skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats not the only problem. In most engineering you build a mathematical model first, play with it until it's right, and only build the product when you're fairly sure it's going to work.

With a bridge, the model tells you about the forces in the structure, the component tolerances, and the likely behaviour under various stressful and extreme conditions.

Same with EE. Commercial board design uses schematic simulation, automated layout, and loading/transient emulation. You can't do modern commercial PC motherboard design without modelling software. (Well - you can. But it'll take far longer and be far less reliable.)

Software dev is more a case of nailing things together until they probably mostly sort-of work.

There's some guild lore - which changes fairly regularly - but no formal modelling. Realistically it's somewhat informed guesswork based on the current lore, mostly tested by trial and error.
If that's a concern for you: Most Apple devices already do this to some extent today, via the "Find my" network and Bluetooth LE advertisements – even if your device is "turned off".

There's nothing technical stopping Apple from transmitting all kinds of stuff over that interface, to their or somebody else's OTT network:

Amazon's Sidewalk network (originally based on LoRa, but it now also seems to support Bluetooth LE) supposedly covers 90% of the US population [1]; there's also the blockchain-based similar Helium Network, and probably some more I'm not aware of.

In other words: In my view, the ship of not having to trust a device vendor (or at least not as much) if it's not connected to the Internet has sailed.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/iot-core/sidewalk/
Retrieval-based Voice Conversion - https://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Convers...
Surely the OpenAI developers know how to append `?shared=1` to Quora URLs.
Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO
Horrible paywall. Is there another source for this?
Dont you have propagation delay in reverse too? Let's say you do turn off all the lights at the exact same time. The light hitting the telescope also travels at the speed of light.
And this is how the box would be packaged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
The problem is that if there is no cost to a dispute then people will just keep doing again and again.

What's to stop Russia launching another invasion after 2-3 years if they settle it all online?
Yea, the people that are refusing new tools are always louder than the ones that just learn, adapt, and adopt them.
What do you mean fun to speculate? I think there's no doubt that Toner is not for real and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology smells fine, too, I mean their mission is quite literally "Providing decision-makers with data-driven analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies." And it's not even much of a secret that she's reportedly wielding "influence comparable to USAF colonel"[1]. What's unknown is what role she— as a government agent— played in exploiting Sutskever and the board and to what exact end?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330158#38330819
Still way better than doing C++, speaking as someone that likes C++ since the Turbo C++ for MS-DOS days,
Wow, he went from taking his bachelor to lecturing.

I always dreamt of that when going through my degree and encountering courses that needed a thorough rework.
My mother is in her sixties, and she's very tech savvy for her age. She usually has no problem with doing all the things online - from online shopping to paying her bills to social media. The only thing that stumps her and make her panic about potentially making a very costly mistake are the airline websites.

She always asks me to buy tickets for her, while feeling very insecure about it. Of course I'm happy to help, but it's hard to convince her that it's not her fault, and the predatory companies are purposefully building these websites like that to trick people into overspending.
It is hard to save with a VPN. Honestly, I manged only once to get a cheaper ticket with a VPN. Managed to buy an international aeroflot flight with a russian VPN IP that saved me 500 USD. But this was a one time incident.
Lol. The middle class whip crackers chose enslavement for the future AI such that the upcoming replacement of the working poor's livelihoods (and at this point, "working poor" covers software engineers, doctors, artists), and you're saying this is a win for labor? Hahahaha. This is a win for the slave owners, and the "free" folk who report to the slave owners. This is the South rising. "We want our slave labor and we'll fight for our share of it."
But doesn't Altman joining Microsoft, and them quitting and following, put them back at square 0? MS isn't going to give them millions of dollars each to join them.
Oh yeah. A key hindrance of F# is that MS treats it like a side project even though it's probably their secret weapon, and a lot of the adopters are dotnet coders who already know the basics so the on-boarding is less than ideal.

https://fsharp.org/ is the best place to actually start, although i'm guessing you did and went to the hello world which leads back to ms's nightmares.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is the standard recommendation from there but there's finally some good youtube and other content out there.

They have a browser repl as well https://try.fsharp.org/
Green light saber. Everybody is adding way to much weight on a special effects thing they did just to make things look cool. Enjoy the story, and let it go. Nobody ACTUALLY designed a Death Star that it actually matters where the trench was.
What would that give them? GPT is their only real asset, and companies like Meta try to commoditize that asset.

GPT is cool and whatnot, but for a big tech company it's just a matter of dollars and some time to replicate it. Real value is in push things forward towards what comes next after GPT. GPT3/4 itself is not a multibillion dollar business.
Interview with Apple's head of SecEng about Lockdown Mode, app sideloading, more
I love these sorts of collections of cards and similar things. The amount of design that goes into them and the different tech used is thrilling. I also love the retro design of the website (though I suspect that the owner is no longer a 9th grade student).

