skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see these kind of videos all the time and typically the auditor is being respectful, and doesn't do anything outside of recording to attract the attention of the authorities. Long Island Audit is one account that comes to mind.
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The battery ages faster the more it is charged. It is approximately linear. Nothing special about 80%, you could draw the line anywhere.
Archaeologists uncover Europe's hidden Bronze Age megastructures
Yeah it's happening. Microsoft is integrating it into their SIEM / Defender (and, well, absolutely everything else)
>your desire potentially to join Sam Altman at Microsoft’s new AI Research Lab. Know that if needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation and advances our collective mission.

The podcast This Week In Startups brought up an interesting point that many OpenAI employees are on corporate sponsored work visas and they really can't jump ship to Microsoft. Those visas are tied to OpenAI.

Not sure how many employees it affects and of those, how many are "key people".

(No doubt that Microsoft already understand the logistics of all this and still want to signal their open arms regardless.)
I never fully understood why CEO:s resign when there's a scandal. Like, stay on and clean up the mess you made instead of bailing with a golden parachute?
Before $7500 rebate which is the real used market killer

I check all the time and the used market (on 3 and Y) isn't nearly cheap enough to opt out of a brand new model with full warranty

And because of the reliability issues, the full warranty is quite valuable (in the short term at least)

-- my 2015 S battery dies literally the day after the 8y warranty ended. $15k to replace with a refurbished battery AND forfeit my battery to them to resell it. The trade in value of the car, assuming it worked, was only $20k.
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There are many First Amendment auditors out there, and I agree with you that a good number of them purposefully attempt to provoke a reaction or get under people's skin.

But I've watched dozens of Reyes' videos, and that is not his style. If he enters a public space, he doesn't call attention to himself and typically doesn't speak to anyone unless spoken to. Most often, he films the walls of public buildings, and if he points a camera at anyone in particular, it's only because they've approached him to ask him what he's doing. He is cordial in his responses and will generally politely explain to anyone who inquires that he's an independent journalist gathering content for a story.

On the flip side, police and other government officials routinely treat him with contempt and hostility from the moment they see him, barking unlawful orders at him and attempting to suppress conduct that the law explicitly protects. He's been assaulted, had his camera equipment destroyed, and been unlawfully arrested multiple times, as he was by the NYPD. If he comes off a little salty as a result of that mistreatment, it's at least understandable.

But even in the case where First Amendment auditors are not being respectful and are acting like jerks ... it's worth noting that the First Amendment is not designed to protect content and actions that others approve of, or that make others feel comfortable. It is explicitly designed to protect speech that others would rather we not speak, religions that others would rather we not practice, journalism that others would rather we not publish. So even if they are being jerks, as long as their conduct is legally protected, it at least allows us to determine whether the First Amendment is being respected.
If they’re replacing PPUs with RSUs it’s definitely great.
"The partnership remains strong" (As we hire all of your employees).

This is going to be fascinating to watch. You have to think all of the usual players are going to offer everyone at OpenAI crazy salaries to break from Microsoft, if for nothing else to disrupt them from taking over OpenAI for free and to sow chaos and "deal doubt" amongst the remaining. It is what I would do if I were Facebook or Google at least.

Meanwhile, at Microsoft, they had no raises this year because of "economic situations" or some such BS. So watching a bunch of folks get 2x raises doesn't sound like it is going to go down well. Not hard to imagine a lot of discontent with this from that angle as well.
> My point is: Humans are status-seeking actors acting in our self-interest. It's literally in our genes.

Could you please enlighten me what gene exactly that would be?

> For example: Encapsule us in pods like The Matrix and build a tailored simulation to impose "AI communism", in order to protect us from climate change and each other?

Are you serious?
Bing AI's attempt at comparing the size of the star with the orbit of Mars:

Betelgeuse is one of the largest known stars and is probably at least the size of the orbits of Mars or Jupiter around the sun 1. According to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Betelgeuse has a diameter of about 600 million miles. The average distance between Mars and the Sun is approximately 140 million miles. Therefore, Betelgeuse is about 4.3 times larger than the orbit of Mars.

When asked not to compare diameter with radius, it said:

You are right. I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. Betelgeuse has a diameter of about 1.2 billion miles. The average distance between Mars and the Sun is approximately 140 million miles. Therefore, Betelgeuse is about
8.6 times larger than the orbit of Mars.

