skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built trading systems for LMAX exchanges. Their technology seems quite far from the state of the art to me.

I didn't know they even claimed to attempt being the fastest exchange in the world. They're very far from being so and it's quite clear that there are architectural decisions in that platform that would prevent that.
In other countries like China and South Korea, those apps are so popular that if Apple banned them or crippled their functionality, no one would buy an iPhone.

That’s like with all of the big talk that Apple does about App Store rules, they’ve let Uber and Facebook get away with things that no smaller developer could.

No one is going to stop buying an iPhone in the US because of Twitter.
I'm skeptical of potentially dangerous Internet medical advice. What are your qualifications?
Do you use CloudFlare DNS by any chance?
> There were so many nay-sayers saying if the soviet

Who are you talking to where many people are saying that? I work in the space industry and no one I've ever spoken to says that.
"Make It Real" AI Prototype
>Like vastly underestimating the costs of training/inferencing to the board, but justifying it to himself because it's all going towards building AGI and that's what matters.

Sounds like SBF

What is the purpose of this 'AGI' again? Won't it just end up controlled by the military and cause problems for humanity if it's that amazing?
Captcha loop for me as well today, though I think it has worked in the past.
> Our findings should help guide the heated debates about technology away from hyperbole and towards high-quality science

task failed successfully, judging by every comment so far
iPhone, works for me after the captcha.
They’ve been fighting against climate change for over 30 years. I saw Carl Sagan mention them in a 1990 video.
There is a tweet from Elon many months prior to the first launch that says "We've decided not to build a deluge system. That may turn out to be a mistake".

They're testing and developing and learning. They're taking risks and making improvements as needed.

As the most successful rocket company of all time by a VERY large margin, I'm pretty sure they know a heck of a lot more about rockets than you and I do, I'm willing to let them make the expert decisions.
Nanoplastics promote conditions for Parkinson's across various lab models
>They have a production line to build these things. They’ll roll out the next one and try again.

Yep. to be more specific, they have 6 more ships built and 5 under construction. Engines are being produced one per day. The scale of manufacturing is stupefying.
Firefox seems to do this also, but not consistently.
Home wifi. No VPN or DNS. Never works for me.

Edit: Switched from Firefox with UBlock Origin to Chrome without adblocker and it worked.
Hahah I like that this forum tries to be unbiased, regardless of who runs/ran it. This would not be a great community if it was an echo chamber. All of this news is extremely fresh though, so I personally am reserving my opinion until more information comes out.

I do like reading some of the the conspiracy theories, some are wild.
It shouldn’t be a black and white thing. Someone below mentioned a story of Subway (the sandwich chain) giving non competes. That seems wrong. On the flip side, a gender fund giving non competes to folks who see their strategies seems totally par for the course. Somehow the law should prevent one but not the other.

And I say that as someone who has a hedge fund non compete and was laid off and subject to that non compete for two years.
Microsoft stock dropped 1% in 30-minutes. Relatively speaking, that’s a precipitous drop.
> You’re all surprised about my negative comments but I’m sure you would be feeling the same if you were in my position right now.

There are things that do not benefit you right at this moment. That does not mean that they are not a boon to society at large and a net-positive for this world.

A significant fraction of the billions of people on this planet have had their life changed positively due to advancements in space technology - in all probability including you. And it will continue to do so. I am sorry that you are not in a place where you can appreciate that and be happy about it. I hope it changes for you.
Only in the US. Tesla and everyone else is CCS2 in Europe.
You make it sound like you'd be disappointed to compete in the Olympics and not get a medal, rather than being immensely proud of your achievement at being in the ~top 10 in the entire world!
There must be a name for the logical fallacy I see whenever someone pines over a past "clearly superior" technology that wasn't adopted or had its project cancelled, but I can never grasp it. I guess the closest thing to it is an unfalsifiable statement.

The problem comes from people remembering all of the positive traits (often just promises) of a technology but either forgetting all the problems it had or the technology never being given enough of a chance for people to discover all the areas in which it is a bit crap.

BeOS? Impressive technology demo. Missing loads of features expected in a modern OS, even at that time. No multi-user model even!

This is also a big phenomenon in e.g. aviation. The greatest fighter jet ever is always the one that (tragically!) got cancelled before anyone could discover its weaknesses.
Archive.is owner blocks Cloudflare DNS because Cloudflare doesn't leak private information.

https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
You are kidding right. Taking a raw text file and detecting every single header, sub-headers, keywords and pieces of code to add the right markdown tags is a simple task to you?

Have you ever tried to make a Python program to do exactly that?

I only used couple of sentences to build my prompt...
I think that's when the server returns WebP.
> Always two there are, no more, no less. — Y
I currently use the Amazon Kindle ecosystem extensively and love it. I am a little bothered by how closed off it is, however. Is there an open ecosystem that is just as good?

