skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt AGI will a huge breakthrough when it finally comes. It will be a slog of incremental progress with competitors not that far behind, so the first company that discovers it has a few months or maybe a year in everyone else.
I believe you're underestimating how key RLHF seems to be to getting a functioning chatbot with human-like behaviors.
> I'm not sure that it's scary. After all, casual racism and sexism used to be a lot more common in the past. Now people are called out and criticized on those. Is that bad?

Even if we grant that the rise in self-censorship is entirely due to "casual racism and sexism" (and I don't grant it), wouldn't that meant that 40% of people are secret bigots? That sounds bad, you would rather they be open about their beliefs so you can identify them, no?
On climate change:

https://www.infobae.com/politica/2023/10/08/que-opina-javier...

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/javier-milei-en-el-se...
And I think you overestimate how much people care about CEO/board politicking. Will OpenAI's APIs still exist? Yes? I guarantee you no one other than other CEOs hoping to ride on Sam's coattails will give a shit then
Nah you said Carte Blanche anyone male in such a space is predatory, including dad changing diapers and trans women peeing not talking to anyone. You’re also still not addressing the fundamental fact that women who have never experienced male puberty experience far, far more abuse by other nosey weirdos trying to get into their genitalia just because they don’t perform the sort of femininity demanded to enforce who gets to take a piss in the McDonald’s.
Why?

The whole point of content negotiation is the client tells the server which types it wants the content in, with weights to determine preference;

The server then works out the best match for what's requested.

Why do you need to ask about what's available? Just ask for it if you support it, and then handle the response based on its type.
Playing Blue (Da Ba Dee) with Stepper Motors [video]
> “Winmodem” brings back memories of the dirt cheap Celeron-based Compaq Presario minitower my parents bought at the very tail end of 1999 as a quick replacement a 1996 Mac tower that had its hard drive fail.

Also how the difference between a 1996 computer and a 1999 computer was SUBSTANTIAL.
After the first two sentences of this article, I felt seen. I don’t fit into any of my old suits either.
"Earth's climate has changed dramatically over the course of its existence, with and without humanity, so I don't mind his views on the matter."

This does not follow, logically. Earth's climate changing without humanity is not part of the equation here.
The opportunity from designing cache-aware algorithms is much larger than a 2X speedup. As a rule of thumb, main memory : L1 access times are ~ 100 : 1.

The canonical example of a cache-aware algorithm is scanning a 2D array as it is laid out on RAM vs in cache-hostile strides. The perf diff varies per architecture, but on my Broadwell server, the former is ~6.7X faster than the latter for a 10000 x 10000 int array.

Of course there is a large perf opportunity in vectorizing code, but that was not in scope for this blog post.
'How to Expect the Unexpected' Review: Stop Thinking Straight
If they jack the prices, they leave too wide a door for other entrants.

Right now, OpenAI mostly has a big cost advantage; fully exploiting that requires lower pricing and high volume.
You make a joke but you've hit on something. I would argue that the American model is "fettered" migration (also apparent in gulf states and plenty of other countries), that is you allow illegal immigration but use it as a strait jacket to bind the migrants in. You force them to work below minimum wage in poor conditions that your citizens would never accept and then marginalize and vilify them when you need a scapegoat. I would say that is "fettered" migration and it doesn't work great either.
I don't look down on webdev. I've done webdev, in all its flavors and incarnations. I see it for what it is: mostly gluing together the work of other people, with various tweaks and transformations. It is simple work, once you get a feel for it.

The main issue I have with it is that there are no problems in webdev any more, so you get the same thing in both the frontend and backend: people building frameworks, and tools/languages/etc. to be "better" than what we had before. But it's never better, it's just mildly more streamlined for the use-case that is most en vogue. All of the novel work is being done by programming language theorists and other academic circles (distributed systems, databases, ML, etc.).

Regardless, the world runs on Linux. If you want to do something novel, Linux will let you. Fork the kernel, edit it, recompile it, run it. Mess with all of the settings. Build and download all of the tools (there are many, and almost all built with Linux in mind). Experiment, have fun, break things, mess up. The world is your oyster. In contrast, OSX is a woodchip schoolyard playground where you can only do a few things that someone else has decided for you.

Now, if you want to glue things together, OSX is perfectly fine a tool compared to a Linux distro. The choice there is one of taste and values. Even Windows will work for CRUD. The environments are almost indistinguishable nowadays.
Java gets this right. In general, breaking existing working software is a very bad idea and only should be done in extreme cases. One thing a lot of people over look is breaking changes make life easier for the few people who write the language, library, OS, database, etc. but make life much harder to the many people who maintain or use applications.
If the restraunt previosly did not charge for an extra pot of gravy, but now are, it would be common courtesy to their loyal repeat customers to make certain they are aware of the change when they decide to make it. How to best do that may not be straight forward, though.
It’s not hard to imagine why relevant people want him to stay.

