skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
great emotional appeal - yet there is more than enough food in a lot of the world, for the last fifty years, and much longer. Starving people are somehow close by warring people, want to bet?

It is problems of Empire, how to transmit $2USD to the edges while pulling the real control to the center. young workers in dire conditions are generally docile and replaceable, right?
I just saw this. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/21/why-apple-co-founder-steve-w...

My take: He’s the Keanu Reeves of tech (or Keanu is the Woz of the film industry). The world can use more of this.
And the board members aren't financial stakeholders. There's really nothing they have to gain from this, which implies that their decision was based on facts rather than some power play.
> Conversely there is no evidence that the super-rich do anything with their money consistently besides hoard it.

Didn't Elon just use a bunch of money to buy Twitter? Didn't he also aink a bunch of personal money wagering on SpaceX?

I'd hardly say the wealthy don't use their money. Typically they invest it in new companies and businesses. They don't just let it sit there. And those investments create jobs and new services.

Conversely, despite all the cool things yhe federal government has done in the past, we see massivr amounts of bloat and inefficient resource allocations. I don't keep to keep any of my yearly salary until approximately Easter each year. And what am I getting for that? Maybe the FAA is about the best outcome.
One of the nice things about working at home is that async tasks can be taken care of during the workday. Laundry doesn't need a lot of hands-on time but does have a lot of waiting time. It's also easier to get local errands like grocery shopping done during lunch than if you're at an office. Even lunch itself can be easier, with a couple Instant Pots, lunch can be ready to eat right at lunchtime. None of these tasks take a consequential amount of time away from work but they do give you back quite a bit of non-work time.
> All fine and common!

Sam got fired, so obviously not fine.
The outer layer is what I was referring too - you're right, it isn't a spray on coating and it isnt all goretex branded. The polymer is pretty durable, but it breaks apart eventually. It goes into the water eventually when washed. The instructions for washing some of these jackets explicitly say that they wash away.

Relatively, this supposed to be negligible compared to the runoff of other industrial uses at least.
how ? I thinks it's doing what it seeking to do. a place for pre-publications to be shared.

as far I know arxiv is not a journal. it doesn't reject papers and never intended to do so.

you can find many almost crackpot (meta)physics theories in it. you only need to have someone already on the platform to invite to be able to publish.

the only rejection criteria seems to be that your paper need to be related to the scientific/academic world (ex not your grandma's cookie recipe)
It does, but it also limits the "open editors" list to a smallish size that makes it annoying to use when you have a lot of open files, and you can't resize it either.

I never knew you could drag the open editors list off to its own thing though.
I think the point GP is trying to make is: just because he was working out of an OpenAI office doesn’t mean he was necessarily working on OpenAI business; he could have been remotely working on some of his other ventures.
I think Hard Rock Cafe exists to keep those tourists away from the other places.

(Though I've only been in one once, when my friend's band played a gig.)
Why would it be unethical? If everything is transparent, who cares? If you don't like that Musk is running 7 companies, don't invest in them.

If it's not a violation of an agreement you've made, it seems ethically fine. Impractical perhaps, but not an ethical issue.

The real question is whether overly-broad IP assignment clauses are ethical.
> who are available for exploitation

You just randomly threw in the word exploitation again.

They're aren't being exploited. Wages are different across the world because of cost of living & PPP.

As the article stated, a child can earn 4 times the national minimum wage. That's not exploitation. They're much better off.

Expecting every American company to pay American wages for workers in Pakistan would hurt people in Pakistan as it completely eliminates the incentive for companies to send jobs there.

> is an opportunity to study and question the system that creates the conditions such that there is a labor market comprising children who are available for exploitation for cheap labor by very rich Western companies

The reason why is because Western countries embraced market-based economies whereas India, China, South America, etc. spent decades embracing socialism/communism and threw away decades of potential growth/prosperity.

A very interesting experiment is to look at North Korea and South Korea. In the 1950s, both countries were identical. One went the market-based route and allied with the West. The other went the communist-route and allied with China.

You can also look at the "Asian Tiger Economies". Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They all embraced market-based economies and and their economies exploded with prosperity.

There's tons of research into why some countries prosper and some don't.
I like driving when it is driving not rolling through a traffic jam.
Technically, it is giving employers and employees a tax break if the employer buys the health insurance and sufficiently subsidizes it to incentivize sufficient employees to opt into the subsidized health insurance such that it passes the non discrimination testing. Roughly worth at least couple thousand dollars per year for individuals and quite a few thousand dollars per year for families.

Basically, a way to give bigger/better funded businesses an advantage over smaller businesses who cannot afford all that employment overhead, especially HR paperwork. Plus it helps obfuscate labor prices so labor sellers have a harder time shopping around for a better offer.

