skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>while in principle I love blogs. But they are very different beasts: twitter is a cheap cheese and tomato frozen pre-made pizza

Some people (especially techies) like to distinguish between blogs and Twitter but we have to also acknowledge that non-tech people use Twitter as an easy-to-use blog platform. They start from the motivation of "publish some of my thoughts" and "What's the easiest way to do that?". The most friction-free and viral way to <airquotes>blog</airquotes> -- is to use Twitter. Using WordPress or self-hosting Gatsby engine isn't something they want to do.

That's why some write long-form thoughts as a multi-part "Twitter thread" as a pseudo blog post. Yes, it's hard to read but that's not the priority. They simply don't want to use a "real" blog engine. They'd rather use Twitter for the ecosystem, audience reach, and engagement. (retweets, likes, etc).

In other words, the influential people using Twitter are not swayed by "cheep cheese" analogies. They're simply not interested in bespoke blog engines.
Transistors are the most valuable thing we can produce per kilogram and sell easily. We had many processes over the years, but we settled on making them from sillicon. I.e. sand.

Think about it :)
Insta360's Ace Pro combines Leica engineering with computational photography
Simultaneously irritating and "well yeah." No one likes ads or monthly subscriptions, but serving video is expensive, so why not deprioritize the users who are giving you zero dollars and zero cents?
I don't think my case is niche enough to require such attention. I mean, isn't crypto already widely accepted by many companies that also accept fiat?

I'm trying to understand this, but I don't see how would Stripe be held liable for any laundry that I make. Any stripe related payments are completely separated.

If all it takes is me removing btc payments, I have to do it, but that's a horrible twist in my trust and love for stripe (which was not grounded in reality/experience, but merely on all YC vids praising them)
It's like an oven, there's not much more to it than that.
Re magnetrons, there's a bit of a story behind how I acquired them. Those devices would hardly ring a bell with many electronics people, even those who recognized them as such likely wouldn't think they were important from an historical stance.

When I was a kid I used to rat old WWII surplus radio/radar gear for parts and whilst I never came across any of that first generation of magnetrons I'd seen photos of them in books on radar.

Many decades later I was helping someone move an old aircraft engineering works of WWII vintage that manufactured parts to a new location. It was not only crammed full of machine tools, lathes, milling machines, metrology equipment etc. but just about everything under the sun. For example Singer sewing machines of about 1880s vintage, uranium glass wine glasses, Arts and Crafts Movement lamp shades, oil lamps, old glasses, tons of old magazines, old chemical lab equipment and bottles of partly-used reagents, half-used cans of aircraft paint, wooden aircraft propellers from 1930s etc., etc., including dead rats were among the many thousands of different items—all piled up to the gunnels. One could hardly move and it was dangerous as one could be injured on junk, sheet metal offcuts, piles of sharp swarf and such—if you've ever seen those TV programs on hoarders you'd get the picture.

Anyway, those magnetrons were amongst literally tons of junk destined for the tip and it's just a very lucky fluke that I spotted them. I'd never seen one for real before but I instantly recognized them for what they were. It was a most fortuitous find.

The owner of the factory couldn't have cared less about them and they'd almost certainly have ended up in landfill if I hadn't spotted them. How these magnetrons originally ended up there was that his father who originally owned the factory was a compulsive auction goer and bought huge loads of military disposals at auction after the War.
That's fair, this definitely may be a functional cure for many people and that's absolutely something to be celebrated.

The language around "cure" is complicated in general. We often use it in diseases like cancer but with modern therapies, we do have some patients on long-term therapy making their cancer more of a chronic one - are they cured? On the other hand, we rarely use the word cure with diseases like hypertension or diabetes which can devastating diseases in their own right but can be controlled effectively with medication.

So yes, what should really matter is the actual outcomes - are people living longer? Is their quality of life better? And, with exa-cel/Casgevy, the latter is absolutely true (and the first will be known after time).
Yeah, like OpenAI hired their first interim CEO on Thursday night, hired their second on Monday, and are now talking about rehiring Sam (who probably doesn't care to be rehired).