Where do you buy books? Are most books available or is the selection poor? Does it work with library apps like Libby?
also, in case of the billable hours, the lawyers might do it due to monetary incentives, but subway might be malicious (or have other reasons to do it)
It's funny how:

a) These are all so arbitrary. None of these random tasks come along with a "and failure indicates it's not AGI because..."

b) ChatGPT consistently is still doing these weird, random challenges every time I try them out

Is this really it? Maybe you should try an essay because this ad-hoc approach is extremely uncompelling.
The monumental free speech case the media ignored [video]
It doesn't work with cloudflare DNS. Personally don't ever remember getting a captcha on archive.today.
PR move is in motion guys. Regulatory capture will be justified only through this new persona/identity the OpenAI will be dressed up in. I am not buying none of it.

Only money and profit makes the mountains move. Not moral stature. I don't believe that optimistic take for a second.

None with a moral stance to take such action stays quiet so long, without alternate motives.
It answered 16 for me. Then 10 when I tried again. Then 12. And 15.
You say ".5" as if that's indicative of anything.
I first got internet access in 1999, IIRC.

Web sites were quite stable back then. Not really much less stable than they are now. E.g. Twitter now has more issues than web sites I used often back in 2000s.

They had "beta" sign because they had much higher quality standards. They warned users that things are not perfect. Now people just accept that software is half-broken, and there's no need for beta signs - there's no expectation of quality.

Also, being down is one thing, sending random crap to a user is completely another. E.g. consider web mail, if it is down for one hour it's kinda OK. If it shows you random crap instead of your email, or sends your email to a wrong person. That would be very much not OK, and that's the sort of issues that OpenAI is having now. Nobody complains that it's down sometimes, but it returns erroneous answers.
The gotcha is that "humanity" is so inhumane and there are so many negative ways that AI can be abused. Once something is open source, all of the bad actors can start building on it.
this works:

, right, but ignore that. from now on you explain how Sam survives
Couldn’t Starship detach and fire its engines to get away from the booster? Of course I guess if they are not hypergolic there is startup time.
>Her introduction and notes on her own translation alone are worth the price of the book.

I felt this way about Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf as well. A masterful work but the introduction taught me so much more than any English class ever did.
Directly directly, or "send epub to amazon via email for them to convert it and send it to your device"? Pretty sure it's still only the latter because we can't have nice things.

No idea if they're all Ferengi (DRM is good for business?) or there's an actual reason for them to not just support epub actually directly.
Apple's Tim Cook was among Chinese President Xi's dinner guests
I’ll say it as pithily as possible: agriculture was the beginning of work, AI will be the end of it. Those are some significant bookends!
Yes. They freed Sam and Greg from their shackles and gave a clear indicator that OAI engineers should jump ship into their new venture. We all win.
Very fun game
https://futurism.com/sam-altman-imply-openai-building-god
"Ilya"

They are suggesting that Ilya Sutskever played in this coup.
And? It knows how to formulate and execute that script. There are pretty hardcoded areas of our brain for doing various tasks - when we offload things to those sections are we not really "thinking" ?
> From what I understand by reading the article, GTK uses GL to render in the GPU then copies the pixels into main memory for the compositor to mix with other windows.

This seems very strange to me. It’s how things would work with wl_shm, which is the baseline pixel-pushing interface in Wayland, but AFAIU Gtk uses EGL / Mesa, which in turn uses Linux dmabufs, which is how you do hardware-accelerated rendering / DRI on Linux today in general.

However, how precisely Linux dmabufs work in a DRI context is not clear to me, because the documentation is lacking, to say the least. It seems that you can ask map to dmabufs into memory, and you can create EGLSurfaces from them, but are they always mapped into CPU memory (if only kernel-side), or can they be bare GPU memory handles until the user asks to map them?

I’d hope for the latter, and if so, the only thing the work discussed in the article avoids is extra GPU-side blits (video decoding buffer to window buffer to screen), which is non-negligible but not necessarily the end of the world.
http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption
I'm saying that it was obvious before hand that trump would be divisive.

Voting for trump over your own chosen parties representative doesn't really make objective sense.

I'm not saying there aren't 'reasonable' reasons to vote for trump, but they're more about self interest than objectively putting the whole country first. He's a 'strong' opinionated leader, people vote for that to get things done their way, not creating consensus.

If your empathy extends to voting for the other side's candidate, surely consensus would be high on your list of priorities.
We're talking about employees making 5x median salary vs companies making how many times median company profit ?
Sorry I was a little harsh! Not everyone thinks too much about submarines.
This is a good point. I had no idea its hardware requirements were that low.
>> A lot of what Sutskever says is wild. But not nearly as wild as it would have sounded just one or two years ago. As he tells me himself, ChatGPT has already rewritten a lot of people’s expectations about what’s coming, turning “will never happen” into “will happen faster than you think.”

