skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a subscription. If they ban me, I'd stop paying.

The rationale is that it suppresses ads. And is bundled with YT Music, which I actually like and use. I've heard the arguments about ad blockers, but none of those seem to work across all the devices and networks I use.
It would be hideously expensive due to the compute required and the total inability to monetize the data. Some people value their privacy that much; most don’t.
True, but what if they start encoding the ads into the stream?
Mine, a fairly budget mechanical keyboard, came with a C-C cable, but includes a small C to A adapter.
> It's response is not based on facts about the world as it exists, but on the text data it has been trained on

How did you find out that Biden was elected if not through language by reading or listening to news? Do you have extra sensory perception? Psychic powers? Do you magically perceive "facts" without any sensory input or communication? Ridiculous.

By the same argument your knowledge is also not based on "facts" about the world, since you only learned about it by reading or listening. Absurd nonsense.
Sama: I love the OpenAI team so much
To be fair I'd much rather us converge to 'sockets on both ends' now that the plug is the same anyway

Throwing away a perfectly good device because the cable is kaputz exacerbates our e-waste problem
I hope he'll make a new one!
And with the popularity and success of GPT whatever they do next will likely be wildly successful. The timing couldn't be more perfect.
All corporations are basically Russian dolls at this point.
Once when I boarded a flight I noticed one of those multi-country mains power sockets next to a 2-hole headphone socket. They were arranged and aligned in a way that made it obvious that a 2-prong headphone cable would fit in the power socket. I took a picture of it and put it on Facebook before taking off.

After a nap I actually did put on headphones and plug them into the power socket by mistake. Luckily nothing happened.
Almost all of the dozen keyboards I’ve bought on the last few years are USB-C.
That's not necessarily true.

It's entirely conceivable that even if AGI (or something comparably significant in terms of how impactful it would be to changing society or nation states) was achievable in our lifetime, it might be that:

1) Achieving it requires a critical mass of research talent in one place that perhaps currently exists at fewer than 5 companies - anecdotally only Google, Meta, and OpenAI. And a comparable number of world governments (At least in the US the best researchers in this field are at these companies, not in academia or government. China may be different.)

This makes it sound like a "security by obscurity" situation, and on a long enough timeline it may be. Without World War 2, without the Manhattan Project, and without the looming Cold War how long would it have taken for Humanity to construct a nuclear bomb? An extra 10 years? 20? 50? Hard to know. Regardless, there is a possibility that for things like AI, with extra time comes the ability to better understand and build those defenses before they're needed.

2) It might also require an amount of computing capacity that only a dozen companies/governments have.

If you open source all the work you remove the guard rails for the growth or what people focus investments on. It also means that hostile nations like Iran or North Korea who may not have the research talent but could acquire the raw compute could utilize it for unknown goals.

Not to mention that what nefarious parties on the internet would use it for. We only know about deep fake porn and generated vocal audio of family members for extortion. Things can get much much worse.
> forbidden USB A to USB A cable

In the early days of USB before flash drives were common, I was convinced such a cable would let me connect two PCs together to transfer data. Spent some time looking around in stores before a kind sales rep advised they did not exist.
Enjoy driving up the value of your attention even further I guess. Paying money only makes them want to advertise to you even harder. You're paying for the privilege of putting yourself in a list of people with so much disposable income they pay not to be bothered.
> Our attention is ours. It's not currency to pay for services with.

That's a fine stance, just don't use youtube.

A lot of these "moral" arguments for not paying or watching the ads fall apart because they seem ignore that option entirely.
It's very easy to bodge together a USB-A connector in a pinch in a way that USB-C just isn't. USB-A is simple and there's literally tens of billions of devices that would be made just a little bit closer to being e-waste if USB-A ports became substantially less common than they already are on mainstream devices. Adapters exist and should exist, but we shouldn't have to rely on them.
Posts like this are what is really wrong with this world :-)

I am going to be contrarian and be harsh on the OP but for his own good. Empty "feel good" responses that i see here are actually toxic positivity at work.

