skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, chloramines come from the reaction of pool chlorine with human urine, sweat, and body oils.

It seems like that would still be happening in the absence of urine?
on Firefox, Tampermonkey addon works with this script:

https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
Is the solution to have easily-replaceable USB sockets?
At the moment I'm trying to remove any source of "artifical" dopamine: no tv, no youtube, no music, no news, no podcasts, no reddit, no social media during the week and minimal over the weekend. I've just started a week ago and it works pretty well, my mind is a lot calmer. Silence is gold.
How reliable is it? I used one of these apps from the F-Droid store (can't remember if it was this or NewPipe) but reliability was poor.
I quit my job due to burnout over a year ago, and now I’m bumbling around Europe, living hand-to-mouth off small bits of freelance work. This life is infinitely better than the one I was wasting behind a desk 8 hours a day.

I don’t see the point making $150k a year if I’m literally exchanging my life for that money.

“Unemployment” is a dirty word, I think by design to keep people producing for the economy. It’s impressive how much of a stronghold this concept holds over people. How many people who already have more than enough, who could live out the rest of their lives literally doing whatever they want, instead continue to remain employed in a job they don’t like due to an irrational fear of unemployment?
If this one was like any of the others, they were likely tasked with modelwashing LLMs to adhere to current academic fashions; i.e. tired feminist tropes and general social justice dogma.
HandBrake requires a patched version of libavcodec/libavformat libraries. Some Linux distributions like to link it to their system libavcodec/libavformat versions, and this breaks many things, DVD subtitles too.
However, if you are using a version that's linked with the right libraries, it's probably a bug that should be reported.
Why does it matters to a board that sticks to the principles of the charter of a non-profit? Why would they look at anything else other than the guiding principles?
No.

LLMs are a better google. Better google isn't going to do anything, just like current iteration of google vs 20 years ago didn't really do much.

AGI (in the sense that an AI can figure out how to take over everything) is pretty much not possible without some major mathematical discovery along the lines of P=NP.
MPA Recognizes France, Italy and Philippines for Site Blocking Innovations
It is not subversive and I did not said it is subversive.

I said people go out of their way to act offended. And very often worh fascinating caveats like "I did not read it" or with "I don't understand original but Google translator of characters name is something nice therefore every single word must be super flattering." And then get offended over passages that are flattering, but I guess not enough.
For sure trade secrets are important.

What one company may consider a trade secret and whether it is can be another thing altogether.

Customer lists or sales processes for example definitely can fall under the proprietary category.
If they actually care about that part they'd instantly open source gpt4. Wouldn't matter what altman does after that point then
> Why do you think that is the case?

I'm not stupid, esoterica. If you want to have a conversation, politeness is better.

Detailed traffic laws can never cover all circumstances (this is why we have judges and juries, not computer programs, to administer justice). I will break traffic laws if necessary to prevent a crash, and I'll accept the ticket if a cop would be so unreasonable as to write the ticket for it.

I bet you will, too.

In the 1960s, there was a public service ad about this - don't be dead right. I suppose I'm the only person who remembers that one.

I've had a couple conversations with bicycle activists. They told me that they'll stick to their road rights even if it results in a crash and they get seriously injured. They smiled that in such a case they'd get a big lawsuit award. I asked them how much is becoming a quadraplegic worth to them.

I don't understand such people.
It's a big difference when you have an expert which you can ask questions.
.. doesn't use big frameworks and do everything rather manually and with cost savvy thinking. Of course, knows how to use Google, too.
I would rather swim in Munich then in Berlin
So out of 4 people who fired Sam, 3 of them have conflicting interests with OpenAI. Adam more clearly as his company is creating ChatGPT's competitor, and Tasha and Helen's employer are funding Anthropic.

The curious part was how did investors including Microsoft missed this in their DD. Or they found out but they wanted to invest in OpenAI so bad that they let go of this fact.
The problem is that this "AGI research group" is staffed by people who build statitiscal models, call them AI, and are delusional enough to think this is a route to general intelligene.

There is no alterantive, if you're wedded to "fitting functions to frequencies of text tokens" as your 'research paradigm' -- the only think that can be is a commericalised trinket.

So either the whole org starts staffing top level research teams in neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, logic, computer science, biophysics, materials science.... or it just delivers an app.

If sam is the only one interested in the app, its because he's the only sane guy in the room.
Yes it is second oldest poem we have. And it comes from oral tradition, meaning it existed before being written.

