skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231122141935/https://www.washi...
I would have to go back and reread the paper to be sure, but FF layers are applied position-wise, meaning independently and in parallel on all input tokens/positions. Because of that, I could imagine contexts where the sequence dimension isn't relevant, i.e., for computational complexity.
Might work: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Apaulg+sinc...
Also, with the advent of AI and eventually AGI, it may be preferable to have smaller populations since the generated wealth can be distributed more in far more significant amounts.

Religious conservatives are not too happy with such ideas however, since it takes away one of the ways in which a religion grows.
It'd be hard to find an org where you couldn't find someone to make similar complaints.
As a former Submarine sailor, Rickover, destroyed the best part of the spirit of the service with his tyrannical control.
That's probably less than 1% of YouTube revenue (number came out of my hat)
Google is getting beat badly on multiple fronts, even Search, and has pissed away a mountain of goodwill. It's living off of declining 15 year old achievements. I wouldn't call Sundar a steady hand, he has destroyed much more potential than he has created, even if the stock has continued to go up it won't for much longer. I sold a significant position in GOOG a few years ago and I'm certain it was the right call.
Why is pathlib bad?

Edit: I'm asking because pathlib is as good as a Python lib could be for me. Path manipulations are extremely clear and always safe. What more do you need?
yeah the article is not 100% clear

but Ford have multiple models (or variations)

the police interceptor model is the most popular, the others not so much

so they will shut down the other (civilian) models and focus on the police one alone
Or you know, he personifies paper millions everyone thought they had in the bank
It's a mistake to believe PR messaging at its word.
You know people can be evil or at the least they can be bad people. Do you think this person is bad or good? My point is that when you say something like "She's just a person, doing a job." you're defending the bad rather than calling it out.
Indicative that many sources still come from Sam's camp
Does Paul G have skin in this game?
Did AI write this? Rigid, poorly written, makes every mistake your high school English teacher told you to avoid. "I think.." followed by conjecture with no supporting evidence.

Example (includes misuse of the colon):

> I think the fertility decline of the last decades indicates one thing: That hope was based on wishful thinking. Whatever the exact reasons, one thing is clear: Women don't love being with their children limitlessly. If they did, they could have chosen such lives: in current Western society, staying at home with children doesn't mean starving to death (at least not outside of metropolitan areas).
Yeah I think this is the real issue at hand.
GCP has also been bringing in Oracle execs to run things. The results are very much so affecting our relationship with Google to the negative.
Using Ollama with LangChainGo
I like your way of seeing it and I see the same now. If this is true (the article) then for sure it’s a nice inside jab that only Sam would get.

Also, I doubt pg would hold a grudge for years on end. You learn many lessons in life and some you are bound to repeat because of stubbornness or whatever.
Also he does seem to have "crazy eyes" [1].... Yeah it's not entirely scientific but a lot of manipulative exec types have them. Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind...

[1] https://www.insider.com/you-can-spot-psychopaths-by-looking-...
Can we agree that shouldn't be the case? Or if we decide the state has a say in some capacity, you can give your children up if you don't want their burden?
Oh I wasn’t complaining about the parent, I was complaining it needed to be said.

We are talking about a failure of the system, in the context of a concrete example. Talking about how the system actually works is only appropriate if you are drawing specific arguments up about how this situation is an anomaly, and few of them do that.

Instead it often sounds like “it’s very unusual for the front to fall off”.
If you are buying a new laptop every generation just for it to be bearable just buy a proper machine that can encode it for you.

Bonus points for being able to do it while your laptop is in your bag.
> people are looking for the cheapest possible tickets

Some are, but the real reason airlines are rolling out these fares is to reduce costs.
This is incorrect. For example the ability to translate between languages is emergent. Also gpt4 can do arithmetic better than the average person. Especially considering the process it arrives at the computation is via intuition basically vs algorithmic. Btw just as an aide the newer models can also write code to do certain tasks, like arithmetic.
For profit companies simply don't work on the majority vote of employees, and it's disingenuous for someone who has become wealthy from having the actual reigns to appeal to this when they happen to agree with him.

