skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are biased towards grokking two-dimensional information arranged in grids because that's how vision works. (Non-V) GPT is not. Its natural gestalt has a vast number of dimensions. It is, and it should, be able to find correlations across data no matter how the input is arranged. (Note that for GPT text is not linear even if it appears so to humans.)

To humans it would be qualitatively more difficult to recognize patterns in four or six or ten-dimensional data than in two dimensions. To GPT, it's just another variation of the same problem, one that's at most quantitatively more difficult.

> And even the valid comparison is only measuring visio-spatial intelligence, not IQ.

You're the first one to mention IQ. The paper definitely does not. In any case "visio-spatial intelligence" is a human concept. GPT doesn't distinguish between "visio-spatial" and any other kind of pattern recognition.
I think the point should not be that we expect cashiers to stop criminals. Rather the issue is that the state forbids their intervention. Why should people be disallowed from protecting their private property?
Dark pattern for sure. Hate to see it. I’d put my foot down too if I were in that situation.
> This is how you get people to never buy your games again.

Every big studio/publisher does this, they still sell their games.
I have been immensely impressed with the progress that Ruffle has made. I think the entire Homestar Runner site is powered by Ruffle now, and it seems to work totally fine.
Opinion of a german here: Build & break things (without caring for laws or implications) is what the US and their companies do. Often it works, and sometimes breaking the law makes a new law pop up to legalize it, but that's not a good thing.

Yes, it's a big annoying to start a company in some EU countries. No, it's not as bad as HN claims.
You're acting like we're all out on the Savanah hunting a wild predator animal.

Just trying collecting a cat to put in a carrier that's just not interested in that. The longer you try, the more upset it will get. It doesn't have to be a cat that doesn't know you.
The CSuite walks in with a golden parachute. No SWE job automatically vests a ton of options when you're fired by the company.
Any labor deserves compensation. Volunteering is choosing to donate labor, not doing labor that doesn't deserve compensation. That's true if its 1 hour every other week or 40 hours a week, not a function of the time commitment.

IF and how much any given person is willing and, given their other circumstances, able to donate is, obviously, highly variable between people.
> They found that groups of neurons connect into 'cliques', and that the number of neurons in a clique would lead to its size as a high-dimensional geometric object.

So cliques of 11 neurons have been found in the brain? I'd hardly call this 11 dimensional.
Would be great to have a local home assistant voice interface with this + llama + whisper.
You need about 1,000 IU per day to raise your serum levels by 25 nmol/L. The healthy level according to modern analysis is around 75-100 nmol/L.

What's important is that vitamin D is fat-soluble and will accumulate in your body. So if you do 5,000 IU/day for ever, your serum levels will likely just go up and up. 5,000 IU per day is not (as the other comments point out) anywhere a "megadose" — most people produce thousands of IU per hour when out in full sunlight — but it can eventually cause problems, including kidney stones and bone mineral density loss. (There's evidence that taking vitamin K2 together with the vitamin D helps maintain bone density.)

What's better is to do this for a while, then test your blood, then change the dose accordingly. Since the lag time is measured in weeks, it may take a while to find the right dose.
the traumatizing content is a very real part of it, in my experience 'red teaming' LLMs included both reviewing and creating overtly violent, sexual, racist content, via prompt. if you refused the work you got fired. not surprising, but real.
Interesting. The Wikipedia's declaration about them being "new religious movement" is inconsistent with the body of the article. It looks like it started as some kind of Chi Kung exercise and wellness group, but it got big very fast and Chinese Government got concerned about their popularity. Then, under CCP persecution, it escalated and morphed into a full-blown political dissident movement. Initially viewed favorably by the press as a dissident movement. Now, Wikipedia article is very unfavorable because The Epoch Times misalignment with press. Ok, I think I understand.
> perhaps the hard bit is coming up with a thing to achieve

it is. I don't need a full 2FA TOTP AD integrated SSO for my personal NextCloud instance.

