skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who predict the weather are often damned smart and very experienced.

It's the problem that's hard.
Not just internet, but $20/mo subscription for features you control through the app. I'm pretty open to experimentation with bedding and sleep related accessories but my expectations of this product wouldn't match its cost. The testimonial reel looks like a who's who of insanely rich people.

My most recent purchase is a wool comforter, and I thought that was pricey at just a couple hundred bucks. Serving me well enough. I sometimes have to fold it over itself and if I leave some of it off my feet I won't overheat. Prior to this I was layering all sorts of sheets and blankets, which was hit-and-miss, but I've found that the worst pitfall is a stuffy closed room with a heat vent. Gotta keep the door open a crack or the window, in Winter months. Summer can also be tough.
The SEC should use this to nail him against the wall. This is an obvious ploy to manipulate stock price.
By “Total time” on the y axis” I assume that the time for all the threads is summed, otherwise the label “Time” would suffice.
> In short, instead of focusing on meaningfully advancing AI tech in a scientifically sound way, some board members sound like they're engaging in weird spiritual claims.

This has to be the dumbest hit piece I’ve ever read. Ilya has contributed more in a year to ML than most researchers will in a lifetime.
I’d be interested in seeing how AI can help replicate.

Apparently, we have a replication crisis. From what I hear, many papers can’t be replicated, and we don’t know, because no one tries.
This is Lucia Zarate's adult weight, recorded when she was 17. She had Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II, which is hereditary.
You are required to a buy a full year membership when purchasing.

And then if you don't have it basic features like scheduling temperatures aren't available.
Seems like the board's mission went off the rails long ago and it acted late. Some snippets from the OpenAI website...

"Investing in OpenAI Global, LLC is a high-risk investment"

"Investors could lose their capital contribution and not see any return"

"It would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global, LLC in the spirit of a donation, with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world"

These are some heavy statements. It's fine to accept money from private investors who really do believe in that mission. It seems like you can't continue with the same mission if you're taking billions from public companies which have investors who are very much interested in profit. It's like putting your head in the sand with your hand out.

One of the board members seemed to believe that destroying OpenAI could still be inline with the mission. If that's the case, then they should have accepted slow progress due to funding constraints and killed the idea of creating the for-profit.
Watching the videos on the article, and this journalist is coming off pretty arrogant.

Okay, I understand that you have a right to request those documents - but it's the day before Thanksgiving, and the right people aren't available. Yes, I get it - the law says "Immediately" if at the headquarters, but give some slack - it's a holiday. Come back on Monday.

The guy got shoved because he was repeatedly told not to be on the private property, and instead he decided to walk in - and then start claiming he's on the sidewalk (Which she, now they were). He was told he was trespassing, he refused, and they have a right to use reasonable force to remove him. Considering they did that directly in front of a police officer, I think highlights the OpenAI guy is fine.

This reeks of like "I'm right in one thing - so I'm right in everything". People are human man, again - come back Monday. Go enjoy time with your family and stop trying to pick a fight right now.
I cannot understand how people could possibly spend $1800 on a mattress topper which adds no value to them and actually steals their data to enrich other people...

Yet at the same time it's such a struggle for legitimate companies to sell useful products to people these days. It often feels like people who have money only buy stuff which harms them and avoid anything that might actually improve their lives. What is going on? Are most people NPCs? It is extremely obvious that something is not right.
That was how the headline sounded to me too.
careful, you might be on one of Q*'s lists now!
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence."
I would say...not necessarily. The technology that lets someone create a gun does not give the ability to make bulletproof armor or the ability to treat life-threatening gunshot wounds. Or take nerve gases, as another example. It's entirely possible that we can learn how to make horrible pathogens without an equivalent means of curing them.

Yes, there is probably some overlap in our understanding of biology for disease and cure, but it is a mistake to assume that they will balance each other out.
I used to do this, but then I had to move and I moved my domain to Gmail “temporarily” so I could still get email while waiting for my isp at the new location. Short story is that I don’t miss the cognitive overhead and I’m still on Gmail.

How do you manage filtering spam?
Obviously not. Obviously the first thing for someone who wants to learn graphics programming is to learn Rust. I'm surprised you asked.
How soon we forget that QAnon (the guy, not the movement associated with the guy) was a 4chan shitposter... and obviously all of his predictions came true :P
I’ve worked with many of the largest companies across quite a few verticals in a product management capacity. Many large enterprises (think 200K+ employees) still have pockets of tool building and automation springing up everywhere. Big names you’ve heard of.

I’d be willing to bet money that this was happening where you were, but you may not have been exposed to it. It often shocks IT management what they find when turning on software auto-discovery and inventory tools.

