skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't stew and get bitter over things that you can't control. Corollary: Don't assume it's ageism when you don't have proof and can't do anything about it anyhow.

More often than not, companies are not serious about hiring, or they are simply fulfilling an interview-to-hire ratio. They are going to behave badly throughout the interview process and sabotage themselves and you over dumb things - even dumber things than ageism. Hiring is absolutely the worst aspect of the tech business, rife with incompetence and lies.

You have to move on and keep hammering away anyhow. Hang in there.
Yeah, the people doing all the writeups tend to have the info and support network in place to manage the experience in a way that maximizes the possibility of success. Not everyone reading the latest article about mushrooms in the NYT has that.
Rlhf wasn't introduced by openai. And GPT is a pretty standard transformer, no? Yes they did it at scale and it speaks volumes on their production skills, but OP was asking about research
Obviously I’m not advocating for doing nothing. I’m saying the feds are gonna fuck up anything they possibly can, so maybe somebody else should be handling this.
"I'm not sure where to go from here. I don't know how to take my knowledge and transfer it elsewhere or what my future career looks like. I feel like I played my hand wrong and missed an opportunity."

I feel the exact same way, but I spent my 10 years in finance dev. My plan is to just stick it out because I don't have any transferable skills.
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
Everything is already complex. The rubber in the tires, foundries for the metal in the tractor, machining tools and welding equipment, the processes and tools to develop insecticides, water infrastructure. Why is a far away radio a bridge too far? It already takes a nation to build tractors at scale.
This reminds me of Nest. When it was separate, it was shipping great hardware and OK software. Then Google appended "Google" in front of it, creating "Google Nest" and kicked off the slow Google Hug of Death™.

The first casualty was Nest shutting down its APIs, cutting off an ecosystem of third party integrations.

The next casualty was replacing the Nest app with the Google Home app. I stopped following Nest after that because I sold all the Nest stuff I owned and replaced it all with HomeKit.

It's astounding how Google keeps doing this, and its shareholders seem to go along with it. I agree, given their track record, its hard to be optimistic about anything Google slaps their name in front of.
i'm a big fan of spacex and poked fun at SLS with all their delays and stuck valves etc. Well now it's the SLS fans turn to do a little ribbing. I still think starship will win out in the end but I'll tip my hat to SLS.. occasionally.
My brother worked there at the time. He wanted in on the project, but Intel mgmt had already begun to pull back from it, controlling costs.

I recall him saying at the time, "A JMP . instruction takes 500 machine cycles". This was apparently because it was largely an interpreter - the 'assembly' wasn't run in hardware but some kind of firmware. I suppose the OP covered all that.
And yet no one is talking about Google AI. None of it is a house hold name.

So OpenAI it is.
One of the biggest liberties DeepMind had was a completely separate hiring process and pipeline than Google.

Their open positions mysteriously disappeared on November last year and they are still closed outside of specific senior roles and a very open ended "register your interest if you have a PhD".

Big loss for DeepMind if the separate pipeline is lost. Being able to hire for their priorities instead of whatever Google's hiring for is one of the reasons it was so successful.
I’m seriously considering “giving up” and starting over. Luckily I’m still young and have no real ties, so if things to don’t start looking up soon, I might sell/give away all my stuff, reduce my living expenses significantly, take some low-wage low-skill job to cover bills and the money I still have left and take some time to figure something else out.
BTC didn't "decide" anything, it was never suited for micropayments at scale.
Marvin Heemeyer, the Killdozer guy, felt that he had been wronged in a case exactly like this, with the landowner cutting off access to his property.
I don't know how they're made exactly, but one can just edit the code a bit and delete the restriction to just the given audio history prompts. It's literally just enforced, affect, with a simple "assert" command.
Yes it is, but at least somebody is doing that work in the open
Please back up the implicit claim of missing documentation.
Ah, well, that you can do this with FPGA prototyping even today, you know.
>fraudulent to portray the interview as real

how is that different to the reporting on the Oasis lost tapes made by AI? Where they first exclaim "Oasis is back! Except, not really." [1][2]

Seems it depends how far you read into any story and how deep they bury the lede. Of course the wrag magazine was more egregious in their presentation elsewhere but other than the tastelessness of it all I don't see much different than printing "what would jesus do about your horoscope? NO REALLY! we asked him"

whereas with Schumacher they are tongue-in-cheek conflating the idea that AI chatbots are uploaded consciousnesses and so desirable quote factories for their dwindling empire.

