skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one reason might be something similar (just in spirit, not the concrete concept itself) of another good idea killed by patents, in a whole different domain that was talked about in HN some days ago: mini-games that would appear during the loading screens of the actual game on a console. Bandai-Namco had a patent for that, thus it killed spread in other games.

Maybe both these are cases of good ideas that were there at the right time and place, but lost steam because of patents, and then later the timing was just too late already.

In the case of games, loading screens are nowhere as lengthy as they were when the mini game idea would have been useful. Similarly, the all-tabs paradigm would nowadays be way out of scope for commercial desktop environment makers, who are deeply immersed in a crusade to make simpler and mobile-compatible UIs for their systems, and have been so, slowly but surely, for at least the last decade.

EDIT: albeit if the idea had been around since the 80's, then my reasoning doesn't hold water! 90's was the age of multi-document UIs on Windows, and I'd argue that was the best time the idea had to get some implementations, but I guess it didn't get too much popularity back then either, or maybe Microsoft evaluated and didn't bet on it.
> Trump is a populist

You see? I didn't need to mention him. As I wrote he is the most obvious one. :-)

But the truth is that the US doesn't have an history of populist demagogues as rich as 3rd world countries. There is Trump and nothing as him before.

Italy might be a first world country. But it's political institutions are very dysfunctional.
What is it that you want that this doesn’t offer?
We have a team of Python devs who push data around and do analytics, reporting, etc

They added real-time search results to our Django SSR site in 2 lines of HTMX.

It’s the opposite of added complexity.
That works. Thank you.
Hi, yes, something along those lines. E-1 or E-2 can be good options. Or, for example, open a US branch of your existing company, then have your company sponsor you for an O-1 or L-1 visa.
But whisper does not support input streaming, so you have to wait for the whole llm response to trigger the transcription or not?
Don’t be evil.
This is just ridiculous. People make mistakes. People should also be relatively familiar with what goes on in the codebase.
Not necessarily. They still would have needed to have a majority of board seats on their side - I mean, Brockman was chairman of the board and he didn't find out about all this until the machinations were complete.

Read a good a article about the history of the OpenAI board that argued this all went down due to the recent loss of 3 board members, bringing total board membership from 9 to 6 (including losses like Reid Hoffman, who never would have voted for something like this), and Altman wanted to increase board membership again. Likely the "Gang of Four" here saw this as their slim window to change the direction of OpenAI.
Sidenote anarcho-capitalism is not related to anarchism. If anything its on the most opossite spectrum. Where anarchism general goal is dissolving hiearchies/power/authority. Anarcho-capitalism goal is creating pure unrestricted capitalism system with single master hiearchy/power/authority - money.

If he is truly anarcho-capitalist he should be ok with people having abortions. As long they can pay for it.
> You don't have to use them.

> I don't see what these kinds of comments add.

I think you've missed something from those comments.

Scenario: You're looking at a screenshot of someone else's code (from documentation, blog post, video, etc...). You see a ligature you're not familiar with. Now you cannot follow the rest of the information.

Question: What do you do?
Is MPI still widely used?
And, if he is to be believed, he holds zero shares. I guess that shows what the board thinks he is worth.
It's not really about what's the new system. It's more about the change itself.

Governments usually have priorities and policies that artificially make something valuable - for example rocket scientists. That's why with the collapse of USSR suddenly the very well educated engineers and scientists had to become taxi drivers and this caused huge social issues. It was so widespread that it become a stereotype in the west. Of course it's not just the rocket scientists but pretty much anyone employed or their sector protected by the government.

Because those people don't know how to operate in the new system, they will fail miserably. Another example could be An archeologist who was able to climb their career through their academic success will finding out that archaeology doesn't have much market value and their lives will be ruined. For decades no one smart will want to do this and they will lose a lot of cultural and historical heritage will be eroded by corrupt people who find a market value in it but have no knowledge in the matter or ethics.

It's a stereotype for Eastern European women becoming prostitutes in the West. Apparently Javier Milei promised to legalise selling organs, so it is possible that the Argentinian stereotype be people with missing organs. This happens because sometimes people are desperate and sometimes because they lose fate in their future and want the quick buck.

System changes are extremely stressful and can create huge social issues that can last for generations.
> Slicing the state to zero would definitely decrease inflation

Slicing the state to zero as part of the shock therapy economics did not stop inflation nor it helped recesdion in Eastern European ex-Soviet countries in 1990s.
> This is why, when you claim to be running a non-profit to "benefit humankind," you shouldn't put all your resources into a for-profit subsidiary.

To be frank, they need to really spell out what "benefitting mankind" is. How is it measured? Or is it measured? Or is it just "the board says this isn't doing that so it's not doing that"?