If a vote of employees actually mattered we'd see more time off, less working hours, more of the profit go to employees, and maybe even less socially destructive companies. You know what, Paul, please have Y-Combinator companies make employee votes binding!
Fair enough - but how would you improve the UX?
If there's even a diode worth of band-gap technology in there: yes, ageing would be demonstrably different in a device that lived a couple of decades longer. The crystal lattice is not set in stone and atoms move around.
I like the in-progress `git checkout` split to `git switch` and `git restore`. (switch and restore are still marked "experimental" in the official documentation in case their arguments change again, but in my experience they are already pretty dependable.) It's much less likely to accidentally do the wrong thing with either of the two replacements. That's one of the things that I think if that split had been done years ago there would be a lot fewer complaints about git being confusing in the base commands; `git checkout` was always an odd duck sadly (it makes sense why it was a single command from a technical sense but it probably shouldn't have ever been from a UX/DX sense).
Oh sweet, this looks like a nice boost. Pretty simple too. Surprised it hasn’t been tried before that I’m aware of at least.
Yes, Google couldn't find a good way to scale out its early model. Talents are not something easy to scale out. Transparency is inherently in tension against confidentiality, and when you have lots of eyes then the latter tends to win unless you're comfortable of spending your daily life with all those media outlets. If you want to do the right thing, then you'll figure out that there's too many "right things" at its scale because there are too many people with different, conflicting goals. The list goes on.

Still, the market expects it to keep its crazy growth rate and Google actually has done a good job there. Unless Google decide to shrink its business significantly, I'm not sure if going back in time is a viable option. The problem could be remedied by aggressive reduction of business/operational complexity but it won't solve the root issue. I don't know the solution as well.

But I still agree with the point that Google generally lacks of clear organizational goal/visions. This sort of inter-personal alignment is critical for scaling out any organizations, but Google lost it during its aggressive expansion period in Sundar's tenure. Many teams usually fail to find clear causal, logical connections between their daily works and company-wide OKR. Then mid-level managements tend to develop bad organization signal such as entirely metric driven projects since they don't know what to rely on. I guess this is something more actionable, but might not be easy to solve.
I particularly enjoyed this exchange in the context of Twitter not doing enough in the period leading to Jan 6:

> Where did the point of failure happen? Was it Vijaya [Vijaya Gadde, former head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter]? Was it Jack? There’s only so many levels to go up from you.

> I would say that Vijaya and I were generally aligned. I really enjoyed working with Vijaya. She was a really good advocate for us.
It's extremely easy to understand. That doesn't make it relevant.
>I respect his hustle but there is something about him in watching him speak live and in person that comes off as incredibly manipulative. He knows how to speak and pause in a way that gets the audience to laugh and gives soundbites. I am long OpenAI but I don’t trust Sam.

You can say the same thing about Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is a jerk for sure but a bad personality does not predict success or failure as much as you (or we) hope to. And what people say about your character is also overly dependent on results. Only time will tell whether Sam Altman will be considered a villain or a flawed hero in media.
I noticed that and it's a very strong point.

Taking such a strong stance is not something would so light-heartedly, i really wonder what went on to drive this person to write such harsh words about her.

Considering the amount of people the author has likely seen over 18 years and how many of them he could have complained about... It must not be a chance it's her specifically.
Ok that's my bad I read too fast.
Still, I would be interested in the distribution of the models. They may not have but lies via statistical manipulation are so prevalent that I assume it's at least half the answer in most cases.

The rest is still valid. There is such a strong irrational Tesla hate by many that it's hard to take "reports" seriously. I feel it is prevalent in the general public as well.