[1] https://decrypt.co/137160/ai-oasis-aisis-breezer-liam-gallag...

[2] https://www.stereogum.com/2220920/oasis-ai-album-liam-gallag...
Well put, the brand awareness of ChatGPT is the biggest challenge they have now.
Have you heard of instances where airplanes failed due to something as basic as a nut or a screw not meeting the required specifications?

Oh yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unapproved_aircraft_part

For example:

The crash of Partnair Flight 394 in 1989 resulted from the installation of counterfeit aircraft parts. Counterfeit bolts, attaching the vertical stabilizer of a Convair CV-580 to the fuselage, wore down excessively, allowing the tail to vibrate to the extent that it eventually broke off.

This happens to aircraft, and the only way to ensure it doesn't happen to rockets is to have extreme control of your supply chain.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
It's worse because we literally did all this before. When the stick-shaker came out to help pilots know of impending stall conditions, the second one on the copilot's side was an optional extra! This despite the fact that the copilot is the Pilot Flying quite often in standard practice.
I am sure he made way more $ than that in pillow sales from the free press, even assuming he does not find a way to weasel out of the payment. A good deal for him.
Exactly why I trust China with my sensitive data. They won’t cough it up to any random US government agency that just asks for it!
But who uses TensorFlow -- really -- these days.
buzzfeed.com is not shutting down, their investigative reporting organization is: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
are there archives to go to for dead torrents? any places that seeds dead torrents on demand?
> I think it's unlikely that SpaceX wasn't aware of the damage that would be caused.

"SpaceX" isn't a unified mind. It's not even a hivemind, no company is.

We keep saying "company knew about X", but it's a such a mischaracterization of how companies, or any group of humans, work. Yes, some people in the company might have known it, but for various reasons, be it poor communication, mistaken assumptions, willful ignorance, or what have you, that information wasn't acted upon. Companies have complicated and chaotic dynamics. We Do Not Have An Algorithm For Truth.

In effect, "Company knew about X" is practically a meaningless oxymoron.

Yes, the "company" may be the "responsible entity", but as a century of corporate history demonstrates, that doesn't mean very much in practice, as the individual people within the company who might theoretically be tagged can weasel out of consequences.
Is AI the Killer App for Customer Experience?
they have a booster and starship outside the hangers waiting to go but the pad is going to need a lot of work.
Thanks! You might see a B2B version coming soon ;)
" > The subculture is very quick to brush away anything that goes against the narrative of...

Oh here we go again."

No sense of irony?
It depends on your perspective. From a mainframe/minicomputer standpoint it was pretty good. From the microcomputer perspective it was nuts. Unfortunately for Intel they've always been closely associated with microcomputers so that is the standard by which they were judged.
The condition that absolves impersonators from responsibility is that they must clearly present that they are impersonators.. That doesn't quite apply here, as the tracks were posted to streaming services as if they were published by the actual artists.

If the fake/imitation song makers are required to label their releases as parody or impersonation, then they'll get no streams, as most of the bootleg streams they got were due to putting out a mimicked (pseudo-authentic) release as if it was done by the actual artist.

Reputational harm is also a serious case that can also be filed... With an artist as popular as Drake (for example) that can lead to a financially devastating judgement.
This seems likely lower than their costs. Is there a breakdown somewhere?
I’m puzzled that stuff like alpha Fold count for nothing in this discussion (having just browsed through most of it).

