skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It needs the existence of something that does not exist,

Yes, if we're concerned about the potential consequences of releasing AGI, we need to consider the likely outcomes if AGI is released. Ideally we think about this some before AGI shows up in a form that it could be released.

> it needs a certain socio-economic response and so forth.

Absent large interventions, this will happen.

> Are children equally demoralized about additions

Absolutely basic arithmetic, etc, has gotten worse. And emerging things like photomath are fairly corrosive, too.

> Is there a way to counter the demoralization?

We're all looking... I make the argument to middle school and high school students that AI is a great piece of leverage for the most skilled workers: they can multiply their effort, if they are a good manager and know what good work product looks like and can fill the gaps; it works somewhat because I'm working with a cohort of students that can believe that they can reach this ("most-skilled") tier of achievement. I also show students what happens when GPT4 tries to "improve" high quality writing.

OTOH, these arguments become much less true if cheap AGI shows up.
> concat_tuples

I specifically talked about arbitrary tuples. Your function only handles specific tuples.

> Your second function you just broke out of the type system with Any. Give me a more exact, are you saying Any is a constrained type variable?

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Yes, you can implement the function, I never claimed otherwise. I'm talking about the _type system_.

> The thing is because these type checkers are external, anyone can add arbitrary features to them and extend it.

The type system is a core feature of Python. Until it supports what I want, I can't really use what I want with Python.
HPE?
My story: Maybe they had lofty goals, maybe not, but it sounded like the whole thing was instigated by Altman trying to fire Toner (one of the board members) over a silly pretext of her coauthoring a paper that nobody read that was very mildly negative about OpenAI, during her day job. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...

And then presumably the other board members read the writing on the wall (especially seeing how 3 other board members mysteriously resigned, including Hoffman https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/reid-hoffman-was-...), and realized that if Altman can kick out Toner under such flimsy pretexts, they'd be out too.

So they allied with Helen to countercoup Greg/Sam.

I think the anti-board perspective is that this is all shallow bickering over a 90B company. The pro-board perspective is that the whole point of the board was to serve as a check on the CEO, so if the CEO could easily appoint only loyalists, then the board is a useless rubber stamp that lends unfair legitimacy to OpenAI's regulatory capture efforts.
I'm quite agnostic about editors and keyboard layouts.

I'll use Vim, Emacs and VSCode every week, whichever is at hand. I'll even use nano if I have to.

I'll switch between Qwerty, Dvorak and Pinyin, no flinching. Azerty? I can adapt.

Windows, however? No thanks.
>No GPU, no OpenGL, no DirectX!

This is the opposite of what you would hope to see for learning graphics programming.
Sorry, yes, VFX is "visual effects".

A sibling already gave links to Kabaret and Prism.

Here's the link to Kitsu: https://www.cg-wire.com/

Github here: https://github.com/cgwire/kitsu

All of these projects are targeted at VFX/animation, but there's nothing about them that ties them to those things, it's just why they were developed. You can use them to run any kind of business IMO.

I posted about it because (a) they handle the commenter's use case, and (b) most HN people are probably unaware they exist and would be discouraged into thinking they are only useful for VFX/animation when in fact they are general approaches to running a business that requires high interaction between humans, processes, and background jobs in a very dynamic environment.
> Students generally don't have much say over the design of their dorms.

They generally don't care that much. If they care a lot about windows in the dorms should they be able to decide?

> And 80% of students who toured a demo space were positive or neutral on it.

Are they deciding if they get windows or not?

> He said he would not give them $200M if they didn't follow his plans.

Right, they needed dorms, Munger said I will give you dorms but I will make you live without windows because it pleases me. As far as I know they didn't have any alternatives.

> What this has to do with architects is that architects don't sign off on unlivable spaces.

The issue isn't whether the space is unlivable, it's whether the students are deciding on what spaces they are living in or are the subject to the depravities of a billionaire. By your logic why can't Munger mandate that full sized murals of himself be painted in every room, or that they have to eat gruel or whatever else entertains him?
You're welcome! That's why I'm very excited about Typescript, the system is very powerful :)
> just a trick to get headlines

Yes.
wgpu, the Rust WebGPU implementation is the bee's knees. https://wgpu.rs/ You can use it beyond the web.
OSHA asleep at the wheel?
Few things: (a) a sealed indictment wrt the plot against Pannun (b) India openly told CIA that Pannun is a CIA asset, that’s why he was not taken out (c) India wants this guy gone (d) Five eyes taps every diplomatic mission out there.

See all these things in the recent Nijjar-Canada-India tussle. I believe both (b) and (c) are true. SIGINT(d) can hear the chatter that Indian diplomats talked about Pannun.

Given the media is the lapdog of security agencies, we need more than (a) and what Bloomberg/NYtimes/Wapo/AP/FT says. That’s why I consider this saga as a manufactured consent. BTW, I’m not saying that Indian media is sacrosanct.

