skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad had some retirement healthcare through an employer. As I recall, it wasn't especially cheap and then, to his surprise, it turned out there was a cap. So basically was a pretty lousy deal.

I agree with the broader point. There are historical reasons in the US for good health insurance benefits being so tied to, mostly, large employers. But it's just bad policy.
Do bills stop existing because one chooses to volunteer? Volunteering is an economic decision every bit as impactful as a job.
> GR is much more heavyweight in terms of maths.

As compared to SR as Einstein originally developed it, yes. But note that modern usage of SR often makes use of the same differential geometry tools that were developed for GR--because those tools turn out to be useful even in flat spacetime.

> But once SR was clear it was "just" an extension to the same ideas.

Again, if that were the case one would not have expected it to take ten years to get to GR. Yes, Einstein had to learn about Riemannian geometry from Grossmann, but that didn't take him anywhere close to the ten years to do. He spent most of that ten years struggling with the physical concepts involved, not learning the math.

> The leap here was the original idea that gave rise to SR. The rest could have been worked out by most physicist of the time.

This is strongly contradicted by the fact that there were many other physicists working on a relativistic theory of gravity at the time--and they all got it wrong. Only Einstein, and Hilbert (who was a mathematician, not a physicist) after getting key input from Einstein, got it right.
What was artificial about demand?
Artificial General Bullshit
If you’re pitching a deal of epic scale (“AI is here and we’ll be at the center of its hardware”), you’d include roadmaps to complete independence and vertical integration. People want to see numbers for the big win before they place their bets.

So you’re probably not launching there, but of course you use it as the first horizon you’ll try sailing towards.
Anecdotal, but exactly.

I drink roughly a pot of coffee a day. Keeps me in the game.

Just one more at dinner is not going to keep me awake at night. Maybe another pot, but that's still a maybe.
I daily Inconsolata (well, technically the ligaturized version). I find it extremely legible, and most importantly, it's easy on the eyes. A lot of programming fonts tend to be too angular for my tastes (I've tried SF Mono and plenty others, and settled on Inconsolata.)

Really, programming fonts are down to taste -- there's not objectively a best one; for an example of that, look in this thread: some people like Victor Mono, whilst others dislike it, and that's fine!
> fire arm rate is 12X

Add explosives, hand grenades, kidnapping...

US does not have a big problem with organized crime!
What's funny is the board is already second-guessing themselves and might want Sam back. Sounds opposite of what you said here.
> "even if he does, maybe it's the wrong office."
> This torpe of making learning fun needs to stop.

Ehhhh, bullshit. Making learning fun isn't just about making things easier, it's about making concepts stick.

We're mammals. Look at how mammals learn - they play.

> Let’s instead teach kids that they need to do hard things to become great people.

There's no reason a class teaching that very concept couldn't be fun.

And what makes great people great isn't the fact they did something hard, it's that they did something great. Something with meaning.

The hardness isn't the point. Power steering doesn't make for worse drivers, and difficult homework alone doesn't make great mathematicians.
Wow working and living space that's great, good for you
People evidently were ignoring the rto mandate at my company too. But the VPs noticed and said they'll start docking our perf if we don't start showing up.

Also, wfh weekends? What the heck man. 40 hours M-F tops. Even that I'd like to see dropped to 4 days but that'll never happen.
That's not true. It's an organization made up of people, but is something distinctly different that individuals.

Again, I made a point to say I'm for actual volunteer work, but doing so for a organization with trillions of dollars not even accounted for is laughable. Joing a group for SaR is completely different than a job and not paid.

And, at the same time the federal government is begging for free labor, they're selling our national parks to Booze Allen Hamilton for $$$$$$ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37549569
Reframing

If this was simply reframed as, by creating your own GPUs - it would radically lower OpenAI costs in a material way, it’d be more understandable.
Can some one tell what with other tools from their stack?
Consul, Nomad?
I'm not sure if that's true. If they obtained a financial advantage (e.g. a contract) via deception, then that could well be fraud. I don't think it makes much difference if they eventually delivered on the contract or not.
The LLM revolution can be traced back to a 1996 paper from AT&T
Some humans - perhaps many here - are reasoning-obsessive-compulsive.

But most human it feels, and myself much of the time, are on auto-pilot. When I'm driving back home from an event I don't need to reason about anything. I can have a conversation with my friend next to me. -- and I will often even forget that I'm giving that friend a ride back and miss their exit - because I'm too much on auto-pilot. I am just guessing the next word (in my driving). It's a hyper-alert kind of guessing the next word but I'm not reasoning until something really unexpected happens. And even then I may not have the time.