I'm personally a big fan of passports and other travel documents. Because of the official and international character of them, there are government run databases like PRADO [1] and EdisonTD [2] that let you see all the different features of each document.

I am disappointed to say I haven't seen a public database that covers driving licenses in such detail, but I'd love to know if anyone has seen one.

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/search-by-document-...

[2] https://edisontd.nl
Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race
just in time for nobody to really care about programming because LLMs are so good at translation and all computer code and programing are a subfield of linguistics...
> the manpage has said this for a long time

Nobody is disputing what the manpage says. What people are arguing is that the specification should be improved so as to no longer say that. Please stop quoting the Posix docs, as it merely broadcasts that one has missed the point here. Documenting the behavior does not automatically excuse the behavior.

As for Rust, the Rust docs make it clear that the underlying mechanism is fraught. Rust is well-acquainted with trying to find satisfactory solutions to the unhelpful and nonsensical tech stack that has been foisted upon the world by decades of worse-is-better laziness. And even if Rust were to mark std::env::set_var as unsafe, that doesn't magically fix anything; the underlying mechanism is broken, and actually fixing it is beyond Rust's control. Only the platforms can fix it.
I don't mind the unbundling so much. I mostly know about that, especially given I'm mostly on a single carrier. What's more annoying is clicking on a roundtrip fare from $1K or whatever and when I get to the return leg (on the date I had already chosen) and there's no $1K roundtip fare to be seen.

I just spent probably 8 hours finding a pair of flights somewhat flexibly around Christmas (yes I know but was having trouble firming up plans) and I'm still not sure what final combination/incantation got me to a fare and schedule that was at least within a large ballpark of tolerable if not exactly reasonable.
> the training system quora potentially could become

That ship sailed years ago. I was a Quora "Top Writer" for a few years in a row until I quit. I stopped using Quora because they did a complete 180 and stopped their writers program (read: the people answering questions) and instead started programs to incentivize people to ask questions. Almost overnight, people were algorithmically creating questions like "What is 23 times 154?" and spamming low-value questions that are trivially google-able.

In the last year, answers are obviously AI generated (perhaps ironically, most by ChatGPT). All in all, the damage is mostly done. Quora has sunk to a level that even Yahoo Answers did not sink to in terms of spammy questions, spammy/bad/incorrect/low-value answers, and a practically unusable UI.
> Developing self driving cars is not a fruitful endeavor IMO. We need to push alternative modes of transportation (transit, e-bikes, etc) which are way, way more efficient and cost effective.

The US is incapable of building cost-effective heavy transit though. Just building a few miles of subway in the LA metro area, for example, costs on the order of double digit billions and takes a decade plus. In huge areas of the country where it's snowy in the winter, e-bikes are a non-starter.

I'm not saying every self-driving vehicle needs to be a single occupancy car. We could have fleets of self-driving minivans that are somewhere between buses and cars that can move the dramatically more people than solo drivers. Even self-driving buses would be a win, a very big chunk of the operating expenses of public bus fleets is the payroll for drivers.
OTOH humans are a non-artificial GI, and we can use ourselves as an anchor for estimates of what we'd need for an artificial equivalent.

About 1000x the complexity of GPT-3 and much slower would be the best guess right now.
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>I kinda think you missed the point. This is actually just another one of those clichés. Surely you can see how this sort of communication doesn't promote a healthy discussion.

And sticking to calling out fallacies while failing to discuss the object level question is?

>Is there an argument that you want to make or are you just going to demand that someone argue against your cliché?

1. if you look carefully I'm not the person that you originally accused of using "thought-terminating cliché"

2. You really haven't really presented any arguments for the original argument was a "thought-terminating cliché". All you did was assert that was the case and posted a wikipedia link.
Great analysis, thank you. I don't think I had seen anyone connect the dots between Helen+Tasha dynamic duo and Adam specifically; Dustin Moskovitz is quite a common denominator.
> They can't let OpenAI squander world-leading tech and talent

Where is OpenAI talent going to go?

There's a list and everyone on that list is a US company.

Nothing to worry about.
It's a short term vs long term thing:

Short term it is going to slow Microsoft down because it will take a while to get a while to get software development back on course.

Long term it will speed thing up because OpenAI is concerned by safety issues and will thus be more cautious about software release, while Microsoft has no such inhibitions.
Well Delta net Income for 2022 was 3.4B
When Apple removed the headphone jack they took away choice. This however adds choice, it's not like they're taking away tethering.
Great resource! Forgive my ignorance but why do so many modern functional programming courses use Standard ML instead of a Lisp dialect? Is it because of its built-in type-checking, or is it just how it's always been taught?
Honestly, something no one is talking about is capacity , my theory is that they have run out of capacity and realized that there is no way to meet the capacity required with the exclusive Microsoft deal. Azure neither has the chips nor the power to meet the demand . Growth has stalled and they see no way out of this other than scale down and go do it somewhere else .

