skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the sentiment it really depends on many factors, most of which are unknowable. That is, if you knew to certainty that a loved one would live 2 months in hospice or 3 months in hospital most people would pick 2 months of peace. But it’s unknowable in the moment, and in my experience doctors do a really poor at explaining when a loved one is beyond help. My dad went into the hospital for CHF and I probably spoke to a dozen doctors and only one made it clear that there was no hope of improvement/going home. I stand by my statement that President Carter’s situation is very unusual.
The reason for a buy-out is to make this all legally "clean".

Sure, Microsoft has physical access to the source code and model weights because it's trained on their servers. That doesn't mean they can just take it. If you've ever worked at a big cloud provider or enterprise software system, you'll know that there's a big legal firewall around customer data that is stored within the company's systems, and you can't look at it or touch it without the customer's consent, and even then only for specific business purposes.

Same goes for the board. Legally, the non-profit board is in charge of the for-profit OpenAI entity, and Microsoft does not get a vote. If they want the board gone but the board does not want to step down, too bad. They have the option of poaching all the talent and trying to re-create the models - but they have to do this employee-by-employee, they can't take any confidential OpenAI data or code, etc. Microsoft may have OpenAI by the balls economically, but OpenAI has Microsoft by the balls legally.

A buyout solves both of these problems. It's an exchange of economic value (which Microsoft has in spades) for legal control (which the OpenAI board currently has). Straightens out all the misaligned incentives and lets both parties get what they really want, which is the point of transactions in the first place.
Hallmark Movies are so bad that they don't even reach 'Chick-Flick' quality.

Having said that, I am quite partial to a good 'chick-flick' myself.

(Grins, ducks, and runs.)

PS. I still have a crush on Meg Ryan .... after all these years.
I think this one has plenty sources but google had plenty of results:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk...

I don't even keep up with that jerk but apparently he thinks as a the richest man on the planet he isn't being allowed to be proud of his race, the jews are after him because he is white and anyone who disagrees is engaging in anti-white racism.

I hope sibling commenters asking the same thing read this. HN quotas and all.
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The only way the someone can make 'billions' is because of the state-given and enforced monopoly on production. Without this required threat of state violence, your ideas start being worth much less in the actually competitive markets.
Why Are Software Engineers Paid So Much
Sam isn’t the only person who has to agree to the members of the new board. Sam also has not displayed a mastery of board politics in the past, either at OpenAI or at Y Combinator. Of course he has a strong hand to play here, but then again so does Microsoft.
The interpretation with the cube on the corner seems pretty intuitive - the cube essentially becomes a stack of layers. For every coloring of the cube there is one layer where the transition from white to blue happens, all layers below are completely white, all layers above are completely blue. A layer with n vertices can be colored in 2^n ways.

So we just have to start in the bottom layer of an all blue cube, go through all colorings of the current layer until we get to all white, then move one layer up and repeat until we reach the top layer. When we move to the next layer up, we have to color at least one vertex white or else the coloring would not change, so there are only 2^n - 1 relevant colorings in each layer. In the end we also have to add one for the all blue cube.

1, 1-1, 1-2-1, 1-3-3-1 are the layers in dimensions zero to three. The number of relevant colorings per layer are 1, 1-1, 1-3-1, 1-7-7-1, their sum plus one are 2, 3, 6, 17. So this worked for dimensions zero to two but gives the wrong answer for three which should be 20, not 17 according to the article. Where did I make the mistake? Was the visualization with the cube oversimplifying the problem?

For dimensions four I would guess the layer structure 1-4-6-4-1 which yields 96 which also does not match 168.
I’d argue javascript frameworks are a ton of added complexity. I send html, browser renders.
So there's different scenarios.

The classic is that a person has an idea, starts working Hands-On, and then goes out and finds capital investment.

In this case, a number of capital holders got together with an idea for a company and then went out and hired several employees to from all over the world to work for them
> Your JSON API should remain stable. You can’t be adding and removing end-points willy-nilly. Yes, you can have some end-points respond with either JSON or HTML and others only respond with HTML, but it gets messy. What if you accidentally copy-and-paste in the wrong code somewhere, for example.

Can't we handle this situation by regarding each version of the JSON output as a separate content type (which is arguably the semantically correct thing anyway) and then letting the server pick the more recent output version that the client supports?
Ah, maybe you misunderstood. I use GPUs several generations old explicitly because I don't care for the latest shiny features.

My main computer runs a nvidia NVS5400m. It's been out of support for a very long time. I genuinely wasn't even aware that my AMD GPU was still in support at all.