I saw quotes from independent scientists referring to it as the greatest breakthrough of their lifetime, and I saw similarly strong language used in regard to the potential for good of alpha fold as a product.

So they gave it away, but it is still a product they followed through on and continue to.

Was it wrong of them that they gave it away, and right, that Microsoft’s primary intent with their open AI technology, seems to be to provoke an arms race with google?
Find an online course on communications. There’s probably some free ones out out by accredited universities.

Study AP level English. Good writing skills and good speaking skills go hand in hand.

ToastMasters is a little culty but very valuable for public speaking.
Ask HN: What's the easiest, highly available server to self administer?
I'm looking to purchase a server and house it at a local colo data center.

I'm looking for a highly available server that's easy to administer. Where if a drive fails in the RAID, there's an easy use GUI that walks me through the replacement. Redundant components.

Budget would be $10k.

Thoughts?
>all-American masterpieces

What's more all american than "Post McDonnel Douglas-Boeing merger with code written by offshored 9$/h Indian coders"?
And snake oil

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/snake-oil-salesme...
Thank you! I am not a native speaker and I found this helpful. :)
I did sense a bit of sarcasm in the GP post. Not sure if you did too?
> They seem to me to be quite different things.

Only if you use vague standards like

-"doesn't really directly support"

-"Google Brain employees"

How are "Google Brain employees" distinct from "Google leadership with Google Brain personnel in their respective reporting line?" What is the criteria for that distinction?
Robert Graham attended Lindell's Cyber Symposium; his Twitter thread is worth a read. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1424878450867847181.html

An amusing anecdote is that they shared rich text files as hexdumps because "techies like to see things in hex."
I wonder where this puts Geoff Hinton in this new hierarchy. He still works for Google, doesn't he?
I like problems like these. I was posed one at the end of a 'Constructive Mathematics' course I took at Stanford. Eight and nine are right next to each other (+-1). One is a cube, and the other is a square.

Do a cube and a square land next to each other ever again?

Note it's not asking if they land on each other, that is trivial - 1000000 is 100^3 and 1000^2.

My solution was to form an equation, divide by x and solve the resulting quadratic equation. It produce new solutions: 0 and 1, 0 and -1! As well as 2 and 3. So I was encouraged to say no, those were the only solutions.
> We don’t have to stretch, plenty of people have ADHD and have taken MDMA, I can tell you personally that MDMA is in no way a substitute for regular adhd medication. Like, not even close. MDMA is basically a social/lovey high that mildly distorts your vision and senses, it is not something you would take regularly to help focus on work. And taking it once isn’t going to help you focus better after taking it

Your end point - that MDMA is not a substitute for ADHD medication - is correct, but the reasoning you're providing is faulty.

Even assuming you were taking a pure and unadulterated substance - which I'm willing to bet you weren't[0] - this personal anecdote doesn't really refute the original point. Set, setting, and dosing make a huge difference. MDMA is much closer to methamphetamine - both biochemically and in its effect - than most people realize. And methamphetamine is itself a prescribed ADHD medication, fairly similar in effect (when dosed appropriately) to Dexedrine, which itself largely interchangeable with the medication everyone knows and associates with ADHD: Adderall.

MDMA can actually be taken to improve focus, in the right dose and setting. However, the reason that it shouldn't be used for this purpose is because MDMA is more selective for serotonin than most other amphetamines, and serotonin depletion and downregulation means that it can't be used this way regularly (ie, on the order of weeks-to-months to restore baseline levels).

[0] Virtually all MDMA outside of clinical settings is contaminated to some degree, usually with another amphetamine.
I'm not judging. I'm grateful of Alphabet/Google and that its research is being extremely useful in AI/ML, just saying shareholders may not think that way.
One of my favorite things about life is that there is an explanation for everything
From https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-beta:

"Proton Pass is also one of the first password managers to include a fully integrated two-factor authenticator (2FA) and supports 2FA autofill."

