skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds like a pulsar

It doesn't, really. And it's almost certainly not one. Practically all known pulsars are in our galaxy, and the known extragalactic one is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a sattelite of the Milky Way; observations of this LFBOT support a source in a more distant galaxy. The "B" and "O" in LFBOT are for "blue optical", indicating where in the elecgromagnetic spectrum its luminosity is concentrated. Pulsars are radio variables; "radio" is what the "r" is for. Some pulsars (Vela, Crab) are surrounded by material that can obscure radio emissions and promote higher frequencies -- Vela & Crab are among the brightest X-Ray sources in our sky, and are quite bright optically too, including in blue. However, the higher-frequency optical and X-ray pulses track a small multiple (~2) of the radio pulses in these objects, i.e. the blue is brightest about several times a second.

By comparison the LFBOT optical flares rise and fall in blue brightness over the course of tens of minutes. Additionally, the difference between the optically brightest and dimmest parts of the LFBOT's cycle is more than ten times that of the two example bright optical pulsars above.

Other objects that flare over the course of tens of minutes tend to do so in soft gamma rays (rather than optically), or with much smaller differences between the brightest and darkest parts of the cycle.

Finally, pulsars once discovered stick around for many years with a fairly stable brightness (in radio, anyway, but see the Crab's "nanoshots" below). This LFBOT (like several others) faded far from peak luminosity over the course of about three months. That's several times quicker than the fade of a supernova, for example.

From the actual paper summarized at the link at the top, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06673-6 (corresponds with <https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10195>):

"To our knowledge, this phenomenon — minute-timescale optical flares at supernova-like luminosities, with order-of-magnitude amplitude variations, persisting for 100 days — has no precedent in the literature"

The reader is then directed to Supplementary Information Table 1: Summary of large-amplitude (>~ 10x) flares from representative literature objects. In the Neutron Stars part of that table there are three representative objects, two extragalactic soft gamma ray repeaters, and the Crab (but focusing on the highest-amplitude flares, which are called "nanoshots" because the flares only last a few nanoseconds on average). The Crab's nanoshots are in radio (frustratingly in a band popular with satellite communications), not optical.

Nobody really knows what LFBOTs are, but they keep popping up in optical-transient observations and so are likely a class of similar objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_blue_optical_transient which highlights the thinking that they are one possible outcome of a high-mass star's death (e.g. a star so heavy that it collapses directly into a black hole rather than going supernova and leaving behind a somewhat smaller black hole).
Why was it rewritten?
This was great, thanks! Really enjoyed this
Bard has had access to Google caches since launch. I asked it about my 8-follower Twitter account and it quoted my first Tweet and the registration month correctly. It also hallucinated my gender and described me as "a popular figure in the French-speaking Twitter community" (because my name is a French word, I guess).
Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL or Redis on the roadmap for sources?
Oh well I guess I used the wrong word then, but from context you should have been able to figure out the intent behind my words.

Only human!

> Don't insult others for your own clumsy usage.

We're on the internet. Something like 25% of internet discourse is nitpicking vocabulary. Let's keep traditions alive this holiday season!
How did she stay on the board?
“All these employees losing their livelihoods for the greater good.”

The same employees building technology that will ultimately put many more employees out of jobs? Ironic, because people say that jobs lost to AI will be for the greater good. I think we’re okay with sacrificing for greater goods as long as we aren’t the ones getting sacrificed.
> According to Eric Schmidt, OpenAI is worth $90B. LLMs being unable to master mturk and $90B are incongruent.

Top 5 reasons why OpenAI was probably never really worth $86 billion <https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/top-5-reasons-why-openai-w...>

The company is overhyped and over-valued, and the capabilities of LLMs aren't All That and a Bag of Chips
If Americans doesn’t act as the biggest consumer per person, there will not be a future for coming generations,regardless of what the Asians do. Europeans has come much further in the transition.
No, but it's a description of one party's opening position in the negotiation out of which law will eventuate. Still quite far from something the median engineer is well equipped to encompass, judging at least by a decade of experience on Hacker News.
> AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments

Based on this definition, we’ve had AI since the 1950s. So AI is basically any device capable of computation, according to the FTC.

While I’m not sure in this case it’s really a big change in regards to how the FTC conducts investigations…(I assume they can already subpoena whomever for any reason) it is somewhat alarming in that we’re going to see more and more government mission creep based on similar tenuous definitions of “AI.”

Seems to just be inviting abuses of power in the name of “safety” over basic computer tech we’ve had for decades.
What she is supposed to do is bring the issues to the company so that they can be fixed.

That's the pro safety solution.
I put all questions to both Bard and chatGPT. The exact same words.

Bard is almost always better.

