skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely relate with the author a lot. I have ADHD and getting in the flow of programming feels like a monumental task that makes me feel extremely dumb.

I think the issue is that there are too many low-quality programming resources, and the author should have asked for help. You won't have a personal mentor for free, but there are dozens of people in support channels to help you learn, all you have to do is ask. So many people have helped me understand hard to grasp things, and I've been very fortunate to have people around with expertise that can teach me as well.

Doing programming these days is brutal. Layers and layers of abstractions and you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes. My ADHD brain requires me to know why I need to do something, and how it happens. The more programming feels like math, where you just have to blindly follow steps, the worse I feel doing it. Thankfully, I've looked into many resources understanding how the hardware works, how memory works, how the CPU works, how the OS works. It's been a necessary foundation to make sense of anything. The bottom up approach was the only thing that kept me sane. People like Casey Muratori teach you how to program the right way.
Thanks you for fixing it
I`ve updated the blog.
now my simple rust script is not that helpful :)
I assume that will happen over time, won’t it?
You can be very space constrained… ironically… in space. Well, needs to fit in the rocket.
There was a estimated 1/16 failure possibility for the first couple flights. Lots of edge-cases where: If XYZ happens, you die.

But we were in a hurry, so it was just part of the project.
Hmmm, what kinds of things might a CEO be up to (and capable of keeping secret from the board) which would cause a business to lose its non-profit status in California?
I can't imagine an organization that would fire their celebrity CEO like this either. So maybe that's how we arrived here.
There is no conclusive evidence. IE it has neither been proved in a lab nor observed in the population. Also, there is no known mechanism by which they could cause harm.

I don’t know why the burden of proof is so difficult for people to understand. If you make a claim, the onus is on you to prove it, not for others to disprove it.
The biggest legislative changes that preceded this is rezoning practically every single family lot to allow 4-plexes by right so that some charlatan can't come by and stop you from building it. This is just creating affordable preapprove designs to make it easier to take advantage of the rezoning.

The government is also forcing rezoning around transit stations and bus exchanges for much higher densities with heights of between 8-20 stories (or higher based on municipal planning) allowed within 800m.

While not a monorail there is a 16km elevated train extension going on in the suburbs
Us and them rhetorical nonsense. I was homeless. I didn't flash or piss on the floor indoors. Perhaps you're conflating homelessness for a lack of mental healthcare.
Also Dang the designer from the show "Silicon Valley"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLv1dQasaY
Yes but they also Determine the organization's interests
Altman is a major investor in the company behind the Humane AI Pin, which, does not inspire confidence for his ability to find a new home for his "brilliance."
> from off-the-shelf parts

This was the most serious constraint. Aside from the 6502 CPU, its memory, and the ROMs, everything on the original Apple II was constructed from simple, off-the-shelf logic ICs. No custom ICs besides the ROM; no highly integrated parts besides the CPU. You can still buy all the parts to build one yourself.

Later versions of the Apple II replaced increasing amounts of the discrete logic with custom ICs, but the basic principles of operation (and the limitations that came with them) remained the same.
I wonder if anyone at Microsoft disclosed details to Altman about the chips? Also wonder when the lawsuits over stuff will start flying. Not sure what about, but with this many hurt feelings and potential betrayals, I'm sure someone will.
I called for homelander to help and he incinerated the puppies with his laser vision while sporting an evil grin

I survived too, even though it was a desperate attempt :)
> (essentially accusing Altman of lying),

the thing is there is (legally) a huge gap between lying and "not being candid"

in the later case you can have a lot of subtle manipulative formulations, phrasing misleading emphasizing and de-emphasizing of parts misleading representation of what certain decisions imply, intentional not correcting when you notice that someone did misunderstand something and it will lead to them supporting decisions of you they would normally not have supported etc.

all of this are legal actions (and in-actions; at least if subtle done) which still can get you fired for "breakdown of communication and/or trust" in pretty much any job, especially a position like CEO

outright lying on the other hand likely can entail a lot of legal trouble in many ways

so them saying that he "wasn't candid and there was a break down in communication" then it likely means that and a break down in trust but not outright lying (except if they want to downplay the situation, but why should they)
It's gold, but it's not singular. There are many people who have been doing that work for decades and are able to step into the role. The same can't be said for the R&D work he's supporting, as comparatively few have deep insight or experience for working with the innovative tech yet.

So while Greg's work would have been extremely valuable, it's value is on a lesser order of magnitude than many of the other researchers and engineers who OpenAI had collected into its ranks. More essential innovative value will be lost to the bleed of loyalists and startup bettors who will peel off from those ranks.
There are references for the HDI figures. You really think Wikipedia is cooking HDI figures?
wouldn't some IR go through clouds? I thought that was the point of using IR.

