skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In context, it's the kind of immigrant who doesn't want to assimilate, but who would rather form a gang with friends from the old country.

If you interpret that as being a codeword for Muslims, either you're projecting, or (too many) Muslims actually are that kind of immigrant.

The US has this problem, too. Quite a lot of "that kind of immigrant" to the US are not Muslims.
Oh no, we shouldn’t be discussing this topic here in HN :-)

By the way, never NEVER ask ChatGPT what it knows about Roko’s Basilisk ;-)
Missing from Open-World Survival Sandboxes: Astroneer.

Incidentally some of the best sound design and music I have ever heard in a video game.
Carter is the model for being 10x more impactful without having to get into politics.

The (political) system wants us to believe we need it - and yeah, lightly at times we do - but the truth more often is it needs us more. Carter proved that you can do more (read: better) outside the political system. The (media) system recognized him - cause it can't ignore a POTUS - but didn't really give him the status quo disruptor he deserved.

See also Carne Ross' "Leaderless Revolution" (book).
I can say that the paid service from ElevenLabs can do long form TTS very well. I used it for a while to convert long articles to voice to listen to later instead of reading. It works very well.
I only stopped because it gets a little pricey.
It's the right size for sure, but you can buy 32GB of Micro SD for about $10. And and an SD card reader is a lot easier to find. The are just a little too small. :)

It's not just nostalgia. I think when you start looking for them there are a lot of good reasons to start doing this.

Physical backups, privacy of not having so much life online, less subscriptions required (dropbox), easier sharing without gate keepers.

SanDisk should make something. A credit card with a few small raised bumps for the connection so you can just rest it on a surface rather than having to plug it in. Then a simple little USB reader that is just a flat surface you can place on your desk.
You can also have principles which would rather do no work than harmful work
Having now tried it (the linked repo links to pre-built colab notebooks):

1) It does a fantastic job of text-to-speech.

2) I have had no success in getting any meaningful zero-shot voice cloning working. It technically runs and produces a voice, but it sounds nothing like the target voice. (This includes trying their microphone-based self-voice-cloning option.)

Presumably fine-tuning is needed - but I am curious if anyone had better luck with the zero-shot approach.
Raylib v5.0
I used to dial up to a vax in terminal mode circa 1991 with a 2400 baud modem. But sometimes it would connect at 300.... which was painful. Not to mention there was only limited lines in so it could take a while to get a connection, so even if you did connect at 300, you'd often just put up with it.

Was a cool time, no one really knew anything about the internet then and it felt like this awesome "secret world" that connected you to the rest of the world!
> Microsoft has certain rights to OpenAI’s intellectual property so if their relationship were to break down, Microsoft would still be able to run OpenAI’s current models on its servers.

https://archive.is/jUJEH
This is unlocking memories for me. I think we used to tell folks something like "If it's under $50 and Walmart sells it, that's a winmodem" or something like that.

In theory, one of the selling points was that as standards changed, you would just upgrade your drivers/software and not buy a new modem. That probably made a lot of sense if you bought a USR Winmodem, but those $20 unbranded models were lucky to ever see an update. If you were lucky, you had a reference model and could use the OEM drivers which did occasionally get updated. But by the time these things came about, V.90/V.92 existed, and dialup standards were kind of frozen in that 56k-if-you-were-lucky state. There wasn't anything to upgrade to - you got DSL if you wanted more bandwidth over POTS lines, or you went to cable.

Also I could be completely full of shit on the above. These are memories from 16-18 year old me.
How do you lie for experience though? Defunct company? What if they ask for reference?
This list lacks most of Zachtronics games, which are all related to engineering, and my favorite game dev.

I really think Exapunks, Shenzhen I/O, SpaceChem and TIS-100 should be there, in fact, Zachtronics created his own puzzle genre, "zachs-like"

https://www.zachtronics.com/
Or the occasional "Fore!!"s. :-)
I also met her, about 20 years ago. Boarding an RJ, bumped to 1st, I was in row 1 putting my bag into the overhead. An older guy in seat 2A stands up, reaches his hand out over the seat back towards me saying "pleased to meet you, I'm Jimmy Carter". I shake his hand but think "yeah and I'm the queen of Sheba". He didn't really look like him. But then I notice the woman sitting next to him is Rosalynn. I think well the chances of some crazy guy who thinks he's Jimmy Carter also sitting next to Rosalynn Carter are pretty low. She looks at me with a look like "yep he's Jimmy Carter". Secret service came on the plane before we deplaned and ushered them off into a waiting limo.
Given how most of the users here are silicon valley types… I'm not surprised they are fine with it.
He opted against financial stake in the company, "citing his concern regarding the use of profit as an incentive in AI development," according to the WSJ.