There may be drawbacks to the "instant hiring" model.
Regulators are not required to consult businesses. That's what McKinsey, and Ernst & Young are for. In fact, I would like it very much that regulators would stay hostile to business as they are meant to. Not coddle with industry in events to have a chat and a coffee. Keeps the revolving door shut.
Compared to what? Sodium?
Yeah the brown face really stood the test of time
Sounds like the usual scammy juicero-like vaporware unicorns:

1. Pitch some grandiose idea to clueless execs

2. win over big money contracts

3. farm out the actual work to the cheapest body-shop and pocket the rest
Change the name. Anyone who searches it looking for your RSS reader is going to hate you.

Don’t search it (or make sure you have some kind of filtering on).
China already has GWH scale sodium battery plants. So if THEY have been trying to suppress it THEY aren't doing very well.

This announcement is about an improvement in energy density made possible by $Bs being invested to allow sodium batteries to become more competitive with lithium.

There are also other battery chemistries being rolled out. Iron based ones seem particularly promising for stationary storage.
>the research on them does not lead to research on understanding cognition (read Chomsky on this), which is required for AGI.

Many phenomena have been discovered unintentionally and/or without understanding them. Deliberately developing an agi would probably be easier with a better understanding of cognition, but it's almost certainly not required.
I'm on Android and don't SMS with hardly anyone these days. I just use telegram channels or signal messenger.
And what evidence can one really collect of how to do the most good? that involves predicting the future.

I prefer the doctors approach: "first, do no harm".

"The end justifies the means" is a useful concept that has been talked about many times. I would not dismiss it. I do not think it is reducing EA. I think it is communicating it with clarity, without confusing additions. It is its essence.

Someone claims (let's say to simplify they are not lying) to want to maximize their good in the world, for that to be accomplished they need to do something that somebody does not approve of (only caring about money, being rude to you, whatever it is). That is literally "the end justifies the means", where the end is "doing good in the world according to model x".

More often than not, that is just an excuse to do something despicable under the excuse of the future good.

> Evidence-based data to determine how they can do the most good

This is a model. If the model is wrong you might cause more harm than good. So, if EA is honest to work this model needs some proof that it works. Otherwise EA is only successful in becoming popular as an idea, not in accomplishing its stated objectives.

Does earning a lot of money and donating it to charities create more good? I am not sure. Maybe earning less money and care for people in your everyday life would create more good.
It's really hot, you get plastered to the inside of the doors when it's busy and goes through Hounslow which is where the Indian population is in London. They named it that themselves and it caught on.
Having maintained both JavaScript SPAs and Blazor apps for the past 4 years, I disagree with the article's point about Blazor being more complex. I've had way more issues keeping JS tooling running and having to spend time fixing issues when I upgrade packages. Things really get fun when you have to produce an SBOM for security audit. You can generally get by with way fewer dependencies in a Blazor app and the build process starts simple and can get as complex as you want it to be.
Another point not mentioned in the article is that Blazor can also run directly on local hardware - desktop or mobile. This doesn't use WASM or web sockets and runs at full native speed. This is a big deal where I work since we can run the exact same UI on kiosks as well as on a web site, with essentially the backend swapped out.
Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants
anyone have a link that climbs the paywall?
I see stuff like this spreading in social media and it’s always people speculating without any evidence. On Saturday it was a coup by Ilya, on Sunday it was a coup by effective altruists/decelerationists on the board, today is D’Angelo’s Poe getting eaten up tomorrow it will be something else.

