skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to refer to heads of state as having the wealth of the state.

"L'État, c'est moi."

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27État,_c%27est_moi
Where do you go if you want to build an unsafe AGI with no morals? Military? China? Russia?

(I am aware that conceptually it can lead to a skynet scenario)
Popularity has been waning naturally, just like the popularity of Spring lobbies before it, with respective peaks around 2017 and 2010, but AFAIK the newfound popularity of BAR has been also bringing significant new blood to these other Spring/Recoil games.

(Without commercial levels of advertising, a lot of Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander / RTS fans had never heard of them, word of mouth can only go so far... at least until Twitch streamers became super-popular ?)
Not really a successor, but as the poster above said, a cousin.

This lineage of open-source games started from Total Annihilation, which had a lot of mods that ran into engine limitations. This resulted in a bunch of enterprising open-sourced devs to develop a compatible engine, without those limitations. This engine (Spring Engine) has then evolved into something much more impressive and capable. Zero-K was implemented on this engine. Beyond All Reason uses the Recoil engine, which is a fairly recent for of Spring.
I think we are talking about different things. Typical saunas are the neighbourhood saunas, Kietz-Saunas. They do not have any separation. Not in dressing rooms, showers, nor in sauna areas. It's all mixed, except usually a women only day once a week.

Saunas in public pools etc may have different arrangements.
> Match kernel + BSD userland + NeXTSTEP, how Jobs have anything to do with any of this?

Is that actually a serious question? Or do you just believe that no founder/CEO of a tech company ever had any role whatsoever in designing and building the products their companies have released?

> Then I compared the actual Mac model with several different options available on the market and either got the same computing power for half the price or twice the computing power for the same price.

I'm talking about M-series Mac mainly (e.g. the Macbook Air is simply unbeatable for what it is and there are no equivalents). But even before that you should realize that other people have different priorities and preferences (.e.g go back a few years and all the touchpads on non Mac laptops were just objectively horrible in comparison, how much is that worth?)

> environment eye-candy takes seconds

I find it a struggle. There are other reasons why I much prefer Linux to macOS but UI and GUI app UX is just on a different level. Of course again it's a personal preference and some people find it much easier to ignore some "imperfections" and inconsistencies which is perfectly fine.

> They can actually make an even deeper GPT or an even cheaper GPT while others are trying to catch up

Maybe, maybe not. Antagonizing MS and their other investors certainly isn't going to make it easier though.
Calling precautions superfluous after the uncertainty is gone is not clever.
Programming in Oberon – Steps Beyond Pascal and Modula [pdf]
Trying to find more books to read is a bit antithetical to the way.

I would try leaving your books and phone at home and go camping with not much planned or much to do.
On the contrary, the fix is trivial: Don't give them any money.
Truce for me, but not for thee.
Between Reddit, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, etc Youtube hardly has a monopoly.
With this approach do you stop at testing the JSON API or do you still make it to testing the rendered HTML actually shown to the user?

I've always actually likes the simplicity of testing HTML APIs in a frontend project. For me, tests get a lot more simple when I can verify the final HTML directly from the response and don't need to parse the JSON and run it through client-side rendering logic first.
Quite possibly yes, and I personally grew up in a cult of Bible lawyers so I can imagine it, but here we are talking corporate ethics (an oxymoron) and AI alignment, which are independent of religion.
Come on. The 'non-profit' and good of all was always bullshit. So much silicon valley double-speak. I've never seen a biggest mess for a company structure in my life. Just call a spade a spade.
For what it's worth, your writing is confused. For instance:

> There cannot be a limbo where the rights holder prevents the flourishing of a fork out of lack of interest or fear.

The entire point of this license is to prevent forks of software. It makes it especially easy to do so by simply pushing small incompatible changes on a two-year schedule.

But the really strange part about this is that it assumes a developer that is scared of allowing their work to be forked would decide to use a license that forces them to allow their work to be forked. They simply wouldn't. That's the exact thing they were scared of.
Some posts are useful, some entertaining and others help me distract.
It's not optimal but one can still implement enums in userland using struct and methods returning a comparable unexported type.
So happy to see this here! I used to play this a lot with my boyfriend - we were pretty evenly matched, and the game allowed for so much freedom which made every game wild. The most impressive feature is - in my opinion - the wide variety of commands you can provide to your units and how their AI interacts with them. For example, if you build a crowd of fast and agile grunts and make them match speed with a slower tank, they will still avoid enemy projectiles with their superior speed.
You can effectively do that with any game on steam, as you can return any game if you both 1. played it under 2 hours 2. bought it in the last 14 days.
Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
You don't have to actually act on your conflict of interest to be conflicted. It's enough to have the conflict of interest in the first place and that should be reason enough to resign. In fact: most board of directors realize this without being told and in case that they don't realize it there is usually a nice and handy document that they signed upon becoming a member of the board that pointedly reminds them of this fact.
Note that the main point about the hyperloop was the vacuum tube, not the maglev part. And the vacuum tube doesn't actually work. It's not actually feasible to create a vacuum tube hundreds of km long. It's just about physically possible, but it's not really technologically feasible - not for a system that is supposed to be in constant operation all year long.

