skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Extreme example obviously, but that's the direction we're heading in.

It's really not. There's no slippery slope here; the slippery slope is a fallacy for a reason. We can, in fact, draw a line between "refuse to do business with someone" and "let someone end up dead", and say that the former is perfectly acceptable and the latter is not. This is not an argument against freedom of association.

> We already recognise that enough individuals choosing not to associate with someone adds up to a denial of that person's rights

No, we don't. We recognize that choosing not to associate with someone because of some specific protected characteristics is discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics, and we've decided to create narrow exceptions to freedom of association to prevent discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics.

There are many other characteristics for which you are absolutely allowed to refuse to employ someone. You are absolutely allowed to refuse to employ someone because they promote hatred towards others, for instance, just as you can refuse to employ someone because they can't or won't do the work you're hiring for.

That doesn't mean they should starve to death or get no medical care. Everyone should have food and medical care. By all means, let's fix that in our society, and have it not be tied to employment. That would solve many problems.
Also, Nadella last month repudiated his own decision to cancel Windows Phone. Purchasing Nokia was one of the last things Ballmer did.
> Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something? What type of politicking and deception is involved in creating a for profit subsidiary which is granted license to OpenAIs research in order to generate wealth?

OpenAI was literally founded on the promise of keeping AGI out of the hands of “big tech companies”.

The first thing that Sam Altman did when he took over was give Microsoft the keys to the kingdom, and even more absurdly, he is now working for Microsoft on the same thing. That’s without even mentioning the creepy Worldcoin company.

Money and status are the clear motivations here, OpenAI charter be damned.
To be fair, "referer" is just a misspelling, I don't think it was ever accepted as a correct spelling by a large number of people. I'm sure you know the backstory though.
> That is why, at least in the U.S., we have given non-profits exemptions from taxation.

That's your belief. The NFL, Heritage Foundation and Scientology are all non-profits and none of them improve society; they all profit from it.

(For what its' worth, I wish the law was more aligned with your worldview)
"three times my Gmail inbox accumulated in about 20 years"
Farmer here. Planted about 1,000 native trees this year in our home-grown revegetation project, and going to spend the next 2 years making sure as many of them as possible don't die.

No govt subsidies or anything. Our own $ and our own work. Nobody will do it, nobody will pay to do it, so we do.
I think points 2 and 3 only really apply if we assume the number of problems encountered with LaTeX and Typst are roughly similar. After all, how much of an issue is finding solutions if you never run into issues in the first place? And this is where I think competing platforms can pull ahead of LaTeX - it's already a huge pain to learn and use, so if a new standard becomes much more convenient.. why not switch?
But LLMs don't do these things ... they just produce text that statistically matches patterns in the training data. Since the humans who authored the training data have personality patterns, the outputs of LLMs show these personality patterns. But LLMs do not internalize such patterns--they have no cognitive functions of their own.
If you don’t want death from cars, get rid of cars. Love humans more.

Two pedestrians were killed today in my home town, for example. Tens of thousands die because of cars every year, either inside them or outside them.

Automobiles are dangerous technology. Before they existed you could be in a carriage and tell the horse to go home while you passed out. Thanks to the automobile, you’ll be dead instead.

And there is no excuse of learning going on either. Just hop in cars and tens of thousands will die. Again and again and again.
With a jailbroken iPhone you can set some things like that up iirc. I had a 5 or 10% setting that would turn the screen off and make it appear battery powered down but it was still on. That way you retain your jailbreak.

There were more limitations on cpu speed also. Could turn on the super low power mode (which above setting did), custom max cpu frequency or temperature.

Idk about max battery charge but it was nice to be able to control those things. Could make a battery last much longer and phone would not heat up too much. I considered downgrading to get the many features back.
WSL2 is still too buggy to recommend this - e.g. they still haven't fixed the 100% CPU on wake from sleep.
Rather, the question is "how unlucky you must be if the offending content made just two views, and one of the two was on the organisation that spends its time checking content on social media platforms"?