That being said, the more important question is, how's the temporal resolution.
Is that news to you? Corporate governance is structure pretty much the same as parliamental democracies. The C-suite is the cabinet, the board of directors is the parliament/house of representatives and the shareholders are the public/voters.
the guys at pganalyze do a fantastic job explaining the inner workings of postgresql on their YouTube channel, especially the 5 minutes of postgre series
But they are married to somebody famous, so obviously qualified.
So this is yet another try at a new social media to compete with facebook and the likes.

This is still in a very early stage and does not look very promising, but I thought I might share this here if someone may find this interesting.

Fun Fact: The CEO is Natalie Boll (wife of (in)famous movie director Uwe Boll)
From the article: "trained to locate the sources of electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths ranging from roughly 2 meters down to 2 centimeters"

These types of signals wouldn't be obscured by clouds, presumably.
I think the opinion that the grand parent identifies as sociopathic wasn’t the board’s or even Altman’s, but of the masses on HN shocked by the event. The opinions of the majority here are the “sociopathy.”
> They have … split the company into two camps

By all accounts, this split happened a while ago and led to this firing, not the other way around.
> Has the US ever stated or followed a policy of neutrality

Yes, most of the time from the founding until the First World War.

> and openness?

Not sure what sense of "openness" is relevant here.
“…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
Uber does way more than calling a cab, however, I was also surprised by the number of lines of code
> Quake III's fast inverse square root algorithm

Carmack did not invent that trick; it had been around more than a decade before he used it. I remember reading a Jim Blinn column about that and other dirty tricks like it in an IEEE magazine years before Carmack "invented" it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
The mobile version? What's the biggest complaint? :)
This article appears to be their source: https://archive.ph/wQOhC

> Alongside rifts over strategy, board members also contended with Altman’s entrepreneurial ambitions. Altman has been looking to raise tens of billions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to create an AI chip startup to compete with processors made by Nvidia Corp., according to a person with knowledge of the investment proposal. Altman was courting SoftBank Group Corp. chairman Masayoshi Son for a multibillion-dollar investment in a new company to make AI-oriented hardware in partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive.
Sutskever and his allies on the OpenAI board chafed at Altman’s efforts to raise funds off of OpenAI’s name, and they harbored concerns that the new businesses might not share the same governance model as OpenAI, the person said.
Grindr Director Allegedly Profited from Short-Swing Trades
A Grindr Inc. director earned more than $200,000 in short-swing trading profits that must be returned to the dating app company, two shareholders say in a new lawsuit.

George Raymond Zage III and his investment funds traded Grindr common stock and warrants between Aug. 21 and Sept. 15 without an exception, according to the complaint.
> I was expecting it to be very easy, smooth sailing for me. On the high level, it's all very simnple stuff. It's just refactoring the codebase a bit, reorganizing it, making it cleaner and more structured, and it's supposed to be easy.

Sigh. Refactoring is hard. Finding the "right" structure (whatever that means) is hard. Changing the existing code from one structure to another is hard. There is a huge amount of uncertainty and so many ways for it to go wrong. There are an infinite number of ways to change things and you don't really know which change is "best" until you try a lot of them and then look at what you made. Now that I'm 25 years into this, I have a sense of where the dead ends are and how to avoid them, but after 10 years a lot of people don't. And I still go down dead ends sometimes. The key is realizing when you're on a dead end as quickly as possible, then stopping and doubling back. Cut that sunk cost loose.

If you go into something with the expectation that it will be easy, you won't have the right mindset to deal with difficulties. When you hit difficulties, you'll strain against them instead of calmly taking a step back and reassessing the situation. The problem isn't being dumb. It's the act of straining itself, which makes you dumb.

Most difficulties are caused by not fully understanding the problem being solved, and the "easy" solution turns out to have overlooked some of the essential complexity that needed to be solved, which leads to kludges piled on kludges. Understand first. Then solve.

It's important to have a problem solving process. Look at times that you did find a solution. How did you approach it? What was helpful? What wasn't? Refine your process over time, keeping what works and discarding what doesn't. Then trust your process and relax. It's just a website.
Chat-based AI like ChatGPT are marketed as an assistant. People expect that it can answer their questions, and often it can answer even complex questions correctly. Then it can fail miserably on a basic question.

GitHub Copilot is an auto-completer, and that's, perhaps, a proper use of this technology. At this stage, make auto-completion better. That's nice.

Why is it necessary to release "GPTs"? This is a rush to deliver half-baked tech, just for the sake of hype. Sam was fired for a good reason.

