skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in the source it says he was against such ideas.

> Leonardo da Vinci made a number of drawings of devices he hoped would make free energy. Leonardo da Vinci was generally against such devices, but drew and examined numerous overbalanced wheels

Just drawing some stuff that looks like perpetual machine isn't the same as actually believing in it. In fact this is how science should work. Even if something has a small chance to be correct try that and think about it. Einstein didn't believed in black holes but thought about breakdown of his equations.
> A lot of people now rely on OpenAI for parts of their livelihoods and would like a steady hand.

Well that, in a word, is foolish. How often does HN have to harp on “don’t build on someone else’s platform without knowing the risks”? OpenAI is not the only game in town nor does this change mean the existing products are going to change. If they built on someone else’s platform and bet the farm on future enhancements to make their businesses sustainable then they are all the more foolish. Also there is nothing at all to say things are going to drastically change for those building atop it, we know literally nothing at this point and people act as if the sky is falling.

> The board’s actions don’t seem fit to govern an HOA, much less an important company.

An opinion based in absolutely nothing. Honestly I can’t believe the number of people willing to jump down the board’s throats knowing absolutely nothing about the situation past rumor. Also just say what you really mean, the board _potentially_ got in the way of profit, the horror…
I don't think nationality is that important for FOSS. I can see why cooperating with the original efforts centred in the USA/Europe might be problematic, but there's little stopping those governments from copying the code and working on it internally. And might contain backdoors or might violate sanctions" is the exact reason those countries should be thinking about it!

Btw, it seems my premise is incorrect, I thought only North Korea was doing a serious effort, but at least from Wikipedia it seems both Russia and China are.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
In this month’s Mathematical Enchantment, I wrote about finite fields and the role they played in the early years of the computer revolution (remember paper-tape drives?) and in the ongoing Voyager mission to explore the outer solar system.
I've ruined many usbc connectors like this and specifically dell dock connectors
That's a good point - outdoor places would appreciate screens like this that you can see in the sun.
Okay I'll bite, what's so unethical about giving people money?
Except it's not a "division" but an independent entity.

And if that corporate structure does not suit Satya Nadella, I would say he's the one to blam for having invested 10B in the first place.

Being angry at a decision he had no right to be consulted on does not allow him to meddle in the governance of its co-shareholder.

Or then we can all accept together that corruption, greed and whateverthefuckism is the reality of ethics in the tech industry.
On the contrary, they seem to be doing it quite fine without a union
> If Ilya really had deep concerns, he should have quit and built his own AGI dedicated research company.

...

You should look up some history here.

Exactly what you say has already happened and OpenAI is the dedicated research company you are referring to.

He originally left Google deep mind I believe.

> I’m of the belief that alignment of AGI is impossible.

I don't think most people in this space are operating based on beliefs. If there is even a 10% chance that alignment is possible, it is probably still worth pursuing.
Two years is like 20 years in most software ecosystems.

If a JS library or mobile front end used this license, by two years the underlying tech that old version used would all be extinct.
That reminds me of VBS -Video Backup System for Amiga. I probably still have it somewhere in a drawer.

http://hugolyppens.com/VBS.html
> What are your thoughts on AGPL? Is it not good enough?

I'm generally not a fan of GPL based licensed because it means that you create a massive dis-balance between the original copyright holder (who can dual license for commercialization) and everybody else. It might be fine for Sentry or another SaaS business, but then you cannot even take pieces of code and use it in another project that cannot be GPL licensed because for instance it needs to go the app store etc.

GPL (and AGPL in particular) is considered such a tainted environment that many steer away from it entirely. AGPL also is from the v3 family of GPL licenses which have outright bans in many commercial environments. But GPL in general is a too complex topic to address in a HN comment for me.
The test subjects were treated to avoid as much suffering as possible, in fact they suffered less than animals for food production.
So even on a individual by individual comparison level ( neglecting the scale of slaughter for food) this research is less bad than eating meat.
Well, once again, then it's Satya's mistake to have allowed the representative of an independant third party entity become the public face of a company he invested in.

OpenAI might have wasted the 10B of Microsoft. But whose fault is it in the first place? It's Microsoft's fault to have invested it in the first place.
Source available but with a pricing for commercial use seems to be the most sustainable way for open source (pun intended) though.
How can you have a conflict of interest with a charity?

It’s not a business. It’s not competing for business. It’s a charity.

Like if you’re on the board of a charity fighting cancer is it a conflict to be on a board of another charity fighting AIDS? Or also part of a for profit company fighting cancer?

Of course not. You’d have a conflict of interest if you had a relationship that was opposed to the charity’s mission like a tobacco company, or if you were personally profiting off your role with the charity.

The post here doesn’t articulate why these are conflicts of interest.

