skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not condescending.

I encourage you to reflect on your prior statements.

> I'm leery of any claim that "this one neat trick will be the end of this entire class of disease."

Sure, I overspoke. My usage of the word eliminate is strong - there are always edge cases in biology. And I should've been more specific with my language and specified ASCVD instead of the more broad "heart disease". That would, kinda by definition, scope what I'm talking about to fatty deposits. However, I think we're deep in pedantic territory and I hope you forgive me my excess. I didn't mean to enter "one neat trick' territory, though I can see how I came off that way.

> chagas

I'm also a layman and accept there are gaping holes in my knowledge, which is why I asked you a genuine question: "What do you suggest is the mechanism of action behind that?". My interpretation is that high levels of chronic inflammation leads to endothelial damage which leads to the formation of cholesterol plaques as the immune system attempts to fix the damage it caused. I'm going to assume here that "Infection chewing on the heart is a problem." means you think the parasite literally eats holes in blood vessels? I don't know what you think, which is why I asked. If you know the pathogenesis of heart disease with Chagas, I'd love to learn.

> I am leery of any plan to globally suppress any class of molecule.

A fair concern. I would note that healthy children have an LDL of 23.8 mg/dl https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529694/ and they manage to supply their greedy brains. Note too that circulating (blood) cholesterol is not "global" cholesterol:

> The body has four distinct “pools” of cholesterol, in which tissues have regulatory mechanisms to maintain their respective homeostasis. In order of size, these pools of cholesterol consist of: peripheral tissues, red blood cells, liver, and lipoproteins. It turns out that the brain synthesizes its own cholesterol and does not exchange cholesterol with the other aforementioned pools, which means that cholesterol concentrations outside the brain have no direct impact on brain cholesterol. https://peterattiamd.com/does-low-cholesterol-cause-cognitiv...
If they can charge a flat fee, they can censor arbitrarily, like Tumblr, or Fortnite.

There should not be any organization that gets to overrule your own wishes about what software you wish to install on your phone.

That’s turnkey tyranny because all it takes then is a law (or EO) that compels Apple to censor secure encrypted messaging apps.

They already strongarmed them into backdooring iMessage so that it’s not e2ee and Apple and the FBI can easily read all iMessages due to key escrow in (the non-e2ee) iCloud Backup.
and then you send it to your friend on the weekend for a blind approval? :P
I'd say that there is some information processing happening in the gut, but I'd also say (in agreement with you) that these other comments border on irrelevant and are for the most part nonsense.
You don't normally perform you role as a board member through publications in a public forum. You do it by exercising pressure internally to get the effect you desire so you can continue to do so in the future. Going public is usually a one-shot affair.
Do you know of a "subset of Python" alternative? Would be interesting to have a natural bridge to "real" programming.
> > I was a kid 30 years ago.

> Yeah. 1980s.

As someone who actually group up in the 1980s, I am sad to report that 30 years ago was the 1990s.

> Books? lol. Your school hands you the the book Jane Eyre.

Both bookstores and free public libraries with books more interesting to most kids of the time than Jane Eyre were, in fact, things in the 1980s and 1990s. As were gaming consoles, home computers, handheld electronic games,

> Kids back then had fucking nothing.

Nah, kids often had lots of stuff in the home.

But they also had a culture which supported parents allowing children unsupervised in the neighborhood at much early ages then is considered acceptable today, which meant that more of them were allowed to go out beyond the home more often than is the case today.
Written by Bard?
Looks like the board did the right thing after all.
Traditional banks aren't trying to prove that people should trust them. People already trust them, and even if they don't, they're already regulated enough that consumers know the government will step in to bail them out.
Most people are not that good at git from my experience to be able to do this.
Ask HN: How to Find What to Work On?
I have worked on a lot of ideas since January, mostly LLM related. I have developed and deployed several web applications. But I have recently lost motivation. I don't know what to work on anymore. I have poured so much energy into my tech side projects this year, I really came to the realisation that building products is what I like the most. I have always been inspired by the fact that software engineering has been described as a place where people care less about your pedigree and more about your skills and motivation, even if your background might be a bit unconventional. I guess this was true back when Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were working on the Apple II and it is now a bygone era. I feel lost. What should I do now ?
Ok there buddy
> devops team

Ah… about that
Costco is famously about 2% or so, which is basically the entirety of their membership fee revenue, iirc.
If you arre logged in and gave accepted the terms but your primary Google account is a workspace account that doesn't have bard enabled it also redirects.
Keep in mind Altman was also a board member with senior tenure to Toner, and basically hired her to the board.
>AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations

Also regression, most of what makes computers fast (LRU cache, branch prediction), optimising compilers.