Highly doubt that. There are already multiple password managers with the feature.
Generative AI at its current state is still a very new area of research with many issues including hallucination, bias and legal baggage. So for the first few version we are looking at many new startups like open ai, stability, anthropic etc. It is yet to be seen if any of the new breed of startups actually starts to make sizeable revenue. But again there is nothing defensible here unless all the major labs stop publishing paper.
Yeah, German is a more synthetic language compared to English which is fully analytical. (Analytical language tend to use particles to denote relations between words while synthetic languages use inflection. Synthetic languages tend to create new words by adding morphemes to existing ones.)

Though note that modern German is moving more and into becoming analytical.

Which also coincides with the huge influence of English on modern German language and culture. Especially younger Germans will freely mix in English words and phrases into their speech. Consciously avoiding English words is becoming more and more difficult and can sound artificial.
Movie studios do this a lot - they’ll have their smaller production houses make movies that compete for awards and then the larger big budget companies make the blockbusters that subsidize the other stuff.

Same with book publishing. Big publishing houses probably lose money on most of their literary National Book Award-chasing titles, but the prestige is worth it, if not subsidized by the more mass market books they put out.
The announcement felt cautious and political, like they are running for technological ruler of the world and not a company trying to make money. This is probably why they are not going to not get very far against their competitors despite having so much potential. They care too much about what the EU and governments everywhere think of them now. They are no longer a profit making entity that disrupts and pushes the rules. They are part of maintaining the status quo.
Standing desk doesn’t do squat for your flexibility.

You should be able using both hands to reach every spot on your back or there about.

You should be able to sit down on the floor with your hips bent at 90 degrees whilst both your legs are straight and your knees pointing upwards and unbent.

You should be able to sit at 90 degrees to the floor straight on your ass whilst having your legs inter locked (“Indian sitting”)

You should be able to sit down on your shins by bending your knees the top of the foot should be in line with your shins and your ass should be comfortably sitting on your ankles. (Japanese sitting)

You should be able to touch your toes without bending your knees and preferably without flexing your back especially the lower and mid back.

If you can’t do all 6 you need a routine to work on at least your weak spots.
As someone with long covid (which is probably just nerve damage in my case, but i digress) I have been following long covid and been in the community from day 1 (sometime around april 2020 is when the first signs starting cropping up).

Anyway, a few notes bullet points:

- There are a few different types of LC. The array of symptoms is enormous, and people usually have a random(ish) spattering from a list of 100 things.

- People with LC usually have normal everything. Blood work, EKG, spirometery, sleep study, whatever. Everything comes back fine.

- The overlap between anxiety symptoms and LC symptoms can be pretty high, to the point where the venn diagram becomes just a circle. It's definitely not anxiety, but at least one hypothesis is that your body kind of gets stuck in anxiety mode, even though mentally you aren't anxious.

- There are a lot of mentally unwell people in the LC crowd. Obviously having a terrible chronic condition like this and people not believing you will do you in. But their is a subset of people who do not have LC, but have convinced themselves that they do have it, and will not listen to anyone, especially doctors.

- There is tons of distrust in the medical community. People really despise the whole system, and it leads to a lot of venomous encounters where people go to doctors just to yell at them. This isn't as fair as it may seem, since at the end of the day, people are upset doctors aren't curing them, but the truth is that there is no cure. The doctors who normally see patients aren't research doctors. They go by the book.

All this makes for a pretty bad experience on the medical side. People who by all objective metrics are fine, but have basically dropped out of life from an invisible chronic illness, who are angry and a bit unhinged, and the medical books have zero information except "psychological".
What do you mean? Most VC-backed startups sell far more than 50% of their company for far less than 10B.
As long as Boeing keeps flying the same vintage airframe, they are comparable. Boeing could have also built a more modern, safer plane, but they chose not to, which is a defensible position IMO, as the 737 is pretty safe.
Yeah because that's not what "relapse" means.

