skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was neither ignorance nor dishonesty, my friend. It was measuring Tesla according to the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church at his time in history.

And I mentioned "atomism as a theory of science" under the instrumentalism part of my comment. In Catholic Theology, philosophy always means "ontological interpretation". That section you quoted is saying that Catholics are allowed to believe in atomism as an instrumental model, but not as the ultimate interpretation of how the Universe works.
I have line of sight to the Brisbane transmitters across the river such that I think I may have an attenuator on the antenna feeds.

I actually miss broadcast TV social norms. It was crap but we all talked about it. First release movies from last year at Christmas and a non stop feed of Hollywood B reels. Daytime soaps!
How would preventing cars from going over 100mph kill people?
I don't feel that mechanically, or even electronically, affecting the engine behavior by installing a general purpose computer that is capable of reading from a centralized database of geolocated speed limits would cost, effectively, $0. Also, no one asserted that regulation always makes products more expensive.
Why do some people can't grammar good ?
I think it’s a weird issue. On one hand the governments probably shouldn’t do this, on the other hand we had 1902 vehicles permanently confiscated by our government between 1. April 2001 and 20. March 2023 for our “Insane Driving” (vanvidsbilisme) law here in Denmark, so it would also sort of make sense to find a limit a little above our maximum speed limit.

In one “hilarious” case some Norwegian rich guy went to Germany to buy a Lamborghini (or maybe it was some other super car, but I think it was a Lamborghini) and then proceeded to drive through Denmark at 100 km/h above the highest speed limit we have. Then got caught and lost his brand new car before he reached the ferry to Norway.

Of course a maximum speed limit in your car also wouldn’t solve the most dangerous of these cases. Since they occur when people drive more than 100 km/h through cities, and since our speed limit on the highways goes up to 130 km/h a car limit would probably need to be around 140-150 km/h. I’m Which wouldn’t solve the dangerous driving in cities at all. So unless you can regulate the top speed by location, it won’t save that many lives.

It would be sort of cool if you could regulate car top speed by location, but I’m not sure that’s really feasible. I think it’s far more likely that we’ll do it through mass surveillance. We’re already doing that with the diesel cars that are now illegal in certain city zones, where you’ll automatically get a ticket when your plate is registered by the city surveillance cameras. Once they can monitor speed, and the legalisation moves forward we’ll absolutely start doing this with speeding drivers. I’m not really a fan of the increased surveillance, but it’s not really like it’s going to stop.
It used 145 core-seconds of compute, according to the paper. That's not 100% unless they were mostly 1 core servers.
However, the search used almost 50MiB of traffic before the query was even sent by the client. I imagine that will add up fast.
Why would it cost $0? It had to be designed, tested, manufacturing lines have to be modified to install it, it has to go through whatever approval process to make sure it complies with the law. What part of this sounds like it costs $0?
Looks like the Roman Baths of the olden days.
Agreed. Whilst I don’t trust China’s CCP, I sure as heck don’t trust anything from Falun Gong. Those guys are running an asymmetric battle against the Chinese State and frankly they would be capable of saying anything if it helped their cause.
In other words, this can be compared to do the computation manually, but with the guarantee that whoever is performing the computation cannot glean anything from it.

This can be OK for some relatively rare and important computations, which you for some reason must run in a software-untrusted environment. I can imagine using it for some high-stakes, small-scale automated voting. All the intermediate results may be posted in the encrypted form as an audit trail. After the process is completed and results are declared, the encryption keys are released, and any party can check that every step of the computation determining the winner was correct, there was no stuffing.
I can’t stand bicyclists. They never obey laws. Blow right through those stop signs.
In 2022 in Germany -no speed limit in the autobahn- there were 2778 deaths in traffic collisions [0]. This is around 8 a day, while the population of Germany is 80M. If the proportion of deaths by collisions was the same as in US one would expect 40 deaths per day. Maybe the problem is not speed limit.

