skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's strangely paradoxical.

Sam has zero charisma. Zero looks. No technical ability. He's not a storyteller. He's not a hype man. He comes off as a mildly surly sloth when he talks.

His actual pre-OpenAI achievements from a product perspective are a joke.

But he was nevertheless "there" for YC and "there" in OpenAI, and a bunch of money was raised, and he's successfully managed to get all spotlights on him at all times, so he's highly visible.

He's like a weird geek following plays from Trumps book: just stay highly visible, associate with any possible win, and be at the center of attention.

Why does it work? Because subconsciously who WOULDNT want to operate this way in life? It takes the least amount of effort compared to many other job tracks or even CEO tracks, and it's become wildly profitable for him.

So the cult of personality idolizing America of today can't help but want their tech Jesus fantasy to work out.
The simple answer here is that the boards actions stood to incinerate millions of dollars of wealth for most of these employees, and they were up in arms.

They’re all acting out the intended incentives of giving people stake in a company: please don’t destroy it.
basically no open source fine tunes are censored, you can get an idea of popular models people are using here: https://openrouter.ai/models?o=top-weekly

teknium/openhermes-2.5-mistral-7b is a good one

You don't need all 14 files, just pick one that is recommended with a slight loss of quality - hover over the little (i)icon to find out
Dalle 2 also went viral around the same time
The file's size could have been set by the application before copying data to it. This will result in a file which reads all zeroes.

Or if it were a hardware ordering fault, remember that SSD TRIM is typically used by modern filesystems to reclaim unused space. TRIMmed blocks read as zero.
Safeguarding Tor: commitment to network health and supporting relay operators
Approval rates of >90% are quite common within political parties, to the point where anything less can be seen as an embarrassment to the incumbent head of party.
>So, what to do if the original title is misleading?

Complain about it in a comment so that people who don't click the link are aware it's misleading. It's not attacking OP.
The B-52 is the real star here. It is the primary reason that I included the word "rarely". For each of these aircraft, though, I could name two dozen types that did not last 30 years in service.
It's something I have to remind myself frequently: leadership got where they are by surviving the cutthroat backstabbing executive gauntlet. I also have to trust my gut when it sends me warning signals about someone, and I get that a lot from "celebrity" CEOs.

After some reflection, I've found that I sympathize with Ilya Sustkever a bit more now. I'm autistic and I suspect he is neurodiverse in some way. I've definitely been misled by manipulative leaders and peers, been enthusiastic for whatever scheme they had, but regretted it after seeing the aftermath or fallout. I can absolutely see ways Sustkever could have been manipulated by others on the board.
Cheese Crystals
> We all can read way faster than we can listen to speech

I can’t. At least not with reading every word. I can finish an audiobook much faster than reading the book on my own.

And I also can’t pick up as much reading by myself. My preferred way of consuming is now reading while a screen reader or audiobook is played at 1.5x or faster speed. Much better retention because
Not necessarily! Facebook has done great with its unfireable CEO. The FB board would certainly have fired him several times over by now if it could, and yet they'd have been wrong every time. And the Google cofounders would certainly have been kicked out of their own company if the board had been able to.
Yes, we were. But have we been fundamentaly wrong?
I've been playing around with Ubuntu training myself for the day that I have to give up windows 10. My only complaints are that Linux can be tedious, everything is just 43 commands away; it requires greater understanding of not just what the system is doing, but how it is doing it; and the documentation is written like a Wikipedia article on advanced nuclear theory.

Windows and OSX have, for the most part, just worked, and it was easier for me to understand what was going on, and how to engage tasks, fix problems, and use the system. With Linux it can feel like I'm fighting with the system at times.

I'm enjoying the experience but it has not been without frustration. Perhaps I should have chosen another flavor?
Helpful. But when you got through a process such as this, please don't forget about accessiblity.

For example, there are tools to help check contrast. Another example, along with state color, be sure there's more to the signal to the user than only color. Appropriate copy and/or icons are essential. Green = good and red = bad don't mean much to people who are red-green color blind.

Finally, be aware that different colors have different meanings in different cultures.

Yes, colors matter. Of course. But there's more to it than aesthetics.
How is this particular thing an increase to the regulatory burden facing an new entrant?
I share your conclusion that great artists should strive for taking risks and leave uneven ouvre behind them. But are Kubrick and Kurosawa good examples of uneven directors? It’s hard to measure and maybe their legend status muddles the ratings but casually glancing even their bad films are quite highly rated and this matches my feeling of them.

I feel Scotts work is way more all over the place and the great films in there feel more like the outliers. It’s all very subjective though and I have not seen everything these people have made.
OTOH, there's a very good argument to be made that if you recognize that fact, your short-term priority should be to amass a lot of secular power so you can align society to that reality. So the best action to take might be no different.
Thanks I'll try it out
WoW also crashes randomly every 30 minutes using lutris after the latest update, it's quite annoying. This happens on both my wife and my computer. She has an AMD gpu and I have a nvidia.

