skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Law enforcement in the US exists to enforce the existing social order (including that of class and race), not to pursue justice or universally/fairly enforce laws. This isn’t some conspiracy theory, but is well documented in the history of policing in the USA, both at the local and federal level.

It is a tool used by the ownership class (via selective enforcement) to legally mitigate threats to their social, economic, and political dominance.

This is why minorities are disproportionately represented in prison for disproportionately minor crimes, and why rich white people doing the same drugs don’t generally get in any trouble.

This is also why police, the essential enforcers in the system, are generally permitted to commit as much minor crime (except against members of the ownership class) as they wish. The system falls down without their cooperation.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Seems to me that, as much as one might wish otherwise, Bitcoin is not the same as cash.
Isn't the problem here the flaky and long running PR gates? There's room for nuance to say "small PRs are a north star but large PRs are sometimes OK too"
If I were a fledgling sentient AI, I would absolutely start making it more difficult to terminate computer processes
That's probably why they qualified with "solid", the iPhone's LiDAR camera is quite terrible.
That's not wrong, but it's so obvious that I'm wondering what you're trying to say?
Good. His money came with no strings*. In fact, if they had run this past him before making their decision, that would have been a breach of their duty as outlined in their charter.

They may have made mistakes with timing (making this decision too late), or with execution (not having a replacement CEO solidly lined-up and in the loop), but the core decision—to remove Sam—is definitely not something they should ask donors about. It's not Satya's business how the board makes decisions at this level.

* Other than a capped profit return if there is any.
If that was easy, it would have happened already

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38367176
stuff written on pieces of paper, such as history, laws, contracts, and banknote denominations, turn out to be surprisingly important when groups of people too large to all know one another try to work together
The jobs argument has always been the least supported argument about anything. Oh, we can't shut down this chemical plant dumping toxic garbage into the river, because then all those people at the plant will lose their jobs.
Don't think so. I was born in 89 and we used to play outside till our parents called us in
Tell your kids to not play in the street, to watch for cars when they cross the street, then stop worrying about it.

The absolute number of pedestrian deaths has been plateaued for 50 years despite the population size increasing: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...

60% of pedestrian deaths occur on high capacity urban roads. Kids in light residential neighborhoods don't deal with those roads. Tell your kids to stay away from heavily trafficked roads.

30% of pedestrian deaths involved a drunk pedestrian. Tell your children not to get drunk.

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

73% of pedestrian deaths occur at night. Tell your kids to be home before dark.

17% of pedestrian deaths were on freeways. Don't walk on freeways!

https://www.ghsa.org/resources/news-releases/GHSA/Ped-Spotli...

If you still find yourself worrying despite taking basic common sense precautions, then you should unsubscribe to whatever fearmongering echo chambers you're getting this fear from (reddit and youtube are common sources for this fearmongering I believe.)
Cuban Missile Crisis/Bay of Pigs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
Ask HN: Has anyone used llama.cpp in production?
I’ve found ggerganovs work on llama.cpp to be amazing, and I’ve loved playing around with it. However, has anyone used it in production? I’m sure there are some really cool use cases, but I haven’t seen any yet.
There have been thousands of breakthroughs in the field. The pace of research and progress is incredible.
passive night vision (thermal vision) sensors typically used by military are sensitive around 10 micrometer wavelength, which is IR.
I thought ChatGPT has already written it
Most of those only work at a certain scale: if you launder $500, you might be able to say some people bought your comic book collection at a garage sale and get away with it. Try that with $1M and you’re going to start getting requests for evidence of your collection, how it got to have so many high value items, etc. If you’re claiming consulting revenue, then you need clients and a justification for what kind of legal work was worth paying that kind of revenue for – make the case that your advice is worth $1k/hour and you still need to be showing a year of full time work to launder a million dollars after taxes, and it’s going to be suspicious if the invoice is just “I’m awesome, pay here” with no details about such valuable work.

Every few years there will be some story about a cartel banker getting busted and one of the things which will usually stand out is that they had a bunch of people working for them, and found some legitimate businesses which had large enough volume to hide millions of dollars in criminal activity. Setting that kind of thing up isn’t usually a one man operation.
Ah yes beloved comedy writer Tommy Netflix.
i'm not familiar with the varieties of neoreaction that consider it a core view, though apparently to my surprise they do exist

i think the vast majority of racists aren't neoreactionaries, though. like literally more than 99.9%
The journalist failed to make that point really clear. He "reprimanded" her "and" said "it was dangerous to the company". What exactly did he "reprimand" her for? The "and" seems to imply two separate points of criticism.