This thread and all the other 15 threads about all this start with the tacit assumption that OpenAI is a high growth tech company, with investors and customers and founders and so on.

It’s not. It’s a charity.
I'm not a lawyer, but here's my non-official interpretation:

1) If you host the software, and say "hey get your Sentry over here", that's basically a substitute.

2) Means use the work in such a way where you expose its APIs (i.e. the software is returning API responses). Note this is written as "using the software ... in a way that exposes the APIs of the software".

Perhaps this could be made more clear, but I believe this was written with the understanding that there is prior art on the copyrightability of APIs, not some feigned attempt to assert a copyright.

3) If you're building some kind of software observability platform that leverages Sentry.

If you're concerned about doing any 3 of those, then yes, perhaps you should not use the software. Overwhelmingly 99.99% of software people aren't doing anything remotely close to any of these clauses.

I'll also note that Sentry itself was licensed for 4+ years under BUSL using similar terminology (that was arguably far more vague). The inclusion of non-competitive language in the license did not stop users from using the software – because again, most people aren't competing.

You're welcome to make your own decision, of course. No one is forcing you to use anything.
I don't think it's much about the timeline but more about the feel of being close to TA. In which case BAR indeed is closest to a some sort of TA-sense while Zero-K is more unique (and that's great!).
Alignment in a nutshell. Can programmers imbue values in AI so that the machine recognizes prompts that make it an accomplice to a crime? No, I agree with you that it’ll take supervision until we reach a watershed moment.

Right now, those values are simply what content is bad for business.
On the other hand, can we conclusively say that humans aren’t really advanced biological stochastic parrots?
> once you start calling users of your software who contribute nothing back anything resembling "freeloader"

Who does that? Certainly not us.
I disagree that the “rationalist” and EA movements would make good decisions “for the benefit of humanity”, not that an open (and open source) AI development organisation working for the benefit of the people rather than capital/corporate or government interests would be a good idea.
For quality-of-experience, YouTube would likely start buffering the original video before those 60 seconds have elapsed, so you can't look at just data loading times. And if there's a separate AJAX call, say, to tell the server that you've started watching the video, a sophisticated client-side script could try to delay or modify that ping - which brings us back into the cat-and-mouse territory.
He also did cash in Oakland https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/silicon-v...

I signed up from Worldcoin and have been given over $100 which I changed to real money and think it's rather nice of them. They never asked me for anything apart from the eye id check. I didn't have to give my name or anything like that. Is that indistinguishable from any other cryptocurrency scam? I'm not aware of one the same. If you know of another crypto that wants to give me $100 do let me know. If anything I think it's more like VCs paying for your Uber in the early days. It's VC money basically at the moment, with I think they idea they can change it into a global payment network or something like that. As to whether that will work, I'm a bit skeptical but who knows.
Tim Tok has been struggling with a massive problem where many creators that actually start to get big on the platform end up migrating to YouTube anyway because their pay sucks compared to YouTube, the same goes for instagram and every other platform in the industry. Youtube has a lot of problems but nobody pays better than them https://youtu.be/jAZapFzpP64?si=KrLqetuhzmer2T8H
been using for longer now and I still love it the most. Might try Ghost from Vercel, or GHs latest font to compare, but every other mono font didn't come close to the italics and general style
The server doesn't have enough information to do it because it doesn't know anything about window management. At best it could use a heuristic to guess, but one of the reasons Wayland combines the server and the compositor is so that we don't need to pile heuristics into the X server and drivers any more.

Nothing in Xorg is a minor change because it has to be tested with every window manager and compositor before you can even think about merging.
BYD has a plant in California

https://en.byd.com/news/byd-and-the-city-of-lancaster-announ...

https://en.byd.com/bus/about/

But BYD seems more advanced in getting consumer automobiles into EU markets than US markets.

They also make electric busses: https://en.byd.com/news/byd-receives-largest-battery-electri...
A hint on fixing your problem, I have done my fair share of work in sports clubs, assuring the elite gets training time and money to be able to train. You need big support organization around the elite to make them viable.

They do pay and finance their own training but the elite can never afford to build exclusive infrastructure for youth to adult, you will always have an overlap with the club competitions. You need a good base to be able to build an elite. That is what that exclusive pool time is ment to build.

If you need more well run public pools the greatest partners are those "high level" clubs. They most certainly feel you pain.
Hi, I’m the author. Thanks for the compliment!
Thanks for putting a name on this.

I’ve been suffering from this for a long time(and occasionally still do), but have started leaving my phone farther away and it has significantly improved.

A part of me still feels that the sense of control and freedom which you get during the night is unparalleled.
Are you saying unregulated capitalism will not result in monopolies? If so - thats a pretty bold statement. Would love to see some evidence :)
I did not assume, just it keeps being a common argument, when those languages go beyond Python and yet offer very capable JITs.

