skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is unfortunately not how osha functions. At best, they can conduct investigations and cite violations after something bad has happened.

https://facilityexecutive.com/calosha-cites-disney-construct...

They don't have the ability to shut down entire facilities and they don't have the resources to conduct proactive inspections to correct problems before people are hurt/killed.
Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs (2012)
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/09/investing/premarket-stock...

Private wealth is so massive now that many companies don't need the public.

What this means for the future of investing for your retirement is unclear...
During the War on Terror, Ameria did operate at Pakistani military facilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%E2%80%93United_States...
If that's the situation, then you have just demonstrated that you can't do it like that. Solar plus battery. That's fine. You look for something else. For example you get a contract to fund a gas-powered humongous plant from the companies whose mandate it is to not run out of power. (but you probably can't get gas for that plant on a one-off basis - you'll have to store.)

The point is to do that use case planning (and fund a plant based on the results.)

Hopefully nobody is really getting themselves in that situation.
Not in a hot-enough job market at the moment for it to be a dealbreaker for me. I'm currently using an underspecced laptop to RDP to a workstation in another state. Both Windows machines. It stinks big time, so much so that I feel genuine physical relief at the end of the day when I get on my personal PC and experience zero latency. It's not all that surprising given how conservative they are in most aspects of tech and how little trust in developers there is. I'm aiming to leave as soon as the job market improves, and I'll avoid anything that is BS like this, or Mac only (grew up on Macs, took one through Uni, not a fan).
IDK, all the games I try to run on Linux seem to work better in Windows/DX emulation rather than native/Vulkan.
> We have a short list of services we sell and each of them has a process with a lot of dependent steps that require a lot of communication and coordination.

Something that comes to mind: In Jira my administrators have locked it down so I can't move certain tickets to certain statuses

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/workflows/ove...
Turns out a quarter of a million dollar paycheck plus whatever they get for letting Microsoft gobble them up was more pressing for the staffers.

Unless these staff were the unsigned 5%.
Also, it's the Roadster -- a $100k+ supercar which sold less than 2500 units. Not the sort of thing an owner would typically be doing DIY repairs on, if they're even driving it. (I wouldn't be surprised if a substantial number of the remaining Roadsters are held by collectors.)
Things are gonna be lit about 30 seconds after AGI is created. Gotta practice being "Goodlife" early in case that happens. :-)
Doctor challenging official narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald was lone gunman
There are multiple reported injury rates that measure different things, just as there are multiple reported unemployment rates.

This particular metric would indeed include a paper cut. A better metric is the number of injuries that required time off from work or reassignment of duties. That’s something that Tesla reports, but the article doesn’t include it.
Just when I thought the ride was over.

The belief in what's in the letter could explain some things like how the board couldn't trust Sam to keep this "discovery" at bay, and how it could be better to implode the company than let it explore said technology.
I'm not sure if I understand your logic here. Do you mind putting it in a slide deck with more details?
This is something I think about a lot too. I’m interested how you handle verbally communicating an address? Most people probably don’t expect a completely random string. I wonder if there could be an easy “word-sounding” generator that could be integrated into something to manage emails?
As someone living in the wild (actually rural), people out here have businesses and we were in dire need of broadband to run them, plus the usual lifestyle benifits. It's not all sitting around enjoying natures view.

As for 5G it has a ~500m range. Are telcos going to daisy chain towers down peoples driveways to reach one customer? 500m is not far in many rural and remote areas.
Minecraft users would disagree.
Copyleft implies copyright so while that could perhaps be a thing it doesn't sound like a good thing.

We don't need copyrighted protocols and APIs.
I explain it in the third paragraph but to illustrate it further: Consider a function. A function that is 1 line long is immediately understandable. At 10 lines, it is readable within a minute or two. At 100 lines, it is maybe legible to someone who lives in that function. At 1000 lines, it is a black box. Human organizations are the same way.

You might suggest refactoring, which is what companies do too. They create departments, promotion ladders, org charts, and mission statements. The problem is that abstractions leak by design. As your abstractions accumulate and change outside your view, your ability to understand the entirety reduces.
Had to download it again just yesterday because I needed a certain plugin for piracy reasons. Couldn’t browse at all until I disabled ipv6 via flag in about:config. Other browsers on same system need no such fiddling.

Still bloated with a bad UI and offering little I can’t get in almost any other browser, all of which qualities are sharply contrary to the ones that made me start using it in the first place. They’ve changed none of what made me stop liking it.
This advice is about a million dollars too late, but... don't write a single line of code until you know who your audience is. Also, don't spend money on marketing until you know you have built the correct product.

