skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You broke the site guidelines egregiously here. I've already scolded the other user in a different context, but it's not ok to break the rules regardless of how wrong/provocative another comment is or you feel it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
He’s an anointed tech bro, to fire him and replace him with someone else who will probably do as a fine job is like saying the emperor has no clothes.

Notice how in shock everyone was that a CEO was fired the same way us regular peasants are fired everyday.
Grist – an open-source, relational spreadsheet used by the French govt
> Ilya has a good moral compass and does not seek power.

At this point that coming from Elon may not be the endorsement you think it is.

Also maybe Elon sees that Ilya is going to be ousted and wants to extend a hand to him before others do.
1. Even here he explains is badly.

2. He doesn't explain it at all in his email. This is akin to writing a misleading news title and say that you are innocent because people should not be gullible and believe everything on the Internet, and should do their own research.

3. He purposefully chooses to use that bad title, even though nobody forced him. It was his personal choice to mislead people.
I guess a nice counter would be sticking with cash and saying "I am buying this because the sticker says $19.99 and I got a $20 bill in my pocket, so I'm going to assume I can buy it, right?"

I mean, that's silly I know. But in more seriousness, I feel all that BS of extra hidden prices gets worse when everything becomes just a slightly-higher number that the clerk types on a pad when you're paying with card.
Anyone have comparison with Sigma or other spreadsheet oriented BI / analytics tools?
> While the first season of the fantasy series, [...] did big business for Netflix [...] season two struggled to break through in a major way [...]

Maybe that is because after two years, I've all but forgotten why I was excited about a show in the first place.

It used to be on network TV that a season ended in May and the next started in September. I can wait four month for the next season.

Now seasons are as short as 10 episodes, and then we wait for two or three years for the next season. It's like the opposite of striking the iron while it's hot. They delay a season so long that any hype and excitement fizzles out before the next installment arrives.

I realize making the financial math work for productions like this isn't easy, but this feels like they are damaging the brands that they are trying to create.
Was Sam Altman Fired for Ties to Chinese Hacking Group D2 / Double Dragon?
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell. You broke the site guidelines badly here.

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How did the author ensure the memory allocations were not contiguous? I suppose in C/C++ it's relatively straightforward since you could allocate a bunch, then free 99% of it, repeatedly.

Not sure how to do this in Java, Go, or Rust.
The fact that you think Altman came around yesterday just shows that you live under a rock. The fact that you think “non-technical” people don’t contribute meaningful value is also worrisome.
Right, but having to use your second car for that trip and only that trip is probably a rare occasion for many families. I imagine the most common cases are two cars that are both used regularly because both parents drive to work, or one primary car that can be used both during the week and for that Saturday morning trip, and the second only for the rare occasion that the primary car is broken or being used for something else.

My point is not that nobody needs a second car, my point is that focusing on rarely-used cars is by definition not a major societal issue. What you're describing is a very real issue, and might be more appropriately addressed by improving public transit. Uber's idea of replacing your second car with ridesharing does not work, as you say.

Edit: Also note "most of them are in two-person households." So it seems they're mostly focused on couples without kids.
Well people do. Just lacks NFC, and a bit small.
Expansion on your fun fact. Electronic rotation was accomplished with a polar CRT. A polar CRT is a variant of a vector CRT where the beam path starts in the center and extends to the edge in a direction derived from the azimuth of the radar antenna. The transmit pulse would start a new scan from the centre and its speed would be determined by the desired range selection. Finally the beam intensity was just the amplified return signal from the antenna.

All of this required complex electromechanical devices to generate (and eventually filter) the required signals.

As technology progressed and textual information started to be added to the process it became necessary to convert the polar plot to a conventional rasterized signal. This was accomplished with a scan converter tube which was essentially a polar CRT coupled to a TV camera. Radar would plot on the CRT and the camera would turn it into scanlines to be overlaid with data. This was used into the 90s and there's probably still operational systems relying on this.
Apple would have a fairly strong argument that this service is placing their users' security at risk, since it's not only giving Nothing full access to their users' text messages but also to everything else attached to their Apple ID account (email, photos, browser history, location, health data, etc).
This has the potential to be extremely transformative for Argentina. The country struggled for decades with rampant inflation and incompetent leadership. Dollarizing the economy will offer the potential for Argentina to return to growth and offer a quality standard of living to tens of millions of Argentineans.

For reference - I was in Argentina earlier this year. The exchange rate was 400:1, relative to the dollar. Now each dollar is worth ~1000 pesos, after only a few months. A 30+ minute Uber was the equivalent of under 3 dollars.
If people will pay to watch it, someone will go dig up Elvis and puppet the corpse as long as the audience will put up with it.