(For the reference, the radius of Mars' orbit is 228000000 km; the radius of the Sun is 696342 km, the radius of Betelgeuse is 764 times that, i.e. 532005288 km, which is about 2.3 times the radius of Mars' orbit.)
I don't see why you would need DRM when you can just send HTTP 403
> And what evidence can one really collect of how to do the most good?

This is indeed a central question to EA, one various proponents attempt to answer in various ways.

> 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).

Your assumption here appears to be that anyone subscribing to an evidence-based approach to do the most good (ie EA) must also inherently subscribe to the "ends justify the means." These aren't inextricably linked, it's quite possible to have one and not the other. One can quite rationally seek to maximize their altruistic effectiveness without sacrificing general decency in their day to day life. Morals usually have some nuance.

> This is a model. If the model is wrong you might cause more harm than good.

I'm not sure what your point is. This is true of most any practical application of a moral framework. EA is more about providing a methodology than providing answers.
I'd far prefer them to do something about the ungodly flange squeal - TfL, grind your tracks!!! That's way more of a clear and present health risk to me than the heat.
The problem isn't that Twitter is split into small bites. Essays do that with paragraphs and sentences as well. It's that Twitter is not structured in a way conducive to conveying an argument.
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Phaser has been consistent with their update title[1] for a decade now. Beats the mind numbingly sterile update of chrome and firefox I suppose.

1: https://phaser.io/download/archive
(and gamma)
Given how tightly integrated insurance is with what treatments Doctors are allowed to give you, it's absolutely a problem for the entire healthcare system.

"Before you go on this medication that's specifically targeted at your symptoms and diagnosis, you must first try and fail these 5 other treatment methods, including a round of anti-anxiety meds and counseling."
And suddenly Firefox has runaway CPU usage on YouTube
The title says "Healthcare system". Insurance is part of that.
He gotta be insane? I guess what he is trying to say is that those who want to selfhost open AIs are worse than Nazis? E.g. Llama? What is up with these people and pushing for corporate overlord only AIs.

The OpenAI folks seem to be hallucinating to rationalize why the "Open" is rather closed.

Organizations can't pretend to believe nonsense. They will end up believing it.
"Use what you know" is, in my opinion, the best answer. If you're starting a startup, why would you hinder yourself with the struggle of learning new a new stack (and, worse, a new language!) with all the other things you have to do to get traction and product market fit?
Or they could have made a test account and visited “problematic” sites on purpose to fake the story because of political purposes.

Occam’s razor is still undefeated there. What surprises me is how many folks think institutions are saints who can’t lie a la George Washington and not just a political apparatus
As a huge Lisp/Scheme fan, I don't find it surprising that Python became the language of choice for neural networks over Lisp.

NN in general just boil down to doing lots of linear algebra, which is a lot about mutating very large matrices. For this you really just want a wrapper around BLAS/LAPACK, so you can leverage existing optimized libraries.

Working with matrices in Lisp always feels a bit clunky, and doubly so when you want to do a lot of stateful operations on them. The real compitetor in this space to Python is something like Matlab, which has probably the best interface for doing linear algebra (but is worse at everything else).

The one area where Lisp and Python both shine is the ability to perform automatic differentiation. Lisps are great for this task since it's all symbolic manipulation. However, this is only important once you have a solid interface for working with matrices.

If you want to get a feel for the difference I would suggest reading through the surprisingly excellent The Little Learner. I think you'll find that while it really demonstrates the power of Scheme (Racket in this case) in areas where it excels, you wouldn't want to use the framework in that book for anything other than toy examples.
If it was all about liability, The press release wouldn’t have said anything about honesty. The press release could’ve just said the parting was due to a disagreement about the path forward for openAI.

As a lawyer, I wonder to what extent lawyers were actually consulted and involved with the firing.
Reasoning is a learnt concept that involves retrieving memories and running them though an algorithm, also retrieved from memory, and then you loop the process until a classifier deems the result to be adequate to the given goal.
Honestly I think the blame[0] is to share across the board. I have read through a bunch of typescript lang issues on this topic, and the general issue is that Typescript doesn't want tsc to do certain kinds of rewrites during compilation (code transpilations that go beyond the most simple things).