It's honestly a silly slogan.
> How would you even onboard and meet payroll in a week for a non existent entity if you suddenly had even half that number?

> Answer is that won’t happen. The point being most sane people will wait around to see if anything really changes. Why wouldn’t they, what do they even have to lose by waiting?

Not saying it will happen but I'd honestly say this would be the least of the issues. VC's and established companies would be fighting tooth and nail to invest money in whatever venture Sam Altman/Greg Brockman + whatever % of staffers were launching. Money would not be the problem here. Think of how much money so many were willing to throw at the con-job that the vast majority of crypto was and then think of how much money they would throw at AI tools (which are clearly a big deal already).
Not sure, you can get flash 4 from winworld though
TLDR it's 286,386,577,668,298,411,128,469,151,667,598,498,812,366 — there, saved you a click.

[The above is a parody of a kind of HN comment common on long articles (that wants an article to simply "answer" the headline), but this case—the numerical answer being not at all illuminating in comparison to actually reading the article—is also a clear illustration of this point from the Fields medalist William Thurston's very insightful "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics" (https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236):

> They might print out a table of the first 10,000 primes, only to find that their printout isn’t something they really wanted after all. They discover by this kind of experience that what they really want is usually not some collection of “answers”—what they want is understanding.

]
I remember some of my college friends being mildly addicted to online poker back in the mid-2000s. Is this really a novel phenomenon?
You have evidence Sam lied, like their statement implies? How do you know the action was in furtherance of their charter instead of over petty grievances?
Ditching the peso is not a bad move. Ditching the military might be a better move (like Costa Rica)
I remember those days in pre-school where it was a nightmare to find parking.
I really do wish that was the case but it's just not something that I've come across. I don't want to make excuses here and do take responsibility for it but sometimes I feel like we learn important lessons like this in the fire. Still, this one is on me for not knowing about it till today.

On that note though, I'm perplexed as to how people would manage this kind of thing if using paths instead of subdomains. So instead of <user>.start.page if we used start.page/user. In the latter case, I'm not sure how one would prevent their entire domain from being taken down if malicious users kept linking to malware hosted on file hosting/sharing sites. Is there something similar to the PSL for this?

At its core the issue in my head is user generated content linking out to malicious software being a point of trigger for entire sites being blocked. Does this mean that an entire publication site could be blocked if someone used a comment widget to link out to malware and the site got reported? That seems like an effective DoS mechanism at some point.

I guess what I'm struggling with is why the domain gets blocked instead of the actual url that contains malware (or even the single path that links out to it). Fwiw the google drive link hosting the malware is still active.
Did you format the code? Is this really a thing in 2023?
We, by definition, need a Federal government. On the other hand, does Uncle Sam have to be so massive? So overreaching? (Hint: No.) Is there danger in so much power being so concentrated? (Hint: Yes.)

When we buy into the idea that we need it (more than it needs us) we fed an unruly self-serving beast.
I had hopes that we would be modifying them genetically to help everone have productive places in our society. Instead, we seem determined to live out the movie Idiocracy while simultaneously living out Bridge on the River Kwai.
> Or are you implying they belong to the group who participated in casual racism and sexism that used to be a lot more common in the past

Some of them do, yes.

However, "The other factor is the rise of internet social media, which didn't exist back then." In the past, there was no such thing as being afraid of speaking your mind on social media. You were typically speaking your mind in private, among friends and family. This very conversation that we're having now would have never occurred in 1957, or even 1987.
I don't see any evidence here for "self awareness", among other things, ChatGPT is simultaneously answering a very very large number of queries, and the underlying hardware is just a bunch of servers in the cloud. Furthermore, what would it even mean for "ChatGPT to become self aware" and how could we measure if this had taken place or not? Without a solid definition and method of measurement, it's meaningless to talk about abstract concepts like "self awareness".

Nevertheless, a sensible definition for self awareness is some kind of neural network that becomes aware of its own activity and is in some way able to influence its own function.

After considering these issues for a long time, I came to the conclusions that

1. It's impossible for a program running on a normal computer to have self awareness (or consciousness), because those things are essentially on the hardware level and not the software level

2. In order to create a machine that is capable of self awareness (and consciousness) it is necessary to invent a new type of computer chip which is capable of modifying its own electrical structure during operation.

In other words, I believe that a computer program which models a neural network can never be self aware, but that a physical neural network (even if artificially made) can in principle achieve self awareness.
Hah, yes. I chuckle to myself every time.
Hello! Jimmy and I recorded the podcast.

I'm curious to read more of your thoughts on podcasting as a medium. I bet my goals & tastes in creating podcasts differ wildly from your goals & tastes in listening to them. And if I can be so bold: why give our show the time of day, but not something more tightly produced (which, perhaps, stands a better chance of offering high signal-to-noise)?