Rather than trying to assume it's some corporate conspiracy, I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor.
I think the hearts on Twitter was supposed to be a show of power on Sam's side. I wouldn't be surprised if that number is >20% of employees
No, not really. The rate of extinction has skyrocketed above the baseline extinction rate in the last 100-200 years, and it has a very specific and known cause: human industrialization and spread.
> Hopefully at some point conservatives will understand that you cannot make these people simply disappear.

Oh, now you've done it. That's the bit you're not supposed to say out loud. You can make them simply disappear.

Geert Wilders here in NL, quite possibly our next prime minister (god forbid) has said exactly that: "fewer Moroccans". But he stopped just short of saying how he would like to accomplish that because that would be putting his cards on the table. Hopefully enough Dutch people remember some of their history classes in the coming week.
This is anything involving Effective Altruists. It is a facade of respectability to justify chasing money at all costs.
They may or may not see themselves as "the last one", but that's independent from them being lonely because of it.
Oh, absolutely, although you'd have to consider what happens to the tech and the people who developed it: it may be better to have the out-of-control genie at least nominally under your control than not.
> I didn't. Blame my employer for sending me there to lead a CAB for our Northern Europe customers. I've always hated traveling to Northern Europe. At least in Italy or Greece I can pass as $Southern_European American so I don't get stink eye.

Fair enough, then it's work and at least you aren't stuck there forever having to try to make friends.

> So how does a non-ethnic Swede who has been living in Sweden their entire life and with Swedish citizenship become fully Swedish?

He or she will never be Swedish at all. Just as the thousands of Western missionaries who went to China never became Chinese in the slightest, even if they learnt the language and picked up the customs. The person will always be a foreigner. If they have a child with a Swede, that child will be half-Swedish and so on.

Assimilation is a whole different thing. But if the Swedes don't want to welcome foreigners to equal positions of influence, that is their decision. Most of the countries in the world have official policies and laws to limit the influence and the rights of immigrants – including the US.

> This is the crux of the issue. If you aren't given a chance to assimilate, there's no reason to.

Rather, if you aren't given a chance to assimilate, you shouldn't come. If I'm treated rudely as a guest in somebody's house, I'll excuse myself.
What are the next phases?
> who would rather form a gang with friends from the old country

Given how the people from the host country tend to ostracize them even if they try to integrate: what else should they do?
A soap opera for nerds.
Kerbal Space Program gets high marks for giving me a great intuitive sense of orbital mechanics, aeronautical design, and space mission architectures (‘to get to space you need to go sideways, not up’), even if the actual rocket building is simplified to Lego-like to keep it fun

My light bulb moment was when I looked at the Apollo 13 orbital paths and mentally considered a few alternatives they could have done too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/Kerbal_Space_Progr...
Is GEB really worth reading? It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for years but it’s basically been a show off book as I’ve never had the time to truly get into it. Is it actually worth slogging through when I’m done with gradschool?
The answer is mandatory licensing. Maybe permit some limited ability to offer a very narrow window of exclusivity (weeks, not years) in exchange for getting a lower rate later (because we should treat attempts to wall off parts of shared culture as a an antisocial act, rather than a nifty business model.)

Every platform can have everything, at a predictable standardized rate card, so they can compete on their own merits:

* We have the best CDN/apps/software support
* We have a better recommendation/discovery experience (which could include "positive curation" like "we could license everything, but our niche is Namibian Sitcoms From 1983, so we won't")
* We'll cut corners (lesser encoding quality to save disc/bandwidth, or no bespoke speculative content creation) to deliver the cheapest possible experience.

The "content people" and "tech people" come from different universes with different skills and expectations, and having to wrangle the two into individual platform teams helps nobody.
Oh man, Bret knows how’s to use the power of the board. He successfully twisted Elon’s arm into buying twitter. If the board is choosing him, sounds like they are going all oracle on microsoft / google again , Java style.

If Sam beats Ilya + Bret, I will be even more impressed than I already am.

Can’t wait for Matt Levine’s play by play if they hire the same legal team Bret used in the last days of twitter.

Or it’ll be over in 2 hrs and Sam will win now. Let’s see.
OpenAI will absolutely be able to raise money again, but it will likely never be on the same scale and will also likely have some serious safeguards in the contract language.

Whether you agree with investors agreeing with firing Sam or not, future investors will absolutely be nervous about sinking serious money in a company that split it's board without talking to key partners/investors first
What makes you think it is 'his' work and not theirs? I remember when OpenAI was just a joke compared to Deepmind. The turning point (as I remember) was when they used [1] deep reinforcement learning on dota2. clearly iyla (also one of the authors) contributed, but so did many others on the team I assume?

