skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to say "the gut is the first brain". There's a reason we perform "gut checks" and "go with our gut" -- it's the first instinct, while the second is the rational systems overlaid on the initial reaction that serve to verify or correct them. Compare with Kahnemann's System 1 and System 2.
Lol. Well, I set aside some time still to read and comment on HN.
Freedom not only allows jerks and kooks, but it requires them. We need sovcits and police auditors, because they define the boundary and remind the police and prosecutors, whom are apt to forget, where that boundary is.

Everyone demands victims be kind and normal, but that is rarely the case. Kind and normal people stay far away from the boundaries by nature, but the boundaries always shrink when there is no push-back. We need the kooks out there getting tazed so we don't have to.
I don't disagree but I'm just stating what is available in the app. Voice or text, they treat chats as a single thing.

I understand the downvotes for showing disapproval at OpenAI's policies (or big tech's), but I don't know what else could I say. Should I have just replied with a snarky comment saying "a-ha! you expect them to respect your privacy? pffff"
Gave it a go and was actually very impressed. Gave it a Nix question that I asked ChatGPT 3.5 last week (which ChatGPT had got completely wrong). It got it right first go and included all the sources that I had used to come to same conclusion, so that was cool!
Contrarian view …

Sam has more leveraging power right now than any other person negotiating a CEO package in tech history.

Great power, comes with great responsibility.

Given he’s been a VC for roughly 2 decades, I’m not sure everyone is expecting a VC to uphold the great responsibility part for humanity. Just the great power to generate huge financials returns.
I suspect that Assembly doesn't click either if you don't know logic gates. My granddad was an impulse electronics guy, so before receiving a PC I already knew how transistors, triggers, counters, registers, adders work. He built a simple "CPU"-like thing from some journal out of ICs and explained how it works step by step. Later it helped to clear the gaps between `z = x + y`, `adc b` and something =▯- and -|< like.
Lol yeah. Some intern scrambling for server racks levers (quite crude), a recent intern typing away shit code to repair the database....
I understood Haystack as doing RAG but your comment seems to define it differently than my understanding.
Here’s another datapoint https://x.com/jachiam0/status/1727108699804823656?s=20
I like using the OpenChat model based on Mistral, I think it is by far the best 7B model: https://openchat.team/ (you can also use it online here)
Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package
I think this is a reasonable take. I'm also not convinced that the board acted outside their mandate as stewards of the OpenAI non-profit. There are definitely reasonable suspicions, but we still don't have all the details.
Oh that’s why they hired the Twitch guy. Now it all makes sense.
I really detest this JS dx.

Ideally things are great — do ur frontend dev in js and backend in js. With TS added for better dx. Except 90% of the time ur fighting the configs of why its not importing/requiring

U change from .js, .ts, .cjs, .mjs and nothing works
What algorithm will I argue with before bed tonight?!
To put this number $8B to context, the estimate COVID-19 relief fund fraud in the US is $200B

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/new-federal-estimate-fi...

US tax fraud is estimated to be $1 trillion a year

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-13/tax-cheats...
> I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak

I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

It seems like there’s nothing intelligent about when they decide to respond, it’s like they just wait for X milliseconds of silence instead of using the context of what’s being said like a human would.

Sometimes it’s the opposite problem. You finish asking your question but you gotta wait for the assistant to pick it up whereas a human would understand that you’re finished talking based on what you said.

It might seem small and unimportant but I really think it’s one of the main reasons why voice assistants feel so… artificial.

That and long ass responses.
If you have an AWS account, using Llama 2 through Bedrock is super easy.
I mean business survival 101 is not depend on a single failure point
Genetic study finds genes linked to cannabis addiction
Lightning does work if you're using a large provider but it undermines the utility of BTC not requiring a middle-man. Running a lightning node with personal funds is simply not likely or safe for your average hodler.

I'm not sure you've used Bisq or RoboSats if you think they're good replacements for exchanges. Barely anyone is online at a given time.
There's enough out in the open to make a reasonable guess at the third thing. Sam was raising funds for a for-profit side gig uncontrolled by the OpenAI board which would develop TPU hardware to compete with NVIDIA. He was pitching autocratic regimes in the middle east, among others.

If the board had just found out about this, it would totally check all the boxes. Making something that could be destabilizing for the ecosystem or compete with OAI's partners, something which is arguably within scope of OAI itself yet he's raising funds as a venture he wholly controls while using time and possibly resources of OAI in the process (self-dealing?), etc.

It's enough of a gray area that all those things would be above board (hah!) if he had notified them and kept them in the loop, but a fireable offense if he hadn't.
I feel like the weather bit is something people forget about.

I live in the southern US and I don't want to go outside most of the year either, because it's miserable.

