skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a formal must, it's a practical "must". Paging and streaming and distribution (and collection) all bring their own overhead, and given the architecture of most of these systems, the overhead of those techniques is very large.

So for researchers who can access a system with enough memory, which is most of the people professionally exploring these models, nobody needs to invest much preparatory effort into those other techniques or reducing their overhead. For them, there's basically no ROI for it.

But a lot of that work to optimize for those other techniques is gradually being accomplished in the open source community, where people don't have access to expensive clouds and lab systems. It takes time though, and can still only achieve so much.
Correlation is not causation. Let's regulate alcohol consumption properly and then we can talk about potential cannabis addiction. Serving someone more than one drink per hour when they drove their vehicle to the bar should be illegal.
You can't imprison or kill [1] a company.

You can impose civil or criminal penalties on the directors, but the shareholders are also (perhaps rightly) punished when you impose fines.

A government can also seize a company's assets and redistribute them to recover costs, but in doing so you often dismantle the value.

[1] (At least not in the same way you can impose capital punishment on a human.)
Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring Capital Markets Team Members
Inhibition of ALDH2 by quercetin glucuronide to explain red wine headaches
That may very well have been the case but then they have a new problem: this smacks of carelessness.
Could be that the fault lines were already present and they couldn't agree on new members.
That’s all? From my experience offshore teams have had a soft (ie unspoken but mandatory) expectation of being available 24/7 and giving their life to their employer outside of national holidays. Your mileage may vary
I know it's beside the point, but that's surprising. I live with horses and draft horses by far have the mildest, most gentle temperaments. But then again, they aren't working.

I guess I'd get pissy too if I had to pull a plow all day long :-(
The result may be the same, but I think honour requires a state of mind where you do the "honourable" thing even if nobody will know.
The books weren't actually destroyed, there is a shot of Rey with them on Millenium Falcon at the end of the movie when they pick up all the survivors. I was actually really excited about this foreshadowing a Jedi reformation - a rediscovery of true orthodoxy a la Luther and a rejection of the corrupt ediface of the Jedi Order, as seen by its fruits. This was further paralleled by the stable boy at the end using the force to summon his broom - a parallel to turning over of interpretational authority of scripture from the ecclesiastics to the laity.

Of course, all this was thrown away in the next installment, so it turns out I'm the fool!
Why is it so rare for tech workers to organize like this?

It takes a cult-like team, execs flipping, and a nightmare scenario and tremendous leverage opportunity; otherwise worker organizing is treated like nasty commie activity. I wonder if this will teach more people a lesson on the power of organizing.
I like this take. The situation involving a women under a Cruise was initiated by a hit-and-run driver throwing her directly into the path of the Cruise. Given what I've seen in San Francisco, if it weren't a Cruise behind that car, there would have two hit-and-runs.
> The plan some investors are considering

vs.

> Microsoft already threatened
Before Chrome, Firefox had a market share of something like 30%, because it was light years better than IE. And its ability to support extensions was mind blowing. It didn't crash, which was important, it was fast, also important at the time, and was innovative and customizable in ways we take for granted now.

Firefox was dominant and Chrome was the little brother, but then the turns tabled.
Related:

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This was built initially by two PhD students in Germany if I remember correctly, they then spun it off into a company. Super impressive given how difficult typesetting is. And it's written in Rust as well!
If you look at the paper, they only claim LLM can correct the errors if the mistake location is given. And the mistake finding part is not yet solved.
> But to boil it down to autocomplete is just totally disingenuous.

It is though from Ilya's own words: "We weren't expecting that just finding the next word will lead to something intelligent; ChatGPT just finds the next token"

Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4Tpi48DlA
Ah, it's the same model, multiple runs, then? Not actually N different models?
I worked somewhere that filled all the usb ports with epoxy. They maintained a large stock of ps/2 keyboards and mice.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354918
Maybe but they already lost my business for life. You only get so many chances and there are plenty of other airlines.
I live in rural upstate NY, and have for (essentially) all my life.

Even ignoring the posts that just straight-up assume all tech workers (or at least all the ones worth considering) are in Silicon Valley, I've seen so many posts that assume, in various ways, that tech workers live in cities. Or even that basically everyone lives in cities.

From people talking about self-driving cars ignoring that rural roads (including gravel and dirt roads) exist, or that roads exist that might not get plowed/sanded immediately after snowfall, to people talking about employment and compensation just assuming that any tech worker can instantly find a new job paying as much as or more than their previous job if anything goes wrong, to people talking about nutrition, health, and food assuming that everyone has access to a wide variety of great supermarkets and specialty stores...

The bias is real, and it's so deeply disappointing a lot of the time.