In fact, I feel the same hate people had for Apple right before and at the start of the iPod era. At that people were saying to me all kind of nonsense because I was using Apple products. Now Apple is most valuable company in the world so I'm laughing my ass off.
Even more hilariously, nowadays I believe they are abusing their reputation and unfairly milking people.
Careful what you wish for I guess...

Still there is a lot of shit-talk about Tesla and most of it is nonsense.
In particular I would ignore most of what come of out of Germany, they are scared shitless and clearly have a lot to gain by damaging Tesla reputation. I wish they would focus on producing better cars at cheaper price (when price matched, current German cars sort of suck compared to rest of the market but they won't let you tell that of course).
Look for radioisotopes from the war of 2031.
I've never used modern C++, but I'd be interested to try it just to see what the overhead is in getting started writing some scientific code. When I was in grad school I used mostly Matlab, in which you can write matrix math without really having to learn any "programming". Same for numpy and Fortran. Definitely not for C. What about C++? Even the fact that pointers are being used at all would make it less attractive for a grad student who just wants to multiply some matrices.
I think the analogy is kind of shaky. The board tried to end the CEO, but employees fought them and won.

I've been in companies where the board won, and they installed a stoolie that proceeded to drive the company into the ground. Anybody who stood up to that got fired too.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm saying it's not a big part of public consciousness. You don't have movies that use identity theft as a plot point similar to how "teacher becomes meth dealer to pay for health care" wouldn't make sense as a TV show set in Europe.

Forging a government issued identity card or passport to fit your description and biometrics is a very different beast than skimming someone's SSN. You'd only go to that much trouble for some very serious payout potential.
Pocket killed it for me. I got tired of re-disabling it.
No, Insta360 has a ton of both traditional action cams and 360 cameras. The fact that they have "360" in the brand name hasn't stopped them from releasing a bunch of successful non-360 cameras.

I love my One RS 1" (the non-360 Leica lens). The only caveats are that it's really hard to search for the accessories, and doesn't have a dive case.
How do I, as a consumer, validate that my fingerprint sensor uses SDCP?

Reading through all of this it seems that protecting myself by enabling cover tampering (which prevents a hacker from replacing the fingerprint reader without tripping the TPM) and only allow booting into Windows.
Delphi-based visual scenarios: innovative use of generative adversarial networks
This sounds interesting. Maybe it's just me, but all 5000+ people companies (I actually only worked with 200+ or 5000+, never the middle so could be BS) I worked for are a lot of BS and politics. Again this is probably because me not good enough so that I don't get to do deep technical things that I want to do.
Yes, but that happened after they had Ballmer which was their own bean counting CEO.

And they noticed that that's a problem - something VERY FEW corporations figure out.
I have never heard of SSNs being recycled? https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-an... says otherwise.

According to this official EU website, identity theft is certainly a thing in Europe. https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-threat-landsc...
I think there is a space for this kind of projects, startups or even well stablished companies teams should use this as an "unfair" advantage to start new projects, and focus on what really matters: the core of their business, I would add a plugin system so it's easy to extend. Are you planning to publish some of the utilities as public npm packages? so in that way it's easier to update?
> the EPA is mandating that the engine stop while the vehicle is stationary

How could they use AC and heating with traditional cars, when they had to stay stationary for a long time in summer or winter?
> "delete browsing data on quit"

Doesn't that delete all browsing data, though? That's not what I want. I admit that I haven't dared to touch it because I assumed it deleted all browsing data. I'd be thrilled to be mistaken about this.
It is how persuasive essays work, but things like exploratory essays certainly exist.
The Future Is Flutter
It feels a little different if — as it seems to be the case — the GitHub account is used as a static site generator. Heck, the guy could've been depending upon CNAMEing to `rbishop.github.io`.
I really, deeply, disagree

Interested what others think
They are getting "beat badly" only if you read tech blogs and not their financial statements.
Its a direct quote from tweet that Elon Musk just posted linking the page.
interesting take, love it :)
Rokos Basilisk
HAHA, I know.