[0]: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Traffi...
What toxicity? This doesn't track for me.

> backward compatibility won't be broken.

I'm not sure what your point is anymore. You are clearly divested. Your assessment is totally unfounded. What are you trying to accomplish here?
It's not clear either way. But as a neutral, matter-of-fact, professional assessment it sounds really weird because "disassembly" generally implies an orderly process, and this was not that.
Seems like a pretty good idea. Why do you need to go over 100mph? Really no possible reason.

Geo-located speed limits seem a bit iffy. Fine if they work correctly, but I can see it being pretty annoying if it isn't perfect. And it seems like a potentially complicated thing for the government to run well.

If you're opposed: just remember this would probably dramatically decrease your insurance costs, especially if you are a young male or have a teenage son.
Make sure there's more to your life than only work. Work to live, don't live to work.
I used to think this was bs, but, after scaling back on work hours and filling them up with time for my own hobbies and side projects all not work related, I think I'm even more productive at work than before
Google shares plans for blocking third-party cookies in Chrome
ELI5 Why Is the Middle East Called Middle East?
Depends. Titan 4 test-stand SRB explosion; simulation missed failure mode (S 16 4)

The limits of simulation (From Henry Spencer)
The 27May91 Aviation Week, reporting on the April 1 test-stand failure of an upgraded SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) for the Titan 4:
Investigators determined that extensive three-dimensional computer simulations of the [motor's] firing
dynamics did not reveal subtle factors that they now believe contributed to motor failure. [Program director]
Stifling said the full-scale test was essential precisely because computer analyses cannot accurately predict all
nuances of solid rocket motor dynamics. "That's why we test", he said.
For those who don't follow the space news, a few seconds into the test the motor pressure rose rapidly and
exceeded the limits of the casing, the result being a large, spectacular explosion that destroyed the motor and
much of the Edwards AFB test stand.

-ACM SIGSOFT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES vol 16 no 4 Oct 1991 Page 15
9 people dying in an accident is rare, but not that unusual. This can happen when a freeway ices up and a major pileup occurs. Sometimes church vans drive very slowly into places they shouldn't be and then end up overturned, sometimes in water, and often killing or injuring most of the people on board. This happens way more often than people would expect.

Meanwhile, alcohol and drugs kill more people on the road than any other set of causes. Perhaps all vehicles should just have a breathalyzer interlock as a standard option? What other measures of condescending paternalism can we implement to "save lives?"
> but not for a desktop and its peripherals.

This doesn't make sense to me. Why should it be bigger?
What if I don't want Javascrap running in my browser?
For such a basic action as a board exercising one of the most fundamental of its rights, I don't think it's necessary to spend 100K hours. And I don't think the board consulted to random lawyers off the street.

> Someone signed that term sheet.

Do you think that the term sheet holds OpenAI liable for changes in Microsoft's stock price?
Many many cars already have something similar as a table stakes feature: they show the current speed limit that you are driving on, either via some of sort database and/or sign recognition.

Adding a few lines of code to limit the speed to that +20mph or whatever would be almost zero cost
I agree with your comment but otoh would a guy on pcp no be just as deadly at 90 mph?

If we doing this we should rather do automated reaction speed/sobriety tests. Had a friend almost die bc he drove the day after being drunk bc he fell asleep from being sleep deprived even if he was "sober" by then
You realize the government already does not recognize your freedom to drive at 100mph right? They will ticket you or throw in prison if they catch you. A speed limiter doesn't further restrict your freedoms, it just increases enforcement of existing restrictions on your freedoms.
You're speaking as if Altman and Brockman did Sutskever a favour by "asking him to join". They were practically begging.
You can't use it - that's the trade-off...
How many people are killed by cyclists each year vs cars?
> This is naive. The chip hardware support to have 2 extra USB A ports is nothing compared to having two extra USB C/Thunderbolt ports and USB C/Thunderbolt is overkill for many situations.