Otherwise it has been running really well.
Maybe I'll use it one day, but I'm extremely skeptical of anything WASM-related.

Anyone actually using Blazor in production? How's the effective performance/responsiveness? Are the loading times reasonable? Is this usable on low end and mobile?
I can say from personal experience that the extension used to work almost perfectly up until recently. Paywalled sites have started to catch on and are starting to place their articles on entirely different pages than the "preview" page so there's nothing to "bypass".
Working on Mafia 3 there were comments to the effect of “Fix after Gamescon”…from Mafia 2.
Slightly off-topic/meta but this debate reminds me of one people had 20 years ago: Should you trust stuff you read on Wikipedia or not?

In the beginning people were skeptical but over time, as Wikipedia matured, the answer has become (I think): Don't blindly trust what you read on Wikipedia but in most cases it's sufficiently accurate as a starting point for further investigation. In fact, I would argue people do trust Wikipedia to a rather high degree these days, sometimes without questioning. Or at least I know I do, whether I want to or not, because I'm so used to Wikipedia being correct.

I'm wondering what this means for the future of LLMs: Will we also start trusting them more and more?
I do think there is some brand loyalty.

People use "the chatbot from OpenAI" because that's what became famous and got all the world a taste of AI (my dad is on that bandwagon, for instance). There is absolutely no way my dad is going to sign up for an Anthropic account and start making API calls to their LLM.

But I agree that it's a weak moat, if OpenAI were to disappear, I could just tell my dad to use "this same thing but from Google" and he'd switch without thinking much about it.
NASA One Step Closer to Fueling Space Missions with Plutonium-238
> Hacker News is a blackout zone for the current violent events

What do you base that on? Other than "political event X" not being relevant to _Hacker News_ by itself?
So they no longer have operational capabilitied for their initially intended role.
It would be completely understandable to regret when your action against someone causes them to fall upwards
Laughs in Cultural Studies. Seriously, Mead is an integral part of the curriculum in the social sciences.
Probably from law 3: https://principia-scientific.com/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-s...

But it's an incomplete definition - Cipolla's definition is "someone who causes net harm to themselves and others" and is unrelated to IQ.

It's a very influential essay.
> use the negative PR to force their censorship upon the medium blackmailing it through the advertisers

It's not blackmail if these companies didn't consider the content disagreeable in the first place. Turns out a lot of companies want to save face at any cost, and they will abandon your platform the moment it deviates from their values. If you didn't expect this from Apple, IBM and Oracle, you must have been on vacation when advertisers did this on YouTube: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38965377
No AI, but it plays latest proper videos from the channels you pick.
It doesn't suggest any weird video to your kids.
Your children watch whatever you pick to watch.
The day I realized I could find files by file extension just like that in less than seconds from the terminal or nautilus changed my life.
Yes, knowledge and intent are both written into the relevant law.
> Another person familiar with Altman’s thinking said he was willing to meet with the board’s shortlist of proposed candidates, except for one person whom he declined on ethical grounds.

Now you have me interested, who could that one person be? Charles Koch? Henry Kissinger? Because many of those I would normally have guessed are either in the article as possible collaborator (middle-easter connection) or is already an investor (like Elmo). Honestly, who is too ethically different here and yet still within the anglosphere to be considered a board member?
The FTC already has the power you're worried about, this isn't a power grab. The FTC is a government agency that has oversight over all products, period. They then choose subsets to focus on.
> versus depending on Microsoft to have the good will to figure it out on their own dime.

Cutler stated in a recent interview that he had a 96-core machine as one of his two daily drivers. I wondered at the time if he pre-announced that CPU since the press about it seemed to reach me a few days later.
That argument only works with a “population”, since almost nobody gets to choose which set of politicians they vote for.

In this case, OpenAI employees all voluntarily sought to join that team at one point. It’s not hard to imagine that 98% of a self-selecting group would continue to self-select in a similar fashion.
> Hacker News is a blackout zone for the current violent events taking place in what used to be called "the Levant"

This is not limited to either "violent" events or "the Levant" — HN is not about any type of "current events" anywhere. This is clearly outlined right there in the Guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I have only had incredible success with this extension, but you need to use Firefox. NYTimes articles always work seamlessly for example
Quiz: How to tell your real work age
I always assumed that the briefcase was for stuff my dad did. I don’t think he knew what it was either.
Well parents should be responsible for looking after their children, but laws exist partly to protect the vulnerable. Not everyone has parents who are up to the job for one reason or other - that doesn't mean the law doesn't have a role in protecting them. In fact I would argue that the law has a greater role in that case. Lots of products have mandatory child-safe protections built in (eg bottles of bleech are required to have a child-safe cap) so we as a society have decided that some protections over and above defering to parents can be appropriate for products that can cause harm.

