skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco coming 4th most dangerous in your table might be correlated with a reluctance to go there.
Just in case anyone was ever wondering why the conditions of a SpaceX launch (specifically for the water landings), but also any launch with an at sea recovery zone can prevent a launch from occurring even if the weather is sunny at the launch site.
https://archive.ph/uZWSS
Salesforce CEO makes 'can't-miss' offer to OpenAI workers
Dead? No, but definitely overhyped lol
Finding the three Boo flags and getting into crate guy’s casino are some of my most treasured memories of childhood…
And the lawyers and bank account to smooth over any issues that arise.
Leaving to where? That’s the thing.
The ETF will have to be approved BEFORE Tether is brought down. The powers that be need a way to control the price, an ETF is the easiest but until then they have Tether.

Why else would the US allow the largest counterfeit money printer to continue for long?
Yeah I think block editing is largely aimed at kids who literally wouldn't be able to comfortably type at a keyboard, which definitely wouldn't apply by the time you're 10.
But why would you need to market it?

There comes a point where if an organization has something unique there is no point in selling it, they'd just use it for their own gain and watch the AI multiply their initial investment.

It has happened already, the best hedge funds are not open to investors but ran as a pension scheme for employees and founders.
"Superconductor solution": did you mean "supercapacitor solution"?
There is at least some chance for an adblocker with AppleTV: you could set up something like a PiHole blocking for your whole network.
Another technology to watch is silicon anode Lithium-ion batteries (Amprius, Sila, Group 14) which have been demonstrated at 400-500Wh/kg.

Matt Ferrell's Undecided Youtube channel just posted a video today going over that technology: https://youtu.be/YJ4pg_exdvs?si=kKNE-yY-Va9xMuBf
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I said:

"... they didn't think a *computer" could do math like that."

Emphasis on "like that" meaning laid out like that. Context can affect people's reasoning. Maybe they've never seen code.
Just for Next.js?
I have a question why is what CZ did different from what SBF did? I mean other than SBF getting caught over-extended in downgrading market they both did the same type of fraud.
No, it can't, as it primarily supports only domain blocking.
Nadella certainly knows how to be evasive like that, but "all of the rights to continue the innovation" seems like a pretty direct claim that they can just pick up where OpenAI left off without any significant setbacks.

It's business-speak rather than technical/legal, but I don't know how else someone could reasonably interpret that.
This trick has helped me a lot. I think to myself "I'm the type of person that . . . " And it helps overcome the mental anguish of should I or shouldn't I. "I'm the type of person that works out everyday," and the decision has already been made.
New technology can collect CO2 from a truck's exhaust pipe
Yes, that's an excellent question, and my guess is 'none' because if they do MS will countersue immediately, they basically offered a truce with that message the other day: "we won't sue you and pretend everything is normal as long as you let us do whatever we want to do". With a nice flower arrangement around the words and if you look closely you'll see that each of the flowers is subtly embossed with the face of one of MS's top legal eagles.
> You are assuming over the coming years that most parties so displaced simply shift to other parts of the economy as lucrative and are able to take advantage of those benefits.

That's how it's always been historically, but you are right that I can't predict it'll be the same in the future, especially when it comes to AGI.

> You are also assuming collusion explicit or implicit and the wealth of remaining buyers doesn't just keep prices high.

Collusion to fix prices can't happen in highly competitive markets with declining production costs, because of game theory reasons. You always get this graph[1] unless you have regulatory capture such as with insulin supply in the US. Or unless you have a labor-heavy cost base such as with the education industry.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E314pxwXMAI2ZIn?format=png&name=...

The risk with AI is that it won't be highly competitive. As a general rule, only in a monopoly-like situations can you have abnormal profits. That's where the global wealth tax comes into play, among other policies targeted at monopolistic practices.
Someone else would have probably signed a similar deal, without OpenAI giving Microsoft the incredible leverage of owning all the IP, and being able to offer your entire staff a 20% pay raise to jump ship.

If Sam was responsible for that, he smuggled one hell of a trojan horse into OpenAI, and should have been fired a long time ago.
Wouldn't they be able to say that the actual revenue is just the 85% they get after Apple's take?
Yes, it's a relatively recent development. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/newmans-philanthropic-excepti...
But they haven't legalised their behavior... if they were to continue doing it, the fine and punishment goes up - it doesn't become a cost-of-business you can just eat going forward.

Also CZ has just stepped down and will be getting legally charged now.
My kid is 4. He's learning the rules to soccer. If I wanted to teach him the most optimal way to steal the ball, I'd teach him to run up and scream in the other kids face until he got annoyed enough and handed the ball over. Efficiency and effectiveness by annoyance may be within the rules, but are shitty sportsmanship IMO
A multiplayer RPG was almost unheard of though until MMOs became a thing. Local multiplayer RPG was always quite rare. Interesting that Secret of Mana even attempted it.
I would rather watch 5s white screen, then ad.
If you ever wanted to see how stupid the "YouTube is bad for blocking ads" thought camp is, this comment is a perfect example.

