skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the big companies already offshore profits to a ridiculous degree to avoid the existing taxes altogether. Their effective tax rates are disgustingly low. Fix tax offshoring first and we probably wouldn’t need to do anything else.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367194

"I mean the conspiracy argument would be that the $10B isn't a normal investment. It's a special government project investment facilitated by OpenAI board member and former clandestine CIA operative and cybersecurity executive Will Hurd through his role on the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel the investment arm of the CIA. It's funneled through Microsoft instead of through Google in part because of Google's No-Military-AI pledge in 2018 demanded by its employees, after which Microsoft took over its military contracts including project Maven. The new special government project, the Sydney project, is the most urgent and ambitious since the project to develop nuclear weapons in the mid twentieth century.

Of course I don't necessarily believe any of that but it can be fun to think about."
Yes most edge products have these flaws. Cloudflare Workers do not though (at least not the ones being focused on). They run in every single data center across the world and are collocated with the CDN that you can access programmatically. I wish you all the best of luck if you try to take down the system. It’s handling an insane amount of load already. There’s also no billing for bandwidth.

You can manage DDoS and rate limiting protections although I don’t know the pricing on those (could be free - I don’t recall).

Disclaimer: work at Cloudflare
> 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

Can also easily be said in a new conversation every year about new types of databases, frontend/other frameworks.

Just isn't a compelling or concise enough argument for me to forget about how helpful offline ZK-proofs will probably be for near-future real-world transactions, for example.
Fine then, forming a union for apple employees would be no harder than it was before.
It's not "hypocrisy" it's lying. They pretend to care about x, y, and z and they don't and never did. It's marketing, it's a lie. Usually they have plausible deniability. In the case of giving a shit about their workers, they don't because they have to publicly fight unionization to have any hope of slowing or stopping it.
type 1 thinking is just outsourcing the actual problem to other people
Haxe has been, and continues to be, used to ship commercially successful games.
Companies should not be allowed to advertise blanket statements like: “We value your privacy.” Instead, they should be required to write into their privacy policy/contracts a pre-computed/liquidated damages clause in the event of breach and only be allowed to advertise that.

So, in this case, they would only be able to advertise: “We value your privacy at $2.” And see how many takers they would get. If they want to make a more compelling privacy case, then they would be required to take on the risk of their increased promises in the event of breach.

This allows small companies with no security to not get slaughtered as long as they accurately inform you of the risk profile of using their service, while preventing large companies that you would expect to be stable from lying about their guarantees.
I think you misinterpreted my statement here. The future profit I'm talking about is the profit of the creditor (or investor).

That being said, I completely disagree with this part:

> Creditors are not people who made bets on the company's future profits.

Nope, that's not how reality works. If the company doesn't have the money (including their assets), you aren't getting paid.

Extending credit is fundamentally a risk. That's one of the reasons credit card companies charge interest.
>How would you know a priori that doing it is better than what you could otherwise do with your life?

You don't. Just as equally you can't say a recommendation is harmful that you haven't actually evaluated or performed yourself. No one dismissed opportunity cost, in fact its was clearly stated above that everything has a cost, both doing and not doing something.
Help, My Therapist Is Also an Influencer
Godaddy does not allow logins from Firefox and Linux
Even from the company regarded as the worst domain registrar available, this is shitty.

Edit: The same thing is happening with chromium.
Wth? I use the flipper to read my cards info all the time. Get it and find out for yourself. The scripts to do this are also open source.
This study is not peer reviewed and most probably is propaganda by whomever paid for the the survey.
I really don't like how when you are viewing a repo. That the giant codeberg footer still is shown. This makes the distinction between repo and website confusing. Could the footer be removed when viewing repos? Or at minimum at least made to a tiny one liner or something.
Yes, a few of our permanent install/broadcasting projects use TouchDesigner and Ventuz. For rental applications, Resolume, Modul8, and VDMX are preferred depending on the use case.
I think it’s hard to verify and those articles get clicks.

Similar to vein of articles promising self driving cars in 202x
How does this compare to https://ublue.it/
When I think of efficiency and effectiveness, I don't think "podcast" (i.e., turning a 30-second skim into a 30-minute time-filler). :)

How many non-podcasting companies are moving from cloud providers to on-prem/colo?
Judging from the number of downvotes, either I am even more socially inept than I ever thought before, or this is a genuine cultural difference.
> Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.

This bit is partially inaccurate. They don't actually use Baidu, Yahoo, or YouTube because they can't parse a count of search results from those sites' search pages.

