skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a real problem model trainers actually face or is it an imagined one? The Internet is already full of garbage - 90% of the unpleasantness of browsing these days is filtering through mounts and mounds of crap. Some is generated, some is written, but still crap full of wrong and lies.

I would've imagined training sets were heavily curated and annotated. We already know how to solve this problem for training humans (or our kids would never learn anything useful) so I imagine we could solve it similarly for AIs.

In the end, if it's quality content, learning it is beneficial - no matter who produced it. Garbage needs to be eliminated and the distinction is made either by human trainers or already trained AIs. I have no idea how to train the latter but I am no expert in this field - just like (I suspect) the author of that blog.
So the bcachefs is built on the basics of bcache which existed on its own as a block layer and worked in production for many years. This is layering that doesn't really exist in other filesystems. Not sure if that's what the parent meant.
Power stems from the consent of the governed, whether the powers that be respect it or not. Employees don't vote for specific policies, but they vote for who they want to work for, and the candidate they pick always wins.
He said it in the Tweet that it was because people were attacking people, such as Helen Toner, that he knows to be good people.
> "strangely" that Gist was deleted

The Gist was posted by HN user xena and deleted after Elon's tweet led to a deluge of transphobic comments being left on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371837
You can always encrypt the drive with VeraCrypt, no TPM needed
Consider linking to your youtube channel. If not for self promotion, then at least as a courtesy to the reader.
Instead of all SUVs being mandated this way, we should rather mandate all vehicles that perform similar functions (police, security, mail, fleet vehicles) be hybrid or electric. I think that would place those batteries in the most useful places - vehicles that have short trips, stop and start a lot, are used every weekday for most of the day, and log an average annual mileage over 50% higher than personal vehicles.
If the goal is to "bring high-speed internet to all corners of Maryland", then Chromebooks won't solve the problem. Much of Maryland has either zero broadband providers or one extremely expensive one.

We do have a Maryland Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, but $15/month isn't going to make much of an inroads on a $100+/month bill.

Rural places often have no broadband at all. We have an office trying to solve that over the next three years, but even that's not going to help if the price is over $100 per month.
Would you say there’s a gut/body duality then? Or a fascia/body duality? Understanding of the gut and fascia are also in their infancy. We barely knew anything about the gut microbiome until a decade or two ago. Up until about a decade and a half ago, when doctors dissected cadavers, they simply threw out the fascia. Now we know it’s got more nerve endings than the eyes.

We’re in the infancy of understanding the human body, period. But why does that imply a mind/body duality? One thing that’s clear is that everything is interconnected, and I think that much is clear from the comment.

The whole idea of a mind/body duality is a historical artifact. If someone wants to argue that there is a duality, then I think the onus is on them to prove it exists, not the other way around.
The future of workforce management will be characterized by increased remote work, facilitated by advanced technologies. Automation and artificial intelligence will optimize tasks, while a focus on employee well-being, diversity, and lifelong learning will shape workplace cultures. Gig economy expansion, data privacy emphasis, and global collaboration tools will redefine traditional employment structures. This evolution will demand adaptability, continuous skill development, and a commitment to fostering inclusive, flexible work environments that align with the changing expectations and needs of the workforce.
The police here in the UK routinely bug homes and cars. When I was a suspect I just assumed my house and car were riddled with listening & video devices. I never said anything I wouldn't want repayed in court. It worked fine.
> there is something about him in watching him speak live and in person

Greatest mistake you can make is watch someone speak live about what they're selling. If they're a good actor they'll win you over.
It's actually quite handy. I built all the various things by hand at one point, but had to wipe it all. Instead of following the directions again I just downloaded this.

Being able to swap out models is also handy. This probably saved a couple of hours of my life, which I appreciate.
It is if what resonates with you is whatever you consider "the most necessary and urgent problem of humanity."
Isn’t that what PG does? Isn’t that what YC does?
Hey everyone, look at this instead of looking at our CEO praising nazis!
This quibble is just going to completely cease being a thing in 5-10 years.
Welcome to most of the world outside of US. I can drive 3 hours and pay 20-30% less for everything including exchange rate.
I guess in a city where you're more stop and go it would add up quickly. We've saved a ton of running time on our Highlander, and I'm content with the feature. Yet when we drive long distances, it's virtually useless. I don't know. Maybe for some people it really is a mis-feature, but I like it.
Install Portal 1 on modern macOS 64 bit
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They anticipated that it would be uncomfortable in the event that he returned as their boss if they never signed. On the other hand, there was no drawback in signing, since everyone else did. To those who held out, kudos to you. That couldn't have been easy.
All lawyers already?
more like $$ wins.

It's clear most employees didn't care much about OpenAI's mission -- and I don't blame them since they were hired by the __for-profit__ OpenAI company and therefore aligned with __its__ goals and rewarded with equity.