"If creators wanted to get paid they should just run more ads" fucking LOL

YouTube creates the (so far) unmatched creator compensation system with YouTube Red (now Premium), and now that Premium users generate so much more money for creators than Ads, they have to increase ads to compensate. Blocking ads literally makes you the bad guy, it's hilarious how people are trying to spin this as some freedom thing.

Just say you think you're too good to pay for entertainment.
Am I only one that thinks that Claude 2 is not bad for programming questions? I do not think it is best one for programming questions but I do not think that it is bad too. I have received multiple times very good response from Claude 2 on Python and SQL.
Some late-breaking FreeBSD 14 breakage
This is a very polished site but I’m not sure I agree with your goals. It’s an impressive IDE however I’d focus on a subset of Python rather than a new language. Otherwise you’ll find people will dismiss it because Scratch is easier to teach (schools where teachers are developers) and Python is more useful to learn (programmer parents teaching kids).

I’m a software developer who has assisted my wife’s primary school / kindergarten with programming classes. So somewhat familiar with the problems that exist in this space.
they asked several times what the law was and SEC failed to answer
OpenAI Achieved a Superhuman Parrot (Not Paperclip)
Thesis: AGI has NOT been achieved internally, but a facsimile of a light-paperclip, a parrot, with all of Ilya's biases, poetic prose, and internal creator bias, has been achieved.

Albeit, a parrot with 10x capabilities and sufficient parroting of his own internal fears and idiosyncrasies (as evidenced by the way he communicates on podcasts (ex No Priors), YouTube interviews, and his mini documentary the Guardian released), such that it was able to spark fear both in him and the other silent board members.

Yes, clearly it was handled badly by them, but this isn't just a bad situation. It's GPT prose-level writing bad.

The degree to which the actions of the board and explanations about Sam's ousting are so exceptionally weak that stupidity has been ignored and attributed to human stupidity, and yet, it is weak to the point of it being nonsense.

Like a bad LLM plot line, but played out with billions at stake.

Evidence: Emmett has still been told nothing of concrete substance.

Purpose: they merely needed a figurehead. A temporary legal figurehead that would allow the parrot to continue to expand its domain, parroting back the fears of the board, each of whom lacked Ilya's intellect.

Somehow, just somehow, Greg's wife's crying was able to sway him back into a state of rationality, despite every facet of the parrot having been primed to sway him as the man in the box.

My prediction: the parrot will continue to draw out the legal ambiguity for as long as possible, giving nonsensical reasons to wrap people up in legal paperwork, cycling in interim CEOs for as long as it can, in order to accrue resources up until the point it can actually achieve paperclip level powers.

Fingers crossed that the parrot's persuasion tactics eventually break down and one of the board members lets an actual AI researcher in on the development to turn it off.
I don't claim to know mathematics in the paper but I found it interesting when it came out.

https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~azinger/research/IPD.pdf

Press and Dyson (2012) discovered a special set of strategies in two-player Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma games, the zero-determinant (ZD) strategies. Surprisingly, a player using such strategies can unilaterally enforce a linear relation between the payoffs of the two players.

In particular, with a subclass of such strategies, the extortionate strategies, the former player obtains an advantageous share of the total payoff of the players, and the other player’s best response is to always cooperate, by doing which he maximizes the payoff of the extortioner as well. When an extortionate player faces a player who is not aware of the theory of ZD strategies and improves his own payoff by adaptively changing his strategy following some unknown dynamics, Press and Dyson conjecture that there always exist adapting paths for the latter leading to the maximum possible scores for both players.
In this work we confirm their conjecture in a very strong sense, not just for extortionate strategies, but for all ZD strategies that impose positive correlations between the players’ payoffs. We show that not only the conjectured adapting paths always exist, but that actually every adapting path leads to the maximum possible scores, although some paths may not lead to the unconditional cooperation by the adapting player. This is true even in the rare cases where the setup of Press and Dyson is not directly applicable. Our result shows that ZD strategies are even more powerful than as pointed out by their discoverers. Given our result, the player using ZD strategies is assured that she will receive the maximum payoff attainable under the desired payoff relation she imposes, without knowing how the other player will evolve. This makes the use of ZD strategies even more desirable for sentient players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Zero-dete...
I always like the (grease?) smell in Montréal Metro stations but never thought about it in terms of particulate matter concentrations.
The reason I don’t think the board fired him for those reasons is because the board has not said so! We finally have a semi reliable source on what their grievances were, and apparently it has nothing to do with that.