I argue that even when I have to take the train and check the schedule, I do that on "guess-the-next-word" kind of auto-pilot. Yes I look up a database (train schedule) but I'm not reinventing the text. I've done it enough times, I'm looking up the database while guessing the next word. Totally within sight for LLMs.

You mention "capable". Yeah many humans are capable of reasoning through their day to day life. But many are absolutely not. If you ask them to enumerate the steps needed to take the bus, they will fail. Not because they can't take the bus but because they never think of it explicitely. Never "reason" about it.
The first definition is the inherently negative common usage when applied to person-to-person or entity-to-person relationships.

Applying the second definition to the labor market would mean every worker is being exploited, because no profit-seeking corporation (or resource efficient government program) would keep a workforce that is a net loss to the organization.
I don’t think the question is about a superior UX. It’s who could afford to run a huge video platform without moving to monetize it and achieve profitability in the way that Google is doing now.
Can you provide a list of which parts of which towns are shady, so I can avoid them?
reposting this since it's getting more and more relevant

>> Common sense AI control NOW. Ban assault style GPUs

> That is beautiful, I made you a shirt. https://sprd.co/ZZufv7j

/context https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38119845
nice to see 51A* as an archetype for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332224

* http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu&src=atu&id=51
PARITY ERROR:

https://youtu.be/1GaWfCWcW3M?si=T-maNxmO8Foj56e8
Have you ever actually interacted with a barn cat?
Well, my suggestion is to avoid using terms with multiple meanings in a position where it can easily be construed in a different way then you intend.
They should advertise it as a $50 discount if you let them assign your seat instead.
Apartments are everywhere. It’s an everywhere problem.
The funniest thing is the forum commenter gaslighting the poor dude, ala "you are using it wrong fashion".

There are 2 solutions to his problem:
- switch web browser (chrome is going to perform better with Gmail, guaranteed) and use fewer apps at once. It's not so much of a solution but more of a compromise.
- get more RAM and because those are soldered in MBPs since 2016, it really means change computer.

People arguing about apps using too much RAM or whatever are just sad Apple apologists.
It's a non-issue in the PC world because you have plenty of choices where RAM is not soldered or upgrading the soldered RAM doesn't cost an arm and leg like Apple does.
So, you just do it and if you didn't you can only blame yourself for being stingy by trying to save 50-100 bucks at best.

Now some would say it will benefit Apple because he is likely to get a newer, better MBP. But if I were in his situation, I would rethink spending so much money on a lackluster computer. Which is exactly what he did in another comments. The exodus is well on its way...
My counter: Altman is correctly aware that the the hyper capitalist path is the most probable path to creating an AGI, as the amount of capital/investment for the compute/architecture will be massive. Vertically integrating with hardware seems very logical to solve a technical problem as big as AGI. The entire charter becomes moot without AGI and the current path of relying on outside funding (Microsoft) and suppliers (nvidia) only makes their overall mission more difficult.
I’m familiar with Google’s anticompetitive behavior regarding search. What have they done in that way regarding YouTube other than just have a bunch of money to finance it?
Not for training, but execution in a SheepIt-similar way can be done with AI Horde, which not only does LLM inference but also Stable Diffusion. https://stablehorde.net/
The thing is if you have to take the plane to get there you're already a major net negative for the environment, and that would get rid of most mass tourism places

We should live like our grandparents, a few (if any) big trips in your lifetime, everything else: in your country or close neighboring ones.
Seems like a fun afternoon project to get this hooked into one of the Skyrim TTS mods. I previously messed around with elevenlabs, but it had too much latency and would be somewhat expensive long term so I’m excited to try local and free.

I’m sure I have a lot of reading up to do first, but is it a safe assumption that I’d be better served running this on an m2 mbp rather than tax out my desktop’s poor 3070 running it on top of Skyrim VR?
I think the point that it's voluntary means it's a good trade for both sides isn't entirely accurate, at least in the long run. I'd argue it could be that someone is forced into working due to their conditions (e.g., if I don't work I won't have enough food) but in a way they're trading something that had both more long term value and you could argue it comes with negative externalities.

In this case, if a child is working they're not learning or playing with others, and they're potentially being traumatized if the articles claims are to be believed. This has a long term effect on their well being, and produces a sort of negative externality.