>decisions

Arguably this deems any program containing a conditional branch instruction as AI.
VRAM requirements are big for this launch.
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The government is involved in a shakedown of Google for the benefit of bell and Rogers (whose lobbyists wrote it). I’m glad they are pushing back.

There is a law professor at U of Ottawa who is generally considered the most expert and independent on these topics and he has been blowing the whistle on this bill c-18. Michael Geist.

Rogers and bell have quite the grip on our governments but this one really takes the cake.
There are a few, but I'm not sure if they're close enough for you or not: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-chrome...

Truthfully, I don't think that Firefox and Chromium look all that different, to me it seems like it's the same layout just different margins/colors/tab styles? So I'm not sure what the biggest issues would be to change.

Notably, Firefox also has userChrome.css (https://www.userchrome.org/), so if themes aren't able to get you where you want, it's possible that there's a more extensive change that someone has compiled in a user style. https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/index.html, https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox might be good places to start looking, although I don't have personal experience with either source so this isn't a recommendation.
The models that never lost data: Samsung 970 EVO Pro 2TB and WD Red SN700 1TB

Correction: “Plus” not “Pro”. Exact model and date codes:

Samsung 970 Evo Plus: MZ-V7S2T0, 2021.10
WD Red: WDS100T1R0C-68BDK0, 04Sept2021

Update 2: models that lost writes:
SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB SHGP31-2000GM-2, FW 31060C20
Sabrent Rocket 512 (Phison PH-SBT-RKT-303 controller, no version or date codes listed)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38373572 for why this might have qualified (if the story as presented is accurate).
It is very much a cultural thing, the voice equivalent of decorating your Instagram. Ordering pizza after a 60h work week? Well, better make it sound like fun!!
Google Colab pro already provide AI auto-complete (like github copilot) and bard like experience already. [1]

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/signup
Adobe is doing some great work here in my opinion in terms of building AI tools that make sense for artist workflows. This "sneak peak" demo from the recent Adobe Max conference is pretty much exactly what you described, actually better because you can just click on an object in the image and drag it.

See video: https://www.adobe.com/max/2023/sessions/project-stardust-gs6...
Have you tried using Claude for creative writing? I find its creativity to be quite far ahead of GPT-4. You can try it for free on claude.ai, although it needs a phone number and isn't available in all countries (but that can be solved with a VPN, even if the phone number is from a different country).
Don't tell me there is another polycule in there somewhere.
Whoa, I didn't even know CZ was under investigation
The Harmonic HN reader for Android does this
That's really interesting, Whisper is generally considered the current state of the art in STT and I've personally never experienced errors like the ones you describe. I've actually never had an error from Whisper.

First question, is there another STT you have used which works better for you?

Second question, is there any reason your voice might be considered unusual, like having a strong Welsh, Irish, or Indian accent, or being Deaf or Hard of Hearing?
This article implicitly assumes that a single PR corresponds to a single commit. It doesn't touch on the idea of multiple commits in a single PR.

Consider adding a feature. I might structure this as three commits:

1. Refactor in a way that preserves existing behavior but prepares for the new feature

2. Implement the feature, creating a user-visible change

3. Remove old code rendered unnecessary with the new feature

Each of these commits is independently reviewable, passes all lints and tests, and supports bisecting. Small, separate commits like this is good.

But there's no rationale for three small, separate PRs, because they are not independent. Either all the commits should land, or none of them. If we later revert, we would revert them all. And review is made easier by seeing how the commits relate to each other.

I suspect that structuring PRs as multiple independent commits requires a certain level of git history-grooming which is difficult to learn. If git's interactive rebase were more first-class, we would have fewer, larger, and better-structured PRs.
I'm not sure you should get to have your cake and eat it too.
$50,000?

More like $400,000: https://shop.lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/servers/hyperplane...
Bard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and this is coming from somebody who uses AI llms all day long for half a year
Books aren’t expensive if you teach them about the library
Can anyone in Belgrade tell me: is smoking still allowed in Kafana's?

(other than Cafes in Vienna, Serbia was the last refuge of the smoker in Europe)

Edit: just clicked the link, smoking continues. Damn I miss Serbia.

(I once watched a guy at a Kafana struggling to decide whether to eat, or continue smoking. He ended up doing both simultaneously)
It's written by a highschool student, so it's subject to the usual teenage "everything I'm experiencing for the first time is universally new," coupled with basically just being a regurgitation of the anti-suburban angst spewed by various YouTube channels and subreddits
> Absolutely. And the video games of the era were so hard and/or frustrating that you couldn't really play them all day.

