skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like what Sam Altman suggested. OpenAI should open source all aspects of ChatGPT immediately and be reimbursed via tax revenue in the form of totalCostsThusFar * 7 so that each employee gets 7 years of their compensation paid for, so they can take a sabbatical and then contribute to building plugins.

Run the model itself and the plugin store as distributed simple software that runs on the common internet backbone.

Make it as simple as Google search used to be, but with the resources of the government behind it. Privacy and security guaranteed by the Constitution and the American military. Free chalice of knowledge for all.

Then roll out the same compensation structure for all who build plugins people want. We know what plugin and api iPhone moments look like.

Make training additional models 1% of American GDP each year moving forward and reinvest that into plugin development and general self development grants for technology companies that make a difference in making things better.
Its desperately needed though.

If AMD or Intel started going around github and writing in acceleration for random popular ML repos (and not just one off abandoned demos), that would change so much.
I'm sure it is. For the few people who use it. Once upon a time, it was the dominant versioning system out there. But it was supplanted by git. And it was supplanted for a reason. And network effects didn't protect it from being replaced by git.

What is your point exactly?
Can someone explain why this is a naming problem? I just feel like I'm missing something.
>is directly relevant to the security model of anyone with a laptop with an Intel CPU.

I assume you are talking about INTEL-SA-00075. To quote "This vulnerability does not exist on Intel-based consumer PCs with consumer firmware." This vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to Intel and there was a security update made that patched it along with mitigation instructions in case your motherboard manufacturer did not create an update.

Security bugs and security updates are just a matter of reality. Anyone managing a fleet of computers needs to make sure that the whole fleet is getting security updates for any software that is running on it. This isn't a problem exclusive to the Intel ME. If this was instead was implemented as an OS driver it would still be a critical vulnerability that would need to be patched.

>over the years there has been an endless stream of fatal 0days

I believe INTEL-SA-00075 is the only ME related vulnerability that was rated as critical. I am not seeing all of these fatal 0 days that you are talking about.
> It is a program that reads unstrusted binary blobs

When opening any office files from unknown or untrusted sources is something you feel you have to do, you're probably well off isolating that operation and thus limit the blast area.

For people working exclusively on their own files or with trusted colleagues, that is pretty much a non issue.
Related thread "OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177895
Only on GPT-3.5 at the moment, so token length is only 4097. Still waiting for GPT-4 API access!

But you can upload up to 10MB in file size.
> It's a shame there aren't more affordable connectivity options for projects like this.

There's tons of options, and the "professional" grade routers aren't much more expensive than that consumer grade AC800s. With the one I have I get a removable SIM, dual SMA antenna connectors for MIMO with the ability to have an external high gain antenna, 5 ethernet ports, and a box that runs a version of ddWRT that I have full control over.

The AC800s is $200, my modem was $350.
Until those countries start seeing the same problem and say no.
In the latest 5-6 years the stock was basically zero-d. And the previous government even wanted to close CONAB. Now I believe they will return to stock commodity and stuff again, but there's a lot of pressure from agrobusiness to not stock again.

One of reason why food inflation in Brazil rise in the latest years is exactly because of CONAB stopped stocking it.

Even milk and peanut they stocked before.
That is actually my entire point.

Easier alternatives to git already exist. However for a confluence of other factors (network effects/inertia, etc) git remains dominant.

All this means is git isn't "too hard". It's hard but that hardness isn't great enough to invite a competitor to displace it.

Replacing git won't come through offering something easier, likely some other major paradigm shift will be necessary.
Source? Sibling comment has an article that says the opposite. And anyway, the Amazon is huge so land poachers are hard to detect and catch in real time. It's much more likely that poachers feel a time crunch that wasn't as tight under Bolsonaro since he gave them free rein.
Neglecting the point of whether or not we actually need population growth; being multicultural and allowing easy immigration is a defining feature of the US. Our population growth rate is whatever we want it to be.
Prompt Engineering Is Configuration Engineering
I’ll vote that new warning messages should be treated as one time fatal errors. When they first make their appearance the human responsible should read them and acknowledge their existence with a little introspection as to priority then do something or nothing. Otherwise what’s the point of warning of something? It’s a warning, not an informational or debut statement.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing your point of view.
And 1/infinity the stake in innovation.

Opting for lower-cost developers might offer immediate financial savings, but it overlooks the invaluable contribution of engaged, innovative minds. Workers who are deeply invested in their work often bring forward solutions that elevate the project beyond expectations. While it may appear financially prudent to leverage low-cost labor, the opportunity cost—measured in terms of creativity, innovation, and productivity—can be staggering. I believe that an investment in highly skilled, motivated individuals often reaps significant long-term dividends. We’re all guided by our own perspectives, and while some may prioritize immediate cost-savings, others might focus on the long-term value of cultivating a motivated, innovative workforce.