Your theory collapses in the slightest amount of scrutiny, if D’Angelo tries to destroy the company due to his own company losing value why would the other 3 board members be on board with that? You’re not doing anyone any good speculating stuff like this just adding more noise.
> Progressive Learning: We start with LLaMA-2-7B or LLaMA-2-13B checkpoint and finetune it on the train split of FLAN-v2 dataset for one epoch. Note that FLAN-v2 dataset contains both zero-shot and few-shot problems. We then train on 5 million ChatGPT data from Orca 1 for 3 epochs. Then we train on the combination of 1 million GPT-4 data from Orca 1 and Orca 2’s 817K data for 4 epochs.

I think people are missing why they are comparing against Llama-2 13B/70B. They improved Llama-2 7B/13B and reach the level of a 5-10x larger model of the same base.

This is huge. Models on HF.

https://huggingface.co/papers/2311.11045
So I've thought about the problem some more, and have my own idea.

You would still have a rod mounted a short distance from the wall, like the clothes hinger design, but a little further out. The rod for the clothes hinger has grooves that are perpendicular to the long axis of the rod.

But what if you cut the grooves at an angle instead, maybe 60 degrees. This would take up about the same distance out from the wall as the clothes hinger design, but slightly more wall space. This would be a factor for very constrained walls, but for the longer rods, the "overhead" would be insignificant. And it would only project out from the wall the same as the clothes hinger design (that's trigonometry!).

You would use a smaller diameter rod, so that with the grooves cut at an angle, the diameter is still sufficiently small enough to use a regular clothes hanger.
Because I assume that Apple put a fairly low limit on the number of accounts that can be tied to a single computer.
I bet most people who don't frequent tumblr/reddit et al don't have the slightest idea of what "vore" is. The internet is pretty large, and humans are pretty clueless on average.
Tesla launched its own car insurance. These drivers say it's a lemon
> Lithium is cheap because the externalities of the environmental damage it causes is not accounted for in the pricing.

Like every other raw resource we use.
Congrats on the launch. I actually think this is a good idea as something to provide. As someone who just has time to dabble in web projects and loves to use Sveltekit, having something like this would be great, since I spend about the first 1-2 days relearning how to get everything started.

There are a few things that I am looking for before I'd buy this though:

- An update commitment. When I come back to doing web dev, I want to know that this boilerplate is up-to-date. For example, expect Sveltekit updates within 30 days of a major release, expect integration libraries updated within 90 days of major release, minor versions & patches will be updated automatically assuming they pass tests.
- Integration testing. I'd like to know that each integration has tests written, and that they are still passing. I'd hate to spin up a project and run in to an issue, only to realize that either an integration hasn't been updated or that something there is failing.
- A product roadmap. I'd like to know what other integrations are planned and when they can be roughly expected.
- Launch Leopard Lite? A free boilerplate with Sveltekit+Tailwind+DaisyUI+SEO stuff to try things out.

Good luck!
Xvisor: EXtensible Versatile HypervISOR
D’Angelo is certainly naive in his self-interest, and definitely not capable as to orchestrate this thing. Think of him like he's useful bastard, and now it's his turn to become the scape-goat bastard for everybody to hate. This is counter-spin for containment purposes. The real questions we should be asking is how come the NATSEC patriot-ladies on the board managed to exploit Sutskever in such blatant way, what that entailed, and what kind of psychosis it took to get there.
It's supported until 2032 [0]. And don't let the IoT name fool you, it's a fully functional Windows 10.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
There may be little difference in the finished device. But there is a big difference in the logistics, securing a steady supply, political complications that may interfere with that, etc. On the supply side, there is a difference in expertise and jobs.
That is a pretty good use case. In fact, if your prompt is very long, you will need to summarize it (with an LLM).

Also, when you fine-tune the LLM, you can also use an LLM to summarize or concatenate content that you train it on (e.g. rewrite this content in the style of a human having a conversation with a computer)
“GNU slash Linux”

Its a matter of personal opinion and perspective. I find their attitude generally to be toxic, even if it is just based in good ideals; how you communicate with others does matter.
I tried not to have an opinion until now, but so far Altman seems like a greedy asshole, and D'Angelo seems like a greedier asshole.

