skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a former MSc student in CS, a lot of ML related roles are asking for paper publications especially in top journals. This is just more bad incentives for the students to hype up their paper even if it is good but not good enough for a top journal
He could have kept posting without buying the company.
The biggest clue that Medicare Advantage is a bad deal is that it is advertised using bulk/junk mail and on daytime TV.
After overdraft fees, probably the most egregious abuse of fees I’ve seen is being forced to pay an “online course fee” on top of university tuition. It made sense when online education was in its infancy, but these days it’s much, much cheaper to deliver online courses - less instructor time, more “scalable”, and less need for large lecture halls. Not to mention that many professors don’t even bother to record any lectures and the assignments are often graded by TAs. So we’re paying you $1,500+ a course plus fees for... what, exactly?

Anyway, are universities covered by these policies as well?
UTC (or Unix timestamp, or any other non-localized date-time format) doesn't work for future localized events. It's fundamentally impossible to say what will be the UTC timestamp which corresponds to 9AM in some particular location in the future: the timezone of that location could arbitrarily change between now and then. Countries and smaller areas often experiment with such changes, wars happen and conquerors/liberators change the time etc.

So, when possible, it's best to store (future) human events in a localized datetime string. For things like physical events, the opposite is true of course - you can't say what will be the local date and time when the Sun will hit high noon over Athens 10 years from now, but you can certainly calculate the UTC timestamp for that.
> Compare to Finland which has a similar fall, but continues to fall instead of rise.

Just minutes ago in another comment you yourself posted a link which clearly and markedly shows that Finland has seen a marked and steep rise in the last few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38339299
> "The violence one does remember from those years was from a different demographic entirely."

Indeed. Funny enough, in those discussions, a lot of people bring up the Vietnamese as a group that is well-represented in Germany, but are rarely if ever associated with violence.

The interesting part is that there used to be a problem with Vietnamese gangs post-reunification [1], entirely solved by now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people_in_Germany#C...
If Microsoft had to put out a statement "its all good we got the source code" clearly the openness of OpenAI was lost a while ago. This move of the board was presumably primarily good for the board.
So, again, it’s not just that anyone who disagrees and appreciates unlimited PTO is wrong, it’s that they’re actually bad people who only think they’re ok with it to kowtow to authority?

You’re using divisive, hyperbolic language to describe people who simply disagree with you or who have worked in places where unlimited felt, to them, like a better deal. Places you have not worked.

The entire point is that people use name-calling, specifically “bootlicker”, when they have nothing of value to say, and just want to punch anyone they disagree with in the metaphoric face.

I have worked places where five weeks was the minimum time you had to take off, with ability to take more, and places where you had limited PTO you were effectively prevented from using and which expired at the end of the year. That you have not had those experiences doesn’t make you the ultimate moral arbiter of truth.

In short, stop calling people names just because you think you have the only possible correct interpretation of something you clearly do not have universal experience in. It’s tacky and ugly.
>What exactly is it wasting?

Time. Writing and maintaining low level unit tests takes time. That time is an investment. That investment does not pay off.

Doing test driven development with high level integration tests also takes time. That investment pays dividends though. Those tests provide safety.

>Sure, maybe you can do everything you would do via TDD in your head instead. But it's likely to be slower and more error-prone.

It's actually much quicker and safer if you can change designs under the hood and you dont have to change any of the tests because they validate all the behavior.

Quicker and safer = you can do more iterations on the design in the available time = a better design in the end.

