skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading that some types are also pollinators, and maybe even the sole pollinators for some particular plants.
Nope. Even in some absolute worst case scenario that you could come up with you can build a command line into the GUI for an application.
If school starts at 9AM EST for half the year and at 10AM EST for the other half, then people who drop their children before work will be available at 10:30AM for half the year, and will not for the other half.

If there is a certain time that really does work for everyone, then DST doesn't really affect it. At worse, it requires a bit of rescheduling in the calendar if the meeting was set by someone in a DST country. If the meeting was set by someone in India, it will even get automatically adjusted in everyone else's calendar. So DST itself is not actually making things difficult for you, it's only people's habits changing with winter/summer that makes things difficult.

And note, I have direct experience with all of this, working in Romania with colleagues from California and Kolkata with at least three recurring syncups with all three of us per week.
Feynman has a bit where empirixal measurements of some universal constant (electron charge?) slowly crept up to the now-accepted true value. He said scientists are a little bit ashamed of this, because it showed that higher estimates were discarded and not published - bias.

BTW scientists get no upvotes for merely reproducing "known" results.

Is there a way to see natural merit/discovery in reproducing (not an artificial incentive, like grants for repeating studies). Perhaps analogous to how teaching helps your own understanding?
>Why does body language need to get into involved?

Because it doesn't break your concentration to communicate via body language compared to telling someone that you can't talk right now.
That's so bad it's almost as bad as discord.
>Eras only end when there's no one left to carry on their ideals.

The Carters obviously have many more ideals to prolong than just his presidential ideals, so those are safe. However, in today's political environment, that era has definitely ended.
I can personally understand this, and am currently struggling with it. It's hard that the world works this way.
From the article: "...but Microsoft hasn’t decided whether it wants board representation..."

This is not a good sign. Microsoft the largest $10Bn investor, who is in the middle of pushing through the restructuring of the company, hasn't decided if they want board representation? The only reason you would do that if they want to keep their options open, in the future, to hit OpenAI hard (legally and/or to raid the personnel).

Board representation would come with a fiduciary responsibility and it looks like they may not want that. I could only imagine the intensity of Microsoft senior engineers screaming that they could replicate all of this in-house (not saying whether it's justified or not).
Thank you! I love science fiction
Sorry but it was pretty obvious what he meant.
Didn't Mohammad create laws in the Quran specifically to allow his criminal gangs to attack merchant caravans?
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(Submitted title was "Non-profit Matrix.org Foundation seems to be moving funds to for-profit Element")
There are a bunch of other factors as well. For one, the Mexican cartels are trying to expand into Europe, and basically offering franchise rights to local gangs. Sweden isn't uniquely targeted in this, but it sure did have a whole lot of dissatisfied youths.

The Swedish legal system is also not very well suited to dealing with the problem, and the system for amending laws has a lot of inertia.

A big problem is laws against information sharing between government agencies dating back to the shocking revelations about the STASI during the fall of the DDR. In calmer times this is a fine principle, especially given how much data is stored on Swedish citizens, but when you want to deal with organized crime, it's absolutely disastrous.
I'm going to disagree, it will be trivial in 3-4 years to recognize that no one blogging is going to make enough money from blogging to pay a human artist to do illustrations. :-)
A la, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
As of this moment the website still says under: https://openai.com/our-structure

Our board
"OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner."

There is also a prominent red notice that seems made for somebody in Seattle...

IMPORTANT

*Investing in OpenAI Global, LLC is a *high-risk investment*

*Investors could lose their capital contribution and not see any return*

*It would be wise to view an investment in OpenAI Global,LLC in the spirit of a donation, with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world*

I am going to grab more popcorn...
I think I'm going to check this out, ty!
Language. English is greatly preferred as a language these days.
I want them to take my money.

Update: They have taken my money. There are few groups that have kept my trust as well as these folks. I know they'll deliver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB49yJp-rJI

https://industrialannihilation.com/
What are you going to do if you are a huge country, with a small population and a tiny birth rate?
I wasn't saying a racial glass ceiling but a ethnic one, largely for the same reasons you mentioned. Lack of language proficiency plus a bit of bias against foreign degrees forced plenty of white collar immigrants to take blue collar jobs in Europe (and even Canada). This decreases social mobility as you don't have the network to get an "in" into plenty of well paying industries. While skills absolutely matter, some form of network really helps out.
Pursue inflationary monetary policy
Man seeing everyone's dialup nightmares I guess I should be satisfied by the quality of my local analog POTS Provider in the 1990s/2000s. I rarely connected at slower than advertised speeds. I would dial out and 99% of the time I would find it connected at 53K, even on a winmodem.
What badge do you suggest they should have given him? Those badges actually serve a function.
For one: Public healthcare used to be reasonably accessible. Now it's not rare to wait >6 months to get examined for anything beyond emergencies. Also true for mental health.
> Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.