Ilya, a nobody who wrote the most seminal paper of the last 10 years. The guy that Eric Schmidt and Elon broke their friendship over was just a random nobody.

Come on. It is no secret that when OpenAI formed, every single researcher joined so they could work with Ilya (and Zaremba who worked with him, but was less famous). Greg is brilliant but ML people didn't care for him and Sam 'one of those VC guys'. A lot of their best hires had already worked in Ilya/Zaremba before they joined OpenAI.

OpenAI might have moved past needing Ilya's brilliance to innovate, but if anyone gets to claim that they 'made' OpenAI, it is Ilya.
His claim to fame comes from scaling FB. Quora shows he has questionable product nous, but nobody questions his technical chops.
To be honest, even 50 seems really high to me. And given how many features that Signal has released recently that I don't use, didn't ask for and resent creeping their way into the UI (chat for example)... I really wish there were fewer people there to keep fixing things that aren't broken.
The first LLM trained to understand the language of banks
It’s a hard but sad truth for most authors that you can’t love off of your craft. Writing mostly is a hobby. One that costs a lot of time and sweat.

I’m saying this as a fellow failed writer, by the way.

Keep your day jobs, people. That’s all I’m saying.
Why? You’re not going to be running it on your own hardware. As an end user all that matters are the results.
I definitely get the high-level of interest and reason it's a popular topic on here. What I don't get is the intense emotional investment people have in this person. Not so much on HN but definitely elsewhere in social media.
80’s cars have hoods shorter than your average child. 20’s SUVs and trucks have hoods as tall as some adults. That’s a major difference. Also, there’s probably more traffic in any given area as there are like a 100 million more people in the US than back in the 80’s.
> They can give excellent advice for working at Google.

My understanding is that that's the kind of mentoring he offerred, yes.
I mean sure was free to publicly disparage her organization, but then she can't expect not to be antagonized. My point is that being a board member is a responsibility, it's valid for Sam to interpret her paper as a violation of her responsibility.
Everything is vaporware until it gets made. If you wait until a new technology definitively exists to start caring about safety, you have guaranteed it will be unsafe.

Lucky for us this fiasco has nothing to do with AGI safety, only AI technology. Which only affects automated decision making in technology that's entrenched in every fact of our lives. So we're all safe here!
I've definitely never heard of it, and I was pretty shocked when I read it given how much positive stuff pg has written about sama, and the article itself says the firing "has not been previously reported".

Reading some recent pg tweets through this lens, though, I think it makes sense. E.g. there is this tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1726198939517378988. Both of the following can be true (and more to the point, I think the following two items are flip sides of the same coin):

1. Sam is an absolute masterful negotiator and is incredibly well-respected in the valley because his skills at assembling people and resources are unmatched.

2. Sam can be manipulative and self-serving, sometimes making decisions that are nominally about a higher goal but (not really coincidentally) are self-aggrandizing.

I see this trait in lots of effective, famous people. There have been tons of comparisons in the news recently to Steve Jobs, but for me for some reason Anna Wintour comes to mind. I don't think many people would describe Wintour as "nice" as she is known for being kind of ruthless and manipulative (she was "The Devil" after all...), but tons of people in the fashion industry are incredibly loyal to her based on her abilities to identify talent and get shit done.
> I found it quite frustrating how teams would be legitimately actively pursuing ideas that would be good for the world, without prioritising short-term Google interests, only to be met with cynicism in the court of public opinion.

> For my first nine years at Google I worked on HTML and related standards (https://whatwg.org/). My mandate was to do the best thing for the web, as whatever was good for the web would be good for Google (I was explicitly told to ignore Google's interests).

I feel as though Hixie is lacking in self-awareness here. Googlers tend to be biased toward themselves and their own power. Have Googlers considered the possibility that the best thing for the web, and the world, is for Google to keep its grubby hands off the web? Is Google Search's dominant market share good for the web? And the market shares of Android, Chrome, and Gmail? I would answer no, no, no, no.

