skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is our brains are basically incapable of ignoring faces. It's hard coded at such a deep level. So what happens when you are confronted with an ENTIRE WALL of faces? Your circuitry goes crazy trying to map, constantly monitory, interpret them all. This is not how in person meetings work - you look at one person at a time even if you are in a room of 15 people.

Its one reason why I think there could actually be a usefulness to meeting in VR if that ever does become high enough quality and low enough burden for people to want to do it.
With SLS having a cost per kg to orbit about 10x that of Falcon Heavy, this isn't particularly convincing evidence that "move fast and break things" is the wrong approach though.

And Starship promises another 10x (_after_ already applying a 3x "Musk exaggerating multiplier") improvement.
Are there any good resources for learning graphics programming for the first time with WebGPU? I have heard mixed opinions about WGSL.
You can read Worldcoins info yourself, they’re talking about reversible encryption. Thank you for your input.
Exactly. How is this news? What would be surprising is if ChatGPT _could_ generate fake data that passed analysis.
I feel like you need to compare a 10 person video call with a 10 person in office meeting. And of course, a hallway chat vs a 1-1 zoom call or discord exchange.
I like that Teams added the option to hide your self-view. Even if you don't focus on it, just having a slightly delayed mirror copy of yourself in the corner of the screen is mildly distracting. It feels more natural talking to a group of people that doesn't include yourself.
Insanity. Just because Paul - or anyone - thinks something "is plausible" does not mean that you should say "it is fact". It's the very root of everything wrong about social media and modern "conspiracy theory culture". Why are these "thought leaders" so bad at thinking?
> only real security comes from tight vertical integration.

You're not describing security, you're describing theater.

Tight vertical integration doesn't prevent security defects, it makes it harder or impossible for independent researchers to discover, and become known publicly. Pick your favorite TLA, they'll figure it out and tell no one.

Better security actually comes from public scrutiny, at least when the issues are actually fixed by companies.
There is something that I noticed quickly:
The fatigue depend of the quality of the call.
If someone in the call have a lot of background noise, have noisy environement, or a bad microphone, it takes a lot of mental energy to process what they say.
Oregon scientists study spiders with a web-inspired musical instrument
Although Falcon 180B and YI-34B might lead in some benchmarks, the extensive tools and community backing Llama provide it with a significant advantage.
It's just emulating a certain cross-section of human scientists.
Zero risk of that. Libel requires proof, and having this go to court would require airing that proof in open court. If this is truthful at all and it only casts shade on one director, and retaliatory suits would be more harmful to the company and illuminating of internal affairs than this blog post. Any competent HR would much rather mediate in private.

The point is, you weren't the person who wrote this. And I'm glad someone did. We need a little more scrutiny on how given people run industry leading ships aground despite making more in a year than some people make their entire lives.
okay, i could be convinced... but what is the compute for this? you can't just "spawn threads" with reckless abandon without considering the resource requirements
Ultimately, what kinds of incentives does having no respecs leads to?

I don't think I've ever really cared about immersion. I like experimenting with stuff. In a long game, having no option to undo whatever I cook up means I'd either a) have to suffer for the rest of the playthrough, b) avoid the janky stuff, or c) end up looking for build spoilers. None of which are particularly fun. Bonus points if the game doesn't really have a lot of replay value in the first place.

(That being said, the only games that I played and truly felt miserable in this regard were MMOs.)

If the game wants to be punishing, give it hard bosses that force me to learn how to play better regardless of my build.

(Though, as mentioned downthread, if it's a short game, no problems. The game is probably designed to be played multiple times anyway.)
I thought liberals believed "your right to swing your fist stops right at my face." But here we have people who believe "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." actively working to bring this about and many liberals see no problem at all. If you Russian Roulette and point the gun at me, I'm taking away your gun; before you potentially off me.
Then you would have to eat a full refrigerator worth of food every day to survive.
This is as insightful/true as saying logic is computation and GPT since does some computation, GPT can do all logic.
Most serious people would just release a paper. AI safety concerns are a red herring.

This all sounds like hype momentum. People are creating conspiracy theories to backfit the events. That's the real danger to humanity: the hype becoming sentient and enslaving us all.

A more sober reading is that the board decided that Altman is a slimebag and they'd be better off without him, given that he has form in that respect.
Is there anything wrong with ESXi?
Apple lets you price differently elsewhere
Layoffs at everywhere happened because money got more expensive.