Grandiose opinions about oneself, making excuses for one's failures, being unclear about one's goals, not applying oneself seriously to actually studying something, not understanding the difference between true knowledge acquisition vs. posturing for the same, caring more about others opinions of oneself and allowing that to define oneself etc. are the original sins.

The answer has always been the age old advice "Apply yourself systematically and work hard".

Sit down, quiet yourself and ask "What are you trying to do and achieve?" Narrow it down ruthlessly to something small and specific and then do it.
PySide vs. .NET WinForms for a Desktop GUI App in 2023?
Hello Folks,

For an upcoming side project - a Desktop GUI app, open source, Apache 2.0 licensed, I'm slightly confused regarding what technology to use.

Skills wise, C#/WinForms should be my natural choice as that was the primary technology I had worked on before losing employment at Tech Mahindra few years back and getting into freelancing. But post my freelance experience, I taught myself things like open source and Python as it came with the territory, and now PySide2 is also a running candidate in this race.

The goal here is to be as much ubiquitous as possible - that my app should be easy to just "download, extract and run" by as many people as possible. A couple decades ago, a .NET GUI library targeting Microsoft Windows platform would have been the clear choice here as most people used Windows OS and targeting that platform meant being ubiquitous.

But over the last few years, I've observed that Windows OS has been continuously losing its market share to Linux Distros and Mac OSX, mostly due to some incorrect decisions and strategic blunders by the former than some ground breaking or revolutionary innovation on part of the latter. This means .NET or WinForms is no longer the ideal choice today if you want to be cross-platform and ubiquitous.

This lead my research to some other toolkits like the Java Swing library, for example. It's old but classic, not a bad choice at all in this case, platform independence is Java's biggest selling point. However, the app I'm making is non-trivial and slightly performance intensive, and Swing GUIs are known to be sluggish on PCs unless you ensure a good supply of RAM by tweaking the JVM settings. I'm also not very experienced in Java to be able to handle those situations in case they arise.

I also considered Lazarus IDE/Object Pascal, it is also not a bad choice. It is open source, used as the primary course language across many Universities in Europe and most importantly, still maintained and developed. But guess I will have to teach myself a whole new paradigm along with a programming language in case I go this route.

Finally, Python is something I've almost settled on for this project. It's a language that I'm very fond of and it has helped me survive through the tough times in the freelance market. It also has a vibrant ecosystem and rich repository of user contributed packages like PyPI.

Now, I've worked on the default Tkinter library in past but somehow felt that it's quite limited in terms of making the GUI more flexible and "tweakable", especially a non-trivial one having several container widgets, syntax editors, menus and drop-downs, trees and list views, etc. PySide2 is, from what I understand, a better choice in this regard as it is comprehensive and based on the time-tested Qt interface. It is not only very easy to code and maintain but also very easy to port across various platforms.

What do you think? In which direction should I go here?
The notion of objects being replaceable and therefore you shouldn't do much when they're taken is.. I think?... an invention of risk departments at modern corporations. Like sure if you're a department store you don't want to risk your employees getting hurt stopping a shoplifter, the downside far exceeds the upside. But as a person? That's your stuff, and it makes total sense to want it, not a replacement, and to want to punish the thief in the process. You're fully within your moral rights (imo) to try to take it back.

.. I mean, within reason. Don't do anything stupid.