It's also important to remember that vacuum tube trains are an 1800s idea, which everyone started pretending is some revolutionary new transportation concept.
That's not the problem with PyPy. The relevant problems problems with PyPy are that it

1. Only offers a performance benefit relative to CPython. Compared to other languages, it's still VERY slow

2. Breaks the ABIs that Python libraries written in C rely on. This means that PyPy is incompatible with almost every major Python package worth using, since nobody writes serious python packages in Python (because it's too slow).
for a null hypothesis: Obama (born 1961) would have been 12 years old in 1973, for the release of both Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (RIAA Gold) and Dylan (RIAA, ARIA, and BPI Gold)

see https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/06/16
It is obvious that they come from various Muslim countries and that they are male. But you will hardly find any women from those countries in those pools. Again, the best explanation is that they are indeed Muslim.

I strongly object to your attributing hatred to me. It is not hatred to point out obvious problems. It is however intolerable to try to shame people as "hateful" for pointing out things you deem contrary to your worldview.
Once you’ve been involved in repairing them, you start to insist on the sane approach - cable in the wall, connected to a faceplate which has a plug on the back and a plug on the front. That way any damage can be repaired without re running the cable.
You’re interpreting it as a lawyer would, rather than considering the real-world implications of this.
Google and Meta have less compute infrastructure purpose-built for training and testing LLMs than OpenAI does. It's something that OpenAI has been investing in for several years, while Google/Meta/etc have just started playing catch up very recently.
Modern Western literature and cinema are full of compassion-less killings. And mass Murders or torture and rape.
This is proving the point of the parent comments.

My view of the world, and how the general structure is where I work:

ML is ml. There is a slew of really complex things that aren’t just model related (ml infra is a monster), but model training and inference are the focus.

Backend: building services used by other backend teams or maybe used by the frontend directly.

Data eng: building data pipelines. A lot of overlap with backend some days.

Frontend: you spend most of the day working on web or mobile technology

Others: site reliability, data scientists, infra experts

Common burdens are infrastructure, collaboration across disciplines, etc.

But ML is not backend. It’s one component. It’s very important in most cases, a kitschy bolt on in other cases.

Backend wouldn’t have good models without ML and ML wouldn’t be able to provide models to the world reliably without the other crew members.

The fronted being charts is incorrect unless charts are the offering of the company itself
Far from a comprehensive course, but I found this blogpost really good for understanding OAuth2 and usecases/limitations/footguns: https://www.ory.sh/oauth2-openid-connect-do-you-need-use-cas...
I cancelled Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+. They just kept getting more expensive yet I barely watched content on them.

Youtube Premium is the best subscription video service out there in my opinion. I'm very happy with it being the one thing I pay money for.
> Or because you don't know the algorithm in question

I don't think anyone would care if you did an insertion sort or some other brute force way to sort. Brute force sorting in general is trivial to come up with.
How much are you willing to pay for it so you would get a knowledge base that is not superficial, but thorough and you'll really know the ins and outs of it?
Are you sure?

BAR units are generally similar to TA units. It captures the feel of "what TA would be if it was full 3D and high resolution". Of course, balance is different, but TA balance was very odd.

ZeroK seems to have terrain modification mechanics which is not present in TA.

In BAR terrain can be damaged by big explosions, but it's very limited.

FWIW I never played ZeroK but based on their intro video BAR seems to be closer to TA visually.
Physically impossible? Maybe, but the vacuum tube part was actually insane.

It would have been insanely difficult to maintain a useful enough vacuum over huge distances that the hyperloop was supposed to run.

A single failure in such a system could have catastrophic consequences across a huge range.

edit: beaten by @tsimionescu by a minute.
People would be put to death left and right. Death of Socrates x1000. Being famous would be actively dangerous haha
There must be something different about how some of us are using uBlock Origin then - none o that applies to me, yet I only very rarely get ads for a day or so. I'm not even logged in to Twitch.
Yeah but that's a game you definitely want to test much much more then 2 hours....like every city-builder.
I would like to understand why JavaScript semantics have allowed for a lot of performance, but Python semantics hasn't.
So the rumors that she has strong ties with the CIA are not unfounded?
Claude by Anthropic has 46% winrate with GPT4 according to Chatbot Arena. That is pretty close.
As independent as any other government oversight/regulation in the US, it'd either be directly run or heavily influenced by those being regulated.
It’s possible he paid well and was a great boss. I don’t know if these people are gonna take a bullet for him, but maybe he was great to work for and they got opportunities they think they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Loyalty, appreciation, liking… is a spectrum. Loyalty doesn’t have one trumpish definition.
The usual argument from those that never saw Common Lisp, Smalltalk and SELF JITs, languages that are even more dynamic than Python, with constructs that can change the meaning of object instances across all application space and image, and their actual structure is dynamically constructed via metaclasses, much more powerful than what Python metaclasses can do.