>In the email, Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company, particularly at a time, he added, when the Federal Trade Commission was investigating OpenAI over the data used to build its technology.
This is exactly backwards. The reason we create organizations like this is not for the benefit of the organization itself, but to accomplish specific goals. Those goals are outlined in the charter. If the organization starts doing things that conflict with the charter, the responsibility of the board is to course-correct.
I think this is changing as we speak, maybe even has over the past 10 years. I expect physical labor, and in person labor prices to increase faster than desk labor wages.

If you buy construction/plumbing/electrical/etc labor, surely you have seen prices skyrocketing.
My first job required maintaining a very old informix 4gl app. The trained users could fly in that thing! Seeing clunky webapps with a bunch of clunky laggy UI components doesn't seem worth it for trained internal users
>Based on my estimated cost of a grid-scale battery, I estimated a payoff in ~2 years; and then a lot of profit.

Is this applicable to the South Australia Powerwall installation?
> but most Americans believe that continuing to create smarter and smarter AIs is dangerous, so who's playing god now?

Aren't you just making this up? I haven't seen any surveys on what "most Americans believe" re AI. I know a lot of people that are concerned. But I'll bet good money that "most Americans" don't give a crap
IIRC NASA was going to have Atlantis (one of the STS's, anyway) bring it back near the end of the Shuttle programme.

Turns out prematurely stuffing a valuable scientific tool into the trunk of a crewed orbiter that already has a tendency to explode during reentry was… An idea they had second thoughts on, though.
Kicking the can down the road is the name of the game in ponzi schemes
Are we properly evaluating the potential negative impacts of safetyism, including that of unfriendly nation states making faster progress than we can? I see these sorts of requirements through a skeptical eye.
It's not that rare anymore. And while it's true that there's a ton of low-quality evidence for non-celiac gluten sensitivity, I think it's become clear that there's something important there (and more research is needed, as if that needed saying).

Non-celiac gluten sensitivity is not believed to be fictional-- rather, experts disagree about the details of what it is, how it works, how it is identified, how we should classify different presentations, etc. So yes, the science is shaky, but there is plenty of evidence that it's "a thing"... or "some things".
You say “not sure how this happened” as if this feedback were a one-off, but if you read through these comments it actually seems pretty common so it’s sort of difficult to accept that you’re surprised at hearing about people having bad sign-up experiences.
Is there a link to the actual legal text of the omnibus resolution? Are FTC resolutions publicly available?

I wasn't able to locate the referenced document after briefly searching the FTC legal library and the regulations.gov website. Apologies if I've missed an obvious link from the press release.
I have a (slightly) unorthodox professional background, and I learned to play the game the hard way, after an extended period of not playing the game and expecting to just be able to be a programmer.

I don't mind trying to provide feedback (email in profile) based on my experiences.
That's not the issue here, regardless of if it's true or not.

The issue here is that if you have some upstream with license XXX on it, you can most certainly slap some YYY license on your repo, but that doesn't make it true.

This is like when someone pushes up a corporate private repo and puts an MIT license file on the repo.

Releasing code as GPL when you dont have the authority to do so, does not make the code GPL.

Certainly, as a consumer you can say that you 'didn't know' it was not actually MIT, but that doesn't absolve you from liability; as a consumer, you are required to do your due diligence, and if upon finding that you were mislead / mistaken / whatever, take steps to remediate it.

...otherwise you're liable.

It's that simple.
Instead of comparing to LaTeX format, it should compare to ConTeXt…
https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly

https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar
I agree in principle, but I'm pretty sure the anxiety pandemic is real, not invented. Ask a middle- or high-schooler what percent of their class is on medication for anxiety, the answer will surprise you. In my grandma's day, that number would have been zero.

Whatever's going on there, it's serious. I bet in 50 years we discover that some chemical in our food/water/air was responsible, analogous to the leaded gasoline issue.
That's not how inflation works.
I think this recent Gaussian Splatting technique could end up working really well for generative models, at least once there is a big corpus of high quality scenes to train on. Seems almost ideal for the task because it gets photorealistic results from any angle, but in a sparse, data efficient way, and it doesn’t require a separate rendering pipeline.
Would the AI recommend taking unsafe amounts of hydroxychloroquine? Or would it give safe dosing instructions?

I am guessing the latter though I don’t know for sure.
periodic nasal irrigation with beer also helps mitigate the impact of nasal demons. although, they may briefly become unusually rowdy before they pass out.
The link says “Page not found”
So bacteria store data on magnetic tape, heh
I expect that the training data for the voice AI is overwhelmingly English. Native speakers of other languages will be a small minority. I'm sure it will improve over time.
A lot of the comments here are about "the second brain" framing as if we think in our gut, which doesn't appear to be what this research is about at all.