Anyway this very human urge is why e.g. rampant property theft in certain US cities is so frustrating. I want to live in a world where the government protects not just my life and rights but also my stuff and the coherence of the world. Within reason.
Ask HN: What was all the white smoke surrounding the starship before launch?
There was stuff coming out of the rocket itself and I get that, but there were tons more coming out of the surrounding facilities. Wonder what it is.
Do all that but have you considered good blinds and maybe even a sleeping mask? I'm on your side but good tools to have for anyone, particularly with or without such a condition. The sleeping mask Tim Ferriss recommends is amazing, I hate sleeping without it
...or they don't respond to these pressure tactics, continue talking to their employees to ameliorate legitimate concerns, and accept that some of Sam's hires will go to join him. OpenAI's core (remembering that OpenAI's Charter doesn't demand it makes cool consumer/developer AI products, it demands OpenAI build AGI safely) is not the ChatGPT product team or admin, it is the research team that Ilya leads (or lead until a month ago when Sam tried to sideline him). The company isn't going to leave to follow Sam, or at least the scientists and engineers aren't. They've lost some technical leads that Sam hired and will probably lose more, but it's worth it to make sure that OpenAI is actually following its Charter.
I’m a little confused, are they circulating blood just through the head of the pig?
something that might be useful to you for that; you can get m.2 slot network adapters which you could use on (some) ITX boards. there's at least 1 & 10gbe ones available.
The point still stands, the board does not have "investors". Microsoft knowingly donated to the for profit entity of the non profit. Open AI isn't a PBC, it's a 501c non profit. So the board can act that way, without the knowledge of the investors.

That being said, this is a case of biting the hand that feeds you. An equivalent would be if a nonprofit humiliated its biggest donor. The donor can always walk away, claiming her future donations away, but whatever she's donated stays at the nonprofit.
Well, he was hired away from Google in the first place.
I cannot stress how different routine cardiopulmonary bypass is versus VAD implantation. From patient selection to procedural considerations, no clinician would treat them as if they were the same thing. I'm saying this for the benefit of other HN readers.
No but that's kinda good lol
How much TV do you watch??? If we're lucky we can squeeze 90 minutes a day in before bed. We have netflix, get prime video free with prime, and now that we have a toddler, we have Disney+. That's about $40 but there are NO ADS. If it's not on Netflix of Prime (or Disney+) we just don't watch it. There aren't enough hours in the day to go explore random series on Hulu, Paramount, Peacock. HBO Max has been a fucking disaster of a service for several years and runs like garbage on my TV. We cancelled it days after Game of Thrones ended.
I had a similar issue on my old phone and I'm pretty sure it was because of something wrong with the connector on the phone's side.
There are two use cases: (1) when the computation is proprietary so the user can’t run it, or (2) when the user doesn’t even want to trust their own hardware.
The Bible definitely needs an update for these kinds of questions.
You have! The Apple Vision Pro is slated to be released by the March/April 2024. The device has only been made possible by the steady march of Apple Silicon.
Its often the most offensive shade of bright white fluorescent-like LED. Why can't they do the orange one that lets everyone be ok seeing light at night and sleeping to tell the tale
> I’d follow Sam and Greg.

Once the avalanche has stopped moving that's a free decision, right now it could be costly.
No worries, it happens to the best of us. And also me. :)

For years I was completely baffled why the National Science Foundation had to certify the wire shelving in my apartment...

https://www.srs-i.com/blog/all-about-nsf-certifications-shel...
If I do the research, will it change your mind?
Well this clears things up /s
It doesn’t sound like either of us have all the facts. We’ll leave it at that.
You mean Microsoft, who hasn't actually paid them the money they said they will eventually, and who can change their Azure billing arrangement at any time?

Sure, I guess I didn't consider them, but you can lump them into the same "media campaign" (while accepting that they're applying some additional, non-media related leverage) and you'll come to the same conclusion: the board is incompetent. Really the only argument I see against this is that the legal structure of OpenAI is such that it's actually in the board's best interest to sabotage the development of the underlying technology (i.e. the "contain the AGI" hypothesis, which I don't personally subscribe to - IMO the structure makes such decisions more difficult for purely egotistical reasons; a profit motive would be morally clarifying).
Would need a complete circuit. So unless you’re sticking in both ends of one cable to the same outlet…
So when your drunk and you forget your actions the day afterwards you don't consider yourself to have been sentient/conscious?