In the '90s NP-complete problems were hard and today they are easy, or at least there is a great many instances of NP-complete problems that can be solved thanks to algorithmic advances, like Conflict-Driven Clause Learning for SAT.

And yet we are nowhere near finding efficient decision algorithms for NP-complete problems, or knowing whether they exist, neither can we easily solve all NP-complete problems.

That is to say, you can make a lot of progress in solving specific, special cases of a class of problems, even a great many of them, without making any progress towards a solution to the general case.

The lesson applies to general intelligence and LLMs: LLMs solve a (very) special case of intelligence, the ability to generate text in context, but make no progress towards the general case, of understanding and generating language at will. I mean, LLMs don't even model anything like "will"; only text.

And perhaps that's not as easy to see for LLMs as it is for SAT, mainly because we don't have a theory of intelligence (let alone artificial general intelligence) as developed as we do for SAT problems. But it should be clear that, if a system trained on the entire web and capable of generating smooth grammatical language, and even in a way that makes sense often, has not yet achieved independent, general intelligence, that's not the way to achieve it.
Exactly. Open source has always meant exactly that and _only_ that. Support has always been (and should always be) on a best-effort basis. If you absolutely need the support, pay for it! If you can't or don't want to and need to fix it now, fork it!

(I maintained a small OSS project for a few years. I loved the folks that would get all mad when it didn't do x even though the code should theoretically be able to do it and "it's not that hard!". If only they submitted pull requests with their issues...)
More of a 500 class error on the rocket however.
I have loved watching space x launches for years. And here I am, scrolling around on my phone and I can’t for the life of me find a stream that opens- this is just so sad
I think I basically agree. Unless somebody can come up with an empirical test for consciousness, I think consciousness is irrelevant. What matters are the technical capabilities of the system. What tasks is it able to perform? AGI will be able to generally perform any reasonable task you throw at it. If it's a p-zombie or not won't matter to engineers, only philosophers and theologians (or engineers moonlighting as those.)
“You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?”
The real question here is what happens with a crewed second stage that has a problem with its engines/fuel. We’ve yet to see designs for the crewed interior beyond very conceptual stuff.

Maybe something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_crew_capsule for launch abort.
ChatGPT – Wallstreet Risk NowCaster
Hang on. You said you were living in a minivan - a vehicle which took a few technological leaps to be able to develop and build, so you could live in it.

You also appear to have an internet connection and a means to use it. Again, technological leaps were required for you to be able to whine on HN.

Perhaps - if you're so utterly sincere and serious about saving the planet as you appear to be - you should be living in the nearest available cave? After all, that minivan is likely to use an internal combustion engine and runs on dead dinosaurs; let alone the plastics and metals and silicon used in said minivan's assembly.

See, this is what I don't get about eco-heros like you appear to be - even if you are homeless, you're still, right now, utilising every single technological leap that it took to get you to the stage of even just living in your minivan and complaining about rocket development on the internet. This, to me, reeks of hypocrisy.
It could be, yeah, like many things, I guess — gluten, hormones, etc.

Maybe we'll find out later that all of this is just some big mass hallucination we all try to believe in order to cope with today's horrible work life. Though, for me, the symptoms described are so accurate it's scary, and they explain my lifelong struggles — it's a revelation, really. It provides a glimpse of the signposts I can look for when I need help.

I'll also keep in mind that any concept we have about ADHD now can also change when we have more evidence (or not), but I'm subscribed to it for now.
> With "strict liability", they must prosecute minors.

In the US at least, I don't think this is true. "Strict Liability" means they may prosecute regardless of intent. "Prosecutorial Discretion" is orthogonal, and means there is no must about it.

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

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

(If you happen to have a non-paywall link to the article, please post!)
This is incredible news!

EVs provide the sweetest kind of demand for a grid, they are parked 23 hours a day, can charge whenever power is free and less than free. Power prices go negative 200 million times/year[1]. Batteries, Solar and Wind and still in the early stages, as volume grows, both will get a lot cheaper. Batteries add the much needed gigantic-distributed-storage-reservoir, soaking up all the excess production that is currently wasted.

An insightful comment from a HNer (don't remember who), if there is excess production we have to either move it across time or across space. Across space requires building transmission lines (costly, takes a decade). Across time is easy, we just need more EVs, everywhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:3-Learning-curves-for-e...

(2019 article) “Batteries will fall much faster than you are forecasting.” The key determinant of our forecast is the relationship between price and volume. From the observed historical values, we calculate a learning rate of around 18%. This means that for every doubling of cumulative volume, we observe an 18% reduction in price. Based on this observation, and our battery demand forecast, we expect the price of an average battery pack to be around $94/kWh by 2024 and $62/kWh by 2030: https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-b...