Retiree healthcare coverage is beyond stupid though, I would value it at zero as an employee unless it was the federal government offering it. I don’t think there are any protections for it either, so the employer holds all the cards.

I would prefer if all these tax advantages were nixed from employers and offered directly to all individuals, if that.
Astronomers sound alarm over light pollution from new satellite
In hindsight,
the argument about Obamacare death panels should defer to the fact that they already existed, the question is do you want insurance adjusters on your panel, or doctors?
Fonts have become such a fetish, it's weird.
My phone is 4 years old and it's type-c port completely destroyed for the last year, it barely connects (and cables are good, verified on the newer hosts). Even we assume I've connected it 2 times per each day every day, ot would mean about 2000-3000 insertions tops. This is an order of magnitude worse than that fantasy 25k number.
Another phone with 1000-2000 insertions over life time is also showing port degradation.

And I charge my phones in 99% of cases at home, stationary and undisturbed.
> Authorization is far less likely to be something you get off the shelf and far more likely to be where you spend significant time

Agreed. It is business logic, which means that it is harder to do off the shelf.

That said, there are some startups trying to make this work. Here are the ones I'm aware of:

* permit.io

* cerbos.dev

* osohq.com

RBAC (role based access controls) can take you a long way for many applications, but at some point you will be more interested in ABAC (attribute based access control) or PBAC (policy based access control).

If you want to dig in more, this is a nice overview: https://bok.idpro.org/article/id/42/
Not start a scammy crypto coin, that’s for sure. Stronger push of societal acceptance of public key cryptography everywhere would be a first good step.
I’m all for “language evolving”

Language exists to convey a shared concept

In this case, the evolved version of open source fails to convey a shared concept in comparison to the prior term, “free and open source software” or FOSS for a shorthand adjective

Here, people with knowledge of the lexicon are using it accurately, and people without knowledge of the lexicon or its etymology are complaining when they should be pushing for FOSS instead of getting surprised everytime
Haven't read the comments, but I have something to contribute. I am married and a parent of a 1.5-year-old child. Employed at a full-time job, working out is something I consider mandatory. Adding all this together, plus household chores, it leaves little time for personal projects or just chilling out by myself. I used to stay up late to get some alone time, but as the article describes, it is not sustainable, especially for parents.

I had a project I wanted to work on, but it was difficult to focus at night after everything else was taken care of. So I flipped it. I started waking up early. I aim for 5 am; recently, it's been more like 6 am, but I've been thinking of trying out 4 am. I've never been a morning person, but you do get used to it after a few weeks. Now, I use the fresh morning energy to work on my side project, and from the moment my daughter wakes up, I start with all the responsibilities. I work out in the evening, and I don't dread going to sleep early because I wake up to my time. So, the earlier I get to bed, the more "me" time I get.
Which NN architectures could be sufficient to simulate the entire human brain with spreading activation in 11 dimensions?

- citing the same paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18218504

NetworkX does clique identification [1] in memory, and it looks like CuGraph does not yet have a parallel implementation [2]

[1] https://networkx.org/documentation/stable/reference/algorith...

[2] CuGraph docs > List of Supported and Planned Algorithms:
https://docs.rapids.ai/api/cugraph/stable/graph_support/algo...
But creating a new entrant in chips reduces existing concentration of power.

It seems like OpenAI should be all for it.
The mention of the presence of a Spar supermarket in Europe being a marker for overtouristed areas seems oddly area specific. In most European countries which have them these are bog-standard supermarkets.
That’s so hard to believe. As an employee, he’s probably entitled to some stock. But again, that means he currently “doesn’t own” it
Yes, I'll correct that.
That's cool. I've known people who have had something in that general vein built.

Given that this is probably something north of $25K by the time you pay for everything though, it's not obviously a better deal than just getting something custom built from some plans.
"We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country"

Because "The USA" spans from GMT+10 to GMT-10. Your Solar Noon only varies by an hour between Kolkata and Mumbai. Without time zones, the continental U.S. would see a solar noon difference of three and a half hours. And that's not including Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam, which gives us a 20 hour span. You want all those places to be in the same time zone?
>What's wrong with that?

Going out of one's way to tell to a person that wasn't talking to you in the first place to say that you don't care about what they said.

>Especially when the opinions are simply, "Your entire set of principles are wrong, and this is aggressively bad."

