skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just coming up with excuses for the MTurk workers. "they were barely paying attention", "they were button mashing", "they weren't a single human", etc.

It turns out that GPT-4 does not have those problems. The comparison in the paper is not really fair, since it does not compare average humans vs GPT-4, it compares "humans that did well at our task" vs GPT-4.
I recently switched to linux desktop for my home PC. Compared to my last attempt at this, the experience is still...not great. There are some awesome features, but then you run into random issues that really sour the experience.

For example, my printer randomly disables itself. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, but I have to go into the settings and enable it before anything will print. Searching for solutions to this and the best I found was a suggestion to add a cron job that enables the printer automatically every x minutes.

I have some notes I add to every time I find an issue like that. It's a few pages long as this point.

I still don't really want to go back to Windows. They really have ruined it.
I agree with your point about mass media’s coverage of the conflict and I’m constantly reminded of Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” when watching how US media is covering it.
I would not put Ezra in the same bucket at all though and I don’t think this framing contradicts the view you mentioned. I imagine Ezra’s read aligns a lot more with Chomsky’s interpretation of the conflict and the amount of oppression each side has received or exerted.
I think his critique of Israel’s policies over the years is well documented.
This Vox video from a few years ago comes to mind as well

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU
I'd say it's more like the ape making and using its first crude tool by itself.
I'd question the correlation to COVID on that one.

The breakdown of the apprentice model ~20 years ago and now-due generational consequences of that change seems more to blame.

Community expertise evaporated with retirement of folks who have been doing it 30+ years.

And without anyone receiving it... many of the folks out there are "let me look up plans at Home Depot before doing the job" types.
> This sounds like an insane conflict of interest.

It would be, but: this company hasn't been formed yet and this sketch does not justify the haste with which they kicked him out, there were all kinds of boxes that needed to be checked before they could do that without risking damage to OpenAI, this is a founder and the CEO we're speaking of.

Besides that: stupidly enough the contract that Sam has with OpenAI does not have a non-compete in it (this has been confirmed by multiple sources now I take that as true) and I don't see how it directly would harm OpenAI other than that his attention might be diluted and that it should be clear which cap he is wearing. But until that company formed and Sam named himself CEO of it (or took up some other high profile role) it leaves him so many outs that it only makes the board look like bumbling idiots. Because now he can simply say: "I would only be an investor" and that would be that, just like the rest of the investors in OpenAI (and, notably some members of the board) have conflicts of interest at least as large.

So if this was it they're in even more trouble than they were before because now it is the boards' conflicts of interest that will be held up to the light and those are not necessarily smaller.

What a complete circus.
Some sanity.

You watch the latest blockbuster at sub 30 fps and survive
A general rule is to tip at least a dollar a drink, whether it's beer or beans
I wish him luck. I had a very humbling discussion with an employment attorney when I was dealing with some clearly illegal stuff going on at work and their advice was "First, people don't keep employed people who are suing them so ask yourself how much money you'll have at the end of the next two years if you just quit and work somewhere else, or spend $15K - $30K on a lawsuit that may or may not result in a severance package?" And then the kicker, "Then ask yourself what a hiring manager of a company you are applying to work at will feel when they find out you sued a previous employer?"

It really is stacked against the worker here. That he is already retired is a good thing, one hopes there isn't a clause buried in his pension that cancels it if he ever sues IBM.
Outrage porn. Nothing new.
Amazon is currently facing a lawsuit for pretty much this exact scenario. Investors are suing because they selected Blue Origin for Kuiper. They also selected ULA and Arianespace for some of the launches, but apparently did not even consider SpaceX. Although note that Bezos is not CEO anymore. He was when Kuiper started development, but as far as I can tell, not when they selected launch providers.
Storage is also horrifyingly cheap these days. Was just looking at recertified enterprise HDDs – can get a 20TB drive for $200. Wish I had some more spare change lying around!
But webkit already ran on m1 macos? It's likely they already have a version working just that they couldn't put it in the app store
I think pretty much all Spring games support that. Zero-K and BAR both do anyway. Both strategic zoom and real time “streaming” building came from Total Annihilation and Spring games are TA based.
Wouldn't that incentive people to just return all black images and render nothing to get free points?
> I'd love another room. Do they sell those at Costco? Can I put it on the lawn?

Unironically they do - https://www.costco.com/medano-10%27x12%27-studio-shed--%E2%8...
Less people available to own self-hosted solutions.

Proprietary also can mean a well-funded product with money allocated to DevEx and ease-of-use.
>as open source really does only mean source available

The definition and history of the term as a licence is unambiguous in that the only restriction on redistribution is that it contains the source code under the same licence. There are senior engineers alive today that weren't even born when this was the commonly understood meaning of the term, it's not a new concept.

