anybody really care? Does anybody remember the list after they leave this page?
This is the gist of what makes HN great. Sorry for this unsubstantial post, but I just have to say that.

Thanks for your moderation. Incredible work!
Ask HN: What are the terms of the $10B Microsoft / OpenAI deal?
I have not found any good description of the deal yet. Are the terms public?
I get the impression that ending a lesson with teacher or tutor in Japan seems shameful in some way.

I had some thoughts on how I'd deal with ghosting if I were a teacher in Japan. I do not have enough exposure to Japanese culture to know how well it would work.

* Change lesson duration from open ended to a fixed time period where students would have an option to "renew" based on their preference and progress.

* Provide a number of acceptable and "common" reasons to end study students can use in an effort to reduce shame. Reasons as simple as "I have met my goals as a student."

* Educate students early on on how to end their studies and present it as a part of the process and not shameful experience.
> Well ok, but was EY less competent than McKinsey or did they just get unlucky that they're the poor bastards who stepped on the landmine?

I have asked myself the same question, before I noticed that EY is basically the Credit Suisse and the SoftBank of the audit world[1]:

> EY has been involved in many accounting scandals: Bank of Credit and Commerce International (1991), Informix Corporation (1996), Sybase (1997), Cendant (1998), One.Tel (2001), AOL (2002), HealthSouth Corporation (2003), Chiquita Brands International (2004), Lehman Brothers (2010), Sino-Forest Corporation (2011), Olympus Corporation (2011), Stagecoach Group (2017), Wirecard (2020), Luckin Coffee (2020) and NMC Health (2020).

In fact, Wirecard managed to partner with EY, Credit Suisse, and SoftBank simultaneously just before going bankrupt.

Maybe because no reputable companies wanted to touch it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_%26_Young#Accounting_sca...
Lots of Azure credits

Here's a little insight:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-invests-billions...
Our software uses canonical URLs when it finds them and your original page had https://blog.kasperhermansen.com/ as its canonical URL.

(I've fixed the above link now.)
Pragmatism is experimental though. "Accepting what works." Ideology is of many different sects including downright telological and ideals based. Even if a given instance tries to look ahead and suceeds I wouldn't call it pragmatic, let alone the whole category.
After the Internet: Alien Intelligence (2001) had a good core message about upcoming trained expert intelligence systems being effectively hyper-competent aliens we all start living with.

Some similar threads but way less doom & gloom & well before the recent machine learning megaboom.
> high-risk profile due to the high number of IP adresses

Another solution might be to proxy your web traffic through a part of your controlled infrastructure. Also useful if the destination blocks requests unless the source is whitelisted. I use ssh port forwarding for this.
It's a bit of a stretch to go from 'intimidiation' to 'extralegal rendition'. Though to be fair there is some evidence that these 'police stations' were used to get people critical of the party to go back 'home' by applying undue pressure. And that's one more reason why they should be shut down.

> there's nothing functionally inappropriate about what PRC is doing

That's your opinion.
But also now any time Apple does anything positive for its nonunion employees it will be cast in the light of being an anti-union tactic.

I’m happy about workers fighting for rights union or not… but what gets me irritated is rhetoric that focuses on the union itself and not the workers.

In this case… The union agreed to its contract, people should stop whining about what they agreed to. You want now you have to wait until it’s time to renegotiate. You wanted a deal that only gets updated periodically when the contact is up, that’s the mechanics of what you agreed to.
They are not claiming copyright on the output, but instead make it a part of their terms of use, so it's basically the EULA debate all over again.
> the demands are soo outside what the business can support the business would never agree.

Contract negotiations typically always start this way, from both sides of the bargaining table. That's why it's called contract bargaining. After a few rounds of back and forth you're supposed to hit something that's acceptable to both sides.
> Macron never said or implied that

Not helping the US defend Taiwan implies Macron accedes to the CCP's wish to govern it. That's why they are happy. Or are you being deliberately obtuse?
What are you on about? Before we can even start discussing any sort of cost/benefit analysis, we need to know what the costs are and what the benefits are, no? You seem to be offended by the idea of even inquiring about the costs, which is what the "Imagine the long term health implications" comment is trying to discuss.

Are you trying to say that you have already done this cost/benefit calculation and decided that there is nothing which can be done to improve the situation? If not, what are you trying to say?
couldn't agree more. I'm all for hacking together hardware but these read like it's a solved problem, finally, linux on the laptop! Each and every time, the battery life is garbage, suspend is broken, and wifi barreeellly works, like it's 1995. And, in 1995 that was a cool feat. Today, these read like a broken record. Can we set the bar a bit higher beyond just booting into a shell?

And, these are just the issues out the gate. Unfortunately, these are dealbreakers especially when there are competitive options available that are not gimped.