There is a Punjabi gangs/politicians/khalistan/drug-trade/asylum-immigration-scam nexus.
This is my experience having been through 3 acquisitions.

In 1-2 years you go from:
- operating well, get bought
- throwing all the business infrastructure you've put in place that's deliberately different and better with what was before worse and slower
- then leaders get replaced or leave because we can't do anything anymore
- leaders start saying things like "we need to be more like a startup ", which would basically just hbe exactly what the company was pre- acquisition
You're using an LLM as if you don't understand how or why it works. Math is not what it's for. Here, look at what ChatGPT 4 does (for a case that hasn't been fed to it by a hundred other users yet):

What is the sum of odd numbers in this set: 12345654321, 123456543212, 123456543213, 12345654324? Output only the sum, no code.

The sum of the odd numbers in the set {12345654321, 123456543212, 123456543213, 12345654324} is 246913086434.

What does that prove? Only that I am using an LLM poorly and/or do not understand what it is. Using OpenChat-3.5 for what LLMs are actually good at (e.g. asking it for shell commands to perform certain operations, getting some general information about a topic) seems to work surprisingly well for a 7B model.
oh no you're right its randomly picked from the already added channels. until you pick your own channels i chose to do that. but, yeah you have a point. maybe i'll remove that option? or pick 10 safe ones only?
Crazy you think that the company who invests the most in AI won’t retain any value in the transition to the space.

People forget. Who owns kaggle, who owns Google collab. Boggles my mind that people think a few AI upshot’s are going to reap all the value. Having a good AI companion that’s integrated into all your suite of tools. That’s the peak.
Your comment prompted me to click around. Teeth ventriloquist was an experience.
I would imagine AGI would be statistically intelligent though, to be aware that whatever news has is the most negative outliers.
> A symptom of this is the spreading contingent of inept middle management. Take Jeanine Banks, for example ...

Giving a specific manager's name is ballsy! I suspect a deleted LinkedIn profile in 5...4...
> That doesn’t say they deactivated a developer account.

You seem to be a bit confused. The lawsuit wasn't about deactivating the developer account. The link just shows that Zeus was cited in someone else's anti-trust lawsuit. You complained about "58 pages of legalese", so I pointed out the exact page number where Zeus was cited. The deactivation of the developer account occurred after the lawsuit.

If you're not convinced about the reason for the account deactivation, that's fine, but the "58 pages of legalese" complaint is kind of irrelevant.
Meanwhile, the windowless form Charlie designed for UofMichigan is one of the highest rated dorms there: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/02/busi...
Not natively, one workaround is using a simple CF worker that proxies the request.
That would be truly fantastic. Think the damage will be felt soon? Trying to gage how much beer to order, I’m all out of popcorn.
yeah definitely, mine is only a flat out get latest and sort.
machine learning based recommendation engine is whole another level.
> Put differently, events that can destroy life on a multiple planets are much less common than those than can destroy life on one.

That doesn't strike me as intuitively true. More numerous perhaps, but I don't know that gamma ray irradiation isn't 1000x more likely than an asteroid impact. Light waves would seem, intuitively, more far reaching than a solid mass.
During the early 19th Century Ford paid for mandatory language lessons, to make cheaper immigrant labour viable in his plant. (he was remarkably "socialist" at times, for an avowed racist nazi-supporting anti-unionist providing high quality housing and out-bidding his competitors on wages. Strange man.)

During the worst periods of South African apartheid, the mining industry had it's own lingua franca which it taught all migrant workers coming into the deep mines.
The theory behind it: https://quantizedinertia.com/

The company website is not very informative about how the Quantum Drive is supposed to work: https://ivolimited.us/#ZeroFuel
Well for starters, with MMOs you are your character and you're paying to play. Every single month for fifteen years. They are part of the Great Enshittification where we own nothing and just pay rents for all eternity.

Single player games generally have a start and an end. You respec on your next replay.
you're _Google_, your own work is always at risk of getting co-opted by others, and external people will view and criticize your work accordingly.

This rang so true to me and it probably applies for all large tech companies. I have realized that getting attached to a particular project is bad for my mental health.
I suppose students are welcome to use their own money to buy buildings. There is a university governance board that can design whatever they want.

In this case, Munger proposed an efficient donation (in his mind) to help the most students possible with his donation and the university accepted.

Since only billionaires are likely to donate buildings, I think it’s going to be common to have donors influence the design.
The last rocket blew up and now they need more money to build another?
I wasn't facetious; honestly, why bother? You're in a forum where half the people work for Big Tech or nastier satellites of them.

You're hardly arguing with volunteers to the Sisters of Charity.
Impressive.

Gona take a detailed look later.