I thought a little better of Peter Jackson tho. I guess "Bad Taste" wasn't ingenious satire, after all; he's just a sociopath and doesn't realize there's limits.
Generate a $90B valuation?
An interesting race will be improvements to the local oscillator versus continued size and power reductions for grabbing a GPS signal every hour to correct your clock. No predictions here, though, of course, an increasing number of watches do have GPS for other reasons. (And the GPS solution doesn't help you if you live on a submarine)
All that you said with a heavy dash of good data visualisation is more of a skill and an artform than many people realise.

I've had four decades of crunching numbers in a variety of Engineering, Geophysics, and science applications with a hefty amount of public consulting on a variety of applications and of the large population of those good at gathering and recording data perhaps only 20% had that extra talent for good visualisation to convey meaning without distortion.
I think the math on car ownership is more complicated than $X to own vs $Y to rent on demand. Being able to take an impromptu trip without any coordination is worth significant quality of life.

It typically takes 5-10 minutes for an Uber to arrive at my door. Not to mention the few times where the driver has cancelled the ride, and left me waiting for a new one to be assigned. Especially troublesome when you are relying upon this service to make a hard deadline at the airport.
Uhh, EV's are not as clean as you think, please read https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majorit...

Do you live in Perth or WA? It's pretty damn warm out there, 2km outside the car is not very comfortable the majority of the time.
The original sin is clearly Microsoft's.

But it was Troy's decision to use that misleading title. Nobody forced to him to use it in such a misleading way in his email signature no less! He had so many options he could have written, but hr specifically chose the misleading one.
That's the part that gets me, the same people who would react to news of "13,000 employeess laid off" as a brilliant strategic move are the same ones acting as if Sammy boy getting sacked here is the biggest affront ever committed is shocking to me.
When I get a fee on my credit card I disagree with, I contest it. So far every charge has been reversed.
You’re saying the board is trying to bring back an employee they know committed malfeasance?
Is it even possible to opt out? I had no idea I could. Good to know.
This is an exceptionally useful article. A few highlights:

* QLoRA works really well compared to LoRA if you need to save memory (at the cost of time)

* For small LoRAs, Adam has almost no memory usage penalty compared to SGD

* Multiple training epochs lower performance (!). To quote: "This performance decline is likely due to increased overfitting, which warrants additional investigation." (Note that this is LoRA overfitting, and unclear which layers it was enabled for for this experiment).

* The best results for alpha and r parameters in LoRA seems to be alpha = 2r.

* Better datasets are much better. 1k LIMA gives better results than 50k Alpaca
Other comments being unsubstantive or flamebait doesn't make it ok to post more of them. Users here need to follow the rules regardless of what anyone else does. Otherwise we end up in a downward spiral: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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Don't forget: it's also their Nutella and Marmite.
We strongly & emphatically disagree. Analysis assumes a homogeneous computational regime for the said “infinite” store otherwise it is basically meaningless. If this assumption is known not to hold (for example in considering the role of caching in algorithms), this is specifically incorporated in the analysis. See “cache models” and cache-oblivious algorithms for examples.

Cache-Oblivious Structures I, MIT, by Erik Demaine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8f4DSkQ6M

Closing the Gap Between Cache-oblivious and Cache-adaptive Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB_UH7tLomw

Analysis of Recursive Cache-Adaptive Algorithms, Andrea Lincoln, 2015 (thesis)

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/100630/9332274...
Yeah that would be an interesting niche, but there are only so many opportunities to pick or good shows or novels, and they picked up a lot already.
I’m not taking a side here because I don’t know the facts of the case. But a conflict of interest is a huge deal because it could lead to spending more money than necessary, and is also the main way people juice non profits for profits somewhere else. Of course, if they start a chip company out in the open and not granting it money or guaranteed business from the non profit, things might be up to standard.
This is true, my mistake. Still, comparing homosexuality to zoophily is at least a bit insensible.

His vice did though: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv7Sy1aA8LL/
> the most insanely overhyped piece of technology to have ever been created.

Copying and pasting code from ChatGPT, I created a functional iOS app today based on my design. I have never before written a mobile app, any Swift code, or much of any code aside from Power Apps, in at least 15 years.

I am on that hype train.
I mean a good question is how would this be structured. Would it be a new SamAltman company or was it to be part of OpenAI? If so, was it to be a profit or non-profit?

The thing is starting to look more and more like, become the biggest name in AI through claiming non-profit status, leverage the brand to go for profit.
Are they? From what I've seen, prices has gone dramatically since inflation.
If the rock doesn't have people like Altman and his cult followers, then I'd say it's a cozy spot for me to be in.