As mentioned, imagine having something like the Smalltalk becomes:, where in a flip second, all occurrences of type A turn into B, across the whole application, including already JITed.

Or stopping the application at any given moment, recode something, hit continue, and the application carries on, as if it was the original implementation to start with.

Or given they were full workstation OSes, apply such dynamism to the kernel level code.
I’d say less so over the years but certainly it has been a ladder for me to higher planes. I’ve learned many things here that I may never have otherwise.

At the moment i use it as a tech radar, and pulse for my areas of interest.
Yep sounds weird. Not my experience of hackerspaces.
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"By this criteria, I would say failure/partial failure or partial sucess. There is no way this was a success."

Not only it is not success, it is a massive failure when compared to the magic technology from the 60's.

Space industry is the only industry that is moving backwards, it seems.
> Have you ever seen a broken standard USB port or connector? Me not once in my entire life, unlike micro-USB or USB-C.

USB-A has failed just as often as Micro-USB in my experience. The only connector I haven't seen break is USB-B, but that could be due to fewer samples, since only printers seem to use that connector, and how often do you unplug/plug a printer?
Ok, I'll bite.
I personally don't think human communication is simply pattern matching (e.g. we have drives, motives, relationships that we want to tell each other, these are internal systems, outside the visible band of communication).
That's a little off topic though, my post was not about communication, but reasoning.

Pattern matching in LLMs is specifically at the language level, as in "predict the next token in a stream", I should have probably specified this bit.

You seem to refer to a more general kind of pattern matching when you say, where we're looking at a complicated structural model within which humans reason about the behavior of different system components and their interactions.

There is no way to form an internal representation of such systems within an LLM, which is why I said "of course" it can't reason. An LLM is not designed with this capability in mind.

If all you have is language, and predictive text, there is no way to use this to simulate and predict the rules in a higher-dimensional space than "stream of tokens", or let's put it another way: there would need to be an extremely high correlation between the pattern in the problem space and in language space for the likelihood of the model guessing right to be anywhere near human levels.
Also I want to know how would know how much gain could be made by optimizing the prompt for GPT and by including things like CoT. Current version of the prompt is pretty bad both for humans and AI.
I saw the popup a month or so ago for the first time, and 10 days ago after that. Simply manually updating uBlockOrigin filters did it for me both times.
It is very common for unit tests to be white-box testing, and thus to depend significantly on internal details of a class.

Say, when unit testing a list class, a test might call the add function and then assert that the length field has changed appropriately.

Then, if you change the list to calculate length on demand instead of keeping a length field, your test will now fail even thought the behavior has not actually changed.

This is a somewhat silly example, but it is very common for unit tests to depend on implementation details. And note that this is not about private VS public methods/fields. The line between implementation details and public API is fuzzy and depends on the larger use of the unit within the system.
> calling USB A “legacy” and a “relic” is so misplaced

Calling established technologies "legacy" and "relic" despite them being widely adopted and used should be recognized as the manipulative intellectual dishonesty that it is.
How does it contradict what I said ?

I disagreed about «BAR is more of a unique game (for better or worse), while ZeroK is much closer to an HD remake of Total Annihilation.»

P.S.: You might also be mistaken about EvoRTS' Steam release being specifically behind the motivation of Zero-K splitting up, since according to lead ZK dev the second at least partially predates the first ?

http://zero-k.info/Forum/Post/236480#236480

> 2012(ish): Zero-K splits off to its own infrastructure after disagreement with infrastructure developers. From my perspective they were very stubborn regarding extending the protocol to allow for new stuff (Eg matchmacking, more advanced planetwars) and would make sudden changes that broke our autohosts.

> 2013-2014: Evolution RTS is greenlit on Steam and released in 2014. I don't think Steam was on my radar at the time, but now it looked like a possibility. Looking back at the dates we actually put up a greenlight campaign five days after the Evolution RTS release.

(Lobby interface issues being another thing, but then IIRC EvoRTS had already tried to improve on this before release, though not successfully enough ?)
Yeah but I'd still argue PC manufacturers have it backwards. Offering 1 or 2 USB-C ports and 4 USB-A ports is the wrong ratio. The Mac Pro has it right: 2 USB-A ports in the front, one inside for software keys, and 8 Thunderbolt 4 ports for truly insane speeds impossible to achieve with an A plug.
> But you will not be able to accept such contributions without an additional license

Without going into us, many open source projects do that. If you submit code to the Python Software Foundation you also give it under an additional license than what ends up on people's computers. That's a pretty common situation in plenty of Open Source projects already, particularly if they want to remove license restrictions in the future.