They all want to get the big payday, including Microsoft.

People are in the startup game for the big payday. And Sam Altman is the best person given where OpenAI is at right now.
More information on the ceramic to metal bonding technique would be very much appreciated! I'm looking to accomplish a variation of the kintsugi technique for an art project.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330172
Yes they do. So long as their employer isn't doing something illegal.
I know this is a late response, but this still doesn’t really make sense to me. What stopped you from placing the break point at the start of the function, before the return values were hit and stepping through the code?

In my experience, having multiple exits is even better because I can check which edge case is being hit by placing multiple breakpoints, or a breakpoint at a specific exit I want to check. I understand the pain of having to step through the code to get back to a certain execution point, but I’ve never been in a situation where multiple exits caused such cognitive load as to hinder that process further.
Merriam-Webster: "Ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture"

No ideology = no characteristic thinking.

If you think you don't have ideology, you probably have the dominant one. Or don't think.
what I said above.
blind signatures are nice and verifiably unlinkable but digital bearer certificates require a trusted central "mint" to issue and reissue them. This central point of failure can and inevitably will... fail, as Chaum's company (Digicash) did. And it can also inflate the currency without anyone knowing.

Bitcoin was the result of cypherpunks going back to the drawing board to create a decentralized solution. Unfortunately bitcoin sacrificed unlinkability for decentralization. Modern "privacy" cryptocurrencies utilizing zero-knowledge proofs are advancing the state-of-the-art in terms of having both properties.

A decentralized DBC "mint" is theoretically possible. However there are two more downsides to blind signature approach: (1) auditing is impossible because there is no history so detecting if mint-node(s) have colluded to cheat or catching an inflation bug is unsolved problem. (2) Arbitrary amounts are not supported so it is necessary to create fixed denomination "notes", which then add size and complexity to every transaction.

source: been there, done that. bought the t-shirt.
Do yourself a favor and integrate GPT4 into your workflow.

I use it probably 20 times a day at this point.

example:
"I ran performance tests on two systems, here's the results of system 1, and heres the results of system 2. Summarize the results, and build a markdown table containing x,y,z rows."

"extract the reusable functions out of this bash script"

"write me a cfssl command to generate a intermediate CA"

"What is the regex for _____"

"Here are my accomplishments over the last 6 months, summarize them into a 1 page performance report."

etc etc etc

If you're not using GPT4 or some LLM as part of your daily flow you're working too hard.

Get GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io), log into OpenAI, drop $20 on your account, get a API key, and start using GPT4.
This website gets so fucking salty about business people.
Why should anybody involved put up with this sort of behavior? Smearing the CEO? Ousting the chairman? Jeopardizing key supplier relationships? It’s ridiculous.
> it's not healthy for society to be full of sexual deviants

I'm under the impression that homosexuality is largely accepted in the western world, and that largely, western society hasn't been destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Can someone make the case using logical arguments on why a higher number of species is any better or worse than a lower number? Why is an ecosystem in equilibrium with 10 million species better than one with 8?
Assumes an artist has existing success, so they only want people who already don't need them much, unlike YC which often takes on people with no existing business.
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Regardless, Elon appears to back the board contrary to the suggestion above.
>Machine learning produces models which are much better predictors, but it does not seem to follow that they have a superior understanding of the weather.

Fair points, and I agree. I don't recall if I made this point in the linked piece, but I think the extra function is a model embedded within some dynamic such that the capacity for modelling is in service to some goal. The goal can be simple like answering questions or something more elaborate. But the point is to engage the model as to influence the dynamic in a semantically rich way. The model itself doesn't represent understanding, but a process that understands will have a model that can be queried and manipulated in various ways corresponding to the process' goals.

>then it seems likely that the productions of a good predictor would unavoidably have that feature as well

Yeah, assessment is hard because of the sheer size of the training data. We can't be sure that some seemingly intelligent response isn't just recalling a similar query from training. One of the requirements for understanding is the counterfactual capacity, being able to report accurate information that is derivative of the training data but not explicitly in the training data. The Sparks of AGI paper, assuming it can be believed, demonstrates this capacity IMO. Particularly where GPT-4 draws a graph of a room after having been given navigation instructions. But its hard to make a determination in particular cases.
That would be an interesting production skill for an org to build out. I don't think anyone is really good at it and wind-down seasons are all over the place. Freed from the need to fit into the season templates you could also wind shows down with partial seasons or even an audiobook.

2 fun examples of coping with winding down are HBO's Rome, that "telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one" (https://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE4B00VV...) and Blacklist's final episode before the pandemic shutdown that filled the gaps with animated storyboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0nF4njky94
Not just the billionaire type though, right? We are discussing staff leaving with him for that very reason.