Unless Media Matters has ways to make infinitely more probable to provoke the occurrence. Which, I guess, is what happens. I wonder, for example, if they spend a lot of time browsing nazi content, and then Apple content, and then reload the page until the two appear next to each other?
To be fair, back then it was pretty awesome IMO. I spent a lot of hours scrolling Quora in those days. It wasn’t until at least 2016 that the user experience became unpalatable if memory serves correctly.
There is no hardware virtualization on Apple’s A series chips.
Tesla Powerwall is probably the most commercially successful home battery. It comes with a warranty guaranteeing 70% capacity after 10 years, which is not to say it has a 10 year lifetime. It's still early to determine its actual lifetime, but the battery technology is also rapidly improving due to the EV transition.
That's like commenting a crash test with "Not a single real human was sitting in that car".
I think yes also. That’s the whole reason most people pay for service.
The TIE fighter of its day
> Neither Paxton nor X argues that Media Matters was falsely claiming to see ads on pro-Nazi content. In fact, the suit confirms that the screenshots the organization posted are real. But it alleges the organization “manipulated” the service to make X serve the offending ads. “Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare.” The alleged manipulation involved creating an account that exclusively followed a combination of major brands and extremist content, then “endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed” until it saw a confluence of the two.
If you are a Marxist, no, otherwise yes.
The point probably was that OP don't want to run Windows as main OS.
IMHO The bugs are far worse than the telemetry. Many Linux distributions are now more stable than both Windows and MacOS.
identity “verification” by ssn is stupid; almost every other democracy has national id systems and residential verification and it works better and is easier to get benefits or prove yourself than real id and any other absurd american invention.
awww now I want to see, but also probably don't :D
I love this take!
Why Microsoft needs Sam Altman and his loyal OpenAI band
OpenAI has not invented much of any new ideas. None of them worked on transformers, or diffusion or a host of other technologies that power their models. (though one of the leads at OpenAI built PPO while in his PhD). But they’ve perfected the art of training and deploying models, which I think is their moat. It still shocks me that their speech recognition model is miles ahead of Siri (that struggles heavily with my accent) and even Alexa. How is it that 2 companies that have invested billions of dollars into these products, end up with worse results than a small team in startup whose main focus isn’t speech recognition?

Almost like how Toyota didn’t invent the car, but perfected the art of building reliable cars, I see OpenAI as perfecting the art of the building ML models that just work in the real world
Not to mention the blast from the missile after it leaves the tube, and the aerodynamic effects. I've fired a 9mm pistol from a moving motorcycle, and it's already tricky to maintain balance. Can't imagine this wouldn't end with the rider on the ground many feet away from the bike.
wow, still? this was actually the final nail that drove me back to Linux. that was years ago!
TSMC Weighs Third Japan Chip Plant with Cutting-Edge 3nm Tech
Enjoy up to 60% off aramid fiber phone cases and carbon fiber watch bands.
FYI, the NFL teams are for profits and pay taxes like normal busineses. The overwhelming majority of the revenue goes to the teams.
Funny, exactly what I wrote one minute ago as a pure speculation

> I wonder, for example, if they spend a lot of time browsing nazi content, and then Apple content, and then reload the page until the two appear next to each other?
The lowest hanging fruit is the current 50-80 seat turboprop market. Next would be the regional jet market and lastly we want to capture a sizeable portion of the single -aisle market. The reason we want to compete with/capture traffic served by 737s and the like is that the market is enormous - we are estimating $1.7T over the next 20 years if we were to replace single-aisle with our 50-seat, SA-1. The reason that we believe we could compete is because we believe that we could bring the CASM of the 50-seater down to be on par with a 737, and combined with the emission reduction we think that this is compelling offer for airlines.
Our aim is not to have to compete with 737s at airports that are slot constrained but to make use of the 100s of underutilised airports across America. By bringing down the CASM of a 50 seater, we believe that this would increase the passenger traffic too and from those airport and make the currently thin routes more profitable.
Alibaba's Qwen is excellent for Chinese.
It seemed to me the entire point of the legal structure was to raise private capital. It's a lot easier to cut a check when you might get up to 100x your principal versus just a tax write off. This culminated in the MS deal: lots of money and lots of hardware to train their models.
> New rich people come along and some rich people get poor.

Absent massive redistribution that is usually a result of major political change (i.e. the New Deal), rich people tend to stay rich during their lifetimes and frequently their families remain so for generations after.

> That might indicate that money isn't a great proxy for power.

Due to the diminishing marginal utility of wealth for day to day existence, it's only value to an extremely wealthy person after endowing their heirs is power.
You would think that this is exactly the kind of project that carbon offsets should fund…
That's a good observation! people that have tried Signway for the OpenAI use case tend to care a lot about tracking usage. The OSS version uses structured logging for reporting usage (just measured by bytes in/out), which can be good enough for some scenarios, but definitely something worth keeping track of.
PVWatts is a good resource to estimate solar production based on location, system size, roof orientation, etc:

https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php
If you don't think the likes of Sam Altman, Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates and the lot of them want to increase their own power you need to think again. At best these individuals are just out to enrich themselves, but many of them demonstrate a desire to affect the prevailing politic and so i don't see how they are different, just more subtle about it.

Why worry about the Sauds when you've got your own home grown power hungry individuals.
X/Twitter say that media matters followed both “nazis” (or whatever) and also major brands, and their feed did indeed show major brand ads next to nazi tweets. Apparently no real people subscribe to both nazis and major brands, they say, though, so “no harm no foul.”