In my view the board did the right thing to stand by OpenAI's original mission -- which now clearly means nothing. Too bad they lost out.

One might say the mission was pointless since Google, Meta, MSFT would develop it anyway. That's really a convenience argument that has been used in arms races (if we don't build lots of nuclear weapons, others will build lots of nuclear weapons) and leads to ... well, where we are today :(
"The Social Network 2". Well crypto will create more movies in the next few years.
Cool, guess they finally fixed this. Must've been in the last ~1 year, give or take. Of course, it relies on quoting your types, which is... a matter of taste, I suppose.
None, I always use those in tests, because they're owned by the IANA, so unless random domains that have no mx records now, but might in the future, the example org, net and com are safe.

I do this because sometimes in companies, people will put DB dumps in the wrong environment that has an actual SMTP going to WAN, then shit happens. I also make sure the environments have a dummy smtp or mailcatcher, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

See RFC2606: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html
Totally on the same page! The form factor is spot on, and the vibe is just downright cool. But samplers aren't my cup of tea, so I'll wait to see what other gadgets they roll out in this series.
This has worked incredibly well for about two years now.
Appeal to ego.
Somebody page Kanye to say something stupid so we can flush SA out of the news cycle already. Elon's just not up to par these days.
I mean if your only qualification for president is that they speak well, I’m not sure you understand what the president does.
Yeah. It would make sense if he was running them serially and he sort of says that - "...show a near-perfect linear relationship, with each thread fully occupying one core for a period of 1.3 seconds". But that's not what he says elsewhere - "...so 6 threads will fully load a 6-core P cluster". It really doesn't come together, does it.
> to stop the iPhone completely running away with it, although that effort has now been effectively squandered

Nowadays a Samsung is a pretty good iPhone, and 70+% of the world runs on Android, e.g. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide - only North America has iOS on top.

I think it's not good we're down to a duopoly, unfortunately Windows Phone didn't survive. It did some things better than iOS and Android.
Sounds like you were rejected due to your snippy attitude.
Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges
At a certain threshold, though, it is clear who will win this power struggle. Thereafter, if you do not sign you will be implicitly against the winning team once the dust settles, which is a powerful incentive to sign yourself. Certainly there is genuine feeling that gets the ball rolling, but the fact that it snowballs to 95% can’t necessarily be taken as a sure sign that all 95% would have signed in a secret ballot.
He personally does not like the color yellow, so he required it not used in safety contexts just because of that. So he put workers' safety at risk because he may have to see pictures or tour the area once every quarter. There are more stories like this ad nauseum. Or, you could just read his Twitter feed.
Understanding the Danger from Strong AI
You can find many corruption issues on the openzfs bug tracker. The btrfs corruptions are a bit of a meme now and everyone has their own story from (old system, unsupported feature) failure long time ago, so it's quite hard to really compare how stable they are in realistic scenarios.
> the reasons why old companies always end up operating in a particular way

In a word: momentum
Please elaborate on your position so I can understand it better.
OpenAI's charter is dead. I expect future boards to amend it.
Or rather apps have had to get progressively shittier and sell air because of 30% cuts
Is ~half the population that’ll be impacted by AI cliff divers and novelists?

Is there a millennia-long history of cliff divers and novelists being deliberately held out from power or even autonomy?

Seems relevant to steering a company with a mission to distribute the upside of AGI to “all humanity.”
can you give a few examples of what kind of bad ideas? like everyone should do all nighters or let's use email as the only login, no need for password for the first iteration, we will fix it later, or ... ?
You don't have to trust it - just commit your changes then run the linter and inspect the diff.
Hm. Their "about" page seems to claim that they are a Qualified Custodian, which means they legally have to segregate their customer deposits from their own operating funds.

> Gemini is a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS). We are subject to capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the NYSDFS and the New York Banking Law. Gemini is also a fiduciary and Qualified Custodian.
if up-the-line parent wasn't talking about regulation of AI in general, then what do you think they meant by "competitive advantage"? Also, governments have to set policy and enforce that policy. They can't (or shouldn't at least) pick and choose favorites.

Also GP snark was a reply to snark. Once somebody opens the snark, they should expect snark back. It's ideal for nobody to snark, and big for people not to snark back at a snarker, but snarkers gonna snark.
Why would that matter? I genuinely want to understand.
Around 2008 when I was starting college, I was really excited about Google and wanted to work there. By 2013 I began to feel like they weren’t the same anymore and no longer interested me. By 2023, I can say that Not pursuing a job at Google was my best career decision. You can go watch old Google Tech Talks circa 2010 and they’re fabulous. I can’t imagine them putting out that kind of content these days. It’s rather sad, I bet 2005 Google was a remarkable place that’s now lost to time
Could you enlighten me as to how a type system is not part of a language?

