skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft pushes Azure Government Cloud as homefront defender
Retrieval-based voice conversion, apparently.
That is because healthcare costs are eating up all compensation gains: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=hXPw

Total compensation has gone up a lot, most of it is to insurance premiums.
I'm not saying that wealthy donors don't get anything. Wealthy donors don't own the museum, just because they provided funding to the museum.

Just as wealthy donors to medical research don't get to own the results of the research their money funded.

Just as Microsoft doesn't get to own a part of Linux, for donating to The Linux Foundation.

Etc...
Paying ransomware is not in any way illegal in the United States. Making payments to sanctioned entities (ransomware or otherwise) is. If companies go to their insurer, etc, they will probably get help to do the compliance to check to see if the payment requested would go to an OFAC sanctioned entity or not.
> The difference is that modifying the environ pointer is explicitly supported behaviour in the standard

they just have to fix the standard. e.g. in my country they manage to improve for instance the standard for electrical plugs every three years, there is NO REASON posix cannot do the same
Smaug is a dragon from The Hobbit who sits on a pile of gold and plunder, not smog.
Possibly - but then if the story is significant there will surely be an article or post or report about it someplace that can be linked to.

I agree that none of those rules are 100% crisp and there's room for smudginess.
I'm re-reading Mythical Man Month and recommend everyone re-read it at least every other decade. Also Geddy Lee's bio and finishing my re-read of Burrough's Soft Machine. It's still as random as I remember from my childhood, though more realistic. I think that means reality is getting more Burroughsian as I get older.
I was just testing Bard with some very simple coding exercises and it did well.

I noticed that they automatically create at least three other draft responses.

I assume that this is a technique that allows them to try multiple times and then select the best one.

Just mentioning it because it seems like another example of not strictly "zero-shot"ing a response. Which seems important for getting good results with these models.

I'm guessing they use batching for this. I wonder if it might become more common to run multiple inference subtasks for the same main task inside of a batch, for purposes of self-correcting agent swarms or something. The outputs from step one are reviewed by the group in step 2, then they try again in step 3.

I guess that only applies for a small department where there is frequently just one person using it at a time.
Hm, there seems to be contradictory reporting. The TOI article states about the television report:

“Furthermore, many of the women claimed they were never told that the shots were to prevent pregnancy. Rather, they were under the impression that the shots were vaccinations.”

But the detailed investigation from Isha L’Isha (http://isha.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/%D7%93%D7%A4%D...), which also conducted interviews with the women, made no such claim, focusing instead on the lack of understanding of side effects and alternatives.
I was looking at it as Survival of the fittest implying Winners and Losers. You are right that "prosperity theology" is essentially Evangelical Christianity in the USA.
You're free to personally be happy that you can express your creative ideas, but it is a bit absurd to expect people who did put in the effort in practicing to not see you in a negative light as someone who wants the 'benefits' without putting in the hard work of self-improvement.

This is a uniquely AI related issue, as artists of all mediums can relate with each other about their struggles learning and improving their skills and ability to express themselves.
Consequences? For my actions? It's more likely than you think!
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I doubt there was any interview at all. He probably got a call from a number in Redmond asking "Hey, Sam, wanna work for us?"
I'm so sorry but I read it as "the Mythical Moth Man" for a second
Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think
I don't own one but know that front-loading machines do achieve better results than top-loaders. If using the latter, don't try to wash too much at once and placing heavier/thicker items in first may be best. Am also aware that laundry powders are better than liquids!
Didn't think of that, thank you.
Someone is going to get some cheap adds for end of the year?
Normal people can't take being at the center of a large controversy, the amount of negativity and hate you have to face is massive. That is enough to make almost anyone backtrack just to make it stop.

This is the cheapest and most cost-effective way to run things as an authoritarian -- at least in the short term.

If one is not "made of sterner stuff" -- to the point where one is willing to endure scorn for the sake of the truth:
- Then what are you doing in a startup, if working in one
- One doesn't have enough integrity to be my friend
Better link, without a cookie wall to boot:

https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/press-releases/2293-etsi-relea...
"Hey everyone ... what did I miss?"
That’s why you secret share the data across six Intel SGX instances using software that only reveals the plaintext if it doesn’t receive a blockchain-based payment after 30 days. (No, nobody does this. But they could!)
And they often do.
The way I see it is, it's not going to matter if I "care" about it in one way/outcome or another, so I just focus my attention on 1. How this could affect me (for now, the team seems committed to keeping the APIs up and running) and 2. What lessons can I take away from this (some preliminary lessons, such as "take extra care with board selection" and "listen to the lawyers when they tell you to do a Delaware C Corp").

Otherwise, no use in getting invested in one outcome or another.
In a democracy aren't we all government auditors?