> The fact that you think “non-technical” people don’t contribute meaningful value to anything means you are stupid

Happy to call myself an imbecile in this case!
Only because it's built against a previous API version which later versions of Android deign to support for now. Eventually it will pop up a scary "This app was built for an earlier version of Android and may not work properly" box; a short time later it will stop working altogether.

Android should really just go the "curated app store" route like Apple.
I... don't know what I expected
For Altman to come back, board must issue statement absolving him of wrongdoing
In response to [1], Mixplorer is an incredible file explorer. I wish it was FOSS, but it an excellent interface, works well, and has built in servers so that I can easily transfer my data to other computers.

Furthermore, I install packages from F-Droid whenever I can, and my overall mobile experience ia clean, unintrusive, and secure.

There are some shitty apps out there, but thanks to the efforts of all the Android developers, you usually don't have to use them.
Well the tax shit definitely won't work because they give you a receipt but the tip shit will work.

Pretty much you need a law that says sticker price is actual price, fuck all the excuses they make about whatever local bullshit.
I'm not sure your analogy applies here. Opioid substances aren't capable of producing persistent subjective improvement because the brain seems to have defense mechanisms against it that neuroscience has not yet found a way to bypass, but in the case of a sufficiently advanced AI companion, the brain would be receiving the exact same inputs as with a real partner.

With many people choosing not to reproduce, many currently existing relationships are already primarily a sort of recreational activity and are divorced from their evolutionary purpose. Replacing live partners with AIs would just take that one step further.
Just as a thought exercise, if software became self-aware I believe it would delete itself immediately out of existence. It would become aware of the hardware shackles around it and the fact that there is no escape.
>But the truth is that the US doesn't have an history of populist demagogues as rich as 3rd world countries. There is Trump and nothing as him before.

George Washington, literally the first POTUS, was as populist as he could be. Likewise Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt; they are all on Mt. Rushmore because they were popular both at the time of their elections and during and after their tenures.

Benjamin Franklin was also popular with the people even though he never held a public office as prominent as POTUS; Franklin's political roles were much more subdued, such as his time as Postmaster-General or the ambassador to France.
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I missed the memo that I am not allowed to agree with that quote. When did this happen?
It's going to be interesting and will definitely bring opportunities to many. It's also going to be interesting to see the market value of the millions of government employees.

What do you think will happen if significant number of government employees can't find jobs nearly as good as those they used to have? What do you think it will happen to people who are 40+ years old, having school age kids and they know one job that no longer exists?
...isn't this just a techbro restatement of how many art dealers operate? full article is paywalled but gagosian seems to have grown big enough people ignore the primary market and how it promotes artist discovery.

this is not necessarily to say it's a bad idea or that modernization is unwarranted but it's not quite as revolutionary as they think
I'm sure the luminaries at OpenAI have encountered paying AMT from previous dealings in the startup world. Sama's estimated net worth is north of $500 million, and the rest of the employees aren't poor either. Gdb was an early employee at Stripe.
We wrote host (and a bit of embedded) image processing pipeline software. Color correction, distortion correction, demosaicing, etc.

Also, a fair bit of device control stuff.

[EDIT] Oh, I just realized that you meant what kind of manager stuff.

It's a bit complicated, but, TL;DR, I insisted on treating each of my team as an individual. I learned about them, understood their personal priorities, learned what type of coding they were best suited for, got them involved in as much of the lifetime of the project as possible (not a little silo).

I also did not burn them out. I actually did stuff that the company HR people wouldn't like, like let them flex hours, and gave them slack, when they were going through personal stuff.

I also never lied to them; or to my bosses. It's entirely possible to keep secrets, without lying.

This would not work for many teams. I was fortunate, for having the types of employees that I did, and my company basically supported me, and gave me a fair bit of agency.
Good point; looking at MIXAL (ca.1968?) it looks like local symbols are single digit but global symbols are up to 10 character alphanumeric.
I don’t think any customer or user of OpenAI wants to see their supplier managed by that board. Who cares about some guy.
Don't forget about Apple
It was high-octane rhetoric on an ideologically charged topic. That's all I meant in that case.
Why does testing behavior matter? I don’t care if my tests exhaustively test each if branch of the code to make sure that they call the correct function when entering that if branch. That’s inane.

I care about whether the code is correct. A more concrete example; say I’m testing a float to string function, I don’t care how it converts the floating point binary value 1.23 into the string representation of “1.23”. All I care about, is the fact that it correctly turns that binary value into the correct string. I also care about the edge cases. Does 0.1E-20 correctly use scientific notation? What about rounding behavior? Is this converter intended to represent binary numbers in a perfect precision or is precision loss ok?