For example, in your own words, what is the main difference between typescript and javascript?
I have successfully abandoned email.

Sites that require email for logins get my common email that I do not check unless required to reset a password or links for authentication.

Long form communication is done via texting or shared chat.
For one, despite the headlines to the contrary EV sales have been growing. It's just that EV inventory has been growing as well as production scales up. We have flipped from COVID scarcity to a world where dealers and automakers need to put the legwork in to sell EVs like they do other vehicles.

For another, I think the TCO benefits of EVs will be noticed first by organizations that make these kinds of purchasing decisions based on spreadsheet budgeting. Doing the math on a more expensive EV vs fuel savings over a long term purchase is a bit harder for a consumer. The more expensive vehicle might make it hard to get financing, or cost you more interest. If you don't put a ton of miles on your vehicle, the savings may not add up as quickly.

For a fleet vehicle purchaser and operator, the miles, fuel costs, and potential savings are all fairly easy to calculate. A police department can run the math on gas and oil changes and figure out pretty quickly whether a bit more spent for an EV or PHEV will pay itself back.
Heat generally continues to work for quite a while, because there's quite a lot of thermal mass involved. As for the AC, some vehicles have reserve pressure canister that can keep it going for a little bit before they have to cycle back on.
But you specifically mentioned the percentage of messages which are marked as spam, and how many get through your filter. If you choose to include that info, people are going to have questions.
Shortly after it happened the rumor in SF was that Altman was distracted and not really dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Like they had a cash flow issue where they had to ask for a top up from investors which was a bit embarrassing. Anyway, just a rumor.
I wouldn't be so quick to conspiracy. I'm the author of a work and a famous blog post that trains a particular common architecture much faster (don't want to dox myself too much) and with far fewer parameters, but it has been rejected several times and is now arxiv only. Our most common complaint was "who would use this? Why not just take a large model and tune it?" That question alone held us back a year (had over a hundred citations by then and remains my most cited work) until it switched to "use more datasets" and "not novel" (by that time true, others had built off of us, cited us, and published in top venues).

I don't think this was some conspiracy by big labs to push back against us (we're nobodies) but rather that people get caught up in hype and reviewers are lazy and incentivized to reject. You're trained to be critical of works and especially consider that post hoc most solutions appear far simpler than they actually are. But context matters because if you don't approach every paper with nuance it's easy to say "oh, it's just x." But if those ideas were so simple and obvious they would also be prolific. I see a lot of small labs suffer the same fate simply due to lack of compute. If you don't make your new technique work on many datasets it becomes the easiest thing to reject a paper by. ACs aren't checking that reviews are reasonable. I've even argued with fellow reviewers about papers in workshops -- papers I would have accepted in the main conference -- that are brushed off and the reviewers admit in their reviews that they do not work on these topics. I don't understand what's going on but at times it feels like a collective madness. A 10 page paper with 4 very different datasets that solves a problem, is clearly written, has no major flaws, and is useful to the community should not need defending when submitted to a workshop just because reviewers aren't qualified to review the work (this paper got in btw). We are moving into a "pay to play" ecosystem and that will only create bad science due to group think. (another aspect of "pay to play" is in the tuning. Spending $1M to tune your model to be the best doesn't mean it is better than a model that could not afford the search. Often more than half of resources are spent on tuning now)
a company could derive value from increased headcount if investors or shareholders perceive it as a valuable metric and reward the company with more money or a higher valuation regardless of other metrics.

i wonder if companies have seen increased valuations from saying they are hiring for tons of positions without actually following through on the actual hiring
Corporate history of the 20th and 21st centuries would strongly suggest that the power of corporations actively does NOT stem from the consent of the employees.

There are no governed here, especially in a right-to-work culture. Saying people vote for who they want to work for because they can vote with their feet is a bit like saying if you don't like your dictator, just move out of Venezuela. Reality is significantly more complicated than that.
I knew it'd be a slow day on HN but my goodness.
I haven’t seen that. Some of my favorite coworkers and managers have been people who were hard to manage. It’s because they have strong principles and they prioritize good relations with their peers and subordinates over being promotable.

I understand you are probably talking about people who uniformly act like jerks but I haven’t found them to be as common.
1984? It sounds like advice for avoiding faeries from the 1200.

- Beware of the Fae who doth not cast a shadow, for Fae play tricks with the light.

- The Fae useth trickery to create faces. Heed ye closely to the hairline.

- Fae speaketh with a voice from beyond, and the machinations of the mouth are not natural to them. Be ye wary of a mouth that doth not move with the voice.

- The Fae cometh from a place of different light. The sun may be your guide, for it maketh the Fae blink either too oft, or not at all.

- Fae may make sounds not of a voice. The wise pilgrim would heed odd sounds.