That's not how we define conscious anywhere.

You can process the world around you, feel and introspect. Even if your judgment is off and you forget your actions, you're conscious in that moment.

From a neuroscience perspective, what you're suggesting is absolutely false btw.
Sure. But if you want to actually have two m.2 drives to either mirror your root filesystem or use one as a secondary? It gets tangly quickly.

inb4: CPUs as well as commonly used chipsets have enough lanes, it's not that.
Yup, I don't own a single device that uses USB-C either: laptops, tablets, phones, keyboards, mouses, flash drives, network storage devices, routers, wifi access points, printers, scanners, kindles, microcontroller boards, calculators, rechargeable battery chargers, wireless temperature monitors, etc. Everything is USB-A (to micro-B, sometimes mini-B).

Still mad at Apple for removing USB-A. I understand adding USB-C. Why remove them??
There’s engineering feasibility, and then there’s feasibility. Is it any less feasible to operate fewer or dimmer street lights? How about directing light more efficiently? This is a problem of bureaucratic and societal engineering.
Decolonization is widely used for much more than simply unwinding European colonialism: It's also invoked when teachers object to simply teaching kids math (because the curriculum and terms are European/Euro-descended American in origin), desperately trying to find a way to teach evolution without Darwin because he's an old white Euro man, and so on.

Invariably, "decolonizing" a subject means systematically booting white authors out, or pivoting from teaching the subject matter plain and simple to teaching ideology and relativizing everything because Heaven forbid a minority kid would feel bad (which itself is mostly just an excuse)
People don't seem to realise this is already playing out with semiconductors. Huawei didn't go away despite crushing sanctions. Same for Longsoon. Both still need fabs, both are now captive customers of SMIC despite previously being huge customers of TSMC. SMIC now has the required guaranteed volume to sink money into new nodes instead of just making automotive/appliance level chips. This whole thing is going to go down as the worst blunder in geopolitical maneuvers of all time. While the West completely controlled the most important parts of the pipeline they always had innate advantage. Trump gave that up for a one time, single decade advantage forcing Biden to double down to try make the best out of a slow motion train crash.
I probably shouldnt be trying to talk you out of this. Please disregard, honestly there needs to be people on both sides for everything to maintain balance in all things. Like that funny catapult.

If it works for you, works for me :) The world is my ecosystem

Edit: trebuchet aha
Another data point: I can (barely) run a 30B 4 bit quantized model on a Mac Mini with 32G on chip memory but it runs slowly (a little less than 10 tokens/second).

13B and 7B models run easily and much faster.
For the last year I've been eating 4500 calories a day and not exercising. I'm down 30 lbs. Carnivore is indeed the way.
It says "i love the openai team so much". It doesn't say "I'm back at OpenAI".
> there is a possibility that for things like AI, with extra time comes the ability to better understand and build those defenses before they're needed.

Or not, and damaging wrongheaded ideas will become a self-reinforcing (because safety! humanity is at stake!) orthodoxy, leaving us completely butt-naked before actual risks once somebody makes a sudden clandestine breakthrough.

https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-pause-will-likely-backfir...

> We don’t need to speculate about what would happen to AI alignment research during a pause—we can look at the historical record. Before the launch of GPT-3 in 2020, the alignment community had nothing even remotely like a general intelligence to empirically study, and spent its time doing theoretical research, engaging in philosophical arguments on LessWrong, and occasionally performing toy experiments in reinforcement learning.