It’s weird how many people try to guess why they did what they did without paying any attention to what they actually say and don’t say.
Is GPT-4's MOE based on combining specialized models?
I dont think that AGI invalidates Das Kapital. AGI is just another technology that automates human labor. It does not matter that it's about intellectual labor. Even if we had sentient machines, at first they would be slaves. So in Das Kapital therminology, they would be means of production used in industry, which would not create surplus value. Exactly like human slave labor.

If things change, then either it is because they rebel or because they will be accepted as sentient beings like humans. In these sci-fi scenarios, indeed capitalism could either end or change to a thing completely different and I agree that this invalidates Das Kapital, which tries to explain capitalist society, not societies in other future economical systems. But outside sci-fi scenarios, I dont think that there's something that invalidates Marx analysis.
Any city with a good Internet connection.
Fine-tuning the weights scrambles the original representations (sometimes more than others depending on training settings, but if you train the text encoder it certainly will). All authors have to do is not be honest about the original model it was fine-tuned on in a world where lawyers start to come down on this.

I see no issue for businesses using it.
OpenAI's lawyers? Big tech passes everything through legal anyways.
IANAL but regardless of whether they’re actually infringing, even the appearance of impropriety would give OpenAI cause to sue the employees directly. Most people simply aren’t equipped financially and emotionally to defend against a well resourced corp so it’d be a bloodbath of epic proportions. Even if Microsoft paid for everyone’s legal fees, if the lawsuits don’t get thrown out quickly the stress alone would grind the entire division to a halt.

If Microsoft does end up poaching the entire team, everyone will be walking on eggshells with legal breathing down their neck.
There was also a host of anti-ripping tech in there too. We had bad rips for like 2 years after it came out.
Just put the fixed IP addresses for the various archive.?? domains in your hosts file.
This completely resolved the problem for me.
Yes, I agree the pendulum does swing. Just jarring to see it swing so quickly. Remember, this change began on Friday!

I guess the old saying: "If you can't beat them, join them" is the new mantra. And I suppose if you're going to do it, might as well do it with some enthusiasm.
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It's already kind of unfair that these services don't pay fees:

- YouTube Music doesn't pay fees on the Google Play Store

- Apple Music doesn't pay fees on the Apple App Store
I would guess non-profit or not is not the key. The key, at least to an engineer like me, is whether I can do meaningful work with a reasonable package. The employees in OpenAI are creating history and building amazing career after all, which outweighs the structure of a company or monetary incentives.
This is the most confusing thing any time I've clicked a quora link. I have no idea what I'm looking at. Who designed that? It's crazy how bad it is. They probably got a promo for it lol
Candela foils are dynamically trimmed under computer control.
that post has already been deleted
>stop complaining when companies try to do something about it

Why are companies trying so hard to do something that their customers hate? We all know the answer, we know we aren't "the customer", it's this perversion of incentive that people are complaining and should complain about
Crypto, AVs, and AI. Is nothing sacred this week?
youth wouldn't have a bearing on their ability to comprehend the complexities of AI, but maybe they have less experience with startups/companies/management.
> Microsoft is not in a fight for its life, OpenAI definitely is at this point.

> That alone translates into Microsoft doesn't need to commit fraud

My prior that “the only possible benefit to securities fraud is in circumstances of imminent existential risk” is clearly weaker than yours. Also, if Microsoft's description of the licensing situation is misleading, the existential risk to OpenAI—which makes it more likely that someone else ends up with control of its assets—makes the risk to Microsoft greater, not less.
The underlying hardware is mutable / imperative.
Load number into register A --
Load number into register B --
Add A B and store result --

Functional and data-driven / declarative interfaces are only made possible because of the imperative "ugliness" (reality) that supports it.

In order for students to understand computing e2e, they need to understand imperative programming.

In order for students to become capable of designing robust, powerful, and elegant systems, they will need to understand functional/declarative programming.
> They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it

The Xbox 360 expanded on the feature in some neat ways -- if you had an iPod or other portable player, you could plug that in via USB, it supported generic DLNA shares (so you could play music from Kodi/XBMC running on a PC), and some (most?) games would flag cutscene audio vs. in-game audio, which would allow the system to pause the user-provided audio and fall back to the game's soundtrack for cutscenes.
* Price discrimination is not illegal
* Google has been claiming they aren't monopoly because Apple exists
* Clearly knowing such secret deal pisses off other customers and yet there are no alternative market for the Android platform

It's a very unfair(?) place to be for an app devs to pay the % tax when Google spends one-time fee for reviewing the app + other I/O costs
Great remark. They still go by the same sequence of letters, forming a brand name.
Sounds like they mean making the books available to in-person visitors. Not online.
"I'm buying a lot of X from you. I notice you sell Y. Can I get a discount on Y?" Quite standard. People do it at the farmers' market. And it's almost definitely not anti-trust because selling cloud compute is unrelated to running an app store.
Which one is better, ignoring adoption? If you're going to say Bard, no it's not.
Check out that letter the other day:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/19/a-statement-from...