Even worse are the people who appear to genuinely believe that we would be better off if no one lived outside of cities. They never seem to have much answer to questions like, "Then who's going to grow the food?" beyond handwaves.
Are there any extensions that you installed recently, say a few months ago? I can otherwise report that my installation of Firefox with which I have used to log into a Google account has never been inexplicably logged out from said account as far as I can remember.
Wow, that's an extremely green blood if Google's images are to be believed
...does this directly relate to the high operating costs of LLMs-as-a-service, if for every request they have to run n-many redundant LLM requests? So if they could improve things so that a single prompt/request+response has a higher chance of being high-quality they wouldn't need to run alternatives?
Yeah, I don't see any argument here. There is just an assumption that "an effective person identification system is bad", and a bunch of words distracting from the fact that they are begging the question.
I've heard about the FanFic before, from someone who was super pro-rationlism/strong atheism/logical thinking type, but not that it was a recruiting tool which is very interesting and connects a lot of boxes.
I find it interesting that apparently a majority of OpenAI employees say they will quit. If I were in that position, I would decide first which is more important to me: AI safety and alignment or fast commercialization. I might also factor in who has the best chance of rolling out a GPT-5 equivalent first, and probably want to work there. Also, I wonder what the distribution is over more senior vs. less senior people wanting to leave. OpenAI has a lot of customers and whoever stays behind would have the most impact supporting those customers as well as working more on the AI alignment side of the fence.

I am also surprised by the show of loyalty, but maybe that comment just reflects poorly on me. I had 6 visits from ex-coworkers (from the last 45 years of working) to my out of the way home in the mountains last year and I highly valued my coworkers, yet, I always made where to work decisions based on what I thought my own best interest was.
> up to 1024

Curious where this (rather large, yet still seemingly arbitrary) limit comes from.
Dot Neural Net
What are you doing exactly that prompts these reactions?
Sure, this is what responsible STEM people do for any time lapsed measurements, be those position, nine axis magnetic field recordings, gravity, radiometrics, microwave return, etc - they use an independant epoch based clock source that counts true lapsed time rather than conventional human time.

Point being, it's an area of UnixTime that many overlook - to date, since the 1980s I've had long term multichannel data aquisition running throughout every leap second adjustment which would have had data glitches had the time channel been UnixTime, UTC, etc.
Finally... personal hotspot is such a hit-or-miss
>Sometimes an anticompetitive situation can evolve without anyone taking an assertive action

One example from TFA is checking a user agent and purposely adding a 5 second timer if it is not Chrome, which imo is hard to accidentally do.
The argument around tipping grates for me.

The author is saying that the companies don’t pay him enough so I should tip to compensate.

This will actually make things worse, as I will then be artificially propping up a broken market.

A better solution would be for nobody to tip. At this point, all the drivers would quit because the pay is too low, so the companies would be forced to raise it to a level where they can attract drivers.
Would you rewind the clock and pretend nothing happened, if you'd been ousted from a place you largely built? I'll wager that a large number of people, myself included, wouldn't. That's not just ego, but also the cancellation of trust.
This is neat! Have you considered selling finished/near-finished products on Tindie/Amazon/etc?
I imagine portable apps might be nice. It would be cool to be able to create a flash drive with universal PGP toolkit. We're limited to console apps, though.

It would be amusing to use it to create X servers – after all, we have sockets.
this kind of thinking is avoiding responsibility. He is part of the board, so he acted to bring this about.
My point is that it's possible that Ilya was not the driving force behind Sam's firing, even if he ultimately voted for it. If this is the case, it makes Ilya's non-apology apology a lot less weird.
The EA community includes a lot of AI folks, as well as philanthropists like Dustin.

That doesn't mean this is this kind of conspiracy
Ugh, I’m never been more disenchanted with a group of people in my life before. Not only are they comfortable with writing millions of jobs out of existence, but also taking a fat paycheck to do it. At least with the “non-profit” mission keystone, we had some plausible deniability that greed rules all, but of fucking course it does.

All my hate to the employees and researchers of OpenAI, absolutely frothing at the mouth to destroy our civilization.
The boundaries between "incentive" and "coercion" are mostly a matter of viewpoint and I can tell that we would certainly disagree on them so we can just skip past all that.

> Can you imagine GEIKO judicial services doing business with an organization that's on the record enabling child slavery?

I absolutely can! Nestle is known to have practiced child slavery and people did and do business with them. Cobalt mines in Congo, south african countries during apartheid, etc. I have known all kinds of horrors in service of the capitalism we have now and nothing you're saying is persuasive to me about why they would stop under this other, more extreme capitalism.
You are probably right to be honest. I think Duolingo is hyperhyped because of the main market it operates, americans tring to learn a second language, which has a very low bar.