The only way to understand it outside of a job task is to make it for my personal NC instance with usercount of one
Requiring companies to offer more than two weeks of paid time off per year.
That's not true at all, Euronet ATMs will happily add 5€+ to your withdrawal - something (local) bank owned ATMs usually don't.

There's a reason why they got such a bad reputation.
After getting used to a slow treadmill at my stand up desk, even watching TV and gaming on a couch feels like wasted opportunity.

Most entertainment isn't so engrossing that it needs my undivided attention sitting on a couch. The best example lately has been Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom where a surprising amount of time is spent just running around. Might as well do it from a treadmill.
I'm no crypto fan, but how is it scammy?

Non-humans could potentially have a public key; I'm a fan of switching to public keys in general but it doesn't solve the problem of assuring "unique humanness".
Agree with this take. Sam previously stated (eg on Lex’s podcast) that a slow takeoff soon was his goal, to give society maximum time to adjust and to prevent an unexpected fast takeoff from capability overhang. I bought his take when he said it.

Going off and trying to accelerate hardware capabilities (especially with an outside company that presumably sells these processors on the open market) seems indefensible in this framework unless you have already solved alignment, which they clearly have not.
What gear were you using?
Curious, how does Snowflake compare against Redshift, Trino, etc.?
1. Then call yourself "mostly open source" instead of "open source"

2. I know. I type one because it is shorter. As cool of a pedantic ad-hominem as this is, my arguments all hold up when you replace FOSS with open source. So imagine I have done this.

3. Irrelevant.

4. Irrelevant.

5. Irrelevant.

Stop calling everyone who disagrees with you toxic. Stop lying about being open source on your website https://open.sentry.io/.
>Why should you get content for free if you aren't able or willing to pay for it?

What about the first language you acquired? I hope you pay a per use perpetual fee for every sentence popping in your mind in its expression space, and that your license to use it also includes an obligation of permanent report of every single bit of intimacy that you might experiment.
Since when is volunteering supposed to pay your bills??
Absolutely, we need fewer reproduction-units and more corporate worker-units. Women should be made to serve corporations, not their families.
Does this actually work? I had thought that you can't use SLI to increase your net memory for the modal?
I don’t know. It can easily be the case of $1 comp, and insane amounts of work and pressure, including financial, from all sides. It is quite clear that crypto is failing and he is deeply engaged into crypto with the WorldCoin project. For all we know, personal moneys may have been spent on crypto.
To me, the situation is not necessarily about ethics, although ethics are important to me. It's about conflicts of interest. You cannot maintain no conflicts of interest if you stand to personally gain in one venture from another venture and by pitting them against another or propping one up on the other.

If I'm a government official, then it's a conflict of interest if I own a construction company and increase budget for specific constructions to give my company a boost. This obviously happens in our government today, but it doesn't not make it a major problem.

The other perspective is one of grifting. It's similar to con men, who just move from thing to thing gathering up chips at the table. These investors and so-called entrepreneurs are just like that. They are interested in upping their profile at all costs. Their investments and companies are just a means.

I have worked in jobs where I need to report stock holdings more than a certain amount. Imagine a scenario where a low-level worker could affect billion dollar companies' stock enough to benefit from by buying their products on the job. Such a scenario doesn't exist, but the conflicts of interest are still tracked. It is much easier for high profile executives to affect price movements, amd that's why it's more, not less, important for high-level employees.
I don’t get your point that it’s not AI. Just because the input to the model is curated doesn’t make it either not intelligent or not artificial. Its properties are what they are regardless of the genesis. Assuming the behavior they display is intelligence, I assume also we agree it’s artificial and not naturally emergent. Am I missing something?
That’s the reading I am getting: MS lawyers really screwed up this one. What kind of lawyer worth their salt would let the company put $10BN on an investment on “capped profit” where you’re supposed to treat “investments as donations”? The more I read about it the more I keep thinking what the lawyers must have been on to not make more noise about this earlier.
> While still in high school, Minkow founded ZZZZ Best (pronounced "Zee Best"), which appeared to be an immensely successful carpet-cleaning and restoration company. However, it was actually a front to attract investment for a massive Ponzi scheme.