- Fae ensnare unwary travelers with false human emotions. Use caution, lest the Fae useth an expected emotion upon ye.

- The Fae are experienced travelers between worlds and often may bend light in unnatural ways.

- A Fae may trick mortals, and are masters of spreading rumor. Always ensure information is correct, even from those thou knowest best.

- Your local priest can locate the Fae and protect you from them. Nevertheless, always carry tools of the sacrament to be on your best guard.

- Trust your instincts. If it feels like Fae trickery, verily it is.
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You want companies to post the reasons for every firing on Twitter?
30w fast charge (on the Pro), good to 33ft, and a flip screen... insta360 is killing it. Having a 5nm chip on a consumer device like this, imo, shows a passion for excellence that you won't see in most competitors.

I hope these class of devices can start integrating better with phones. The screens on these things aren't big enough for comfortably complex & advanced photo-nerdery, but even my old Zcam E1 (Kickstarter 4/3" (aka MFT) 4k action camera from 2p25) has a pretty ok wifi app where I can compose shots well & relatively quickly change settings. It's also great for composing group photos. These are amazing sensor packages, and are held back by how they are marketed & targetted, but eventually those designations are going to start crumbling some, and that should be amazing.

If these devices did expose some kind of more prosumer interface I could easily see them migrating from action cams to something like camera replacements. Insta360 has already done great with cameras & optics. Their One RS platform allowing the lens + sensor to swap out, and it's easy for me to imagine expanding the lineup from mostly wide angle ish prime lenses to also incclude some optical zoom or long focal length primes.

Ideally phones would also integrate themselves well too. I can plug a USB camera (I've had much more hit & miss situation with microphones weirdly) into most Android phones and have it work (alas notably Chrome often doesn't pick up the device frustratingly!!); handy for conference rooms or desks with good fixed infrastructure. But so far we still don't good standards based ways to do this kind of thing over wifi. It'd be fun to swing for the fences & see someone bake Media-over-QUIC or something bleeding Edge into a device, but even an rtsp streamer & Android support as a sink would enable fun weird interesting advanced uses galore.
It's worth bearing in mind that the so-called "1 inch" sensors are approximately half an inch in size.

https://www.trustedreviews.com/explainer/what-is-1-inch-came....
Exactly this. OpenAI was started for ostensibly the right reasons. But once they discovered something that would both 1) take a tremendous amount of compute power to scale and develop, and 2) could be heavily monetized, they choose the $ route and that point the mission was doomed, with the board members originally brought in to protect the mission holding their fingers in the dyke.
Idk why you are downvoted. It's become a cultural trope to use "I did it for my family" as an excuse to justify absolutely heinous stuff.
I think the fact that I'm bringing up the history shows that I haven't forgotten.

There are legimate disagreements over whether switching to XML was a good idea. Nonetheless, these disagreements were not a good excuse to overthrow W3C entirely, merely a convenient excuse for the browser vendors. Moreover, I don't think the HTML standards need to move as fast as Google wants them to move. HTML is now a "living standard", in other words, constantly changing, and I don't think that's good for the web. These things should move slowly. The giant browser vendors themselves are selfishly the main beneficiaries of forcing everyone else on the web to move at their pace. It consolidates their monopolization of the web.

> WHATWG was the kick in the pants that the W3C needed to focus on relevant things again.

Relevant things like... not controlling the HTML standard anymore? WHATWG has stolen a lot of the relevance of W3C.
Not my experience at all. Someone who pushes back on their boss to get the team they manage what they need is exactly that type of person.
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Which is precisely why profit is a red herring. What matters is market share (which for GCP is still 10%, not amazing but gradually increasing) and, ultimately, revenue growth.
What service?

I have gmail and O365 and some other web hosting provider. My work email is unknown, probably filtered 5x, plus on O365 so limited to known contacts.
Assuming employees are not incentivized by $$$ here seems extraordinary and needs a pretty robust argument to show it isn't playing a major factor when there is this much money involved.
If we want angry hot takes we'll go to reddit. Don't muck up HN with your drivel.
you just don't understand how markets work. if openai slows down then they will just be driven out by competition. that's fine if that's what you think they should do, but that won't make ai any safer, it will just kill openai and have them replaced by someone else.
> a company with a mission to distribute the upside of AGI to “all humanity.”

If anyone actually believes this, they're a fool. The mission of the company is to maximize profit. Any external benefit is a happy coincidence.
Founder CEOs are a different breed. There's a plenty of successful founder CEOs who don't fit the typical hired CEO pattern. Zuckerberg, Sweeney, etc.
How'd you miss her as one of the New York high society characters that Trump was constantly having petty complaints about?
A really slick slide deck on how your unicorn will make this person the envy of his peers.

Also amazing amounts of luck, or family connections.