The refactoring step of red, green, refactor is where the design magic happens. If the refactoring turns tests red again that inhibits refactoring.
Tapes indeed played a role in the Iranian Revolution, but it was largely a negative one in making Khomeini popular enough that he could return from exile and immediately marginalize the broad coalition that had overthrown the shah. But after 1979, smuggled cassettes also allowed Western-leaning Iranians to maintain contact with the pop culture that they had been cut off from due to the new regime.
Well, you forget that in the US an item with prize 47 actually costs 52 because tax is also not included.
This is the 2nd post I've seen recently submitted to HN that plays fast and loose with big-O notation. It has a defined meaning. If someone wants to talk about something else, great use different notation. People already seem to have some trouble grokking big-O and we don't need to muddy it with 'ad-hack' usages.
> Of course LLM's can't reason. They pattern match

You’re assuming that reasoning isn’t just pattern matching.
you do understand that you just agreed with me right?

the Federal Tort Claims Act is the federal government waiving their immunity under limited cases.

None of the claims allowed by the Federal Tort Claims act would allow you to sue a federal single payer health system for denial of care that was part of offical policy, or procedure.
It was considered unethical when the US was founded, but the role and ethics of public prosecutors have evolved in the past 200 years.

Also worth pointing out that local prosecutors are elected, so there are tons of perverted incentives in trying cases. When prosecutions get backlogged, voters get frustrated and will vote for change.
I mean he probably was an important factor in getting the commercial state of OpenAI Inc to what it is today. However a lot of people feel that he betrayed the original funding goal of OpenAI which was to work for the benefit of humanity. I'm not convinced OpenAI Inc is doing anything more for "humanities benefit" than Meta, Google, Microsoft or other players in the space.

I would like to know what is the actual reason for why they fired him though. Is there more to this story than meets the eye?
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
If you have the magic powers required to pull off the cat noise plan, you can do much better than keeping things around for 30 years.

If you don't, warning and removing is most of the toolbox.
> It seems difficult to argue the additional self knowledge in the second version hasn’t come from its own learning. By my lights, this indicates the program is progressively becoming more self aware.

Funny, my response is the exact opposite. I don't understand how any of this could be construed as "its own learning" -- or self-awareness at all.

First of all, the GPT-4 model itself remains static. Learning requires a model that grows. So there can't be any learning, by definition.

And second, remember, it's just filling in text that starts with something claiming to be an AI model. If you told it that it was a unicorn trying to generate and solve riddles based on previous attempts, you'd get that instead. But nobody would suggest it was actually a unicorn. But when we tell it it's an AI model that's becoming self aware, and it produces text about that, we... think that's actually somehow more trustworthy or accurate? Rather than just more autocompleted fiction along a theme?
I think that makes complete sense and points me to the fact that it it simply that most of us aren't yet fully equipped to effectively use the vocabulary to describe these concepts, but you have put it well, I believe.
Regarding US Sales Tax v.s. VAT.

Sales Tax is an indirect tax on consumption that is deferred until the end consumer makes a purchased, and taxed in the area they made the purchase (even online since 2018). Some end consumers are tax exempt and can avoid paying Sales Tax. Companies can write off taxes paid where appropriate. Everyone else in the value chain is tax exempt assuming they filed their paperwork correctly. Ultimately this means that there is no equivalent to a VAT recovery, reverse charing, etc, and the governments that collect sales tax don't see any money if something is never sold.

Sales tax is not included in the price because it is based on the price. If a widget is sold for $10 today, there is less tax paid if you sell that widget for $1 tomorrow. It doesn't matter if $9 of additional value was created along the way.

States, counties, and cities can have different sales tax rates for various reasons. For example, my city voted to add to the sales tax to pay for road improvements. There is a lot of travel into our area for consumption so it ends up that visitors pay for roads even if they don't refuel their cars in the city.

Sales Tax and VAT are not bad ideas, they're just different ideas. At the end of the day if your government wants a Dollar, a Pound, or a Euro, they'll find a way to raise it.
Yep! It does have the posh stereotype.

Though it does feel like a lot of energy is moving away from D1/D3 and towards D2/D7 as there's similarly priced property that is newer.
The Domesday Duplicator (2022)
This seems like the blatantly obvious path to me. Perhaps that needs to be dealt with in a major version release tho. TZ naive and TZ datetimes are needed and it’s important to chose the correct one.
Yes, but "Unknown function datetime.utcnow" is much easier to diagnose than somewhere in your application, possibly inside a third-party library or maybe even in a different service altogether (because the change traversed serialization and deserilialization) throwing an exception because you can't compare two datetimes.
It’s been a while since I was in college, but this was a problem then too.