The whole industry didn't magically accumulate debt weight all at the same time in the same proportions.
This article seems circa 2019. Laser welding with flexible, lightweight heads and 1-3kW fiber lasers are poised to change methodology by removing parameters. Smaller, handheld units area easier than glue guns to handle.
That's quite correct. The IP1 and IP2 areas are usually associated with mathematics and production of motor cues around mathematics and stories. The Broca's and Vernicke's Areas are associated with language understanding and production. You can roughly estimate that the human brain's language model roughly fits into a floppy disk (1.44 MB for you young'uns)
metaverse will solve this
Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit [pdf]
> First, in the boom prior to around 2015, most software problems were accessible to a smart generalist, but nowadays I don't think that's true. Teams are more specialized.

Do you mean that new areas appeared that require specialization that didn't exist previously, or that areas that require some sort of specialization have comparatively grown? (Or something completely different?)
Yes, but much more pointedly Republicans, Democrats have to pretend to care about workplace safety at least.
Oh my god, you killed Kennedy.

You bastards.
Adding to this, I just want to quote a post made in a different thread [1] about bacterial memory:

"Not only simpler lifeforms. Cases with humans that may indicate a memory transfer after organ transplants are also documented:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31739081/

>The acquisition of donor personality characteristics by recipients following heart transplantation is hypothesized to occur via the transfer of cellular memory

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Memory-transference-...

>There have been perplexing reports of organ transplant receivers claiming that they seem to have inherited the memory, experiences and emotions of their deceased donors, and which are causing quirky changes in their personality."

This post was in response to one describing decapitated worms growing new heads with their old memories intact, as well as old studies where planarians were trained to navigate a simple maze, then fed to other planarians who were then also able to navigate the maze. Fascinating stuff!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372687
Agreed — Roguelikes, and AD&D, are the one true path towards good RPGs. The obsession with grand narratives and long-running unkillable parties corrupts the genre into all sorts of poor decisions in the name of role playing. Roleplay through play is the correct system — not through decision trees
How does this compare to Prefect?
I don't think the missing piece is conceptual understanding. Good LLMs seem to 'understand' most concepts as well as most humans do, even if they're a little less multimodal about it (for now). The common factor here seems to me to be that they're not good at problems which involve hidden intermediate steps. You can trip ChatGPT up pretty easily by telling it not to show working, while on the same problem if you tell it to explain its reasoning in steps it'll do fine.
It's plausible that the three EA outside board members may have been concerned by reports of a breakthrough or maybe even alarmed by a demo. The part which doesn't seem plausible is about "declaring AGI" being so ill-defined. While we don't know the content of agreement behind MSFT's $13B investment, there's no way that the army of lawyers who drafted the contract left the most important term undefined or within to OpenAI's sole judgement.

That's just not the way such huge $$$ mega-corp contracts work.
It is pretty great that the internet has a designated reservation for trolls to troll trolls.
Perhaps the indie-devs chose to sue Steam so they would have to fight Valve's smaller army of lawyers.
What browser do you use instead?
Your type of thinking is just reinforcing why AI safety research needs to exist.
Developers spend all day building. Pms spend all day playing politics. It is no surprise pms get all the power.
I haven't followed the situation as closely as others, but it does seem like board structured to not have 7 figure cheques that could influence / undermine safety mission seemingly willing to let openAI burn out of dogma. Employees want their 7 figure cheques, their interests aligned with deeper pockets and larger powers with 10+ figures on the line. Reporting so far have felt biased accordingly. If this was about money/power for the board, they would have been easily bought off considering how much is on the line. IMO board serious about mission but got out maneuvered.
If you need that kind of information, you should be recording it separately.
This has been happening at every middle sized and up tech company over the last couple of decades. Woke leadership brings in diverse but incompetent management that kills morale, productivity and any sense of purpose in the company.
Ask HN: Decompiling Firmware – Best Practices
I have a number of ROM images for embedded processors, mostly 8 bit ones. The code was most likely written in C. My goal is to completely decompile to source code (comments optional but if something is recognized, sure) so that I can add functionality, recompile, and use. I have been using Ghidra and IDA free but there is still an enormous amount of manual work needed, like hundreds or thousands of hours and mostly and C code is nearly useless and I've gotten my understandings from looking at the assembler outputs. Is this the best that can be done? Can GPT-4, either on its own or in conjunction with either of the tools I use do a better job? Because right now I'm kind of stuck doing manual patches and sometimes just jumping to a blank area to put new code which kind of sucks.
How exactly do you do this? When I try sudo <binary path> it immediately sigkills with a "launch constraint violation". And I tried on 10.8 from back before SIP was a thing, and didn't see any difference in terms of the per-process metrics I could sort by.
> I’m interested how you handle verbally communicating an address?