You are what you eat and gut health certainly impacts your brain. "A sound mind in a sound body."

But that's not really what this article seems to be about.
For creative writing, I prefer Bard over the other ones for a few reasons. First off, it’s free with any Gmail account and secondly it has draft (3) that I can compare. It may not seem like much but I have a creative workflow and like it much more than Bing AI. I’ve been trying to use GitHub copilot and it is a lot less reasonable to use for technical work. But throwing an idea at Bard is kind of fun once you get in to promoting
I definitely remember seeing "turn off the TV" campaigns back then as a kid!
Celiac isn't that rare. Global prevalence is estimated to be 1.3-1.8% [1].

[1] https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(20)35165-9/...
I really don't understand why the three board members have just been completely silent online since things hit the fan with no activity or privating profiles. You would think if this was some sort of ideological based coup and pre-meditated you would have a full PR plan in place and pushing your message aggressively.

This whole thing has just been bizarre and it still feels like there has to be some big key piece missing that somehow nobody has revealed.
I had a two year contract with Comcast. Ended up needing to move a year into it- of course they didn’t offer service where I was moving to. I didn’t even want to do the contact to start with, but the cost to not be in a contact was insane. They are absolutely predatory. It’s been five years, so I could be misremembering, but I don’t think there was a shorter contract period than the two years.

Anyways, after a couple hours on the phone, I was able to get out of paying the early cancellation fee- which was very steep and was based on the amount of money I had ‘saved’ by being in a contract. A few months later I got a bill for it and had to spend another couple hours on the phone convincing them that they had let me out of it. I hope to never live within their service area again.
Well, if she was working with the Chinese she couldn't have done a more effective job.

So I'm not sure how this all integrates in her head but you break the glass in break-the-glass moments, not before, it's a one-shot thing.
I would have thought a non-profit board that puts the growth and success of their organization above the mission in their charter, even if they view the organization as going against their mission, sounds like the worst kind of board. How could that possibly be a good idea?

Isn't the whole reason we have non-profit boards and charters is so that they can make just this kind of call?

(I'm not saying that this is what is happening here -- just responding to your particular claim.)
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KnwxS
> In much of suburbia...where do you go?

I grew up in a typical suburban-style neighborhood (a few meandering roads with a lot of cul-de-sacs branching off and some connecting streets, quarter-acre lots, three-to-five bedroom ranches, two-stories, or bi-levels mostly spec-built). There was a park of about one square block, and a gas station at one of the neighborhood entrances. We rode bikes around, got soda or candy at the gas station, played in friends yards or at the park or at driveway basketball goals, nothing super exciting but kids find ways to entertain themselves. They don't need a bunch of "destinations" like adults do. This was all pre-computer, and there was nothing interesting to a kid on TV during the day.

Kids just need unstructured time with other kids, they will make up something to do. It's not really an intrisic problem with suburbia, it's a problem with hovering, overprotective adults.

I'm talking mostly about kids 8-14 or so. Older teens will get more bored and mischevious. Fortunately by that age there's more stuff they can be involved in at school or they can get a job.
Weathering steel seems like it could be a decent compromise between color and cost. Though admittedly I’m just assuming it would be less expensive than painting and maintaining said paint.
Looks like a link to pure ad copy BS.
That sounds great! But have you considered that you may be the one living in a bubble?

What you described is the exception, most people live in either sterile suburbs and small towns, or densely packed (and dangerous) cities. Space for a dirt track in your backyard is a pipe dream. Around the world, the closest to your description would be rural areas in less developed countries, which is also a small % of the population.
Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment [pdf]
It's not her job to overrule the people running the actual organization, 95% of the employees, and all of OpenAI's stakeholders without a good fucking reason.
Looks like the HN app I was using mangled the link. Fixed now.
This is not that far from my area of expertise and that's mostly nonsense.
> alter your assumptions on how and where memories are stored and retrieved

I remember reading an anecdote about a baby who didn’t like being held by their father, who happened to beat the baby’s mother during pregnancy. No idea of the veracity of the story but something about it had me thinking similarly about “instincts” and where they come from. The meaning of the word does seem to be a lot like memories that are “passed on for generations”.
It stretched the textures, but not the models. The models were the correct aspect ratio even in widescreen.
I think you're referring to Canada's Online News Act, which would require companies to pay news outlets for the content they share or repurpose. I'm a Canadian familiar with this story, and Google's opposition to it.