Thanks for the references. And congratulations on the hero effort again !
Is this why people elsewhere in this thread are saying that a bios update can brick a machine which uses bitlocker? I guess if a user doesn't have the key saved, a bios update would result in a request for the decryption key that can't be satisfied?
Obviously, I don't know the specifics about you. However, one thing I have witnessed many times is the following.

Just about every decision a team considers involves tradeoffs; if not, then it would be a no-brainer and there would be no need to convene a team to discuss it. Getting to the point now, some people will, no matter which alternative is under consideration, do nothing but point out the downside of choosing every option, even if that downside is obvious and known to everyone. Such people aren't insightful contrarians, they are a drag on problem solving. It is also politically safe: no matter which decision is arrived at, if things go wrong they can tsk tsk and say I told you so.

Usually the quickest way to shut them up it to ask them: OK what is your suggestion for what we should do?
> The Information reported some of the gruesome incidents that have occurred at the Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where one out of every 21 workers were reportedly hurt in 2022. The data is derived from the required injury reports Tesla submits to OSHA.

Can anyone familiar with OSHA/factory safety laws explain to me how a facility that reports 1/21 workers being injured in a single year isn't immediately shut down and fully investigated?

Is this a manipulation of reported data? Or does OSHA really have no teeth regarding this situation?
Emerald Intruder: The Mysterious Green Iceberg of East Antarctica
That's alright, they got full self driving
> Both sides of the rift in fact care a great deal about AI Safety.

I disagree. Yes, Sam may have when it OpenAI was founded (unless it was just a ploy), but certainly now it's clear that the big companies are on a race to the top and safety or guardrails are mostly irrelevant.

The primary reason that the Anthropic team left OpenAI was over safety concerns.
As of late, probably Microsoft does it the least, unintuitively enough.
I was not expecting them to name names and torch everything on their way out. They paint a really terrible picture. Still, one day I’d love to join the GCP team working on BigQuery or something in that arena Google problems notwithstanding.
People without kids have that problem. This poster is talking about having children causing an evil change in personal character.
I disagree. It's good to understand what the GPU is doing at scale before jumping in too deep. It's obviously not how you do your day-to-day work, but it helps you understand what's going on at a deeper level.
> This is wrong. Again, Arbitrary fixed-size tuples are equivalent to structs with an arbitrary amount of properties. Languages shouldn't do this, it destroys the nature of what a TUPLE is which is essentially just a struct with no names.

Okay, that might be your personal feelings on the topic. But do you understand the concept of "generic functions"? Sometimes you have to apply generic transforms to data. Being able to correctly express your transformations in a type system isn't "wrong", it's useful.

> List[Any]

Sorry, but I really think you don't understand what I'm talking about. If I write a function that handles tuples of arbitrary length and that function returns a transformed version of that tuple, I keep the information about individual tuple elements. This is thrown away in a list.

> That being said if javascript has variadic tuples then it's not a very good type system imo. It encodes redundant concepts. Why have a tuple with Variadic arguments when I have Arrays that do the exact same thing?

Arrays don't do the same thing, so they are not redundant concepts. Tuples have elements in specified positions with specified types. Arrays have one type (possibly a union type) over many elements.
Believe it or not, we were doing graphics without any of those things a very long time ago. Learning fundamentals is really important. You can always learn easier ways to do things later.

For example, area fill algorithms are really interesting. Etc.
So two blatant criminals got caught, big whoop. SBF broke rule number 1 - don't fuck with rich people's money.
But again, how would a candidate know?

In any case, this is all pretty academic. When I've been applying for positions, a tour of the office is always involved when interviews happen, and I can see for myself what OS the devs are using (as well as other working conditions).

That's how I knew my current position would require me to use Windows, and I was able to take that into account when deciding whether or not to take the job.
The api keys can be generated to be webhook specific (that's what they are by default when you generate them in the script's UX) and hence can be made public so there is no risk to expose them publicly, they are similar to a uuid of a lambda (not a key but impossible to guess).

We require api key because every request is permissioned and hence we need to know who the script is executed on behalf of. For instance, scripts can fetch secrets/variables but those calls will be permissioned with the permissions of the caller which in this case we get from the webhook specific token.
I was just fact checking myself and you got back first :) I might walk that back to being 'procedurally generated'.
The continued use of Twitter ought to be met with disdain by anyone with a modicum of integrity. It is each person’s duty to make that clear to those who seem to lack the ability to self regulate, morally.

You don’t get to support a hateful platform consequence free.
> ....contractors installing metal grating for elevated walkways in the factory fell to the ground due to a lack of protective equipment. Some of the metal walkway fell on top of them.

Incredible. With stories like this it's amazing the whole place wasn't shutdown by regulators until management can demonstrate competence.
How can it be a good idea to have such an important company to national security public?

Last thing you want is funds having their say on how to run the company. Didn't work well with Boeing either.
I’ve been the person in a position to recommend enterprise solutions and have those recommendations taken.