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06680.pdf
His time in office was a victim of timing. Yeah, agreed, sadly that's too rarely acknowledged.

Post-office? What an amazing run. Unfortunately, he's going to have to die to get the red carpet they (he + wife) truly deserve.
No we’re not at all. ironic how you can group like 30 countries together there and call them all racist

Acknowledging that some cultures are not compatible with ours is not racist. Acknowledging that some that come to Europe do not value European values or way of life is not racist. I’m my experience with Europeans we can discuss this difference openly. In my experience I am weary with being honest with Americans
I'm not talking about intelligence but expertise.

GPT-4 is a lot better than me at unfamiliar tasks, because it has the advantage of being able to readily transform all data on the internet.

Once I have trained myself, I generally can beat GPT-4.
Yeah it's interesting to me how many here on HN seem to be taking Sam's side -- I feel like I've noticed HN users in OpenAI threads mentioning how dishonest Sam is.

Sam seems to have a "move fast and break things" approach which would be appropriate for a less critical industry
Serious problem if true
Same, used it just yesterday on Android 12.
That's at the country level, but _Tokyo_ was also seeing a rural-to-urban migration that ran from the 1950s to a peak in 2019 or so, and maintained relatively low rents between housing and transportation policies compared to major US cities.
The most relevant figures would be homicide rate by perpetrator country of origin. Allegedly, 85% of shooting suspects are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants [0].

But reliable figures are hard to come by, partly because if scientists, even accidentally, find that, e.g., most rapes are committed by immigrants, they get prosecuted (eventually the charges were dropped, because they couldn't prove "bad intentions", negligence, or carelessness) [1,2,3,4].

The other reason is that, though Sweden used to collect data about criminal's ethnic background, they stopped I think in 2005 [5]. Though it seems they've resumed - in searching for sources for this post, I found https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/11/sweden-finally-publishe...

[0] https://www.thefp.com/p/two-bombings-in-one-night-thats-norm...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2020.1...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764

[3] https://www.opindia.com/2021/11/sweden-lund-university-resea...

[4] https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2023/06/aklagare-...

[5] https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stat...
Sure, the convention in SV is also that the person created the company and is not an employee of someone else. The founder is there at the Inception of the company and it is their idea.

I feel like the facts are on the table, and if they don't convince someone then they are unlikely to be convinced by more facts
I grew up in a Muslim country (a nice one, btw). They were not trusting most neighboring Muslim countries and the people from those countries. They know what they know and act accordingly.

In my native country, people did not like Gypsies (that was quite a long time ago, now it's no longer the case). This is because of the quantity of negative experiences with them, not because they are of a certain race or religion. The situation changed a lot when the number of negative incidents decreased, which confirms that the criminality is the factor, not something else.
What percent of those devs don’t do a valuable thing and become homeless?

Maybe devs are a bad example, so replace them with “retail workers” in your statement if it helps.

Is “put out of work” a good thing with no practical limits?
You sound like you don’t read enough.
That chart shows a steady rate up to 2005, a decline from 2005-2012 and then a rise back to the previous level between 2012 and 2015, and steady at the previous level since then. The big spike in Syrian immigration started around 2015-2016. Based on these numbers, I’d say these two factors (immigration and murder) appear to be unrelated.
It was probably unusual for this ISP to deal with a bargain basement computer, but a premium external modem, and the incompatibilities that can result.
I think the argument is that there is a salary at which there would be someone taking the job, assuming the market is large enough. That someone doesn’t need to be specifically you in your situation.

Of course, it’s still conditioned on the mentioned assumption.
Germany has basically as many privately owned guns as sweden per capita. Germany is nearer to the Balkans. It hosts a million people from a war country (Ukraine). There are lots of illegal weapons.

One important difference between Germany and Sweden: youth unemployment is much much lower in Germany.

Similar developments as in Sweden can be seen in the Netherlands, due to the drug trade.

Background to the situation in Sweden: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/27/sweden-seeks-t...

But generally the homicide rate in Sweden is very low (~ 1/6 of the US), Germany a bit lower, still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
It is a fun read IMO. Not exactly a page turner but engaging and well written.
I've had a similar idea where each one of these iterations is what I called a "frame". What I'm euphemistically calling a frame of consciousness or a single blink or frame of consciousness.

My hypothesis is that either Consciousness is a series of frames or we can emulate Consciousness as a series of frames and that you can run this type of recursive self iteration input to an llm with a buffer. The reason for the buffer is that the context window is limited so you would drop out earlier stuff and hope that all the important things would be kept in the subsequent frames.

A further experiment was going to add a set of tags that represented <input> and <vision> where input was the user input interpolated through a python template and vision was an image that was described by text and fed into it. So that the llm at each frame would have some kind of input.