That does not mean it felt turgid or unnatural to its contemporaries.
Brazil's economy enters negative territory in Q3, shows central bank data
This is like Samsung testing their foldable phone... in a clean room.
It provides the ability to skip ads without pressing the 'L' key. Meaning that one doesn't have to be at the keyboard to press anything. It also skips to the end of the ad, so you never have to use the 'J' key if you pressed 'L' too many times or if the ad finished 9 seconds ago.
I will be trying this out! Are there other tools like this?
I really wish that doctors could do some sort of separate-the-conjoined-twins surgery on Elan - to turn the (awesome achievements) SpaceX Elan, (awesome with more caveats) Tesla Elan, and (radioactive dumpster fire) Twitter Elan into 3 separate people.
That's a very interesting post.

I like closure compiler. It is somewhat related to GWT (which also perform similar manglings of names but since compilation from java means there's no expectation of preservation of field names, it doesn't come out as bad).

On the other hand, i also see why the npm ecosystem (and in general, the javascript ecosystem) isn't suitable for large scale systems programming. The fact that using a module from npm does not guarantee that the "original" source is part of your compilation, seems ass backwards to me.

I like the system that closure compiler implements, because it clearly delineates between source artifacts and compiled artifacts. It also pushes modules to "export" symbols, rather than by default export everything.

If only the javascript users from back when NPM was in their early days actually embraced the concept of compilation units, closure compiler would've been the gcc of the web development world.

It's a lost opportunity to have left it languish, since the compiled output is vastly superior to anything webpack or any other current minifiers can produce.
Facebook has far bigger issues than that, such as peoples medical information getting released or potentially getting it wrong. Privacy might not be well protected in the US but defamation lawsuits are no joke. So training on people’s private chat history isn’t necessarily safe.

Even just the realization that ‘Logs from a chatbot conversation can go viral’ has actual real world implications.
Neither Wikipedia nor public libraries allow instructions to make weapons of mass destruction.
Every respectable HFT shop does that. What you can't do is achieve <5us execution latency at 100% percentile. You'd have to disable LAPIC interrupts for that which I doubt they did.
Some devices feature USB-C ports that do not conform to the specifications. They're essentially just a DC barrel port disguised in USB-C clothing. and various other combinations exist as well with partial features.
you're lucky usb-c ports are failing constantly
this was unfortunately a popular sentiment in the early 2000s in the US
You can do this for a while, but sometime later, that tiny ember could turn into an inferno.
Could have done it with poop emojis on twitter
Actually "open source", as we know it, can only exist in a capitalist framework.
Note that the government is there mostly to keep the capitalist system running. In an anarchistic society, for example, there would probably be no government, and they would therefore not need any software.

Capitalism is built around a concept of private ownership, and as such, the author of a work is reasonably free to use their work as they see fit. That allows for something like open source software to exist and not, for instance, be stolen or destroyed by others.

Also, I think we are far away from collectivism, because typically only very, very, few people actually work on software, let alone open source software.

Finally, capitalist companies use open source software a lot. It is just a very efficient way of dealing with software, and a great way to make profit, because production costs are terribly low.

Not defending capitalism here, just saying that it is slightly more involved, as always.
Where I live they installed street lights that are a lot dimmer by default, but they are connected and have motion detectors. Whenever someone comes near, the light gets brighter and so do the others in direction of travel. You kind of get a light wave traveling with you and afterwards they dim again.

The mayor then got complaints that the street lights are not as bright as mandated by some regulation (when measured with an empty road in their dimmed state ...).
That as a non profit they won’t be able to attract any sufficient amounts of money?
Enforced nudity?

How very German.

Here deregulated beaches (outside of council zoning) are clothing-optional :

https://www.worldbeachguide.com/australia/swanbourne-beach.h...

which are often signposted as such near urban areas, with no signage or policing elsewhere:

https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/broome/broome-be...

... just don't disturb nesting turtles, okay?
But it does not work. It looks like it would, with the indentation and iota keyword, but its just some variables that do not constrain the type. There will be incoming rogue values, from json or sql or something else.

var g Gender // ok so far.
if err := json.Unmarshal("99", &g); err != nil { panic(err) }
// no error and g is Gender(99)!

Now you must validate, remember to validate, and do it in a thousand little steps in a thousand places.

Go is simple and gets you going fast... but later makes you stop and go back too much.
> I can customize it

Which implies you actually understand all the ffmpeg opts and how they interact.