Apples and oranges.
If the general consensus is that the org is legit and hosts quality work/research, then yes an appeal to authority is warranted. Does that mean they’re above scrutiny? No. But it does mean the person dismissing the work needs to present a concrete reason given it’s been validated/vetted by an org folks generally trust based on a proven track record.
There are some people for who this is the opportunity of a lifetime.

PSAR volunteers are also called Trailhead Stewards and people who care a lot about the environment and the health and safety of people flock to these positions. You get training, accommodation that is impossible to obtain otherwise, and experience. There is almost always a waiting list for trailhead stewards.

I’m a watershed steward so I spend a ludicrous number of hours poking around storm drains, parking lots, and streams, writing and giving presentations, compiling reports, and wrangling volunteers for cleanup and drainage projects all in exchange for $0.00.

I like sailing and swimming and fishing and I want my local rivers and bays to be clean. If I liked hiking in the mountains I’d probably be a trailhead steward.

Here’s a video with some psar volunteers:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/grand_canyon_nps/51252679717/i...
You're free to use numbers instead of the datetime module. In fact you don't have to use any part of the standard library if you don't want to. I don't understand your remarks at all.

If you think UTC means that "time is a number" you are very confused though. UTC has no relation with the UNIX timestamps (and the epoch), though they are both ways to represent a specific point in time.
Van Moof was the Tesla of e-bikes, now we're past that stage and into "everyone and anyone is building e-bikes in a crazy range of shapes and sizes to fit almost every usage and they just keep getting better and cheaper" stage that we're just about to enter for larger Electric Vehicles.
You were not there for me when I looked for a job. Why should I care for you now?
Good riddance.
"Conflict of interest" is not defined by a bad outcome or malice.
It is defined as the potential of those, human nature, and various cognitive biases. "Conflict of interest" is disclosing anything that could lead to a biased decision or lack of transparency.
Can a CEO of 2 companies be objective about a contract between the two and when claiming that his company no2 is better than the competition?

And in the tech-specific case:
As much as junior engineers would love to believe in "superior" solutions, tech decisions are seldom clear-cut. There are many trade-offs: cost, efficiency, memory use, throughput, latency, ease of use, cost of switching, and many more. You always have a pile of pros and cons. Sometimes, one is strong enough, but most of the time, it feels almost like guessing/intuition. And then the conflict of interest becomes especially concerning.
A lot of it was GE's fault at the time, specifically. GE wanted facilities in New York, Cincinnati (OH), and Louisville (KY), among others, to all be in the same time zone and had the economic power at the time to lobby the railroads and the cities to make that happen.
I think that's actually IBM Selectric Script, not Scribe (the images are labelled at the bottom not the top). https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10922/script-ibm finds two uses of it.
Considering it was the first such place in Poland, it's sort of a tourist trap in and of itself.

Or was. Never been there, because 25PLN for a beer was an outrageous sum at the time.
I’d be happy to work in an office, had I little commute.

I moved from Boston to Providence in 2019. The thought of doing 4-5 hours of daily commute to get into Boston, pay for parking, deal with taking food there or daily expense of eating out, wear and tear on a vehicle… fuck no. Tech barely exists in providence though, so most in office jobs would be in Boston

I did this to myself yes, but having a house that wasn’t tiny and expensive was important to me
> Doing chores and being productive are antithetic.

Creative, high-leverage work like programming isn't a linear function of hours-in-chair. If working from home lets you focus better and be more creative, you can absolutely be both more productive and have time to do chores/etc.
Irrelevant, they explicitly structured the for-profit as subservient to the non-profit and its goal of “safe AGI to benefit all humanity”. Investors knew that structure and charter when they invested.

