skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by “public display of tribal allegiance” Who do you reckon I have allegiance to? I don't care about Elon Musk or Twitter. I just don't like Media Matters and David Brock has been a shady guy for decades.
wait so can't SA sue for wrongful termination if everything is as bogus as everyone is saying? same for MS
The fact that the four comments already posted so far when I got to this thread were all in abject denial is not encouraging. People who own detached single-family houses in high-demand metropolitan areas are in fact fantastically rich-- they're basically sitting on a dragon hoard of wealth-- and in doing so they're fucking everybody else over. LVT would fix this in a heartbeat but of course the political opposition would be fierce.
No serious company wants drama. Hopefully OpenAI is still a serious company.

A statement from the CEO/the board is a standard descalation.
The U.S. has a plan to store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests
The full body scans are also voluntary. I opt out of all of that nonsense with three words "no thank you".
Launched Thursday morning:

https://x.com/poe_platform/status/1725194752901988744?s=46
Most journalists won’t accept the ugly truth. We need x20 more housing approved and built than there is.
There is shit ton of land available, more than enough ppl to build it, and a huge demand.
Homes were never supposed to be an investment, it’s literally a depreciating asset. The only reason for it’s to go up in price - an economic bubble fueled by cartel mentality.
Just because homeowners haven’t colluded publicly doesn’t mean they don’t the freaking know what and why they are doing what they are doing :)
And.. this is the reason why Chinese government is actually cracking down on this bubble there.
observable.hq is js notebook site. This is literally a notebook. Sharing notebooks containing this kind of analysis/visualisation is very common
Agree, a bit jarring, and I don't think it ever quite answers the question either. I saw the title and decided it was a "how many gas stations are there in Chicago?" type lateral thinking question. I must admit without a lot of thought I blurted out an internalised "maybe 1 for every 10 people" (trees not gas stations) and so "500,000". I am wrong by several orders of magnitude. Whoops.
I thought the design team always worked up 3 working prototypes from a set of 10 foam mockups. There was an article from someone with intimate knowledge of Ives lab some years back stating this was protocol for all Apple products.
Then don't advertise on a website with user generated content
Don't nuclear weapons kinda cause ssomething like this ? At least the blocks that have the become effectively impossible to destroy & can better spread their ideology.
>Tellingly, Media Matters used X’s privacy features in order to hide its methodology from its readers. That is, Media Matters set this account to “private,” blocking anyone from seeing which accounts Media Matters actually followed, thus disallowing anyone from understanding how its feed was manipulated. Indeed, Media Matters at no point includes images with any information about the account that was exposed to these images; the cropped nature of Media
Matters’ deceptive screenshots leaves its profile picture out of frame.
Only explanation acceptable for me now is Hanlon's razor mixed with a Despair Inc poster.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

And

"Meetings : None of us is as dumb as all of us."
Doesn't Canada have some of the highest education citizens in the world?

That seems like a good indication of a successful country although of course not the sole thing to measure that on.
Yes, the money can be used to obtain shelter. Perhaps buy a less valuable home, or rent.
Some are screwed. I wonder what the percentage is. Someone who paid off their mortgage is not screwed or owes their original 1990 mortgage amount.
That's a meaningless distinction to advertisers and in the context of this lawsuit.

Were brand ads placed colocated with hateful content in a user feed? That's the only question that matters to advertisers at least. Attribution doesn't change the damage to their brand.

And even this lawsuit doesn't challenge that fact that the answer is "yes", ads did get placed next to hateful content - the lawsuit just claims results were skewed by gaming ad targeting and so aren't representative.
Wow, that's a thread. I'd like to know who is actually hurt by this. I'm quite liberal, but a lot of the culture policing seems more like a "White Man's Burden" situation rather than a reflection of a legitimate, sizeable complaint from minority groups who stand to be hurt from it. "Latinx" is a prime example, not least of all because the spelling is suited for English (and even then it's awkward) and not Spanish.
“As shown in research published in 2021 by BCBC (Williams, 2021a), and in the Globe and Mail (Williams and Finlayson, 2022), the OECD projects that Canada will be the worst
performing economy out of 38 advanced countries over the next forty years (2020-2060), achieving the lowest growth in real GDP per capita – the most important measure of overall prosperity.”

https://bcbc.com/insight/canadas-productivity-performance-ov...

