skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not say that it is fair comparison in this case.
People do the best with the control they have.

In this case, if your company fails to provide for greater good, then it is best to destroy it. And it also shows some example to others. Whatever others do, you have no power. I does not matter if you pretent or not.

Comparison works only if you could do something about it.
AI safety is just woke 2.0.
> the frankly asinine idea that it's insurance against government overreach

Why is it asinine? It is precisely intended to be the insurance of last resort against a government that turns tyrannical. If your claim is that the might of the US military is so overwhelming that a bunch of rednecks toting AR-15s could be of no match, well, Vietnam and Afghanistan both proved that a determined and armed population is actually quite hard to conquer even for the foremost military power.

The presence of "that guy" doesn't invalidate any Constitutional right. Neo-Nazis wanting to march through Skokie is "those guys" taking the 1st Amendment to the absurd. You could say that the Miranda warning arose as a result of "those guys" defense attorneys taking the 5th amendment to the absurd. They are all still rights held by the people.
Pylons are indeed beautiful when they power my buildings in Starcraft with their blue psi-glow.
Show HN: Open-Source Library OpenAI/Azure Fallback Tool
We just launched an emergency OpenAI + Azure fallback and retry tool (literally OpenAI's APIs are down as I post this!): https://github.com/Spryngtime/openai-load-balancer

This open source library helps you mitigate errors & downtime from @OpenAI's APIs by falling back to Azure (and vice versa).

If you need expedited access to Azure, feel free to email me - I can get you connected to our Azure account executive! (Startups with funding ONLY please!)

Hope this helps some people out there!
Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371213 - Nov 2023 (159 comments)
I've been using it on my iPhone for a few weeks. It works great with AirPods.
`jj split` and `jj move` are the equivalent of git's staging areas. Instead of picking which changes you want to commit, you pick which changes you want to move from the working-copy commit to the target commit you're assembling. It lets you do something very similar to multiple staging areas by having multiple commits that you're moving changes to.
I used to drive my kids everywhere. I lived in the SF Bay Area and transit sucked. I moved to Vancouver, Canada and my kids can just roam around. Kids under 12 can ride for free on transit. The mall is 4 blocks away and there is a skytrain station there. I do track their phones but it is way safer.
Strength training done right with full range of motion can be considered both stability and stretching/mobility work.

Like squatting with hundreds of pounds on your back is inherently unstable and forces you to have good balance, and moving your body under load is literally weighted stretching, which is one of the most effective ways of increasing your range of motion if your current range is insufficient for your needs.
Text gen, one of the things you contrast 3d to, similarly isn't fixed size (capped in most models, but not fixed.)

In fact, the data structures of a 3D scene can be serialized as text, and a properly trained text gen system could generate such a representation directly, though that's probably not the best route to decent text-to-3d.
Boat == airship

Hydrofoil == airplane
Yes, agreed, that was uncalled for. But it is what probably a large number of CEOs would do.
Where is the training data coming from?
It follows just fine, I think, given that the possibility space is not limited to "create beneficial AGI" and "don't create AGI". It also includes "create unaligned AGI", which is obviously much worse "don't create AGI"; the board would be remiss in its duties if it didn't try to prevent that from happening.
i pay for GPT-4 and (for my limited uses) it is actually better, because it has the 'sources' on the right side of the screen. the font and colors are also nicer.

i have asked GPT-4 how it knows certain things and it is like pulling teeth trying to get it to admit where it got information.
Between all of them, together, in one happy polycule.

Just to be clear about the tone here: I personally have an extremely very positive opinion on polyamorous, sexually open people, micro-dosing psychedelics, going to burning man, all the effective autism, biohacking, etc. I mean, I do almost all of these things, including being on a spectrum and suffering from ADHD at the same time, if my psychologist is to be believed. But this doesn't stop me from recognising how stereotypical and funny all of this is.
Microsoft preparing San Francisco offices for OpenAI employees
I was going to ask if anyone else had battery drain with the iPhone VPN enabled (say for pihole, or I’m assuming NextDNS).
Race condition between left and right hand.
And how did this improve society?

I only see negatives. Other entities with less of a brake on their ethics are gaining ground. Microsoft of all parties is strengthening their position and has full access to the core tech.
> It's probably cheaper to build new communities that foster this kind of child activity than to rebuild existing suburban stroad hellscapes. Many communities have barely enough money to keep the infrastructure from falling apart, how do you plan on rebuilding those?

This is extraordinarily easy actually. You eliminate residential zoning. Every house can now partake in limited commercial activity. Want to start a cafe? No problem. Want to start a barbershop? Sure. Massage studio, yes. Doctor office, yes. Office? Sure. Small grocery stor.? Absolutely.