For example try: "why does my hole saw have a spring over the drill bit?"

Bard is correct, chatGPT makes up nonsense. (There's no such thing as "pilot bit extension spring", and the rest of the reply makes little sense as well.)

https://chat.openai.com/share/485a6968-6379-4f64-87b3-6c1575...

https://g.co/bard/share/01c5bb4bf540
I'm going to take a slightly different tack, one that will probably also provide walkable.

We should be transitioning as many neighborhoods to be aligned around the e-bike, which provides a lot more transportation utility, a fair amount more range, but not nearly as much danger to pedestrians, climate impact, etc.

Walkability comes practically for free from such an approach.

The ebike should provide just enough range + concentration to enable the big box store. What is not talked about with walkable neighborhoods is that they are rich neighborhoods with rich people that don't mind paying twince Walmart costs.

Especially post-covid-inflation, this won't fly. You need SOME big box scale.

Because no one talks about the bodega in the slum. There's lots of poor neighborhoods with expensive bodegas that are poor people's only options. People do not rave about that.
What were the specific benefits you experienced?
Genes can transfer between species, so I don't see why this wouldn't be possible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
Rather than multiple calls to random, have you considered picking the x and y offsets randomly and then picking the color based on them?

It seems like one could tell a better story about why-that-color? If it were a function of the other random choices.
App Store on iOS 17.1.1 in Europe has ChatGPT app version 1.2023.319 (14269) released three days ago.
No sign of ChatGPT Voice. No headphone icon to be found. There’s also no «New Features» entry in Settings on the mobile app and so no way to opt into voice conversations as the blog article suggests.
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak

Edit: The headphone icon appeared on Nov 22, 2023 around 6am CET without an update to the app. There is no «New Features» entry in the Settings.
Luckily it never rains here, so don't worry about getting wet...
Worth noting that Tiamat's battery is sodium vanadium fluoride phosphate, not sodium ferrocyanide. So, these are not quite the same technology. Vanadium costs a similar amount as nickel and has a higher abundance, but the present-day annual production is much lower. The long-term resource outlook for vanadium is unclear.

Sodium ferrocyanide ("Prussian white") was claimed by CATL as well, though they have been supplementing it with lithium in cars for some reason. The cynic in me thinks that the lithium is there to stabilize unfavorable cycling characteristics of the sodium; the optimist hopes it is just because lithium is cheaper at scale right now.
Maybe something like OpenSCAD is a good middle ground. Procedural code-like format for specifying 3D objects that can then be converted and imported in Blender.
Which is, of course, complete bullshit as well.

This answer perfectly illustrates why the chat gpt verbiage irritates me so much.

It's basically rephrasing the oft-repeated complaint that Google kills of projects, (in an MBA style English).

But how does that have anything to do with Bard AI being crap?

People are seriously impressed by this app?
Nginx is not a joy to configure but it’s probably easier than hystrix.
It's possible to simultaneously believe that announcing that the CEO lied to the board about x on day y is better than announcing that the CEO is leaving to spend more time with his family, but announcing that the CEO lied to the board and then refusing to elaborate when everyone including the CEO says "huh? What?" is worse than either.
There was at least one OpenAI employee on Blind [0] saying that they (unclear who "they" is but presumably some other employees) pressured employees into signing and called him in the middle of the night to do it. I just googled it and found a thread as well [1].

[0] https://teamblind.com

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/OpenAI-employees-did-you-sign...
I mean, here is a relevant passage from the paper, linked in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38373684

If I were the CEO of OpenAI, I'd be pretty pissed if a member of my own board was shitting on the organization she was a member of while puffing up a competitor. But the tone of that paper makes me think that the schism must go back much earlier (other reporting said things really started to split a year ago when ChatGPT was first released), and it sounds to me like Toner was needling because she was pissed with the direction OpenAI was headed.

I'm thinking of a good previous comment I read when the whole Timnit Gebru situation at Google blew up and the Ethical AI team at Google was disbanded. The basic argument was on some of the inherent incompatibilities between an "academic ombudsman" mindset, and a "corporate growth" mindset. I'm not saying which one was "right" in this situation given OpenAI's frankenstein org structure, but just that this kind of conflict was probably inevitable.
No, it did not conflict. But that doesn't mean you first try to get things fixed rather than to publish.

> I'd say the OpenAI employees are the ones with the conflict of interest, since they stand to get rich if the company does well, independent of whether the charter is being upheld.

Those pesky employees again. Too bad we still need them. But after AGI is a fact we don't and then it'll be a brave new world.
This paper describes Tiamat's battery as Na3V2(PO4)2F3:

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10....
Humans are about as rational and intelligent as you'd expect from any evolved species.

Which is to say, our intelligence is mostly tuned to increase the number of descendants we have.

