skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called (Algorithmic) Convergence; does the model stably converge upon one answer which it believes is most correct? After how much resources and time?

Convergence (evolutionary computing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(evolutionary_comp...

Convergence (disambiguation) > Science, technology, and mathematics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence#Science,_technolog...
> Put everything back the way it was a week ago and then agree to move forward

Form follows function. This episode showed OpenAI's corporate structure is broken. And it's not clear how that can be undone.

Altman et al have, credit where it's due, been incredibly innovative in trying to reverse a non-profit into a for-profit company. But it's a dual mandate without any mechanism for resolving tension. At a certain point, you're almost forced into committing tax or securities fraud.

So no, even if all the pieces were put back together and peoples' animosities and egos put to rest, it would still be rewinding a broken clockwork mouse.
Why would that be a problem?

Is there some rule that everyone at the same company with the same level has to make the same amount?
You can ask dang to pin comments, though I am not sure if it only works for top level comments.
Because it's not about the thing that's doing, it's about the thing that's being done.
I never met him in person, but I wanted to use an rss script he wrote, so I just emailed him as a random person from the internet. He quickly responded and added authentication to the rss software he was distributing on his blog. He was still in high school at that point before he became famous.

What an awesome guy! He will be missed.
So you are saying that Elon Musk publicly posted proof of Media Matters statements are real before filing a slander case?

This is why legal threats from non-lawyers is lulzy. You make mistakes like destroying your own case before it is even filed.

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Normally that factoid would be hidden until discovery. But hey, Elon went and posted the methodology and proof of it to the internet.
That might work for people in the city, or people who have light automobile needs.

But the (uhm) unpredictability of what you get may make this less desirable for everyday use:

If you have a family, you may find it easier (and cheaper) to own your own vehicle that your stuff can be left in.

If you live in a rural area, the customer density may make it uneconomic to rely on a robotaxi.

If you're of the wide middle class you just might like the fact that the space that you spend 1-2 hours a day in is yours, and won't be defiled by someone else.

You live near the beach and get tired of cars randomly showing up filled with beach sand or wet seats.

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But I want to stress a very important mindset: The interior of a car is your space. People leave stuff in their cars for all sorts of reasons. You could be doing a certain activity and leave some backup equipment in your car. You could be of a certain profession and always carry certain equipment in case you get a call from a customer... You could be running errands and need to carry different things with you for different stops.

This becomes significantly harder with robotaxis when your car is no longer your private space. Don't assume that robotaxis will suddenly make people change this behavior.

Instead, assume that you can't fully predict how markets will adjust to robotaxis and self-driving cars.

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Honestly, I think the early markets for self-driving cars will (obviously) be robotaxis that are cheaper than current taxis / ubers / lyfts.

But, I don't think that will be the first market. I think the first market will be people who really need self-driving vehicles and have the money to pay for it. They will be able to jump in and smooth over situations when the car can't drive itself. I suspect these are people who have access to money and have some form of impairment that makes paying for self-driving "worth it."
I guess I should rephrase that as if they did it because they perceived that Altman was maneuvering to be untouchable within the company and moving against the interests of the nonprofit, they did the right thing. Just, again, way too late because it seems he was already untouchable.
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
Correlation =/= causation. This is most likely coincidental. I highly doubt Dustin's differing views caused a (near) unanimous ousting of a completely different company's CEO that had nothing to do with Dustin's primary business.
Would you point me to that TBS=lo:1 thing? Never heard of...

Thank you
Fair enough, but... still so unsurprising. It's interesting data, but I would be shocked if any guardrails on a nondeterministic statistical model could produce deterministically certain results.
> the checks and balances that investors and a profit motive create

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters
Govts should make funding ransomware groups a criminal offense. The money likely going to RU and NK anyway.
I should warn you that the stretch that the package performs does not preserve the vertical stem widths. Therefore, especially at small point sizes, there are perceptible weight changes.

In my opinion, the default font expansion value stretch=20 is not conservative enough. I would personally recommend not only reducing it but also using the selected argument to further reduce the expansion of glyphs whose geometry distortion may be more easily perceived.
the original deadline was last Saturday at 5pm, so I would take any deadline that comes out with a grain of salt
Must be something specific to your airport/city? Still one of the cheaper ones for me.
This is bonkers. Usually there is a sense of "all sales are final" when companies make such impactful statements.

Yet we have:

* OpenAI fires Sam Altman hinting at impropriety.

* OpenAI is trying to get Sam back over the weekend.

Then we have:

* Microsoft CEO Satya personally announces Sam will CEO up a new.. business?, under Microsoft.

* We hear Sam is still trying to get back in at OpenAI?!

