skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs are the first instance of us having created some sort of general AI. I don't mean AGI, but general AI as in not specific AI. Before LLMs the problem eith AI was always that it "can only do one thing well". Now we have something on the other side: AI that can do anything but nothing specific particularly well. This is a fundamental advancement which makes AGI actually imaginable. Before LLMs there was literally no realistic plan how to build general intelligence.
I'm confused. It's usually the other way around; the good guy is ousted because he is hindering the company's pursuit of profit.
I've a penny that says the good ol' MSFT "embrace extend extinguish" is back in full swing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Literally people thought they were saints because of VSCode FFS.
I can imagine this type of person to abide to their normal obligations during business hours, and code full time the rest of their wake-up time.

In my company, 80% coding for a senior SWE is rare. But if they deliver, management will give them some slack on the other evaluation axis. I have colleagues who work almost by themselves on new high impact projects. This has many benefits. No need to argue about designs, code reviews (people just approve blindly their code). The downside is that you need to deliver.
Realistically the odds of gdb being a terrible programmer are very very slim. He has been in the field for at least a decade, published papers, given talks, was the CTO of stripe ( a company generally respected for having sick technical infrastructure). If he works an inordinate amount, then it's probably cause he loves it. I would guess he is much more likely to be world class than terrible
I find scrolling is even more enjoyable with a trackball. You get an entire ball to spin!
He was the chair of the board. And they were wrong very quickly. It very much sounds like they spoke for him. Or he pretended that he was going to stay and then backstabbed them. Which, given how strongly aligned with altman he seems to be, not really a surprise. I have yet to see a single action from them that means towards saavy rather than incompetent.
I’m always curious about advancements in parenting controls for electronics, and it always boils down to a serious and frank convo with the child.
Why does there have to be a difference?
Beware the advertised latency will probably be when using the busy-spin wait strategy which uses a lot of CPU resource.

Great library which makes processing concurrent streams incredibly easy.
sama on twitter: "if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares"

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1725748751367852439
"Let me repeat myself. Don’t hire hot girls before product market fit."

https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1725750772024176976
> OpenAI shouldn't even be making a profit, as it's a 501(c)3 charity

First, the “OpenAI" whose profits are being discussed isn't a 501(c)3 charity, but a for-profit LLC (OpenAI Global, LLC) with three other organizations between it and the charity.

Second, charities and other nonprofits can make profits (surplus revenue), they just can't return revenues (but they can have for profit subsidiaries that return profit to them and other investors in certain circumstances.)

> The whole umbrella for-profit corp they formed when they became popular should be illegal

The umbrella organization is a charity. The for profit organizations (both OpenAI Global LLC that Microsoft invests in, and its immediate holding company parent which has some other investors besides the charity) are subordinate to the charity and its goals.

> and is clearly immoral.

Not sure what moral principal and analysis you are applying to reach this conclusion.
Black Ore launches AI platform for financial services
Or, you know… learn Vim properly with the built-in :help user-manual.
(2022)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830743
The other cofounder also quit
They resign under public pressure, I guess?
I've had good luck using Tesseract [0] for scanned PDFs. If you're not CLI-inclined, there are several GUIs for it available [1]. I have had good luck downloading scanned PDFs from archive.org and running them through Tesseract.

Did not know about Calibre for this - I was relying on opening each search and searching it individually.

[0]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
[1]: https://www.opait.com/tessstudio/
The SpaceX website also includes a live stream but it seems to be broadcast via Twitter:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

Edit: this stream works without having to login to Twitter
Great news, time to do another donation.
Can '/s' after straw man sneak the message across?
Google meet is excellent for videoconferencing actually.
> She has an h index of 8 :/ thats tiny

Agreed. She’s not famous for her publications. She’s famous (and intimidating) for being a “power broker” or whatever the term is for the person who is participating in off-the-record one-on-one meetings with military generals.

> Anyway, the idea that the Chinese military or leadership actually will sacrifice a potential advantage in the name of ai safety is absurd.

The point of her work (and mine and Dr. Horvitz’s as well) is to make it clear that putting AI in charge of nuclear weapons and other existential questions is self-defeating. There is no advantage to be gained. Any nation that does this is shooting themselves in the foot, or the heart.
I recommend running any such PDFs through OCRmyPDF.

https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
Non-competes can work out if the rules actually favor the workers. I had one while working for a HFT in Germany and would sign it again.
ALDI vs. LIDL
I use calibre as well and it's excellent. The only thing I think should have some attention is the awful interface.
Ah thank you, I haven't kept in touch with Duolingo's progression in a few years. While now I see it as more ethical that Duolingo charges for content that they are paying to produce, I still feel like it's slower progression than if everybody could contribute (and those most adept at the language would probably just focus on reviewing PRs)
You could in principle accelerate the most CPU intensive parts of Webservers with smart NICs. gzip, TLS, JSON serdes, html templates. There are also accelerators for databases, leaving just the business logic to be executed on the CPU.
Indeed. It was a big enough battle to convince execs that building on top of OpenAI was ok. Now that conversation is pretty much impossible. You have the Microsoft offering, but to most muggles that just looks like them reselling OpenAI.

