skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a slightly inside opinion on this - before I became a Software Engineer, I got an MSc in a mostly unrelated field, and am a co-author on work published in a few (very middling) peer reviewed journals.

My gut feel from what I saw is that outright fraud is rare, but bias seeping into the study is common. Researchers invest a huge amount of effort into a study, they really want the hypothesis to be true. A lot of studies have steps that are pretty susceptible to bias, like maybe you’re classifying results and there’s a bit of a judgement call there. It’s human nature to make biased decisions in these situations, and make enough of these biased decisions, and statistically insignificant results become statistically significant.

Some people might not see a difference between bias and fraud, but I personally do. I think of fraud as a very intentional deception, straight up falsifying numbers in a conscious attempt to deceive. While I see bias as more, you’ve got a borderline case, and you view it in the light you want to see it in, even somewhat unconsciously. Like the difference between unconscious racial bias, and overt hateful racism.

I think the best approach to combatting this is to spend a lot less of the overall $$ in science on novel research, and a lot more on attempting to independently reproduce results. Papers should be seen as meaningless until their results can be independently reproduced, and universities/colleges should reward reproduction studies as much as novel research. It’s kind of crazy that the system almost completely lacks these checks and balances right now - peer review is more like an editor, it’s just a very different thing than reproduction.

Bishop here is suggesting a data sleuthing approach to root out fraudsters, but I dunno if that’d be effective, as I think the main issue is subtle but pervasive bias seeping into studies by most researchers, vs. a smaller number of heavy fraudsters. Independent reproduction of results, while expensive, is the only effective approach I can think of to combat this.
Yes it is easy to find all of this. Huge embarrassment and deeply regretful for Sweden.

Criminals saw a weakness and exploited it as hard as possible.
Would proportional representation help?
It’s little known but when a retiree or on COBRA a company can functionally force you onto a drastically worse plan at any time, whenever they want, to save money. I was paying thousands to stay on my previous companies COBRA and suddenly my low ($1000) deductible plan had changed overnight to a plan with a $7000 deductible. Suddenly I was paying for the privilege of paying. This is devastating to a lot of people.
> There’s a lot of work to do. Red tape and slow processes shroud government work

This is true in 2 ways. You'll be daily impeded in everything you do due to this, and lots of the work only exists because things are so inefficient - it's work that would literally go away if the government had some sense.
Microsoft is equally amateur. Even I the layman can take one look at OpenAI's ridiculously convoluted structure and it's laughably threadbare and ill-equipped board members and know something is wrong.

Microsoft should have looked at this and forced them to clean up their act before getting in bed with them. Now they're embroiled in the bush league shenanigans.
Counterexample: https://oxide.computer
Nothing jumps out that immediately causes me consternation as either an occasional donor or an (even more) occasional user, except perhaps the extreme delays in responses from foundation leadership.

I broadly like matrix best of the chat/comms frameworks, but I keep turning back to signal, telegram, and whatsapp because of network effects. So, if shifting some personal efforts to the for-profit org makes sense to core devs... I can't really fault them.

Cheers to alohapersona for keeping the fire going on this issue.
OK? What do we expect them to do with the money, exactly? As a donor, I would expect they fund the development of Matrix, which I believe Element is doing?
hah it's possibly a bit of a cheat but immortality (cheat because as a game it's largely a movie)

but yeah as far as compelling characters through games alone, Pentiment was incredible around the same time
Please show me a single car manual for an ICE advising a 26,000mi oil change interval or any normal motor oil sold advertising its good for 26,000mi.

Otherwise you're talking about extremely rare one-off cases where someone's car happened to be in just the right environment and built just perfectly the whole time. I'm not talking about "that one time one guy in a forum five years ago said his car lasted 120,000mi without an oil change", I'm talking about normal advice for normal car drivers.
Sounds like you learnt a valuable lesson (albeit the hard way) about slaving away on low-visibility internal maintenance work for years on end.

The most obvious paths are either to focus more on becoming a deep technical expert, or alternatively being a manager, because for the most part the market just doesn't value > 10 years experience as an individual contributor, with few and rare exceptions.

Although I'm currently employed, I'm also pretty much stuck in a rut, if you are interested email me (in profile) / let's see if we can share notes + work through it together.
Add Cosmoteer, where you build and fly a starship: playing it makes me think of John Boyd
Trashy paywall avoidance: https://archive.is/O8sUT
AI in China must adhere to strict socialist values. I wish that was a joke, but it’s actually a rule the government is trying to implement. I doubt it isn’t so much safety for the people as it is for the CPC.
> I'm not sure he has ever advocated for free speech with no consequences.

I'm not sure he has ever advocated for free speech. There's what Musk says and then there's what Musk actually does:

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rcna81961

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/twitter-s...

Musk is a pointless hypocrite.
Charismatic? Altman? Hmmmm
Looks like a lot of people were taken by surprise. It's almost as if whoever planned the coup wasn't very... candid (to borrow a word).
Hey that's the beautiful thing about being human, in my opinion :) we all prefer different things and that is OK! Otherwise, we wouldn't need menus at any restaurant since everyone would just get the same "food".

Fwiw I like the font and I'm looking forward to trying it out!
So the pricing in essence defeats the whole fine grained permission model you should be using with Vault.

Also I wonder if same user having multiple different tokens would count as different tokens... Probably, just to inflate the number...
99% of the time I'm with 2 side-by-side editor panes open, so horizontal estate is very precious in this case, otherwise both documents won't fit well.

That's also why I'm thankful when people don't assume 16:9 screen estate and configure their max line length to huge amounts like 120 or more! 80, 100 max, is still today the sweet spot. But I digress.

For an IDE I wouldn't use vertical tabs on a side. But for web browsing they've become second nature to me, and Tree Style Tab for Firefox [1] changed the way I use the browser!

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
I don't think anyone is holding Ireland responsible for "Irish" pubs. It somehow just became a genre of bar on its own, and it's easy to do in a lazy caricatured way, suitable for someone whose chief aim in owning a bar is rooking tourists: shamrock-based logo, change the name to "O'Whoever's", and have Guinness on tap, good to go.

Then you have other places like my old hangout from 20 years ago, which had a few of the same visual signifiers of Irishness, but the owner being in fact an Irishman, he didn't feel the need to go overboard with that. Hope that place is still open and doing well.
I have nothing interesting to contribute here, but I want to express my thanks to alohapersona3 for trying to hold the Matrix Foundation accountable!
This was DOS back in the day, no?

TBH I wouldn't overly mind a version of Windows that really was just a terminal on top of the kernel, with the option to use the Windows shell or whatever other shell I want or build one if that's what I desired. Much like that most proselytized of Linux distros. It would still be Windows, but I would feel in control of it to some degree.

But it would have to be something other than PowerShell, and I think that's a nonstarter for Microsoft.
I think the method is the shopkeeper receives dodgy cash, and puts that cash in the ATM in their shop.

They get a clean €101 when someone makes a withdrawal, and the tourist has no problem spending the money.
The LibriTTS demo clones unseen speakers from a five second or so clip
Same here. I'm using conda and eyeing simply installing a pytorch into the base conda env
Glad you liked the compare view :)

Yeah, I know it’s a bit compressed, that’s the way I prefer it though.
I am loving the depth and richness of Baldur's Gate so far, but I will be honest. The storytelling, as creative as it is, feels very flat due to how it seems to be presented. I almost feel like a sociopath while playing the game, due to how little I feel invested in the overall plot and its characters.

For example, there is a high degree of ludonarrative dissonance, and quite regularly an emotional or otherwise important event will take place, to absolutely zero fanfare or reaction from the party. You just get dropped back into the game.

I know it is a matter of scope and available resources, but it reminds me a lot of how one might compare the narratives of GTA: San Andreas vs GTAV. Many prefer the overall plot, scope and worldbuilding of GTA: San Andreas vs GTAV. But due to time crunch and constrained resources, parts of the game had to be cut and it really shows.

More typically of games of its time, San Andreas can very abruptly take you in and out of the narrative experience, to the point that some emotional cues are lost. Red Dead Redemption 2 on the other hand excellently bridges this gap, possibly in the most organic fashion to date from any video game.

I hope Larian can look toward recent games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk for guidance on how to handle a narrative-heavy experience more organically and holistically.
There is also WorldCoin project possibly at stake. With crypto and NFTs going down it could be a house of cards. Horowitz is one of the backers.
That wasn’t the claim at all actually
https://archive.is/hLl2l
Violence being normalised is a bit beyond normal news.

It's the difference between the idealistic slogan "one person, one vote" and its rather more sanguine corollary "one less person, one less vote".

(or perhaps I only view it as a difference in quality because I've low key been keeping a body count for the country mentioned by TFA? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38294787

But frankly I'd be very happy to have an HN discussion limited to general terms, well beyond any particular situation in any given country...)
Doesn't this apply equally to movies?
I assume they're paying for a service, probably developing Matrix?

I would rather have them use the small amount of money they have on developing Matrix rather than explaining where each coin went.

This comment seems relevant: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/571#issueco...
But they're actually Firefly

https://youtu.be/QqkEpB3iDNM?si=0TektV6FjUw4QC5M
In a sense, Apple returned to Jobs, in order to acquire NeXTSTEP.
IF the fees are just "fluff" that adds pure profit to the goods or services rendered, then these new fees regulations will have the government's desired effect. But if the fees are needed to cover costs and expenses, they WILL be incorporated into the bottom line prices, and the regulations will force the advertised prices to rise in lieu of the fees.

As in any "free-market" system, the cost structures of each business will govern its competitiveness and the amount of profit that competition will allow.

And, as usual, the government will find out that further regulating free markets (a three-word oxymoronical phrase) will not achieve the stated goals of lowering the public's costs of goods and services. It might, however, level the playing field in ways that appeal to voters who rely on government to solve all their woes.
> I don’t know squat about Active Directory.

Damn, if even Raymond Chen doesn’t understand AD…
yeah that's for sure, in remote you're one button away from peace :)

but when you have mandatory regular calls with the somehow just slightly too toxic but not enough to grant company action.. you know it's gonna be a long term issue
What am I missing here: Sam Altman has zero charisma or cool factor. Every talk I've seen him in, he comes off as lethargic and sluggish. I get zero sense of passion or rallying drive around the hype of AI from him. Maybe he's good at fudging numbers to a specific set of people in a private room, but as a "reality distorter" for the masses he seems like a joke.
Valiant et al work great on my 64Gb Studio at Q4_K_M. Happy to answer questions.
Surely the entire board would have to stand down
free yourself from phone 2fa!

oathtool --totp -b 'code'
The pace is better, but imho you there is still a very noticeable “metalic” tone which makes it inferior to the real thing.

Impressive results nonetheless, and superior to all other TTS.
Dead Space series (specially 2), Max Payne, Metal Gear Solid 3, Silent Hill 2, Rule of Rose, Mass Effect 3 are the ones I remember that I enjoyed its story and cared about the characters pretty much.
No, https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/htm...
In case you didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_measure

And yes, it's far better for triage to be done by trained medical people than by insurance adjusters. But if given the option, I'd prefer just me and my loved ones making medical decisions about me. Of course we don't have this option, but it should still be something to strive for.
I’m planning on making a self-host solution where you can upload files and the host sends back the audio to play, as a first pass on this tech. I’ll open source the repo after fiddling and prototyping. I’ve needed this kinda thing for a long time!
Worship of the rich is a sickness in society. Like I said, the value of banking is akin to the value of gardening, and worshipping the bankers just enables destructive distortions.
I still haven't found anything better than Courier New.

I'd like to; there are many ambiguities with that font.

But this Victor Mono is not the one for me.
MITE Tactical Teleprinter – military digital communications from 1958 [video]
I don't think you can just freeze a packet of aardvarks like that.
Fine it will be hobbyists/moonlighting creators on streaming platforms delivering a heavy dose of 20 second to 30 minute AI generated content. Basically where we are today except it will just get more and more engaging as the tools become more accessible/powerful.
This is my #1 complaint for WFH, if you do not have a spare room / office in your home to do WFH, then IMO your productivity tanks and you are not really working from home... you are at home and maybe doing some work likely far less than if you were in the office.

If you are sitting on your bed, a kitchen table, or some other like space then i question how much work you can actually get done.

Also people are TERRIBLE judges of their own productivity, most people claim their productivity sky rockets when at home, were alot of data shows this not the be the case as time is focused on household items, cleaning, taking care of children, laundry, netflix, etc.

people that are successful at WFH and where doing it before COVID has a dedicated space for "work" in the home. With a Door they could close to block out all other household interruptions focusing on work, and would take defined breaks just like if you were in an office.
just curious if you did try to invent new dialects / paradigms since
Lots of great recommendations here, I'd add in Spec Ops: The Line.. although perhaps that's cheating since it's inspired by a movie that's based on a book. I won't say which so you can find out for yourself:)
Thinking by the Clock
I tend to use an ATM inside the train station/airport and decline any DCC (dynamic currency conversion), that way I get my debit card's exchange rate, which I know is reasonable.
> There's less distraction and better divide between work and private time. When I leave the office, I'm done for the day.

I am glad I have the luxury of having a separate room as my home office. When I’m done for the day, I leave that room and close the door, and don’t go back in unless it’s the next day or an emergency.
Put some bitcoin mining rigs on them.
Yes there are benefits to that multitasking
Sounds like you’re just judgmental and closed-minded, unable to comprehend that others have different lives, opinions and motivations than you. Grow up.
markets are about to open again
Both gifski are maintained by @sindresorhus, as you can see by commit counts. (Even if he’s not the main maintainer of the swift version).
In the left corner, Microsoft and the guy that founded Loopt.

In the right corner the company that created and still completely controls GPT-4.

Why are you so sure about who wins this face off?
And what is the ratio of services that need to scale infinitely to those that do not? At least if you are for example in more traditional internal software development?
TBH I wouldn't overly mind a version of Windows that really was just a terminal on top of the kernel, with the option to use the Windows shell or whatever other shell I want or build one if that's what I desired.