I very much doubt trail an error, or reading manpages is "mich faster" than picking a preset, ticking a box or dragging a slider in handbrake.
Humans did not evolve eating vegetables or fruit. Prior to the rise of agriculture a mere 8 - 12 thousand years ago there was very little vegetation in the human diet. Prior to 80 thousand years ago there was virtually none. Humans and their progenitors for at least four million years have existed as hypercarnivores. And that means your genes have been adapted for the vast majority of history to survival on a meat-based diet. Every vitamin, mineral, and nutrient your body needs is found in meat. But the reason I choose not to eat plants is because I'm much much healthier since I tried this way of eating. I have no more acne, no more tiredness during the daytime (despite my continuing insomnia), sharper mental clarity, I no longer get DOMS after working out and can push myself much farther than I could previously, my persistent autoimmune disease (lichen planus) has completely vanished, and most of my gray hairs went away. For the first time in my life I can wake up in the morning and function immediately with no memory or energy problems. (I didn't know that people could wake up and be fully alert immediately upon waking.) And I lost 30 pounds. But probably the best part is that I can eat as much as I want until I'm stuffed and not worry about gaining weight. After nearly 20 years of counting calories I'm so relieved to not worry about it anymore and never need to feel hunger.
Replying to my own comment. I decoded it from the original dtextc.dat file:

Object: 122: stack of listings
There is an enormous stack of line-printer paper here. It is barely
readable and totally unintelligable.
Initial:
There is a gigantic pile of line-printer output here. Although the
paper once contained useful information, almost nothing can be
distinguished now.
Flag1: -8176 (burn take read visible)
Size: 70
Room: 137 (Tomb of the Unknown Implementer)
Read:
<DEFINE FEEL-FREE (LOSER)
<TELL "FEEL FREE, CHOMPER!">
<MEMQ ......
The rest is, alas, unintelligable (as were the implementers).
Or people in other countries are actually glad that the risk of being shot are minimal while still being safe
Sam Altman 'was working on new venture' before sacking from OpenAI
So in a vaccum if top experts telling you X is Y and you without being top expert yourself if you had to choose you would chose that they are high and not that you misunderstood something?
The simple work of splitting up the nonce at https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386/blob/master/hom...

Seems to be what makes the vast majority of the spam bots faceplant, at least the ones that spam random irrelevant sites like this one.
They’ve redefined “safe” in this context to mean “conformant to fashionable academic dogma”
Smuggling is just an illegal form of commerce.

I think by "copyright" you really mean "intellectual property" (of which copyright is one part). Open source is really unrelated to IP. Open source has its own licenses and constraints just like proprietary software. Like I can make an open source H265 decoder but I could still get sued for violating MPAA patents.

But here's the key point: proprietary software is wealth extraction. Wealth extraction is what capitalism really is. Collective action, often volunteered, creates a free alternative for something that you previously had to pay for, thus bypassing that enclosure and wealth extraction. That's why it's anti-capitalist.
> I challenge the author to go find a wired keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB C plug.

Not the author, but all my Logitech keyboards have USB-C.
People are incredibly comfortable with everyone elses privacy and rights being violated
I don’t think everyone appreciated suddenly taking part in an iterative scientific process without consent.
So FTL anything isn't possible, no matter the method, full stop.

Einstein's general relativity theory is pretty much demonstrated to be 100% correct, with no real evidence of it being wrong (at least on a macro scale).

As per this theory, we know the relationship between space and time, time dilation, e.t.c

Any FTL device can be used to create paradoxes, like sending a message back in time that prevents the message being sent in the future. These paradoxes are simply not possible, as it breaks causality. Therefore FTL is not really possible.

All the FTL stuff like Alcubierre drive is just clever way of playing with math. Math is just a language that is used to express relationships in reality that we know, its not a one to one mapping of reality.
From the article, reasons why chloramines get created:

> perspiration, oils and urine that enter pools from swimmers’ bodies.

I choose to be an optimist and will believe that list starts with most common source and ends with the least common.
Is it just me that finds it weird the EU, and specially Russia/China/Iran don't strongly support OS and/or Linux for that reason?
Not at all. Tests + Valgrind/Helgrind (and similar tools) can cope with pretty much anything.
Well that’s how (non-mix) saunas work in Finland.
You probably never read I robot from Asimov?
> 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.

I've also noticed there are next to no usb-c hubs, apart from "docks" that usually do many more things are bigger. But, don't they have to provide the specced power to be "compliant"?

What I find annoying is that even "higher end" docks don't have many usb-c ports. I'm typing this through a HP dock that has a big-ass power adaptor and is quite big and heavy itself (has a huge heatsink), yet it still provides only one usb-c port. At least it seems to implement PD (I can charge a laptop through the downstream port), even though I think it only provides 15W.
On the other hand having virtually the whole staff being willing to follow him shows they clearly think very highly of him. That kind of loyalty is pretty wild when you think about how significant being a part of OPENAI means at this point.
You think open sourcing your models isn't ethical?
Everyone should think about it usually means no one will.
They put out a statement saying they have what they need. I don't see how Microsoft loses here. Either they get altman back at openai and get rid of the ethics crowd and make bank, or they find his new startup without the move slow crowd and make bank. No matter what they win.
Literally 0 of that is true. And this is how it spreads. I bet you've read this a thousand times and thought to yourself you don't have to check if any of it is true, since so many people cannot be wrong.