I’m not sure I agree with the idea that Canada is a “failing state” but I do think there is a significant risk that we will not maintain the standard of living we are accustomed to and that I think we believe we deserve - deserve in spite of the evidence that we’re not innovating.
You can either act like a professional and control the messaging or let others fill the vacuum with idle speculation. I'm quite frankly in shock as to the level of responsibility displayed by people whose position should demand high function.
This was pre-1983. Forking wasn't a thing at the time. Any kind of code management was cutting edge, and cross-platform shared code wasn't even dreamed of yet.
Love to admire the purple flowers of jacaranda trees (there are certain spots in Southern California where they are everywhere) but when they fall on the ground it creates a nasty mess.
If you're in the EA cult and think all frontier AI development needs to be paused, it's perfectly reasonable. Just speculating here though.
Salting slows down dictionary attacks. It doesn't make them impossible.

If the site is able to verify a password with reasonable effort, an attacker that stole all relevant data is able to check a password with that level of effort.

Without a salt, an attacker has to spend the effort once to check against all users' passwords. A salt doesn't meaningfully increase the cost to check against a specific user but slows down attackers (who want to check a password against all users), so yes, you should have it. Additionally, you should use "expensive" hash functions. If you use 28999 iterations of PBKDF2 with SHA256 (an example config that I found in a benchmark, far from the state of the art but likely still very common), that means trying the 1000 best guesses against your million users is 10000 * 1000000 * 28999 hash calculations. Unfortunately, a RTX 3090 can do 129400 sets of 28999 iterations per second, so trying the entire dictionary against all users will take less than a day (https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/e4fcee00cb6d82874dace7210...).

Even with a better algorithm, if you expect to be able to log in 100 users per second on your server (spending all resources on password hashing), the attacker will be able to test at least 100 passwords in the same time using the same resources (realistically more, because the attacker will likely have a better optimized setup, since their machine does nothing else but try passwords while yours is optimized for something else).
In 2023: If you have a house, then you are rich.

In 2030: If you have six months of savings for a rainy day, then you are rich.

In 2040: If you have a job that pays, then you are rich.
The solution is obvious: exempt people from property tax but require they only sell their house for purchase price plus CPI
Exactly what I was thinking too. Hey if we can create a taxation system so that we can force people out of the home they own because their income can't cover the increases in taxes we "generate more housing" which is a win right? No you're just making paupers out of people who were just getting by before. Not something to be proud of.
You're just acceptable collateral damage to someone who is ideologically opposed to regulations. At best, your legal recourse is to "sue" an entity that has already been dissolved and bankrupted.
The most common Macintosh archive format was (eventually) StuffIt, but StuffIt Expander couldn't open a .sit file which was missing its resource fork, and when you downloaded a file from the internet, it only came with a data fork.

So a common hack was to binhex the .sit file. Binhex was originally designed to make files 7-bit clean, but had the side effect that it bundled the resource fork and the data fork together.

Later versions of StuffIt could open .sit files which lacked the resource fork just fine, but by then .zip was starting to become more common.
Engineers are not part of the proletariat, at all. There are no working class engineers.

However, many members of the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie LARP as proletariat — particularly academics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02/middle-class-income-in-major....
May I suggest hurl[1]

1) http://hurl.dev
Tasha Macauley is an electrical engineer who founder of two tech companies, besides having a cute husband.