At this point, all is not lost. But stop coding, start talking to people. Ask them what they do and do not like with what you have so far. Iterate and improve based on those conversations until people start giving you positive feedback, then and only then try to find more people to sign on. Once you have a decent initial audience who are all giving positive feedback... that is when you start marketing.
In some ways it is like assembly language: GOTO, GOSUB and such are a lot like branchex and jump.

BASIC lacks: (i) subroutine scoped variables (ii) structures (like in C) and (iii) hashtables (like in Perl)

(i) makes certain algorithms hard to code, for instance it is much harder to code a Quicksort in BASIC than it is to code a bubble sort or Shell sort.

The pinnacle of advanced programming in BASIC may be these games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scott_Adams_Adventure_...

which runs a strange interpreter that Adams wrote in BASIC that used arrays to emulate ‘objects’ like the lamp or the pirate ship: the game is just a set of data tables that can be loaded by cassette tape.

Scott Adams later wrote interpreters in assembly for computers like the TRS-80 and Apple ][ that would play the same data.

I wouldn’t mind writing tokenizers and parsers in BASIC precisely because these can be table driven and compilers often execute recursive algorithms with an explicit stack anyway.
In that news organizations who choose to print negative information about musk or his companies may only do so knowing that musk is highly litigatious?
Mistral-instruct is in the arena, 1008 ELO vs 1070 ELO (OpenChat-3.5)
> But once you achieve market dominance

"Market dominance" simply shouldn't be achievable under capitalism. We would be much better off as a society if the government started enforcing anti-trust laws again.
#userexperience – Testing Every Platform's Media Presentation and Social Sharing
> 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.

Also coordination between trades, MEP systems in large spaces need lots of coordination to avoid conflicts.

I agree, it’s hard to imagine instances in which automated welding would help out pipefitters, for example. Automated welding above ceilings or inside a mechanical chase doesn’t seem like it would save much time. The welding robot would need to get onto a lift or be hauled inside the chase. A lot of the battle with pipe fitting is wrestling the large diameter pipes into place so they can be welded. Same deal with tinners, ductwork is generally in places that aren’t easy to access.

I’m much less familiar with the sort of welding that ironworkers do (95% of the construction work I oversee is remodel/working in existing spaces) but perhaps that could benefit from automation.

As a construction professional, construction automation beyond simple things like automated CMU machines seems like a very difficult problem to solve in general, in both the field and management sides.
For those that think this is an exaggeration or joke, it's actually not. I've definitely worked for large companies doing electrical work whereby it's standard to report every single thing that requires a Band-Aid. Filling out the paperwork is so obnoxious that I'd literally claim I have electrical tape wrapped around my fingers as a preventative measure. Some companies just encourage it more. Strong argument could be made I was in the wrong because a staph infection in one of those cuts could lead to me having to take time off and trying to explain why I didn't report the small cut.
The self-hosted pricing depends on the number of vCPUs used.

Does this mean that Windmill installation pings back home with info about clients?
I doubt that Amazon cares as long as a) the company's still getting its cut, and 2) there isn't a torrent of complaints against the seller.
I'm not saying it's 50/50.

But future signees are influenced by previous signees.

Acting in good faith is different from bias.
The point of sanctions isn't to hurt their economy (that would just make their people mad at us), it's to stop them from resupplying their military.

Their response is to become dependent on China instead.
> multiple open-source projects

interesting, which ones?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38386524
Zoom Fatigue Is Real, According to Brain Scans
The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst
I don’t see MS having any interest in VMware. They have their own virtualization tech already and it would only cannibalize Azure, which seems to be pretty much were their money is now.
My biggest gripe with FF on Android is closing tabs, especially private tabs. Even though it puts up a notification to close all private tabs, it still takes like 7 clicks, or more, before looking at the last normal tab again.

If you have or had private tabs open, FF will ironically advertise that to the max, because of how clumsy it handles them.
Things tend to repeat but it's not completely impossible to have large and lasting changes.
Ursula K. Le Guin used to say how people thought inescapable the divine rights of kings.

On the other hand, Google did change the world. Everything's just more mature nowadays. There's less blue ocean in its business segments.

I wonder if a company could stay "evergreen" by constantly finding new business areas and somehow spinning off old ones? Apple for example almost died in between before really coming back with the iPhone.
I think the difficulty of respeccing should be the inverse of the length of the game.

If you're playing a quick roguelike where it's all over in a couple hours at most: no need for respeccing, the class constraints add replayability.