In any event, Jimmy and I appreciated your post. We're thrilled whenever someone digs in to a paper we've covered and finds it meaningful.
There fundamentally cannot be one unless the following core axiom is fulfilled:

- The Federal Reserve grants permission to create privacy-centric digital cash
They quickly realize without money you really can’t do as much.
The alternative is to work for poor idealists, which isn’t generally very good for putting bread on the table.

Something tells me most people are going to go for fucktons of money and working on what they think is interesting. Even if it makes other people even more money.
Better to have a small but independent voice that can grow in influence then being shackled by commercial interest and lose your integrity - e.g. How many people actually gives a shit what Google has to say about internet governance?
Why are people suddenly jacking Altman off so hard? What has this non-technical dude done other than trying to corner the AI market for himself and implementing insane bullshit like worldcoin for him to deserve such weird devotion?
Yup, and even worse: the 8-track.

https://youtu.be/XLZS0Sj9-1U
Before ASI can beat the best humans, it is going to wipe the floor with me. Maybe I'm selfish, but it's the time when my boss decides my worth that I'm concentrating on.
Tektronix was famous for actual storage screens, where once a signal was drawn across the CRT it would persist until the screen was reset. Very handy for capturing a single event and viewing it at your leisure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube
I hope you are right, but it's a bit silly to try to claim that there's a caricature and there's a perfectly cromulent man behind it, when his whole political persona is the former.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1692224414593478923 (the "why do you call leftists shit?" interview)
Out of curiosity - to folks that have had success with this...

This voice cloning is... nothing like XTTSv2, let alone ElevenLabs.

It doesn't seem to care about accents at all. It does pretty well with pitch and cadence, and that's about it.

I've tried all kinds of different values for alpha, beta, embedding scale, diffusion steps.

Anyone else have better luck?

Sure it's fast and the sound quality is pretty good, but I can't get the voice cloning to work at all.
Not sure how you define sexism, but more traditional patriarchal groups have higher birth rates and more social cohesion. In the long run those traits propagate themselves. The stereotypical cat lady, not so much.

As far as racism, it may not propagate the species but surely it helps propagate those genetically closer to oneself. Isn’t in-group preference pretty common? Don’t need to be EO Wilson or Richard Dawkins to see why.
I think the challenge here is the credentials of most of the rest of the board are even more lackluster.
> "the board says this isn't doing that so it's not doing that"?

I believe that is indeed the case, it is the responsibility of the board to make that call.
They don’t have people on the rocket now right? It’s just a bunch of money being vaporized.
steward definitely feels like a more appropriate term, seems awesome though. I don't mean to knock it
I like this idea, but I'm not sure if "democracy" is the word you're looking for. There's plenty of functioning bureaucracies in everything from monarchies to communist states that balance competing interests. As you say, a system of checks and balances balancing the interests of the for-profit and non-profit arms could have been a lot more interesting. Though honestly I don't have enough business experience to know if this kind of thing would be at all viable.
I must have very different tastes, but I found all mentioned series as well as most of other stuff they promote to me on their front page to be mediocre at best, 4-6.2/10 (on a non-normalized scale, like IMDB, with 5 not being "average" but "quite poor") on average. Something (screenwriting, acting or something else) is always breaking my suspension of disbelief, so I drop the series after the first or second episode. Surely, they aren’t that bad as I picture them to be - it’s just that I’m not their target audience.

I keep it for accidental new releases (like that new Wes Anderson’s short movies, which I found quite enjoyable; and The Killer was not bad) and some old series I haven’t yet found time to finish (House of Cards), but overall quality or the majority or their releases feels unimpressive I can’t even remember what was the last thing I’ve liked.

Just an anecdote, of course. This is by no means an objective opinion - quite the contrary, it's a very subjective data point.
Ideas, both names and concepts, are interfaces. They are useful, though they are also limited in the sense both that the label is not the thing (the map is not the terrain), and that simply having a name for a thing is not the same as having a deep understanding for it, though having a language for discussing the thing can itself help substantially in achieving that understanding. It can also lead to cargo-cult or fad-based ("buzzword bingo") aping, however, and you want to be on the watch for that.

Feynman illustrates the distinction between naming and knowing in an lecture (I believe also appearing as an essay in one of his books):

See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a Halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call it a Chung Ling and even if you know all those names for it, you still know nothing about the bird. You only know something about people; what they call the bird. Now that thrush sings, and teaches its young to fly, and flies so many miles away during the summer across the country, and nobody knows how it finds its way.

<http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html>

I find Feynman a bit too dismissive of the value of shared terminology, though his broader point has merits.
There's more room for creativity with digital technology.