Type C doesn't require anything more than USB 2.0 with the same signals routed out. There's no difference whatsoever. Type C is just a connector. Yes there will be more chip support if you decide to make the connector more fully-functional but that design choice is on the device manufacturer. They do not need to do that to have a Type C port.
Minimum is just that, minimum.

Have you ever seen a broken standard USB port or connector? Me not once in my entire life, unlike micro-USB or USB-C.
In the case in the article, when talking about geosensitive limiters, presumably they would have been limited to somewhere around the 35mph speed limit in the area.
https://freetube.io

Happy user here as well.
If that's true why did they even fund openai. Why not just beat them at making LLMs
But you’re conflating data at rest vs data in memory.

A pdf for example can be very small but then take up considerably more memory to display an embedded image once it’s done decompressing for render. Similarly text is more expensive just by virtue of higher resolution displays.

What we ask of our machines has expanded greatly, and the immediacy with which people want things to load is more exacting too, so a lot of content is kept warm in memory.

I’m not saying 4GB is a healthy amount and I agree there’s likely room for optimization, but let’s not also act like there aren’t huge advances in what computers do to necessitate that either
> How would you save up cash for a good investment opportunity if it just died?

That depends on how fast it died. Too much inflation is clearly bad, but so is none at all. And deflation is really, really bad. The last time the world saw deflation was during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Empirically, 2% seems to lead to pretty good outcomes by my personal quality metric. That's a halving of value every 30 years or so, which seems about right to me.
18 wheelers would have to travel 1/5 the speed
Getting a driver's license in Germany costs well over an order of magnitude more than in the US and takes quite a few weeks. And speed limits are much more enforced in the Germany compared to the US.
Meta is probably the most ethical company in AI at the moment. Most importantly, their models are open source.
Emergency situations. For instance someone has a stroke, no ambulance, and driving to hospital. Happens frequently in rural areas.
Shannon solved this problem at the dawn of telco age when everyone was broadcasting and noise exceeded signal, by giving us error correcting codes, and clear limits above which the system turned useless etc.

We need something similar today or the thousands of orchestras playing different tunes will never sync or get coherent. HN front page is a great example of pure randomness. You can't produce focus and trust using such systems. Just endless distraction and confusion.
I use YouTube a lot (too much) & Youtube no longer allows AdBlockers. Spotify is the worst offender with way too many ads
I really really hate what we did to LLMs. We throttled it so much that it's not as useful as it used to be. I think everybody understands that the LLMs lie some % of the time, it's just dumb to censor them. Good move on Meta.
I surely have. Any even semi-public USB power socket is hanging on by a thread, some of them have the inside paddles snapped off entirely. I haven't seen a Type C one in such a state yet, but I eagerly await it.
Your friend is bleeding out in the passenger seat and you're taking him to the ER.
It's not only language or some tasks - it's literally everything. Predictive Processing Theory proposes that our whole model is predicting future and only then confirming it through our input signals (eyes, ears etc). I highly recommend The Experience Machine by Andy Clark which explains and arguments this theory very convincingly to the point where I firmly believe it to be true.
it means that AI isn't limited to ChatGPT on the web interface. AI can also be a robot with sensors (like a camera) and an internal model that processes sensory information and turns it into knowledge. Humans would only be needed to bootstrap such a robot, at which point it would be autonomous. Give it the ability to replicate and you've just made humans obsolete.
Thieves fry Kenya's power grid for fast food
From the linked article:

> Modern automobiles do use governors to limit engine damage, but the threshold is set absurdly high, often at 155 mph. Even safety-conscious Volvo allows its cars to reach 112 mph, 27 mph faster than the highest speed limit anywhere in the U.S.

It's already there. They just need to adjust from 150 down to 100. Sounds substantially similar to $0 to me.
Brilliant as sama is, a star fundraiser is more replaceable than a top engineer.