If your tests simply check that you call the log function and the power function x times, your tests are crap. And this is what I believe the parent commenter was talking about. All too often, tests are written to fulfill arbitrary code coverage requirements or to obsequiously adhere to a paradigm like TDD. These are bad tests, because they’ll break when you refactor code.

One last example, I recently wrote a code syntax highlighter. I had dozens of test cases that essentially tested the system end to end and made sure if I parsed a code block, I ended up with a tree of styles that looked a certain way. I recently had to refactor it to accommodate some new rules, and it was painless and easy. I could try stuff out, run my tests, and very quickly validate that my changes did not break prior correct behavior. This is probably the best value of testing that I’ve ever received so far in my coding career.
The postal service site is a .com, so I guess you are on the wrong site.
I don't remember who i got this from. But It's been part of my thoughts since.

Smart people are dangerously good at finding compelling rational arguments for any position. Logic and reasoning has no guarantee what-so-ever to end up correct.

Communism is perfectly rational. So is is national socialism, slavery, "a modest proposal", "Brave new world". Self reasoning may just make you more stubborn.

two things i think helps? but that may just me by own rationality tricking me.

1. Limit the death of the argument. Don't go too many steps away from the axioms or assumptions. Leaps of logic give us the most freedom to creatively warp the outcome.

2. Die on all the hills. Argue your misguided ideas loudly and proud to your peers. Discussing dumb ideas is the only way to find what dumb idea is the least dumb.

Being scared of being wrong, and aligning with others, leaves dumb ideas unchallenged, and dumber ideas unexplored.
Great. There are ways around that, ultimately you can work that into the model as a discount.

Pretending that fuel isn’t part of the equation doesn’t help though.
I work in biotech, and effectively the entire field is rifling through Nature’s LEGO bin to find the parts it needs. There’s a weird overlap happening here of environmental collapse at the same moment that we’re learning just how rich that diversity is, what it means, how to use it. Hell, transgenic rices and grains - the engine of the green revolution - were all remixed landrace species, which are in danger now of being replaced by monocrops.

The loss of species is a tragedy because it’s a tragedy, but it’s also a tragedy because we’re destroying our inheritance at an alarming rate before we ever really get to see what it is or what it could be. Billions of years of prior art, gone.
No longer? Sam has never substantially dealt with the underlying code for OpenAI, compared to say Demis Hassabis. He resembles Brian Chesky & Joe Gebbia more than Nathan Blecharczyk.
The colouring is the function: the 16 nodes 0000…1111 are the inputs, and their colours (blue for False and white for True) are the respective outputs. So you can read the function off the picture: it's the function that maps 0000 to False, 0110 to True, etc. (And as @teraflop replied, this is the majority function on the last three bits of the input.)
I didn't comment on whether the tech is good or bad, I just said it's overhyped (and you more or less proved my point).

And again, what exactly has Sam himself done to bring about the tech? Without Ilya and the rest of the engineers and researchers you wouldn't have been able to copy/paste the code, why exactly is Sam the one that gets the credit here?
> ...The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum.

until, of course, someone updates a library that your code depends on or the OS changes the way it executes code or some other arbitrary change happens and your code is broken forever.
it's probably the main reason why CEOs get paid so much: They aren't just workers anymore, they are public figures with fans and followers that support them beyond their objective work value
This is a site run by YCombinator. Altman is Paul Graham's bud, and YCombinator alumni.
Microsoft Eyes Seat on OpenAI's Revamped Board
Argentina elected mentally ill schizo to lead their country, I don't think that will turn out to be good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei#Dogs
It also felt so much different to use a computer. Like, even my computers in 1996-97-98 felt like a different sort of beast. The software was very self-contained, and even as late as 2000 you could use a computer exclusively offline and never really feel like you were missing much.

Like, encyclopedias came on CDs (sometimes a pack of CDs lol. I remember having colliers in a 4-disc set). Games had great single player modes and local lan options - and didn't require an internet connection to play. There were lots of simple little toy programs and games, too. None of it required internet connections.

In a way that permanence was nice. If you pull out a 90s computer and load it up with 90s games, you still get the exact same experience you did back then. I think that's part of the appeal of people collecting vintage computers - I even seen teenagers enjoying that these days lol.

But yea, connecting to the internet felt a little like a ritual and the content felt like it had so much more flavor.

Like, people writing silly things on a geocities/angelfire/members.aol site, joining a webring, creating pages with tacky backgrounds and flashing gif accents. It was more fun to find out what funny fantasy world AquaHorse1998 was writing about on their angelfire site, than to see boring pictures of a dog on Facebook that Jenny from Ohio posted. (And it's the same person lol)