The most accurate quartz movements drift by around 5 secs a year. Chip scale atomic clocks are accurate to around 37ms a year.

Current chip scale atomic clocks are still a little too big for watches, but some applied creativity might change that.

Personally I don't care about clockwork, but I think having an atomic clock on your wrist would be quite cool.
I've been increasingly wondering if the field considering LLMs as a continuum as opposed to a set of distinct thresholds is leading to erroneous "rules of thumb" as most research on methodology is concentrated in smaller and more accessible model experimentation right now.

We generally recognize (nearly ad nauseum) that mouse models of medical research don't necessarily translate to humans.

Similarly, I'd imagine most would laugh at the idea that a neurology researcher who found the best way to get a fruit fly's brain to navigate a maze should extrapolate that methodology to a dolphin or a chimp's brain.

Maybe we should be defining "weight classes" for LLMs and grouping research based on those classes. Like "these are the techniques that work best for lightweight models" but not necessarily assuming those as a general rule of thumb for "heavyweight models."

Even something like the discussion of synthetic data on model collapse is a good example of where there might be a very significant difference in the effect on model quality for a cheaper and less sophisticated model generating synthetic data to feed back into itself and a much more complex and sophisticated model. Maybe the lesson is actually "recursive training on synthetic data leads to model collapse in lightweight and medium weight models."

So while the writeup is a great one on fine tuning 7B models with LoRA, I would be curious just what % of the recommendations hold true in replication for even just a 65B model.
But if you’re comparing to switching to a different mode, you have to include the cost of gas.

That’s what this article is about?
I don't think they are actually lobbying in support of these things beyond including them in press releases. When things like congestion charges are actually proposed they lobby against them: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/09/01/uber-puts-its-thumb-o....
Not that you're wrong but researchers are also deeply imperfect. They're rushed, they're given no time to actually improve their work, and the emphasis is entirely on 'good-enough' publications. The number of times I've been involved in a paper where the mentality wasn't "get it out the door, now" is.... zero times.

Plots often fail to clarify for the precise reason that clarification takes time and effort and those things are lacking in academia in spades. Are people intentionally hiding ugly details, definitely on occasion? But I don't think it's the primary source of such bad figures.
It is also why dont bring on board members you cant trust. I doubt getting ousted was what Sam, Greg, and Elon had in mind when they picked it.
A LOT of people care about what Google does in that area. What they say is kinda redundant.
Still have bison (barely) though!
I mean we’ll see.

As far as I can tell Altman’s real serious talent is getting billionaire types to like him. First Paul Graham then Elon and the initial OpenAI funders. In both cases he seems to have been dropped rather abruptly after running things for a few years.

He has never personally built meaningful tech and has definitely never actually demonstrated anything approaching popularity with any rank and file employees.

Might happen. But it sure hasn’t yet. I don’t doubt that the Davos / Bohemian Grove set will install him in another position though, he does seem to have a genuine knack for that.
There are obviously more important things, but when visiting one of the most annoying parts of the US is it is impossible to know what something actually costs. With taxes and fees and gratuities (optional or automatic) it feels like I just have no idea what the relationship between the sticker and the actual cost is.
> it felt like this awesome "secret world" that connected you to the rest of the world!

I really miss that feeling, it's a rarity nowadays.
What's up with these guys not using capital letters?
You have a hilariously significant misunderstanding of what my work looks like. Maybe my standards for what constitutes ‘normal’ are just skewed.

Though it’s fair to say I’ve never been an executive.
What software do you use for the lora sharing?
Taking kids to weekend sport in Australia is not a one-off occasion. It's every Saturday morning. It produces its own peak hour (approx 10am-1pm Sat), focused in certain suburban areas, that's often worse than weekday peak hour in the city centre. It's also really hard to do it without a car. The sport locations can be quite unpredictable (sometimes in your local neighbourhood, sometimes a 2+ hour drive away). They're seldom accessible by public transport. And (in Sydney at least) children under 7 need to be in a car seat in an Uber (but not required in a taxi!), and no Ubers with car seats are available. So it's not only much easier, but also probably fairly cost effective in the long term, to have a second car with 95% of its use being for weekend kids sport.
Um...what

He's secured the resources and partnerships to grow a $100B company virtually overnight, but he hasn't done anything noteworthy or laudible?

HN takes are the best. Humor really is the best medicine.
Significantly more info out and available now than when they worked on that project, too. It's only gotten easier.
It's unclear to me what economic advice you're offering other than "we can have our cake and eat it". Fixing what's wrong with Argentina is going to hurt and there's no way around it.

A responsibly run country wouldn't have gotten to this point but even in the US, the fed makes decisions that make people's lives harder in the short term to make them better in the long term.
We have to give up a lot of our modern conveniences, diet, and way of life. It's not going to happen by choice.