It's funny that Hixie mentions WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) as a "good" example. What actually happened is that Hixie was a ringleader in a coup d'état by the browser vendors to overthrow the W3C and take over the HTML standards. Is that good for the web, and the world? Here I would also say no.
My dad's Subaru has saved a total of 7 minutes of runtime thanks to this misfeature over the past year, in exchange for many extra cycles on the starter. What an absolutely silly idea.
Scott's (partial) agreement with Yarvin is not from association, it's from him saying that he thinks HBD is at least partially correct, in a discussion with Yarvin where HBD means racial supremacy.
Step 1: Dazzle an influential person
Step 2: Persuade them to hitch their reputation to you
Step 3: Do whatever you want with minimal repercussions

Follow these 3 steps and influential people will actively fight on your behalf, against their own best interests, to avoid embarrassing themselves and diminishing their reputations. Use each influential person as a stepping stone to an even more influential person and repeat.
Reputational, for one. For years he has lauded Altman as one of the best and brightest minds out there, playing a major role in Sam's meteoric growth.
We already have that structure to an extent. Much primary care for minor problems is delivered by a PA or NP. They are trained to escalate to an MD when necessary, although due to lack of training sometimes they miss things that an MD would have caught.
It is somewhat different. AirBnB founder Nathan Blecharczyk was not shopping around, but rather at some point he was the largest spammer in USA, where even FBI was interested in his dealings. Interestingly, the 3 articles I was able to find on this subject some 5 years ago (and posted to HN at some point) from major news outlets, are all gone now.

I think hurting your own business versus being a scumbag scammer will get you much different treatment, even from PG.
I disagree, IMO for any model that isn't open source model size is just an implementation detail. If someone released a 10 trillion parameter model that's better than GPT4 it isn't somehow inferior because it has more parameters.
It varies apparently. HP laptops have no option for local account as of four months ago. It's a hard stop.
As a balance to your opinion, I thoroughly enjoyed all three. Sure the first hit’s different, but they all deserve the attention.
Idea: Voith Schneider Propeller with changing blade path and angle such that it has thrust phase on one side and a lift phase on the other.

Basically it would be two giant low-speed spinning hydrofoil discs. Heavy low-end torque for a direct-drive electric motor.
HN's title rules kind of imply 'don't take titles from Elon Musk's tweets' as well.
>Have they ever measured?

Yes.

>Most data I've seen is that bounds checks cost less than 1% in real-world code

So? I don't know where you got you data, but the point of the article is that you don't have to pay for the stuff you don't need. Otherwise we could as well use Java or VBA because "most data" says that programs spend 99% of time waiting on IO. If your data shows that then go ahead and use it, other people have other data apparently.
There were 22,000 recordings according to the article, but we don't know how long the audio length was; it's possible that most of them were of silent, empty rooms and could be automatically filtered out.
Yes, they should. The moment they don't allow minors in their site they have to implement the measures to enforce it.

Omegle became a safe haven for pedophiles and sex predators, and they are responsable for enabling them and not protecting their users.

There are other chat and video-chat sites that not only enforce their rules, they protect their users and ban those who don't follow the rules.

No, don't expect that from car manufacturers, they make cars not rules. Omegle, instead, made 'the car' and the rule not allowing minors in the site to avoid their responsibilities by law. They didn't enforce that rule and endangered them.
The only thing I know her from is I/O, where she kicks off/MCs the dev keynotes. Her I/O bio says "VP and GM of Developer X" and "Head of Developer Relations", but I have no idea if "Developer X" is developer experience, or a reference to the old X skunkworks, or something else entirely.

EDIT: Dug a little more and it's the group formerly known as Developer Product. So Firebase, etc. makes sense. Successor to Jason Titus.