skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what about the legal responsability of Microsoft and investors there?

To explain, it's the board of the non-profit that ousted @sama
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Microsoft is not a member of the non-profit.

Microsoft is "only" a shareholder of its for-profit subsidiary - even for 10B.

Basically, what happened is a change of control in the non-profit majority shareholder of a company Microsoft invested in.

But not a change of control in the for-profit company they invested in.

To tell the truth, I am not even certain the board of the non-profit would have been legally allowed to discuss the issue with Microsoft at all - it's an internal issue only and that would be a conflict of interest.

Microsoft is not happy with that change of control and they favourited the previous representative of their partner.

Basically Microsoft want their shareholder non-profit partner to prioritize their interest over its own.

And to do that, they are trying to impede on its governance, even threatening it with disorganization, lawsuits and such.

This sounds like highly unethical and potentially illegal to me.

How come no one is pointing that out?

Also, how come a 90 billion dollars company hailed as the future of computing and a major transformative force for society would now be valued 0 dollars only because its non-technical founder is now out?

What does it say about the seriousness of it all?

But of course, that's Silicon Valley baby.
What about bandwidth? There are 10Gbps, 20Gbps and 40Gbps cables, along with "wattage" (really, amperage/current).

Both will continue to go up.
> At some point AI becomes important enough to a company (and mature enough as a field) that there is a specific part of legal/compliance in big companies that deals with the concrete elements of AI ethics and compliance and maybe trains everyone else, but everyone doing AI has to do responsible AI. It can't be a team.

I think both are needed. I agree that there needs to be a "Responsible AI" mindset in every team (or every individual, ideally), but there also needs to be a central team to set standards and keep an independent eye on other teams.

The same happens e.g. in Infosec, Corruption Prevention, etc: Everyone should be aware of best practices, but there also needs to be a central team in organizations of a certain size.
> GPL or LGPL otherwise (v3+ preferred).

I'm confused about your concern then if v3+ is preferred. Apache 2 is compatible with the GPL 3 family of licenses, it's just not compatible with the GPL 2 family of licenses. The only incompatibility of Apache 2 are GPLv2 licenses, but so is GPL 3.

Apache 2 has some benefits to the user over MIT, but the GPL incompatibility is why there are two flavors of FSL.
SSD or mechanical hard drive?
Well - he quotes The Cato Institute. And the graphic is clear enough, I think.

The rhetorical sleight of hand is that it's not true that feeling you're being censored - and needing to self-censor - is the same as actually being censored.

Self-censorship and self-selection are endemic in the corporate world, and the associated beliefs are mostly taken for granted without dissent.

You're not going to get far in fintech, management consulting, or media channels such as Fox if you start questioning why so many people are poor, ill, and homeless.

Similarly, if you work for FAANG you're not going to have a job for long if you start suggesting these BigCos should reinvent themselves as worker co-ops.

That's a very different kind of argument to the one about pronouns, because most people are not actually threatened in real terms by (say) LGBTQIA+ or unionisation.

Of course plenty of people are just fine with how things are and the article is right to the extent that it points out that ideological conformity is a middle class luxury.
Interesting. Immediate thoughts and questions:

* How would human beings perform on the text-only version of the tasks given to GPT-4?

* How would human beings perform if each grid is shown on its own, making it impossible to perform side-by-side visual comparisons?

* How would human beings perform if each grid is shown on its own only once, making it impossible to perform any back-and-forth comparisons?

* How could we give LLMs the ability to "pay attention" to different parts of images, as needed, so they can make back-and-forth comparisons between parts of different images to solve these kinds of visual reasoning tasks?
I mean you can also just read the author’s other content which is mostly whining about woke-ism but with lots of Substack intellectualism piled on top.

Edit: Just to specifically point out the effects of this author’s “motivation,” the cited article on myside bias actually doesn’t say this:

> Students and graduates of top universities are more prone to myside bias. They are more likely to “evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.”

It says everyone is prone to myside bias, and that more intelligent people are less prone to detecting it in themselves. This is important due to what it implies about the inverse. If it’s true that the woke lib professors are more prone to forming their beliefs based on their social surroundings, it’d suggest they’re more liable to be wrong. If, however, everyone is liable to form beliefs in this way (which they are), then there’s no implication whatsoever about truthfulness on either side, at least not stemming from this effect.

And in fact, if anything, it’d suggest the exact opposite of what the author implies by virtue of a really simple, obvious fact: an expert’s social circle is more likely to be well-informed on the domain of expertise than the social circle of a complete outsider.