These tools are often employed in operations and other non-core-to-the-business departments to simplify/automate busy work happening there.
Placing restrictions on protocol implementors is a sure way to prevent that protocol from being implemented
Wow, I didn't know that. They even Computer Associated Computer Associates. That is like an exponential vortex of suck.
Yes, and they even bought CA.
Do modern graphics cards still have hardware cursor support? I was pretty sure stuff like that went the way of sprite tables, once the hardware gets fast enough you don't need those dedicated 'trick' subunits any more, you just redraw the screen.
You get a commonly understood set of rights which critically includes the right to re-sell it.
I dont think the theories here about why chatgpt puts out such bland content are correct.

I don't think it is bland due to an averaging effect of all the data.

The reason I dont think that is the case: I used to play with GPT3 and 3 was perfectly capable of impersonating any insane character you made up, even if that character was extremely racist or had funky spech, or was just genuinely evil.
It was hilarious and fun.

gpt4's post training is probably what caused the sterility. I expected gpt4 to be the same until I played with it and was so dissapointed by its lack of personality. (Even copilot has personality and will tell jokes in your code comments when it gives up)
The tooling is really mature. Amazon used xen for ages. kvm wins for hardware passthrough and performance, but if your willing to sacrifice a little performance the advanced admin features are competitive.
They did have one incident though - https://www.thedailybeast.com/google-engineer-stalked-spied-...
Didn't sound like they refused. The police officers said it themselves: It's the day before Thanksgiving.

Yeah - I get it, law says "immediately", but the journalist needs to chill and just try again Monday. It's a holiday week. Barking up the wrong tree.
In this part of the world (South Asia), dogs regularly eat rice, and in fact prefer it. Okayed by vets too.
The other question is how often do you need to hear about "breaking news" immediately? For me the answer is almost never. Glancing at various news media websites occasionally is more than adequate for me.
tl;dr Q* (q-star) by makers of ChatGPT was able to solve certain mathematical problems ... performing maths on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success
Very cool. I'm not seeing an obvious connection between the audio and the visuals (I do see some kind of differences between the visuals for the organ solo vs. the rest of the song).

I can't believe no one has recreated the machine though. Perhaps someone will now.

Someone's HTML5 ... tribute? https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/portable-auroratone/?loclr=blo...
I bought it before the subscription so early adopters don't pay anything monthly. There's absolutely no way I would have paid a monthly fee for a biometric device I need to use daily. I avoided the Whoop band for exactly that reason.
I kick-started their thing when they were called Luna. This sort of thing is cool, honestly. I had a mattress topper from them and wouldn't have cared.

Man, back in the day, Okcupid had some good shit. Now, can you imagine?

But you gotta adapt to changing times. Just opt in for this and all is well.
At my job we use Teams and very few people ever have their camera on. This situation is perfect for me since a lot of my meetings are relatively irrelevant to what I do. My wife’s work uses the Google video chat equivalent and the majority of her meetings have most people on camera. It just looks so strange to have a wall of people nodding in agreement at whatever the speaker is saying.
So it's idiot human vs idiot GPT at this point.

No one believed those who said "make it idiot proof and they'll just make a better idiot", but we should have heeded this warning. They did it! They finally did it! They made a better idiot!
I've raised 3 dogs from pups to death (~14 years old) and they've all consumed water during their lives. Coincidence? I think not and this site agrees.
What brand/model for each? My wife would love some solution to this. I was about to try the purple matress.
Htgwa: How to erase a hard drive in Linux
It feels like the stakes are kind of different when a LLM could give you the recipe and accurate instructions for creating, say, chemical weapons.
The spot instance declared "a similar vector exists" and de-provisioned itself?
I'm guessing they did file their Form-990 for 2022, but it's not available in public data sources yet. Probably will be available in a few more months.

OpenAI's Form-990s from previous years are all available at https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...

Including their entire 2021 filing https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...

Along with the nice visualizations the site provides.
Your question perfectly summarizes what I have been thinking the last couple months. There is absolutely no real "safety" concern with the new round of LLM based chat bots we are using. Calling them "AI" or even worse, "AGI" is just sill and at best is bad marketing and at worst trying to build an artificial moat around what should be an open source data set.
Genuinely, we deserve more information about this. Someone needs to whistleblow.
The ideology I was referring to was the builtin deflationary model: that’s a very strong ideological position in libertarian circles but since it immensely privileges wealthy early holders over everyone else, it’s a huge barrier for adoption.
My memory or the auto-play thing is that some withgoogle.com functionality broke, it was quickly put on the blessed list, and then it was working again. Sadly the rest of the web that was broken by that change didn't get such treatment.
> the public seems to demand exactly this from AI

No, not "the public", this is a small vocal minority.
You're assuming that humans act rationally. Advertising (and other messaging) can and does convince buyers there is some utility.
It still doesn’t know that it’s (the original problem) unsolvable or that it’s wrong. Or maybe it does and just bullshits you to seem smart.
Still struggling to understand. You're saying that most coding has no high level ideas and is just boilerplate, and the ones that aren't are the ones LLM's struggle with? This could be true I can see it.