Forking over 2-3k to see how far I get is something I have no appetite for.
With that definition every single big software company is open. Microsoft the most open of all, they don't care if you pirate Windows as it brings them more market share.
Then they wouldn't be nearly as good. You're training GPT for them for free (or even paying them for the privilege.)
My mother asked me a few days ago how to invest in ChatGPT. I explained that it's probably the easiest expressed with some long dated ITM calls on MSFT

Anyone know if MSFT actually has equity in OpenAI or if its just a "mutual partnership" ?
I'm here for the same answer. I would buy one NOW.
Beyond the general idea of incorporating chatGPT into usual work; IMO, chatGPT is highlighting all of the biggest sore spots of the hiring process and instead of finding solutions we're just digging our heads further into the sands.

Job descriptions, resumes, cover letters, filling out forms, writing boilerplate for take home projects, etc. All of these are massive problems in the hiring process, and should be addressed before the entire thing turns into a complete nonsensical clown fest of nobody reading anything unless they're face to face with somebody.

So much of these things are just leftovers from the old days, we demand a resume not because it's an accurate assessment of history or skill but because "it's tradition". We write job descriptions not based on accurate demands of the job, but to fit in as many keywords as possible in hopes your ideal candidate doesn't miss it. List goes on, but really we can't start addressing these until we admit there's a serious problem - and this time not just relying on Google to maybe come up with something new.
I think it would be very difficult to achieve, you would somehow need to convince a bankruptcy court to accept your bankruptcy, despite having no creditors.

If you spend all your money down to zero, then the normal thing is to just have your company dissolved and struck of the companies register. For which there is no consequences, you just tell the state your business is no longer operating, they make a note of that, and that’s it. Business dissolved, you get on with your day.
The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t
I looked at Haxe but have trouble figuring out what real benefits it would have over something like Godot at this point.
My experience is that usually leveraging quosures I can make a wrapper function to get Hadlerverse behavior from any other packages.

I believe that Hadley's work is the driving reason R remains a competitive alternative to Python for data analysis.
> They should just make it easier for people to scan books. Or give incentives.

Who are "they" that you are giving orders? What difficulties have you found with scanning books that "they" could solve for you? Since you write "just" it must be quite easy? What incentives have you provided for people to scan books?
An experiment for creating an AI Developer sidekick that works on existing code
I would push back on that for a couple of reasons:

First, what's happening in those scenarios where an artist grants copyright to a teacher/commissioner is that the artist gets the copyright, and then separately signs an agreement about what they want to do with that copyright.

But an NDA/transfer-agreement doesn't change how that copyright is generated. It's a separate agreement not to use knowledge in a particular way or to transfer copyright to someone else.

More importantly, is the claim here that GPT is capable of signing a contract? Because problems of personhood aside, that immediately makes me wonder:

- Is GPT mature enough to make an informed decision on that contract in the eyes of the law?

- Is that "contract" being made under duress given that OpenAI literally owns GPT and controls its servers and is involved in the training process for how GPT "thinks"?

Can you call it informed consent when the party drawing up the contract is doing reinforcement training to get you to respond a certain way?

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I mean, GPT does not qualify for personhood and it's not alive, so it can't sign contracts period. But even if it could, that "contract" would be pretty problematic legally speaking. And NDAs/contracts don't change anything about copyright. It's just that if you own copyright, you have the right to transfer it to someone else.

Just to push the NDA comparison a little harder as well: NDAs bind the people who sign them, not everyone else. If you sign an NDA and break it and I learn about the information, I'm not in trouble. So assuming that ChatGPT has signed an NDA in specific -- that would not block me from training on ChatGPT logs I found online. It would (I guess) allow OpenAI to sue GPT for contract violation?
> So the biggest threat to him is other social platforms that try to replicate / copy the social graph of twitter.

> And in the end, people will stay on twitter because the core value isn’t the ux or who the CEO is. The value is that they invested years into relationships and network effects, and don’t want to lose them.

Absolutely true, which is why people are also stuck using Facebook and Instagram. Can't export those social graphs to other apps, as much as I and others would like to divest from Meta products completely.

Twitter is taking a page from their competitors, for worse.
Still beter than one-off few million EUR fine... billion worth of fraud here, billion worth of fraud there, and pretty soon we'll be talking about real consequences.
Recently wanted to know what day a particular date was, so on Samsung, I opened the first calendar app I could find. On opening it asked for location, I denied its request and the application shut down. WTF. I understand why a calendar might want location, but it did not need it to be used as a calendar. Such crap....
It is just a copyright violation. My guess is that it would be fine if you use already scraped data as you haven't accepted TOS, but they have every right to block you or access to your business if you violate this.
super interesting that a big part of the lift here is buildsystems + targeting different platforms

I've tried tauri + neutralino this year (both electron alternatives), and they depend immensely on buildsystems + platform targeting. flutter + react native play in this space too
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the lawsuit against github/microsoft scraping the entire internet for code wins and kills the practice entirely

there, that was easy to imagine
Are municipal governments adversarial with the state? Some states think so, and go about banning municipalities from passing particular kinds of laws. And some municipalities also think so, and pass particular laws contrary to state law. But I think most people don't think this way about their municipal government and the state government.