The term and usage is being co-opted these days but that's bound to happen when it's not a legally protected definition. Give it another 10-20 years and I'm sure we'll be having the same argument over whatever term ends up replacing 'open source'.
> ASI stands for Artificial Superintelligence.

>> Note that the goal of ASI isn't to beat you per se, but the best humans.

I'm pretty sure they understand that.
It it wasn't one incident in particular then there was zero excuse for not bullet proofing it first.
We're in agreement; I think what I wrote got interpreted in the opposite way.
There is a form of vitamin d called 25 hydroxy that the body will immediately absorb. Some doctors used it during Covid because in 24 hours with iv treatment they could get a patient into the proper range.
Kyutai: Open Science AI Lab
Keyboards used to be a lot more varied. While some had blockers where the Windows key is now commonly placed,[1] some had blockers in different locations,[2] while others had the lower row tapered on the far sides,[3] or the lower row with no blockers but with different keys.[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard#/media/File:I...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/Fi...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ascom_BEG_100.jpg
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#/media/File:Schnei...
It's multiplayer only right?
> I think in 20 years, Go will still be a mainstream language. As will C and Python. As will Javascript, god help us all.

And yet the mainstream consensus is that C and JavaScript are terrible languages with deep design flaws. These weren’t as obvious pr avoidable at the time, but they’re realities we live with because they’re entrenched.

My assertion is that in twenty years, we’ll still be stuck with go but the honeymoon will be over and its proponents will finally be able to honestly accept and discuss its design flaws. Further, we’ll for the most part collectively accept that—unlike C and JavaScript—the worst of these flaws were own goals that could have and should have been avoided at the time. I further assert that there will never be another mainstream statically-typed language that makes the mistake of nil.

For that matter I think we’ll be stuck with Rust too. But I think the consensus will be that its flaws were a result of its programming model being somewhat novel and that it was a necessary step towards even better things, rather than a complete misstep.
This is a very (financially) privileged position. Most of humanity does not have the disposable income to subsidize businesses.
Apparently Revlon is a legal standard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326869
They are using 'underage' as a synonym for 'minor'. The article is not about the legality of employment.
Two options are acceptable for me personally:

1) "Crediting" the source models explicitly.

2) Generating away or cleaning up afterwards: incorrect spelling, hands with unnatural fingers, non-sensical devices/symbols etc.
This new Gen of AI adds an interesting twist to the infinite monkeys and typewriter issue.

How do you actually check an infinite amount of junk to verify that one of them is the collected works of Shakespeare?

The question I ask now is “whats your error rate for domain specific work ?”

It could be faster and smarter, but it doesnt matter if it’s wrong.
Anecdote: My wife has been in volunteer management for quite a while now, and in her multiple roles has used Volunteer Match. It’s a good platform, both for volunteers and organizers.
Yeah I am not sure what the difficulty is tbh, but I know nothing about codecs and media encoding.

The FR issue is here, by the way:

https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/4640

Thanks for the suggestion on Staxrip, I've given it a download!
In the context of the modern American nuclear family, the concept of both adults working is relatively new. The traditional arrangement was one breadwinner, one homemaker, and ~2.5 kids.

Which is still common these days, but not to the point of exclusivity: I work remotely, but my partner works hybrid.
From reading the paper and the original paper that the data for the MTurk/Prolific samples are drawn from, this is a convenience sample of 415 humans on two platforms. Each worker received a random sample of the ConceptARC problems, and the average score correct is assigned the "Human" benchmark.

Perhaps by "random sample problems" you mean that the study is not representative of all of humanity? If so we can still take the paper as evaluating these 415 humans who speak English against the two models. If as you say, the workers are actually just using LLMs then this implies there is some LLM that your average MTurk worker has access to that out-performs GPT 4 and GPT 4V. That seems *extremely* unlikely to say the least.

There is no need for any complex statistical analysis here since the question is simply comparing the scores on a test. It's a simple difference in means. Arguably, the main place that could benefit from additional statistical procedures would be weighting the sample to be representative of a target population, but that in no way affects the results of the study at hand.
Can you recommend good resources on MLOps?
I think the reverse is true. If you're a grunt no one really cares and it's not worth it to enforce. If you're c suite and leave to start a competitor you can be sure you'll be hearing from company lawyers. Similarly mandatory gardening leave generally grows with your title
I wrote a simple patch to postgres last month.

Some other patch that was written by someone else at my company is now part of postgres.
> At a point in time I used to be a Firefox user but after years of suboptimal experience on macOS I was happy to move on.

You might not be using it but the there are still many people that do. Firefox is fine especially when you have multiple OSes and you could have a single profile with extensions synced.

How are you using ublock and the sorts of the privacy extensions on chrome?