It depends on how off-guard I'm caught and how important it is to me. I usually have my phone, which has my KeePass and email salt inside, and I usually have at least enough battery to last a conversation, so it's rare that I can't generate the proper email address in <30 seconds in most scenarios.

But yes, having like, 5e5ee440@<domain>.<tld>, has definitely resulted in a few "can you repeat that?" or "just to confirm?" moments (especially over the phone since audio quality often sucks). That said, for whatever reason, people are still seemingly less surprised by "5e5ee440@" vs. "<your place of work>@".

On the rarer occasions where I don't at least have my phone or something, if it's something I know I can update later, I'll tell them whatever is easy to input and remember; I separate emails to unknown recipient addresses, but I don't completely reject them outright, so it's not usually an issue pulling out the confirmation email or whatever later, and then updating the address.

However, if I don't have my phone, and I don't know how easily I could update the email, then it depends more. For example, my doctor wants an email on file for whatever record-keeping reason and for sending appointment confirmations and such. In that scenario, I don't know that I'd necessarily be able to easily change it without going in/calling them.

The first time, I did give them <doctor's practice>@domain.tld, because I figure, despite being an important email, it's unlikely that it'd get abused; if someone somehow knows my GP's full name and practice, and is using it maliciously, I've probably got bigger worries than getting a phishing email sent to it or whatever else.

The second time, though, I just asked her to email me the contact update form and told her I'd send it back with the proper email inside.

> I wonder if there could be an easy “word-sounding” generator that could be integrated into something to manage emails?

I figure you could do something similar to like the horse-battery-stapler XKCD meme or bitcoin wallet seed phrases, if you wanted to avoid the "sorry, can you repeat that?" moments.

But it might be slightly more annoying to deterministically generate those, if you care about that aspect, compared to simply salt+hash & truncate. If you find a good method, let me know, though.
That's fair, but if you have a library card and the Libby app, you can queue and borrow e-books for free and without leaving the house or remembering returns. My kids borrow from their school library but also read on Libby a reasonable amount. I use the Books app. My wife reads on Libby as much as she reads physical books. If we go away for a week, it's easier to pack an old phone or Kindle than a stack of books when the older kids can get through 2-3 novels a day.
Not at all; just that the ‘understanding’-related content of pure mathematics is much less evident on the page. It mostly lives in the heads of mathematicians and is largely independent of notation, whereas writing blocks of code is a task that is literally about using notation — something for which a huge amount of high-quality training data exists. Of course, the higher level ideas in programming and software development are not just about ‘writing code’ itself, but I suspect this is where current models begin to show their weakness.
Any particular model?
I hated Veeam because of the slowness and difficulty of live snapshots. We purchase synology nas solutions and even use the nas for host redundancy. Works perfectly and super fast. Also, get C2 from Synology to backup your vms on the cloud.
Really? Because it doesn't look like China is on track to win. And more and more countries in the Asia Pacific region are lining up to be US allies because that seems like a better alternative than becoming Chinese satellite states.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/china-slo...
Here is something that I think would be a big breakthrough:

I explain to GPT in text, a mathematical concept it has never seen in its training data and give a few examples (not inferred from fill the blank on millions of examples). It actually learns this to update its weights - not just uses it as part of a prompt.

Extrapolating this optimistically - this is a huge step towards AGI in my opinion. You can (in theory) teach it to automate many tasks, correct it's mistakes without needing costly extra training data, and move towards the few-shot (and persistent) learning that separates humans from AI right now.
Can you actually sell a game on Steam without using Steam Keys? If so, what other knock-on effects (e.g., piracy) are the devs having to deal with?
The biggest thing that leads to this, I think, is bad audio. Listening to shitty scratchy laptop microphones -- or even the comparatively-excellent Apple array microphones -- is deeply fatiguing. I notice a distinct difference in energy expended when I'm on a call with people who have low/zero background noise and decent-quality microphones, and others have noted that about me (as I'm also an audio engineer in my spare time and tend to have pretty good audio and video in teleconferences).
I have a playdate but unfortunately rarely play it because without a backlight, I'm rarely in a situation where it's comfortable to play my playdate...
The most plausible, based solely on evidence, is 3 shots from two shooters of which one was Oswald. Two of those three shots made contact to Kennedy of which one was a head shot and the other hit his neck. The remaining shot hit the governor.

It’s unlikely one shooter made three successful shots provided the angle and timeframe, but two shots is highly probable and has been reproduced in experiments.