This makes sense but honestly means a lot of QoL fixes are kinda impossible to do. At this point I, personally, would almost want tsc (the compiler component) to stop being almost a good bundler and remove some features. Every project I've worked on that uses tsc directly ends up needing a "come to Jesus" moment where a "real" bundler gets introduced and suddenly a lot of stuff becomes easier. Doubly frustrating for me to feel this because tsc does a lot of stuff and it is hard to imagine how Typescript the language moves forward without Typescipt the compiler. I just really don't want to type `.js` for files that are, pre-build, `.ts`.

[0]: "blame" here meant in the weakest sense of "there are people who could make decisions in another way to make this better". Not so much in assigning moral blame
I don't understand. When you run `ollama pull` (or even `ollama run` which will pull if you don't have the model), that is using docker is it not? The code even references pulling from a registry.

https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/blob/main/cmd/cmd.go#L95...
Well I think it's also somewhat to do with: people really like the tech involved, it's cool and most of us are here because we think tech is cool.

Commercialisation is a good way to achieve stability & drive adoption and even though the MS naysayers think "OAI will go back to open sourcing everything afterwards". Yeah, sure. If people believe that a non-MS-backed, noncommercial OAI will be fully open source and they'll just drop the GPT3/4 models on the Internet then I just think they're so, so wrong and long as OAI are going on their high and mighty "AI safety" spiel.

As with artists and writers complaining about model usage, there's a huge opposition to this technology even though it has the potential to improve our lives, though at the cost of changing the way we work. You know, like the industrial revolution and everything that has come before us that we enjoy the fruits of.

Hell, why don't we bring horseback couriers, knocker-uppers, streetlight lamp lighters, etc back? They had to change careers as new technologies came about.
The camera doesn't change anything in that scenario; it'd be something like disorderly conduct with or without it.

The filming isn't the illegal part of what you describe.
It was created as a response to Google having exclusive access to the best models. If Microsoft lets anyone with an Azure account pay by the query to SOTA models then that would at least be an improvement
Insurance companies in America determine which patients are worth treating and which ones are unprofitable. In theory AI can enable better and cheaper treatments for everyone but that would mean insurance companies would have to start caring about something other than profits. Their main metric is profit so AI will be used to maximize profit and minimize costs just like in every other industry.
What is the usual PPU deal at OpenAI? What does that even mean / how is it valued?
Most work visas can be transferred to new companies fairly easily - it's almost trivial. I don't think thats a big deal.
Maybe the learning from this episode is that the limited liability for-profit company is the worst form of coordination except for all the others?
Sounds a little desperate now.

MSFT should just give the employees space to make their own decision.
The announcement that he is acted to get a position with Microsoft creates doubt about his motives.
I disagree. First of all, all of computing is locked into decades-only technology: assembler language and machine instructions. Everything comes down to that whether you write front or back end and regardless of what other "tech" is in the middle.

Today, we can do anything on the front end. Some of the most popular and complex apps in history are front end apps made with JS/HTML and web components (Discord, Spotify, Photoshop for Web, YouTube, and many others.)

The reason that this "stack" has survived and thrived is precisely that it does, at this point, allow front end devs to do anything and to do it in a way that runs everywhere. And that's a Very Good Thing.
To be similarly pedantic, I think you may be looking for 'pedant' (a person concerned with fine detail) rather than 'pendant' (a hanging piece of jewellery or a hanging lamp) :)
ironically, that's the mission of pre-Sam era.
Which part? The first, the second, or, most confusingly, both?
Microsoft is no stranger to the visa process. Several of the visas like H1B allow transfers, albeit it will take time and effort to accomplish.
I mean I know you're joking but yes, it would be able to do that.
you pay X $8/month and then you are eligible for a payout based off of some metric around how much your tweet is interacted with and the ads that were near it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/self-proclaimed-misogynist-an...
Salesforce CEO did the same yesterday. We know twitter can run with a skelton-crew but I’m not sure OpenAI can survive a mass exodus of top AI talent. This is a very interesting sort of collective action but non-adversarial. Management is clamoring for labor and making public offers to people they haven’t met to pay top dollar.
On a phone, 5MB it not ideal. On a corporate desktop, not an issue.
Kinsing malware exploits Apache ActiveMQ RCE to plant rootkits
Don’t forget Web API 2! And their other API recommendations (OData anyone?)
Ah yes, hours after the comment and much later than the moment the courts open.