If you're play a 80+ hour epic: respeccing should be easy. Making players stick with a class choice they made at minute 0 when they literally knew nothing about how the game actually plays just seems silly. Especially since most people won't actually replay the game and experience the other classes.
HPTS Comes Full Circle [pdf]
Who knew Q*Bert could become an existential threat?
Just add Wikipedia to the end of your search pattern.
They just spoke Afrikaans; still common to the mines/rural jobs today, regardless of genetics.
Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to [...] [perform] math on the level of grade-school students
You kicked the can so far down the road I can't even see it anymore!
I think that one is mostly marketing but there's a grain of truth in terms of the combined effect of unified memory (which is fast as hell) and macOS memory compression. But I wouldn't put 8 GB past similar to 10-12 GB on another system without these features.
> Elon is accusing Media Matters of something. That's the "If Elon is wrong" (or right) part the courts have to decide.

My apologies for misinterpreting you. I was interpreting the statement as talking about Elon and Media Matters disagreeing on some factual claim, which (basically?) hasn't occurred yet.

> If someone slanders you, the law is what you use to deal with the problem.
>
> This case has nothing to do with the First Amendment.

The case has everything to do with the First Amendment. The First Amendment limits the restrictions/consequences that can be placed on speech by laws, so if some speech is protected by the First Amendment then you can't use the law to deal with the problem.

What Elon is complaining about here is undoubtedly the type of speech that the First Amendment can protect. Therefore, the very first hurdle he will have to cross is convincing the judge that the First Amendment does not apply. If it does, nothing else matters.

(Well, maybe venue issues will cause problems for the lawsuit first, but the First Amendment would be the first substantive issue).

> This is what puzzles me. Why doesn't everyone want our media organizations to be truthful?

It's a nice-sounding sentiment that's easy to agree with in the abstract, to be sure, but it's running up against multiple factors that don't exactly incentivize it and it's going to be extremely difficult at best to change that, if it's even possible at all.

Not to mention there's a distinction to be drawn here between societal/cultural/etc. enforcement and governmental enforcement of the ideals you wish were adhered to. It's not without reason that the First Amendment is as broad as it is, after all...
It actually highlights probably the major problem. The article you linked specifies that a _single_ incident, accident or complaint can result in _multiple_ violations linked to it.

9 accidents, 4 incidents, 7 complaints. For 20 cases, 48 violations were issued. All in California, which may or may not have a subjective impact on how these cases are handled.
Oh no, sounds like a rehashed version of EmDrive, which was pretty conclusively debunked as nonsense.
I highly recommend you read the paper Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt (1960).
1985 Fred Fish disk 7 - Hack

Been playing for 38 years. Still haven’t made it to the Amulet yet.
I've been enjoying purelymail quite a bit
It's not the ads, it's giving money to political parties in return for influence.
Microsoft staying on top with Windows Mobile would have been a good thing for developers and consumers for one gigantic reason: Windows Mobile devices were open. No app stores, no Google or Apple bleeding away 30% of your revenue to line their own pockets, no byzantine approval process, just load your executable onto the device and go.
Curious why you wouldn't be able to do this using a bash script in windmill and ssh to your target
Two Sam Altman comments that seem to be referring to this same Q* discovery.

November 18 comment at APEC (just before the current drama) [1]:

> On a personal note, like four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I’ve gotten to be in the room when we pushed the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward

and a September 22 Tweet [2]

> sure 10x engineers are cool but damn those 10,000x engineer/researchers...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/ZFFvqRemDv8?si=T3DIxics7nPWala5...

[2] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1705302096168493502
I'm really hoping for a complete replacement. Talk about a product that went downhill over time.
I trust AGI more than any of the humans so far who have tried to argue they can wrangle it.
Yeah I was chuckling
When the company is family and takes care of you, you don't need unions.
> I think people forget that $4k+ for a computer is Quadro workstation territory.

M3 MacBook Pro 16" is $2499, roughly the same as an equivalent Dell XPS / Precision laptop (for the same price Dell typically has half the screen resolution, much worse battery life, and more RAM)

Divide $2499 over five years, that's $500 per year. Not expensive on a developer salary in high income countries. It's a business expense.
Personally... I disagree. The course says:

> You'll learn how a software 3D engine works under the hood, and ... write a complete software rasterizer from scratch

Writing a software rasteriser is a fantastic way to learn the classic graphics pipeline, Every single aspect of said pipeline offers scope for one to learn more about how GPUs work, and the algorithms behind them. This would be immensely educational to a new graphics developer.

Vertex processing, including fast, efficient file parsing, vertex data layout and storage, and optimisation.

Fast primitive assembly from vertices, including line-drawing and interpolation algorithms.

Texture mipmapping, and mapping.

The rasterisation phase itself offers tons of opportunity, from Bresenham's line drawing algorithm to supersampling, tiled rendering, parallelisation, and efficient memory layouts for cache locality.

Clipping, culling, hidden-surface removal, z-buffering, and stencil tests.

Various other algorithms that are taken for granted with a pre-existing graphics pipeline, like texture lookup, vector reflection, environment mapping.