Support affects me exactly none. I'll just use whatever default driver my Linux distro provides and never think of it. I'll get whatever kind of performance it provides. As long as it's above 30fps and textures aren't obviously broken, I don't care.
I thought it especially interesting that the “Centre For Effective Altruism flew in world-class autists”
Yeah I’ve only had a couple Windows-capable ones that shipped without it. Most recently a stack of a dozen Dell machines
I built this for my niece when she was very young. A raspberry pi and a little amp and some speakers with a usb nfc reader. Wrote NFC stickers and stuck them to little cardstock 'album covers' that I laser printed. When she put the card in the little box with the nfc reader it would trigger a python script to load the proper playlist into vlc and play the album. If you took the cover out of the box it would stop and clear the playlist.
I love turtling. I hate that the prevailing strategy seems to be always be on the offense and micro eighty million stupid little things. esports and APS have ruined competitive RTS play.

Turtling lets me build up my base and economy and nurture a curbstomping offense after which I can overwhelm my opponents. If I wanted to play a tactical RTS there are a million options out there that limit you with horse-blinders
I'm talking about using your credit cards through PP, especially the PP branded Mastercard.
They will say our arrogance did us in at some point in the next thousand years. Humans are a virus and a blight on this planet.
I think it'd be really funny if Bitcoin was originally supposed to also be a rug pull but Satoshi died suddenly or something, and so Bitcoin was just the scam that never managed to complete itself or something.
I was able to get it work with libjemalloc.
I thought non-competes are not legally enforceable in the state of California anyway.
I feel like this has been somewhat disproven.
Well I don't necessarily disagree, I just have so little expectation that this will happen in my lifetime that I don't give the topic much thought.

I don't think humans are magical in a spiritual sense, but for all we understand ourselves we may as well be, at least for the purpose of recreating consciousness.

The concerns that are more mundane extensions of the ways tech is already shitting up our lives are just so much more real and immediate.
To continue the analogy, since I don't use enums, I'm also the person who isn't driving the car.

Can you explain how owning a car without ABS and not driving it is less safe?

Edit: Wait, or am I not using breaks? I think the analogy changed slightly during this whole process.
I'm looking forward to this tech being used in video games, as well as generative models in general. Interacting with smart NPCs will make everyone's experience different. The avatars themselves could be dynamically generated, and entire environments for that matter. Truly game changing technology for interactive entertainment.
Thanks, fascinating insights. I think an everything-to-everything multimodal model could work if it's big enough because of transfer learning (but then there are latency issues), and so could a refined system built on LLMs/LMMs with TTS (like what you are using), but I haven't seen any good research on audio-to-audio language models. My suspicion is that that would take a lot of compute, much more than text, and that the amount of semantically meaningful accessible data might be much lower as well. And if you do manage to get to the same level of quality as text, what is latency like then? Not 100% sure, just intuitions, but I doubt it's great.

I like the idea of an RL predictor for interruption timing, although I think it might struggle with factual-correction interruptions. It could be a good way to make a very fast system, and if latency on the rest of the system is low enough you could probably start slipping in your "Of course", "Yeah, I agree", and "It was in March, but yeah" for truly natural speech. If latency is low you could just use the RL system to find opportunities to interrupt, give them to the LLM/LMM, and it decides how to interrupt, all the way from "mhm", to "Yep, sounds good to me", to "Not quite, it was the 3rd entry, but yeah otherwise it makes sense", to "Actually can I quickly jump on that? I just wanted to quickly [make a point]/[ask a question] about [some thing that requires exploration before the conversation continues]".

Tuning a system like this would be the most annoying activity in human history, but something like this has to be achieved for truly natural conversation so we gotta do it lol.
I haven't really seen it to be an issue in TA-derived games.

I guess because economy still requires territory control, and a bigger territory is harder to defend ?

Also it's probably not a coincidence that these games have a lot of units dealing area damage, and most importantly, units cannot shoot through each other, and when they try it can often end in friendly fire, which makes snowballing weaker ?

Anyway, desperate situations where the underdog eventually manages to turn the tide are not uncommon. I even recently seen it happen in an AI vs AI match !
They believed the FDA causes great harm by gatekeeping potentially tremendously lifesaving but risky treatments.

For instance, some worked to develop a covid vax within a few weeks of COVID emerging, and distribute knowledge of how to build and self-dose with this home covid vax. This would help save livs, probably, at the cost of potentially being dangerous, but each individual could choose whether they were willing to take that risk.
But the evidence was there. Personal attacks against Nick Bostrum, Robin Hanson, among other leadings figures, not for their positions on the most important issues, or even for being wrong, but for not conforming to the socially desirable position on the current thing,

Nick Bostrum very clearly states that he believed blacks to be inantely intellectually inferior to the rest of humanity. I didn't realize that this was decidely correct, or even unimportant. Doesn't the belief of a racial hierarchy affect one's ability to decide on most optimal forms and recipients of altruism?