I've got bad news for you then: The majority people on this planet believe in an afterlife with Allah. You better start preparing.

Or did you find that one doctor that out of frustration said "yes" to the question if the vaccine would 100% protect against an infection? Now you found proof that the vaccine doesn't 100% protect against infection and that makes you smarter than a doctor, in the field of medicine no less? All the other doctors that were telling you the truth, you chose to ignore. All of them said you should vaccinate and follow quarantine. I bet you broke a low of quarantine procedures to crave this disinformation. Luckily for you there's plenty available - you're even creating some yourself.
My running joke is that it would be awesome if Satoshi Nakamoto were North Korean and this was all planned from the start. I'd give it a 10% chance of being the case.
https://ideaness.org/ is a new platform where (aspiring) entrepreneurs and startups can:

- Publish and explain their business projects;
- Share their entrepreneurial journey;
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Actually the majority of the VA top current. That is Ilya, hassabis, anthropic, Bengio, Hinton. 3 top labs? 3 same views.
It is ludicrous to describe what happened as a coup. Your boss firing you is not a coup.
The rejoinders to this are nonsense and you know it. Stop lying.
Not a lot of people will like to hear this, but you can pay YouTube a few dollars per month to remove ads and allow the player to run in the background. A lot of tech people will probably earn that money in a few minutes. Is it really worth investing your own time to remove ads?
1. i am surprised that Sam, a known prepper, left himself vulnerable to the most traditional risk a CEO can have. presumably he had a lot of control over board composition?

2. soooo is Sam back? how exactly might satya influence a nonprofit board he has zero votes in? why would the board flipflop so quickly in the span of 24 hrs when presumably they took the original action knowing the shitstorm that would ensue? none of these things make sense given that everyone in the room is presumably smart and knows how the world works
Like it or not, some people compare him to Jobs http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html
HB (surprisingly when I firstly learned) builds lots of components from scratch instead of just using FFMPEG (of course, it still uses FFMPEG lib extensively in some other parts).

It's one of the very few transcoders that isn't just a wrapper of FFMPEG (which is both an advantage and a disadvantage).
No definitely not.
Coincidentally I read a comment today along the lines of “at HN, Cynicism-is-Intelligence” which really hit the nail on the head for me. This isn’t at all a nice community, overall.
Is one division responsible for the crimes of another division, especially in a large corporation?
Yay more strobing! More migraines! Isn't civilization great!
Fully agree. Central functions of these types do not scale. Even with more mundane objectives, like operational excellence, organizations have learned that centralization leads to ivory tower nothing-burgers. Most of the resources should go to where the actual work gets done, as little as possible should be managed centrally (perhaps a few ops and thought leadership fluff folks...).
Not at all.

Physics is physics, it doesn't magically stop just because it's in the body. Just because we put two identical things into use doing 2 different things, doesn't mean they're not the same.

A person with a back ache could be prescribed aspirin. Another person with blood clots could also be prescribed aspirin. Clinically these are very different things. The aspirin, and the factory that makes it, and the biochemistry by which it works, is the same.

Blood pumps are blood pumps, aspirin is aspirin. What you do with them clinically, and how, can vary widely. Agreed. But that doesn't mean the chemistry, physics, engineering behind them does too.
(This. Is snowI have twice now written fairly involved comments telling you about and linking to a tool I made that runs in the browser (completely locally) and outputs to HTML and CSS (which in my case is technically using the ASCII character set so I think we’re in the same ballpark) a full-color text representation of the image you choose.

Twice now I have inadvertently navigated off of the comment page while trying to live text to a part of my phone’s screen that isn’t smashed and can actually display. So this is the third attempt to share this with you, let’s hope it elevates is the charm.

The page I am about to link to explains and demonstrates what IMHO looks much better than the output of similar tools, even when running the plain old black text on white background version of the tool. Though the demo picture

Since you are reading this article and at least some of the comments, I hope you will check it out and enjoy using it. The somewhat arbitrarily chosen

https://www.killsignal.net/img2txt/ascii-art.html
I'm using uBlock Origin and haven't seen an ad on twitch other than for a day or two about a year ago, in years. (Daily Twitch watcher)
People said Sam was irreplaceable and then we wasn’t?
The codebase of an LLM is the size of a high school exam project. There is little to no coding in machine learning. That is the sole reason why they are overvalued - any company can write its own in a flash. You only require hardware to train and inference.