I don't know Omegle so don't know what the balance should be here, but lots of tech products are built with a "move fast, figure out the complicated bits later", which is right but which doesn't fit well with these sorts of nuances.
I don't know about sleazebag, I've mostly been confused as to what exactly he brings to the table. Dude gave himself scurvy after all.
I hereby pardon all junior engineers
There are new operating modes for Blazor in .Net 8 that don't require Web Assembly. There's the new "Static server" and "interactive server" that don't require WASM.
>Almost never do the views of any individual actually represent any field as a whole.

Setting aside the many individuals who currently lead their fields, history is filled with groundbreaking heretics.

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/mavericks-...
I feel like the “Terminator Judgement Day” scenario is a strawman more often than not. There are reasons to push for the safe and responsible development of AI that aren’t based on the belief that AI is literally going to launch the nukes.

The biggest risks I see from AI over the next 2 decades are:

1. A complete devolution in what is true (because creating convincing fakes will be trivial). From politics to the way that people interact with each other on a daily basis, this seems like it has the potential to sew division

2. the societal turmoil/upheaval arising from the mass unemployment (and subsequent unemployability) of millions of people without the social safety nets in place to handle that. When people are suddenly unable to work and support their families and those who have consolidated the power have no interest in sharing the wealth, there will inevitably be pushback.
Every good CEO is also a Confidence Man/Woman.
Hw about “Ran” or “Barry Lyndon?”
If you use the "innocent til proven guilty" principle in your day to day interactions you're bound to get fucked by every 2nd person. Well, maybe not that bad but you will still get fucked because you don't have the same resources as a court does to figure out if someone's fucking with you or not.

You just don't have access to tax funded investigators working for months to figure out if the other person tells the truth or not.

So it's down to: Something's off? I'm not trusting you. Especially when you want something from me.
It can't be worse than TED talks, about half of which suffer from the reproducibility crisis (and therefore likely false).
Larry Summers is everywhere and does everything.
> OpenAI is a private company and not obligated nor is it generally advised for them to comment publicly on why people are fired.

The interim CEO said the board couldn’t even tell him why the old CEO was fired.

Microsoft said the board couldn’t even tell them why the old CEO was fired.

The employees said the board couldn’t explain why the CEO was fired.

When nobody can even begin to understand the board’s actions and they can’t even explain themselves, it’s a recipe for losing confidence. And that’s exactly what happened, from investors to employees.
Isn't current estimate at around 2.4-2.9C? And that's current one. Considering that emissions only increase, we may blew past 3.0C easily.
What kinda tasks are you talking about here, that requires N commands, sometimes tasks do actually take that many options because you're doing more complex things than you could without the CLI.
TodePond makes superb videos on development, the creative process, and cellular automata.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpvcy1gt5yU&list=ULcxqQ59vzy...
The fight over OpenAI's leadership is more like celebrity gossip than anything else. The most salient takeaway is that closed-source proprietary LLMs are a bad idea and that everyone with any long-term interest in the subject should switch over to the open-source model.

It also has revealed that non-profit philanthropic business models are little more than marketing ploys designed to fool the gullible, and that 'corporate values' statements should be viewed in the same light as the self-serving claims of narcissitc sociopaths are. In particular OpenAI's vague claims about 'ensuring AGI benefits humanity' were so subject to interpretation as to be meaningless (e.g. some may claim that cutting the size of the current human population in half would be a great benefit to humanity, others would argue for doubling it, see the history of eugenics for more of that flavor).

For-profit entities who are upfront about the fact that their only interest is in making money for their investors, executives and stock-holding employees are at least honest about their goals. Of course, this means their activities must be subjected to independent governmental regulation (which is the outcome that the whole 'we have values' BS is intended to avoid).
It's because the NT filesystem is optimized for a different workload. This is why WSL2 (which you should be using) uses ext4 (that's the default with an Ubuntu distro, at least).
Just from the abstract I don't see why not, it's just replacing the feed forward network that's part of all of these models with a very sparse one. The bigger problem is you seemingly have to retrain the model, so you couldn't just drop in llama2 weights from meta and have it work. Which makes it much more limiting. Something that used existing weights would be a lot more practical (like quantization for example).
For BERT, I can see this being useful if you had to make a really fast embedding model. There was a discussion about a fast embedding use case not long ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37898001
> Perhaps I should have chosen another flavor?

That'll ignite a holy war.

The trick with linux isn't to learn the flavour, it's to learn linux - once you get an overview of how all the bits work then switching distro is (much) more straightforward.