One can imagine Microsoft, for example, swooping in and acquiring a larger share of the for-profit entity (and an actual seat on the board, dammit) for more billions, eliminating the need for any fundraising for the foreseeable future.

If a lot of top engieers follow sama out, now that's a real problem.
These board members are either not serious people or they let their perceived power over a ground breaking company go to their collective heads. Either way has been quite the misplayed checkers move.
This is a very insightful comment actually. I think you are right in many ways. My brain is wired to constantly try going fast. Everything I am able to do, is mostly from short bursts of dopamine rush. If that rush slows down or stops, such as when dealing with frustration of not being able to make something work immediately, my brain starts to shut down - and then it's like trying to swim across dry land. Curiosity and desire for problem solving helps sometimes, when I am in the right headspace, but other times it's simply absent. The work starts feeling dreadful. Need to figure out some ways around this.
That's an impressive will power.
P.S. "and hadn't for years" => He could not have helped you to solve that issue if that is the case. No way he could. He obviously codes every single day (not for long hours)
That’s nobody then, because we have a lot of rules you can classify this way, and for the most part they are very widely supported.

Do people in favour of food safety standards deserve neither liberty nor safety? What about my liberty to sell ‘meat’ tacos without government interference?

It’s a very grey area in modern societies, you can’t really blanket-apply statements about freedom like that, to something that’s really an incremental change.
Thanks for your reply. The "stop" was new to me. Having a good feeling when you stop because you know that you come back again is helpful.

I read a few more of your articles and I like the variety of topics. Keep on going!
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The safety around guns is indeed for the shooter, not for the shootee.
Sure. Expensive cars already have that.

Car regulations have, almost universally, increased the cost of automobiles. The typical counter-argument to this is that it reduces the national cost-burden of an automobile-ized society by reducing the number of collisions and deaths; events of objective destruction that destroy value. Its a reasonable first-order argument, but it also feels too shallow to take entirely at face value, as it fails to consider the aggregate depreciation-value of the increased cost of automobiles after they're produced.
Among the 'Memory Athletes', 1971
In US a real problem is that people don't know how to drive... Not all obviously, but significant number and you have a lot of incompetent drivers mostly because if you don't drive you can't work, so nobody dares prevent them from driving, yet they are functionally not capable of driving.

I think self driving will help greatly there...
For anyone else wondering about Helen Toner’s resume:

Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Senior Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy, where she advised policymakers and grantmakers on AI policy and strategy

Lived in Beijing, studying the Chinese AI ecosystem as a Research Affiliate of Oxford University’s Center for the Governance of AI

MA in Security Studies from Georgetown

BSc in Chemical Engineering and a Diploma in Languages from the University of Melbourne
The board folded.

> Do you think that the term sheet holds OpenAI liable for changes in Microsoft's stock price?

There’s nothing binding on a term sheet.
censor the AI with preprompts most likely. Or looking into the training data for bad apples.
You can find our pricing on the website [0] - generally $100/month per instance (though note our smallest plan is $150/mo). pganalyze Index Advisor, which is the subject of the post is available with all plans.

Generally I (Founder and CEO) feel the pricing is fair for the value provided for production databases, and it allows us to run the business as an independent company without external investors, whilst continuing to invest in product improvements. That said, it may not be a good fit if you have a small production database, or only make database-related changes infrequently.

[0]: https://pganalyze.com/pricing
What about the local library? They usually have meeting rooms.

Yes, it's an unusually disfunctional hacker space.
Yes, companies are trying to boost revenues & profits to compete with 5% risk free treasury bonds
If I'm faced with:

1. obey the law and crash

2. break the law and not crash

I choose option 2.

For example, if a kid darts into the road, and I can miss him by swerving into the oncoming lane (if it is clear).
Tons of things.