There will certainly be lawsuits of course.
Oh good. Sorry I thought the implication was that this one fell short (as some of the other comments seem to suggest).

Thanks!
> my garage

This is one of the big issues. EVs are for the class of people who own houses with garages, in the suburbs of large metros.
This probably would work for most but mine tried to kill me.

My oldest had a stretch where 5:30am was his normal, natural wake up time. By stretch I mean I think he was 6 or 7 and finally grew out of it.

Alright I’m ready. Let’s go!

I’m usually a 7-8am until to 12-1am kind of person, so that was tough.
The project I work on, which also hosts user-generated content, ran into related problems:

- Outlook365 blocking any emails containing our domain

- ISPs blocking our domain via DNS filtering

In each case the blocklisting process was far from transparent and mitigation was difficult and stressful.

If you're in the same boat, reach out to me (email in profile). I believe we can make this topic a little less scary by connecting and sharing learnings.
As Twitter's usage declined the extra Sacramento DC was sold to Tesla.

Despite Musk saying it was terrible.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/after-elon-musk-bash...
I was replying to this specifically

> I challenge the author to go find a wired keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB C plug. it’s possible, but not easy.

where they do specially call out keyboards
Unfortunately, MS is not known for being the world champion in fair play, and this isn’t going to be the first time they try to sink others’ ships to hide their own incompetence (in this case, putting $10BN in a weird “capped profit” entity without understanding what may come of it.)
There are still quite a few countries in Europe that don't use the euro, so conversion is an issue there. And most Euronet ATMs have a high surcharge even when drawing euros from a euro account (this may differ per country and location).
They are using “underage” because it baits your clicks. The article isn’t about a real problem, the problem it was trying to solve is how to keep their employees paid.
> I just took the train into the city, had a burger & beer, and soon I'll train back home. I have zero worries about my safety.

That's also the life of millions in Ukraine right now so your anecdote doesn't mean much

Looking at the statistics and historical trends paint another picture, of course this isn't El Salvador, but it doesn't mean it's going in the right direction
Did they excavate the grounds, the article mentioned further finds were made, although I was getting the impression those had already been dug up.
Re: open.sentry.io, some of the language should probably be more clear. We’ll take a look at it.
>They gave a counter argument with examples from the charter

Examples is a very generous word. They merely just quoted parts of the charter and pretended the argument would stand on its own.

Watch me literally do the same thing.

Here are all the parts of the carter Sam violated, and I'll even do one better and provide insight:

>Long-term safety

He has been very clear about his position that OpenAI should press forward, despite risks, and used faulty equivocation to justify said position. “A misaligned superintelligent AGI could cause grievous harm to the world; an autocratic regime with a decisive superintelligence lead could do that too.” - Sam

>Technical leadership

Sam doesn't value technical leadership, as proven by his history at other companies and he isn't technical himself. He will immediately pivot to cashing out the moment the time is right. OpenAI is a steward of the domain, not a profiteer. Attempting to solicit special arrangements with other vendors isn't going to progress the domain forward, that happens through research, not special kickbacks.

>Cooperative orientation

The board clearly didn't believe he was being cooperative, with them and perhaps the larger AI community. Given his positions on safety and progress it's not surprising to see him being outed.

Since my comment is easily twice the effort of GP, and I have now baselined my comment with the standards you clearly see as valuable, I look forward to your constructive input.

Which I doubt there will be, which is what was funny about the original comment. All that it deserved was "LOL."
No, it can't, but then, volunteering isn't a job, and its function isn't to pay your bills.

A particular volunteer opportunity may not be interesting to you, because of the time commitment and the opportunity cost of sacrificing paid work, or because you aren't interested in the particular area of volunteer work, or because you just aren't interested in donating labor in general, but... so what? The posting of the volunteer opportunity isn't a personal solicitation aimed at you, either.
Creating a revenue stream that's not dependent on member subscriptions is definitely a motivating factor. The Community Grants Program suffered this year because members were far less willing to donate funds towards it.