For what it's worth, I've (British) never understood that either. Need more daylight hours for farmers to work or whatever, sure, no problem. But.. that's easily resolved as you described? And before widespread centralised time and access to it, surely they just started at sunrise or soon after, whenever the sun happened to rise. I don't get it.
> massive PTO minimums or a 30-hour workweek

and WFH.

i stopped staying up until 3am+ and coming into work dead tired when i started WFH full time.

still didn't cure all my insomnia issues, but stopped the entirely self-inflicted ones.
Is this the kind of alignment we can expect from superintelligence? Gossiping, surprise trials, and purges?
> Ah, a grammar pedant. Haven't met one in a while.

"That is now is 7 PM"

"and want it to run tomorrow"

"Like if simply print"

none of these make sense

> Try again setting your timezone to let's say NY and date at 2023-11-04.

not sure what point youre trying to make, but youre failing:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"time"
)

func main() {
t1 := time.Date(2023,11,4,7+12,0,0,0,time.FixedZone("EST", -5*3600))
t2 := t1.Add(12 * time.Hour)
fmt.Println(t1) // 2023-11-04 19:00:00 -0500 EST
fmt.Println(t2) // 2023-11-05 07:00:00 -0500 EST
}
It does, which is great. Note however that Go times can be either wall-time or (wall-time, monotonic time), which have different semantics and are both represented by the same type.
The Facebook and WhatsApp groups where moms arrange playdates for college kids
Why is it tiny Mr Silicon Valley man?
Skymast's comment is killed but he's absolutely right. New species are born and discovered (note these two are distinct) everyday and we still ™ don't have a good idea of what net change is in species count. I do not mourn the loss of the 49 species of bacteria that died in shower this morning, or the 20 species of mosquito eradicated.
Microsoft is looking 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.
Of course SES is heritable! If you believe IQ is heritable to a degree, genetic to a degree, and contributes to SES, then it's reasonable to expect SES to be both heritable and genetic to a degree. It would be surprising if there was some complicating factor that nullified the advantage from IQ but only in the case where the IQ-correlated SNPs were present.
Does the story of Sam raising funds from Saudi investors to start a AI Chip company have any relevance to what happened or is that just a nothing-burger? I don't any people on HN discussing it today
Yeah, a $2.8Tn tech company and a venture capitalist's network managing to overturn the non-profit Board's completely legal action (legally required of the Board, even) they took in furtherance of their Charter would be the ultimate practical demonstration that no legal structure, not even those specifically designed to do so, is above what capital wants. It's their world, we're just living in it, and they want to make sure they make the next world subservient to them too.
That is one of the arguments here, certainly. But there's another also being discussed that concerns whether there is always a salary level high enough to get a particular individual to take any job.
Josh literally started less than six months ago and is the first employee of the foundation – do you think that there are some papers ready here and now for him to hand out?

Needlessly aggressive tone from you…
The problem is Elon's approach to alignment as presented during x.ai launch is pretty different to what Ilya says and as far as I can tell pretty naive on top of that.
There was nothing in this article that gets us closer to AGI that I can see, what is happening is what in data science we call "self-training" or "bootstrapping". Its nothing new and only kind of works.

We've had at least three posts this week on "AGI" or "self-aware" AI. The only thing that changed in the last year is that our spell checkers have gotten a lot better and everyone seems to think that means we've taken a huge step toward actual AI, we haven't. I was as excited as the next guy but it turns out after a lot of testing and learning our newest "AI" is no closer in consciousness as our last go. Its weird and sad to see so many people thinking a spell checker is going to come alive.
I wonder if it's more like 11 "dimensional analysis" dimensions, rather than space/time+ dimensions. So thinking about something complicated could mean we can process/hold 11 separate variables at a time?
Did you even read this?!
It talks about pathologist keeping body parts without permission.

"Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives."

Palestinians were not targeted specifically, nor were they killed for their body parts. That's what is implied by you. Again this was a big deal in Israel, it was a huge scandal investigated by our media and institutions.

It's a far cry from Israel kidnaps and kills Palestinians for their body parts. Like you implied.

It's amazing that you don't have anything to say about the massacre of oct7 but about a scandal involving a corrupt pathologist more than 30 years ago is of top concern .
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/musks-twitter-has-been-sued-...