High resolution displays at high frame rates

High speed storage

External GPUs

High speed networking
Ilya IS the talent. They were desperate to hire him.
It is not about performance/throughput. There are various factors at play: first of all, the synchronization is basically waiting for the monitor to finish displaying the last image before you send the new one. Second, unless the application takes over the screen (e.g. fullscreen games), the applications do not run in sync with the window system (and you do not want that because you do not want a single application to cause problems for other applications like hogging the screen updates). When you combine these two there is nothing really the application can do. As you wrote:

> I suppose the challenge is composting stuff from different processes every frame.

This is a significant part of the issue, though the fact that synchronization essentially means waiting is also another one (without synchronizing you get partial frames but those partial frames are still feedback for the user that makes the desktop feel more responsive).
Turns out humans aren’t anything special, just statistical machines constructing paths of words trained on data from Reddit Facebook TikTok and instagram
If it really is A"I", shouldn't it figure out for itself and do it?
Sponsorblock is quite literally an ad blocker, and thus not allowed on YouTube
Text editing is mostly about reading, not writing. Scrolling up and down code is actually one of the worst scenarios i can think of, where you absolutely don't want to have tear. Because even as the document is moving you are still reading it.

When touch typing, fingers work decoupled from the eyes anyway, unless you are waiting for the intellisense or copilot prompt, that is usually constrained by language servers anyway, not the framerate.
Regulations already mandate things like seatbelts, airbags, and backup cams in cars. I fail to see how "your car should not be able to go over 100 MPH" is significantly different.

Another reason I find so many of these knee-jerk, vapid "muh freedom" responses so annoying is because I think there is valid concern over how this would be implemented, e.g. by using GPS to vary the limit as mentioned in the article.
Hard to quantify 'deadly' but kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared. 100mph has 23% more kinetic energy than 90mph and 56% more than 80mph.
I think the question mark is if AI is more akin to the nuclear bomb of the Internet.

If you don't put barriers, how quickly will AI bots take over people in online discourse, interaction and publication?

This isn't just for the sake of keeping the Internet an interesting place free of bots and fraud and all that.

But I've also heard that it's about improving AI itself. If AI starts to pollute the dataset we train AI on, the entire Internet, you get this weird feedback loop where the models could almost get worse over time, as they will start to unknowingly train on things their older versions produced.
That’s device side however rather than computer side. But yeah, usually USB-B is paired with USB-A on the other end.

That said, a lot of new gear is USB-C only
I'm just saying that there aren't state powers that would literally stab him in the back to prevent him from doing so. Even Stalin would have had a quick death if he tried to spend the entire wealth of the USSR on himself.
Life is a marathon, not a sprint. If you're regularly burning out, slow the fuck down!
We can never get there; Futurama shows the heads speaking audibly.
The old, some people are breaking the law, so we should restrict everyone else. Seems to be the trend of the nanny world we live in.

You could drink and drive, better put in breathalyzers.

You might be sleepy, better have eye scanners and steering wheel checks.

You might be in bad health, better have yearly medical exams submitted to the state.

Thats a never ending list, on any topic, to limit people. Bad trend to spiral towards the bottom of the nanny state. Whats next, telling people how they should talk, oh wait.
Because I would never want to jump straight into a new job anyway, a good sabbatical seems a great idea if you can afford it (leaving an engineering/management job suggests you probably can). Being totally free from a job and still getting 50% of the salary for free also sounds like a dream - just move to a cheaper place and enjoy the life.
Freedom is my god.
The median new car price in the US was $46k. The amortized cost of such a component would be a rounding error.

Not only that, as another commenter and TFA point out, cars already have software limiters installed to prevent engine damage. Seemingly lowering the number is even cheaper than adding an entirely new component would be anyway.

It’s bad regulation because it’s ineffective at solving the actual issue, which is reckless and impaired driving.
Those on his team at OpenAI probably would yeah and anyone who shares views on AI safety. But the real question is will he able to raise capitol?