I’ve also been the person on the other side of that relationship, helping potential customers make a case that my product is worthy of their software/services gatekeeper’s consideration.

There is often high motivation to bring in a smaller/newer tool, because the existing solutions are not scalable, or are missing a critical feature, or require a team of specialized people to make it work, or has onerous licensing costs, etc.

“Shadow IT” is also a very real thing. Someone’s boss is frustrated with the bureaucracy and timeframe for bringing something in and so they just throw it on a corp card or install it themselves and ask for forgiveness later. This happens everywhere and is often the precursor to forcing the product to become officially blessed because by now it’s supporting production workloads and has proven its worth.

This particular space is still ripe for innovation. Very few of the products that target this kind of tool building approach are close to finished and each has its quirks.
I've had a similar experience.

VMWare Workstation (desktop edition) is faster and more polished than VirtualBox.

I'd like to try it all on top of ProxMox one day.
Skill, drive, and compassion, to start with the basics.
It wouldn't surprise me if the vast bulk of what they trained on from the Common Crawl was algorithmically written spam content anyhow. Not to mention at this point how potential datasets going forward are all going to be polluted with ai generated content, entrenching the bias in these training sets. I wouldn't be surprised if a certain percentage of HN comments now are from people testing language models. Certainly reddit and other popular websites have been polluted for years now even before the latest crop of gpts.
what would you suggest as a demo, i'm sensing it is also what i did wrong/missing.
free account is not a demo enough? maybe some video? some gif? some screenshots?
The rest of the files were not theirs to release. The Roadster was based on a Lotus vehicle. A license to use a design doesn't grant you permission to release that IP to the world!
Even if it hadn't blown up, it would've been destroyed as part of the flight plan. Just by high-speed impact with the water in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Hawaii rather than by flight termination system.
To me, it's a "Deal with God" not being at war with God. Deals with gods and deals with devils seem to have something in common, in a way which is topical to discussing OpenAI.
12TB drives took me ~50 hours; linear extrapolation would say ~100 hours.

But the new drives have higher areal density and are a tad faster...
Yup. I've gone in as a workflow software / network company to clean up after some of these top consultants' "recommendations" (i.e., make and/or replace their systems so they'd actually work as advertised).

With what I've seen, these "consultants" are the most vulnerable segment to LLMs, especially LLMs tuned to the corporation's information store. Which means that the consultant's largest clients will disappear first.

Of course the consultants will try to sell "we will help you implement these LLMs for your business".

YMMV
Isn't the privatised version called NASA? And they stopped doing a few things deliberately because they couldn't compete. And we don't know what the voting structure will be so it might not be "funds having their say" in a big way, right?
Feels like this article was cut in the middle just before the interesting part, where he's supposed to explain why welding for construction was not automated a much and how all this is relevant to AI...
Sorry, the SDNY. They do do things on their own. I expect the people they called leaked it.
I think the article misses the mark by not highlighting the huge difference between say, construction / site welding and manufacturing welding. It's sort of a "category error" to lump all jobs together where you happen use a welder.

A lot of manufacuring welding was already low paid and boring, you sit there with your mig gun and make the same welds over and over. Often the hiring pool is "unskilled" labour (i.e, you take people who didn't have the job title "welder") and they train you to operate this one station. These jobs are robot fodder and honestly that's probably a good thing.

Site or construction welding requires a lot more adaptability, e.g. ability to read plans, resolve issues when the plans are wrong, handle different materials, do layout, alignment, jigs etc and provides an endless stream of "one off" work.

(Of course there are a lot more niches than these two!).

These are barely the same market so you'll be confused by the numbers if you consider everyone to be in the "welder" labour pool.
You missed the first sentence of mine.
There's a lot of sloppy usage of the term 'memory' to describe something that's more like a 'consequence'.

If you cut a tree, it will heal, and then decades later the effect of the cut will still be influencing the how the tree grows around the scar. But that's doesn't mean the tree 'remembers' the cut.

I don't think you should use the term for anything that doesn't have a consciousness, and only if the memory is something that is directly accessible to the conscious mind (via introspection, for instance), not indirectly via senses. Feeling a sore ankle is not a memory of an injury. Inheriting high lead levels in your blood from your mother is not a memory of lead exposure.
I mean, the parent of the person you're responded to made what is an increasingly shaky claim that COVID-19 was due to "natural spillover". I don't necessarily think it's wrong that that comment shouldn't be allowed to pass without challenge. I'm not sure we're ever going to know the real origins of COVID-19.
Well, probably they haven't changed it at all in the last 10 years, right?
This is very bad news for careers of so many ESXi SMEs at all major corporations. Several employers will put a hard stop on all private cloud (on-prem) investments and move everything to public cloud. We recently pulled the plug on another s/w acquired by Broadcom.