> Firefox on iOS will be whatever big G asks them to be.

Has firefox removed manifest v3 or implemented web integrity api because of Google? Or are you saying firefox is gonna do those just for the ios version? Isn't that assumption more ridiculous?
Many countries do not, in fact, have lower-level sovereignties with general powers with selective negative limits and a top level sovereign with limited, positive powers.

Very many countries are more like many US states are with their subordinate counties: that is, a top level sovereign with general powers and negative limits with subordinate non-sovereign entities with limited positive powers granted by the top-level sovereigns.
You can't use the same chips as Nvidia without licensing them. Creating a new type of GPU/TPU is a complex endeavor that involves much more than just a single chip.
Self published my first cooking book
Especially considering that many people tend to get their BMs around the same time, after coffee or a meal.
They handle this by serving user content from githubusercontent.com for this exact reason.
Interesting. Does managing your economy mean being efficient and keeping resources low or are there more complex elements to it?
This is my favorite programming font and have been using it for several years.
they aren't even a scam if the American has a good bank

those ATMs give you a choice on how to do currency conversion and my bank will do withdrawals at spot rate! I check forex and futures charts and I get the same rate.

and other than that just a normal ATM fee the same as I would encounter in the states. some banks reimburse those too.
Timezone Wars: The Windows 95 map that shook the world – Raymond Chen Interview
That's because you are paid for your time...

I know that sounds callous but it isn't rare at all for high level functionaries to hold positions in more than one entity, the board of directors of OpenAI is an excellent example of that. And some of those are arguably already conflicted.

Worker bees get paid to work, and companies would like to get a certain amount of time for their money because that what it says in your employment contract. You don't necessarily have to agree with that but then you have to carve your own path rather than to hitch your horse to someone else's wagon.
Why do you keep calling him a founder? Is my history wrong or did he jump from leading THIS very website to OpenAI when they came through for a round of sweet hn bucks.
Why would it be a placebo? Vit D can literally be measured, not?
i can see both sides of the public/private healthcare debate

but tying healthcare to employment is just incredibly stupid
As the creator, I'm also curious - It still shows me 0 page views for the 18th
A more usual method is to have the non-profits contract with a for-profit "management consulting firm" that does the running of the real things. Nonprofit can take in money, pay the for-profit for providing the thing the donation was earmarked for; all legal and fine. The same people can be employed by both companies.

Any profits the "for profit" arm makes can then be donated back to the non-profits for financial advantage in holding the money, if any. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Not my game so I can’t say, but if it’s that irreplaceable in your life doesn’t that mean YouTube is providing you a valuable service and you should pay them for it?

It’s easy to host video now so I’d also note that not treating YouTube as a fundamental human right would also open up room for competition. If they’re so bad you can’t stomach paying for what you like, why are you spending your time helping them maintain their high market share?
Show HN: QANotebook – web app for tracking testing activities on the browser
I wanted to share QANotebook app at https://qanotebook.com/.

It is an app targeted towards QA engineers and everyone who needs to do/track some testing related activities. Data is stored on the browser. It was inspired by having to manually produce very huge performance testing reports in JIRA.

In general, you can build/track documents containing multiple rows/columns/blocks, which can be used for producing :

- input test data by generating fake test data

- decision tables to identify possible test combinations

- tables - to quickly parse and present CSV tables

- checklists, graphs, charts, images and a few other blocks

I would really like to get feedback as I have worked on this project for some time. Please raise issues/comments here or at github https://github.com/gretard/QANotebook.
> JustServe.org is provided as a service by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

hmm...
I’m surprised that nobody has brought up that Altman was busy this summer dumping his nuclear startup Oklo onto the public market via a SPAC. He seems to be a talented fundraiser and dealmaker and not so much of a singleminded visionary who wants to spend the next decade perfecting the details of AGI. Maybe the right place for him is focusing on his next few startups.
There has been discussion about this more than a decade ago by people like Dan North and Liz Keogh. I think it’s widely accepted that strict TDD can reduce agility when projects face a lot of uncertainty and flux (both at the requirements and implementation levels). I will maintain that functional and integration tests are more effective than low-level unit tests in most cases, because they’re more likely to test things customers care about directly, and are less volatile than implementation-level specifics. But there’s no free lunch, all we’re ever trying to do is get value for our investment of time and reduce what risks we can. Sometimes you’ll work on projects where you build low level capabilities that are very valuable, and the actual requirements vary wildly as stakeholders navigate uncertainty. In those cases you’re glad to have solid foundations even if everything above is quite wobbly. Time, change and uncertainty are part of your domain and you have to reason about them the same as everything else.
I've been to the OpenAI office once, and saw Sam sitting on a couch working. This is obviously just a single data point, so who knows.
Which is fun, but of course both risk factors are addictive as smokers can be both. Could more be done on fitness (in particular, compared to smoking)? Sure, but our current strategies on exercise are a giant failure whereas on smoking they're a large success.