It is getting tired by now.
> I don’t see a bunch of creepy people [note: I edited this part because fsckboy made a good point] hating on him despite him also being part of this same exact power struggle.

I'm not sure where I am on the creepy scale but I'm happy to hate on him because I really don't think he should be anywhere near that board. And yes, Helen Toner does have a claim. Not sure about the level of experience in the typical role of a board member but plenty of cred when it comes to the subject matter.
Why? He was right on the money.
Apple's deal is not even a good deal - it only works out if you use all the services that no one uses.
The goal is also to develop systems that are significantly more capable than current systems. And those systems could be misused when terrorists gain access to them. What about that is "unhinged"?
I guess I just feel like one grows to consider it like the iTunes of ebooks that also converts, and that there's a workflow that it lends to where you've downloaded your book, you need to convert it to work on all your relevant devices and the respective format, have a bookshelf type interface or whatever your preferred view , be the main books app, and allow for syncing a library via cloud.

I don't know if I'm saying this well but I think the main ideas are here.
Capitalism and free trade are orthogonal concepts, and the tired trope of "criticise capitalism = so you think we should abolish trade and private property" is boring. Yawn.
Job Application Asking for Demographics
A job I'm interested in is asking for voluntary self identification as the first part of the application process. Gender, sexuality, nationality, military status, the whole lot. Out of principle I never give this info.

They claim it has no bearing on the hiring process. Is this true, generally speaking? Or does selecting prefer not to disclose give a bad first impression?

Company is a tech company, less than 500 employees.
There are significantly fewer people that would want to work with Ilya than there are people that would want to work with Sam/Greg.

If Ilya could come out and clearly articulate how his utopian version of OpenAI would function, how they will continue to sustain the research and engineering efforts, at what cadence they can innovate and keep shipping and how will they make it accessible to others then maybe there would be more support.
If you really need such an ecosystem, then you can build one right away, like Kagi Labs and Phind did. In the case of Kagi, no GPT is involved; in the case of Phind, GPT-4 is still vital, but they are closing the gap with their cheaper and faster LLaMA-2 34B-based models.

> Performance is never a complete product

In the case of GPT-4, performance - in terms of the quality of generation and speed - is the vital aspect that still holds competitors back.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and countless research teams and individual researchers are actually responsible for the success of OpenAI, and this should remain a collective effort. What OpenAI is doing now by hiding details of their models is actually wrong. They stand on the shoulders of giants but refuse to share these days, and Altman is responsible for this.

Let us not forget what OpenAI was declared to stand for.
As I remember the discourse about TDD, originally it was described as a testing practice, and later people started proposing to change the last D from "development" to "design".
I think that unit tests are super valuable because when used properly, they serve as micro-specifications for each component involved.

These would be super hard to backfill later, because usually only the developer who implements them knows everything about the units (services, methods, classes etc.) in question.

With a strongly typed language, a suite of fast unit tests can already be in feature parity with a much slower integration test, because even if mocked out, they essentially test the whole call chain.

They can offer even more, because unit tests are supposed to test edge cases, all error cases, wrong/malformed/null inputs etc. By using integration tests only, as the call chain increases on the inside, it would take an exponentially higher amount of integration tests to cover all cases. (E.g. if a call chain contains 3 services, with 3 outcomes each, theoretically it could take up to 27 integration test cases to cover them all.)

Also, ballooning unit test sizes or resorting to unit testing private methods give the developer feedback that the service is probably not "single responsibility" enough, providing incentive to split and refactor it. This leads to a more maintainable service architecture, that integration tests don't help with.

(Of course, let's not forget that this kind of unit testing is probably only reasonable on the backend. On the frontend, component tests from a functional/user perspective probably bring better results - hence the popularity of frameworks like Storybook and Testing Library. I consider these as integration rather than unit tests.)
Because boards don't generally fire CEOs, they merely leave to spend more time with their family.
It's pretty much the inverse : http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/29067

BAR used to stand for "Balanced Annihilation Reloaded" - so it's sticking very close to TA, while Zero-K has been experimenting much more freely with what is possible in the Spring/Recoil engine.

It's also probably a factor that BAR has spent a decade in development hell (under a different team than now ?), so it just didn't have the velocity to fork away sufficiently, even if it wanted to.
There is no free market in capitalism, because it creates monopolies, and you easily could have some form of market socialism with workers cooperative based economy.
>AWS, azure etc just eat their lunch and don’t help anybody

I know that AWS made a blatant hosted version of Elasticsearch without contributing back but the other examples are less damning.