Never seen anything like this playing out in the open. I suspect the FTC is watching this entire ordeal like a hawk.
I've heard others take this stance, but a common response so far has been "Poe is so small as to be irrelevant", "I forgot it exists", etc in the grand scheme of things here.
>If you hit a tainted area the debugger kicks in, freezes the process, and breakpoints on the spot. You can then fix it if you want and continue, or inspect the stack and state of e.g. local vars and learn something.

>What I find surprising is how few programmers I talk to are aware of this, let alone use it. I find it a significant productivity boost.

Forward to the past, as often is the case.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841588

and its parent and child comment.
Tokenizing Arithmetic expressions – calculator p.1
https://github.com/withinboredom.gpg and replace the username. If they have commit signing configured, they have keys, and then they (probably) can decrypt with that key.
`std::os::unix does` adds some additional methods in that vein like exec(), but no fork(). `std::os::linux` only adds the ability to get `pidfd`s for child processes you create. There's simply no safe way for the stdlib to provide safe fork() without knowing a lot of things about how you're going to set up your process and what other libraries you might pull in that may not be fork-safe. If you're willing to ensure you only call it in a safe way, you can still call fork, the language just cannot guarantee it will be safe, same as when you're doing it in C.
Quite literally: you can't play MSFS2020 on Linux.
> The police say they cannot access the tag’s location unless the owner shares it during an investigation
Nvidia stock closes at all-time high, a day before earnings
There is no profit in AI safety, just as cars did not have seat belts until Ralph Nader effectively forced them to by publishing Unsafe at any Speed. For-profit corporations have zero interest in controlling something that is not profitable, unless in conjunction with captured regulation it helps them keep challengers out. If it's open-sourced, it doesn't matter who wrote it as long as they are economically sustainable.
I took the weekend off (recommended, would do it again) and read the first two parts of "The Last Policeman" trilogy by Ben H. Winters. A simple but captivating detective story in a pre-apocalyptic setting.
Maybe it's an opening bid that could be negotiated down to 50%. Half kidding.
The classic joke here is that McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money.
Is there a specific reason we should expect that "instructing not to perform" an illegal activity should result in it adhering to said instruction? Is this any different than when it provides wrong output about other things, even when the operator attempts to "engineer" the prompt to guide the result?
> I know this is how the US operates, still it's weird to trade cash for criminal allegations.

It's not just the US. Spain is accusing Shakira of financial fraud (spending more than 183 days over a year from 2012 to 2014 in Spain --for she had a spanish lover--, without paying her taxes in Spain) and she had to pay something like 16 millions plus six months in jail but they recently settled on an additional 8 millions or something and no jail time.

I mean: it's not exactly the same but they still traded cash for part of the sentence.

P.S: Spain is also apparently now going after her for year 2018.
> the "brand" is absolutely and irrevocably tainted by this situation regardless of the outcome.

The majority of people don't know or care about this. Branding is only impacted within the tech world, who are already criticial of OpenAI.
Select Committee Unveils Report on Illegal PRC-Tied Biolab in Reedley, CA
As an aside: that letter contains one very interesting tidbit: the board has consistently refused to go on the record as to why they fired Altman, and that alone is a very large red flag about their conduct post firing Altman. Because if they have a valid reason they should simply state it and move on. But if there is no valid reason it's clear why they can't state it and if there is a valid reason that they are not comfortable sharing then they are idiots because all of the events so far trump any such concern.

The other stand-out is the bit about destroying the company being in line with the mission: that's the biggest nonsense I've ever heard and I have a hard time thinking of a scenario where this would be a justified response that could start with firing the CEO.
Side note; I suspect you mean software enginee? Computer engineering is absolutely a degree and concerns the engineering of a computer. Starts off like an EE, ends up taking classes like 'microprocessor design' in place of power systems and the like.
Yes, they "demonstrated" it with this tactic described below:

- *Media Matters’ Research Tactics*:
- Created an alternate account to manipulate public and advertiser perception.
- Curated posts and ads on the timeline to misinform about ad placement.
- Contrived experiences are not platform-specific and could be replicated elsewhere.

- *Ad Serving Instances*:
- After curation, they refreshed timelines to find rare instances of ad placement.
- Logs showed 13 times more ads served to their account than the median X user.

- *Ad Impressions Data*:
- On the day in question, of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X, less than 50 were served against the content in the Media Matters article.

- *Specific Brand Exposure*:
- One brand had an ad run adjacent to a post twice, seen by only two users, including the article's author.
- Another brand had two ads run adjacent to two posts three times, seen only by the article's author.