And I don't have hard data on hand to back it up but it certainly seems to me and my dad that it's hotter, and more often, than it was when we were kids.
> Yeah, and unlike humans who double park, people lose their minds at an AV, hence why the company increased the number of operators.

Looks like they haven't increased the number of operators enough.

> They're also overstaffed to deal with surges

Are they? How are they going to handle the next bay area earthquake? Will they have enough operators for that, or are they going to block first responders all over the city?

Fortunately, this is a moot point, because it is doubtful whether they are going to survive.

> I recommend you go read the (ex) CEO's response to these claims. As the number of cars on the road goes up, the number of employees required to deal with surges increases more slowly. At some point the ratio increases from 1:20, which is where it's already at.

Nice theory. Note that the number of remote operators shocked everyone that was following Cruise. They were constantly asked about number of cars per operator, what exactly the duties of a remote operators were, etc. They always avoided these quetions, and for a good reason. It turns out this was far worse than anyone outside Cruise could have imagined.
If the last week of OpenAI's ordeal was a setup in a hollywood flick it would be at this point where there is a hard cut to the third-billed, yet-to-be-seen-onscreen actor popping out a metal backdoor of a server room while stuffing a solid state drive into an inner jacket pocket while donning a motorcycle helmet and gloves, with a music score change indicating that the entire first two-act slow burn of this corporate politics film is about to crank into a proper techno-heist thriller.

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. In Theaters May 2027.
Maybe the other three weren't thrilled with Sam, and hadn't been for some time, but were just three of six so they didn't have the votes and weren't planning to press the issue until Ilya brought it up. With Sam and Greg gone, they are now three of four and even if they don't feel strongly that Sam was the wrong choice they may find it unappealing to vote to bring him back, and in fact it would take at least two of them changing their minds to vote with Ilya.
Can't answer your question directly but I've touched a few of those here and there.

Clickhouse was deployed to replace a home grown distributed storage system that at one point in time a long time ago was much cheaper and faster than the results the team was getting with BQ.

We evaluated clickhouse and druid for a few data stores for doing interactive queries on a fairly high throughput clickstream data pipeline.

Clickhouse won in terms of performance. We did some chaos testing on it in the form of simulating node outages and network partitions and we were happy with the results. My only complaint is that there are some other database options which don't require me to run a database and that's nice if I can get away with it.

One of the things you might try is dumping your data into parquet files on gcs. There are quite a few databases you can query that with and get good results depending on your indexing and partitioning needs. It's tough to get lower operational burden than "stick it in cloud storage and sometimes spin up some stateless compute to query it".

I think duckdb is super cool but for me at the moment it's a solution that I'm still in search of a problem for.
What messages?
I found this video from Wesley Liao that may be state of the art (finished the run in 47.34s), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82sTpO_EpEc
Probably the information that they (Binance) will share is really valuable to US.

Could we make a connection about Binance, and now Kraken prosecution with what happened after 9/11 where US pressed countries such as Switzerland to remove bank secrets? [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/swiss-claim-the-us-banking-c....
It's been working for months if you spoof your user agent to chrome. Google just really taking their time allowing Firefox to use filters on Meets.
Ahhhh! "just" - the magic word!

It is not ever 'just'. This isn't copying code. This isn't building identical silicon for multiple end users. This is more like trying to add additional threads to something that is not embarrassingly parallel. What you're saying is like saying 'why can't you just make all of my computer programs run on all 32 of my CPU cores?'.

And even if you minimise the increasing complexity added by expanding the system, waterfall-style design (which is absolutely the most appropriate approach when dealing with these sorts of projects) front-end loads a frankly Herculean amount of risk management into the process because you want to make sure that's all absolutely square and true before you progress to implementation.

Lastly, it's worth noting that with systems this complex, a lot of the detail is bespoke because the number of complicating input variables the system is exposed to necessarily requires a relatively bespoke solution. Yes, the idea of e.g. ETCS being ETCS is going to hold, but how that works in reality, how it ties in to all of the other legacy systems, etc. will mean that you can't for example just take ETCS-equipped train A and and drop it into ETCS-equipped network B.
Large-scale pancreatic cancer detection via non-contrast CT and deep learning
Many property owners compromise in non-monetary ways for the benefit of access. Consider sidewalks crossing private property, we tend them yet don't always use them ourselves. They make us all richer for a bit of inconvenience and intrusion into our space. Likewise ad supported distribution makes us richer by broadening what is available and to whom for a portion of our attention.

We can disagree about how much is too much, or how careful or careless any given system is. Yet I'm thankful the model exists and has democratized video, despite it's downsides.
It is dangerous, part of the reason that we haven't productized that further. One of the ideas we had to productize the capabilities further was to leverage edge / lambda functions to compartmentalize the code generated. (Plus it becomes a general extensibility for folks that are not using semantic code generation and simply want to write their own code.)