To each to their own approach, might we all choose one that elevates our planet.
Git is a tool that can do so many amazing things, things that might even seem impossible the first time you learn of them:

- not only saving changes to files as an ordered log, but being able to reorder those changes as if you'd made them at a different time (git rebase)

- merging multiple, conflicting changes to files made by different people (git merge)

- homing in on a specific change in which a bug or a feature was introduced (git bisect)

It's not unreasonable that such a powerful tool might come with a cost. Considering the time that it takes in other professions to learn the tools of the trade, I consider Git to be a pretty good deal!

Personally, I found my understanding of and proficiency in using Git improved dramatically when I decided to resist the temptation to delete the repository and start again whenever I had a 'merge conflict', a 'missing remote' or a 'detached head' (yikes). Instead, I tried to work through the problem step-by-step, learning about such things as ref logs and branch tracking and the distinction between the work tree and the index. It was fun, informative and didn't even take that long in my opinion :)

I think that for such a widely-applicable task as distributed version control, Git is a fantastic piece of software, and would recommend every software developer take the time to learn it, keeping in mind that only a few centuries ago, a stone-mason might spend years learning to use a chisel, or just in the last century learning how to use a powered lathe. I see Git as the programming equivalent of the lathe or chisel - equally fundamental to the trade.

For those who aren't programmers (and thus don't feel the need to study Git in such depth) but still want to make use of version control, git-annex[1] provides one nice way to put binary files like MS Word documents into a repository and synchronise them across devices.

[1]: https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Ukraine’s Zelensky: We Are Ready for Counteroffensive
https://archive.is/tbt0V
Its rugs all the way down!
I’ve watched this for the past few months and picked up a Zero W and rpi 3 at msrp.

https://rpilocator.com/?
More medical risks (from miscarriage to genetic defects to ...) than they've even discovered yet.

Poorer odds that he'll be there (or be there in passable health) for each of the usual milestones in his kid's life.

Obvious "unable to support family, due to failing health/death" risks, unless he's seriously wealthy.

Upside - hopefully an older father has really gotten his act together, understands the world and kids better, and will have more free time to have quality interactions with his kid(s). And knows how to be up-front about that situation with his kid(s).
You don't have an agreement with them, and they changed their mind because they had no contract barring them from doing so. No liability.
You could have a delay (e.g., a month) until you find that you have been downvoted.
There's nothing surprising there.

- Not enough GPUs. — we knew that. Look at NVidia's stock price.

Roadmap for 2023:

- Cheaper and faster GPT-4 — well, of course.

- Longer context windows — expected. Everybody's trying to do that.

- Finetuning API to be extended to latest models — well, of course.

- A stateful API — convenience feature

Roadmap for 2024:

- Multimodality stalled because not enough GPUs. — said that that already.

No exciting statements, such as "We have GPT-5 in test and it can do most desk jobs", or "We've acquired a wafer fab to make our own AI chips".

What's the big deal?
I'm not entirely sure what "impedance mismatch" means, but am positive it isn't that.

GitHub is just another git remote, does not centralise anything, and causes no impedance mismatches.
One could call it pea soup and it'd be approximately as correct.
One of the main points against the validity of the Trials is that some of the most high profile defendants confessed to things that were either not true or greatly exaggerated versions of the truth. E.g. Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz, confessed to having murdered three million people there, whereas in reality the number could not have been much more than 1 million.
Sometimes people send money to me accidentally over PayPal. I’ve had great difficulty getting PayPal to return the money, never succeeded. Always been afraid to send it back myself in case the original transfer ever gets clawed back. So I’ll just have an extra $200 sitting in my PayPal account that I can never touch.
https://archive.is/dwcoV
My dad had me at age 55 and my brother at 56. He was receiving Social Security retirement benefits by the time I turned 9.

I don't resent his decision to have children at that age, in and of itself. But what I do resent is that he had children at that age, but wasn't willing or able to make corresponding adjustments to his own life.

I never played catch with my dad. It wasn't his thing.

He rarely came to school events. They weren't his thing.

My childhood included constant reminders that he was too old to be doing X, and I should not expect him to live until the next major milestone, so I should just appreciate the time we have left and not push it. He ended up living until 95, so he was alive for a lot of milestones, like when I graduated high school and college, got married, and had children. But for the vast majority of my life, he was more like a grandfather than a father.

My advice to anyone who's thinking of having kids later in life: Be willing to keep up with the 30-something moms and dads out there. Do whatever you can to remain youthful in spirit. Throw out your retirement plans, because until the kids are out of the house, you are ON DUTY. And take some time to toss a ball around every once in a while.
* Well-rounded in the context of a specific sub-culture, and such

The flip side being, a father is not an absolute necessity, so long as there are adults with testosterone-correlated traits (actual; not stereotypical) in the life of the child.