When I feel a price is unreasonable, I want to know whom to complain to. If the taxes are what's making it unreasonable, I want to know to complain to the government rather than the merchant.
The OpenAI API is ten times cheaper and a fair bit faster.

Also, ElevenLabs keeps diverging for me, and starts mispronouncing words after two or three sentences.
Higole GOLE 2 Pro is a mini PC with a 5.5 inch touchscreen display, 16GB of RAM
This is what they were created to do. Their founder has created several Super PACs and has been an advisor for the Clintons. Their largest donor was George Soros. They are political in nature and always have been.

That's fine, but people should know what Media Matters is and not confuse them for some non-partisan non-profit.

Then there is this gem, also a stunt pulled by their founder:

> And a nonprofit group founded by the Democratic activist David Brock, which people familiar with the arrangements say secretly spent $200,000 on an unsuccessful effort to bring forward accusations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Trump before Election Day, is considering creating a fund to encourage victims to bring forward similar claims against Republican politicians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/sexual-harass...
1- VR headset (Quest, etc.)

2- Two folders. This is an old one that used to be used when taking exams IIRC. Open them up at 90 degrees and stand them on their side. This forms a three-sided "box" with an open top, a back wall, and a wall on either side of your notebook/paper/tablet. Put your work pretty flat on the table. This is like a little portable cubicle. Your work gets privacy unless someone is literally hovering right where your head is, in which case you dismiss them because that is rude.

3- There are literal "laptop tent/hood" products of various designs that are made to keep the machine/screen out of the sun, so you can work outside. But this sounds like the best fit for your use case too, IMO. In the past I've seen sleek black designs, though some look like a tent for the beach or camping based on a quick search now.

But yeah standard answer is 3M privacy shield with very limited range of vision and dim your screen.
Thank you for the really detailed explanation! It sounds like a harsh system for those that don't have the right educational background. I think I can see now why some on this thread are so unhappy about US government organizations asking for volunteers when the welfare benefits are so restricted.
Well I should be more clear. I don't mean by informed consent "they put it in the TOS and it's software I have to use so I'm boned". I mean more like "I use Blender, Krita, and Procreate and none of them do that bullshit. As long as there's a notification on software that scans my work so I can avoid it, I'm happy. If I want to opt-in to contributing to a model at some point, that might be cool."

I guess I should worry a bit that important software without worthwhile alternatives might start to do this, but I don't think the blender foundation will as long as Ton is alive, and I bet the same for Krita. Procreate I'm a little less confident about, but only a little, as they know who their main userbase* is and they know how those people feel about AI.

*Arguably there are more people with Procreate that barely know how to draw than people who do. BUT part of Procreate's appeal is that it's software that 'the pros' prefer to use. If the talented artists start publicly dumping on Procreate, the people who can't draw will slowly but surely follow those artists to whatever their preferred software becomes.
They're transparent in the sense that they tell you the cost and it's the same when you checkout 5 minutes later.

But calling it "transparently priced" is nonsense. Fares change based on multiple variables. The fact that getting the lowest fare means navigating the permutations of date of travel, date of purchase and location of purchase to find the lowest combination of the three can be maddening. I shouldn't need a VPN and a comprehensive understanding of airline pricing quirks to not get overcharged, often by significant amounts. And it shouldn't be possible to get a lower price by using airline points as an intermediate currency, especially since the aggregators do not list the cost for flights in points.
yeah, i pretty much agree
Wow, ok. You think there is nothing wrong with the airline telling me that 1 seat is available on one screen and then telling me that there are no seats available unless I pay more on the next screen? (If I go back to the previous screen it still tells me that 1 seat is available.)

The alternative to this is that when I compare prices of different flights I see the correct full offer for the price I want to pay. This flight is not the only available flight. I would have chosen a different flight on Google Flights if I had known that there are no seats available at this price. But now I am 10 minutes into the process and just want to be done.

What is a dark pattern by your definition? A literal picture of a pattern colored dark gray?
For a fee! Exactly my point.

Giving people crap seats to incentivize them to upgrade. Especially if they are on work travel. That is my theory.

Thanks downvoters!
I frequently share responses between ChatGPT (paid version with GPT4) and Copilot-X to break an impasse when trying to generate or fix a tricky piece of code.
(a) learn to say "mind yer bidness" and ignore incivility as far as possible from those who will not

(b) keep a factorio or worldbox game up in the background and switch to that when people get peeking and shoulder surfing. Alternately some really rancid porn or gore video or something similarly likely to repel; but that can have unfortunate follow ons too.