If AIs are subject to evolutionary forces, the same will be true for them.
If you are having issues with EF Core, maybe it's not the tool's fault?
Yeah, but I don't want to be code-switching with a computer.
It says it doesn't work when you have chat history turned off - and thus data collection, which is combined into the same setting. Even on the paid version.
Does it taste good?
Subversion -was- a massive improvement over CVS but the effort to create it only started in 2000 and it was early 2004 when it went 1.0. I think it was at the 2003 OSCON when Fitz et al introduced it? Everyone in the audience was stoked, but it only had a few good years before git eclipsed it.
A view on whether this development (preparing SF office for hundreds of OpenAI people to jump ship) rises to the level of bad faith, when viewed in light of Satya's Nov 19th pledge "We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI":

https://x.com/1hopecomingtrue/status/1727169849900868017?s=2...
There is nothing unusual or contradictory about smart people doing stupid things.
Beautifully written, heart-and-mind felt, but already reads like a belated plea to bring humanity to computer science, AI research, and big business. All when liberal art universities are losing their liberal arts. One cannot really disagree (I cannot anyway), but what pragmatic actions can one take—-especially after moving from Stanford to Google. Yes, Li has been in and fed the belly of the beast. Now what?
It's just human nature to be biased toward the thing that supports your view. It's actually more blatant in you than most people in this thread.

Your 3 comments:

> I'm no adtech expert but <insert something you want to be true to validate your opinion, despite not knowing if it's true>

> Were ads being placed... at the same rate

Again, you have no idea what the answer is here. But you clearly think it supports what you believe.

> Do they not know how humans brain generally work..

A lot of assumptions baked in here that, what do you know, support your own biases. Your a self-admitted non-expert in adtech, but in the course of 3 comments it's suddenly so baffling that people can't see what is so obvious

In other words, HN is full of humans, just like you.
One Notebook Away
Since what it does is set procedure for the FTC during FTC investigations, the people that are expected to follow it are...the FTC.

(Its also important to people subject to FTC investigations to determine whether they are obligated to respond to particular things that purport to be a particular form of administrative subpoena, but, I mean, at the point that your business is subject to an FTC investigation in which they are issuing things that look like administrative subpoenas, you probably ought to be engaging counsel to guide you in that process for more reasons than just "is this something we need to obey", and the substantive law being investigated is going to be a much more complicated thing that the one page order adopting compulsory process for a particular domain of investigations.)
Yes, some humans. But at what point does “some” humans become a problem? The US had only 30% unemployment during the Great Depression and that was only temporary.
The article does not describe the cycle life of the battery. This has been a common problem with sodium-ion batteries, so the lack of any statement on this matter is concerning.
They agreed to curtail their liberty and risk life and limb on behalf of, and at the direction of, the state. Whatever you think of such a decision, it's absurd, especially for anyone who's ever taken compensation in equity, to imagine the state should not consider itself under some reciprocal obligation.
OpenAI employees: did you sign the petition out of fear?
The lack of any projects with meaningful tractions?
Wow. That's a really... foreign mindset. Thank you for helping me understand.
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, the contention I intend to make is that he agrees more with the racial views of his NRx commenters than he publicly let on. That was the framing of the NYT article -- nobody thinks or would be incensed to learn that SA is a Neo-Monarchist or any of the other NRx beliefs that are orthogonal to modern US political discourse.

If you don't think racial IQ disparities are a significant part of NRx thought, fine, you're probably better positioned to know and I am happy to concede the point. In that case, a better comparison would be to Steve Sailor's views. I only mentioned NRx because that is the context of his emails, and I had not recognized that he was linking to Steve Sailor's blog.
If you need PLP use an enterprise drive. That's what they're for.
Yes but you would go pretty far with a integrated intel if you are only getting 5%
My simulations were based on the iso-new England grid's spot fees. I estimated the cost of a grid scale battery based on what I paid for my powerwall, because I couldn't get data on the price of the mega pack.

I couldn't tell you if you'll save money with a powerwall in Australia. You'll need to look up local incentives for that. Understanding the economics of a power grid, it's only worth it if you have solar and don't have typical American-style "net metering," or you have solar and need backup for power outages.

What I can tell you is that, in the US, in 2019, I got a rebate for my powerwall that made it price competitive with a standby generator. (Cost a little more, but I don't pay for annual maintenance or fuel.) I don't feed into the grid with it. The incentives would need to be pretty lucrative, though, because if there's a power outage overnight, it'll drain fast! (All my outages since I got it happened during the day.)

What I can also tell you is that Tesla made a lot of headlines hooking up a grid scale battery to balance out an Australian wind farm. It prevented a frequency drop when a coal plant went offline.
Have you considered a netbook? Small keyboard :)
Right.