He's pretty bad at honoring contracts too
Yup. And organized crime is, in general, entrepreneurship with relaxed legal constraints. A lot of the structures and activities of criminal organizations are just running a business in a much more high-risk environment, due to inability to stay within, and therefore fully leverage the legal system (i.e. your competitors can't sue you, so instead they'll shoot you up).
I apologize in advance for this snarky comment, but with Elon’s track record when it comes to safety at Twitter and Tesla, I would doubt his sincerity or follow-through on AI safety.
So are financial institutions, including VC firms and incubators.
Are we looking at the same chart like? Because that chart shows it's been roughly steady since 1990, with some peaks up and some peaks down: 1991 was an outlier upwards, 2012 an outlier downwards, but overall: roughly stable. This kind of variation is to be expected since in absolute numbers it's a relatively small number of people.
This article has a strange take on algorithmic scaling.

L1, L2, LL, MM, Disk, NetDisk ..., GalacticRAM.

Wow, you actually expected traversing ‘system boundaries’ with distinct access costs and maintain theoretical scaling?

An algorithm that is O(n) will be O(n) in L1, O(n) in L2, ,..., and yes O(n) in GalacticRAM. Each (sub-)system traversal is due to exceeding capacity limits.

There is likely a more interesting mathematical result buried in here, since we see that a series of sub-systems with relative constant order of magnitude increases in access costs in aggregate transforms f -> f’ with this interesting n^.5 term showing up instead of the logs.
I've struggled since that age as well. I have good periods and bad periods, but I still can't really get to sleep unless I've had an hour of "quiet house" time.

I did the same thing, BTW. I'd stay up and read, complete school workbooks ahead of time, etc.
I think it's awesome to see this level of excitement, but what are the leading theories behind Ilya/board's silence?
I asked the question on GPT 4 and got the right answer:

To solve this logical reasoning problem, we need to look for patterns in the given sequence: FXGB, HXIB, JXKB, _____, NXOB.

1. Analyzing the first and last letters of each group:
- FXGB → HXIB → JXKB → ? → NXOB
- F → H → J → ? → N

Here, the pattern in the first letter seems to be skipping one letter in the alphabet each time (F +2 → H, H +2 → J, J +2 → L). So, the first letter of the missing group should be L.

Looking at the last letter, we see a similar pattern:
- B → B → B → ? → B

The last letter is consistently B, so the last letter of the missing group should also be B.

2. Now, for the middle letters:
- FXGB → HXIB → JXKB → ? → NXOB

The middle letter appears to be consistently 'X', and the next letter is incrementing by one each time (G → I → K → ? → O). Following this pattern, the letter after 'X' should be M (K +1 → L, L +1 → M).

So, putting it all together, the sequence should be LXMB, which is option D. Therefore, the correct answer is D. LXMB.
Newsworthy
Off the top of my head:

TodePond

100 Rabbits

Richard Feldman

Evan Czaplicki

Bret Victor

Sorry Im writing this on mobile. email me at hello@taylor.town if you want some links to good lectures or other cool people in specific domains
Yes. Including the haptic + visual element of searching for the next one when going through the sleeves. CDs at least still had that, while digital file lists are just much harder to navigate.

(This is also why I keep buying physical books despite enjoying the convenience of an e-reader)
> some cultures are not compatible with ours

No that is extremely racist sorry!
I'm 46 yo. When I grew up, the Swedish state took care of a lot of things; public transport, phone services, health care including pharmacies, postal services etc. It was mostly cheap and reliable.

These days all of it has been privatized, which has made it more expensive and not nearly as reliable.

Even government institutions, like the tax office have gone seriously downhill lately. You used to be able to go there and get professional help in reasonable time. These days it's a joke in comparison. There isn't even a tax office anymore, it's been lumped together with the unemployment office and God knows what and staffed with immigrants just of the bus who don't know shit about anything.

You used to be able to ask the police for help and expect to get it, politely; these days I'm more afraid of cops than criminals to be honest.

I could go on and on.
>>extrapolating qualified immunity

no, I am talking about sovereign immunity, which has nothing to do with qualified immunity, and is absolute.

you can not sue the government unless the government has passed a law under which they have allowed you to sue them.
Or only the people who it actually affects make any such adjustment?

Currently the shop closes at 8pm and it's dark by 4pm; in Summer it closes at 8pm still (on +1 time) and it's dark at what 11pm or later? Explain your point again?
I would also point out that you are similarly unable to sue individuals in a corporation, though you can sue the corporation itself. "Piercing the corporate veil" requires alot of special and onerous conditions to be met, somewhat similar to qualified immunity.
I believe you can add filetype:svg or something similar. I've used that in the past to retrieve PNG files.
One way I think about it is that unit tests help me maintain invariances that the compiler for the current language can't do for me.