Is it the case that we shouldn't allow this? I'm not sure, since in the long run maybe I'd rather be nourished than innocent, but its probably reasonable to argue that there could be more oversight in terms of what content they're reviewing or how much they're paid to make it a better deal for them.
I'm used to open office. Not sure it'd matter if I had my own room. I'd still get dragged into useless meetings that interrupt my flow. If I can even get into a decent flow because our DX is so atrocious.
You can just send a job with the specific frame you want to preview, get the results back and once you're happy, send the entire render job.
I think when people say “go into the office,” they mean the office of the company they are working for.
Search the place on Instagram and if it has more than a few thousand tags you're about to enter hell

Some people seem to love being handled like cattle though
Don't forget shopping for healthy meals, cooking them, calmly and without distractions eating them, and cleaning up afterwards.
Where does Ilya stand on transparency in relation to OpenAI's mission of developing API?
A > When a Board rapidly changes in size, rarely is the remainder left well-balanced. Potential conflicts only make the balancing act harder.

+ B > It seems much easier to govern a single-digit number of highly capable people than to “govern” artificial superintelligence. If it turns out that this act of governance was unwise, then it calls into serious question the ability of these people and their organizations (Georgetown’s CSET, Open Philanthropy, etc.) to conduct governance in general, especially of the most impactful technology of the hundred years to come.

=C > Many people are saying we need more governance: maybe it turns out we need less.

How does this conclusion come from these premises?
If you don't agree to the terms of service, don't use the service? It's not a right or necessity to life.
Elon Musk to file 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as advertisers desert X https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318121 (November 18, 2023 — 20 points, 14 comments)
He's not even an engineer.

Honorary doctorate from U Waterloo, if I'm not mistaken. That puts him in the same "not an engineer" category as Ferdinand Porsche.
Fractal Spirograph
It is sort of a nicer definition, though. The coffee shop is a workplace for the baristas, so maybe we can return to the workplace by going there instead.
The only stakeholder here of note not on the board is Microsoft, who not only is a strong proponent for the kinds of commercialization and acceleration that the board is supposedly concerned with, but is also one of the single most powerful non-government organization on the planet.

I’m not saying the board’s decision to remove Altman is or isn’t a good idea, but if they did decide it needed it to be done, running it by Microsoft ahead of time seems like one of the single dumbest things they could have done.
How could you even expect any ROI on a 100B investment? It seems like there’s way too much money sloshing around. People have no idea what to do with it.
> They also have an existential interest in creating safe ASI.

An oppressive state with AGI is no better than an oppressive AGI.

> China is the only other state that has anywhere close to the capacity to attempt to go for AGI.

Any state can easily recreate/adopt the AGI invented by others. The costs and challenges for any given level of AI tech have dropped precipitously after each advance, and state level actors have far more than enough resources.
Since when? I used it for some Java and C# demos at work a couple years back as part of a lunch & learn thing. It handled C# fine at the time.
This is patently wrong. All of it. You made up a concept and then ran with it like it’s reality. “Potential” is not an issue. “Actual” is. This isn’t a judge. This is a CEO and they can self deal as long as it stays as a value to the core company. It’s up to the board to decide that when it’s proven.

A bunch of nerds just thought they could jump the gun here because they are inexperienced doofus’s when it comes to corp.
It depends on your goals and perspective. Cynically it could also be true. Cooperatively viewed he provides an environment for you to do what you expressed a preference for training to do.

What do you want to be?
There seems to be two different views:

1. Place is predatory and unlimited pto is used as a way to minimize pto employees are taking
2. Place has healthy work life balance and unlimited pto is a way to give responsibility to adults who agreed on working towards a common goal

Figure out which of the two your place is and act accordingly.

I've been at 2 places with healthy unlimited pto, so my opinion is skewed
Just use cloudformation
I have a 100% remote job, but I had them set me up with a desk in a coworking space. I just felt that being alone all day was just a lonely way to live my life. It was great at the start to have so few interruptions, but y'know we're not building the pyramids. Everything we make in tech becomes legacy pretty quickly and eventually forgotten about and lost. I think a lot of life is what happens in the interruptions. That's where you find out about the guy that goes ice fishing and get invited along, or about someone who plays in a band and introduces you to a weird new music scene or something like that. I think everyone should get to work however they feel they need to within reason (I like the coworking space vibe myself), but I just hope people aren't giving up more than they realised.
This is a tremendous idea as a spiritual successor to Scientific Linux on steroids (wrt the entire stack).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux
Thanks for digging out that definition. Alas, the author has inadvertently presupposed the existence of agents with free will by the very way they phrased it. Let me try to explain, without creating too much of a wall of text.

For one thing, it uses the language of cause and effect. Bertrand Russell was the first to point this out: the language of cause and effect is not the language which physicists use to describe reality. Consider F=ma. You might be tempted to say that the force is causing the mass m to accelerate at a rate of a; after all, if I were to vary the force, I will vary the acceleration. But if you vary the mass you'll vary the acceleration too: is the mass the cause of the acceleration?