For us in particular we also specifically do not pick the FSL in situations where we believe the utility is so great, that we want to enable further collaboration. All our SDKs for instance are BSD/MIT/Apache2 licensed (depending on the SDK). Our most precious internal library for symbolication including the service are not FSL licensed, despite the fact that I know some of our competition uses it and don't give back. Because we believe that collaboration here is for the benefit of everybody.

> This makes it much closer to a cathedral, with a "small bands of mages working in splendid isolation".

We are not mages in isolation, we build in the open. Every commit is deployable, every commit is runnable.
Yes, there isn't anything in particular about Hyperloop that makes it stand out, but it is different in high speed rail in that it is underground and so more complex in almost all ways but one: right of way (and possibly aesthetics, which depending on the landscape can matter a lot).
I don't know of any, but here's the resources I've found useful as I've worked in the space (disclosure: I work for an auth vendor, FusionAuth).

* Solving Identity Management In Modern Applications is a great book offering an overview of the entire identity process, including provisioning (adding users), authentication and more. I read and reference the 2019 edition; don't have the 2023 edition but expect it is just as good: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-8261-8

* OAuth2 In Action walks you through building an OAuth2 server from scratch (in JavaScript). You'll learn about the fundamentals of tokens, clients, registration, and more. Very accessible. https://www.manning.com/books/oauth-2-in-action

* The Security Engineering Handbook is great for foundational security knowledge, like 'What does a hash look like, and what makes a good hashing algorithm' as well as a lot of broader security topics: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

* FusionAuth's vendor neutral articles: https://fusionauth.io/articles/ . I'd especially call out these two: The Modern Guide to OAuth, which walks through the multiple different ways the OAuth 2 authorization framework can be used: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/oauth/modern-guide... (previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752918 ), and the Math of Password Hashing: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/security/math-of-p...

* The Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML is a great resource for understanding this (still) critical standard, plus just a fun read: https://duo.com/blog/the-beer-drinkers-guide-to-saml

* The RFCs and BCPs (as mentioned). I've also learned a lot by lurking on the OAuth mailing list, which is freely available: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/oauth/

* The Identity Unlocked podcast with Vittorio Bertocci (RIP). This is not about the basics at all, but is a deeper dive into the dev focused side of authentication, and will give you great pointers for more reading: https://identityunlocked.auth0.com/

* The OWASP guides are good but specialized. See for example: https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0xa2-broken-...

* I have a substack where I talk about aspects of customer identity and access management that I think is pretty good :) : https://ciamweekly.substack.com/

I think this would be a great linkedin learning, udacity or coursera course, but didn't see anything when I searched there. I've put together courses before and it's a ton of work, but hmmm, maybe it'd be fun to do for this topic.

Edit: corrected spelling of Vittorio Bertocci's name.
> That would be huge for Emacs.

Yes, it will change its name from Emacs (8 megabits and constantly swapping) to Etacs (8 terabits and constantly swapping). /s
Ukraine war: The Russians snitching on colleagues and strangers
OSX comes with a scuffed and lobotomized version of core-utils. To the point where what is POSIX/portable to almost every single unix (Linux, various BSDs, etc.) is not on OSX.

Disregarding every other point, in my eyes this single one downgrades OSX to “we don’t use that here” for any serious endeavor.

Add in Linux’s fantastic virtualization via KVM — something OSX does not have a sane and performant default for (no, hvf is neither of these things). Even OpenBSD has vmm.

The software story for Apple is not there for complicated development tasks (for simple webdev it’s completely useable).
> Aren’t we meant to be a free and democratic society

Only when that's on the banner the country is told to cheer under.

When it's a royal wedding, when it's "F D" or "FID DEF" printed on coins, when it's the requirements that all schools have collective worship of "wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character"[0]… then suddenly it's a whole lot more like a theocratic monarchy.

From the surveys I've seen, the UK electorate seems broadly OK with the monarchy part of that (not that they have any real say in it because that's not how monarchy works), and regards the Christian[1] parts as harmless quaint tradition of no real significance.

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/schedule/20?vie...

[1] I first wrote "religious", but large parts of the UK seem to still be scared of anyone with the "wrong" religion, though which one counts as "wrong" varies wildly.
Yes, completely unregulated would lead to that. We need laws to protect against coercion and adjudicate in the case of disagreements between parties. Warring tribes where physical force wins is not a good place to be.
> I pay 42% taxes

no, your highest bracket is 42%, what's under that threshold is less taxed
> Of course LLM's can't reason

That they are not effective at some forms of reasoning does not entail they can't reason.
Yes you can, what you would do is clip against the main framebuffer and leave the window area transparent by inverting the mask. Then you can have the other plane underneath the main one. This is only if your hardware supports that though.