WRT the understanding not being shown on the page in math, I guess I tend to agree(?). But I think good mathematical papers show understanding of the ideas too more than just the proofs which result from the understanding. The problem (probably you know this but just for the benefit of whoever is reading) is that "understanding" in mathematics, at least with respect to producing proofs, often rely on mental models and analogies which are WRONG. Not like vague but often straight up incorrect. And you understand also the limitations of where the model goes wrong. And it's kind of embarrassing (I assume) for most people to write wrong statements into papers even with caveats. For simple examples there's a meme right where to visualize n-dimensional space, you visualize R^3 and say (n-dimensional) in your head. In this sense I think it's possibly straight-up unhelpful for the authors to impose their mental models on the reader as well (for example if the reader can actually visualize R^n without this crutch it would be unhelpful).

But I'm not sure if this is what distinguishes math and programming. There's also the alternative hypothesis that the mental work to generate each additional line of proof is just order of magnitude higher than the average for code. Just meaning that it usually requires more thought to produce a line of math proof. In this possibility, we would expect it to be solved by scaling alone. One thing it reminds of, which is quite different admittedly, is the training of leela-zero on go. There was a period of time where it would struggle on long ladders. And eventually it was overcome with training along (despite people not believing it would be resolved at first). I think in that situation, people summarized afterwards the situation as, in particular situations, humans can search much deeper than other places, and therefore requiring more training for the machine to match the humans' ability.
The truth about Open AI drama
I remember when nag-ware was just pop-up-modals
You can get open files and ports even without sudo for non-root processes by just hitting cmd+i. Maybe running with sudo might allow you to sample or get files for processes owned by root (presumably the info is same as what you'd get with lsof though). (And by ports it seems to mean network ports. If you want mach ports, you can use lsmp).
Wow, I stand corrected. I did not think that was physically possible for a person.
Intro to Large Language Models [Video]
things in these cafes free so that these 40% unemployed folk can eat/drink all day/night long? :)
If someone is up for writing a Call Stacking client for the language platform of their choice, please email me.

This would be your reference implementation.

https://github.com/callstacking/callstacking-rails

I'm sure we could work out an arrangement.

jim@callstacking.com
LLMs only know what they have been trained on. So in what cases should the data used to train the LLM, that is generally freely available not be available through another format.

Your complaint is a perfect example of how these "safety" issues are simply not logical and seems to assume that an LLM and generate new information, not just repeat what its been trained on.
It’s very difficult to assign credit or blame to outcomes in a large organization. It's like trying to see which weight in a large neural net caused a specific outcome.

That said, IMO what Elon Musk did to Twitter can be done to Google and many other bloated tech companies.

There are so many technically weak middle management and executives that need to be removed.
Whats the point of Microsoft appointing a board member if not to sway decision in ways that benefit them?
https://werkzeug.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/debug/#using-t... ?

Not sure if Django could use it, but used an earlier version in Flask and Pyramid.
Sounds like encapsulation in OO. You don't want to let other people poke around in your bits except through well defined interfaces.
What I’ve learned from a lot of productive coding with ChatGPT as a soundboard and generator is that you need to review everything it generates in order to catch little issues as well as ways things could be done better. Only an extremely competent chemist could try suggestions from an LLM without blowing themselves up or melting a hole in the floor. In other words, only someone already capable of designing chemical weapons could be helped by an LLM in the design of chemical weapons.
This freaked me out. I saw ten creatures that wanted to eat me! And a few ghostly skeletal humanoids.

That was from watching it on my little phone screen. I don't want to imagine what would happen if I saw it on a real movie screen.

Maybe I should quit drugs. Or start using drugs. Or something.

Anything to make the monsters go away!
The soulful software artisans I know would never consider working at Google. Why is that?
It's also worth mentioning that failure to immediately disclose said documents are... a $20/day fine [1]. A company being out of compliance does not give a civilian the right to trespass. The correct solution here is to raise a complaint with the appropriate authorities (the IRS), not to continue to remain on private property and have to be forcibly removed by the building's security.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/public-disclosure-...
In the general sense, no.