Post-processing and miscellaneous algorithms like anisotropic filtering, multi-sample anti-aliasing, temporal anti-aliasing, and even deferred rendering.
removed that channel from the loop at least, for now. :(
apple always sells the base-tier model the most, by a pretty significant margin. especially in MBA or mac mini. all the big-box stores like bestbuy and costco carry that model, and it usually sees further sales. So it's hard to say that it's specifically people being upset about ram vs just the expected distribution given the bayesian prior.

but yea 8gb is barely acceptable except as a pure consumption laptop. TBH even 16/256 is too small for anyone who's posting here, some npm/rubygems/pipenv/gradle/docker packages will eat that right up.
I agree. The best young minds grinding leet code to get into Google is the biggest symptom of it.
Humans have great capacity to learn from our mistakes. Our source code or DNA have no encoding related to running business in a certain way. We mourn old google the revolutionary place, the likes of which could not have existed 100 years ago. But we forget that it was such a revolutionary place that its mere existence was an anomaly of sorts, and also that it spurned us to create several such new places, and that learning will continue us to create many more.
I’ve had a pretty good experience with UTM, and it’s free.
The intersection of all those areas listed is often an inordinate amount of work and integration and maintenance.

In that way as people want an easily grokable description, windmill seems to be a super-platform that leverages enough of the important bits that come up.

I am going to try it out!
Could it be named in reference to something like the A* search algorithm? What if Q stands for Query in transformer attention? How would that type of search translate to transformers?

They said that it's able to solve simple math problems. If it's related to A* then maybe it's trying to find a path to something. The answer to a word problem?
Bevy Engine (https://bevyengine.org/) is built ontop of wgpu (https://wgpu.rs/) and runs in-browser today (https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-webgpu/)

Bevy is the second highest starred game engine on GitHub's Game Engine topic: https://github.com/topics/game-engine

I definitely agree that it's still new, but I don't feel like it's quite as far out as you're implying. A year or two at best IMO?
And in case people don’t know, this is referring to an accredited investor which is a government enforced way for the rich to get richer.
The employees had a lot more money than that on the line.
> powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity

Yup. These people are not well.
1000's of routers and cameras vulnerable to new 0-day attacks by hostile botnet
I mean, do what you want, the YC blog is not the New York Times, but the Winston Smith-esque silent modifications are cast into some relief given current events.
My mind went to Q learning.
I'm thinking I will open source mine for people who have GPUs but possibly try making a paid service for people who don't.
> the board couldn't trust Sam to keep this "discovery" at bay, and how it could be better to implode the company than let it explore said technology.

Half the board members have a background in ML.

Why should they be able to make the decision to implode the entire company over this?

Why should they have the ability to give zero transparency or comms to the public on their decision?

OpenAI's governance structure was idiotic and glad to see the board members fired.
the solution is to report it to boss' boss or quit. calling someone out like this publicly is beyond bad taste
I think there is enough there to make me believe it's real.

After all, a big objection to LLMs is they are just "fancy autocomplete" or "stochastic parrots". I don't agree, but LLMs famously are "bad at math", that is you can't really train them to do math unless they've seen previous calculations with similar numbers in their training sets. Training an AI system to truly do arbitrary mathematical logic (think "complex word problems with big numbers", not just normal programming statements) would be a huge breakthrough.
What is the value of moving quickly? What does it matter in the grand scheme of things whether it takes ten years more or less? And as said before, there is a possibility that we build something that we can not control and that acts against our interests at a global scale. If you start tinkering with Uranium to build an atomic bomb, the worst that can happen is that you blow yourself up and irradiate a few thousand square kilometers of land. All things considered not too bad.

An advanced AI could be more like tinkering with deadly viruses, if one accidentally escapes your bio weapons lab, there is a chance that you completely lose control if you are not prepared, if you don't have an antidote, that it spreads globally and causes death everywhere. That is why we are exceptionally careful with bio labs, it is the fact that incidents have a real chance of not remaining localized, that they can not be contained.
This makes some sense to me. My experience with GPT is that it is capable of straightforward logical inference, but not more inspired thinking. It lacks the ability for a “eureka moment”. All complex inference it appears to have is a result of its training set. It is incapable of solving certain kinds of logic problems that a child would be able to solve.

As an example, take the wolf, goat, and cabbage problem, but change the names of the animals and the situation so that the axioms are intact, but the situation no longer seems similar to the classic problem, and therefore has no representation in the training data. GPT-4 can no longer solve this problem consistently.

If Q* can now solve problems like this reliably, it could represent a breakthrough in LLM’s ability to model the world and extrapolate beyond the training data.
I just left my account to die, can't even be bothered to try to convert it to MS. It's dead, Jim.
How much money can one make from selling a playdate game?
Natural Language Understanding with LLMs and Answer Set Programming[pdf]