This reads like a petulant press release and nor an actual legal document. It feels like they even stipulate that Media Matters was right and they did display ads next to Nazi propaganda, but Musk is getting huffy about the technique MM used to expose this flaw in their system.

Side note: how long did it take you to replay to just about every thread in this article with a link to Musk's temper tantrum?
Microsoft will make it happen. Even if 350 people are in this situation that is nothing to the immigration arm of Microsoft.
Semis/tractor-trailers are still a problem. Sure, they can make them run off batteries, but you have to forgo a lot of cargo capacity to do so, which makes the economics tough.
What about the CPU usage?

Facebook loads a lot of information. I don't think we should be comparing the download size of a hello world app with loading dozens of images on a facebook feed.
I'm not sure cargo-mommy strikes me as a strong example. It appears to be specific to the kink, not some mainstream tool that ties in kink somehow.
While many of these are obvious and don't need further explanation, the article would benefit a lot from showing a few simple examples for some of these items, or a justification for why the author's proposed naming is better.
Are we entering the period of the true 'dark web' like the dark ages where web innovation is stifled? If dark mode and other features are disabled, then chrome will go the way of navigator, long forgotten. Intelligence will reign victorious over greed, I guarantee that.
How did it survive pre-aquisition?
It's more like budgeting at a home level, in that you have a set limit of heat that you can spend, and choosing to spend it less on equipment like brakes, traction motors, etc. and more on air conditioning means still remaining in budget.

Their overall limit of heat output by the trains remains the same. The tunnels won't be any hotter than they are now, thanks to savings found in other systems.
Don't forget "Unix".

And yes, the pun was 100% intentional there, too.
Well, they don't say medicine, they say healthcare system. That seems accurate considering your actual access to healthcare and the level of quality depends on insurance.
Some people write long form tweets or threads, and they can take hours to research/compose etc. Not as long as blogs, but still a decent amount of work. I personally prefer to follow people like that.
I think you're overestimating pressure and desire for conformity in a startup like OpenAI. People are working hard and largely committed to the project. There are no black-clad priests going cube to cube ensuring ideological compliance. Nobody is compiling lists of who failed to sign. If that's what you're thinking, it may be a sign of your own biases and how you'd act in a similar situation.
Managed to finish in the top 10% after 6 months of preparation.

There was no pain during them, but once you cool down you feel all the beating you received.

I mean, I am still not 100% healthy, I get some swelling after exercise, and I don't think I can compete with anyone doing it seriously, I just can't get the same volume of exercise a healthy person can. Like, I can only run 10-16km every 2 days, because I need to give my knee time to recover, while a healthy person can run it every day.

But hell, just some time ago I was looking with jealousy at people running at all.
That’s an alternative hostile takeover brilliant!
perovskites have the potential if used in tandem with normal cells to get you more efficency per panel since they are sensitive toa different part of the spectrum. You might get relatively cheap 40% panels out of that.
That means you need less panels, less mounting, cableing ect.

sodium batteries have the potential to be dirt cheap and thus might be able to be rolled out for less of what lipos cost at scale especially in non-mobile applications where size and weight aren't that important.
>Is that a question? As long as my screen is not connected to Google's servers through a 100 mile long HDMI cable

...but your computer is in fact connected to google's servers through a 100 mile long cable. Maybe not an HDMI cable, but maybe that is key to your argument somehow?

>Google made them available to me through a publicly accessible website.

Cafes are also publicly accessible, that doesn't mean the coffee is free. If a cafe gives out coffee for watching an ad, you still have to watch the ad to get the coffee. Just because you found a way to skip the ad watch, doesn't mean you are entitled to the coffee at the "publicly accessible" cafe...
Show HN: Jeopardy Think Music animated directed graph
Pretty cool huh?

I’ve spent a lot of time on this pointless project, and plan to spend a bit more.

https://github.com/AdmTal/music-graphs
Is this for people who are German residents/citizens, or for crimes against German citizens? I presume they're not trying people in absentia. I do know Germany can't extradite people in most cases, which might have something to do with it.
They don't even need all 700+ or even 500 or even 100 employees to join.

If they can get the 4 technical members of the executive team not counting Ilya - Mira, Woj, Bob, and Peter, plus a few other key people like Karpathy then they have what they need and OpenAI is effectively dead.
There’s a good description here.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
They also don't fund the road maintenance. Tax dollars do.