This blogpost just reads as a "go woke go broke" victory lap that has very little new to say about the current state of EA. At the very least I do genuinely appreciate that Chau directly linked to the detractors he discusses (even if the twitter link leads to a deleted post)
> Altman… regretted not spending more time managing [the board’s] various factions

Wild that there can be various factions with apparently only three relevant people (yes I know 3 choose 2 is three, but c’Mon…).
It’s interesting because the origin of tipping in the US came about during the post civil war period, when black people needed jobs but nobody wanted to pay them because you know they had been doing it for free just a short while ago. The expectation was that the guest would pay them, not the employer. I guess we still have that mindset.
I think this argument is interesting because the people buying them are largely young people who never had them as kids so there's some aspect of it that isn't nostalgia.

I have a modest collection of vinyl and it's mostly just me not needing another band t shirt and wanting to throw some money at bands I like.
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LoRA blew me away the first time I looked into it. Especially since you can host many LoRA adapters at once for a fraction of the cost of hosting an entire model by sharing the base between the adapters. I built a little tool to make LoRA fine-tuning easier. The adapters export to Huggingface. You can check it out here: https://app.haven.run
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Are they not transferable?
I hope you got the 10 year badge!
I'm wondering whether Netflix has found out that it's target audience is shifting, just like what happened with Facebook.
It is my understanding that people aged 55+ is now the main audience of Facebook.
What is now the main audience of Netflix?

Cooking shows, cartoons and documentaries cost a fraction of a tv show but are still watched.

Personally, when I have 15—30 min to watch something, I prefer some food show with no strings attached instead of having to watch a specific show and having to remember what happened last time with the protagonist and the antagonist. (i.e. Dark)
So is the concept of "fiction" made up too?
> I've never had issues with integration tests running with real databases -- they never felt slow or incurred any significant amount of time for me.

I've come around on this. I used to mock the DB, especially when it was being used as a dumb store, and now I just recreate the DB in SQLite, and see the DB as part of the system being tested, rather than something to mock.

However, I think it's important to note that it wasn't until improved SQLite capabilities, SSDs (and sometimes docker if I really need postgres) all came together that this actually practical. Previously using an actual DB would have blown out my test runtimes by a factor of 10x.

> I also don't think unit tests bring as much value as integration tests. In fact, a lot of times unit tests are IMO useless or just make your code harder to change. The more towards testing implementation the worse it gets IMO, unless I really really care that something is done in a very peculiar way, which is not very often.

I see this a slightly different way. My concept of a unit (ignoring the article) has expanded to be what makes sense for a given test. This may be a class or set of classes where there's a well crafted set of inputs and outputs, but where there's a tricky set of inputs and outputs (anything involving date calculation for example) I'll often write a set of tests for just that function. I'd probably call all of these "unit tests" however.

To me, an integration test involves testing that disparate vertical parts of a SUT work together. I haven't seen many of these in the wild.
Does Sylabs has the capability of fully unprivileged containers as offered by Charliecloud to cater for users' applications security and flexibility [1],[2]?

[1] Minimizing privilege for building HPC containers:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07508

[2] Charliecloud: Unprivileged Containers for User-Defined Software Stacks in HPC:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/containers_sc...
So happy for him. If they're using the dollar massively on the black market, why not tether? Having said that, he has so little support in parliament its hard to tell what he'll get through.
For a very long time I thought Eliezer was one of the least likeable people on the internet, which should be a pretty high mountain to climb. But watching him on the Lex Friedman podcast was really interesting, and putting a face to the writing helped quite a bit in humanizing him. He's obviously neuro-divergent, and obviously very flawed in a number of personality traits, but he's quite intelligent and completely obsessed for more than a decade on a specific topic. I wouldn't just outright dismiss that.
Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise.

Sounds fun and unrealistic - for sure to lead to more of the same.
But Eliezer Yudkowsky just makes shit up. There's no valid scientific reason to take his concerns seriously.
He is written about as a libertarian, but my understanding is he is more of a "minarchist": attracted to the ideas of libertarianism, but without the solidarity aspect of anarchism and with hierarchies (making the term a misnomer as well, similar to the absurdly self-contradictory term "anarcho capitalist") and pro-capital, which he realizes requires some state government and policing to enable (capital is nothing without the state there to protect its hierarchy through coercion by threat of violence/caging that it maintains a monopoly over).

Doesn't sound very "libertarian" to me. Also not sure how to square his positions such as anti-abortion with his reputation for libertarianism. So what are his politics
One third. That wasn't so hard now.