You really could and while its lost somewhere now I had the Pitfall Harry Explorer's Club patch I earned by doing just that.
This is the inherent conflict in the company.

Once it turned out you needed 7B parameters or more to get LLMs worth interacting with, it went from a research project to a winner-take-all compute grab. OpenAI, with an apparent technical lead and financial access, was well-positioned to win it.

It is/was naive of the board to think this could be won on a donation basis.
I know how people claim it works yes.
Or insist on a new Microservice out of an already existing microservice.

Modularity, scalability, separation of concerns etc are your fig leaves.

PS: Have a cool name ready. Rather already start it calling that even before it is commissioned.
This is why you can't actually generalize your models to work for all contexts.

If you want to anthropormphize them, they're natural poets and will find all the forgotten and degraded metaphors in your language and throw them back at you when you're not expecting it. You can't answer general question, write code, and generate stories all in the same system because the formal rules of those contexts are different and this poet's really into ignoring formal rules. That's kind of its thing.

Or in more mechanical terms, they work in huge, fuzzy associative networks not formal concepts and don't make the strict distinctions we do. You could even look at that as a unique and positive characteristic to leverage, if you weren't trying to prove that they're subsitute human thinkers.
You can agree that people are different, and, simultaneously, don't agree that, say, the less useful ones should be stripped of some of their rights.
There are a few problems:

1) You and I invent our own private "copyright" for data (which is not copyrightable)

2) Everything is fine until my wife walks up to my computer and makes a copy of the data. She's not bound by our private "copyright." She doesn't even know it exists, and shares the data with her bestie.

And... our private pseudo-copyright is dead.

Also: Licenses are not the same as contracts. There are times when something can be both, one, or the other. But there are a lot of limits on how far they reach. The output of a program is rarely copyrightable by the author (as opposed to the user).
Your comment is nonsense. You think you're using logic but you're not making any sense.
If the events happened as described (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38373572), calling it a "coup" sure is an interesting framing.
https://archive.vn/lidoJ
that does seem to be what altman was attempting: he wanted to have the cake of independent board members, but eat it by having them never express any opinions contrary to his own
Thin ice at best. And if it was she should come out and say it or leak the minutes where that was established as the reason that Sam had to go, that the fall-out would be worth it and that Microsoft could be contained.

I think any action to immediately destroy OpenAI should have been preceded by being on-track to create AGI and strong indications that it was not going to benefit humanity, as the charter implies. Anything less and it's just a powerplay. But what is the point of having a nice fat red button if you never get to push it?
I remember while I was in Nepal, reading a story in the newspaper about how the Prime Minister was caught sneaking off to China for $100 bottles of spring water that was supposed to cure his cancer. This in a country where there is no safe drinking water from taps, even in the capital! And the kicker? The PM was from the communist party!
> I grew up in the 1980s

> we had a Nintendo 64

Those two doesn't agree with each other. If you grew up in 1980s you were an adult or close to when Nintendo 64 were out.
In the US we also have been converting conveniently flat, fertile land near cities into warehouses, light industrial, and parking lots as those are more valuable uses per sq ft. And over time the light industrial doesn't look so good when compared with the townhouses, so they get redeveloped and the infrastructure moves further away, or gets consolidated. The same type of thing happens in cities with old warehouses near ports but I have less exposure to that.
note that neoreaction is opposed wholesale to the idea of human rights
Misleading headline since after testing eight more drives, none more failed.

2/12 is not nearly as dramatic as “half”, and the ones that lost data are the cheap brands as one would expect.
I see you made a burner account specifically for this singular comment.

However, the comment is extremely benign.

The only reason for someone to make a burner account for a benign comment is if its a person defending themselves because no one else will.
How can anyone not think Adam D'Angelo is upset about open AI crushing his shitty Poe
It's a nonprofit board & it's absolutely the role of advisory board members to continue their work in the sector they're specialized in without bias.
> [Sam] Altman’s dismissal by OpenAI’s board on Friday was the culmination of a power struggle between the company’s two ideological extremes—one group born from Silicon Valley techno optimism… the other steeped in fears that AI represents an existential risk to humanity and must be controlled with extreme caution.

Wait, I thought Altman got canned because he was starting businesses behind the board’s back making conflicts of interest.
Interesting new news, MS has an office two blocks from OpenAI and they are buying Macbooks for it just in case things go south the employees will be ready to go with a new place to work... with MS.
You seem to be fundamentally misunderstanding the role of non-executive board members.