There are very specific exceptions to prohibitions against DRM circumvention, but many of those are so encumbered as to be useless. The standards and regulations addressing these are long, complex, and difficult to parse.

See Cory Doctorow's discussion here: "The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped" (2021-10-28) <https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-co...>

And the US Federal Register, "Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies" (2021-10-28): <https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23...>

I see listed: educational and derivative uses; accessibility of audiovisual works; accessibilty of literary works; medical device data; the unlocking, jailbreaking, and repair of computer programs and systems; security research; software presentation; video game preservation; and 3D printers.

But as a general exemption "for personal use", nothing at all.
CA = Computer Associates for the youngsters.
Baseless speculation: they started testing an approach similar to VERSES AI and realized it has much more potential than LLMs.

The free energy principle, knowledge graph approach just seems more likely to develop general intelligence without hallucinations imo.
I mean, if they wanted to fire him anyway, and that was his response, he probably knew what was going on and decided to go down swinging.
People that schedule meetings like that don't want pushback. They're not trying to optimise the list of people in the meeting, they're trying to grow it at the expense of everything else.

They genuinely believe that whatever they're crapping on about to a brick wall for 2 hours straight is the most important thing in the universe and they want your undivided attention, productivity or profit be damned. That's why they force people to turn their cameras on.
As explained by others the parent comment is talking about ESXi, but to answer your question: virtualbox desktop hypervisor is the spam of desktop hypervisors.

Everyone has heard of it, it's theoretically comparable to the likes of VMware/Parallels desktop hypervisors, and it's cheaper. But just like spam (compared to ham), it's also obvious to anyone that's used both that it's by far the worse option, and there's very few reasons to use it besides cost, while there are numerous reasons to use one of the better alternatives.

In general, performance is significantly better with other hypervisors, but in particular shared filesystem performance (ie sharing a directory from the host OS into the guest) and features are lacking on virtualbox.

It's the default provider used by vagrant, and even the vagrant team recommend using a different provider for "any serious work".
Well in my case I could have paid debt off instead of add more
If I had to guess, the name Q* is pronounced Q Star, and probably the Q refers to Q values or estimated rewards from reinforcement learning, and the star refers to a search and prune algorithm, like A* (A star).

Possibly they combined deep reinforcement learning with self training and search and got a bot that could learn without needing to ingest the whole internet. Usually DRL agents are good at playing games, but any task that requires prior knowledge, like say reading english, cant be completed. Wheras language models can read, but they cant do tasks that are trivial for drl, like make a robot walk based on propriosceptive data.

Im excited to see the paper.
A lot of modern mobile GPUs have hardware plane support in the display controller. These kind of act like more versatile hardware cursors that can display any kind of data and also apply transformations to it. Afaik this is used for hardware cursors now.
This is classics of compare apples to carrot.

In reality, most software that time created with C or hand crafted in asm, and effectively use much larger register file of 8088 and its really 16bit arithmetic.

I remember, how much time people spent, to ensure maximum usage of registers, and avoid memory operations at all costs.

Unfortunately, this also leads to decline of alternative technologies, like virtual machines, which that time was mostly stack machines, depend on memory speed.

Sometimes I think it is this feature of the 8088 that creates the famous C power, and not something else.

And I must admit, PC before approx 386, was extremely weak (slow and low colors) on graphics and nearly no sound, so looks like was not accidental, that on PC game culture was totally other than on 8-bits.

Unfortunately, I was not in good position, to see difference myself, but my friends early see consoles and home computers, like MSX, and tell me about their much better graphics and sound. Sure I have not possibility to measure memory speed of consoles.
Busy people with money they want to spend use price as a proxy for value and quality. When they need something specific, they look among the more highly priced versions of an item or service for the one that suits them. When they just want to go shopping, they look at the more highly priced priced goods.

To them, an mattress topper that costs $1800 is a mattress topper that's worth $1800. "That must be an incredible mattress topper! Get me one!"

If you want to sell to the people that buy things like this, you need to signal to them with your price. The high-end is a whole different market and mentality than most companies organize their business model around.
>Anti-trust regulators take a dim view of building market dominance by bundling. This is why Microsoft was forced to stop bundling some components with Windows back in the day.

except... internet explorer is still bundled with windows to this day?
People need to know how to create chemical weapons at home so that they don't do it on accident using common cleaning supplies. That e.g. bleach and vinegar create deadly gas when mixed is extremely important for every adult to know.
And how many billions of dollars did that single SLS rocket cost. How much will the one after that cost? And the one after that, wait, they aren't building but a few at a few billion each. The giant rockets before then were built with a percentage of the national GDP.

At the end of the day spaceX will come in way cheaper per rocket in total and it will be reusable.