You may notice that the criticism is written in several well-structured and reasoned paragraphs, and not that one line. Perhaps your summary doesn't reflect what was said.
and watch water.
> should limit the amount of time spent being sedentary

> should do at least 150–300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity;
or at least 75–150 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity; or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity throughout the week

If I do the recommended amount of physical activity but at the same time I’m also rather sedentary (e.g., spend many hours in front of the computer), am I “fine”? Family and friends tell me all the time “You spend so much time with your pc”… but I do a lot of aerobic and anaerobic exercises during the week. Not sure if the effect of the latter somehow gets diminished by the former. I feel great, tho.
The issue is not the OpenAI/SamaChip relationship, which is probably beneficial for OpenAI.

The issue is what happens when SamaChip's profit imperative forces them to maximize revenue. Because the best way to maximize revenue, when you're an independent chipmaker with a large R&D investment, is to sell to more companies. Which by definition are going to be OpenAI's competitors, and whose interests may not be aligned with OpenAI, but will have a financial line to SamaChip.

Gwern's highlighting an interesting contradiction in OpenAI's core charter. In order to ensure responsible, safe, humanity-benefiting AGI, OpenAI needs to have control over AGI's development; any for-profit entity that gets ahead of them probably will not have the same humanity-benefitting mission (actually, we know they won't, they will have a shareholder-benefitting mission by definition). But that means that by their charter, they can't be "Open". Anything like the Developer Day or API or a SamaChip that can sell to other startups means that other parties will have the freedom to use it for their own interests.

Not saying whether this is good or bad - the tension between openness and vulnerability always exists, and personally I tend to come down on the side of openness. But IMHO OpenAI's mission was contradictory from the very beginning, and was more a recruiting tool to get bright idealistic AI researchers to work for them.
That didn’t take long.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/altman-so...
I frankly find the idea that we must shield adolescents from any form of work... just pretty bizarre.

There are some dangerous jobs out there, and I can perhaps accept the argument that most 15 year olds don't have the agency to sign up for that - although as a matter of practicality, having grown up poor, I know a lot of people who ended up better off working the kinds of jobs that journalists and the regulators now frown upon.

You can make abstract arguments about how in a post-scarcity utopia, no person should ever have to work. But we're not there now and you don't get there by preventing people from working before that vision of a 3D-printed, AI-based future can be realized.

For now, work is inevitable for most; so what's wrong about being paid a living wage for classifying content in front of your computer on your own schedule? As a teenager, I'd have loved that. And I was exposed to content far more vile than anything this gig could've thrown at me.
Years ago when gpu power was basically free through google colab I used that to my advantage by racking up sheepit credits rendering other people's projects on google's dime. I still have about 10 million credits right now and I don't think I'll be able to use them all.
I'm sure experience can pay my bills...
It’s both an opportunity and exploitation.

The opportunity exists only because this labor pool is composed of laborers who are vulnerable to such exploitation.

To me, this article isn’t about whether it’s good or bad for the laborers involved, but an invitation to look at the bigger economic picture, i.e. why their material conditions are such that there are opportunities for children to trade $2 for an hour of their labor.
Which one of the unrelated systems did you mean?
> I wouldn't trust that they wouldn't eventually backstab me as well.

They absolutely would. The other thing you should take away from this is how they'd do it-- by manipulating proxies to do it with/for them, which makes it harder to see coming and impossible to defend against.

Whistleblowers are pariahs by necessity. You can't trust a known snitch won't narc on you if the opportunity presents itself. They do the right thing and make themselves untrustworthy in the process.

(This is IMO why cults start one way and devolve into child sex abuse so quickly-- MAD. You can't snitch on the leader when Polaroids of yourself exist...)

> don't take vacations!

This can get used against you either way, so you might as well take that vacation for mental health's sake.
They weren't the ones who went before Congress, asking for regulations that would prevent new startups taking root. (Something like a minimum of 25 employees dedicated to moderation against bias, as I recall. That would be trivial for OpenAI, but impossible when on a budget.)
Neither, really. Doctors are famous for not wanting heroic measures taken.
Are they owned by MS?
Same with the drug decriminalizing people- always blame something else when it goes wrong. Unable to consider maybe it was a bad idea
I feel like once the for-profit "genie" is out of the bottle, it can't be put back in. How many employees have they hired since 2018 that are the absolute best of the best of the industry? How influential was the massive equity package in their employment decisions?

Personally i saw the for-profit subsidiary as a pretty decent middle ground. Obviously this action took place because the current board felt the company moved too far in the for-profit direction. While they do have the technical right and ability to fire Sam and Greg, and it was the "right" thing to do to bring the company back to the non-profit roots, do you really think the employees saw it the same way? How many hours do the board minus Ilya actually contribute in a week to OpenAI? None of the board members minus Ilya were even around before the for-profit subsidy was created so can they truly align the new OpenAI with something they didnt experience?