They do, however, include the number of hits for "<language> programming" on the Amazon search page... as well as on eBay, microsoft.com (i.e. Microsoft's support pages), Walmart, and Etsy.
Love their mistakes page- https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes

Most startups could learn to maintain a page like this.
Both types are engaging in product definition work without a second thought to how to do it. Even the second type does it without asking themselves what users would actually enjoy or prefer (depending on what the product goals are), and sounds just being afraid of asking people anything. And many times, going on an actual fact finding mission can bring some light that pure engineer to engineer conversations will never uncover.
You’re correct. US law states that intellectual property can be copyrighted only if it was the product of human creativity, and the USCO only acknowledges work authored by humans at present. Machines and generative AI algorithms, therefore, cannot be authors, and their outputs are not copyrightable.
The fact that people want to copy things tells us that it’s fulfilling its purpose.
Their ability to survive in a rapidly changing climate, where they may have to assess whether plants they have limited experience with are edible, or work together to take down bigger game, or generally exercise creativity in the face of novel challenges; additionally, the resources unlocked by intelligence can be their own pressure.

Evolution isn't strictly driven by competition. It isn't reducible to an arms race. If the niche of "intelligent hominid" is a blue ocean, then the evolution can be driven by the vacuum the species is expanding into rather than being pushed by competitive forces. The species does better not because another species does worse, but because they're able to make better use of resources or access resources not previously available.

Competition comes into play more when there is a limiting resource, and the result is generally segmentation, where both species (or presumably hominid communities) adapt in such a way that the resources are divided in a way that meets everyone's needs. When the resource stops being limiting, the competition stops exerting significant pressure.

If evolution was strictly driven by competition, you'd expect instead that species would reliably compete to extinction. But that's actually rare.
Seriously, this has become religious fundamentalism based upon old bad sci-fi by hack writers. Come back to reality. It would be funny like ignorant Y2K freak outs if not for it being taken seriously.
I do not think that is the case for traditional RTS games. At first glance, sure you touch the unit you want and you touch where you want them to go. But there is a reason why single button mouse to two button mouse was a huge improvement for RTS. You don't always want to do one thing or have it be context aware. The other is that RTS games typically involve you dealing with hundreds of units, all across a map, so things like hot keys to build additional units, or control groups to manage different unit groups is critical. Mobile seems like it could work for some casual RTS games, with small numbers of units. But not for a traditional RTS.
IANAL but I really don't see how a case here would go in OpenAI's favor in the long run, except maybe if someone actually agreed to their EULA?

And I really suspect that a lot of AI companies are putting out a lot of bluster about this and are just kind of hoping that nobody challenges them. Maybe LLaMA weights are copyrightable, but I would not take it as a given that they are.

I vaguely suspect (again IANAL) that companies like Facebook/OpenAI might not be willing to even force the issue, because they might be happier leaving it "unsettled" than going into a legal process that they're very likely to lose. I would love to see some challenges from organizations that have the resources to issue them and defend themselves.

Hiding behind the EULA is one thing, but there are a lot of people that have never signed that EULA.
Negligence doesn't work the way you describe with potential to be out of scope. It is a finding of fact: there was negligence or there was not. The law has a separate mechanism for situations that you might call 'out of scope' which is to award zero damages.
No, there are more. But auditing an S&P500 corporation is pretty complex. I am not in the auditing S&P 500 corporation business and it looks like there may be six - but the Big4 literally seem to do 491/497 companies.
I’m not sure I am too concerned about the auditing quality of the Big4 tbh though…

Enron’s problem was the “consulting AND auditing” mess with conflict of interest if I am not mistaken.
Emphasis on if you're not in a creative line of work.
The problem is when combining the complement of an expression with another expression (such as when constructing an alternation of the two), because then the complement expression has to be constructed for one of the two, and that can grow double-exponentially in length: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Expressive_...
It's a delicate one.

I would bet on Alphabet for the long term, the original inventors of the paper, together with DeepMind.

But chatgpt like tech could have an effect on their advertising income.

The question would be if it affects their advertising or if it actually adds a service to sell to their pool.

If it adds a service to their pool, both Alphabet and Microsoft could be winners. But it takes a huge amount of profits/revenue for a service to have any affect on the stock price for both of them.

Additionally, AWS and Meta won't stand by. We've all seen how much Meta is prepared to fund Zucks vision and that's transformers now.

They even released one before ChatGPT.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-lar...

Additionally, besides the impact, it's possible that it's not going to be as profitable as one would expect ( eg. because of price pressure due to competition)
> Similar to how Jobs set out to destroy Adobe by removing Flash from iPhones.

This isn’t a correct take, and your facts are wrong. For one thing, Flash never existed on iPhones to begin with, so there was nothing to remove.