That saves me from having to test every combination of inputs.
There's a new paper related to this RF signal identification technology by MIT [1]:

[1] Score-based Source Separation with Applications to Digital Communication Signals:

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/score-based-source-separati...
> This piece is part of an ongoing Iranian campaign to destroy Israel, and make ppl in the west forget about the heinous massacare that happened on Oct 7. Where Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and attacked villages killing whole families in bed, raping mothers Infront of their children. Killing babies. Gauging eyes. Burning children alive. And taking hundreds of hostages, aged 9momth to 90 year old.

Yes, that's terrible. However, your comment is whataboutism that is trying distract from the subject of the article using emotionally charged language.
This seems to me like an example of how difficult it is to organize a company around a goal other then making money. As a non-profit, OpanAI was not supposed to be a profit maximizing enterprise. But how is a board supposed to opperate, and set objectives without a clear goal like profit maximization? Usually a boards represents the owners of the business and their interested. The OpenAI board does not represent the owners because there are no owners. So the board is just 6 people and their opionions. Hard to see how that can work.
It is an issue of some cultures being objectively worse. Many immigrants come from places where the rights of women are not respected, and surprise surprise, the incidence of rape has gone up by 50% between 2008 and 2018, and first/second gen immigrants now comprise 60% of rapists in Sweden.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330751/
String theory confirmed? ;)
I was there! And I recognize so many people in the video. And they look so young, of course.

The large penguins held up by Rick Moen (early on) and Eric Raymond (later) were mine, and I still have them. I also still have the letter that Microsoft handed out to everyone. Text is still at http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/dear-valued-customer.html

It was a very fun time... though I wish people had actually gotten their refunds. It's still not routinely possible to get computers without a preinstalled operating system from most manufacturers in the U.S., even decades later.
This discussion is about monotone Boolean functions. That is, functions from {0,1}^N → N, such that "flipping" any input from 0 to 1 never causes the output to go from 1 to 0.

I can't think of any way to to write a prime-counting function as an interesting monotone Boolean function. If you represent the numbers in binary, it's not monotone. If you write them in unary, with a separate function for each bit, then each bit's function (taken by itself) is just a near-trivial threshold function.
They are there.
Can't you use `mprotect` to allow you to write to memory and execute?

https://github.com/Frodox/execute-machine-code-from-memory/t... has several examples of how to do it.

EDIT: https://www.kvakil.me/posts/2022-10-13-optimizing-mprotect-i... is another good link that explains this.
Google search for “slave labor definition”: labor that is coerced and inadequately rewarded, or the people who perform such labor.
We can split hairs and debate semantics but that definition fits my use of the phrase.
They'll definitely both get funded.
This is factually not true, and you can easily see it in the correlation between waves of immigrants and the crime rates going immediately up. We aren't talking about just organized crime, but also petty crime, rape, etc.

Usually, after 2 generations, most people adopt the local culture. You can see it in quite tangible metrics, like, for example, they stop having many children, with the fertility rate dropping to the Western average. And if first and second generation descendants become a problem, indeed, then we can talk about society being broken, and the solution is to fix it, not to stop immigration.

For me, talking about slowing down immigration is like talking about slowing down the economy. It can't be done without people eventually starving.
My family also met them once by accident on a holiday cruise in the Caribbean. They apparently take their family on a vacation every year and just happened to book the same cruise as us.

They were very friendly and down to earth. My father spoke to Jimmy at a book signing event on the ship and asked if he could say a few words to Rosalynn if she was around. Jimmy just said something like "sure, head on in to the back room", which was guarded by a member of secret service who let my dad right in.

Side note: The most fun aspect for teen-aged me was seeing the Carters on a bike ride with two Secret Service agents following in tropical shirts and shorts.
Yeah man, whatever you say! :^)

https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1726060441103958481
That number is 91 employees out OAI's 700. Seems like a pretty reasonable number of people to support Sam's faction, but absolutely recoverable for OAI even if every single heart leaves.
Late 70’s and early 80’s vinyl was pretty awful too.
They represent the charter. That is literally the metric.
The Professor of Parody: the hip defeatism of Judith Butler (1999)
It’s clearly falling and then rising. Compare to Finland which has a similar fall, but continues to fall instead of rise.
Some say the neural waves (alpha, ...) are the frame rate.
You might be interested in what these folks are doing: https://x.com/OpenSoulsPBC