So was alcoholism and overuse of recreational drugs. You can’t just ban away vice.
Timestamps yes, but you can't represent meaningful future times that way.

You should also record the timezone with the timestamp, though. An epoch-time integer will unambiguously tell you what time something was recorded at, but it can't tell you what the time on the clock was at that time. If you're doing some kind of data analysis on user habits, for example, you almost certainly want to work with user local times, not UTC.
they likely could have negotiated it better, but I agree, all these Altman fans really suggest the cult of business sapping any nonprofit motive.
I think they should gut the current company. For better or for worse. Sam and 80% of openai can start over and probably reach agi but like this it's too ironic
Yes, that whole war-on-drugs thing was a giant mistake.

And agreed that there is a problem - now - but resolving that will be costly and time consuming and will require a lot of goodwill from all of the parties involved. I've worked in the mailroom of a bank, which was probably close to 70% minorities and it was awesome: I've never seen so much camaraderie anywhere else that I've worked. Turkish neighbors are great people, the young and coming Dutch kids living one door down not so much (vandalizing the property and causing a lot of trouble). It all depends and they're all individuals, as long as people paint whole groups with a single brush it can't ever work.

But free up enough money for education and you just might turn this around. Interesting tidbit: racism is everywhere I've lived, but it all depends on where on the color chart you are offset towards the 'white' end if you have more money and towards the left if you are poorer. It's pretty wild to see how universal this is, I've observed it pretty much everywhere that I've lived, even in places where people of color where the majority. They did the exact same thing. Baffling.
Ideas are like children. You don't just need to give birth to them; you also need to raise them, teach them, challenge them, and show them the world.

Giving birth to an idea is a necessary condition and sets the boundaries for so much of what it can achieve. But if you're unable to raise it to become a world champion, it isn't worth anything.

I've been on the raising ideas side way more in my 20+ career in tech. I know some people became bitter and scornful of me because I pushed their ideas to become something big and received a lot of credit for that. And I try to give credit where credit is due. But often enough, when I try to share the spotlight (in front of a customer or when presenting at BoD, for example), the brilliant engineer withers under pressure or actively harms his idea by pointing out its flaws excessively. It's a delicate balance.
Openness in the context of AI is not straightforward. The open source folks read it one way, and the alignment people read it another.

It is entirely possible a program that spits out the complete code for a nuclear targeting system should not be released in the wild.
Just before flash-based MP3 players came to dominate, I had a second gen "Hi-MD" MiniDisc player. Each disc was 1 GB, you plugged the player into the computer and it showed up as regular USB mass storage, just drag and drop the MP3s over.

The downside with larger disks like the 1 GB Hi-MD is that you can fit 200-400 songs, depending on bitrate. So you no longer get the physical connection "this disk is album X".

If anyone is looking to purchase, beware: first-gen Hi-MD devices (IIRC) were crippled by needing to use Sony's DRM management tool called SonicStage for transfering songs, it was slow as shit and annoying, probably only usable on WinXP or something today.
Hmmm...

O(log(n)) confuses me. I could have sworn that the "Center-of-spherical library" thought experiment proves that its O(cube-root(n)) in 3-dimensional space, and O(square-root(n)) for 2-dimensional space.

That is: all memory has a physical shape, and the worst-case speed is related to the distance away from the center (aka: CPU Core) and whatever "book" or memory-cell you're looking for.

For a 2d space, the optimal organization of books (or memory cells), is a perfect circle: each book is exactly R (radius) distance away from the center, meaning all books can be fetched under equal time. This leads to O(sqrt(n)) performance, as the more memory you have (assuming memory is the same "shape"), the larger the circle _must_ become.