Adobe spent years talking about their plans to get Flash working on phones, but never succeeded, not on iOS or on Android. Come on — if Flash were really that great on mobile devices, why isn’t everyone still using it on Android? Answer — sucked.

Performance and stability sucked, security sucked. Apple said for years that their most commonly-reported crashes were caused by Flash. Flash was great for creators, one of the best such tools ever made, but after acquiring it from Macromedia, Adobe never improved the fundamentals.

Even more important, the interaction model didn’t work. Many Flash sites/apps depended on hover/mouseover which didn’t translate to touch screens. Neither Adobe nor anyone else has demonstrated how to make this work.

And as for destroying Adobe, well, they seem to be doing just fine, even though Flash has been gone for years. Apple never wanted Adobe to die, nor intended to.
Steve Jobs made clear why Apple wasn’t supporting Flash on iOS, and his reasons still hold — https://newslang.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Thoughts-on-F...
> By having an actual portfolio of work that demonstrates your ability.

No, no, you've skipped the vital steps - how do they get the work? Just reading a book or three doesn't give you the ability to get that work. Or are you of the belief that if you watch an online lecture and read a couple of books you can start making valuable contributions to mathematics? Again, examples would be good.

> If Ramanujan did it you can too.

I'm just going to say if you're most contemporary example you can come up with is from 150 years ago you may have a problem with your argument. The academic landscape has slighty changed in that time. But I'm feeling generous, I will accept that one person every 100 years can probably do it. That doesn't make it "very easy to do", in fact it's an argument for the opposite. It would seem it's easier to become president given that there have been a lot more example of those in the last 100 years.
Previous discussion [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35494941
Is COT considered a deep area of engineering/research or is it considered as simply a temporary hack that will be obsolete in the near or medium term?
> That's true, but not really saying very much. Any differentiable function is locally linear around a neighborhood of any point where the derivative exists.

What I’m saying is that it’s hard to know if you are dealing with an exponential scenario. You’d respond differently more quickly but doing so for a linear function may be the wrong response. There are certain failure modes when you do encounter an exponential but most things we encounter are more linear / dampened so the bias humans have against exponential is rational despite the failures we have dealing with exponential problems (climate change being a notable counter example). I’m saying it’s a rational trade off to evolve when dealing with the world.
That is not correct. Audit is very regulated inside big auditing companies and the processes and evidence requirements are almost always part of an internal auditing framework that is designed by very senior staff.

Shure a lot of the leg work is being delegated off to juniors but that is not of substance here.

What you talk about might be happening in smaller shops but not on tier 1 audits inside the big four, there just is too much at stake.
I'm not saying it was bad tech at the time of introduction, just that it's less effective as a security measure now.
Counterintuitively wind power could be faster than oil. Oil burning ships are optimized for efficiency because fuel is a major expense, wind energy is use it or lose it at zero marginal cost so there's no reason not to go as fast as possible.
I honestly don’t believe R would have any sort of user-base at all if the tidyverse didn’t exist
I would assume so. Meta’s ML/AI team is very strong, but they probably don’t have a comparable product offering to ChatGPT ready for public use. So instead, they bought themselves some time by letting the open source community run wild with a lesser model and eat into OpenAI’s moat.
> I think the ultimate solution is a economic system which fundamentally recognizes that workers are involved with enterprise and deserve an ownership and some power stake in it.

Our economic system _permits_ that; is there something you think is specifically handicapping employee-owned businesses?
I find the thing incredibly smart and yet utterly useless at times.

I just spent 20 minutes getting the current iteration of ChatGPT to agree with me that a certain sentence is palindromic. Even when you make it print the unaccented characters one by one, spaces excluded, backwards and forwards, it still insists "Élu par cette crapule" isn't palindromic.

I understand how tokenization makes this difficult but come on... this doesn't feel like a difficult task for something that supposedly passes the LSATs and whatnot.

* French for "Elected by this piece of shit"
Croc: Encrypted CLI File Transfer
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And there's a vast difference between building a system wuth allegedly scalable components, and actually scaling the system to run. It's way more than just using nosql.

I'm also one who uses boring old technology. Mostly relational databases and LTS operating systems. May not make for interesting blog posts but I'll take that over being called at 3:00AM because some microservice isn't working.
Poll: you are reading this comment on HN.

You see "CSAM".