2/3 of the median would probably work out more useful.
Sure, you'll prove that out in a court over this week?
The book is in C, not R
Altman spent the last few weeks trying to raise billions from investors for an ambitious new chip venture - traveling to the Middle East to fundraise
you mean cloud vpn

which cloud? who pays?
The way I understand it, they’re basically taking Mac minis, logging in to iMessage, and hacking together a message liaison to get your messages through with Apple’s messaging app.

Let’s say I use this service…how confident can I be that Apple doesn’t pull the plug on Nothing?

I think Apple could easily figure out where their traffic is coming from and block it.
> This seems to me like an example of how difficult it is to organize a company around a goal other then making money.

Hard in sense that for-profit part has actual power here?
That’s a strange question. He wants to make money doing what he loves - teaching about AI. What’s wrong with that?
Funnily enough I published something similar as part of my PhD (2010). Essentially communication costs dominate over computation costs - an addition operation is practically free compared to the time and energy of moving data within a chip to the ALU to do the addition, let alone between chips. This is now the reverse situation to historical VLSI - whereby the computation was slow and expensive compared to practically "fast and free" on-chip communication. The implications extend far beyond just RAM. But yes, depending on the access patterns involved and the (physical) spatial arrangement of data, binary tree traversal (on 2D CMP or 2D cross-chip layout) is O(sqrt(N)) or O(log(N)sqrt(N)), and this result is not dependent on the system boundaries of memory hierarchies - it is true for dedicated on-chip scratchpad memories as it is for giant wafer-scale chips (such as Cerebras) as well. There are some special cases where it can be O(1) or O(log(N)) on average that I won't go into, but you can read more here if interested (sections 2.1 and 8.3):

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~swm11/research/greenfield.html

A key way to think about things is that algorithms are not really running in some Platonic realm, each executed instruction occurs at some physical location and time, and data needs to move from one place and time to another place and time. To this end both physical wiring (or networks) are required to move the data spatially, and memory is used to move the data temporally. Together an algorithm's executed instructions are situated somewhere spatio-temporally and RAM (both on-chip and off-chip) serves as a temporal interconnect, but one that itself takes up physical space.
"fettered" migration.
This guy will either set Argentina on the right path towards a stable, successful economy or wreck what’s left of it with his policies…seems it’s a bet voters were willing to make, unsurprising after years of mismanagement, corruption, and tomfoolery by the political class.
One of the many reasons I don't get into new shows anymore. I wait until the show is completely finished, then start watching it. That way, when it gets canceled, I don't have to care. Then again, I thankfully have a large enough backlog of stuff I still want to watch, so I can just sit out things for a while.
Consequences. Like erecting a transparent plexiglass-cylinder with 3 meters diameter and 5 meters height in public, filling it up to half height with pig piss. Dropping the problems into it, until they cease to exist. And associated bystanders realizing there will be no paradise for them, soiled before the eyes of their god.

Simple, isn't it?
He can poach away half the staff IMMEDIATELY. You cannot run a company with majority of your key personnels gone in a week. Then the remaining staff will be moving over within 3mths to a year. What OpenAI will be left in a year time will be back to square one, startup mode. Whatever tech they have now it will stay stagnant. Whatever tech Altman started in his new venture will be just slightly behind what OpenAI has. Within a year Altman will supercede it. He is that important. Think Steve Jobs to Apple but AI.
> although it does require you to wear headphones so the bot doesn't hear itself and get interrupted.

Maybe you can use some sort of speaker identification to sort this out?

https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264
The tech in my home also practices diversity and there's Android TV as well as Apple TV - my experience has been the same as yours that Youtube Premium is ad free on all of them.

I have heard some folks using tools like invidious but I'm not sure how well they map to multiple screens.

Being able to put the same account onto the built in youtube apps on TV's and mobile devices has been useful. No need to buy a white noise machine for kids, we just use a google mini in speaker mode only. Sure, I'd like it to be something else but premium has me on board for now.
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Having a "background in AI alignment" is like having a background in defense against alien invasions. It's just mental masturbation about hypotheticals, a complete waste of time.
Talking about a serious bug where thousands of people appear to be kicked from rooms that's been going on for over a year is not a "pile-on". It's a very bad experience for everyone involved, and people are just pointing it out. Your inability to empathize with other people having a bad experience using your product is not doing you favors here.

Matrix and Element are consistently one of the buggiest messaging applications I interact with, and I've waited years for it to be better.
- Netflix

- Spotify

- ProtonMail

- Obsidian Sync

- ChatGPT Plus

- DigitalOcean VPS

- Namecheap (yearly)

- Bitwarden (yearly)

I used to pay for Readwise, Raindrop, and Todoist, but I haven't found them useful enough to continue paying for them.