For 3d space, the optimal organization of books is a perfect sphere. Same-same really, except we can fly now.

Real-world chips are largely 2d technologies, but given the shear number of layers available on modern chips (hundreds of layers for Flash and other tech), maybe spherical / 3d perspectives are a better theory to work off of. Transitioning between layers is always fraught with problems (vias in physical chips / boards have inductances and other parasitics after all), so we're somewhere between 2-dimensions and 3-dimensions in practice (with more and more tricks to get us towards the 3d side).

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In the real world: chips are limited by these parasitic elements (inductances and capacitances), which slow down the electrical signal. But these are primarily related to distance (more inductance the longer a trace is, and more capacitance the more ground-is-parallel to that trace). So this theory ends up working out as a physical model of the electrons moving at the chip level to fetch data and communicate.
I used to get burgers from a nice joint down the way during the pandemic.

They added a 15% fee in, and it’s unavoidable. I called them up and said I wouldn’t be ordering from them anymore as its deceptive cost. Just raise your damned prices!

Was just traveling and the servers kept conveniently forgetting to mention we’d already been assessed an 18% gratuity. It just makes me suspicious of the waitstaff.
I stopped my Netflix subscription after they cancelled 1899. I really enjoyed the first season and while it might not be for everyone I thought it was amazing television.

It really sucks when you get excited by a project just for it to be cancelled after a season, or worse, after two seasons.

The amount of shows Ive really enjoyed that weren't given a conclusion was just too many. It's just a business model that doesn't sit well with me. I wish they gave these shows one more season or perhaps a movie (which is roughly equivalent to 2 episodes) to wrap things up.

It's not like they don't have the money.
ChatGPT uses v3.5, which isn't very smart. If you run this through GPT4, it solves it correctly:

To solve this problem, we need to identify the pattern in the given sequence.

Let's examine the sequence step by step:

1. FXGB
2. HXIB
3. JXKB
4. _____
5. NXOB

Now let's look at each component of the sequences:

The first letter in each set:

- F (6th letter of the alphabet)
- H (8th letter)
- J (10th letter)
- ? (We need to find this one)
- N (14th letter)

We can observe that the sequence is increasing by 2 each time (6, 8, 10, ?, 14). Therefore, the missing letter should be the 12th letter of the alphabet, which is L.

The second letter in each set is consistently 'X', so we can assume that it will remain 'X' in the missing set as well.

The third letter in each set:

- G (7th letter of the alphabet)
- I (9th letter)
- K (11th letter)
- ? (We need to find this one)
- O (15th letter)

Like the first letter, this sequence is also increasing by 2 each time (7, 9, 11, ?, 15). Therefore, the missing letter should be the 13th letter of the alphabet, which is M.

The fourth letter in each set:

- B (2nd letter of the alphabet)
- I (9th letter)
- B (2nd letter)
- ? (We need to find this one)
- B (2nd letter)

There doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern for the fourth letter, but we can see that it is alternating between 'B' and 'I'. Given the pattern, we would expect the fourth letter in the missing set to be 'B' to maintain the alternation.

Putting it all together, the missing set should be:

LXMB

Therefore, the answer is D. LXMB.

It blows my mind how people persistently proudly proclaim the superiority of the human mind over artificial intelligence, while making silly mistakes like comparing themselves against an outdated inferior model instead of the state-of-the-art!
I'm perfectly fine with higher bandwidth connectors, but don't force it on the majority of users who do not need the modernity and nice things. Have Type-C as a dedicated high bandwidth connector and don't force me to use it on my devices that don't need the high bandwidth.
The net change is massively negative for complex life, which is what most people care about.

If we sacrificed 1000 species of bird in exchange for 10 million new species of bacteria, that's not a win.