Exceptions obviously exist and experts ought to be questioned vigorously, but to suggest that social circles are have spent collectively zero time learning about and thinking about an area are going to have a better grasp on that area than a group of individuals who have spent careers in it is really just dismissing the entire concept of expertise — the concept of learning — altogether.
It is curious that neither side seems interested to bring the matter to public, but Altman definitely is trying to take advantage of that.
Oh, I thought I mentioned! SSD of course!
Some did, but not everybody did. I recall those threads vividly and I tried very hard to keep an even keel and to keep it all grounded in evidence. But a lot of wishful thinking happened as well as categorical rejection and these had the same element in common: a lack of evidence. Though the categorical rejection faction had history on their side I still think that that's just an argument from statistics without any relevant insight in to the subject matter.
lmfao you literally keep posting about your preferred cult. Hacker News is probably not the best place for your pro-Mormon crusade.
> when people started considering the system under test as the “unit”, it significantly affected the quality of test suites (in a bad way)
Oh I def think it's a pattern but I don't know that it's a bad pattern. Honestly, being married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt is probably a good sign.
I have never bend the pins on HDMI connectors. It doesn't even occur to me that it could even happen. I have bent dozens of vga connectors. At least you can bend them back.
One doesn't need to work and pay taxes in Berlin to take a bicycle ride there, and better don't enter into or swim in its murky lakes and ponds.
Chaos in Spain after payment card network crash
Yesterday the payment card network in Spain was down for several hours. I personally was in the supermarket and it was chaos. People with all the products in their baskets were piling up without being able to pay. The same thing happened in restaurants and basically anywhere you had to pay, including online payments. The event probably caused losses to the majority of Spanish businesses, and everything occurred because of the failure in the system of a single company.
I am genuinely interested on hearing the point of people who still don't believe that decentralized blockchain networks are the future of payments.
Also: externalities.
My rule is that "anything you say may be used against you".

So any information you disclose and becomes known to anyone involved in the hiring process may have a bearing on their decision, whether in a positive or negative way.

Now, bearing that in mind, I expect companies that ask about this want to increase staff "diversity" so use your own judgement as to what answer is positive or negative, everything else being equal.
As I understand it, they got all the model details and most of their investment was actually cloud credits on Azure. So technically they can cancel those going forward if they want to and deal with whatever legal ramifications exist. All of GPT4 (and other models) for probably $1-2b may not actually be a bad deal for them even if that's all they get.
One issue with USB-C is that dust gets packed into the female side. I've found it can be in there so tight that even after attempting to clean it, the dust remains. But going in with a sewing needle, rubbing alcohol, and really scraping you can fix the port.
Not defending intellectual incuriosity here, but in fairness ffmpeg is the antithesis of "easy to learn." I capture Laserdiscs (i.e. sampling the laser's RF output and decoding in software [0]) for fun, and use ffmpeg as part of that chain – I still barely scratch the surface of what it can do.

[0]: https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode
I thought about that myself since I actually self-censored lately despite my free-speech belief. As I am learning, the belief is not as strong as the drive to survive and comfort. It is disheartening in a way. I was expecting more of myself. On the other, it offered a look into the mirror.

I an easily argue it is wisdom or even that there is good and right of me to focus on my family's well-being, but I know those are still just rationalizations.
I mean, define “well executed”. Theranos, in particular, it’s notable that very little of their money came from _conventional_ sources (traditional VCs, sovereign wealth funds etc). It was largely, essentially, _personal_ investment by stupid rich people; often via a family office, but ultimately at the direction of the stupid rich person. IIRC one attempt by Theranos to get investment from a real VC collapsed because they _could not provide audited accounts_. Like, they didn’t even have a fake set, they were not providing them to their investors _at all_.

I don’t think that any of the named ones were particularly well-executed, and people were trying to warn that all of them were problems for a while. Madoff might be the closest, but even there it was verging on being an open secret that there was something up; again, Madoff’s investors were not actually that sophisticated.
No kidding lmao. That’s my point. But even with how bad a reputation that war has, growing up in America I seemed to learn points that demonized the resistance, painting their tactics as evil terrorism, their government as corrupt terrorist-leaders, their civilians all implicated as terrorist fighters, etc
I think at least the Mx do have only fully featured ports?

If they support just one display but you can plug it in any port is one thing.

On a motherboard you're more likely to see 'these 5 ports are data only, 2 of them can charge beyond 5W, and that 6th port can be used for a display'.
Wow that's interesting, because I never even considered that a unit test to be other than a test to a small unit.

Is it not right there in the name?
IMO the author wrote a list of reasons to avoid the real intellectual discussion around debating ideas. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever a “dumb idea”, it’s really poor reasoning or lack of information that I see as the issue.