The idea of auditing the strategy is interesting. The flow that we have used for the semantic chunkers up to date has been along these lines where we :
1) Use the utility to generate the code snippets (and do some manual inspection)
2) Test the code snippets against some sample text
3) Validate the results
Hope it doesn't have a network connection. Even a dialup line would be a problem.

But I would bet heavily against them having it.
I am going to guess that 99% of the source data, models, training, correction, verification is translated by Americans.

Translating a language is difficult on top of regional dialects creates additional complications.

If someone is talking long enough to me I can identify their birth State based upon their American accent. Every State has a different pronunciation of certain words which can leak location data.

Guessing you're Californian, educated parents, about 34 years old. No siblings.
It would just be like 5 people running around with their hair on fire.
This is an unrelated tangent, but I'd like to point out the conventional and inaccurate use of Luddite to mean "generically against any kind of technology or 'progress'".

The Luddites were not anti-technology; they were labour activists. They smashed machines because it was their leverage over the owning class.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
It’s clearly a policy based on fear.
So that's why ChatGPT has failed to load or work for the past few hours. No really, it's down right now.
This claims that Anthropic founders also tried to throw Sam out before leaving. They claim three sources but not clear how strong - technically the current board could be three sources
This does have a very Valleywag feel to it.
He is clearly critical for the $80 Billion valuation to Thrive Capital
There are good open models, but there is no chat frontend which can do file retrieval and web browsing, at a minimum, like ChatGPT Plus plugins. Does anybody know any?
I use NextDNS and have crazy battery drain when the app is enabled on my iPhone
> Mead was famous, but only one of the many voices in very long debate. Whatever people were thinking 90 years ago, it had already lost its influence by the time of AI's societal debut in the 1980s and is totally irrelevant to AI's impact today. While both may share a mindset, linking Mead to today's techno-bros is a bit of a stretch.

Plato was famous, but only one of the many voices in very long debate. Whatever people were thinking 2000+ years ago, it had already lost its influence by the time of AI's societal debut in the 1980s and is totally irrelevant to AI's impact today. While both may share a mindset, linking Plato to today's techno-bros is a bit of a stretch.

The allegory of the cave still has resonance today. Abstract ideas are timeless. That's the point of abstraction.
i've been in similar situations, you try that, but when they see it in the "wild" (while actually playing the game, using the app...) they change their mind.

The 3 ways to go about it:

1. give them something real to play with, like this

2. overrule them and tell them it's done

3. tell them it's baked into a 3rd party library you're using and will take a month to change
Instantly recognized is an interesting characterization for a place that has no distinct visual characteristics at all (which I think was your point). Although I tend to agree with most urbanist arguments, many people limit their animosity to critiques of the physical land use patterns, but stop short of being so critical towards the emptying of unique cultural capital a place might otherwise have if it weren't filled with only the blandest low-risk franchise investments like Starbucks, Dairy Queen, etc...

In Canada, most towns look 95% alike to this the one you linked, with the exception of a few franchises that don't cross the border. That means I can drop a street view pin in any "neighborhood" that was built in the last decade (often including many mixed-use or more contemporary building types), and more than likely find one giant super grocery, an Orange theory fitness, a Freshii, a Subway, a gas station, a bank, a Tim Hortons, a Starbucks, and at least one mega fucking big parking lot.

I rent a car when I want one for road trips, but after driving through innumerable small towns and cities, it's a sad feeling to visit and just know that... there's literally no good local offerings here, not anymore.
I think Ilya is in the same boat as everyone else: Waiting to see how the process plays out. It's not like nothing is happening, it's simply that things haven't resolved yet. If results end up feeling sideways (z-axis?) to Ilya, he might consider what he has to say.
The Roadmap of Mathematics for Machine Learning
you’re right, it’s like inverse survivorship bias
Yep, it was the first thing I read today that gave me a genuine chuckle.
Sure they can be beautiful but they shouldn't need to be. The aversion people feel about new pylons is not based on asthetics but irrational fear.
Okay. That's not controversial, I have higher standards for Mozilla too. It makes me angry when they act hypocritically.

This is still factually false:

> Unfortunately Firefox is just as caught up in enforcing unsolicited web advertising.

And sticking with a browser that is worse on the issue of advertising just because the better browser is a bit hypocritical is cutting off your own nose to spite your face. You can be mad at Mozilla, that's fine. Just don't tell people that Chrome and Firefox are the same when they're not.