And the other guy is the founder of Quora and Poe.
Make sure to not elect him then.
Giving two groups of researchers the same problem is guaranteeing one team will scoop the other. Hard to divvy up credit after the fact.
As you illustrate, too many naysayers think that AGI must replicate "human thought". People, even those here, seem to equate AGI to being synonymous to human intelligence, but that type of thinking is flawed. AGI will not think like a human whatsoever. It must simply be indistinguishable from the capabilities of a human across almost all domains where a human is dominant. We may be close, or we may be far away. We simply do not know. If an LLM, regardless of the mechanism of action or how 'stupid' it may be, was able to accomplish all of the requirements of an AGI, then it is an AGI. Simple as that.

I imagine us actually reaching AGI, and people will start saying, "Yes, but it is not real AGI because..." This should be a measure of capabilities not process. But if expectations of its capabilities are clear, then we will get there eventually -- if we allow it to happen and do not continue moving the goalposts.
Seems strange to me Elon would prioritize Twitter over the greatest threat/opportunity in humanity of AGI to Microsoft. Seems a bit Capt. Obvious, maybe he can get Ilya.

"Replying to Nadella's post, Musk then wrote, “Now they will have to use Teams!"
There's a lot of problems with your post, but I'm going to focus on the one that bamboozled me the most.

> illegal mining

What exactly is "illegal mining"?
The US isn't failing. It's balkanizing. That balkanization will probably undo itself. Even if it doesn't, the ununited states would still be economic powerhouses. Not as prosperous as it was during reconstruction or the height of the petrodollar, but that's an impossible standard to hold onto forever.
https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html
You acknowledged above that consciousness isn't what LLM is and you likely understand that the poster was referring to that...

The broad strokes you use here are exactly why discussing LLMs are hard. Sure some people dismiss them because it isn't general AI but having supporters dismiss any argument with "passes the Turning test" is equally useless.
It is simple: define some arbitrary boundary to call rich, say $10m and then add up all assets minus liabilities. Maybe take tax treatment of said assets into account and risk profile (10m all in Bitcoin for example)
Well when you put it that way ... yeah. That would have been great.
Are You an Artistic Genius?
> it would be that when MM said 'Yaccarino was wrong, here's proof', this was defamatory because 'protected' was never meant to imply 100% perfect protection, and therefore claims that her statement was disproven - with their contrived method - are false and malicious.

I'm honestly not sure how that would be legally analyzed. It doesn't really feel like a very convincing argument, but I don't think I can articulate exactly why.

In any case, it doesn't seem that particular line of argument is present in the complaint, so it's pretty much just a curiosity.
If they're doing it, they're clearly going to say that they're not.
Jesus, Alexandr's like 26. Can you imagine being at the helm of openai at 26
Have enjoyed use of original Air glasses as well. It is pleasantly versatile, and great if you ever need to read mildly sensitive data in a public setting (or even airplane).

Bonus points if you have a Samsung Dex capable phone; with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, you can enjoy a fairly robust Android desktop environment (and live the cyberpunk dream).
But was delivering it into the hands of Microsoft really how they wanted it to happen?
Another element of that was the team that tried to adapt iPodOS for iPhone vs Forstall's team that adapted OSX.
Canada should get rid of the capital gains tax exemption on the sale of primary residences and use the money raised in that manner to build more housing and to help renters and the homeless. Even if they just levied a modest percentage tax, like 5% or 10%, it would raise enormous sums of capital. And homeowners would still be making windfall profits.
i should probably flesh out my reasoning more on this but i think we should preserve the ability for people to do wrong rather than trying to box it out. practically, it functions as a useful last resort of the system is very screwed up and we can probably punish noncompliance in other cases.

i think if we successfully remove the ability for people to break laws, regardless of whether it's done in a "privacy-preserving" way, that would be bad. but then again i'm against the feds knowing who anyone is so i'm probably biased.
Fortunately no conflict of interest there. Ignore the guy behind the curtain.
2022: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2455120/thousan...

2023: (much smaller scale than above but still stealing over USD $150000 a year in electricity)

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2569745/crypto-...