For instance, take the “moon deniers” that is the idea being dismissed by “correct” people. When in reality there a whole range of arguments — “we landed on the moon, recordings were faked” to “aliens told us to tell everyone we landed”, etc it’s the reasoning that matters. Quite often “smart” people have the same information as everyone else. That’s also why IMO “smart” people are equally likely to believe in conspiracies as anyone else, they have the same info.
Do people not research the tax rate before moving to Germany? It comes with free roads, education and health care, by the way. Not saying we shouldn't get more out of it, mind you, but it's not like the taxes turn into thin air. And Berlin is a bit special in that its administration is kind of bad and always had been. You get the live and let live attitude and a lot less sticks up people's butts (compared to say southern Germany), but it also does feel at times like you're not getting as much out of the taxes as you should.

The Rundfunkbeitrag can eat a bag of dicks though, zero argument there.
> I don't think anti-science people have a place here.

Be careful, lest you become those you hate. In your case, you may already be there.
I really wish we’d end up with something like the old MagSafe.
As an actual scientist, I would also not call what “data scientists” do “science”.
I have direct experience being tracked by this technology. With photo evidence of a utility he360 truck in the field after several loop backs on the road. The technology can be used to swarm a target of interest. It is my opinion from experience all skilled ethical hackers and non ethical hackers are tracked. I say this knowing my surveillance is about to be doubled down now. Yay.

Edit: to their defense… my laptop was compromised at the time due to a Realtek chip supply chain hack that was persistent. The exploit was associated with “redgobot”.
You can push 10 Gbps over USB-A connectors with USB3.
The Tiny Raspberry Pi Zero Cluster (2022)
Failed coup.
In the US we call it a cannonball! Splooosh!
That’s the issue with only reading the title (a bad one admittedly). It’s stated clearly by the airline in the article:

"A historic moment for Norse," the airline said. "The first ever B787 Dreamliner to land in Antarctica!

Many kinds of aircraft have landed in Antartica, the largest of them being C5 Galaxy:

https://nara.getarchive.net/amp/media/a-c-5b-galaxy-aircraft...
The user already is. The casual user's system is idling with all sorts of nonsense. Adding some light processing doesn't harm. I'm thinking 100-500ms per page. You don't render the page for the user neither, do you?

For heavier use cases (e.g. image processing), the user should be willing to spend some CPU power. It doesn't make sense to send an image to a server, put it in a queue, wait for an image processing worker to run it, and send back the result. It's simpler and more sensible to run that process client-side, if feasible. E.g. LLMs are too big for that, but many other tasks can.
That track also put a debris target very near Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands. Major cruise port.
Yes, the comment was changed considerably. Originally it gave Leonardo Da Vinci's attempts to create a perpetual motion machine as an example of a smart and successful person falling for a dumb idea.
how can a non-profit own a for-profit?

honest question
During the conference where it was announced, they indicated they have a partnership with Scaleway to access their Nabu 2023 supercomputer[0]. I expect it will be similar to the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft Azure, with free credits as part of their investment in exchange for being at the forefront of AI datacenter design. Indeed, Xavier Niel is one of three investors in Kyutai, and founded Scaleway.

[0]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-releases-the-detai...
Lol. Can you point pls how an llm be as dangerous as a nuclear bumb?
Ok, let's go deeper, suppose we have created real AGI that is running on a ton of compute, how will this be as dangerous as nuclear bomb? By launching them? You know, this is impossible right? More chances it'll mess with trading systems but again, nothing to the scale of a nuclear bomb
I feel like one of us is fundamentally misunderstanding this license. My understanding is that if I wanted to fork a piece of software, this licence would prevent me from doing so for two years. Then after those two years, I would essentially be stuck using an old version of the source and have to play catch-up with the devs*, who would be able to use my work for free but I would not be allowed to use theirs. Had this license not been used there would be nothing preventing me from forking the software.

My interpretation of this license is that it's effectively saying: "you can't do anything with this while we're working on it". Which is fair enough and has its benefits, but it's not open source as much as it is a promise to become open source if the licencor ever loses interest.

All those examples you cited weren't using this licence, and probably would have had a much harder job creating their forks if this license was used. Xapian specifically highlights a flaw in your logic. The creators of Xapian wouldn't have used this license because they don't want to re-licence their software. The only people that would use this license are ones who were already willing to re-license their software. The existence of this license doesn't actually solve the problem because you can't force people to use this license any more than you could force them to use an open license.

*edit: it's worth pointing out that this really does basically kill any chance of a fork. Normally you could start a fork with a single dev and then grow it naturally, but with this license you need a team the size of the official team to put in two years of work, and to keep doing that in perpetuity.
USB 4
Your comment was helpful thanks! I did say I wasn't knowledgeable in this area, sorry if it was a stupid question to you.
I think it depends on what exactly the code does.

We have some custom rounding routines (to ensure consistent results). That's the kind of stuff you want to have lots and lots of unit tests for, testing all the paths, edge cases and so on.