That clash ended up terribly, since neither of them care about anything else than their best interests.
I do think a lot of OpenAI comments on Hacker News are from people who have a financial interest in it

e.g. startup founders building on OpenAI and so forth

Usually Hacker News isn't so one-sided

Also the PR around this is absolutely incredible

---

Just saw this

The Long Shadow of Steve Jobs Looms Over the Turmoil at OpenAI

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/sam-altman-ste...

Steve Jobs, driven by his genius and his gut, invented the iPhone and built Apple into the world’s most valuable company ...

Sam Altman spent the last year taking on the mantle of Mr. Jobs as the Silicon Valley entrepreneur in charge of tomorrow. It is the biggest job in Silicon Valley, and now the most difficult.

Huhhhh???

What a ridiculously partisan PR piece. Borders on disinformation

The NYTimes is often fairly critical of tech, and even AI -- I can't believe they would publish this without a favor being called in.
Some clarification might help here.

People usually think of RFCs as being the output of the IETF, and the IETF is the biggest contributor by far. Roughly half of the IETF's RFCs are standards or on what's called the "standards track" (most Internet standards are formally at the "Proposed Standard" rather than "Standard" level). The remainder have some other status such as "Informational".

However, there are also other entities that publish into the RFC Series, including the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). In addition, there is what's called the Independent Stream, in which an appointed editor just determines what documents can be published. Importantly, this last category hasn't gone through the IETF consensus process: they're just something someone wanted to publish as an RFC and the Independent Series Editor agreed. GNU Name System falls into this category.
I'm grateful someone said this for me.
My money is on there being some poor middle manager who’s spent the last few weeks crying and pointing at the years of “we’re dangerously understaffed” memos they’ve been fruitlessly sending to their bosses.
More Europe dragged the US/NATO into Libya and Syria.
Keep an eye on https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline and it can be worth getting in contact with organizations ahead. There's still an application step but anybody who contributed or even came with their own project is way ahead of other candidates. In my experience many applications are written in mass and shortly before deadline and many don't even understand the project descriptions (last year we even had ChatGPT generated applications, low quality)

GSOC pays based on country and United States is near top of the list https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-...
Where would the waste heat go? Air Conditioning units dump the heat "outside" into the air. But there is no "outside" in deep tunnels. Worse, Air Con has to work to move heat, which creates more heat. You can't even break even. See the 2nd law of Thermodynamics.(1)

It's not so much "air con on trains" but "air con in deep tunnels without a vent". There is nowhere for the heat to go, and the tunnels have already warned up over the decades. (2)

> Conventional air conditioning was initially ruled out on the deep lines because of the lack of space for equipment on trains and the problems of dispersing the waste heat these would generate.

Every solution is a costly compromise. e.g. drilling a new vent to the surface is theoretically possible, but very hard in a densely populated and built-up area.

A lot of comments talk about tunnel size, which is a minor factor: Everything's easier to engineer when you have more space. But fundamentally the issue is where to send the waste heat, not "tunnel too small".

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling
Thank you for the context; much appreciate it. In short, it's all "I know a guy who knows a guy".
Spotify random isn't well distributed at all, I always listen to my playlist in random mode and I almost never get a good chunks of tracks.
Using something like last.fm I can clearly see some tracks get hundred of play, while some never get a single one.
The article discusses this. It's talking about a "commuter trip". As it points out, this is pretty similar for other wealthy nations. In the US, for example, 60% of drives cover a total distance less than 10km.
https://archive.md/nePHU
Imagine the huge change the company took. They went from negotiating on a deal which would turn OpenAI into an 80 billion dollar company to this deal may no longer going through.