The board of OpenAI should have been replaced by adults a long time ago.
Ilya’s job won’t survive this power play…….

Satya has been humiliated and will be furious.
At its core this isn't a company though, and that's perhaps what was at issue.
Anecdata: however nice is inertia scrolling, me scrolling on the Magic Mouse 100% reliably triggers carpal RSI in under 5min: the activating finger tendon transforms itself into a scorching hell in short order.
As another comment below mentioned, Elon Musk hinted at this in his interview with Lex Fiedman.

Specifically, he mentioned that OpenAI is supposed to be open source and non-profit. Pursuing profit and making it closed-source brings "bad karma".
> In the future, I also want to implement some kind of plugin system because certain subjects require a different learning style. But I'm not sure yet how this would work. I need to think about it.

Right. People say that HelloChinese is better for Chinese because some of the question types are drawing Hanzi, so I think this is a perfect use case for a plugin system where a course could add a plugin for Hanzi/Kanji drawing and not be slowed down by the core developers.
Mostly nothing.

The vast majority of PFAS contamination comes from industrial effluent, not consumer goods. This should be a good thing, because it makes it logistically easier to prevent and mitigate. Unfortunately, manufacturers can get away with flagrant negligence because the EPA is a total mess.

The EPA are failing to deal with dozens of types of chemical pollution that most people are already well aware of; the only meaningful solution is to reform or replace the EPA. That's unlikely to happen soon, partly because of longstanding structural issues with federal agencies and partly because "not wanting to be poisoned" is now a politically contentious position.
You are probably reinventing slums. However the UK used to be good at building well built council housing at scale. I think that is the solution. It has a great legacy as long lasting but perhaps ugly brutalist housing (Goldfinger was mentioned in the article funnily enough)
I've heard about a good compromise option existing in a country in Europe: noncompete agreements are not banned completely but are limited to last just half a year after the employee leaves the company. It can also last much longer in case the employer agrees to keep paying half the salary to the former employee.
OCRmyPDF is a tool using Tesseract, specifically designed for PDFs. I would recommend that over pure Tesseract.

https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
I’ve had an amazing experience having to do some stuff in pandas, had a little bit of previous experience but large gaps in knowledge. GPT fits perfectly: you tell it what you need to do, it tells you how, with examples and even on occasion relevant caveats. Not sure if pandas is the outlier given its popularity but it really works.
Why do we even have capital letters, I wonder.
There’s always a hoarde of people second guessing the 10x engineer. Of course it looks impossible to regular folks. I have seen a few people like this. They’re real. Sometimes it’s even worth the dysfunction they cause to see this in action.
No, it was entirely to recycle the design and tooling of the Magic Mouse 1 which used AA batteries. The Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard came out the exact same day as the MM2 but both of those happily work plugged in and even work wired while plugged in.
Real women are rare on the internet, especially on the tech sites
Answers in Progress had a great video[0] where one of their presenters tested against an LLM in five different types of intelligence. tl;dr, AI was worlds ahead on two of the five, and worlds behind on the other three. Interesting stuff -- and clear that we're not as close to AGI as some of us might have thought earlier this year, but probably closer than a lot of the naysayers think.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrSCwxrLrRc
Impossible challenge
> I have a question to people in charge of politics...

IANAP (...Not A Politician) - but you seem unfamiliar with NIMBY's, gentrification, voter behavior, the perverse incentives created by both property-tax-funded government and real-estate-as-an-invesment, and the various problems which are generally associated (rightly and wrongly) with very poor residents.

Assuming that you live in a country both large and "advanced" enough to have a serious problem with homelessness, your country also has lots of advocates for housing the homeless - with thoughts and feelings similar to yours, but (sadly) much more experience with how those things play out locally, to fill you in on the all the details.

Those local-to-you advocates for housing the homeless are doubtless also eager for donors, volunteers, voters who'll support their efforts, or any other contribution which you might be able to make...
I am going to go on a limb here, and speculate...This was because of the surprise party crashing of the Microsoft CEO, at OpenAI first Developer Conference...
I absolutely guarantee you when Microsoft owns 50% that they paid $50,000,000,000 for, that Microsoft is really in charge.

The board and Ilya will all be gone within a month.
I think Mozilla Corp is 100% owned by the nonprofit, which is a little different. It allows activity which a nonprofit couldn't directly do, and which has a different tax treatment, but its not returning profits to someone else like OpenAI Global LLC and, as I understand it, its immediate parent holding company both do.