We also have a complex price calculation module, which depends on lots of tables stored in the DB as well as some fixed logic to do its job. Sure we could test all the individual pieces of code, but like Lego pieces it's how you put them together that matters so IMO integration testing is more useful.

So we do a mix. We have low-level unit testing for low-level library style code, and focus more on integration testing for higher-level modules and business logic.
I believe the lowercase texts are used by some (many) public figures to indicate that the person themselves is posting and not their social media handler.
I understand why people fall for it. They see someone highly successful and assume they possess prophetic insights into the world so profound that trying to explain his tweets to us mortals would waste both our time.

Even using an anonymous account on HN, I'd never express such certainty unaccompanied by any details or explanation for it.

The people on the following list are much wealthier than that VC guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tiger_Cubs_(finance)

You can find them on Twitter promoting unsourced COVID vaccine death tolls, claims of "obvious" election fraud in every primary and general election Trump ran in, and I've even seen them tweet each other about Obama's birth certificate being fake as late as 2017. Almost all of them promote the idea that the COVID vaccine is poison and almost all of them promote the idea that Trump hasn't received fair credit for discovering that same vaccine. They're successful because they jerked off the right guy the right way and landed jobs at Tiger.
This is not at all a recent phenomenon. A couple of decades ago, when going to open air baths in Berlin after school, the same things could be observed. Same clientele as well though, low class, low education, patriarchal and religious young men, predominantly.
I was physically assaulted by a high ranking PhD in the lab where I worked. Anyone can be crazy.
Your time is finite on Earth so you need to make decisions about how you allocate that time. As you get older you'll probably live to regret decisions made on things like social media. It is a time suck that doesn't provide happy outcome for most. Also, don't work more than 40 hours a week.
Respecting beliefs – why we should do no such thing
People running LLM should at least feel more comfortable there. LLMs simply aren't AI, they're machine learning (at least with the models we currently have)
Mach–Zehnder Interferometer
> Richard

For the entire first paragraph, I had no idea who you were referring to; then I realized you were talking about Stallman!

The Richard I was imagining in my head was more Hendrix, not the various oddities and eccentricis of Stallman.
How are you so sure it is phobia? From my impression in NL, it is groups of immigrants who create a (violent) atmosphere in public pools. Up to the point some swimming pools don't know what to do anymore.
I'm actually not very experienced with JavaScript, but my understanding is that it comes down to that Python's foreign function interface is tightly bound up with the implementation details of CPython. This means that unless you want to lose access to the whole Python ecosystem, your JIT compiler needs to jump through an impossible series of hoops to support existing libraries

As far as I understand, in practice, JavaScript code relies less on foreign function interfaces to code that's written in other languages (because you can't reliably do that in a browser). This point makes it so that important JavaScript packages tend to be written in JavaScript, whereas important Python packages tend to be written in C or Fortran or Rust or whatever. If a JIT compiler for Javascript changes how FFI works, then that's less big of a deal.

Again though, not very knowledgable about JavaScript, so if someone wants to come and correct me, or offer additional context, I'd be very appreciative.
I might be missing something here, but this doesn't seem compatible with the bazaar model at all. You say

> It also enables contributions by the community for the latest version and not old source code.

But you will not be able to accept such contributions without an additional license, because you yourself would be unable to use them for a Competing Use (running your service). This makes it much closer to a cathedral, with a "small bands of mages working in splendid isolation". Sure, your work will be publicly visible, but that's it.
you can thank the "open source" movement for muddying the waters
I think you are hitting the key point to make. It boils down too "dogmas are bad".

All these programming methodologies seem to be in risk of developing a cargo cult following and since programmers are way more dogmatic than people it also gets way worse than in other fields.

I don't like TDD and I think it is silly. But fine whatever floats your boat. The problems begins when someone tries to push the single right way onto others and it seems to mainly be a problem in corporate settings where most people rather get money than doing what they think is the right thing -- and some people push agile, TDD or whatever.
I posted a similar video yesterday. This seems to be doing the rounds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38319393
The best thing from research like this is that they allow new models to be built, or improvements on the existing ones that can lead them to pass these evaluations.
I indeed did some net-gross calculations online but the last glimmer of hope was saying "people live there it cannot be that bad, can it?".
By putting the brakes on and allowing slower progress. Altman is clearly obsessed with making money to the exclusion of the organization’s goals.
The insertion cycles are only for proper insertion.

Every time I see comments like this I think of the COVID-19 trolls who insisted that masks were only helpful if "worn correctly".

Proper? Please. Why not just say that the connector suffers from poor design and is difficult to plug correctly. Everything else is humiliating the average user, like my parents, with advanced degrees whom are not STEM.