(c) retreat from public life. wander off into the woods, build a cabin, live a monk-ish existence of pure contemplation
Salesforce Einstein is built on top of OpenAI. Given that they're a big competitor of Microsoft's, not sure how easy it will be for them to pivot to Azure OpenAI should OpenAI vaporize.
Man I know it's pointless for me to argue but it's just like... it's wild to me that people make these comments. Do my comments give the impression that I am unaware of what drawing and painting are? I have spent thousands of hours painting and drawing.

Photography isn't gonna be painting or drawing either, it's still art that affords the artist an enormous amount of control. This is the "meme" I'm talking about. The way you talk about AI art is what's making me go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

> typing some text and pressing 'generate', iterating, or doing layering and photobashing

It's such a self report, you have no idea what is going on, you are quick to discount it without any understanding. We are still in the infancy of the space and people are fixated with these idiotic reductive arguments. Prompt -> image is the tiniest fraction of what's possible with this technology. I wish I was better at communicating how fucking epic the set of possibilities that this opens up is, I'm sure we will see it eventually. It frustrates me to no end that people are so blind to it.
> The remaining board holdouts who oppose Altman are Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo

There must be some interesting back story here. In 2014 Sam Altman accepted Quora into YC, controversially, since the company was at a much later stage than usual YC companies. At the time, Sam justified his decision by saying [0]:

> Adam D’Angelo is awesome, and we’re big Quora fans

So what happened?

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch
We don't know how and over how much time the data was exfiltrated.
The Nitter RSS feeds still work. I follow NASA Webb, among others:

https://nitter.poast.org/NASAWebb/rss
Yes, iron. You can clearly taste it. That's one of the things I noticed after using a plasmacutter to cut through sheet, the vaporized iron stays afloat long enough that if you take off your mask and get a whiff it smells like blood.
Yep. Maybe they assigned a second CPU core to the server[1].

[1] HN is famous for being programmed in Arc and serving the entire forum from a single processor (probably multicore). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37257928
Like the review which allowed them tonignore licenses while ingesting all public repos in GitHub? - And yes, true, T&C allow them to ignore the license, while it is questionable whether all people who uploaded stuff to GitHub had the rights given by T&C (uploading some older project with many contributors to GitHub etc.)
You are correct. I think my brain was on a break while I was writing that :)
It's a white supremacist conspiracy theory called the great replacement. He's implying that the Jews are responsible for trying to bring in immigrants in order to dilute and destroy "the white race". He's also using somewhat oblique language in order to appeal to the right people who understand this crap, like Elon apparently.
The word supposedly is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your statement. When it's endowments keep growing over decades and sometimes centuries without being spent for the mission, people naturally ask why the nonprofit keep raising prices for their intended beneficiaries
Sounds better than finding peace in mutual destruction given we live in a mad world.

Given we don't know anything about nuclear escalation; we don't know what the escalation dynamics looks like with nukes.

Whilst we do know what might escalate from a fight in a virtual game.

Modern era solution to conflict is freezing the war. Awaiting for another day to come in order for someone to reheat the ice.

Whilst transfering this tension energy to a digital dynamic might completely shape a new narrative to our human nature; rather to a skill competitive one.

This is assuming that some international concensus can be found between young-adults on the web. Look even at the internet itself; a communication hub that arised from global tensions. ARPANET...
Poor work life balance: Indian IT sector employees forced to work 50 hrs a week
I'm much more interested in lower parameter models that are optimized to punch above their weight. There is already interesting work done in this space with Mistral and Phi. I see research coming out virtually every week trying to address the low hanging fruit.
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I made a lot of updates in the last weeks, improving a lot the compatibility of the BADUSB recognition. But I'd like to stress the importance of the original funcion (USB acttivity detection) as USB spreading malware is still a thing, as this Checkpoint Research article shows:
https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/malware-spotlight-into-...
My understanding, as someone who bought health insurance on the healthcare.gov marketplace, is that the ACA did in fact standardize health insurance into “bronze,” “silver,” and “gold” tiers. The tiers are defined by actuarial math that I don’t recall at the moment.
We cannot ascertain the family circumstances of Altman's family. His sister's allegations are serious, but no legal actions were taken. However, it is surprising to see the treatment of his family, especially considering he is a man who purports to "care" about the world and envisions a bright future for all. Regardless of whether his sister has mental health issues or financial problems, it is unlikely that such a caring individual would not extend a helping hand to his family. This is especially true given her circumstances, which have effectively relegated her to the bottom of the social hierarchy as it is defined. Isn't it?

The entire situation involving the OpenAI board and the people involved,seems like the premise for a TV drama. It appears as though there is a deeper issue at play, but this spectacle is merely an extravagant distraction, possibly designed to conceal something. Or, perhaps it's similar to Shakespeare's concept - life is a theater, and some of THEM are merely actors...