This could be one of the mothers, or it could be male figures in other areas.
Sean Taylor's notebooks are a mess
Which are mostly moderated by 1-2 user teams.

I mod three small (at most 5k) subs. I'm alone on two of them, and there's two of us for the third one. We've already decided that the subs will be locked and closed once 3rd party apps lose access.
We go through this every year. Why bother with a ceiling at all if it can be raised so easily?
I wrote our entire heldesk documentation in college in a Psion 3A while on a bus tour.

Top notch. Miss physical keyboards, I feel like my parents and a VCR whenever I use my phone…
Is the statement on their website or on a third party website? Changing your mind about what you publish is one thing, changing your mind about an interview you just gave is another.
These people cheered reddit when they banned /r/the_donald and /r/NoNewNormal and now the Eye of Sauron is on them.
Broadly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899286
PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space

I might suggest, slightly pushing back on this article's PDF, binary search is not the de-facto in-memory search algorithm. Cache consciousness btrees, and various optimizations of tries, or radix trees are better. Eytzinger arrays are a good BST option if data is pre-sorted and/or requires rare resort passes. Which brings us back to btrees: keeping data sorted is usually 51% of the problem. Search is the other 49%.

OK, if you don't need range search, which needs sorted keys, then hashmaps are darn hard to beat.

The PDF author however makes a strong point: if FLOPS is going up way faster than memory BW, the obvious thing to do is spend a little more code looking into memory smartly. And the PDF even gives algos to do it. So my that's why I say BST as de-facto algorithm, while I don't think that's true, is only small push back. The paper goes way further.
I've always felt incredibly sympathetic toward Charlie Brown and often pondered what message Charles Schultz was trying to convey with that trope.

What made Lucy like that?! I often think of the trope in the context of US politics, and specifically progressive capitulation to capital. I find it one of the darkest and yet prescient parts of Schultzes lore.. (Snoopy being an adult with a long, colorful history yet still treated as a dog, being another)
Some Hackernews have slomovision and are sensitive to flickering even at frequencies high enough that you'd think it wouldn't matter.
Much more than $5, closer to $10. He still has to afford to live, as he currently does with Apollo's current subscriptions, plus pay reddit's API costs. This is according to his comments on reddit about this situation.

$10/month to use a free website on your phone is just not a very attractive deal at the end of the day.
here you can find the original archived version: https://archive.li/uwaCp
>after living in Marseille I can't say I miss the big city that much

Maybe it's not the big city you don't miss, it's just Marseille, because it's a shithole. There are also nicer big cities.
From the article:

> For a function to be useful as a hash function, it must exhibit the property of uniform distribution

It's also listed as the first property on the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function#Uniformity
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
You're right. For me it was relevant because, for some reason, this is the first time I've experienced this feeling while looking at one of the latest 1000 studies on the subject. However, I must admit that I too am feeling a bit of fatigue when it comes to AI, and I understand the need for specificity.
Recruiting outcomes are essentially random.

Once you truly understand that then you can relax.

If you get the job, you get it. If you don’t then you don’t.

Roll of the dice. Means nothing.

I went to a job interview recently and the feedback from the recruiter was I couldn’t explain the (many) projects I’d built.

My recollection was I wasn’t asked, in a 30 minute interview that started late.

My lifetime of software development skills and experience was judged in minutes to be inadequate. Roll of the dice.
Judge is based, all AI content should be considered a lie unless proven true by organics.
> And conversely, when a dependency introduces a critical vulnerability, the AppImage or static build is unaffected

What's more common in practice ? Widely used libraries introducing critical vulnerabilities in 2023. Or old vulnerabilities being discovered/exploited, and patched?

> unless you as the upstream app developer decide not to build against the latest security updates of your dependencies; but if that's the case, that's a completely separate issue from dynamic vs. static linkage.

That's precisely the problem isn't it? What if "You the upstream app developer" is on a long vacation, or abandoned the project? Multiply this by N where N is the number of different app developers.

Compare with "you as the OS admin". If you're using your system, you update that vulnerable dynamic library, and you're done.

If users of other machines are on vacation or abandoned their machine, that's not your problem. Your system is secure.

So I feel parent's point had everything to do with dynamic vs. static linkage.
> but it could also be a situation where no one expected the article's removal to be noticed.

This seems least likely.