And typically, you only have to go through the investigation if someone brings a complaint about your product. You would have to be screwing up big time to rack up complaints like that though.
Microsoft's Nov 19 "partnership" maybe bad faith given Nov 21 plan to gut OpenAI
One man's altruist is another man's fanatic. I, for one, would prefer an evil bandit over an evil fanatic because at least a bandit sleeps once in a while as that C.S Lewis quote goes.
Par for the course for EA and the nine dwarfs of Eschatology.
Leela Chess Zero has been around for a while, and it's almost as strong as Stockfish.
It used to be very bad at handicap games because it's trained to maximize the odds of winning and couldn't handle totally lost positions, but they improved it recently. Now it can play at GM level with knight odds.
The board is getting a lot of crap for being crap. Regardless of your opinion about their goals, their execution was objectively terrible. They were clearly completely detached from their organization. At the very least, they could have made sure their first interim CEO wouldn't instantly try to turn against them.

It's not a contradiction to criticize someone for saying too much sometimes and saying too little another time. The board should be open to insiders and cautious with external communications.
They may ban it, but are they doing, or can they do, anything to enforce said ban?

If enforcement isn't possible, can it be considered controlled?

China has 'banned' Bitcoin n times. That in itself tells me how well, or otherwise, it can be controlled.

Monero is crypto-non-grata in many countries. That just means obtaining it requires visiting slightly dirtier and slightly darker alleyways.
I wonder if she realises that almost everyone in SV has gone to university and most have attended at least one or two ethics classes during that time.

Because ultimately people will be driven by the same thing that drove previous generations: money, power, fame, success, ego etc.

And no amount of university lectures with enlightened scientists and their superior values will change that.
Epigenetics is real, of course, but approximately nothing is passed between generations in humans. Here’s a good rundown from a geneticist:

https://www.razibkhan.com/p/you-cant-take-it-with-you-straig...

The actual biological reality is fascinating, and so much more interesting than the distorted version you get from unscientific fabulists.
Hm.. I would think it is here the board holding the leash, but being pushed forward in a direction they did not wanted to go..
Are you sure you are using the latest version of ChatGPT ? It could have been an outdated version (3.5) from one year ago (based on the green logo).
Why was Schmidt on Apple’s board? Did he care about Apple’s mission or Apple shareholders?
You don't need more than 3-5g per day (about 15mg per pound of body-weight) to see the maximal effects. There is a loading period where you take 2-4 weeks to saturate, many take an increased dose to get there faster but if you're going to be doing this consistently, after a month of daily usage 3-5g is all you need.
> especially after moving from Stanford to Google

I understand that she only worked at Google during a sabbatical from Stanford (Jan '17 to Sept '18) and that she's back at Stanford now. [1]

It's a little bit confusing with her writing in the present tense about being at Google but I think that's because this article is composed of excerpts from her recent book, so they're excerpting a bit from that time period.

[1] https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li
Looks great, congrats!

I made a small interpreted language on top of nodejs, for the same customers. https://github.com/MoserMichael/jscriptparse

However it turns out that you can't draw too much with node, so I didn't manage to add turtle graphics.
Is it possible to rotate the ball in this fluid simulation; given the viscosity of the fluid, surface tension, material and texture of the ball,?
Makes sense to me. Google clearly has a culture/reputation where projects are routinely killed off because they aren't deemed "successful" by some arbitrary metric. This fosters a "failure/success" mentality among employees, which influences what types of projects they take (obvious, immediately profitable) and how long it takes to develop them (as quick as possible). While they have a lot of smart people working there, I think big G has some organisational problems which prevents them from completing large scale experimental projects like this.
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but live sports is one of the last advertising venues where there isn't true adblock/skip

Although protip is to find UK streams instead of US for the same events, shorter ad breaks
As I said you are misinterpreting the page. We know this because according to your interpretation Elon Musk is not a founder, which we know is false. They probably didn't want to repeat people's names, so they mentioned it where it is most relevant. If you still have any doubts ask ChatGPT. I asked multiple ways, and it says he is a founder.
And does it have anything to do with this? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
> but, I mean, at the point that your business is subject to an FTC investigation in which they are issuing things that look like administrative subpoenas, you probably ought to be engaging counsel to guide you in that process for more reasons than just "is this something we need to obey", and the substantive law being investigated is going to be a much more complicated thing that the one page order adopting compulsory process for a particular domain of investigations.)

More clear wording would hopefully allow business to avoid getting some CIDs on this topic and/or streamlining the process after getting a CID. If you know hat you need to document to make it clear you are the right side of the law, hopefully that would make the entire process go faster.
The output is a pattern for a specific input*

They need to know the input...
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