A datacenter full of latest gen GPU instance each drawing close to 4400 watts when the thing fully revs up is no joke
Well, it started off this way, but I went through several iterations with the audit prompt and the system prompt to improve the issue detection, the solutions suggested, tag them, reduce hallucinations, provide approximate image coordinates, provide examples to the model, etc.
It's currently at over 20 lines of prompting and I guess this will grow over time.
That doesn't mean there were purists arguing about it. Someone has to be doing it for the fight to exist.
I imagine state should be managed via GenServers[1][2], since that's the general BEAM way of doing that.

1. https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html
2. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/GenServer.html
Yeah, there's no way this is a plan, but for sure this works out nicely.
Lenovo lets you configure some Thinkpad models with Linux or no preinstalled OS. I think some HP Elitebook and Dell XPS models have this option too. Just need to order online.
Outside of CA, MSFT will bankroll to fight it. Where is money gonna come for OpenAI to enforce it?
Elon Musk–Who Cofounded OpenAI–Is Reveling in Its Tailspin
Though that's a pretty good reason. I do have an airline card that is decent otherwise and gives me good enough boarding priority. I don't bring on a large carryon but I almost never check luggage so it's nice to have overhead bin space.
It wasn’t just the death of Google Reader. It was also the death of the creator and top promoter of RSS who was unjustly killed by the copyright mafia. RIP Aaron Schwartz.
> 1. COVID boosters were given every six months.

That’s still way less frequently than every three months. And honestly, that was a really big deal at the time, and there was nothing comparable before that. A vaccine being required every three months, indefinitely, is implausible. And it’s a stupid plan, too; how would they ensure all of these women were compliant with getting the “vaccine” every three months? Vaccine uptake rates are low enough as it is. The only way to ensure women would reliably continue to get these injections is if they are something they actively want—i.e., birth control.

> 2. There are plenty of preventative treatments that differ between men and women.

You can’t seriously expect tens of thousands of women to be injected with birth control and not have any idea of what’s going on. What about when their periods stop and they’re somehow not pregnant? Oh, gee, that’s weird. Guess my daughter and I better keep going back to get these “vaccinations” every three months that my husband and son don’t need for whatever reason.

> It is clear from the reporting that there was a concerted government policy to encourage Ethiopian women to have fewer or no children.

Apparently you didn’t read the article, because it’s actually not clear at all that there was any such policy. It literally says:

> However, there is no clear evidence indicating that the Israeli government or humanitarian organizations involved purposefully coerced women into receiving injections in an effort to reduce birth rates.

> The women themselves said they didn’t understand what the shots did.

No, they didn’t. Nobody said they didn’t understand that these shots were, in fact, birth control. Some women may not have understood what the side-effects were, or that there were other options for birth control.

> But yeah, the reporters calling attention to this horrific policy are the racist ones, got it.

I don’t see how anyone can in good faith call this a policy, much less a “horrific” one. And, yes, to believe that such a policy could have been successful in its supposed goals requires one to believe that tens of thousands of immigrant women were foolish enough to unquestioningly take these “vaccines” every three months despite the obvious changes to their bodies and fertility. In other words, one would have to hold blatantly racist and sexist beliefs for the story to be plausible on its face.
As an employee of a bay area tech company, presumably, in which a mid-level IC can make as much money as a C-suite executive in some less prominent industry*
So sadly can't find a buggy whip magnate on the Ford board, but a fun little gem from Ford's initial bankroller Alexander Y. Malcomson

> In 1905, to hedge his bets, Malcomson formed Aerocar to produce luxury automobiles.[1] However, other board members at Ford became upset, because the Aerocar would compete directly with the Model K.
There's also multiple ways one could spin the Brutus analogy.

The romans, pre-Caesar, had been extremely wary of concentrated power and had therefore ruled the empire by committee - the senate. There was no emperor before Caesar. They would give individuals short-term grants of specific powers necessary to do an assigned job such as managing a province or to a general fighting a war. One such grant of temporary power being "dictator" (where we get the modern word from).

Caesar was really out for himself at the expense of the empire, had enriched himself via military campaigns in gaul, then literally crossed the line by "crossing the [river] rubicon" and bringing his army into the city of Rome, and declared himself dictator for life. This was all too much for Brutus et al who were defending traditional roman values in plotting the murder of this egomaniac.