And notice what was just said: "if I were to vary the force..." i.e. you have introduced an agent. And you have spoken counter-factually about this agent: the agent could have chosen to vary or not to vary the force. I.e. using the language of cause and effect presupposes that an agent is the cause, and has the choice to cause or not to cause. Using the language of cause and effect to describe a physical situation is ultimately an anthropomorphisation.

Cause and effect are part of what Dennet calls "the intensional stance" i.e. the language and vocabulary which we are forced to use when describing the behavior of intensional agents. In order to at all make an intensional agent's behavior understandable, we have to treat them as uncaused causers. When courting a spouse, or raising children, you quickly learn that people cannot be treated as deterministic, stimulus-response mechanism. You have to presuppose that they can freely choose how to react to you.

The question of whether or not we have free will is therefore, not a question of whether we have to presuppose that we have free will; we do. Its just a question of whether the language of the intentional stance is merely a useful heuristic.

But arguing against free will by invoking the language of cause and effect, as the above definition does, is a category mistake, akin to arguing that 1 + 1 can't equal 2, because green + green equals green.
Springboard and tower diving, not scuba.
Put rabbit air antennas on your TV and tune into PBS. Minimal ads except for "this broadcast is sponsored by viewers like you" and no tracking.
> That's also the life of millions in Ukraine right now so your anecdote doesn't mean much

You're always right to question anecdote, but I call bullshit on the comparison to Ukraine. Crimea was taken. Borders are actively shifting. Nuclear attacks were a serious threat. I half-assedly considered actions I might take if the war spilled over here in some form.

But looking at the article's scary graph: the badness has a bit-over-doubled between 2014-2022. So if you were hanging out with 6 of your friends in 2014 and concerned that one of you was going to be gunned down in the next year, you should have around that same level of concern when hanging out with 2-3 of your friends in 2022.
If you can run SC2 you prolly can run ZK. It does uses nearly all of the 4 Gb specified in the minimal requirements, though. But if you are at minimal specs, don't think about engaging into the popular 16vs16 battles.
I "solved" this problem by incorporating movement into work. I spend almost all meetings on bike, the only exception being when they require the camera on (like once a month) or I have to present something/lead a workshop etc. I also make frequent breaks to do some exercises and frankly, nobody cares, because I work from home. It seems unthinkable to go back to the old regime when you were expected to sit on your ass either working or pretending to work "just because".

Bonus: when getting back to my laptop I feel refreshed and full of ideas, and often solve blockers fast.
Hahaha if you played at any high level in the FAANG you’d know that this is a desirable outcome compared to the alternative.
I think that’s the thing that’s most frustrating, is all the emails and published metrics about “great job being even more productive during the pandemic!” And then in the exact same breath saying “and you’re all coming back to the office.”
Like, if the former isn’t true then don’t lie to us, say we were less efficient.
> one line of code

If you were hoping to see the one line of code in the article (or the corrected line), you'll be severely disappointed
In the capitalistic model the morals is supposed to be enforced by self-interest, with paying as little as possible being one of the big interests.
>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.

India is one of the most neoliberal countries in the world. Meanwhile China is much further ahead. The growth that China has experienced in the past few years exceeds the total economic output of India. Enjoy writing more comments in bad faith
Eleven Labs is the gold standard for voice synthesis. There is nothing better out there.

So it is extremely notable for an open source system to be able to approach this level of quality, which is why I'd imagine most would appreciate the comparison. I know it caught my attention.
Web of trust could work fine here.

Have I met them? Check. Has someone I know and trust met them? Check. Has the government met them? Half check. Has the google met them? Quarter check.
Once again, Musk finds out there are consequences to his actions. But, once again, he figures that those consequences don't apply to him. What a surprise there ...
> Second, the companies paying these children are extracting value from their labor greater than what they are paying the child laborers.

From the article:

> He found that an hour’s labor would earn him around $1 to $2, he says, more than the national minimum wage, which was about $0.26 at the time.

The kid was probably making more than many adult workers.

Also from the article

> Platforms require that workers be over 18, but Hassan simply entered a relative’s details and used a corresponding payment method to bypass the checks—and he wasn’t alone in doing so.

The article makes it look like the platform was taking willingly taking advantage of underage labor, but it was the kid that was pretending to be an adult because, again, that was a job that was paying 2-3 times more than other regular job in that country.
Your history is wrong. He is the original co-founder of openai as you can review from the publicly available legal data.
We do standup once a week and I think even that is too much. Our team is too big. There's like 30 of us, we barely fit in even the large meeting rooms. No one listens to what anyone else has to say. I don't know who the meeting is for. It's not like any of us are even working on the same project. One person per project or you'll never get promoted; even the managers admit that.
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