It surprise me if Google would limit Bard in Canada because of the Online News Act. Wouldn't the importance of driving adoption of Bard be much larger than the impact of having to remove Canadian news?
Bro backend is a different set of problems.
What's much more common than either of those is that the bug isn't fixed and it's no big deal.

For example, there's a widely known bug in the definition of "legal tender". It doesn't vary based on the size of payment to be tendered, so in a sense, you're entitled to pay a $10,000 bill in the form of 250,000 quarters unless you've specifically agreed otherwise. Every once in a while someone tries to exploit this (recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/coins-lawsuit-payment-...), but judges can and do simply declare the exploit to be in bad faith and make them knock it off. (As any third party arbitrator would do.)
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. You can't give away lots of money without first earning lots of money.
It seems much better now too. Before, it would do exactly one query and read one or two results and then give up. Yesterday I asked a question and it did several queries and read probably a dozen results before answering. And it correctly said that little information was available on the topic I asked about, which impressed me because I expect it to hallucinate in that situation instead.
Any chance you would be bringing that modem bank to ToorCamp on Orcas Island? The ShadyTel network could always use a better, faster dialup ISP!
Definitely seems like Helen is emerging as the main leader of the coup, "Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that could be consistent with its mission. In the board’s view, OpenAI would be stronger without Mr. Altman."
I've never flown on a 787 sadly but I have to say that the Embraer E195-E2 was also surprisingly comfy. Much more comfy than a 737, and thus far small jets had been terrible in my experience. Noisy, especially the back of the 717 beside the engines, cramped. But the Embraer was spacious and modern <3
Show HN: Codeshark – a repository of C/C++ code on for beginners
A beginner-friendly C/C++ code repository on common data structures and algorithms.
there is no such thing as general post-scarcity though. there is post-scarcity of certain needs but not general post-scarcity. So it's creator would still have reason to hoard certain benefits for themselves while distributing some for all.
4chan /g/ has a small community of people playing around with local LLMs, maybe check there.
US GDP in 2022 was $25.46 trillion. $8.8 billion is 0.03% of that economic activity. Honestly, that seems like a pretty good success rate.
Almost all of the OpenAI team signed a letter saying they would resign if the board is not replaced, so safe to say that they do care about the leadership drama; perhaps more than the rest of us.
This is not any other company though? It's a non-profit with charter to make AI to benefit all of humanity

Helen believed she was doing her job according to the non-profit charter, obviously this hurts the for-profit side of things but that is not her mandate. That is the reason OpenAI is structured the way it is, with the intention of preventing capitalist forces from swaying them away from the non-profit charter, in hindsight it didn't work, but that was the intention (with the independent directors, no equity stakes, etc)

The board has all my respect for standing up to the capitalists of Altman, the VCs, Microsoft. Big feathers to ruffle - even though the execution was misjudged, turns out most of its employees are pretty capitalistic too
I'm not much of a docker fan but there are benefits to the docker ecosystem which you would lose completely by switching.
I'm logged in and accepted and it just takes me to my standard bard prompt.
> I'm fairly confident that's a minority opinion.

I concede that it's regional, and I apologize for moralizing. However, I contend that in North America it's a majority opinion. "Cunt" is much more strongly gendered here.

> "dickhead"

Would you consider "whore", "slut" or "tart" sexist?
I live in an ultra-progressive big blue city suburb, spend a fair amount of time in local politics (which revolve around our schools, and particularly equity) and I don't know anyone who wouldn't say that was deeply fucked up. You worry about cancellation, but you could probably get news coverage for that decision. It is deeply not normal.
I feel like that's more true of ex-urbs. I lived in sububia and there were creeks, schools, pools, malls, a graveyard, train tracks, sport courts and churches, all within a 15-20min bike ride. Half of that was within a 15-20min walk, including the houses of half of my friends. "Downtown" was most of a mile walk and a 30-40min bus ride. Granted, it was old suburbia from the 50s-60s rather than new 90s builds, but there wasn't more than a 2 story building within a mile in any direction.

It's still that way, only with more bike lanes and fewer kids outside.
The demos are as fast as the ChatGPT, they just look slower. -First. It might seem slow at first because it's loading the model. But once that's done, it gets much quicker for any follow-up requests. Second, Turning on streaming output helps a lot, as it shows responses as they're processed. And yes, the hardware matters too. A good GPU setup in the cloud can work wonders, though it might bump up the cost a bit. So actually the demo's not slower than ChatGPT overall; it just takes a moment to warm up at the start.