We can have moderate limitations for parking and congestion, but no actual restrictions on what can take place. This will immediately raise property and income taxes which can be reinvested into infrastructure. In the meantime, there's no need to immediately deal with stroads. People will be using the stroads less since they can get a significant portion of needs met locally.

This is not a radical proposal. We already allow some home-based businesses and they do fine, like daycares, etc.

Once the stroads are less used, and people mostly shopping locally, then we can narrow the stroads bit by bit and turn them into nice proper commercial districts.
I've asked GPT-4 for personal advice a few times, and it always tends on a very conservative/cautious side. Something completely opposite of what's going on now. You would have to prompt it with some very crazy personality to come up with these shenanigans.
Am i right to think that preventing cash mixing is a big reason states/governments in general dislike casinos and even at-home games of poker?

I tend to think of money less as personal property or some commodity and more as a piece of software we're licensed to use; ie, the money issuers write the rules for what can be done with these bearer bonds, else you're breaking the agreement with jail as a consequence
Moving to Azure is definitely a smart move. Seems to be a lot more stable when OpenAI is continuously down these days
It's a pretty interesting article if you know how to read around the NYTimes's rhetoric.

"""The issue, it was clear to me, was that I told him I could not guarantee him the anonymity he’d been writing with. In fact, his real name was easy to find because people had shared it online for years and he had used it on a piece he’d written for a scientific journal. I did a Google search for Scott Alexander and one of the first results I saw in the auto-complete list was Scott Alexander Siskind."""

Reading the response, I don't think this is condeming Metz to live in infamy.
My read is not that Sam is critical for the development of ai at openai, but he is the person pushing for them to get commercial success and also getting them deals to actually have the compute to do things. So he IS critical for making all of the employees have PPUs that are worth anything. I imagine a lot of people are looking at hundreds of thousands or even millions lost if OpenAI decides to just stop commercializing and walk away from being a $100B+ company.
You don't have to be doing anything wrong. You only need to appear suspicious to a compliance algorithm and you're suddenly unbanked with no explanation or recourse.

Today's banks are over-compliant and won't care to dig into your intent.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/business/banks-accounts-c...
Please don't post archive links as top-level URLs*. It's important that the original source show up as the URL at the top, and for the original site to show up as the domain.

HN allows submissions from paywalled sites if and only if there's a workaround (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). In that case it's best to post the original URL and for users to contribute workaround links in the thread.

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(Exception: when the original article isn't available anywhere on the web.)
Researchers discover a single dimension of measurement of iron--in low, "balanced," and high levels of concentration--persist behavior for several generations, disappearing by the seventh.
While I don't agree with all of the framing in the NYT story, it's worth noting that Scott Alexander was much friendlier to Moldbug et. al. than the anti-Metz camp argued at the time: https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001

I think Metz's motivation for that framing was his assumption that if SA was not at least sympathetic to NRx views, he would not allow them to be such a big voice in his comments and in his community. You can argue about the reasonableness of this assumption, but he did turn out to be right.
Only those trying to blow a whistle (generally not good for one’s health), or get out before the indictments start landing anyway.
Pulling the probes required every time since 1 zealot simply doesn't beat 6 zerglings.
>The fear has nothing to do with "stranger danger".

The reasonable fear there is helpful citizens + media bullhorning false stranger risk + police bullhorning false stranger risk + just one overzealous officer = recurring CPS visits (and/or neglect charges if officials feel feisty).
You are only unlikely to be charged for it because the scale is small
Aha. I ran into issues installing too. I wonder if this was it. Will try again over the weekend. In the meantime I rolled back, thanks to ZFS and bectl as always <3
> Only one last criteria is lacking. Chris and the other strangers must participate in a "knowing" way. They must be aware that the property involved is criminally-derived.

Another way of saying that is that the only missing criteria is an actual crime. All activity that doesn’t involve crime is non-criminal, so it’s a bit of a leap to imply that something is borderline criminal because one minor detail is absent, with that minor detail being the presence of an actual crime.
It’s not clear to you, perhaps.
Jeez, if he’s not careful, he’s going to wind up doing an unregistered securities offering before this is all over.
What would those legitimate reasons be?
Promoting Anthropic and putting down OpenAI doesn't make her better at her job. Her job isn't self promotion.
Seems like there's a word or two missing in the opening sentence
> Anything that was different to what he was used to he hated.

I suspect he just hated the constant churn. That's kind of a rational frame of mind when you think about it.
> There are generally enough kids in the neighborhood that you can find someone to play with of about your age.

Is there? This is actually a problem. In many neighborhoods, especially in the nicest areas where people are richer, there are fewer and fewer kids. Today, there are significantly fewer kids than adults. Just a few decades ago, kids outnumbered adults in many neighborhoods.