This time around the authorities estimate that they've only found 1%, not 10% as they had before, of the illegal mining done in their country.
That's the hypothetical half of the equation. The tangible, measurable half is how many people the FDA has killed by denying access to life-saving treatments. A number of studies[0] have been conducted on this topic.

[0] https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example...
> you could just require a physical ID

It's actually not necessary to have an ID to get through TSA, so please don't encourage it.
The data says the opposite https://www.moneygeek.com/credit-cards/travel/analysis/avera...
Related: Jacarandas in Johannesburg - https://morukuru.com/news/jacarandas-a-passion-for-purple/

"it is estimated that here are now more than 70 000 trees in Pretoria which is affectionately known as Jacaranda City. Johannesburg is believed to be the largest cultivated urban forest in the world with over 10 million trees and the Jacaranda’s contribute substantially to this number, as thousands were planted as street trees, in parks and gardens. Although difficult to confirm, some experts say Johannesburg has even more of these glorious purple trees than Pretoria."
Are they homeowners or homeowers tho? They're hoard is basically only their equity minus transaction and replacement costs
FWIW, the stock market disagrees.
People who think that this is dramatic have never worked in a YC company lol. It’s just amplified due to their current significance in the ecosystem.
I see why you recommended that Atlantic article, its very very good.
Only on HN do you see salty comments like this
Kind of a rent control for buying houses? Then who do you sell it to given 2 people who equally want and can afford it?
Personally for me I've found that since Google search has been wrecked by SEO, or pivoted to targetting zoomers and gen alpha, it just doesn't work the same for me in my 40s. It used to be fantastic, but several times a day my search queries end in frustration like they did in the pre-Webcrawler search era.

Increasingly now I use ChatGPT and sometimes Kagi. And they just work like I expect. I can think of one time that ChatGPT has failed me, which was when I was trying to remember the terms OLTP/OLAP in database architecture. But for a long time now it's been a very effective tool in my toolbox, while Google increasingly wears out.
Convincing two constituencies: employees and customers, that your company isn't just yolo-ing things like ceos and so forth seems like it is a pretty good use of ceo time!
Let me divert from Musk specifically for a moment.

The "anti woke cancel culture critics" are in fact concerned with the inorganic, overwhelming influence that a specific family of ideologies has today over the means of modern communication. Observe the similarity with the left themselves, who are concerned with the inorganic, overwhelming influence that a specific class of wealthy people have today over the means of modern production.

Massive advertising companies banding together to protect a specific narrative is as "free speech" as a bunch of colluding megacorps is "free market". And as much as the left resist the disproportionate influence of oligarchs on economy, the proponents of the actual free speech will resist the disproportionate influence of ESG-driven advertising giants on information.
"I have no details of OpenAI's Board’s reasons for firing Sam"

Not the strongest opening line I've seen.
They offered an unregistered security for sale. That is against the law.
Most sites at least try to get rid of that stuff, instead of encouraging and promoting it.
"And then there's obviously the issue that it simply cannot possibly work on a larger scale: with a 1:1 comparison you have to look for a close-enough match of a single picture pair, but with a 1:many comparison you have to identify one person out of millions of possible matches. "
> If you’re an economic loser as a result, that is not a failure of free speech

This neatly avoids the question of whether we should want advertisers and multi-billion dollar corporations to be gatekeepers of the public sphere. As usual, laissez-faire when things are going my way, anti-discrimination and disparate impact laws when they're not.
Aren't these considered invasive plants in Australia [1]

[1] https://weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/jacaranda
Haha, maybe. I'm not looking to earn any money from this, though. Time is the bigger constraint in my life at the moment.
The CEO's I've worked for have mostly been mini-DonaldT's, almost pathologically allergic to truth, logic, or consistency. Altman seems way over on the normal scale for CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure he can knock two eggs together to make an omelette, but these piddling excuses for firing him don't pass the smell test.