In many cases they're industry experts / academics and in many cases those academics continue to publish papers that look objectively at the actions of all companies in their sphere of influence, including the one they're on the board of.

It's _expected_ for them to publish this type of material. It's literally their job. Cheerleading is for the C-suite.
what kind of probiotic foods have you successfully included in your daily life?
That is hilarious coming from you who can't possibly wrap your head around the meaning. There is a scenario where if OpenAI is killed, it leads to the existential risk that Sam Altman and the board believe can happen.

So "if OpenAI is killed," the board does not have "nothing to lose."

It is deeply ironic how much this forum complains about EA / lesswrong and yet I see hundreds of practically illiterate uninformed takes here a week. Practically all the tech CEO / VP types joke about it. This place likes to think of itself as high brow but it's closer to Reddit than academic circles.
I see this "screen-time" issue pop up over and over again, but who is to blame? Parents make a stink about kids' screen time ALL THE TIME, yet almost never go outside themselves. Children emulate their parents. Go set an example instead of blaming the child you are responsible for.
I spent a lot of time on SSC from 2013 to 2017, and my recollection is that the Venn diagram of commenters promoting HBD and those promoting RDx was nearly a circle. And similarly for related sites like LW. So in that context I would say the two are closely related.

I find it hard to believe you've been exposed to much NRx content if you don't think they consider HBD true and very important. Although don't take that as a criticism -- I would not recommend wading through their beliefs and look back on it as a waste of my time.
They're afraid of the Canadian government.
Depends on what your code does. A lot of my code runs robots. You can't scale horizontally because you can only fit so many systems in a room before you run afoul of production limits, safety requirements or cooling capacity. You can't scale vertically because zoning. You can't run the tests faster because physics.

So, you either run the expensive tests asynchronously and all that entails or you allow CI to take forever.
“””Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that could be consistent with its mission.”””

This is remarkable and unhinged. I gave the board the benefit of the doubt at first, but as this unfolds, it becomes clear that the board is held hostage by ideological zealots who can’t compromise. The story also seems to paint Ilya as a manipulated figure, being bent against his beliefs by crazies like Toner exploiting his concerns about AI safety. What an absolute shame. I am entirely ambivalent about Altman overall, but he becomes more sympathetic as the days go by.
The place to course correct is from the board room, not in public. If she had enough power to oust the CEO, she should have enough power to pressure him to make changes.
It is most certainly not about news content - for which they already have arrangements - but links to news articles.

Hence they call it the link tax, but that is not really apt as the money mostly goes to rogers and bell, not taxpayers.
We do too. It's called epigenetics.
I'm listening to her book The worlds i see: curiosity, exploration, and discovery at the dawn of ai. So right now, I'm just in the middle. She's Starting from physics, but eventually found something interesting internal world for a person, which lead to the road to artificial intelligence. I have pretty much the same experience like her. Starting young, falling in love with physics as I get older. I also noticed a huge motivation to learn Myself. The thing in my head, how it works, how it behaves, how I react to certain external world stimulus. Yeah I'm still in the process to to her book and try to understanding of this new technology and immerse myself in this new things and try to do some interesting stuff.
The title seems to imply that "slow down development" is a bad thing. Given the immense churn and the result of what passes for software these days, I disagree.
Googling "americans AI polling" produces this as the first result: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/21/what-the-...

I don't put much stock into polls like this, when it comes to actually deciding whether things are dangerous, but I think you should spend five seconds doing an incredibly trivial sanity-check before accusing people of making things up.
Previous discussions (currently flagged):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371729

Archive of original board.net URL: https://archive.is/4y7bb
could not resist:

https://chat.openai.com/share/6e8bd7ec-32f8-4ed8-a44f-c08a3c...

gotta say, ChatGPT really knows how to make up a story, and I'd not be surprised if Sutskever and Brockman will indeed be co-CEOs :)
I still see no justification for assuming that the board member's voice was not heard before the publication. There's zero evidence for it, while the priors ought to be favoring the contrary because she does wield a fairly material form of power. If more evidence does emerge, then we could revisit the premise.
But this isn’t a factor outside North America and Suburbia is still failing children.
I agree with you for significant changes. But most day to day programmers are working on large and/or mature codebases, and I would think that this level of groundwork should not be required for a typical change. Indeed I would hope I don't need to bring multiple stakeholders along on the journey in order to add a couple of columns to a report or upgrade an API schema version.
We're not. Or we are.

We can't tell, because all of this is hand-waved and hypothetical.
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