I speak already most of the main languages Duolingo teaches and the other courses are pretty weak
I agree with Cillian Murphy for Altman, they both have the deep blue eyes
You are right, I mixed up my functions. What I actually meant was _dupenv_s
It means "if we can't have it, you can't either". It's a powerful message.
Oh that's good to know. Admittedly I didn't look too hard but I didn't see any indication that the salt tables were populated. Judging by the comments I may not be the only one.
Surely that can't be completely true. The reputation has to be bootstrapped somehow.
Every attempt at escaping mutability basically kills the language in the mainstream because so much of "real" programming is just bit-twiddling that gets too verbose when immutability is involved. It's a good question whether Rust nudges the world toward functional/declarative spiritual purity by placing constraints on mutation. I'm betting that No, it doesn't.
Yes, you are right. When you reserve a "table" at a restaurant you are actually not promised chairs. If you want to reserve chairs - that’s +$20. Don’t want to reserve chairs? Just show up at the restaurant and there might be chairs available.
Trying to find a link to the story of Aaron et. al (with declared intent) generating fraudulent ScholarlyArticles, submitting them to journals, and measuring the journal acceptance rate.

I see US vs Aaron, but no link to the SchoarlyArticle about - was it markov chains in like 2007 - submission of ScholarlyArticles and journal acceptance rates.

I mean, a reddit submission with markdown from nbconvert is basically a ScholarlyArticle if there's review and an IRB or similar.
> We're going around in circles I think but to me it is evident that a somewhat competent board that intends to fire the CEO of the company they are supposed to be governing will have a handy set of items ready: a valid reason, minutes of the meeting where all of this was decided, the 'green light' from legal as to whether that reason constitutes sufficient grounds for the dismissal. Those are pre-requisites.

I think the difference here is that I am fine with your belief that this is what a competent board should have, but I don't think this opinion is the same as actually establishing a legal duty.

> The charitable mission is not a legal entity and so it will never sue, but it isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card for a board that wants to decide whatever it is that they've set their mind to.

The charitable mission is the legal basis for the existence of the corporation and its charity status, and the basis for legal duties and obligations on which both the government (in some cases), and other interested parties (donors,
and, for orgs that have them, members) can sue.

> For one: Microsoft has a substantial but still minority stake in the for-profit, there are certain expectations attached to that and the same goes for all of the employees both of the for-profit and the non-profit whose total compensation was tied to the stock of OpenAI, the for profit

Given the public information concerbing the terms of the operating agreement (the legal basis for the existence and operation of the LLC), unless one of those parties has a non-public agreement with radically contradictory terms (which would be problematic for other reasons), I don't think there can be any case that the OpenAI, Inc., board has a legal duty to any of those parties to see to the profitability of OpenAI Global LLC.
You’re describing a risk matrix. What level of risk does this data hold for the company.

I think that is a good way of measuring it.
Another example: Microsoft SQL Server is a fork of Sybase SQL Server. Microsoft was helping port Sybase SQL Server to OS/2 and somehow negotiated exclusive rights to all versions of SQL Server written for Microsoft operating systems. Sybase later changed the name of its product to Adaptive Server Enterprise to avoid confusion with "Microsoft's" SQL Server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_SQL_Serve...
Would bait cars (as in British Columbia and Minnesota) be a viable option?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car
Extensible to nearly all professions? In academia it happens..
Our feudal system demands we wrap ourselves in hallucinated expertise and LARP the validity of our professions outputs to earn food and shelter though

Academia grooms students to propagate curriculum, not define new ideas
Right, my understanding was that by "immediately" they meant "way faster than LaTeX". You make a good point about consolidated errors though, I hadn't thought about that before.
How can {deliberately doing harmful things for a desired harmful outcome} and {doing whatever things with lack of judgment and disregard to consequences at all} be the same thing? In what situations?
personally, I think all the people involved and the releases, written statements, etc were outputs of the LLM.
[citation needed]

At least for 'most'.
Both languages encourage a concise, functional programming style but with different flavors and toolsets. They are comparable, in terms of verbosity.

I think these are correct implementations of the tower of Hanoi.