Also an aspect i didn't really see anywhere but they had 3 board members leave in 2023. How would those board members have voted? I'd guess probably not to fire Sam but i have no clue. Also why did they not add more board members when those left? Did Sam and Greg want the board expanded again but the other 3 kept voting to not expand and to keep the power?
I don't see a conflict at all but IANAL. His biggest issue is GPU cost. He was hustling to vertically integrate and knew that the non-profit nature of OpenAI would not allow for it. So he starts to think about the creation of a separate company to handle that with exclusivity of some kind. It makes perfect sense. No idea if he could get the board to go for it of course, but that's clearly something he would have needed to do to make it a reality. And it's completely in his remit to make these kinds of bets. This board may have seen this as an overstep but all they needed to do is tell him no. I'm sure he would have made a persuasive argument had they let him. This board seems completely out of touch with the reality of running a company like this. And GPUs have nothing to do with AI safety, that's like saying a faster neuron makes a person evil or good.
Did you forget about company providing 10+ billion dollars in funding or the potential 80 billion dollar deal with Thrive?
I much prefer working at the office.

There's less distraction and better divide between work and private time.
When I leave the office, I'm done for the day.

I find somewhat ironic that people use an alleged higher productivity at home as justification for remote work, but but doing chores around the house throughout the day always comes up as a perk of WFH. Doing chores and being productive are antithetic.

Anecdotically I live in Europe and don't know anybody of any age who wants to work 100% remote, although obviously everybody likes the flexibility of working ~50% remote. Hating the office to the point of wanting to be 100% remote seems to be a very american thing, I wonder why. Average commute time the the US is among the shortest in the OECD btw, so the reason must lie elsewhere.
Yeah, strangely google (and more local tools like Openrice or Tabelog) is much better for finding good spots. Locals are more discerning, but if you don't speak the local language it can get difficult. Travelocity is almost the opposite since ratings are almost directly proportional to the ability to interact with (English speaking) foreigners.
flasm and flare [1] may also be of interest to you.

[1]: http://www.nowrap.de/flasm.html / http://www.nowrap.de/flare.html
No, you're moving the goalposts here. First, it was "he doesn't go into the office", and now it's "even if he does, maybe he's not doing what he should be."
Fair! I considered "OAuth 2.0 rolled up with all the specs since 2.0" an update, but you are correct. They specifically didn't want to set out any new features in OAuth 2.1.

From the spec:

"This Standards Track specification consolidates the information in all of these documents and removes features that have been found to be insecure..."
> basically directly opposed to OA's safety mission

OpenAI does not have a mission to ensure that the entire industry is safe.

And if anyone actually believes that then they are frankly delusional because right now AI is a geo-political fight between nation states. Is OpenAI really going to have any ability to control what China or UAE do with their LLMs. No.
> totally free of ethical conflict.

Unfortunately, far from that case.

Altman's hardware startup would only be free of ethical conflict if Altman was open about it, and the board approved at least two things (and probably more):

1. A formal plan to separate OpenAI CEO Altman from OpenAI hardware acquisition decisions.

2. A formal agreement with Altman and his new company, on how OpenAI's private information with hardware implications is firewalled and/or shared with Altman's new hardware concern.

Otherwise, Altman is going rogue, acting on private OpenAI information useful to a new hardware company looking for future business with OpenAI and OpenAI competitors.

CEO Altman has a fiduciary duty to act directly in OpenAI's interest, and not in some "hey this could be great for everyone" version.

Litmus test: If your legal partner/executive is doing things behind your back with large implications for you, they are almost certainly violating ethics in some way.
I wonder if you can add a TTS engine to Android as an app or plugin, then make Moon+ Reader or another reader to use that custom engine. That's probably how I'd do it for the easiest approach, but if that doesn't work, I might just have to make my own app.
Lifetime Pricing going to sink you. Best of luck though otherwise.
All my reads of the rumors makes me think it's new fabs, chips and facilities and labs and all that.
Even as a European I can confidently say that Euronet ATMs are complete, utter scam and they have a tendency to show up in most scammy tourist areas to prey on foreigners.

Even here across southern Europe they always start popping up in areas that usually have other seedy businesses preying on people. Lately they don't even show their brand and colors anymore... only showing foreign languaged "ATM" sign with no bank logo.

Avoid them like the plague.
I have absolutely no idea what "Tesla of e-bikes" is supposed to mean, but perhaps you're thinking of something like Rad Power Bikes?

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/rad-power-radrun...

https://electricbikereport.com/rad-power-bikes-reviews/

(Not that I personally endorse either Rad Power Bikes or Tesla.)