The only thing missing is where one of those three shots came from. There is no further evidence at this point so everything further is conjecture. The most simple answer is a member of the secret service in extremely close proximity to the president misfired in a moment of panic after the first shot made contact with the President’s neck, which means the fatal head shot. Not dramatic enough for conspiracies but still embarrassing enough for a cover story.
Ironically, I tried to ask ChatGPT to generate a signal + some plausibly background for a potential Supersymmetry particle discovery (with some details about model independent searches) and it started hallucinating like someone whose heart broken and spent the night drinking at the bar.

I chose the wrong field to be able to fake data /S.
Pretty much yes if you want to stay employed. Hixie can speak up now because he left.
Does anyone know why the order does not allow Gabe to wear a N95 mask while responding to questions?
Ok how do you meaningfully define the difference and moreover how would you prevent his version of a "good" silo from devolving into a "bad" one in actuality?
I think that the real takeaway is that creating a game that uses these systems is very hard to create. In other words it is "trivial" because anything complex would be hard to program and make consistent and most importantly fun.
Adam D'Angelo is on the new board with Brett Taylor and Larry Summers. Tasha, Ilya and Helen are out.

Still think D'Angelo wasn't the power player in the room?
Still not good though. Only makes the behavior more prolific.
A: I hate being in zoom meetings all day.

B: Do you have a peer reviewed study about it?
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Self-hosting removed 1 large organization that has a history of anti-user business practices from your chain of trust.

The other threats you list are still there even if you use a hosted email platform.
The suit will almost certainly fail. In event that it doesn't it will almost certainly go to the supreme court. If the supreme court upholds this as an antitrust violation then that will certainly be true for iOS and Android as well as most likely PlayStation and Xbox.
It's nearly impossible to measure the marginal contribution of someone one in a non sales role.
No worries, got to use something as the holder of the definition. FWIW I read a similar essay that discussed cooks and chefs and came away seeing the many parallels with programming and coding.
Ya, you left out the important bit:

> OSHA inspected this incident and fined the contractors.

The contractors are the ones that were careless... not Tesla like your selective edits tries to imply.

I get that it's fashionable to hate on Musk and his businesses right now - but come on... the implication here in your edit is absurd.
As long as your checks clear and the HVAC in the data center holds up I think you're good to go.

The beauty of the Assistants is you're not limited to OpenAI models. You can wire them up to any model anywhere (out they can wire themselves up), so you can have specialist threads going for specific functions.
What reasoning problem do children find trivial and LLM’s have serious problems with?

I can’t think of any off the top of my head.

I also tried to get GPT4 to craft such a problem and it was unable to:
https://chat.openai.com/share/c1d5af4b-1d45-41ed-8f5a-746ea0...
Benevolent Gods do not exist. Never have, never will. So don't place your faith in them.
VirtualBox just straight up isn't reliable enough for any production situation. You never know how it'll break, and the support front release to release is unpredictable and overall sucks Cindy Stankey balls.
"Decisions went from being made for the benefit of users, to the benefit of Google, to the benefit of whoever was making the decision."

This is so painfully accurate. Everything is geared towards the individual's needs to appear good under the lens of promotion and compensation.
> Epic, Windows store, GoG

VALVe has such strong network effects playing in their favour, nobody is gonna buy on those stores if it's also on Steam, except GoG maybe, as it lets you download the games DRM free IIRC
I always found the audio on phone calls awful. In addition, I cannot see who is on the call, there is no indicator who is speaking, no visual cues who is getting ready to step in. No ability to read the room because you cannot see anyone. It's just awful.
That's absolutely true.

But

They have leaked real things in the past, in exactly the same way. It may be 5% or less that turn out to be true, but there's the rub. That's why no one can completely dismiss it out of hand (and why were even discussing it on an HN comment thread in the first place).
>several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity

>The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q*, which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI)

>Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems....Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students

I hate to agree with Elon Musk on anything, but I think he was right when he called this a nice marketing stunt this morning. It has major "Snoop Dogg giving up the smoke" vibes.
> I suppose I got a bit carried away originally, but the point is just that - can one truly be well-meaning if he works in such a feature as that of the first example?

One way of reading the original statements is that there are many people who are not doing that and would not do that.

> But we do not have a choice (...) or in paying taxes to our governments

This obviously reminds me of Thoreau, but more practically many people can move. Unless you are from the US (or a handful of other weird countries) that stops you from paying taxes to your origin's government.

E: Upheaval caused by moving is often actually not higher than one caused by quitting: consider (a) people on employer-tied visas and/or who don't speak the local language well enough to use it professionally (b) people who don't have families of their own yet.
Not when your users are not your paying customers
I could imagine that if they think she's behaving erratically, and would spend the money on falling apart even more, then they don't think it's right to give it to her.

For example if they know she has a drug problem and would put herself in an early grave if she received millions of dollars (just theorizing, I don't know anything about their situation).