I mean this really matters. If you have a community of 40 families and twenty kids, there's hardly any kids that can actually play with each other. They're probably too different in age, to have groups of more than 2 or 3, and that's a stretch because if you only have two or three there's a significant chance you may not get along / might not be super-interested.
yogis were right
Highly educated AI specialists are the little people now? They can all find employment in an instant.
Yes, but then maybe you should realize that you are out of your depth and abstain. Because clear as day this kind of power is actively being sought by many operators and if OpenAI was 'the good guys' then any chance of the good guys getting a head start has just been blown out of the water.

If she agreed with the Microsoft deal but not with what followed that too would be hopelessly naive. Microsoft + ethics?
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Is it illegal in all cases? Or only in cases where the source of my original money was illegal?

If my source of money is inconvenient or embarrassing but legal, it’s not at all obvious to me that tumbling cash is illegal.

The limited research I did suggests it’s illegal iff the source of my original money is not legal.
Wasn't he actively threatening the Texas House before the impeachment trial? I'm not sure if that counts as exonerating?
They were ruled by the communist party, so they were communist by ideology.
I’ve effectively worked on greenfield projects my entire time at Amazon:

1. New service within Prime to handle GDPR and other compliance related matters

2. Opensource CLI tooling

3. New AWS service

4. Another new AWS service

Maybe (1) doesn’t count since it had to operate within a preexisting microservice ecosystem, but in the rest we’ve had complete control of the product from languages to servers to cloud infrastructure.

I’d wager there are always new teams in most large companies that are doing greenfield projects, you just have to look for them and be willing to join.
The first paragraph of the linked Wikipedia says “In Australia and New Zealand, it can also be a neutral or positive term when used with a positive qualifier (e.g., "He's a good cunt").”
"Everyone is a genius in a bull market"
Sure they'd reject her but you calling her a "persistent litigator" doesn't make any sense.
I recently tried to generate clip art for a presentation using GPT-4/DALL-E 3. I found it could handle some updates but the output generally varied wildly as I tried to refine the image. For instance, I'd have a cartoon character checking its watch and also wearing a pocket watch. Trying to remove the pocket watch resulted in an entirely new cartoon with little stylistic continuity to the first.

Also, I originally tried to get the 3 characters in the image to be generated simultaneously, but eventually gave up as DALL-E had a hard time understanding how I wanted them positioned relative to each other. I just generated 3 separate characters and positioned them in the same image using Gimp.
The Basic I used had

LET X=10
> we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project

That bit I never understood. It doesn't even have a qualification as to who is stewarding the project as if any AI should be assisted no matter who ends up owning it. The whole thing is just so utterly disconnected from the real world.
Ethicists seem mainly concerned about thwarting technology to ensure that no harm occurs, rather than guiding the development of technology to deliver the most benefits possible.
When I was in high school I fell in love with physics. I was dreaming of becoming a theoretical physicist. I remember right after graduating from high school I went to a library and borrowed a book about black holes by Chandrasekhar. I saw it was far too difficult, but that was the type of science that excited me. I was also in love with nuclear engineering (the civilian part, I didn't care about nuclear bombs).

Now I'm a quant on Wall Street. I am lucky to use some quite advanced and cool math in my day to day job. About a week ago I figured out that for a particular numerical quadrature that I had, the tanh-sinh method beats down handily the Gauss-Legendre quadrature, and I was really excited. Still, the math I use is probably 1% the math one would use to study black holes or to simulate the inner workings of a nuclear reactor. But that's ok. I keep learning new math almost every day, and I keep reading books about nuclear engineering. I don't think I will ever work in the nuclear field, but it's a hobby I enjoy to follow up the latest developments in the field and to try to understand what the difficulties are and what's likely to succeed and what to fail.
> There's no slippery slope here; the slippery slope is a fallacy for a reason. We can, in fact, draw a line between "refuse to do business with someone" and "let someone end up dead", and say that the former is perfectly acceptable and the latter is not. This is not an argument against freedom of association.

You've already got plenty of documented cases of e.g. person gets fired, loses medical coverage, has to start rationing insulin, dies. So the slippery slope is real.

> No, we don't. We recognize that choosing not to associate with someone because of some specific protected characteristics is discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics, and we've decided to create narrow exceptions to freedom of association to prevent discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics.

Right, and the rationale for that is that discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics was so widespread that it crossed the line from freedom of association to denying people their rights. At least that's what I was told here.

(Also note that many lists of specific characteristics that should be protected, e.g. in the UN declaration of human rights, explicitly include political opinions in their list alongside things like race and religion; omitting that in US law seems like a historical oversight rather than real social consensus)

> That doesn't mean they should starve to death or get no medical care. Everyone should have food and medical care. By all means, let's fix that in our society, and have it not be tied to employment. That would solve many problems.

