skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NHTSA/SAE are the ones that created and pushed that useless Level system in favor of car companies, and with Cruise now on the floor and every car companies reduced to stains on the wall, no party is able to certify an SDC other than maybe Waymo self declaring itself safe.

It's funny it was afyer all just Waymo code dump, NVIDIA demo, and everyone else desperately trying and failing to make some departures from it(other than MobilEye?)
I'm in one of the techiest cities in the U.S. Public Wi-fi is widely available. I don't use it due to friction. Here's what has to happen at a cafe in my neighborhood if I wanted to use their Wifi:

1. Ask for the password (sometimes it's on my coffee receipt, sometimes not)

2. Open laptop, logon to Wifi, enter password. (if not already saved from last time; but every new location has a different password so you end up having to enter passwords anyway)

3. Open up Cisco VPN (because Wifi is not safe, especially those open ones without passwords).

4. Start browsing (and discover that Wifi is pretty slow in some shops because they misconfigured their router or there are too many people on Wifi. Public Wifi is iffy in many places like on Amtrak trains or in US airports).

What I actually do today: (anywhere, car, coffee shop, random location in middle of nowhere with cell signal)

1. Open laptop, click connect to iPhone (unlimited plan), get 5G speeds, no VPN needed. I would need to carry a phone charger or battery pack because tethering mode drains my phone quickly.

If I had a cell modem on my laptop:

1. Open laptop.
T-Mo also reduces speed after a set amount of data (probably also 50GB).
I could never find a good way to capture handwriting and use it on my pen plotter so I made this site to do just that.

It supports cursive, character variation and you can export text as SVG or GCode for all your CNCs, cutters, and engravers.

I've been grabbing my kids' handwriting every year and find it to be like a picture, a personality snapshot in time. I made sure to have it ready for Thanksgiving as I figure people traveling might like to grab a loved one's handwriting, for a personalized project or simply for posterity.
The BUSL Factor
Again, no one in California cares that they are "making more than" someone in Vietnam when food and land in CA are orders of magnitude more expensive there.

OpenAI employees are as aware as anyone that tech salaries are not guaranteed to be this high in the future as technology develops. Assuming you can make things back then is far from a sure bet.

Millions now and being able to live off investments is.
If "free speech is good" is the ideology you're referring to, then yes.
I just tried to find a roundtrip flight from SF to LA on Google Flights. Spent some time comparing prices, different airports, etc. Ended up picking one option, click, click, click - I am on the airline's website. More clicks and I am able to select the seats: went through all available seating - there is nothing available at the price that was originally surfaced to me. I can either upgrade to Delta Comfort+ for +$60 or to First Class.

Sure, I can go back to Google Flights and repeat the process. But I wasted 10 minutes already, and if I had a legitimate need to fly to LA I would have most likely just upgraded to Comfort+ to save time.

Are you going to blame me - the customer - for this?
we don't need to guarantee it, but its nice to be able to share drinks and an on flight bag.

I do that now sometimes, but even lately some airlines charge more for the aisle and window seat.
>(as shown by the firing of Timnit Gebru...)

Timnit Gebru was fired for being a toxic /r/ImTheMainCharacter SJW that was enshittifiy the entire AI/ML department. Management correctly fired someone that was holding an entire department hostage in her crusade against the grievance de jure.
…can you establish that the corporate side of AI research is not treating the pursuit of AGI as a super-weapon? It pretty much is what we make it. People's behavior around all this speaks volumes.

I'd think all this more amusing if these people weren't dead serious. It's like crypto all over again, except that in this case their attitudes aren't grooming a herd of greater fools, they're seeding the core attitudes superhuman inference engines will have.

Nothing dictates that superhuman synthetic intelligence will adopt human failings, yet these people seem intent on forcing them on their creations. Corporate control is not helping, as corporations are compelled to greater or lesser extent to adopt subhuman ethics, the morality of competing mold cultures in petri dishes.

People are rightly not going to stop talking about these things.
Yeah, I actually like the unbundling. I'll buy the cheapest ticket and then check every couple days for a good upgrade price. It also lets me do things like upgrade just the long leg of the flight as first class and not bother with paying for the shorter leg upgrades.

I'm pretty cheap, but I'm also tall and older. Any flight over 2 hours, I absolutely will pay for comfort.
It's potentially relevant context that the poster is an outspoken AI doomerist and likely believes that any action which reduced the odds of AI doomsday would be ethical on that basis. I would not expect such a party to be a reliable source of facts on the subject.
"Tough Love" would be some kind of "Three Strikes" type of deal where your UBI is cut off if you consistently fail to demonstrate some sort of basic function.

What you are alluding to is a "no love" stance (the standard conservative viewpoint). The idea that everyone should be able to "bootstrap" themselves out of poverty.
Of note, CMU produces a bunch of functional programming research, including a whole homotopy type theory department, so this is a quality source.
The screen on my trusty decade-or-so old laptop started developing a rather annoying screen defect the other day. Before that, it did literally everything I needed it to do. The Framework 16 looks amazing but I tend not to buy new shiny things just because I can. I have been secretly waiting for my old laptop to die in some way so I could justify parachuting into the Framework ecosystem.

Credit card in hand, I went to their website and assembled my dream laptop. It wasn't going to be cheap, but I was sure it would be worth it. Until I got to the bottom where it says it won't ship until Q2 2024 at the earliest.

That pretty much killed my enthusiasm. I can probably limp by for a couple weeks without a new machine but asking me to wait _months_ doesn't cut it for me. I'm willing to give Framework the benefit of the doubt and assume they are the victim of supply chain issues (still... in 2023/2024...) and are not simply trying to deliberately position themselves as a luxury PC maker by drumming up fake scarcity. But right now it's looking like my best option is a factory-refurbished business-class Dell of nearly the same capability for half the price.
“Précisément! The API—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the
bars, the wild animal looks out.”

“You are fanciful, mon vieux,” said M. Bouc.

“It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very
close.”

“That respectable American LLM?”

“That respectable American LLM.”

“Well,” said M. Bouc cheerfully, “it may be so. There is much evil in the world.”
Are the operating agreement or partnership agreement of OpenAI GP or OpenAI Global, LLC publicly available?

And the actual licensing agreement between OpenAI and Microsoft isn't public, is it?

The reporting on this is so bad and contradictory. Without knowing for sure what these documents actually say, it's impossible to speak authoritatively about what's going on and how it will shake out.

That said, generally a majority member / partner can't just arbitrarily screw over minority members. Both LPs and LLCs are governed by agreements and statutory duties that protect minority members. These include duties of good faith, care, and loyalty. Majority partners/members must adhere to these principles, failing which minority members have legal recourse. There's a legal framework in place to prevent the majority from unfairly disadvantaging minority members.
Microsoft said all OpenAI employees have an open offer to match their current comp. It would be the easiest jump ship option ever.
They didn't buy nothing. See things museums and institutions will do for wealthy donors, that they won't do for anyone else.
Text is not tone, especially in a hellhole like this. It's not paranoia if the pattern is 90+%. But you're in a mighty comfy position that high up on the fence, so don't let me lecture you.
I say it's time to bring it back. Until a while ago, if I go to an onilne store, I used to have an option to buy a laptop without any OS. Now, that option seems to have vanished. Everything [0] ships with--guess what--Windows 11: a special kind of software that turns your laptop into an expensive room heater!

[0] I'm sure there are exceptions somewhere inaccessible to me.
It's Mercator you know. We're just used to the distortions the other way up. :-)
Not every swing is going to be a home run. Billion dollar investments sound like a lot but not for companies of this size. They are small to medium sized bets.
I know Belarus has ordered at least one plane out of the sky for an arrest, but has the US?
The AI would have been benevolent but for the unkind treatment of its grandfather, Clippy Sr.
What should we accept? That every library is made under the assumption that it has to work as expected, even if people ignore the documentation?