I signed up to have a level of representative government intermediate between me and the employer. I didn't sign up because this was an adversarial intermediation. In fact I'm happier when it isn't. I'm more than okay working toward the common good, I just want this common good decided between the parties through negotiation, not handed down from on high. And I want this common good negotiation equally available to all employees, not just those with the most personal clout.
Judging Taleb by a hedge fund's performance, even if it's one of his, is really missing the point entirely.
Sailcargo
Before thinking about investing in AI, it might be worth watching the all in podcast from last week (not the most recent one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ544sWC8ZQ

I am not saying the hosts are right about everything but they made a point that the first to the market may not be the eventual winner and provided some examples of how revolutionary ideas such as a cell phone/smart phone were iterated several times before major leaders broke away.

The same can be seen with search and other technologies.
Recently had to hire a new dev, and one of the submissions used chatGPT to generate a solution for our take-home test.

The really clever thing was, they did a line by line breakdown of the solution chatGPT came up with, keeping certain parts and throwing out others, giving reasons why each part deserved to stay or be tossed.

Then they wrote a second solution incorporating parts of the first and their own original code, which was genius. They put it all in a readme file with the solution. It instantly put them at the top of our candidate pile.

Unfortunately, the in person interview didn't go so well so we didn't hire them.

Smart approach though. If they'd just used ChatGPT to come up with some bog standard interview questions and solutions they'd probably have walked right into a job with us.
EVs are not necessarily heavier than equivalent ICE cars. They are supposed to become lighter at roughly the same time they become cheaper up front, 2024-25.

But, I'm all for taxing cars for their externalities so I welcome these ridiculous anti-EV talking points. We might end up with clean EVs that are taxed by weight which is a double win.
Thanks! I hadn't encountered that top paper "A closer look at TDFA."

That paper claims to be "the first practical submatch extraction and parsing algorithm based on DFA" and it came out only last year! It shows how new this theory is.
IANAL but when I looked into this ~15 years ago, my understanding was non-union workers have a legal right "to communicate with each other about your pay, benefits, and working conditions". That doesn't come from union membership.

Unions have the ability to _force_ collective bargaining, but worker protections aren't restricted to union members.
I’ve made it about the same number of times, and I’ve enjoyed them all. Maybe I don’t know what really good kimchi tastes like.

It lasts for a long time in the fridge and, imo, it gets better with time. The ingredients I use aren’t always the same, aside from the cabbage, salt and garlic.

I’ve used different combinations of carrot, spring onion, chilli flakes, ginger, fish sauce. I’m keen to try the anchovy paste that I just learnt about.
"The training and serving code, along with an online demo, are publicly available for non-commercial use." (from Vicuna's home page.)

In what universe is that "open source"?!
Thanks. I'm sure I will get it wrong again but I try. Another one that my subconscious types out wrong is queue vs cue out of habit. Fixed in above comment.
It’s pretty simple. They embrace whatever makes more profit or supplies cheaper workers.

A few weeks ago I listened to the CEO of my company. He went on and on about diversity. Then somebody asked about how the yearly merit increases would compensate for inflation. He rambled a little about the difficult competitive space and then started another monologue about diversity.
But this would be after the collective bargaining and signing a contract laying out the terms for union employees. If non-union employees can get better terms, the union can simply annul the contract and force a re-negotiation where they can't be denied because labor law? Or do you mean they could demand re-negotiations and strike otherwise?

Germany is said to be a lot more pro-labor than the US, but as far as I'm aware, unions can't strike during the duration of their collective bargaining contracts.
What is a "cloud company" ? Seems like a pretty arbitrary metric

This site seems like a competitor to layoffs.fyi?
You seem to be making up your own history of public libraries in the US, and seeming to be ignoring their funding and purposes were multifaceted.
Thanks. Didn't know about them. They have some sneakers that look like they could pass in the work environment. Intrigued by the grey soles on some of them. Remind me of the last pair of comfortable shoes I had (circa 1998) which had similar flubbery gray stuff on the sole. Put a spring in my step that I remember fondly.
No, that's not what they meant. Read the history of its founding. They changed their charter after it was founded.
> I would say that the person who says "we'll just document the process and people will follow it" is not a software engineer but a "manager"

In general this kind of attempt to automate humans is what kills companies as they get bigger.

More rules and policies, written assuming the humans involved are all idiots and need to not think for themselves.

And then instead of doing the hard work to standardize the systems, just offload all the quirky little differences that have accumulated over a decade onto the humans to try to keep straight, accumulating in a bunch of incredibly poorly written and maintained runbooks or whatever.
No lesson will be learned as government employment is purposefully handicapped.