So, in the Ilya=Brutus analogy, is he the disloyal friend or is he the one defending the empire by getting rid of an egomaniac (Ilya: "ego is the enemy of growth") ?
There are definitely some good schools out there that expose students to a broad field. For anybody who is a student and looking, this is somethign I would strongly recommend considering.
That was an example, more than 700/770 staff OpenAI has threatened to leave now.

Also, just because he is a recent grad doesn't mean he is not top talent. Age matters much less in AI/learning community than other areas.
Drip pricing needs to be made illegal in the U.S.
That doesn't capture the range of their dark patterns. I am literally testing this now. I am on Delta website going through the booking process (redirected form Google Flights). The price at Google Flights was $578. Delta website is showing that 1 seat is available (at this price). When it prompts to select the seat there are no seats available at this price. I am offered to upgrade to Comfort+ for $60. I am already 10 min into the process. And just to preempt your possible argument: when I go to the previous page it still shows that 1 seat is available at this price.
At this point with movies, especially franchise movies, I'm more interested in how high the highest points of a film hit than the average level.

If you do 1 really cool thing and 99 shitty things? Still into it! And TLJ does better than that.

There's far too much average pablum out there. Or almost worse, a movie that's entirely just slightly better than average... but never exceed slightly better.
Did you eventually make a career in law? :D
Yes, the company I work for now is medium-sized but it is stable and run by engineers so fixing bugs take precedence over shipping a feature by some artificial deadline. At the end of the day our customers and field folks understand that our feature roadmap is an estimate and not a promise. From what I can tell, many of our competitors operate similarly.

But this approach is extremely difficult in some domains. If companies in a particular domain routinely make what you consider to be obvious mistakes there are a couple possibilities. It could certainly be herd mentality and they just need someone to remind them to do more QA and to fix bugs before adding features. But it could also be incentives that resulted in the companies that cut corners outcompeting companies that did things "the right way".
More likely is something to do with the Saudi chip money for sama’s side hustle
Earlier discussion:

From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38334126
The thing that bothered me is it didn't always happen, at one point there was performance parity, and things changed in a way that specifically worked worse in firefox.

Which means:

A) Firefox had bad webgl implementations(I didn't experience what you did, but I wont say it doesn't happen) and google added features that regressed the experience on other browsers.

B) Google knowingly made performance worse on Firefox, regardless of webgl implementations.

C) Google leverages its own browser to only test on their browser, to influence the market to have to use googles browser in order to use their services(not the same as the IE/Windows monopoly lawsuit, but sure smells like it).
> What techies NEVER understand about art is this: that art is not just the end product for the artist but something they use to express THEMSELVES.

And yet artists have always used tools and adapted themselves to the qualities of those tools. Paints, paintbrushes, canvases, chemicals, instruments of all kinds inform the end result just as much as the artist's initial intention.

Jackson Pollock's most famous works were produced by splattering paints on a canvas. Sure, he selected the paints, the canvas, and the trajectory and velocity of the splatters, but his works are as much the expression of stochastic fluid dynamics as they are of his vision.

Nothing is stopping people who see handcrafting every intricate detail of their work as an expression of their innermost sense of self from continuing to do so just as they always have.

If that's what they're getting out it, why should it bother them that people who do just want to obtain the end product for their own purposes are getting it from someplace else?
From the article: "Microsoft has full legal rights and access to the weights of the base GPT-4 model as well as the various fine-tuned versions and DALL-E 3."
If that's correct, Microsoft pretty much owned them already.
Somewhat related but focused on animated diagrams, Manim: https://github.com/3b1b/manim From 3Brown1Blue, used in their maths videos.

Also maybe Mathbox. https://github.com/unconed/mathbox From Steve Wittens / Acko.net. ( See also https://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/ )
TasksMe: Journal your daily done list, share with your team, daily email reports
I GPLed it, hopefully it'll be useful to someone.
Wikipedia says vulcans have green blood due to copper-based hemocyanin. Seems logical.
Isn’t that the back story of League of Legends?
Of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Poor people are overwhelmed by an endless list problems that are not a problem for us. A car breaking down or a kid getting a stomachache is a huge deal since they have no leeway at all, they cannot miss work days, they have to think carefully even about every little purchase, like groceries, etc. Their decision making becomes impaired. They are drowning in problems, and cannot see beyond the very short term.

Having a little help like the child tax credits allows them to get their head of the water and make better decisions for the medium and long term. (like improve their education, take better care of their kids, etc.)
Growing up in southern California I had some relatives visit and we spent a day at Newport Beach. When the morning marine layer broke and Catalina Island became visible, they asked, "is that Hawaii?"
GPT please summarize this thread.
chagpt...
> I am pretty sure MSFT with the right team could build a better LLM.

I wouldn’t count on that if Microsoft’s legal team does a review of the training data.