Excluding single cell organisms, the number of species going extinct in a given year in any category outweigh newly discovered or born species by around 8x.
There is no incentive for manufacturers to use USB-C over USB-A for applications that neither use charging nor need above-USB-2.0 speeds. A lot of peripherals and gadgets fall into that category. Another factor is the limitation on available PCIe lanes depending on chipset. If you can provide 8-10 USB ports, you won’t be able to give all of them USB 3 speeds, and having USB-C ports with different speeds on the same device would be weird, as there is no color-coding mechanism like with USB-A.
Yes, same for my voice. Made me sound British and didn't capture anything special about my voice that makes it recognizable.
I dunno man, not sure why you're so cynical. There actually are people out there who are motivated by higher ideals than their own self-interest. I don't know if Ilya and the OpenAI board are in that category but I believe the world is a better place if OpenAI is still governed by the principles in its current charter than just another extension of Microsoft/VC will
At what dose does it become an endocrine disruptor?
The most logical outcome would be for Microsoft to buy the for-profit OpenAI entity off its non-profit parent for $50B or some other exorbitant sum. They have the money, this would give the non-profit researchers enough play money that they can keep chasing AGI indefinitely, all the employees who joined the for-profit entity chasing a big exit could see their payday, and the new corporate parent could do what they want with the tech, including deeply integrate it within their systems without fear of competing usages.

Extra points if Google were to sweep in and buy OpenAI. I think Sundar is probably too sleepy to manage it, but this would be a coup of epic proportions. They could replace their own lackluster GenAI efforts, lock out Microsoft and Bing from ChatGPT (or if contractually unable to, enshittify the product until nobody cares), and ensure their continued AI dominance. The time to do it is now, when the OpenAI board is down to 4 people, the current leader of whom has prior Google ties, and their interest is to play with AI as an academic curiosity, which a fat warchest would accomplish. Plus if the current board wants to slow down AI progress, one sure way to accomplish that would be to sell it to Google.
Usage is not the driver. It's the prosecution of drug production and distribution. Netherlands "allow" (yes, it's more complicated, but close enough) drug use, but producing drugs is forbidden. So, who supplies the drugs that people are allowed to consume? Gangs. Sweden has taken the war on drugs and dialed it up to 11, with the result that it has turned into a real war. And each time they dial it up even more you get another round of escalations.
The robotic hand Rubiks cube manipulation using RL was no joke either!
Seems simple and transitive. If you don't want to pay for staff, I don't want to pay for lack of service.
> No, it is context for the sudden interest in a scandal discussed to death in Israel over 10 years ago.

Do you have proof that Iran is responsible for the linked post? If not, I wouldn't consider that providing context.

> It's not about exposing some scandal, it's about framing Israel as some psychotic evil thing thus legitimizing massacares such that happened on Oct7, and turning public opinion rabidly against Israel.

How can you make that claim? Also, turning opinion against Isreal (by highlighting things they've done) and legitimizing killing innocents are not part and parcel. People being informed about both sides of a conflict is a good thing, isn't it?

> Oh, and I'm not using emotional rhetoric, I'm really feeling these emotions. You have no idea what we have been through, and then seeing the barrage of unhinged lies and half truths being thrown against us really is scary and disheartening.

I sympathize with you, but even if it's genuine it's still emotionally charged rhetoric.

Your comment comes across as "this thing that happened 10 years ago doesn't matter because Hamas attacked Israel recently". It's a nonsequitor that makes your sentiment appear disingenuous, even if it isn't.
I think Sam has been given credit for being a good CEO and leader, which clearly is deserved. I've never heard him take credit for technical accomplishments. Ilya has been doing plenty of talks, podcasts, etc.--if anyone's the technical face of OpenAI, it's him. There's no lack of praise or credit given to him.

"Just speculating on how it might feel to Ilya watching Sam go on a world tour meeting heads of state to talk about what is largely Ilya’s work."

The whole point of a CEO is to do this kind of stuff. If your best engineers are going on world tours, talking to politicians, and preparing for keynotes, that's a pretty terrible use of their time. Not to mention that most of them would hate doing it.