And he did VC fund-raising before that for early projects too. Give his Wikipedia a read.

He is clearly a very savvy businessman and smooth operator on a personal level. And has been involved in enough high profile successes that I don't think it is a fluke.
Historically, whenever there was an inflection point for a new technology, you'd have lots of people working on the same problem, and whoever cracks the problem first is put of pedestal. Revisionist history is built around that one person asserting that if it weren't for them, that said technology would never have materialized.

We're just seeing a variation of that playing out live. There are multiple teams working on AI, ChatGPT got "there" first and now we have a single heroic figure to worship. Personality cults seem to be a part of the quintessential human condition.
Dang may correct me on this. But it isn't a Dupe if the other one hasn't reached front page.
Or even understand the present
Thanks for trying, what error message did you get? It works without CUDA installed at all on my test machine.
Thanks for trying, what exception did you get?
You're actually thinking of a triple blind trial: i.e. blinding the experimental subject, the scientists administering the experiment, and the statisticians interpreting the results. Double-blind is only the first two.
I have a very different ideology from most of my social milieu. That's how I know I am truly enlightened and rational /s
I use Termux/rsync to backup my photos: https://b.tuxes.uk/termux-rsync-photos.html

It works great!
I make a point to find the no tip option. It's there but usually buried under a sub-menu on a different page.
Oh, man. It was a joke conflating the two common meanings of AGI - Artificial General Intelligence and Adjusted Gross Income. It clearly didn't land. Like the SpaceX Starship test! LOL! No? I'll be here all week. Unfortunately.
the point i was trying to make is that that this article totally ignores the personal responsibility of the idiot.

when something bad happens, everyone say "why did this happen? what could we do to prevent it?". while it's true that banning fast cars would have prevented this incident, it's wrong to even contemplate that unless it's the last and only option. it's equally true that banning any private cars would also have avoided the incident. just because an idiot uses a tool to do bad things does not make the tool problematic - it means the idiot needs to be smacked.

it's supposed to be a free country. before we start impinging on innocent peoples' rights, is there a solution that impinges on the rights of the guilty? in this case: yes. the idiot in question was violating two dozen laws and had a history of many moving violations. this was not a one-time event.

the issue is not fast cars. it's why this guy wasn't already in prison and why he owned or could use any car.
What would replace it?
neat article. im surprised at the lack of any mention of the Steller's Jay, which is the provincial bird of BC and lives in the same PNW regions. If anyones got a similar article that covers steller's jay social heirarchy, id appreciate a link; been wondering how these birds organize.
Huh? The grocery store doesn't give people stuff for free. Everything is clearly labled with a price.
Definitely! And yes, it will be a stark awakening for many. Many who for years have made their income, not by productive means, but by political means. The amount of people that can rise out of poverty instead will outnumber them easily, and so, the rest will adapt in the end. The 40+ year old with children were already hurting. They will hurt less.
Last time I stayed in Vegas, they did charge a resort fee, but it was disclosed at the time of booking (hotels.com).

Still think it’s sleezy, but it wasn’t a surprise at least
OP likely found this through this YT video published today:

https://youtu.be/QDlbwl3f39Q?si=dxjm7PZ87srjmnPP
I wish friends would call them charts and not graphs.
Individual merit.

Not that different from hiring, diversity is great but as long as you can agree on set of common values.
If you radically changed your beliefs and told all your friends and peers about your conversion, what would happen to your status?
>and a fairness perspective.

that's arguable when they're not progressive and arguably regressive. Rich people earn more, but they spend less (as % of income) than poor people.
I had a subscription but found it useless for any actual difficult problem that you can't just find elsewhere online with a bit more effort, and I don't tend to struggle with trivial shit. Also not interested in being a "prompt engineer".

But still, irrelevant, I didn't comment on whether it's good or bad, I just said it's overhyped, and comments like these never fail to come up when someone says anything even slightly negative about the tech.
Self-destruction?
Isn’t it amazing how companies worry about lowly, ordinary employees moonlighting, but C-suiters and board members being involved in several ventures is totally normal?
If you want pure elevators you can play https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
People love worshipping idols and saints, even when the demographic is largely irreligious.

Plus, the tech scene is extremely prone to hopping on trends and then taking it way too far. If you want some real cringe, check out @varun_mathur's long Twitter post from Nov 18th.

Although at its core, firing Altman under current circumstances was still a poorly thought-out decision which evidently caused the event itself to become a major centre of attention.
Actually the CD-players always seemed to skip and pause whenever I walked too fast, jumped or even in the car when going over some pot-holes.