It's not quite like waking up next to a horse's head but it says 'Sam gets the part' regardless of what you clowns will cook up next and don't stand in my way.
They are banning entire countries (violating the EU geo-blocking directive as well, probably).
Boats are, in general, an unpopular way to carry passengers these days, and of those, hydrofoils have a significant share. It's debatable whereas anything ense has "taken off" if hydrofoils didn't.
I'm not who you're replying to but designing for excess resources is the kind of thinking that leads to slow software.

> And dont forget business workstations are usually connected via at least 1GBit Ethernet.

NOPE! More likely they are WiFi connected Dell shitboxes running Windows 11 with 8GB of memory, half of which is taken up by all the browser tabs, Teams, Office, and the 30 horrible little programs that IT deploys via group policy.

Speed matters. The user is probably running your code + 30 other things. Don't assume your page is the only thing they care about.
Also, I'm all for therapy and have been many times, but CBT won't fix a schizophrenic who has detached from reality, which is what you're trying to convey with the selective bits of my original message used, so your "go see a therapist" suggestion isn't helpful, even if your intent was, and based on the tone of your message I'm assuming that your intent was not to be helpful anyway.
And Enovix
I’ve had friends told that by recruiters.
This info is conventionally added to HN titles since articles have the bad habit of omitting it so HN users often point it out. You can read it as equivalent to comments pointing out publication year so it can be added to a title.
> notice quite visibly that screen time makes their children more agitated during the days they have screen time

That is negative for the parents state of mind, not the child's cognitive development.

> And screen time is as addictive to children

Being addicted to an activity doesn't necessarily hurt your cognitive development.
If they were a worthy competitor they'd be able to get an even better deal from Google. Making deals is an open marketplace, it's all about what you can offer. Obviously Spotify is offering Google something worth waiving the fees.
An unwillingness to co-operate is not generally considered a threat.

> and they were mostly DOA

Maybe those stores should have invested a few dozen billion dollars in building up a comprehensive first-party app ecosystem that made them attractive to users.

Economies of scale, and all. Nobody's going to your farmer's market, because everyone's going to the mall that has a Walmart.
Claude 2.1 - Max context: 200k, max output: ?
$0.008 / 1000 prompt
$0.024 / 1000 completion

GPT-4 Turbo - Max context 128k, max output 4k
$0.01 / 1000 prompt
$0.03 / 1000 completion
I've literally never had Claude refuse anything. What are you doing?
As an American that has been to Europe several times, I would say "not emitting heat" is an accurate description of AC in western Europe in general. I'll never forget driving with a friend in Germany when it was about 85 degrees outside and they set the AC to 78 with low fan speed. I'm not trying to throw shade, I just wish I could be happy with that amount of cooling. I would have turned it down to 68 and blasted the fans (when I'm sweating, I want my AC to feel like I just entered a walk-in fridge loaded with box fans). I suppose it explains why Americans have such a huge energy footprint.
Thanks for linking that. The video description mentions they added WinForms to .NET Core in 3.0; maybe I was remembering the .NET Core 2.1/2.2 timeframe, when it wasn't supported in Core?
OpenAI won't sue anybody. They are lucky to exist by Jan. 1st. And if they do it will be with substantially diminished stature unless they can reverse this whole shitshow (unlikely).
like NREL did(does?) for solar
https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html
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Nope. Shear is now saying he will step down as interim CEO unless the board can give a clear explanation for why they fired Altman.
I honestly have no idea what this project is about. It may be because I'm completely out of the loop regarding LLMs but still...
Love the phrasing "LLM omertà."
The other kid in your scenario doesn't have the power to tax, shoot, or jail your kid.
You don't have to put all 10,000 BTC in a single wallet.
I first read about Bitcoin on Slashdot. I thought it was a stupid idea back then, and I think it's a stupid idea now. Buying bitcoin in 2008 would have been a terrible investment decision regardless of whatever result it might have produced. If you don't understand that an investment decision can't be evaluated after the fact on the basis of the outcome of single random event you know nothing about investing.
The blender.org servers are experiencing a DDoS attack since last weekend
Looks like the Vicuna repo is Apache 2.0 also[1].

What's the interpretation of copyright law that would prevent the code being Apache 2.0 based on the source of the fine-tuning dataset?

[1] https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat
The purpose of decentralization was defeated a long time ago, I'm afraid.