(This neglects the fact that Musk publicly gives props to antisemitic memes while repeatedly saying, naw, don’t you believe your lying eyes — tweets that everyone saw, and the advertising pauses accelerated after he last did that, undermining his narrative.)
that's misquoted by the Altman fanclub.

the new CEO wanted to focus on something else than LLMs, because it's believed to be a dead end, and allocate more time and resources into grounding AI.

they don't want AI to slow down, they want to try out something else and not put all their eggs in one basket. extremely big difference
I find it interesting that the attempted explanations, as unconvincing as they may be, are related to Altman specifically. Given that Brockman was the board chairperson it is surprising that there don't seem to be any attempts to explain that demotion. Perhaps its just not being reported to anyone outside but it makes no sense to me that anyone would assume a person would stay after being removed from a board without an opportunity to be at the meeting to defend their position.
I think people are confused because of the advice to not charge above 80% on fast DC chargers, but that is about the exponential reduction in safe charging speed at high state of charge, not battery degradation (excepting old versions of the Nissan Leaf with bad battery management).

If you fast charge to above 80% you are wasting your own time and the time of other people waiting to charge, so manufacturers usually quote fast charge times for a 10% to 80% charge, which is both more realistic and make the cars look better.
They aren't just-so theories ... this is how LLMs work. We actually understand exactly how they process information internally, but since their very nature is to extract statistical patterns from the training data and that training data is massive, we can't anticipate what patterns have been extracted. We just know that, whatever patterns are there to be abstracted--e.g., users tending to identify issues with someone else's output rather than their own--those patterns will be reflected in the output.
It’s in news https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-based-ransomware-g...
maybe they decided to start with artificial stupidity, before doing that agi thing...
perhaps this is what Sam was lying about, and why he got fired....

it all makes sense in hindsight that Microsoft committed a coup, and it's not from inside OpenAI
I need a copy of the Windows desktop version of Microsoft Excel for a specific add on for my wife uses for a class. Even the MacOS version is not compatible with this add on. Convincing people not to use Microsoft specific Excel features that don’t work anywhere else is not the easiest thing. It’s quite calcified. I would probably have an easier time teaching pigs to fly.
Adam D'Angelo should have recused himself, says OpenAI Head of Applied Research
Yes it may well work. Yes, Musk is, one way or another, associated with these projects. That's not the point.

The point is, these things may still fail. No shame in that. The fact that Musk rolled a 6 on a die ten times in a row doesn't mean he always does that.

But the narrative around it completely denies it. Any outcome is an unmitigated great success and yet another proof that Starship will succeed and we will colonise Mars.

Good luck to Starship succeeding, but the crazy optimism, denialist of even a chance of failure is unbearable.
One of the worst things to ever say: "I love your accent!"
Keeping Stakeholders Notified of Incidents
How do you keep your stakeholders notified of critical incidents while also resolving them? There are Incident Management Tools that help, what's your go to process?
Thank you, "God bless you" as they say in the Deep South where I grew up.

Please consider making part of it a wetlands.

Forests cover about 10 percent of the planet and store about 15 percent of stored carbon.

Peatlands cover about 3 percent of the planet and store an estimated 25 or 30 percent of carbon.

We've lost 85 of global wetlands since the 1700s. Restoring them could dramatically increase the amount of stored carbon.
Some more responsible device manufacturers are doing this. For example, the industrial equipment I worked with charges batteries much more sustainably, also by charging it with less current.

Remember, there are multiple factors when it comes to batteries degrading. Voltage (how far the battery is charged) is one of them, but so is the charging current (how fast) and also the temperature during and outside of charging.

Personally, I usually use slower chargers for my laptops and phones to prolong the device lifetime.
It seems like the discover weekly playlist does a better job at showing new songs, but you only get that once a week of course, and without any genre control.
Yep. The more you're exposed to silicon valley the more you realize how many whims there are controlling the important things. M&A for example is basically just whims. Due diligence is compliance-only and even that is just to tick a box. The higher the role also the likeliest that the CEO either knows them or "had a good feeling". Not every company of course, but it's very prevalent.
I was about to respond in this thread about how personally attacked I felt - other cities are not allowed to brag about their abundant numbers of Jacaranda. But then I saw TFA says that Sydney /only/ has something like 1500 trees, which feels to me like not a lot.