The biggest problem with fitness today is that fitness outside of group sports is where fun goes to die. It is 2023, and we still have very few gaming-like integrations at the gym, fun isn't even on the radar for the fitness industry. They might throw a TV showing the news into the corner and some "achievements" on your Fitbit/Apple Watch.

Ultimately, there is a lot we could do on fitness/exercise to make people WANT to do it, but we aren't. We just keep repeating the whole "exercise should feel like chore, and you should want to do it anyway" strategy over and over with new lipstick and being surprised when it fails.

Where is fun? The industry is essentially innovation free.
One example of conflict of interests is Adam D'Angelo is sitting on OpenAI's board when Quora is building a competitor, Poe.

And it has been rumored that D'Angelo helped a lot with this coup because he did it before at Quora.
Your critique of the article is sensible to a point. But your analysis is incomplete. I’m gonna lay out a few predicates hopefully we can all agree on as true, then get to my point.

First, hopefully you can agree that, fundamentally, the company paying these child workers is trading money for labor. (This shouldn’t be controversial, it’s a fact of labor markets.)

Second, the companies paying these children are extracting value from their labor greater than what they are paying the child laborers.

Third, the employers chose laborers located “predominantly … in East Africa, Venezuela, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines” for this work because that’s where they can pay the least in labor costs while still extracting value.

Fourth, keeping labor costs as low as possible while extracting maximum value is the most rational course of action.

Fifth, and finally, it is very rational for children to seek out & undertake this work — to exchange their labor for money — given the economics of their lives.

With these predicates laid out, my point: The reason your analysis doesn’t lead you to thinking this is a raw deal for the children involved is because in a sense, it’s not. Given the economics of their lives, this is, relatively speaking, a good deal.

The rawness of the deal only becomes apparent when we start to inspect why material conditions are such that this deal — trading an hour of labor for $2 to a company serving a multi-billion-dollar market — is enticing to children.

In other words, this article, in my analysis, is an opportunity to study and question the system that creates the conditions such that there is a labor market comprising children who are available for exploitation for cheap labor by very rich Western companies.
No, they will just add it to their reserves. They don't distribute the profits, so no dividends (no shareholders), bonuses or stock buy-backs (no stock). But you can totally use the profits made in this year to fund next year's costs.
What alternative do you have even for many highly-paid professional jobs like doctors?
>what issues would this solve exactly?

Other people not knowing that he is in deep focus.
Not all tourists are Americans. I would expect the average person scammed by these ATMs is an European citizen from a different country.

I agree the map kinda sucks, because most of the island of Mallorca is a tourist trap at this point. But you can see how the interior's population centers, like Inca, Sa Pobla and Manacor, have none.

For a better example, as one of the replies to the tweet suggests, check using Google Maps around Barcelona. You can see sixteen of them crowded around Sagrada Familia, for example, and barely any in the mostly-residential neighbourhoods further north.
“Sure, here’s your office - cell #510J”

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/11/13/aws_prison_office...
Go to bed with the sun at home, that will help you wake up with the sun.
By that logic alcohol and tobacco gotta go wholesale. They are the most destructive and addictive and its not just because they are the only legal options. The mental dichotomy people make in differentiating alcohol/tobacco and DRUGS is asinine. They are the worst and they point out how ridiculous the entire regime is. Its also annoying as fuck there are moron cops setting medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing policy at the national or any level.
I like this font.
The large x-height is nice for small sizes.
Yea large x-height has drawbacks but it's nice to have this option.

I like the squareish appearance too. Also the lines feel like they could have been drawn with a pencil or engraving tool, which looks cool to me.

Thanks for the font. It's been one of my favorites lately.
https://archive.is/Le71e
There's an even bigger problem here: if he were just making money, that would be a normal-sized problem. If he were just making a supplier for OA, heck, that might be a good thing on net for OA; a subsidiary doing hardware might be justifiable given the importance of securing hardware.

But that's not what he's doing.

Creating such an independent hardware startup comes off as basically directly opposed to OA's safety mission - GPUs are one of the biggest limitations to creating better-than-OA models! The best customers would be the ones who are most sabotaging the OA mission. (You can't run the UN and also head an arms manufacturer dreaming of democratizing access to munitions.)
… or you could stop dealing with them entirely? I wouldn’t eat a restaurant with TVs blaring ads, either.
> You didn’t address my point.

Yeah, I did. I don't believe for a minute that you'd choose hitting the kid rather than break the law and swerve into an empty oncoming lane. I also expect a judge would find hitting the kid to avoid breaking the law with disfavor. The law is not a programming language.