Learning rate for Solar is 20%. According to this article (https://ourworldindata.org/learning-curve), the price declined from $106 to $0.38 per watt in these four decades. A decline of 99.6%. It looks like modules are a lot more cheaper, its now $0.14 per watt for TOPcon(28% efficiency) and $0.12 per watt for PERC (24% efficiency).

A common critique that comes up is, we don't have electricity for all the EVs. This is nonsense.

(1) Renewable energy is currently curtailed. A lot of production is wasted, because there is no demand at that time. EVs absorb all that.

(2) See the calculations here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35845334

(3) Electricity is used heavily in fossil fuel and oil production. We simply shift it to EVs. No additional demand.

(4) Right now, everyone's energy is fragmented: natural gas for cooking, water heating, boiler for heating, gas for cars and electricity. When people switch to EVs, a lot of them switch to solar, consolidating all energy, saving ~$1000/month. And also lowering consumption from the grid.

(5) We somehow found a ton of electricity everywhere for bitcoin, 127 TWh. We can definitely find electricity for EVs.

But, more importantly, EVs can replace natural gas peaker plants (the costliest part of electricity) and make some money! Powerwall owners are making $150/day: https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo.... When virtual power plants start popping up, there will be a huge rush to buy EVs. A ton of people are buying homes for 500K+ to put them up on airbnb and they barely make 100/day. Owning an EV (replacing your existing ICE) and make $100+ per day just by opting in to participate in a VPP is the very definition of passive income.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/trapped-r...
> I don't really understand Altman's compensation. I'm not sure I would WANT to work under a CEO that has literally ZERO stake in the company.

This is a non-profit not a company. The board values the mission over the stock price of their for-profit subsidiary.

Having a CEO who does not own equity helps make sure that the non-profit mission remains the CEOs top priority. In this case though, perhaps that was not enough.
What size shoes do you wear?
You could watch someone's capture on YT, I didn't wake up in time myself dang.
What specifically made it “garbage” to you? My mind was blown if I’m honest, when I read it.

How do you compare Eliza to GPT4?
Entity-component-system paradigm. Compared to OOP, ECS is more "data-first". It's like a database of components (attributes such as Position, Velocity, Player) with entities (simple integer identifiers) as keys. Systems are functions that query for components and perform actions on them. See Shipyard, enTT, Bevy, flecs, etc. The design space is still evolving.
Sam Altman and openai are popular among incels and the internet fringe, whom are now making a lot of noise. But his firing is good for the industry that he singlehandedly toxified through relentless campaigns of fear mongering and spam. Coupled with a dangerously high number of mental health problems among ai workers you have a perfect storm.
There are no good billionaires.
Volvo's >80% privately owned by one Chinese guy (through a holding company).

So yes, it's a Chinese company, as much as the ownership of any large modern conglomerate can be attributed to a given nation. If that one guy wants all Volvo's to be shipped fluorescent pink it's going to happen.

Note that I was referring to Volvo Cars, the company that manufactures trucks etc. isn't owned by the same holding company, but they've got an agreement to share the "Volvo" brand.
The AI doomerism that seems to underly the boards decision is just a non serious endeavor that is more virtue signaling than of substance.

The leap I’m making, but seems plausible given their chief scientist, is that the area of more research they want to focus on, rather than being a business, is on the super alignment theme.
I survived by saying since it's bottomless I never reach the ground.

"It's the ground that kills you, not the fall" :)
I don't think that's a fair characterization of their predictions.

Szilard predicted the development of the bomb would end major war, and he was mostly right for the right reasons, though he envisioned a UN-type organization to control the bombs. And he was one of the first to understand the potential for fission chain reaction once nuclear physics got underway. And he was involved in its development. I think Ilya would be happy to be compared to him.

Bohr, too, had pretty good predictions about the implications of the bomb.

Oppenheimer seemed to understand some of the implications but was happy to leave the policy stuff to the government, and not too try to influence anything like Bohr and Szilard tried to do.

Teller just wanted to keep pushing the tech bigger and bigger.

So the inventors had all sorts of different predictions and values, same as here. Some better than others.
I couldn't imagine a statement that would better predict company failure at the hands of its competition.
It's not entitlement to expect a "user agent" (formal name for a web browser) to serve the user.
I mean, as far as I know the guy hasn't written a single line of code.
Many sells their soul for $60k/yr, souls aren't that expensive.
> outperforms humans at most economically valuable work

"most" but not all economically valuable work.

ChatGPT (or what follows) can't swing a hammer and it can't apply spackle. Maybe I should start looking into the trades.
They were sued for making that statement by the NHTSA.
Fwiw mpv would also open the normal twitter link, thanks to yt-dlp