But they are similar in that both involve a nonprofit controlling subordinate for-profit entities.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Perhaps you could point out where your perspective differs from mine? So, as I see it: Open AI _is_ a non-profit, though it has an LLC it wholly controls that doesn't have non-profit status. It never "became" for-profit (IANAL, but is that even possible? It seems like that should not be possible), the only thing that happened is that the LLC was allowed to collect some "profit" - but that in turn would go to its owners, primarily the non-profit. As far as I'm aware the board in question that went through this purge _was_ the non-profit's board (does the LLC have a board?)

From the non-profit's perspective, it sounds pretty reasonable to self-police and ensure there aren't any rogue parts of the organization that are going off and working at odds with the overall non-profit's formal aims. It's always been weird that the Open-AI LLC seemed to be so commercially focused even when that might conflict with it's sole controller's interests; notably the LLC very explicitly warned investors that the NGO's mission took precedence over profit.
Filling up that mana bar is not easy.
Yes, other citizens - the legal system is the system of the state, so if you're free from consequences wrt the state, you're by definition free from court-imposed consequences wrt other citizens.

(defamation threshold is also not so low as to include any ad hominem)
It's a >40B hit to market cap, supposedly caused by news from a company they've invested afaict $11B in.

I wouldn't call it 'tanking' either, but it's definitely not run of the mill, did make them rush out a statement on their commitment to investment and working with OpenAI.
Nope, non-xl o3ds
Jensen isn't a normal CEO
Voting with your wallet never works. You need to vote with your vote, or better yet, vote with a billionaire's wallet and buy some lobbyists.
A naive observer (ahem, that might be me) could wonder why the AGPL did not become more widespread. It was, after all, created to address the exact scenario of someone taking GPL software and putting it on a server where people can access the service but not the code itself.
I’d be surprised if Sam does. He’s free now to compete and defeat with a huge equity stake.
How easy it is to cancel? can you get for 1 month then cancel and get another month later?
> There's a dashboard where users can manage questions for each course. It's pretty basic right now:

I think that while this might be useful for teachers, it might be more sustainable if courses were stored in a version controllable medium to facilitate multiple collaborators.
Tldr Pages
Numbers Far Afield
Maybe in the next version apple can disable the mouse when it detects that it being used in third-party plastic shell.
> How the average American, with the worst consumer protection laws ...

Surely there's some hyperbole there. For example, the US doesn't have a problem with lead chromate in their turmeric.
> If you really want to be a voice for safety, it’ll be most effective if you’re on the winning team.

If an AI said that, we'd be calling it "capability gain" and think it's a huge risk.
Is there a way to get the refresh rate programmatically?
Not spending your own money to buy tools that help you at work. I have the impression, and that could be totally wrong, that it would be far more “normal” for Americans do to so to get ahead.
Yes you are correct. I have updated original question thank you.
I think you're right. The 3ds is definitely over minimum spec now that I think about it, especially given that it has a dedicated GPU
Jobs on offer are fewer than number of unemployed.

Therefore jobs are scarce.

Only when there is a vast surplus of jobs will competition do the work. Until then you need regulation.
Is it sad that while I do think this is sarcasm, I can no longer be entirely sure it is.
I know all about LMAX architecture, at least all that has been published (see my other comments for this submission).

Static allocation is a special case of scheduling. You decide which parts of the process run on which core -- the scheduling in this case is done at design or configuration time.

> On the other hand, if you have a thread per request, and allow them to migrate between cores, idle cores can steal tasks from busy ones. So in theory you could get better utilization,

Migrating your tasks between cores is nothing you can't design into your application. For example, in a typical event driven architecture where you have worker threads running each on separate core, there would be something to decide where the task is queued and usually the logic will take into account how busy particular worker thread is. The operating system does nothing in this case, what it sees is a number of threads each running on its separate core that don't need to be preempted (hopefully).
Thanks man!

I really appreciate it and glad you liked it. I got lots of new features coming up, please stay tuned.
> What’s the point of the subsidiary

Closing the huge fundraising gap OpenAI had as a nonprofit by returning profits from commercial efforts instrumental to, but distinct from, the nonprofits charitable purpose, without sacrififing any governance or control of the subordinate entity.
This sounds a lot like the rust foundation is trying to either leverage its position into making money or influencing the rust community by giving out the "only real certificate".
It’s so juicy statements like this become stale in hours. Exciting times.
Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More
I won’t argue on the mobile Android, as I don’t have the latest and greatest Android, but the app is quite good on Android. My iPhone is fine with latest version, though.

I never use web app, so cannot comment on that.
Keet [1] doesn't suck. Fully encrypted, peer to peer. Bandwidth only limited by what the parties to the call have access to.