Look, the reason why people get angry at Mozilla about this and why they shrug at Google is because Mozilla is not as caught up in advertising as Google is. If Mozilla was actually equivalent to Google, then we wouldn't hold Mozilla to a higher standard than Google. We treat the two companies differently because they are different.
My understanding with the Mercurial stuff at Google is it was done that way because Mercurial defines a wire protocol, while Git does not (it expects a filesystem). So when fig was put together, they simply couldn't use git for the intended workflow, because it needed to be able to front-facade the existing CitC/Piper repository.

Prior to that, we used to use 'git5' which was kind of git bolted on in front of Piper, and it worked, but it was a little wonky with explicit import and export steps.

I tried to use fig a little before I left, and I can't say I was entirely blown away. I used to like Mercurial a decade and a half ago, and learned it before git... but it felt very foreign to me now.
You can feed your dog dinner off a golden plate, but that doesn't mean the price of gold is driven by its utility.
"Proof" isn't achievable. If you don't believe what I'm saying, that's totally ok, but then you wouldn't believe me if I said anything proofier either. One can always find reasons why someone could be lying. Even if I showed you all of the code and all of the data, I might have snuck in and edited something, no?

We've found the best approach is to answer questions openly, let the answer persuade those who find it persuasive, and not chase diminishing returns down the long tail of objections. That approach only works if the community finds it persuasive—otherwise hellfire would rain on our heads—but empirically, the bulk of the community does. I think most people understand that it isn't in our interests to lie about how we administer HN. The good faith of the community is the only value that HN has. Why would we risk that, and for what?

Edit: actually this is kind of an interesting example to work through. Let's assume the OP is authentic, everything in it is true, and that it's an important new development (what I called SNI here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38357788). How would it help YC if we suppressed it on HN? It would only make the HN threads less interesting, since (by hypothesis) the real story wouldn't be getting discussed. People would leave HN in search of interesting discussion elsewhere. That would make HN less valuable. Meanwhile, being an important story, it would end up getting attention everywhere else, people would keep posting it to HN, and we'd have to keep suppressing it. We'd end up in a fight with the community, a fight we'd be sure to lose. This is a way to destroy HN, not squeeze extra value out of it!

My guess is that users are flagging this story because of some combo of: they doubt that it's authentic; they doubt that its claims are true; and/or they don't think the claims are SNI* even if they are true. Perhaps some are thinking "oh my god, not another open letter—I'm so sick of this saga..."

I get that you do consider it true and important, but so far, the community verdict is against your view. If the flaggers are wrong, they story will get some confirmatory reporting soon enough. I'd be surprised if a few eager reporters aren't already looking into it. If they find some there there, we'll be able to have a discussion soon enough. In the meantime, this story hasn't yet cleared the bar for SNI—especially since there are dozens of articles being posted about this topic right now.

* Significant New Information - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38357788 etc.
thanks for this recommendation. have you been using this one for a while? How do you like it?
That's... not what "settled" means.
There is all kinds of drawing and gaming programs in Scratch and its (subjectively) better cousin Snap!

Using Pen (very similar to Turtle drawing) is easy and surprisingly capable. But Pen in Scratch is limiting in term of controlling color and output texts. Snap is much better in this aspect. Blending spites and stamping can result in nice effects as well.
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One thing is for sure, to ensure a bright future we must construct additional pylons.
I will not comment on other people’s lives. I will say in my experience in the workplace the worst most unethical decisions took place simply because someone misunderstood and became offended by an action they took personally. In pressured environments that is what can be a catalyst to a snap decision with big implications in a situation where one would assume simple logic and professionalism would dominate.
There are plenty of places with large expanses of flat water where a fast electric ferry would be useful.

Yes, you get surface chop, but this craft is designed to keep foiling in up to 1.2 metres of chop. That’s heaps for many bays, estuaries, lakes etc.
Yup, I have older relatives who are exactly like this and they ALL have a 24/7 news channel almost constantly playing on TV.

It’s an utterly toxic diet of fear-mongering and negativity that cripples anyone who gets addicted to it.
X sues Media Matters over platform manipulation
The blog post says small, medium, large, this shows about 8 different sizes, which is... even funnier somehow. The designers needed to see all the options in game.
There’s always more to the story folks.
Correct, I don't know why this is the top comment when it's so wrong.
Agree. It shocks me that anyone would stand against this— there’s so much anti Patriot Act rhetoric, this is one of the only ways to make a step toward achieving justice in the situation
I disagree. Diffusion models are trained to generate the probability distribution of their training dataset, like other generative models (GAN, VAE, etc). The fact that the architecture is a Transformer (or a CNN with attention like in Stable Diffusion) is orthogonal to the generative vs discriminative divide.

Unsupervised is a confusing term as there is always an underlying loss being optimized and working as a supervision signal, even for good old kmeans. But generative models are generally considered to be part of unsupervised methods.
Must construct additional pylons