I get the feeling Ilya might be a bit naive about how people work, and may have been taken advantage of (by for example spinning this as a safety issue when it's just a good old fashioned power struggle)
Reading the lawsuit and that article did you think what MMA is accused of was deceptive in any way?
> The power literally comes from Microsoft’s ability to single handedly put OpenAI out of business by not giving them a discount on compute.

That's not a problem for the non-profit board. If the mission is best served by the non-profit ceasing to exist, they should make it cease to exist.
sml is a smaller language, and a "cleaner" one in some ways. if your goal is to teach students the elements of functional programming, you want them to be able to concentrate on the core concepts, and not on the incidental details of the language.

http://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/ is a very good overview of the differences between sml and ocaml, which lets you see some of the tradeoffs each language has made.
Given how much the max family and 8 are flown, I don't think this holds up.

Some searching says...

1. >1000 flights per day for the family

2. 2 US carriers accounting for more than 200 Max 8 per day

So one would have to get to 20,000 flights after two crashes to get 2 nines. We're well past that threshold
There’s nothing not permanent than a temporary fix
> 1. Why not use Markdown-compatible syntax?

There's already a pandoc conversion to Typst and the syntax is mostly similar. Various symbols that are in use in markdown is used by the Typst in some other places (e.g. # is used for designating code mode in content mode so you can use variables function in-text).

> 2. Why would we want to observe changes in real time? Do you want this when coding too?

If you've ever wanted to just use something that's more powerful than Markdown (and not use awkward HTML in between, let's face it MD was supposed to be minimal), you have to use LaTeX, but it gets painfully slow as the project gets big. Fast feedback loops are essential. Would you rather wait 5s seconds to see that you have made changes that destroyed your layout or in an instant with incremental compilation?

3. You can collaborate with Git (and on the Web App) because Typst is also a language and a compiler (see their GitHub page at https://github.com/typst/typst) like LaTeX.

You can have it function as well as Markdown with templates and just use the sugar syntax (plus custom functions ad hoc without having to wrangle with LaTeX's enigmatic errors [1] and confusing macros even for something trivial like fonts [2]).

[1]: remember \badness 10000?

[2]: You'd have to install a package even though the OTF/TTF of the font you want is already installed on your system. And don't even mention how it's a completely different setup for PDFLaTeX, ConTeXT, and LuaLaTeX to use fonts. This is assuming you want to use LaTeX templates with markdown using Pandoc or Quarto. sigh...
Why should he care about updating internet randoms? It's none of our business. The people who need to know what's going, know what's going on.
At Amazon a senior manager would probably be fired for not giving a project to multiple teams.
Yeah, maybe it's not going to happen, and that's sad.
MSFT did not move higher than S&P 500 in the past 5 days...
Quite prescient. Realistically I expect the dominant activity to be consumption, and creating/selling useless artisanal crafts to one another. Notwithstanding cheap energy, the red tape could definitely be heavy to build anything of material consequence, particularly if we charge the responsibility of dolling out resources and capital to the government.
Guys, it’s not Kurt! It’s Billy, Billy Pilgrim. So it goes.
I can only speak for me, but I derive no entertainment from "chatting" with a computer program. I have only used it in ways that are useful to me. And I found it very good at troubleshooting software config issues as well as generating customized boilerplate code and even for generating fake data to insert into databases for testing. I have also found it quite good at extracting data from unstructured information like logs. Something that before, would have required maybe 20 minutes of fiddling with regex and writing a script for.
> We were also obsessed with efficiency. base64 was "sold" as denser encoding. I can't say if it was true overall

uuencode has file headers/footers, like MIME. But the actual content encoding is basically base64 with a different alphabet; both add precisely 1/3 overhead (plus up to 2 padding bytes at the end).
I don't believe it really matters to the advertisers how their ads end up alongside extreme, fringe content. The advertisers aren't saying, "it's ok to show our ads next to that content if a user likes that content and our products". Advertisers don't ever want their ads in that context, hard stop.