OCaml

let rec hanoi n source target auxiliary =
if n > 0 then begin
hanoi (n - 1) source auxiliary target;
Printf.printf "Move disk from %s to %s\n" source target;
hanoi (n - 1) auxiliary target source
end

SML

fun hanoi n source target auxiliary =
if n > 0 then (
hanoi (n - 1) source auxiliary target;
print ("Move disk from " ^ source ^ " to " ^ target ^ "\n");
hanoi (n - 1) auxiliary target source
)

function definition, if expressions, recursion are more concise in SML, string interpolation is nicer in OCaml
Yes, mostly because the other actors are notoriously vengeful and petty; ransomware gangs, dark markets, etc, they don't just register complaints with each other, they typically look to ensure the bad actors are removed from the space entirely.

regarding drug dealers, I wouldn't consider it a good comparison. the actions of one dealer typically doesn't affect others, they're just not that connected beyond professional recognition/courtesy. If dealer A is shorting their customers, dealer B absolutely wouldn't care as why would they? they have no relationship, and it'd probably mean the customers go to dealer B instead. business will continue as usual even if one bad actor is doing shitty stuff to their customers.

with ransomware that is not the case -- if public opinion overwhelmingly tells there's no sense in paying because the ransomware gangs never follow their word, that affects all the gangs, not just the bad actor. the gangs already have a hard enough argument to make as to why the targets should pay so anything that frustrates that further is frowned upon.
Her accusations against him are for acts that supposedly happened when she was to young have formed long term memory of them. She also thinks he is hacking her WiFi and somehow shadow banning her on multiple social media sites he has no control over. It screams of paranoid delusions.
This sounds like how we use a CVSS score to gauge the severity of software vulnerabilities.

Maybe the world needs a standardized place to catalog and rank all the data breaches that have been disclosed.
these people are not coerced, or inadequately rewarded. they are choosing to do this job and are being paid above-market wages (for _their_ market).
It’s crazy to think that if he would have just made a training set of JSTOR documents for a large language model he might have skirted around the copyright issues entirely.
I'm at an en-passe here, on the one hand I think Boeing sucks as it's primary business is now hyper focused for defense purposes. On the other, ransomware generally hurts companies and municipalities that generally don't deserve it.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Facebook, etc...deserve it
Are you really expecting greed to lose? Corporate greed is how we got to where we are currently
I don't like this. It forces me to read 2 prompts instead of 1 so that I can help train their LLM. ChatGPT and Bard already have regenerate buttons if I don't like their response, it doesn't need to be that in my face.
I think a general 'explicit > implicit' priority is good enough to cover most cases - a written signature takes precedence over an inferred one. The compiler can also simply emit errors at both sites and let the writer figure it out.

I usually think of writing explicit type annotations as 'pinning' the type in situations where things are inferred/generic by default.
How do you propose they recoup the massive expenses of holding state-of-the-art in the field?
I think one thing RMS has said is that the GPL doesn't place any restrictions on how you USE the software. The rights reside with the actual users.

What the GPL does restrict is how you redistribute the software.

A lot of people writing their own license somehow want to restrict who uses the software, or what they do with it, which makes it non-free.
> I don't think any library should be calling setenv()

It’s already a problem if the library is calling getenv(), because this could happen concurrently to the main program calling setenv(). The only universally safe solution is to not use setenv()/putenv() at all.

Which I think is actually reasonable. But yes it makes those functions broken in a multithreaded program.
> The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit alleged Apple, Venmo and Cash App "have repeatedly raised prices for transactions and services with no competitive check."

Apple, Venmo, and Cash App allow sending cash for free or am I missing something? I've never paid a fee on any of them nor have I seen an increase in prices for things like the paying a business on Venmo (not sure if the other 2 have anything like that?).

And all of this in the name of crypto? Yeah, I couldn't care less.
It's wild that you could run a* quant (160GB) of this on a $6k Mac Studio. Times are a changin'.
Agreed. Honor may have its roots in a prisoner's dilemma, but you're not actually practicing it until you have Stockholm syndrome.
Yeah idk anything about the guy
Many Europeans love their countries but use Euros rather than the old national currencies. Also most countries allow mines to be bought and sold. I'm not sure the Argentina experiment will go well but not really for those reasons.
What sort of treatment is this?
> ActivityPub puts timestamps on things so you can ask your Mastodon server for everything that's been updated since the last time you polled. RSS makes you poll over and over again and download everything. so instead of downloading X kb of content you could be downloading 20X kb if you are polling too fast, alternately you could be losing content if you poll to slow.

This is a pretty obvious consequence of trying to misuse HTTP (or debased "REST") to get it to do something it's just not very well-suited for.

A client-to-server protocol like XMPP that's tailor made for this application would be a better fit, but what captures public attention rarely involves coming up with answers to questions like, "First, which is the superior technology?"
It's funny, in another thread I pointed out the convenience stores, arguing that it will incentivize shutting the pumps down sooner rather than later. At a certain point pumps need replaced, and won't do it if they're not going to pay themselves off.