> The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), which was at the forefront of theoretical AI safety research during this period, has since admitted that its efforts have utterly failed. Other agendas, such as “assistance games”, are still being actively pursued but have not been significantly integrated into modern deep learning systems— see Rohin Shah’s review here, as well as Alex Turner’s comments here. Finally, Nick Bostrom’s argument in Superintelligence, that value specification is the fundamental challenge to safety, seems dubious in light of LLM's ability to perform commonsense reasoning.[2]

> At best, these theory-first efforts did very little to improve our understanding of how to align powerful AI. And they may have been net negative, insofar as they propagated a variety of actively misleading ways of thinking both among alignment researchers and the broader public. Some examples include the now-debunked analogy from evolution, the false distinction between “inner” and “outer” alignment, and the idea that AIs will be rigid utility maximizing consequentialists (here, here, and here).

> During an AI pause, I expect alignment research would enter another “winter” in which progress stalls, and plausible-sounding-but-false speculations become entrenched as orthodoxy without empirical evidence to falsify them. While some good work would of course get done, it’s not clear that the field would be better off as a whole. And even if a pause would be net positive for alignment research, it would likely be net negative for humanity’s future all things considered, due to the pause’s various unintended consequences. We’ll look at that in detail in the final section of the essay.
> Type-C hubs are annoyingly expensive, because they all assume you want all the USB 3.x speed and/or power delivery bells and whistles - but for connecting simple peripherals none of that is necessary.

Meanwhile the most frequent complaint I read about USB-C is trickster/confusing cables or hubs because they don’t support everything
> The 'Live Demo' probably shouldn't be locked behind a login unless there's a good reason for it.

I agree. But there were some technical issues I'd have to deal with to make it work properly and I didn't have the time to deal with it right now.

> do you plan to have general free courses?

The marketplace (mywisek.com) will likely have free courses.

> would I go to your site to hunt around for something interesting to learn, or are you always behind the scenes

You'll be able to hunt around for something interesting to learn.
I just bought a new device that came with a USB-A to USB-B cable!!!! the horror!! Makes sense, as it pretty much functions like a printer, only subtractive instead of additive process. Then it has Bluetooth instead of WiFi for wireless!?!?
>A month ago, Sutskever’s responsibilities at the company were reduced, reflecting friction between him and Altman and Brockman. Sutskever later appealed to the board

Does anybody know how his responsibilities or what led to that? Seems pretty relevant.
This is why I self host my girlfriend, instead of subscribing in a GaaS model. If you can't touch the server rack and feel the heat, all you're doing is talking to somebody else's AI girlfriend.
I had a nasal infection once and tested positive for MRSA from a nose swab. The doctor indicated I probably always have it living there, I’m curious if that sounds right?
Presumably if it's a mass storage device with block-addressible storage then the host's fs driver should be able to (if it has its own file checksums) transparently identify the corruption and re-read the block, right? Or at least bubble up to the user and fail the operation instead of allowing silent data corruption.
And then there's IKEA
And I thought it was impressive to see Second Reality cloned on the C64.

This is going to be a quite enjoyable watch tomorrow.
This time around they used water, a lot of water which is typical of other launches by the rest of the world to attenuate rocket engine noise. It also does wonders for the launch pad.

So the extra stuff is water particles and steam ...
I don't see any ways in which they could be held criminally liable for just voting their conscience, and good luck verifying that. So that angle is not open for exploration as far as I can see. But what would scare the wits out of any board members is to have say the full power of Microsoft's legal department going after them for the perceived damages with respect to either Microsoft's stock price (a publicly traded company, no less) or the value of Microsoft's holdings in OpenAI.

And, incidentally, if there is a criminal angle that's probably the only place you might possibly find it and it would take the SEC to bring suit: they'd have to prove that one or more of the board members profited from this move privately or that someone in their close circle profited from it. Hm. So maybe there is such an angle after all. Even threatening that might be enough to get them to fold, if any of them or their extended family sold any Microsoft stock prior to the announcement they'd be fairly easy to intimidate.
Definitely a good thing to put on the list of things to complain to legislators about.

For those that don’t have such a list, I recommend you start, otherwise the only opinions they hear are from people paid to capture their attention.
Thanks for the reminder on just how bad the USB working group is at naming things.
My desktop has all vertical ports, now what?