Example: Somebody markets GPT called "Grimoire" a "100x Engineer". I gave him a task to make a simple game, and it just gave a skeleton of code instead of an actual implementation: https://twitter.com/killerstorm/status/1723848549647925441

Nobody needs this shit. In fact, AI progress can happen faster if people do real research instead of prompting GPTs.
Let's go back to glass for liquids at least

Heavier, easily breakable, and far more expensive to process?
How Elon Musk's Starlink Is Bringing in Billions for SpaceX [video]
This is just an incredibly confused comment. 5g simply does not allow for transmission distances of 200+km. Period.

They might make some kind of addition to the 5g standard or something. Because yes, indeed, there are such things as satellite phones and satellite internet.

Please consider being more technical here and instead of just believing a random website or parroting one of Elon's audacious claims (of which its hopefully become painfully clear that none can be taken as truth on face value).
> Are the folks that build it the most objective observers?

Even the Administrator of NASA is happy with the progress. [1]

Objectively, it was a success.

[1] https://twitter.com/SenBillNelson/status/1725875275769028836
I think that was part of the LessWrong eschatology.

It doesn't make sense with modern AI, where improvement (be it learning or model expansion) is separated from it's normal operation, but I guess some beliefs can persevere very well.
"Can't" is a strong word, but a company that does will have more resources and likely outcompete it.
>I feel that LLMs raise some very interesting challenges for anyone trying to figure out what it means to understand something and how we do it, but I am not yet ready to agree with Hinton.

Agreed. What LLMs say about understanding deserves a lot more attention than it has received. I wrote down some of my thoughts on the matter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalism/comments/1236vzf

>Do LLMs do these things, or is what they produce a result of having a lot of information about the purely formal properties of human language use, independently of semantics?

These two points aren't necessarily in opposition, and understanding why is I think key to solving a lot of important problems around intelligence, sentience, etc. To compute is to operate on formal properties. But this doesn't exclude semantic properties from having causal relevance to the behavior of the system. What we need is a way to conceptualize how a system can have multiple related descriptions at different levels. A description at the level of semantics doesn't exclude a description in terms of formal properties or vice versa. I think of it in terms of constraints: the higher level descriptions constrain the lower level behavior. What the computational description does is ensures the higher level semantic constraint is maintained. It does this by the particular space of computational dynamics it follows. Essentially, the information that picks out this programs space of branching dynamics embeds the semantic description in question, and this description realizes the computational dynamic necessary to maintain the higher level semantic constraint. Rather than semantics being in opposition to formal properties, they are two sides of the same coin.
Perhaps the fact that it all of a sudden became acceptable (to put it mildly) to cover the lower half of one's face has some benefits after all.

After all, who could object to a safety measure?
We also test melanomas for BRAF mutations
No Cyrillic languages. It shows only few ligatures for JavaScript. And with this in mind it costs $75 when there are plenty free alternatives. Who's the target audience here?
Right. They can always release them from the noncompete if they find it onerous.
It's hard to believe a Board that can't control itself or its employees could responsibly manage AI. Or that anyone could manage AGI.

There is a long history of governance problems in nonprofits (see the transaction-cost economics literature on point). Their ambiguous goals induce politics. One benefit of profit-driven boards is that the goals make only well-understood risk trade-off's between growth now or later, and the board members are selected for their actual stake in that actual goal.

This is the problem with religious organizations and ideological governments: they can't be trusted, because they will be captured by their internal politics.

I think it would be much more rational to make AI/AGI an entirely for-profit enterprise, BUT reverse the liability defaults and require that they pay all external costs resulting from their products.

Transaction cost economics shows that in theory that it doesn't matter where liability is allocated so long as the transaction cost of redistributing liability is near zero (i.e., contract in advance and tort after are cheap), because then parties just work it out. Government or laws are required only to make up for the actual non-zero dispute transaction cost by establishing settled expectation.

The internet and software generally has been a domain where consumers have NO redress whatsoever for exported costs. It's grown (and disrupted) fantastically as a result.

So to control AI/AGI, make it for-profit, but flip liability to require all exported costs to be paid by the developer. That would ensure applications are incredibly narrow AND have net-positive social impact.
Yeah I get the concept. But this guy didn’t launch the first viable personal computer from a garage he made Loopt and then has been aggressively promoted ever since.

He’s run exactly two impressive organizations, wasn’t the rainmaker at either, and left both somewhat abruptly. I don’t quite get it.
Gathering data and making orbit. Plan was to return the booster near the launchsite and make a water splash down. The ship should make a single suborbital flight with orbit velocity to simulate reentry and should have splashed down near hawaii.
Is it still though? I thought that had died out after all the bitcoin fiascos
It is, only it has an exotic ownership structure. Sutskever has just used the features of that structure to install himself as the top dog. The next step is undoubtedly packing the board with his loyalists.