There are a _lot_ of Jacarandas in Pretoria. Especially the older parts of the city. The trees enjoy protection from the municipality, and you are not allowed to remove them. For past roadworks projects they literally removed these very large and old trees, and planted them elsewhere. Like your picture, the city is truly a sight to behold in November.
I don’t think OpenAI ever reported to be profitable. They are allowed and should make money so they can stay alive. ChatGPT has already had a tremendous positive impact on society. The cause of safe AGI is going to take a lot of money in more research.
But it poses a threat to Windows as a gaming platform. Perhaps that (and the sheer volume) is why they're restricting it to business accounts?
So your spec sucks...

If you have the requirements that in no case your ads should be shown with content that you don't like but it happens at least twice.

You have a buggy mess of an unfinished software.

Oh wait that the game industry right now...
It's perfectly legal to buy drain cleaner at any department store and if you drink it you are likely to die. But you are under no obligation to drink it. Or do heroin. So that has an obvious solution.

Whereas if you have cancer and cannabis can prevent your nausea but the federal government maintains a prohibition on it for three generations, what are your options?
TL;DR: The emperor has no clothes, and the OpenAI board are just a bunch of clowns.
I know that, does that change what I said?
The air needed for the chemical reaction is pretty small, but we will also be drawing in some air for cooling and that will be around the same order of air that is used by a turbine engine. We will not have an APU per se, but we will have a small amount of battery to start the propulsion system and this can provide power to the aircraft systems for some time. We can also start up the fuel cells if need be to supply extra power, without turning the electric motor and propellers.
Fair enough, my experience is European where you usually have multiple options and most people decide by price.

I will say I was amazed by how few options I had to get from JFK to Denver and the price was insane relative to a transatlantic flight, so perhaps the market is structured differently.
Many people feel like any critique towards them is harassment.
Couldn't the CIA have sent people with, er, slightly more media experience and tactfulness and such? Did these few just happen to lose a bet or something...?

Maybe somebody there just really wanted to see the expression on Satya's face...
Googling tells me that Pretoria has about 70k Jacaranda trees, JHB might have even more (albeit that its much larger).
If this is true, it opens the floodgates. Why should Spotify receive special fees but not others?
I absolutely love Antirez's work with Redis, and the way he handled the Redis community and his "departure" from it. Redis is a fundamental piece of technology in today's IT world.

(I also met him a few times and I can assure you he's a really nice human being, too).

I had my own career in IT, with some success (nothing compared to having created Redis, of course!), and ~20 years ago I also wrote a sci-fi novel that somehow reminds me of Wohpe - even though, without false modesty, I believe that Wohpe is way, way better than mine.

I think it's nice when, as a tech person, you feel the desire to write a sci-fi novel, and put some crazy ideas in the form of a novel.

If you are curious, the novel can be freely downloaded here [0]. There's an Italian version, and and English version that I created using GPT-4 (for translation only).

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/Nonovvio
Well I suppose that’s good news for marketing people who prefer their ads not to be seen by people
The way to do this would be for someone (in NYC? SF?) to organise a nationwide Tip Strike Day.

That might bring the shady numbers out into the open.
Lisp allows you to mutate, you can certainly write non-mutating code in lisp. Why do you think you need to use mutation with let*? let* is just a sequential let

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/s_let...
> Banks, for instance, don't just co-mingle customer funds, they invest those funds on their own behalf and reap the profits for themselves. Sometimes a bank will share a portion of its profit with its customers, in the form of intest; more often, the bank pays little or no interest, and actually charges the customer fees. A bank will risk its customers' money, and its customers will pay for that privilege.

Banking has not worked like this in quite a few years.
This is exactly the answer. Especially with Li-Ion cells everything is a compromise. You can extend the life of the cell by a fair amount, but then it won't last as long before you have to re-charge. Similarly, if you charge it quicker, then it reduces the lifetime of the cell.

I honestly don't understand how people worry about their batteries in their devices so much. I give pretty much zero care into how I treat the battery in my devices other than to try to charge them before it drops down too low (which is where most of the damage occurs if you do it repeatedly) and I can only think of 1 or 2 times where my devices battery has worn out before I end up replacing it.
Does it? Suppose you'd like to keep the fruits of your hard earned labor on an asset that isn't subjected to inflation at the hands of a capricious or warmongering country. And you'd rather not speculate on greedy capitalists. The SEC is effectively limiting your freedom to do so (whether or not that's a good personal choice)
The EU requires banks to use secure authentication methods and has done so by a directive more than a decade now. This includes one-time passwords and app based two-factor.

I do not see how the eldery in the US would need more explanations than in the EU.
There is no smartphone requirement in RFC 6238. Smartphones are simply the device that a lot of people use as their user-agent, but you can use a computer if you prefer.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238
I'm not a fan of X/Elon/hate, but ads shown at search page with hate word shouldn't be a big problem. If it should be considered to a serious problem, every service operator with search feature (even without UGC) need to check very precisely whether the user input is hate or not.
Defederate me harder, Altman