Do you know what it means, without looking it up?
People often take 'yes' in conversational Japanese to be an expression of agreement, when a lot of the time it's more of an acknowledgement, as in 'yes, (I heard what you said).'
Oh sure. You have to explicitly indicate which resources should go to the autoreleasepool. It’s not as magic as ARC. It’s also generally fallen out of favor at Apple as far as I could tell.
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You do have to delegate work in audit as well as in the other professional services disciplines. Nobody will contest that. What makes audit stand out though is that legislators require and enforce accountabilities (as the wirecard story clearly shows).
I have not found one credible take on how danger in AI is being mitigated when there is a clear competitive arms race and exponential improvement with every iteration. The only answer people have is AI will be used to police other AIs -- that is not comforting.

We're doomed.
When I went to Sweden for a semester, I knew the “days would be short” but what I didn’t understand was _how_ they would be short.

I imagined the sun “flying across the sky” quickly to make it a short day.

In fact, the sun barely peeks up over the horizon, glimmers with some disorienting side-light for a few hours before settling back below the horizon. This created an effect which was like a literal twilight zone and was totally surreal.
I logged into Godaddy with Firefox on Fedora yesterday with no issue. Maybe it’s a glitch?

If it’s deliberate it’s a very new issue, or at least something I haven’t encountered.

Maybe it’s an extension or something?
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I read through the article as well and was put off mostly by how it was presented that the students are black females:

> They are female, they are African-American, and they come from an area which is not particularly renowned for producing high academic achievers. This is just an awesome turn of events and one which should inspire anyone — no matter what their gender, ethnic or socio-demographic background — that excellence in your chosen field of study is always attainable if you have enough joy and passion for what you do.

I'm a person of color myself (not black) and seeing this statement (and the fact that the author is white) made it come across as "Look, even a black female can excel in math if they have enough joy and passion in what they do." On the surface, it seems like an innocuous statement, but what it really reads is "the only thing holding you back as an underrepresented person in society, especially being black and female, is your joy and passion, so keep working at it and you too can excel at math". It just reads as tone deaf to me.

My point is there's a way to present the fact that they're black and female, but you have to be careful how you word it because it can otherwise come across as almost condescending.
The only solution is to treat large GPU clusters the same as nuclear enrichment facilities by rogue nations. They have to be destroyed.
quite funny that the weights leaked & the senior author then left to build an llm startup
It is fun to think about. However if it were remotely true, the CIA has some explaining to do...

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/16405144035935109...
They used to produce great Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tokamakenergy6400
At the time it was to sneak credits past corporate approval (Atari felt that since video games weren't considered art crediting game developers was as ridiculous as crediting their office window curtai). Their hidden nature sometimes allowd devs to vent their grievances or take pot shots at their management and colleagues. The whole point then was that they were hidden from the testing phase of the final product.

In that specific context it is an act of rebellion.
Apple cares about gay rights insofar as it sells iPhones. As evidenced by their business in China, they will bend any belief (even "privacy is a human right") if the money is there.
This is a wise comment and even applies along the north-south gradient in the USA.

My family moved from New Haven CT (Yankee land) to Memphis TN—the latter being the heart of the South or the buckle of the Bible Belt.

In Memphis if you ask a question or invite some one over to a party and they answer “I’ll try” that is a very polite and standard version of “Hell no”.

We have lived here 34 years and I am still catching on.
S4 and its class of state-space models are an impressive mathematical and signal-processing innovation, and I thought it was awesome how they destroyed previous baselines for long-range tasks.

Have there been any state-space models adapted for arbitrary text generation?

Language models like ChatGPT are trained to predict new words based on the previous ones and are excellent for generation, a harder task than translation or classification. I'm doubtful about the adaptability of text models that deal with fixed-sized input/outputs and don't have an architecture that is as natural for generating indefinitely long sequences.
Biden made public utterances that falls within him admitting the USA would attack the pipeline, so that's at least some evidence.

But no matter who committed the terrorist attack, they for sure conspired to do it. The attack is a conspiracy by definition and by law, so any speculation as to the culprit will be a conspiracy theory - including your speculation that it was Ukrainians.
The auditing arm of EY is in a completely different industry than McK and similar firms.

That EY's auditing track record is, well, checkered is a different problem. By throwing those two into the same bucket, so, shows some lack of understanding of auditing, accounting and consulting. EY also does, sometimes legally required "consulting" work for in the accounting space. That work is completely different from stragoc management consulting ala McK and BCG. And it also a different beast than the lower level outsourcing consulting ala Accenture.
Which is faster, crossing the Pacific in the best foiling sailboat or one powered by petroleum (i.e. excluding reactor power)? We know what’s cheaper and cleaner.

Edit: The question is a little facetious but I’m really interested in the technology here. Sailboats aren’t what they used to be, and while building then as they were is charming there is nothing practical about it. And, yes, I actually know my “futtocks”.