You would then be working under this huge change with a CEO with a mission to "slow down" and likely feeling much more constrained by the board. Altman would likely push back a lot more.
That's usually prevented by using double dashes ("--") to indicate the end of options, before the file argument. I try to remember to include include double dashes in my shell scripts for as many commands as possible (it's easier to just include them rather than figure out whether a user could possible influence the filename).
Can you say a few words about why it’s amazing?
You should see the Glasgow Subway - its trains are almost comically small.
Formal knowledge representation and any sort of formal reasoning is not the way the industry is going right now with LLMs though.

It occurs to me that if we want LLMs to be able to reason better, we may need to write texts that explicitly embody the reasoning we desire, and not just use a bunch of books or whatever scraped from the Internet.
depends on the workload, but the ripper will be 5-10% slower single thread and 3-3.5x faster multithread.
I live in a rural area. Most of what they grow here is soybeans, corn and tobacco. You cant' eat any of it. It's a common misconception that rural areas are food producing. The U.S. imports something like 40% of it's produce.
I was an iPhone 6 user at the time and an Apple fan. I think the secrecy surrounding the move means that the backlash was reasonable.

Consider: a pop up saying "Your battery need replacing, it is operating in slow mode to avoid crashes" v people thinking "Damn, my phone is slow - I better buy a new phone"
Being spun as deeply ideological seems about right - the 3 non-profit oriented board members seem like they were already open about their views in that direction, so just took one vote to flip - D’Angelo.
Thinkpads, for a long time have had a fan speed that's possible, but never reached by the firmware's automatic mode. On Linux, this sets the fan to its true maximum:

# echo disengaged > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

I use the thinkfan utility to run the fan more aggressively, including 'disengaged' over 70C.
I would depend on how often you need to convert the data. If you running it more than once you would probably work with an LLM to build a transform.
The only slow load time I get on YT is that bit where yt-dlp is running.
What if they know / it's on purpose?
If I understood correctly Altman was CEO of the for-profit OpenAI, not the non-profit. The structure is pretty complicated: https://openai.com/our-structure
Wow, how is it even possible to "sell" tax credits? Surely any credits are tied to the EIN/TIN of whatever organization "earned" them:

"Most studios owe little in state taxes, so they opt to sell the credits through private brokers at a discount of about 10%, on average.

Let’s say, for example, $50 million in qualified expenses is returned to the studio as a credit for $15 million, which is then sold for $13.5 million—a substantial reimbursement for the movie studio"
Good stuff, from one West Australian to another.

Anything we can do is better than nothing
People barely know what an address bar is for these days. It's certain a large amount is going to google for it, and then find out.
Schneider hits 1 million miles using Freightliner eCascadia electric trucks
Batteries are included, but you aren't forced to use them.
Kroki – Creates diagrams from textual descriptions
Sam Altman a few weeks after drinking the cool aid [video]
To me this is the ultimate Silicon Valley bike shedding incident.

Nobody can really explain the argument, there are "billions" or "trillions" of dollars involved, most likely the whole thing will not change the technical path of the world.
> Do we know they actually didn’t tell people? Does anyone read through the “What’s New” pop-ups after they upgrade the OS

I'm an avid reader of pop-ups and release notes. They didn't tell people.
Reliable comms everywhere allows fully centralized train control, with no employees on each train. You can use cameras to check no passengers are stuck in doors, on the track, or fighting in the carriages or platforms.

Now you can redeploy the staff away from repetitive tasks of driving trains and supervising stations, and towards engineering a better service. Get the typical journey speed up from 12 mph up to 45 mph. Make one direction of all tracks an express route that only stops at one station in 10 and drives 60 mph through all the others. Modify the old tunnels with an extra rail on a wall or ceiling for places where the tunnel alignment can't do 60 mph.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38357629
Well, they could be in the "all are equal, some are more equal" camp. Lives have value, but some have more value... especially "ours".

Realistically, most people aren't going to spare more than an internet comment or a weekend protest for some atrocity going on across the world, anyway. The world teaches us to compartmentalize evil in order to go on living...
It's fair to be clueless, but not even googling a name before deciding to use it for your project is foolish.
Picking up full stack is a long way from innovating in it.