[1] https://keet.io/
ALDI Nord vs Aldi Süd; Adidas vs Puma?
I have a good idea how transformers work and have written Python code and trained toy ones, but end of the day right now calling OpenAI nothing I can
build can beat it.
I've noticed that many of these areas with declining, aging populations have a large amount of homes with serious maintenance issues. Sometimes the housing stock can die off.
I mostly agree with your points but how is he not white? He acts like a textbook white person and I should know because thats also how I and most of the people I associate with act. Everyone of us would say he is white.
It can only be voluntary if everybody has an alternative job to go to.

While firms only hire if there is a profit to be made, and people have to earn to eat the 'no deal' stand off isn't an option.
And what about KeepassXC?
New Yorks leads the pack as usual. If you want to understand why continental European salaries are mostly low , don’t only look at the social security cost, but also at the labor law which is a middle aged indentured servitude heritage wrapped with worker rights bullshit : in France, 3 months notice period, up to 8 month of trial period, non competes with ridiculous comp. are very common for startups and Mid Sized businesses, same as non sollicitation, exclusivity clauses (generally all in a combo). Plus you get shunned if you job leave your master too quickly (ie less than 1 or 2 years depending on sector). And if you get fired be prepared for the Wild West of reference checking (nothing that can legally protect you from an ex bully who wants you to pay the price of daring leaving), loosing full health cover, and so on.
4 floors high blocks of flats with shops on the ground floor are such a nice compromise in cities. Eastern Europe gets this right.
I’m not sure I would pay for it for private projects over just using 3.5, but everything I said about its efficiency bonus is still true, so it’s probably largely down to you. I think it’s worth it, but not enough for me to buy it, at least not yet and at its price. I have friends who pay for it no questions asked for private use, so I’m probably in the minority.
Is that something controversial?

Anyway, I was providing context. The way I see it, since they speak the same language natively, they might have had a frank conversation about this at some point and decided to resign in concert.
You can make money from stealing anything of value. What is strange about it?
They don't have 'artificial intelligence' capabilities (and never will).

But it is an interesting technology.
Honest question: How would he make money if he didn’t have equity in OpenAI?
> the dataset is the crucial bit of openAI

I bet he'll train models on copious amounts of synthetic data made with GPT-4. There are lots of datasets in the open. That makes catching up easier.

No public facing model can be protected from data exfiltration and distillation. All deployed skills leak, your competition will replicate with less effort. And they only need to leak once and every subsequent model can inherit the skill. I think the first movers paid a high price for being first, and will quickly see their advantage erode. Latecomers will catch up and find AI easier to work with. The difference is made by the great fine-tuning datasets that are in the open, a growing lake of distilled abilities.

Another latecomer advantage is benefiting from significant innovation in the engineering part: flash attention, quantization, continuous batching, KV caching, LoRA, and more.

The new AI era will be more equalitarian. Catching up is much easier than discovering, and we can run AI privately, unlike search engines and social networks. You can't exploit SOTA advantage at scale. Being first is a fleeting advantage, the moment you go in the open everyone replicates.

Maybe one reason this is happening is because AI skills are very composable. Any addition to the skill repertoire already fits with other skills. This makes open sourcing skills very attractive. Of course, the datasets are what is being open sourced.
In that case, Microsoft
> Appreciate you describing this as a PoC because in reality it's impossible to do <5us tick to trade in software including risk, deal booking, (...)

Absolutely not true. I explained, risk is calculated concurrently and compiled to decision tree and then inserted in the path in the form of "if X happens do Y".

The fact it was PoC has nothing to do with it, in fact it showed that yes, it is possible to do so. That's entire point of the PoC.
It’s even worse than that. In the US, at least, city governments are spending their money destroying the tents and tarpaulins that homeless people have set up for themselves on public land, and on fighting in court for the right to do so (see Martin v Boise and Johnson v Grants Pass). Then when someone uses their own land to allow tents or structures, the cities spend time passing unenforceable laws to ban it (see First Lutheran v St Paul). And they won’t even take money offered to them to do anything better! (See Burien city in WA currently: not only are they threatening fines on a church that shelters homeless people, they’re refusing to do anything with $1million offered by the county to help people in a local homeless camp. I am directly aware of a nonprofit group in Seattle that has over 100 preconstructed tiny houses and will install them anywhere for free, but is running out of storage space because no city in King County will allow them to do so, even on private land).
To be more precise, it's queue based / batch processing; if it has to be done on the cheap, that's the spot market.
No one wants to be another woz
Should we get to know what meds execs et al. dealing with AI are on?
Feels preposterous and stupid to ask, given that we value privacy and that top level politicians and generals and so on don't have to disclose such things.

I have an inkling now about what certain meds and drugs can do to people and it has become obvious why and how politicians and execs can act like they do.