Hard to tell if it's misrepresentation or revealing secrets. Given how blunt, straightforward, and detailed the article was, I'd say it either revealed operational secrets that Microsoft or OpenAI didn't want to reveal. Especially those first few paragraphs that told specifica about shortcomings and what advancements are needed. Or it said they wouldn't compete in a broad category that they definitely will be competing.
It’s 0,00024 per request
My uncle had a son at 51. A few years later he told me that the kid was destroying him. I guess that no matter how much fit a 50 yo is, a 5 years old is fitter and it gets fitter by the day :-)
One problem is subreddit names. People who want to discuss bitcoin will head to /r/bitcoin, world news to /r/worldnews, etc.
My friend had parents in their 60’s when they adopted him. He spent his teenage years helping his mother care for his father. His memories of his father mostly consist of going to doctor’s appointments before he passed around his 16th birthday. Then, in his senior year of high school, his mother passed.

He had no other siblings or close relatives and inherited his mother and father’s house, vacation property, cars, etc.

Fast forward about 15 years and he’s still living there. The house feels like an old person’s home. He isn’t well adjusted and while he’s financially secure, he’s unhappy and has trouble relating to others.
I recently had my venmo account terminated out of the blue, and this is the best explanation they could give me:

> We have systems in place that monitor activity on Venmo, but please note that we don't reveal information about our internal systems in order to keep these systems robust. However, I'd recommend looking over our User Agreement for information on our policies surrounding acceptable use and high risk activity.

> I apologize that we're no longer able to assist you.

Thankfully I was able withdraw my cash, but I've been telling everyone I know to be careful when dealing with venmo; you really can't trust them
> They don’t like us and are here to eliminate us.

Don't take it personally. They're even trying to eliminate themselves [0].

[0] https://github.com/features/copilot
If you consider illegalism a legitimate political tool, there doesn't seem a great deal of contradiction.
I don't know about the others, but Wozniak worked incredibly hard (in terms of hours per week). I recommend his biography "iWoz".
I assume they will claim a mistake transfer if you claim and ask you to send it back to another account.

It’s a small amount of probably fraudulent money, but small enough that you might just do it. And I guess the hope is enough people do to make it add up to some good recurring income.

Would love to hear if there’s more to it than that.
Nobody is getting rid of LibreOffice, it's only a question of whether it is supported directly by Red Hat as part of the base install and repos.
It's weird how we see the business people making this same sort of mistake on community after community. It's like there's a blind spot surgically implanted in them during the MBA programme.

It's well known that most online communities are 1% super-contributors, 9% modest contributors, and 90% lurkers/occasional contributors.

"Third party app users" are far more likely to be 1% and 9% users. They're committed to the platform enough that they're willing to seek out or even make software to improve their experience on it. The lurkers will just download the official app if it's the top match in the App Store and deal with the inconveniences.

So if you take that away, you disproportionately punish your most valuable users. Note I say "valuable" not in terms of "they click a lot of ads", but rather "they bring the content that makes the other 90% of users stick around and click ads."

It feels like a bar cancelling "Free Drinks Ladies' Night" because they figure that the 10 female patrons will buy 20 bottles of beer, then acting surprised when the 50 men who would come in to hit on them (and buy four beers each) don't show.
I think it would still be problematic. People would become enraged and start assuming anyone near them is the one affecting them and preemptively attacking others it happens here. Some may mitigate the threat by using fake or stolen plates or just risking having no plates at all and all the fun that results in. Wealthy people would not be impacted as they could replace their insurance with a surety bond. The equivalent mitigation here is the throw-away accounts people create.
Common sense. My accountant warned me about this years ago.

Just because it acts like a bank doesn't mean it's a bank.
I make well above 300k. It wasn’t an “easy” interview by any means.

You can go look at levels.fyi and see that there are plenty of F500 companies that don’t pay 300k for L5. Just spot checked for Ford, Disney, AT&T, Verizon, Target, and more.
I was very surprised when I learned people in faraway Russian north villages in the middle of nowhere install plumbing to have a warm WC.

Whereas previously I saw people in much more accessible places (albeit, warmer on average) content with having outhouse over a hole.

I hope your parents do at least have a wooden outhouse over that hole.
Damn, people can't even take a joke about murdering other humans anymore. /s

This shit's awful and unsubtle OP is living in a bubble if they think this is actually a slippery slope.
I have never had the problem of random people sending me money,
He's a hacker, not a laywer.
New leetcode problem just dropped
> Obviously the writers of the MCAT worked very hard to ensure Asians would get higher scores than any other group on them.

I am not sure how you are coming to that conclusion. Look at the latest metrics on scoring. Sure, Asians overall tend to score higher on average on standardized exams (which really ought to be split into different sub-ethnic groups because there is a disparity there too) and I'm not seeing the average MCAT score for Asians being disparately higher than the average score of Black Americans that would warrant such a statement.

https://www.aamc.org/media/6066/download
This appears to be describing an electrostatic speaker. They're on the market, and have been for decades, using mylar or a similar material.