Whoever thinks you can tame a 100 billion dollar company by putting a "non-profit" in charge of it, clearly doesn't understand people.
And that is fine.. but why the immediate firing, why the controversy?
> Do you see this as seriously affecting relationships with companies such as Microsoft? With end-users?

Absolutely. If there isn't a very good reason why they did this in this way then I fully expect the board to be replaced.
Ok. I'll bite.

This strikes me as going too far.

the justification (upfront which is not as usual for most papers I come across which explain what they did that was so cool first) is something like it's hard to determine if what drugs we give to a brain is just brain based or is the darn body getting involved too.

But you know, if I understand that right, then we are mostly going to want to care about the brain and body together - cos that's how most of us function.

I get it's an engineering challenge. I also get that experimenting with certain things is just off-limits, foetuses being the first thing that come to mind.

I am a huge proponent for increasing science funding every day of the week, for undirected research because we don't know what we don't know, but sometimes we just need to say, find another way.
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Latam
Sisyphos sure is a fool rolling up that rock, when he could reach the mountain top and just let go
Cell phones don't have directional antennas. It is impressive that they fit the anisotropic antennas. You can hold the phone in any orientation and move it around.

The directionality of phone network comes from the towers which have arrays of antennas pointing in different directions.

Also, the cell phone doesn't know where the towers are. Especially with all the smaller cells that may not know where they are.
Depends on the satellite and the altitude. SpaceX/Starlink have claimed their new satellites (in LEO) will be able to provide limited service to existing and unmodified mobile phones with a view of the sky.
You seem super optimistic that backstabbing power-plays will result improvement.

I see it far more likely that openAI will lock down its tech even more, in the name of "safety", but also predict it will always be possible to pay for their services never-the-less.

Nothing in this situation makes me think OpenAI will be any more "open."
Yes. Microsoft had to sign an operating agreement when they invested that said the company has no responsibility or obligation to turn a profit. LLCs are able to structure themselves in such a way that their primary duty is not towards their shareholders.

https://openai.com/our-structure - check out the pinkish-purpleish box. Every investor and employee in the for-profit has to agree to this as a condition of their investment/employment.
Only 9 years? Try 22 years. 9/11 changed the game. PATRIOT Act in the USA is still in effect. FISA courts rubber stamping any search order in the name of “national security”.

The idea of privacy disappeared a long time ago. FB/Cambridge Analytica/IG/TT/SC is just the surface.
I thought he invested in several AI chip companies. Which one is this about?
Assuming it was monitored by a classified system, would they release the information? Recall rumored IUSS role during the Titan implosion situation and consider Malaysia's position, geographically and geopolitically, between the US and China in the context of sharing monitoring capabilities. If those capabilities even exist.
Mid 6 to low 7 figs usually. They are usually one "tier" above SWEs i.e. an average new quant would make the same amount as an average mid-level NYC software engineer, in absolute monetary terms of total compensation. The high end firms like Jane Street and Two Sigma pay the equivalent, scaled to FAANG levels. Overall performance of the firm is a key factor in the compensation too.
There had better be US intelligence crawling all over the AI space, otherwise we are all in very deep shit.
I believe that the units will all be market rentals but it is not uncommon for urban first nation bands to sell leasehold housing on their land as they cannot sell the land outright as per the Indian Act.

It gets a lot more complicated when you delve into bands such that the Tsawwassen First Nation who have new modern treaties and don't fall under the Indian Act but they are more of an exception.
Wonder if they'd allow a rooftop similar to Tesla's solar rooftop. I totally think HOAs are pretty ridiculous in general.
Elon Musk most likely
Ok, so some shit maths:

assuming a phone transmits 0.5watts at 1m, inverse square law[1] says that it will be 0.0000000000125 watts at a distance of 200km.

Thats -79dbm, so kinda shitty wifi level of signal. GPS by contrast is -125 dbm. (logarithmic scale) Your phone can pick out a GPS signal reliably with a tiny chip antenna. Imagine having a 4 meter phased antenna array.

[1] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/inverse-square-law
So he was looking to build his own AI chips with a company he owned and supply them to OpenAI? And enlist SoftBank for funding? Isn’t this very similar to Adam Neumans tactics?
It may have materially impacted many people’s lives by allowing western governments the required intel to sabotage WMD programs of governments who believe in first strike attacks.

I am generally pro-situational-awareness of things in public spaces.
I’m not painting that broadly I’m talking about participants in the comments section on the website of one specific private equity firm.