I lost a little bit of interest in this but this has maybe resparked it a little bit?
Which is unusual since it's been around since 1956:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...

"The field of AI research was founded at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College, USA during the summer of 1956."
The only thing the LLM is missing is an self actuation loop.

We put a camera on a multimodal LLM, it interprets the visual world and sees before it a bunch of blocks. It looks at the task list it has that says "pick up red blocks, put them in blue bin". The visual components identifies the red blocks and the textual component issues commands to its drive unit which calculates the best path and how to use it's manipulators to pick up the blocks.

This is a very basic chain of existence. We have world identification, we have actuation on motivation, we have interaction with the environment. We can do this now. These goals have already been achieved. Companies are already testing more complex models with much more general instructions such as "Pick up everything you think is trash" or "Organize this room" to see the emergent behaviors that come out of the models.

You are seemingly a few years behind what has already been done, and why people are starting to get concerned.
Soap opera

At this point we should only post if something happens to the consumer product or API
Elon Musk has been very critical of OpenAI's switch from a non-profit focused on AI safety to a for-profit competing with Tesla.

It's why he fell out and left OpenAI despite investing $100 million to start it.

I'd say he's well aligned with Ilya's position. Early on I wondered if he was an instigator of the entire board coup.
I doubt anybody else would take the same risk, not with the board still in power.
For too long, there has been this apathetic "well, if I'm not a gangster, then why should I care?" mentality, because up until lately the crime has been localized to people in the gangs. Gang members killing other gang members, basically.

Even in the no-go areas, you're pretty safe walking around as a civilian. You'd expect those areas (in Sweden) to look like war zones, where the citizens and bystanders are locked up all day, in fear of moving out. Yeah, not so much - the areas are very much "boring" suburban areas.

But, alas, then the gangs started to bomb and shoot up apartments of rivals and their families. Suddenly you're not all that safe, because what if your neighbor turns out to be the second cousin of some local gangbanger?

With that said, all this roots in piss-poor integration. The gang members aren't first generation immigrants, we're talking at least second gen - even third generation.

And like all other organization, be that crime, terrorism, or whatever - they prey on the kids that have fallen outside the system.
>And, as usual, the government will find out that further regulating free markets

Free Markets require information symmetry to function properly and efficiently. The sticker price is ideally supposed to include every cost along with profit margin, such that the buyer pays exactly that price and receives the product/service that's the end of the transaction. Externalities and hidden fees are anti-Free Market, they distort the core fundamental incentive that is supposed to make it work, allowing more expensive products/services to deceive people into buying them over less expensive ones they would have chosen otherwise.

>(a three-word oxymoronical phrase)

Only if you have an extremely understanding of how these tools work. Free Markets are meta-stable constructs without any inherent service to humans, without regulatory maintenance keeping them functional and linking them to people they'd collapse in various ways, or at least be extremely inefficient which defeats the whole point.

>will not achieve the stated goals of lowering the public's costs of goods and services

That is a systemic, long term goal, not just the next week or month. Information symmetry allowing people to make more efficient decisions is the basic driver of competition and sellers improving the value of their offerings. That is what creates lower costs/high value over time, in the same way that breaking up monopolies or monopsonies might well temporarily increase the price of goods/services in certain cases, but leaving them be indefinitely always results in lower efficiency/productivity long term.
If it’s the interior design aspect that’s enjoyable, we’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the Animal Crossing expansion pack

https://animalcrossing.nintendo.com/new-horizons/happy-home-...
Talks to Bring Sam Altman Back to OpenAI Stretch Through Weekend
I looked at a bunch and found many of them were established HN users with four-digit karma.
I certainly keep my mouth shut about certain things, lest the people whose beliefs I find vile and unconscionable (and who view mine the same way) ostracize me, or worse, my child in the community.

Far better to gently feel people out before revealing my beliefs entirely.
Yah, well. That's also true for the ATMs in Germany, operated by the 'Sparkasse' (usually big red S) or 'Volksbank/Raiffeisenbank' (usually orange/blue signage) when you want to withdraw cash as customer of the 'Cashgroup' (Deutsche-/Post-/Commerz-/Hypo-Vereinsbank). Hm, k, just 4EUR and 80cents. But still...
Rights are a fiction we made up for our own benefit, like money and the abstract concept of fish.
There are two trends I'm tracking:

1. AI agents getting better and better at increasingly complex games

2. Simulations and games get increasingly closer to real engineering

It'll be an interesting when these lines intersect. It'll be possible to cast real engineering challenges as games to enable AI agents to play them

With AIs consistently beating humans at games, it's only a matter of time before games become a valid UX for real engineering.