Cassette-tapes were also very easy to reuse. I also used them to save and load BASIC code.
Big O notation is often used with assumptions like adding numbers is always constant time. You can't physically build a machine where addition between any two numbers is constant time, but that doesn't matter.
I'm curious what would be an optimal measure of biodiversity.

As in, if certain species decreases, but another increase, it's not clear to me one is more bad than another.

Obviously, wouldn't want entire ecosystems wiped out. I'm just curious what a good measurement of ecosystem health would be.

I'm sure there's one out there hopefully, as technology advances, we'll be able to mitigate the effects we have on the environment, and occasionally, maybe even help it.
IME that's been common or the norm in plenty of circles for more than 25 years (so probably longer). It became less common when people started phone-posting and when phones started auto-capitalizing by default.
The fact that in almost 2024 people still don't understand social media is NOT your friends in a table where you can make shitty comments with no consequences still baffles me.

People always have had to separate public and private life, the only differences now is that it seems like they don't understand what is public or private anymore.

I frequently see people making public comments on social networks about their employers or customers that no one should be making, they get fired and then complain there's no "free speech" anymore. The stupidity is really something.
By this logic, cuttlefish must think we’re low iq deafmutes because they don’t see us communicating via variously uv-sensitive patterns on our skin as we trundle along in the ocean.

Something as pea brained as a groundhog has calls to describe the shape, color, threat level, and individuality of any number of warning calls. Orcas literally have memes. I’m sure if dolphins could use the internet we’d get so much “dead fish on head” r/fashionadvice.
> shows are mostly watched within a year of its original air date.

This depends a lot on what else is available, but old shows can find success in steaming services. One of the most successful shows on netflix this past year was Suits, a show that was released 12 years ago. Schitt's Creek gained huge popularity two years after it's original air date.

> So much choice that there isn’t any specific shows that people watch because everyone else is watching and will talk about it on Monday during lunch (a la Game of Thrones)

That's why streaming services have started to withhold episodes and only allow you see one episode a week. They want to control who is watching what and when. When people can watch whatever they want to on their own schedule they might not get around to new shows immediately and advertisers don't like that. It also makes it harder to control the conversation on social media.

The Tick was canceled after it didn't get enough views just 6 weeks after release, but as you said, there is so much to watch right now, and so much else besides TV competing for our time, that those kinds of metrics are meaningless.

It'd be better for netflix to make sure their library is filled with quality and to have confidence that audiences will find those shows in their own time rather than worry about how many people are watching the newest thing immediately and cancel anything that doesn't show immediate success.
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."

-George Bernard Shaw
You say taking your medicine will never work, but it has worked at least in some places. India was in an economic crisis in 1991 and needed an IMF bailout. That bailout was made under the condition that they “took their medicine”. They did, fundamentally changing their approach to everything related to the economy. And it worked. India has done pretty well since 1991.

I agree that many countries never fall out of the cycle of lurching from bailout to bailout, never implementing the needed reforms because they’re too painful. Pakistan, Egypt, Argentina and others, that’s the norm for countries in IMF programs. But there are success stories too.
FYI, it's the black market exchange rate that's over 1000 pesos per dollar. The official, government rate is 350 pesos per dollar.

Just another way the government tries to make believe away the reality that the market discovers.
Great question! Whisper processes audio in 30 second chunks. But on a fast GPU it can finish in only 100 milliseconds or so. So you can run it 10+ times per second and get around 100ms latency. Even better actually because Whisper will predict past the end of the audio sometimes.

This is an advantage of running locally. Running whisper this way is inefficient but I have a whole GPU sitting there dedicated to one user, so it's not a problem as long as it is fast enough. It wouldn't work well for a cloud service trying to optimize GPU use. But there are other ways of doing real time speech recognition that could be used there.
The Doomed Mission Behind Sam Altman's Shock Ouster from OpenAI
Although may pick at your scab but can't resist my curiosity about the hack that wiped out your blog and revenue?
Honestly I don't care if an AI tortures a trillion simulations of me for eternity. Maybe this matters to EA people in terms of minimising future suffering but to me, given they're only hypothetical copies, I couldn't care less about them.
I was responding only to the part I quoted, which I read as criticism of the tech.

I am not necessarily an Altman hype man. As an obvious outsider, my best bet as to why he came back so strong was because apparently many researchers (employees) said they would leave as well. I can't read peoples' minds but I can infer a a bit based on human financial interest.

The employees with equity were very close to a liquidity event at a valuation of $86B. That is likely life changing money for many, and this whole Altman getting fired mess put that life changing money on hold.

I wonder if his ouster had been done in a more sane/stable way, if things could have kept chugging along without him.

As far as the average HN opinion, I donno, I have seen many upvoted comments saying... yeah, he's just the CEO.