I'm not sure that I agree with the notion that the foundation is attempting to influence anything. The influence flows the other way. It acts in support of the project.

Employers, particularly large employers, are asking for "official" certifications. The only org that can realistically offer this is the foundation itself. There are gaps in the labor market. Companies complain that there are too few developers, and developers complain that there are too few jobs. The program is in no means a complete solution to the problem, but it does bias the situation in a positive direction.
Half-expected to see vaquitas on this list... sounds like they're still holding on, at least for now :(
"non-profit nature of OpenAI would not allow for it."

How so? Seeking more efficiency and cost-effectiveness absolutely does not conflict with a non-profit mission.
Alternately, it was seen as necessary to fire Altman and blowback was seen as inevitable.

Do you think Microsoft, who had close personal connections to Altman and who was a direct and outsized beneficiary of his leadership was just going to be like “Ah, yeah, you guys got a point there. Let’s ditch him.”?

Of course not. They would have used their leverage to prevent his ouster, and the board and its charter would be shown as completely impotent. The cause they were formed over would have been lost.

The firing may also have ruined the effort, but did show in a public show of principle rather than in being quietly disempowered. You can see where an idealist who thinks there are real stakes to the cause would choose the public firing of Altman over the mufflwd suffocation of their principles.
That may depend on the state and the time of day.
> Of course you can. There are 10 bullet points on the OSD. If you meet 9 then it's 90% there. This is obvious better than 80%, which is better than 50%, which is better than 0%.

Way may just have to agree to disagree then. I find it interesting that the only time anyone talks about "mostly" or "nearly" open source is in the context of a company looking to get the marketing benefit of association, and maybe some people to do some free contributions for them, without being bound by the social contract at the heart of the FOSS values. But maybe that's just me.

> To lay claim on not just the phrase "Open Source" but the very adverb "Open" is not just historically incorrect but also hugely unreasonable.

So this is my bad, I should have been clearer. When I said "'but-for-one' is not open by definition,", I meant in the context of FOSS, and specifically the definitions the OSI maintains. "But-for-one" violates criteria #5 & #6.

And yes, the word "open" has existed for a long time, but that's sort of why the OSI standardized the term. This has been a solved problem for decades, and efforts to dilute what it means are only ever looked upon with extreme skepticism.

If people think the OSI definition is bad or incomplete, then that's an argument worth having out in the open. But that's not what I see.
These arguments are exhausting. If you are important enough affordances will be made at lots of companies.

This is such a terrible argument though. Executives in practically every industry are all over the map in their efforts and roles. They might serve on different boards or as an advisor. This is different than someone is works in a single function such as the life of a product engineer.
Not at all fine. As we’ve just seen, it’s a fireable offense.
> I sometimes wonder if NASA has a dedicated team paid just to "debunk" people who claim that Moon landing is faked.

> After leaving a recent reply and getting negative karma on several other unrelated comments in like 5 minutes, I can confirm with high probability that my assertion above is correct. Thank you NASA!

News at 11, person takes society's consistent interpretation of their crackpot conspiracy theories as ridiculius as further evidence of a conspiracy.

> Just explain to me how the USA managed to fund two large foreign wars and a bunch of expensive Moon landing missions at the same time, but now it's too expensive? You can't.

Sure I can. It's not too expensive as in "can't", it's too expensive as in "won't" because most the public doesn't care about it and it's not deemed a national security issues (which the space race was) which would cause the govt to push it anyways and also try to convince people with a concerted effort that it matters.

To me it feels like you don't understand how the social dynamics of representative governance works, but it's really fairly sinoke. Things people want are easy to fund or do, and things they don't are hard, but the government has various levers it can press to change that to larger or smaller degrees over time.