If and when you've fixed that, that will be a good argument for at-will firing. But until then it isn't.
The NIC gives you an array (ring buffer) of pointers to structs (packets). Interleaving them into SOA format would probably cost more than any speedup from SIMD.
https://archive.ph/eN5PY
NYC really isn't that unfriendly to kids: plenty of public transit to get places, lots of places to be a pedestrian, lots of things to do. In much of suburbia...where do you go? There isn't really much you can do until you are 15 or 16 and get a drivers license.

I chose to live in a more urban area of Seattle (Ballard) because I want my now 1st grader to be able to do things when he is a bit older. Still not as nice as Tokyo, but it could be a lot worse if we lived further north or on the east side.
Why do they continue to use fabric for the seats?

Fabric and foam gets insanely dirty and is almost impossible to properly clean.

There's also the very real problem of bedbugs being spread via the tube.
Ah yes right because nothing ever happens and all stories on the net fake.
This is gold. Now tell it that it's depicting real world events and ask it if it feels safe being run by such a company.
This was one of the main reasons I cancelled my ChatGPT Pro subscription in favour of Claude…but unfortunately Claude is now doing the same thing too.
> If you have businesses in the community it brings traffic and noise. Much nicer to separate residential and commercial.

Completely false. If you have a bunch of small cafes, small scale grocery stores, etc, it brings no traffic. It reduces traffic because now people walk instead of driving to those places. I used to live in a suburb that somehow managed to grandfather in a small convenience store. It was great. I went to the grocery store less because when I ran out of bell peppers I just walked to the store. We drove way less.

Now I live in the inner city a few blocks from a thriving commercial district and there's hardly any cars. I have no idea why people actually believe this. Our neighborhood is pitch silent at night.
Streetcar suburbs came before that. The lot sizes were just as big too. Though the streetcar meant less cars.
you don’t want people to know you’re into femboys? or really anything else? like you’re seeing a therapist?
(I think this is a bit of a distraction from the main thread, but the main issue there was always de-anonymization in the other direction: that patients might Google "Scott Siskind" and find his blog, which might render it difficult to maintain the correct kind of relationship with him as their psychiatrist. He's careful to not accept any readers of his blog as patients.)
Actually, I'm asking Google to serve me a file via a GET request. The response they send back includes the content along with an ad. Google would prefer I watch the ad but since the bits are on my computer and Google has no say in how I operate my computer, which bits I read, or how I allocate my time their wishes don't really matter after they've sent me the bits I care about.

Google could just say "no" and not send me any content at all. I'm not "taking" anything though.
Ask HN: What is the best GPT for computer related stuff?
Which GPT is best suited for coding, programming, technology related stuff.
Well, minutes after posting this, I got an invite.
I moved your comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372541 to here, where it seems like it can help more readers. I hope that's ok!
Not really, and your own description is little different from the person you're responding to anyway?
YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB
>But you do operate on a larger stage and sticking your head in the sand and pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist is also not going to work.

I'm sure that's how tobacco and oil executives justify their paycheck: "If I wasn't doing it, someone else would". Probably lots of criminals justify their crimes using similar reasoning too.

Ultimately it's not quite true. If you quit your job at that tobacco or oil company, it's going to take a while to find them a replacement for you. That replacement might not be quite as good at the job (why were you picked for the job in the first place? Probably because you were the strongest candidate.) You aren't going to totally halt EvilCorp by quitting, but you're going to give it a speed bump.

In the case of OpenAI, we have to consider what organization is likely to replace them if they throw in the towel. If it's a more cautious org like Anthropic, OpenAI throwing in the towel could actually be a good thing from the point of view of their charter: https://openai.com/charter
I don't think experience shows most people should or want to own their own wallets. And transactions are much easier without owning one. If you just want BTC exposure as an investment an ETF is much better.
Investors wanted to have a commercial enterprise while pretending it was a nonprofit acting for the good of humanity. This helps market something as scary and potentially destructive as AI. "It can't be that bad, they're a nonprofit with altruistic goals!" Then the investors get mad when the board they intended to be figureheads actually try to uphold some principles.

Best to rip the band-aid off and stop pretending.
> This is still what the Guide on the Mercurial site mentions as the "basic workflow" ...

I imagine you're referring to the "hg book"[1] ?

It irks me that that site hasn't been updated since ~2009, and there doesn't seem to be anything equivalent for "modern" Mercurial. Alas.

EDIT: oh, looks like there is a somewhat newer version (~2015?): https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/part-getting-started.htm...

[1] http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
Didn't happen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer