skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that like saying that the Manhattan Project should have only been overseen by people with a solid physics background? Because they're the best judges of whether it's a good idea to build something that could wipe out all life on Earth? (And whether that's an exaggeration in hindsight is irrelevant; that was exactly the sort of question that the overseers needed to be considering at that time. Yes, physicists' advice would be necessary to judge those questions, but you couldn't do it with only physicists' perspectives.)
Maybe this won't be deleted this time.

https://lngnmn2.github.io/articles/llm-predictions/
Wouldn't that be vulnerable to binary search? Like a guessing game?
Even flicker that isn't perceptible to humans is still associated with increases in all sorts of things including eyestrain, headaches, anxiety, migraines, and seizures.

150Hz is well below the human perceptual threshold but still within the range that can cause problems.
I went as far as to report them to the FTC for a fraudulent "exclusive offer" that was just a dark pattern to convince you to switch away from monthly billing to an annual paid-up-front membership. Shame on @dhouston and the team.

The dumbest part about Dropbox is that when someone shares a large file with me I have to pay to upgrade my account because the shared content is counted against both users' quotas.

There's no reason to support this company in 2023.
> Fizzbuzz is actually completely trivial to the point where the problem statement is almost literally (modulo modulo) a description of the algorithm.

Fizzbuzz requires you to read and understand a few lines of requirements. That is much harder than just "order these elements, runtime isn't important", you can easily miss some part of the problem statement or misunderstand it for Fizzbuzz and fail, you shouldn't but it can happen, no such thing for a quadratic sort.
How do they determine when it's an eclipse, occult, or transit?
The funniest/saddest part is that "it's okay to be white" and the ok hand sign are literally just 4chan trolling trying to demonstrate how unhinged their political opposition is, and the hook gets swallowed every time.
Microsoft's first-round investment totals $1bn at most. Nothing public substantiates a profit cap of $1tn.
There is a lot here to be think about. Three most interesting points to me are

1. These companies have bottom-of-the-barrel moral standards and don't care what one person on Twitter is Tweeting. This has to be political manoeuvring of some sort.

2. A lot of advertisers were quitting Twitter a while ago weren't they? But it has been months now. If they're still quitting, that suggests the flood of quitters is more of a small trickle. So this the first time all these companies have quit? Or is it that the media companies are quitting this round?

3. Musk is still the wealthiest human on the planet (in history? I expect in nominal terms he's the wealthiest in history). Twitter is a bit of a political sideshow for him. He might even decide to run it without ads, that'd hurt him financially and be a win for the rest of us.
Because of a news article saying a prior VC firm is pushing to reinstate sam or fund his new venture and didn’t care which way it goes? That’s not a lot to hang your hat on. They legally have every right to do what they did and no one can force them to change their mind under any circumstance. They might choose to, but OpenAI has all the cards. Sam Altman is a talking head, and if they churn some senior folks, OpenAI has the technology and brand to replace them. If I were the OpenAI board, I would be sleeping like a baby, especially if sam were acting out of sync with the charter of the non profit. I imagine his antics caused a lot of stress the further they drifted from their mission and the more he acted autonomously.
> A dmabuf is a memory buffer in kernel space that is identified by a file descriptor.

> The idea is that you don’t have to copy lots of pixel data around, and instead just pass a file descriptor between kernel subsystems.

So like sendfile for graphics?

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html

It's a pretty awesome system call. We should have more of those.
Everyone has a first time finding out everything is fucked everywhere.
Whether it will ultimately have been allowed is yet to be seen.
I didn’t see any actual evidence of that other than speculation and outside and uninvolved investors advocating for him in the article. I suspect this is a bait for your click.
Because it's an exhibit of their attitude. The ADL's attitude has not changed, even if they let go of one piece of stupidity.
58, been programming since 13. Still enjoy it. Still both a hobby and a job
Without intention to offend. It's Golang, the language that famously ignored over 30 years of progress in language development for the sake of simplicity.

What answer do you expect?
What'd google do now? I've been watching youtube all day on firefox with ubo. No ads, no issues.
>I forget how something was setup in some section of some file, and write code in another file and it just breaks the entire logic. I feel frustrated that I cannot upload and maintain the entire logical map of even this very small and simple codebase in my mind.

This is a sign of technology with insufficient abstraction. Computation has largely been built on the shoulders of giants with a "You shouldn't need to know" mentality.

Think of code in abstract "bits" of information (not necessarily in the data/ram/storage sense)...

The more bits of information from seemingly unrelated sources that you must retain, the worse the codebase is. In the worst case editing 1 bit of source code flips 50% of the remaining bits, ie perfect obfuscation.

In a perfect code base, changing a bit would flip no other bits (say in other packages), because all of the change would be perfectly contained.

There is a pragmatic balance due to timelines, brevity, reaching perfect abstraction might itself be more complex than an "imperfect" implementation, and the sheer ingenuity of it might challenge or exceed some of our IQs (certainly mine).
I highly doubt he could replicate the success of OpenAI with a new AI startup. Especially without Ilya. Just look at how many successful social media platforms Meta has created after Facebook (0 if you don't count the acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram).
I don't have any issues with my AdBlocker on YouTube?

Also, not to be a downer, but CWS and YouTube are both Google property. If your extension does well then they can coordinate to make your life hard. I experienced this personally (https://thenextweb.com/news/how-youtube-killed-an-extension-...) where there was an implication my developer key would be revoked if I didn't delist.
> 2/3 the board outed him

I’ve seen more compelling boards at Home Depot
> > This is really, really clearly incestuous tech media stuff as part of a pressure campaign.

> There’s no evidence of that

The leaks themselves whether or not based in fact are evidence of that. The only reason for someone in a position to be taken credibly reporting the information contained in either this Verge article or the Bloomberg article with a similarly sourced but slightly different narrative, to take that information to the media, whether or not it is true, is to use public pressure to attempt to shape the direction of events.

EDIT: To be clear, its evidence of the "pressure campaign" part; to the extent that the "incestuous tech media" part has any substantive meaning, I'm not sure its evidence of that.
Extension takedown in 3.. 2..

Honestly though, it will come and it will be in a form of copyright infringement, or something vague like that.

Good luck. Don't build your castle on top of another castle.
Sokal.
Aws is JP Morgan’s main cloud provider, and Apples too. Do you think aws has leverage over JPMC and Apple due to that? Or does JPMC and Apple have leverage over aws?

Azure gets a hell of a lot more out of OpenAI than OpenAI gets out of azure. I’ll bet you GPT4 runs on nvidia hardware just as well regardless of who resells it.
One problem I see here is the desire to learn to code in some abstract sense, to prove something, even to understand CS, rather then starting from a simple project and asking yourself what you absolutely need to learn to do it.
Add this to addons.mozilla.org, so we can use it on Firefox & Firefox for Android!
That's definitely a technique to keep in reserve if they get better at detection, but uBlock Origin currently works very well on Youtube as long as its filters are up to date.
> A non-profit isn’t supposed to have investors.

The non-profit doesn't have investors. OpenAI Global, LLC isn't the non-profit, its a for-profit over which the non-profit has complete governance control.
He's also the founder and CEO of WorldCoin.
I think OpenAI is in zugzwang
This is a good point. Saying something is sexist is what makes it so, plus why would it be sexist to dismiss her as just a wife in the same post that acknowledges that she runs a startup?

GP knows the headcount at her company so they probably know that it’s a robotics company, but it was simply of dire importance that we know that she is a wife.
They didn’t block the brave yet
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?
Haha, good luck I'm behind 7 proxies
This is the case in most places I know of, it's called a homestead exemption.
apparently it only happens with google chrome browser (what a surprise!), another reason not to use that spyware that only consumes RAM.
Attentions divided seems to be the thing these days.

Have you really made it as a SV CEO if you're not at least a 3-ring Tres Commas Club member?

Popular picks seem to be any 3 of ad scaffolds, money processing, rent/gig vigs, energy, digital ledgers, big statistics, profit|altruism mashups, and, of course, the final frontier.
> I think the real problem is not indexing correctly but rather modeling your problem correctly.

There's also the issue that usage might change over time due to events outside of your control, that affects what the correct solution should look like.

For example, there's always a tradeoff between development effort and performance. It doesn't make financial sense spending tons of engineering time on optimizing a process that's done once per day and for which the simple solution is more than fast enough even though it takes an hour.

But if external circumstances change and that process suddenly needs to run every minute... perhaps not so easy to accommodate without drastic changes.
As you are new here, I would urge you to read the site's Guidelines [1], which the tone & wording of your comment indicate you have not read.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you’ve used the models for actual business problems GPT4 and its successive revisions are way beyond llama. They’re not comparable. I’m a huge fan of open models but it’s just different worlds of power. I’d note OpenAI has been working on GPT5 for some time as well, which I would expect to be a remarkable improvement incorporating much of the theoretical and technical advances of the last two years. Claude is the only actual competitor to GPT4 and it’s a “just barely relevant situation.”
This guy would be considered a genius, admired and respected worldwide, a living legend.. if he'd never opened that Twitter account. But he did, so he's just another eccentric rich idiot.
I use the Hosts file to block a ton of ads and that works really well. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Something worth considering if your ad blocker isn't working well.
It for sure is not because of ethical concerns. There is a higher bar to clear to burn cash when other projects are delivering high ROI. That sort of thing will never come out of Google in that form, since the post-Google Labs days.
“Completely exchangeable”
Obviously people are not fungible, replacing one person with another will never provide the exact same results. The question in each case then is how different would the results be, and would the replacement be better or worse? For a very simple job, perhaps pressing a single button, the results may only be subtly different. But what happens when it’s a complex job with no right and wrong answers, where work input is affected by output (like a chaotic system), spanning multiple areas of influence? The work output of the individual changes drastically, and just like in a chaotic system, the results to the organization vary increasingly over time. Nobody is fungible, but of all people, decision makers like politicians, CEOs etc are the butterfly wings flapping in New York that causes a cyclone in Japan. The only real way to evaluate if their impact is likely to be positive is looking at previous results. Due to rarity of top performers and importance to systems, they have negotiation power.

Dependable leaders really do have that much value to their organizations. This is similar to why in critical areas like medicine, old-and-dependable things are valued over new and shiny. The older things have lower risk, and a strong track record. That added dependability is more important than being the newer “better” but riskier option. Back to this topic, how many CEOs with track records managing 80 billion revenue AI organizations are ready to replace Altman? Because Open AI is well ahead in the field, they don’t need big risky changes, they need to reliably stay the course.
Yeah, that’s correct. Only apps in the top row that are highlighted can display content on the home screen and the leftmost app is highlighted at boot/wake.

I don’t have any experience with Jellyfin+Swiftfin but Infuse has worked well with my Plex server.

As a sidenote, to test this I woke the the old 2015 Apple TV HD that the 4K model replaced and to my surprise it’d updated itself to the latest tvOS and still runs smoothly. Not bad for an 8 year old device, and no doubt in better shape than most competitors of a similar age.
The “safety” they’re talking about isn’t about actual danger but more like responses that don’t comply with the political groupthink de jour.
Edit: Vi and Acme
Not sure I follow. The Manhattan project was thoroughly staffed by many of the best in the field in service to their country to build a weapon before Germany. There was no mission statement they abided by that said they were building a simple deterrent that wouldn't be used. There was no nuance to what the outcome could be, and there was no aspersions to agency over its use.

In the case of AI ethics, the people who are deeply invested in this are also some of the pioneers of the field who made it their life's work. This isn't a government agency. If the mission statement of guiding it to be a non-profit AGI, as soon as possible, as safely as possible, were to be adhered to, and where it is today is going wildly off course, then having a competent board would have been key.
IEEE 1789 lays a lot of that out. In a nutshell, LEDs are harsher.
The distinction between the two is whether an organization returns funds to investors. OpenAI, Inc. does not. OpenAI Global LLC does, one of those investors being OpenAI, Inc. (well, indirectly, there's another holding company in between.)
A good bathtub rug would seem to solve the problem in a much less... problematic way. Far easier to clean, much less to deal with, and much more easily replaced. Can even be put away completely when not needed.
This might just be the worst example of taking a metaphor too far
Appeals to authority are fallacies with regard to specific logical arguments such that experts don’t get to override logic.

Appeals to authority are otherwise deeply correlated to actually correct statements and are a boon, not a flaw, for explaining a context.
Yep. This is low hanging fruit for making constituents happy. I emailed my city councilor about this because I couldn't figure out who to ask at public works. The next morning a work truck rolled up and installed a shield on the light nearest to my house.
I'd rather not have this group of clowns holding the reigns of our technological destiny.
Yeah, I too would like to understand how the wife of a Hollywood actor got on this board. Did sama or Greg recruit her? Someone must have.

I have seen these types of people pop up in Silicon Valley over the years. Often, it is the sibling of a movie star, but it's the same idea. They typically do not know anything about technology and also are amusingly out of touch with the culture of the tech industry. They get hired because they are related to a famous person. They do not contribute much. I think they should just stay in LA.

EDIT: I just want to add that I don't know anything about this woman in particular (I'd never heard of her before yesterday), and it's entirely possible that she is the lone exception to the generalization I'm describing above. All I can say is that when I have seen these Hollywood people turn up in SF tech circles in the past (which has been several times, actually), it's always been the same story.
I know you're being ironic, but routing through a proxy in a country that doesn't receive advertisements is a real technique [0] for ad-blocking on Twitch, where the ads are embedded as part of the m3u8 playlist.

[0] https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/blob/master/f...
Compare:

Successful test of Starship’s two stages ended in explosions, making progress over the initial test flight in April.
LibreAI
An engineer from the previous generation seems like the last person to ask about a physicist. Being established and in a downstream field seems especially likely to induce an unjustified sense of confidence.
Strange that you don't think his twitter account helped him get all that media attention along the way.
Even worse is
Why pay to occasionally faintly illuminate the bottoms of airplains ever?
Being first to openly generate from billions of copyrighted documents would not have been a sane move for Google's management.
Their achievements are already framed in their best light.

Hopefully you're able to tell the difference between serving as CEO or president of real reputable companies (the "trash tier startup" still exited for mid-8 figures) versus what looks like being a figure head for fake companies.
I don’t really see the point in not making waves. OpenAi is not a public company.

Optics and the like don’t really matter as much if you’re not a for profit company trying to chase down investors and customers. So long as OpenAi continues to be able to do research, it’s enough to fulfill their charter.
As Sun Tzu said, when you are strong, appear weak.
Personally I have no shortage of ideas, only lack of time and resources to execute on them. This is true for most founders I know (can't say if that's representative).

I also don't think ideas are very valuable. Great founders can make amazing companies from seemingly average, boring or even bad ideas. On the flip side, bad execution can easily ruin incredible ideas.

Could you maybe elaborate on what you mean by "startup ideas"? As frequently you start with a problem that you try to solve, often based on your experience and skills. Could you maybe provide some examples? That would make it much easier to respond meaningful.
Super interesting link there. You should submit it, if no one has yet.

"Governance can be messy. Time will be the judge of whether this act of governance was wise or not." (Narrator: specifically, about 12 hours.) "But you should note that the people involved in this act of corporate governance are roughly the same people trying to position themselves to govern policy on artificial intelligence.

"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. Many people are saying we need more governance: maybe it turns out we need less."
Well Nikola Tesla thought a lot of physicists who created successful theories were frauds. He openly disagreed with Einstein, Marie Curie, Maxwell, Hertz... And probably a lot more that I don't even know about.

I think the most interesting thing about him is that, despite all his work in taming electricity, he disagreed with the existence of electrons (or really any subatomic particles).
MSFT likely has the option to claw back some of their money - they could also cease providing Openai gpu’s. At the extreme, they could do so tomorrow based on their perception of the contract dispute. Although such action would risk reputational damage to MSFT.

At a minimum, taking your largest supplier and customer for a ride is probably a bad idea.
Something cool about reading code from the 1980s..
> violating the company's Charter

What did he violate specifically?
I'm mostly just riffing off the title but, as a programmer of 45 years I do often find programming hard or programming related things hard

Recent experience, trying to get any deep learning to run on my machine. Instructions all over the place about installing python, conda, making a virtual environment, installing certain libraries and when I finally get to the "run" command it doesn't work.

Similarly using many new libraries/frameworks, getting stuck on some detail and having to spend 20, 40, 60, 120 minutes trying to find a solution. This happened a lot, and still does, getting up to speed with TypeScript, not knowing how to express the types needed for some complex thing and not knowing how to even ask the question to get an answer. Posting on S.O. will just get closed but I don't necessarily know how to search for the answer. Recently I even tried asking ChatGPT but it failed too.

That said, I also understand, that there are many concepts I intuitively know that someone like the OP does not and that it's very hard to remember what it was like to not understand it. Pointers, pass by value, pass by reference, maps, stacks, race conditions, promises, file manipulation, memory, binary, hex, various math and solutions. Getting to the point that all of those things and more are 2nd nature is basically spending time coding for years just like becoming a good guitar player is spending time practicing for years