Ubuntu is an excellent first choice because it's one of the major distro's so you'll be able to google stuff more easily.

My personal recommendation would be Fedora (and if you want a familiar windows 10 at least in approach GUI) Cinnamon which is excellent.
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And none is nowhere near "a lot".
I think the article is making the case you probably want to hear :)
Web Forms and Windows Forms were both relevant for over a decade. For front end tech, that's pretty good.

The Windows GUI tools definitely seem to be struggling. Developing native desktop apps is much rarer these days, so all the attempts to create a single toolkit for multiple form factors makes some sense. But that is actually really hard to do, and Microsoft is starting from behind when it comes to mobile frameworks.

FWIW, the last time I developed a native desktop app was WPF. I tried again recently, but my general takeaway was that you need full Visual Studio still to make it work.
No worries. I have installed windows 11 lately and i find it tedious. It constantly wants to register me somewhere, it asks me to have this as standard, and it is always updating something and asks me to reboot. And why i cant remove certain things from my taskbar? So, i guess, we both have out difficulties. Like always.
Penrose is obviously wrong and has been repeatedly criticized for his shoddy thinking when it comes to cognition.
What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?
Oh thanks. I didn’t even realize they’re articles.

It’s quite cool to see the military utilized to support research purposes. Not that this is new, but it’s a pretty decent way to get extra value out of necessary exercise.
If it can’t honor the flush it should return an error.
All explanations lend credence to positions which is why is not a good idea to comment on anything. Looks like they’re lawyered up.
World facing 'hellish' 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28
Smart people will come up with smart reasons.
I really liked the New Yorker portrait 'Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny':

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

It seemed to really get to the depths of his personality, both the impressive parts, and with some very subtle jabs.
Ubuntu is mostly fine and a good middle ground for new users between bleeding edge (Arch, Fedora) and outdated software (Debian) IMHO. It's also probably the best place to start simply because of the mountains of documentation that exist for it because of its large userbase.

I would also like to add that often you'll find answers to stuff telling you to use a couple of commands when instead you could use existing gui tools. That might be because commands are faster for people that already know them, but often they're not the only way.
This feels like moving the goal posts a bit.

>>Name one thing good about crypto

names it

“Welllll that doesn’t count.”
Chilli peppers are another interesting example in this regard. The hot capsaicin is supposed to deter mammals from eating them, because the seeds lose germination ability if the pass through mammalian digestive tract. Only mammals possess the TRPV1 receptor proteins susceptible to capsaicin but not birds, who are the preferred seed dispersal agents of the plants.
Victims can be sleazebags, and sleazebags can be poor victims. Both things can be true. Not everyone that is identifying a victimization is feeling or advocating sympathy. It's not black and white.
Not a joke, a serious article about crystals in cheese: sign of a good Gouda IMHO.
Why not use the real title? Its short and precise.
> Well, that's the source of the bug in Python as well so it's not exactly a unique choice or default. It's tricky to manage this in a cross-platform way.

Well, Python wasn't intended to write the sort of programs that C and Rust gets used for.

In Python, such a choice is not necessarily a design failure. In systems languages it is.
C++ isn’t going anywhere soon
Billionaire dalai lama.
And that is precisely why I concluded it is a silly thing to say that transfer pricing would "level the playing field" for other music competitors.
If Paul Graham fired Sam Altman from YCombinator it's interesting that he appears to have such a favourable opinion of him [0].

However, personally, what I've taken away from this is that he is a much better strategic/tactical operator than many other high-flying executives and very capable of winning the respect and trust of a lot of smart people. I wouldn't expect OpenAI to be run by anybody that wasn't revered in this way; a lot of CEOs aren't saints.

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=from:paulg%20since:2019-01-01%2...
That is a logical fallacy clawing your face. Upvotes to whoever can name which one.
I don’t understand why they care so much. If crypto is so bad, just leave it alone and let it die.
Shows over I guess. Feels like the ending to GoT. I’m not sure I even care what happened to begin it all anymore.
I've done some C++ but no Rust. I'd like to learn a few things from people who have done both.

1. How many years of C++ programming do you have under your belt? How many years of Rust?

2. For new work projects, do you choose C++ or Rust? Why?

3. For new hobby projects, do you choose C++ or Rust? Why?

4. Is there something about C++ that you wish Rust had?

5. Is there something nice about Rust (apart from the borrow checker) that you wish C++ had?
Heh, did you use ChatGPT to write that description?
Yes, but this is splitting hairs a bit.

Are training systems considered operational? It depends. In a systems readiness point of view, yes, they're operational even if they've been re-roled, as opposed to being withdrawn-from-use or having another status.

But if you consider only front-line combat systems operational and exclude all other aircraft including training aircraft like the USAF's Texan IIs, then these wouldn't be included in that category.
Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38377829