Azure's MongoDB offering is just the MongoDB API on top of their own document-oriented storage and querying architecture. Their globally scalable Redis offering is most likely also their own implementation and only using the same API as Redis.
It’s a little pricy. But it’s a bundle with YouTube music which is better than I expected. I think the payments to creators are a little greater because of that.

It’s also a little bit moot because YouTube creators often in-line their own ads so they can’t be skipped…
> Can you point me then towards some communities, that do live off their land? Without pesticides?

Modern synthetic pesticides were invented in the 40's. Natural pesticides have been used for thousands of years. Your question doesn't seem to discern a difference.

> Well, then maybe reconsider your words before? "It's stupid, and it shows a complete lack of imagination."

That wasn't a strawman, nor was it personal. And it's 100% true, so I'll say it again - using the way things are done now to shut down ideas for making things better is profoundly stupid and unimaginative. If you think that mean I'm saying you are stupid, well...
> I just don’t see the danger. There isn’t anything you couldn’t find on 4chan in a few clicks.

Making something 100x easier and convenient creates an entirely new scenario. There's illegal content all over the dark web, and accessing it is easy if you are technically inclined. Now, if ChatGPT would simply give you that material by just asking it in plain English, you are creating a new threat. It is absolutely legitimate to investigate how to mitigate such risks.
Making Swimming Pools Safer: Copper–Silver Ionization
Germany, France and Italy reach agreement on future AI regulation
The MS servers somehow can become buggy and work 10 000 times slower due to errors and bugs after a failed patch that takes months to find and fix
like Dolphus Raymond in To Kill a Mockingbird?

(who, in order to avoid being put in an accurate but damning box for his habits by society, pretends to inhabit a still problematic —but much, much more socially acceptable— box?)
Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman discusses possible return, mulls new AI venture
> As the article mentioned, it took a direct hit from a bomb during WW II but it landed in the pool so the building survived.

Pools near me (New Zealand) have ‘no bombing’ signs. I wonder if the jump-into-pool-holding-knees manoeuvre is called ‘bombing’ in German?
I agreed with you up until I looked her up. Then Tasha McCauley, who I forgot was Joseph Gordon-Levitt's wife. Shivon Zillis, Elon Musk's whatever that is.

So these three plus Mira Murati make 4 for 4 hot women governing OpenAI. I'm not a Data Scientist but that's a pattern. Not one ugly woman who has a concept of AI governance? Not one single George Elliot-looking genius?
What I'm surprised about in this whole discussion is how little people are actually looking at Altmans worldcoin venture.

It is incredibly shady, and has the same kind of sci-fi marketing bullshit vibe going on as Elon Musk's hyperloop and Mars missions, and, come to think of it, OpenAI's marketing.

Altman+OpenAI are a hype machine that's riding a bubble to get rich enough through any scheme to be able to turn around and milk users for data, just like facebook and google.

The only difference is, he gets to twist the focus towards this sci-fi AGI idea, which works like the distraction element of a magic trick. The media loves to talk about AGI and regulating Skynet, because it's a story that gets the imagination going --- certainly much more interesting than stories about paying people 2 dollars an hour to sift through data used to train a language model for offensive and traumatizing content to feed to the autocomplete parrot.

I think it's good that he got kicked off the position as CEO, but that does not suddenly make OpenAI a good actor. Some other jerk will take his spot.
Have you tried Mistral?
Capitalism doesn't inherently create monopolies. Badly regulated capitalism does.
xAI along with Anthropic seem to be best positioned to take advantage from the OpenAI/sama scandal.
If you can remember it, the American media and foreign policy establishment was fully in support of the war in Iraq. That actually is a really good example of what the author describes because I'm sure many knew it was a bad idea but went along with it to preserve their careers.

I think we should be charitable with the author and not assume a "dumb idea" is something he disagrees with, but rather is something that was proven to be bad by the passage of time.
> It also enables contributions by the community for the latest version and not old source code.

I have no interest in contributing to a code base that where my contributions wouldn’t be open source for two more years. You’ll find naive developers out there, but my free time won’t be spent contributing and my company would never allow me to contribute.
All of those listed were well executed financial frauds. I don't think successful people are particularly more likely to fall for scams - they just have the necessary capital/disposable income and are targeted by more sophisticated scammers.

I think the author thinks more along the lines of Steve Jobs trying to cure his cancer with herbal tea, Elon Musk sleep depriving himself into a twittering idiot, Scientology, NLP and various "success hacking" fads etc.

The answer there might be that in reality successful people are not really very different from unsuccessful ones, and have very little control over the contingencies and luck that put them onto their respective paths. This is certainly the case with financial success.