WinPE is literally that. A highly stripped-down version of Windows that boots to cmd.exe as a shell.
Why would I care about proprietary/opensource if it's affordable and saves time as a small dev shop? I just wanna ship and the company might be dead before any of this matters.
EMS (New Vector Ltd.) is not the same thing as Element. It is the first-party SAAS offering of Element/Matrix. It would be like Terraform accepting donations, and paying Hashicorp.

That being said, it's completely plausible that this is salary for development time. Being tight-lipped about it is suspicious though.
The EZ is the keyboard I have. I found that almost harder than getting used to the layout, was the extra pressure that's required, going from using the squishy keyboard that came free with my last desktop machine to something with mechanical switches.
> those who have committed fraud can rise to positions of influence and eminence ...

> ... sideline any honest young scientists who want to do things properly. I fear in some institutions this has already happened.

She has some names in mind!
Completely wrong: chatgpt again?
I have lived in Stockholm since 2012 and haven't felt worried about going to any particular part of town. Which part should I check out?
Now I know why I sometimes say "I'll send you an email about it". It means 'i'll think about it for more than 1 second'
This comment is almost too intelligent to be posted here, but I really enjoyed it.
This calculation only works if you encode at constant bitrate.

I usually encode at constant quality. The output size heavily depends on the input video. So, I wrote a wrapper in python that parses the HandbrakeCLI output estimates the final size based on percent completed & the current output file size. Then I can stop early if I realize the file is gonna be huge / the output quality is so shitty that I have to bump the quality factor.
You didn’t come up with concrete guidelines for when the content creator should not be allowed to sell content on their own site. Are we also going to block foreign content owners from selling their content to US citizens?

You haven’t thought through the consequences of giving the government more power in limiting what people can do on the web.
Most salaried engineering contracts don't specify anything about time besides an undefined "full-time". I've had several companies very happy with my production at <30 hours per week. But the contracts state very clearly that I should not take another job.
Because you can't train and operate models at scale with ideology. Costs money and compute. Without funding and compute, OpenAI is a bunch of smart folks with laptops talking AI safety in an office until the cashflow dries up.

People who want to get paid or are loyal to Sam will follow Sam. Microsoft is clearly behind Sam. "Whoever holds the gold makes the rules."

EDIT: gkoberger said it far better, and captures the value beyond the physical and fiat components of the power struggle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337782

"I don't think he's on his own. All those people he helped in the past have come out to support him. Almost his entire company (minus the board) has publicly supported him. His team is currently hosting him at the office with hopes to reinstate him. The CEO who temporarily replaced him has publicly and privately supported his return. OpenAI's investors are backing him. His cofounder quit in solidarity.

Turns out the secret to getting through something like this is to simply have spent the past 15+ years genuinely helping everyone you've ever come across."
Try llama.cpp with Metal (critical) and GGUF models from TheBloke

Or wait another month or so for https://ChatOnMac.com
I would assume you would just take genetic samples in the easiest, and most durable form.

I think the answer to your question is that if it's easier to reverse our course then a bunch of species will be dead with no way to revive them. Easier does not mean easy, and reversing course is IMO next to impossible, so it bei g harder than that just means it won't happen.
I had also been working to resolve a number of major issues within Outstatic such as licensing and GDPR concerns with the author himself privately; as to not disclose major issues on a public forum like that from out of respect.

I appreciate and understand your feelings.

What changes or updates can I make based on your feedback?
Standards are optional
Diversity is mandatory
If AI will render some jobs obsolete, I suppose the first one will be audio book narrators and voice actors.
I don't follow OpenAI or SV news all that much. Is this guy really that critical to the company? I thought Ilya Sutskever was the genius? Is this a non-compete thing, where they're scared Altman will take company secrets to a competitor, or is this dude actually a major factor in the company's success (and not just a lucky bystander)?
It’s hard to find counterexamples to “safe, interesting, cheap: pick two.”
That was last afternoon - so the board decided to waffle till Monday?
Google already does this. There is a material difference between doing it in house and starting a for profit company to do the thing
Rosalynn Carter, first lady who championed mental health, dies at 96
They trade away time and effort in exchange for money. Presumably they value the money more than the time and effort, because if they didn't, they wouldn't make that trade.
It's worth knowing the specific reasons why the board fired Sam before assessing the value of this news. Too much rumor and not enough evidence.
Sure, but for every Citizen Kane you also have hundreds of movies like Shark Exorcist, Plan 9, Catwoman, etc
If you corner it of course it has no choice. But in general it runs first before it attacks. Attacking is a move of last resort.
> look for problematic tweets and then look at what ads run next to it.

But this wouldn't answer the question at all, would it? It's like surveying only murderers to determine how many people commit murder - the only answer you can get is "all of them".