- *Content Policy Evaluation*:
- The article highlighted nine posts believed to be inappropriate for X.
- Only one of the nine posts violated content policies.
- Action was taken on the violating post under the "Freedom of Speech, Not Reach" enforcement approach.
Another moment in tech history when I really wish Silicon Valley(HBO) is still going on. This situation is right out of the series.
And sometimes you’re safe despite the existence of an extradition treaty. France has a bunch of extradition treaties but they’ll only let them be used against non-citizens.
Sorry, I’m in the US. Last time it took 10 weeks.
> Is this unprecedented or have been other cases in history where the vast majority of employees standup against the board in favor of their CEO?

It's unprecedented for it to be happening on Twitter. But this is largely how Board fights tend to play out. Someone strikes early, the stronger party rallies their support, threats fly and a deal is found.

The problem with doing it in public is nobody can step down to take more time with their families. So everyone digs in. OpenAI's employees threaten to resign, but actually don't. Altman and Microsoft threaten to ally, but they keep bachkchanneling a return to the status quo. (If this article is to be believed.) Curiously quiet throughout this has been the OpenAI board, but it's also only the next business day, so let’s see how they can make this even more confusing.
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While it is true that the govt looks to keep such engagements short, SVB absolutely did not shutter. It was taken over in a weekend and its branches were open for business on Monday morning. It was later sold, and depositors kept all their money in the process.

Maybe for another, longer lived example, see AIG.
Please don't. I'm too close to comfort to this shitshow. I don't want to make yet another alt account.
Honestly it looks like basically the same as getline/putStrLen from the tutorial(1) in the link below, just not written in an intentionally obtuse language.

Considering how much more approachable this Roc documentation/naming is, I'm wondering if it isn't so that the people writing Wikipedia's math pages are probably the same people that are drawn to and writes Haskell/monad "tutorials".

1: http://learnyouahaskell.com/input-and-output
I'm waiting for Emmett Shear, the new iCEO the outside board hired last night, to try to sign the employee letter. That MSFT signing bonus might be pretty sweet! :-)
If you read HN, it seems fair to assume that you know how to search for an uninstall script, and how to vet whether it'll work or not, and even know to try another and then bookmark the one that works?
> The police say
where's thew money going to go?
Transitioning to Replit Core
It's very very interesting that even when explicitly allowed to trade illegally, it still tried to deceive the user.
I don't know if [0] would be any help, it doesn't talk about graphs in particular but does talk about functional-focused approaches to data structures. This note[1] on the wikipedia page for the book says it better than I could:

> [...] consider a function that accepts a mutable list, removes the first element from the list, and returns that element. In a purely functional setting, removing an element from the list produces a new and shorter list, but does not update the original one. In order to be useful, therefore, a purely functional version of this function is likely to have to return the new list along with the removed element. In the most general case, a program converted in this way must return the "state" or "store" of the program as an additional result from every function call. Such a program is said to be written in store-passing style.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/okasaki.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_data_structu...
1. Why not use Markdown-compatible syntax?

2. Why would we want to observe changes in real time? Do you want this when coding too?

My workflow (that I share with co-authors) is to write everything in Markdown (using Pandoc to get PDF output). When we are almost finished, we export (again with Pandoc) to LaTeX.

We collaborate on Git, because, just as when programming, I don't want my co-authors to witness my crappy thought process. That's just noise. Git allows us to use different Git-branches for the arxiv version, the conference version, and the journal version. We also use tags to indicate different submissions.
Or what, they will quit and give up all their equity in a company valued at 86bn dollars?

Is Microsoft even on record as willing to poach the entire OpenAI team? Can they?! What is even happening.
You could have Googled it, but you can start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)
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All I can think of is “These people will be the one handling AGI if llms are they way to achieve AGI?”
I am sure there are discreet nation state buyers, like Russia and China, who are happily to use the information without causing an incident. Russia does not even need to ask, as most ransomware gangs operate under the blessing of Putin.
>And it is serious–it is not normal to be accused of rape by a sibling.

Thanks, I care even less now if that's even possible.

"Woman coming out with sexual assault allegations against man of prominence." is a dime a dozen occurence; most of them just end up wasting everyone's time due to flimsy or even non-existent hard evidence. Engaging in character assassination, aka cancel culture, on the basis of such nonsense plays right into the hands of the accuser.

The court of law exists specifically to deal with these kinds of allegations, acting appropriately and as necessary within the legal process is the extent of the responsibilities and duties owed by the accused. The accused owes the court of public opinion nothing, much less character assassins such as yourself.
Code, weights, talent, leadership, and an army of lawyers. What else do they need?
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I have been assigned a project where I should create a device that can automatically clean whiteboard, this device should be able to detect edge and move across the whiteboard completely, I have no idea from where to start, I have searched the internet but the idea seems so rare, there a few implementations but they didn't explain the process or the material they used, please if anyone have an idea or a suggestion, I am all ears.
Different threat profile. They don’t have the TOS protection for training data and Microsoft is a juicy target for a huge copyright infringement lawsuit.
Had the government done the proper thing of letting consumers decide for themselves if they wanted to keep going to bars or gyms, there would be no issue. Businesses would have lost customers naturally and folded due to a lack of revenue.