Like everything else, it might revolve around money and power... I no longer believe in OpenAI's mission, especially after they subtly changed their "core values".
Good question. (1) People's preferences are a function of time [1]. (2) And people find it difficult to estimate unexpected future costs.

So at buy time, people don't prefer repairability very high, which is some uncertain future cost. Which is why they make the short term decision to buy the cheaper sexier phone. Later on, when the phone starts to break down, they start caring about it a lot more. We know the latter is true because consumer group advocacy is determined by asking people what they want.

Another tactic phone manufacturers employ is that they don't talk about repairability anywhere, so most consumers don't even know phones are repairable. They think you just have to buy a new phone. It's like if your bowl broke, you would just go and buy a new one because you believe bowls cannot be repaired. But if you belonged in the right area/tradition of japan, you would just take the pieces of the bowl and join them together [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference#Temporal_disco...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
The existence of legal process does not preclude the responsibility of the board and employees to address allegations of this seriousness. And it is serious–it is not normal to be accused of rape by a sibling. Addressing the elephant in the room is not the same thing as being guilty by default you are falsely conflating acknowledgement with punishment. The lack of pressure to at least produce a public statement while this lessor drama does speaks volumes to the lack of moral guiding principles at OpenAI.
Can someone explain to me why this is being treated like a watershed moment? Obviously I know there's a lot of money tied up in OpenAI through Microsoft, but why should the street care about any of these backroom activities? Aren't we still going to get the same research and product either at MS or OpenAI?
The flight termination system is not only standard practice, but also a legal requirement. The risk is that the out-of-control rocket might not explode, and its unpredictable path might return it over land, where its crash could cause considerable damage. It is better to destroy the rocket quickly and intentionally, at a high altitude, where the explosion is unlikely to harm anyone and the debris will fall in the ocean.
50? The horror.
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Or they believe the mission is going to die with how the board is performing, which is in fact the correct take.

The board isn't merely hindering the mission, that's downplaying the extraordinary incompetence of the remaining OpenAI board.
~ founder - ceo of a series A startup here (raising series B soon)
~ I became a shell of my previous life.
~ barely keeping it together with my wife, 2 kids (6,10) + a large dog
~ No riches yet - just sweat, blood and tears (literally and physically)
~ took massive pay cuts, lived off of savings for 18 months before securing our first $1M in financing. This means, building back up our savings with a so so salary these days.
~ No glory until a massive exit. Until then, praying that my marriage doesn't fall apart or my health.
I think he's catering events somewhere.

But, a reconciliation is kinda doable even with that elephant in the room. Enough to kinda prepare for the 'next step'
Boosting this deeply nested interesting comment from @alephnerd to the top level:

> As I posted elsewhere, I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman. Ilya may have been brought into this without his knowledge (which might explain why he retracted his position).
Dustin Moskovitz was an early employee at FB, and the founder of Asana. He also created (along with plenty of MSFT bigwigs) a non-profit called Open Philanthropy, which was a early proponent of a form of Effective Altruism and also gave OpenAI their $30M grant. He is also one of the early investors in Anthropic.

> Most of the OpenAI board members are related to Dustin Moskovitz this way.

> - Adam D'Angelo is on the board of Asana and is a good friend to both Moskovitz and Altman

> - Helen Toner worked for Dustin Moskovitz at Open Philanthropy and managed their grant to OpenAI. She was also a member of the Centre for the Governance of AI when McCauley was a board member there. Shortly after Toner left, the Centre for the Governance of AI got a $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and McCauley joined the board of OpenAI

> - Tasha McCauley represents the Centre for the Governance of AI, which Dustin Moskovitz gave a $1M grant to via Open Philanthropy and McCauley ended up joining the board of OpenAI

> Over the past few months, Dustin Moskovitz has also been increasingly warning about AI Safety.

> In essense, it looks like a split between Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353330
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Apple's VisionPro or any other suitable VR headset.

Have you ever heard of mirror glasses? Its turning everything upside down. So, if you use a glasses like that, you can turn your screen upside down (press ALT and one of the arrows on Windows g Intel graphic drivers) and see it properly, straight. But the peekers will see everything upside down:)

What other ways? Blind typing with a Bluetooth keyboard, screen film, may be some polarizing film and a polarizing glasses will do it, too - never tried it, though.
Moved HQ from Chicago to DC area last year.
If you aren’t a hospital, you are helping the ransomware gangs amortize the cost of their R&D. Thus directly helping those who hit hospitals, and, as a result, contributing to those deaths.
So these employees are supposed to just sit by while their workplace explodes around them because there are unsubstantiated accusations against the ex-CEO that bear zero relationship to the aforementioned workplace explosions?
Content aside, what gorgeous slides. I wish any of my lecturers had the same eye for presentation.
Board positions are not full-time jobs, at least not usually.