Some definitions I found:

- suffer deterioration after a period of improvement.

- a deterioration in someone's state of health after a temporary improvement.

- to slip or fall back into a former worse state

- a recurrence of symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement
> And it means that you’re doing what you’re programmed to do, and not deliberately thumbing your nose at society’s conventions.

Perhaps what you call nose-thumbing is in fact "doing what you're programmed to do" by genetics and upbringing.
Awesome stuff! Can’t wait to see where this company goes
Been a long time since I used emacs (had to stop, it was hurting my pinky) but I did use M-x shell a lot, I always thought it ran bash but from this description I understand emacs has its own shell?!
Unfortunately yes, as the corresponding model is not also open-source.
AI could change computing, culture and the course of history
It’s the old playbook of Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish.
history prompts are just unconditionally generated TTS from the same model. any of those can be used as history, but for convenience 10 are provided for each language (to generate things with consistent voices)
Hyporbole a little by a bitter fanboi.
Here in Italy the production of rice is stopped due to a severe drought, consequence of the climate crisis.

*Stopped in the sense that farmers couldn't even sow the rice.
Exactly this. There is a reasonable chance the GUI goes the way of the dodo and some large (75% or something) percentage of tasks are done just by typing (or speaking) in natural language and the response is words and very simple visual elements.
Participatory design: Everything you need to know about it and how to use it
Swans and geese may not look like the greatest flyers when they're on the ground, but they're among the highest flying birds. But why? Is it their size and strength? Why do people have trouble breathing at that altitude, but birds don't?
Generative models could go wrong
I am hoping for exactly the same. But sometimes I wonder if I am just being naive and forgot to account for some factors.
Like stealing $5M candy from a baby...
This is like saying LeBron James' mom is the real basketball star. She carried him in her womb and fed an clothed him throughout his childhood.
Seems marginal – half of those authors, including the lead author, are from OpenAI!
Yup, can't blame you there!
The only place this is currently legal is Oregon, right? I know they're training currently training therapists for psychadelic-assisted clinical work and it's supposed to be starting soon.
It wasn't urgent, I wasn't in pain, there was no rush. If it is sufficiently urgent it's possible to get an MRI within minutes of arriving at a major hospital.
Have you taken mdma (let’s say, the brown powder which is typically considered less likely to be adulterated) and adderall? I’m sorry but I just can’t believe anybody who has experienced the two would say that mdma would help focus as well as a regular adhd medication.

You can’t just look at the structures or names and assume that fully explains the effects. Yes, it’s an amphetamine. Imagine there was some form of alcohol that both got you drunk but also gave you a strong cannabis high - if you went a bar serving that you’d notice entirely different behavior compared to regular alcohol. That’s like MDMA compared to a regular amphetamine - not in that it’s like cannabis but it stacks a completely different and overpowering effect on top of the base it gets from being a phenethylamine.

Yes, regular MDMA usage is harmful to the brain much more than other amphetamines, that’s just another reason it would not be a suitable replacement.
Probably not P2P as people could not embed images to it. I think it would need to be a simple web server that can do HTTP and SSL. Maybe NGinx or Apache and certbot to get HTTPS working.
Have you used GPT-4? People are already building agents to do things the above comment refers to.
To much thing about work
How
For GPT-4 input cost is 3 cents per 1,000 tokens (8K context). So input cost for 8,000 tokens is 24 cents. Output is 6 cents per 1,000 tokens, but answer will hopefully be a lot shorter.
I dont think it was close to the truth at all.

They predict shattered glass,damaged foundations of beachside homes, and people scarred for life by the launch.

This was hyperbolic fearmongering. The actual launch was very close to baseline expectations. The lack of launch pad flame channels was common knowlegle, and no great insight.

This entire blog is dedicated to environmental complants about SpaceX operations. If there had been flame channels, the author would instead be writing about how they are pointed at sensitive environmental habitat.