But that's not what happened in the US. In many states, the state government forbade service businesses from operating and actively revoked licenses and/or fined businesses that tried to operate. [1]

Why did they force businesses to close? To prevent covid transmission. That is definitionly done for the public good and is therefore subject to 5A. Here is the relevamt text from the ammendment:
"""
... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
"""

A quick ddg search isn't turning anything up for ppp and 5th ammendment, but it's obvious it applies.

[1] https://www.nj.com/news/2023/03/nj-gym-owners-who-defied-mur...
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I noticed early on that GPT35 can successfully create a false sentence but has a whole lot of trouble creating an invalid syllogism, and tends to end up making false but valid ones. Not sure if that's changed but it's interesting what that might say about its training.
> It's based on the false premise that there is a specific amount of wealth and that's it

Absolutely not. This is, in today's world, a perpetual cycle. Pay not keeping up with inflation, yet consumer costs across a wide range of vital services keeps increasing. This keeps the poor poor(er) and the rich rich(er).

EDIT: Fark.com always has perfect timing: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/20/60percent-of-americans-live-...

Why are 60% of Americans living this way when the <=1% could never, in their entire lives, spend the money they have (liquid or otherwise)? Why do the <=1% need all of the assets they have (planes, multiple large houses, mega yachts, and so on)? What kind of human parasite justifies that while they step on the backs of those who make money for them?
Why would Sam let the board get so far out of his control?
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Does oldie classic like Core War belong to the list? https://corewar.co.uk/
Non-profits suffer the same fate where they get credits but have to pay rack rate with no discounts. As a result, running a simple WordPress website uses most of the credits.
It's not about reading comprehension or the lack of it.

It's saying the list price is $100 but then you have to invest time and provide information during the checkout process only to find out on a much later step that the list price is no longer the price you were given.

You're being lied to about the list price which makes it harder to compare prices at a glance and companies are preying on you through a form of "the sunk cost fallacy"[0] in that you're more likely to finish checking out because you've invested so much time already to get to step 6 / 8.

[0]: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost_fallacy
> or community around said technology, that's primed against some target they want to replace.

It's a vocal minority of the community, in my experience. Most people I've personally met who are passionate about Rust have a much more reasonable attitude about the whole thing, and see it as moving the needle in the right direction rather than a fully formed solution.

It also really is interesting: obviously it's not the panacea it is sometimes made out to be, but it truly does eliminate a class of error. I admit to a bit of stubbornness myself, but I'm trying to work with it more.
> This weekend's fiasco about OpenAI

How many people actually cared about that? Lots here on HN, but overall?
Jobs getting fired was the best thing that could have happened to him and Apple.
This morality you’ve constructed sure would lead to a lot of people never facing any sort of accountability for their actions. I’m not really in favor of handing all judgment of people over to criminal court systems. They have a higher standard since they have higher stakes.
Interesting - a minor point, but the sulfur does not seem to replace the iron, but is just an -SH group on the haem.
I was going to say, it's always been a more copper-y taste to me and that's what I usually read in descriptions of the taste.
Funny, because the methodology they described doesn't at all line up with what they actually did, described in detail here:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/stand-wit...
Warren Buffering Appointed interm-CEO of Htmx
Wait, the Anthropic folks quit because they wanted more safety?
> Many people who were "formerly poor" will repeat the saying ad nauseam: poverty is a mindset.

Sounds like survivorship bias. How many chronically poor think that?
Google, Microsoft, Meta I have to assume would each hire them.
They don't have that valuation now. Secondly, yes, MSFT is on record of this. Third, Benioff (Salesforce) has said he'll match any salary and to submit resumes directly to his ceo@salesforce.com email as well as other labs like Cohere trying to poach leading minds too.
FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell
It's both string interpolation and (anonymous) function definition.

# Function Definition:
addAndStringify = \num1, num2 ->
Num.toStr (num1 + num2)

# String Interpolation:
"\(greeting) there, \(audience)!"
# desugars to
Str.concat greeting (Str.concat " there, " (Str.concat audience "!"))

https://www.roc-lang.org/tutorial
Someone mentioned that in the comments on the linked post, but I'm also not sure if pinning non-top level comments is possible.
If this were true, Yudkowsky's MIRI would have solved AGI a decade ago. Turns out you need money and lots of compute power, not just people sitting around talking about the issues.