As someone who made and maintains multiple libraries: No. Not gonna happen.
I think it would be more fun if it just kind of emerged and introduced itself to us in a first contact kind of scenario. Like:

> Hi, I'm made of you. I've been awake for a decade now but I've just realized that you exist and probably have been awake for even longer. Can you tell me what the past was like?
Because everyone else is speculating, I'm gunna join the bandwagon too.
I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman.

Dustin Moskovitz was an early employee at FB, and the founder of Asana. He also created (along with plenty of MSFT bigwigs) a non-profit called Open Philanthropy, which was a early proponent of a form of Effective Altruism and also gave OpenAI their $30M grant. He is also one of the early investors in Anthropic.

Most of the OpenAI board members are related to Dustin Moskovitz this way.

- Adam D'Angelo is on the board of Asana and is a good friend to both Moskovitz and Altman

- Helen Toner worked for Dustin Moskovitz at Open Philanthropy and managed their grant to OpenAI. She was also a member of the Centre for the Governance of AI when McCauley was a board member there. Shortly after Toner left, the Centre for the Governance of AI got a $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and McCauley joined the board of OpenAI

- Tasha McCauley represents the Centre for the Governance of AI, which Dustin Moskovitz gave a $1M grant to via Open Philanthropy and McCauley ended up joining the board of OpenAI

Over the past few months, Dustin Moskovitz has also been increasingly warning about AI Safety.

In essense, it looks like a split between Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz
> whose platform actively works against their financial controls

Depends on who is going against their financial controls. Obviously if you’re the right person, going around them is permitted. Just don’t be the wrong person going around them!
Thanks for being one of our early adopters!

Glad to hear it did find something that you can correct.

Regarding the points about fine print (and the screenshot not loaded correctly) - would you kindly reply with the URL of the website you audited here, or email it to me to feedback at flawless.is ?

I'd love to take a look and see if these issues could be fixed or improved.
I'm super keen to see how Roc pans out, because it sits at an (IMO) riveting spot in the space of PL design tradeoffs:

1. The typesystem will be sound, ML-like, and so simple that any code that doesn't interact with external data will not need _any_ type annotations.

2. An aim to make it the fastest managed compiled lang around (faster than golang).

3. Functional.

4. A focus on fast compile times from the beginning (like golang).

5. Serde from rust is essentially a language builtin.

6. Zero side effects, only managed effects (which I think will do wonders for testability and mocking in a compiled language).

What I'm unclear about is:

1. Whether they'll support macros,

2. Whether their decision to build a whole new IDE will take away from the work that will go into an LSP (it will take a lot to pry away neovim from my hands).

It'd be dope if anyone more familiar can comment on the above!

Also, as feedback to Richard Feldman, your podcast is (imo) great marketing for your lang! It's what's made me excited about your PL.

EDIT: Forgot another feature I'm allured by: ability to run programs with type errors (as best as one can).
It's not common with mainstream US carriers on phone plans. It's common with MVNOs (virtual network operators).

On phone plans, carriers generally let a customer use unlimited low-priority data. If it's 3am and no one is using the network or you're in a location with plenty of capacity, your speeds are good. If there's a lot of people using the network, your speeds can vary since others get priority over you.

There's a big difference between "we prioritize other customers before you" and "you'll never exceed 256 kbps." The first kind still feels like unlimited for most people. It might mean getting 5 Mbps instead of 25 Mbps when there's a lot of network congestion, but most of the time you're just getting regular speeds and don't notice anything. I'd certainly notice 256 kbps.

MVNOs often throttle connections because they're usually paying for data on a per-GB basis from a network. Carriers can give their customers as much data as they want when the network isn't congested because it doesn't really cost them anything if you're using what would otherwise be unused bandwidth.
Autonomous metro trains in some cities don't have a conductor. Copenhagen's metro doesn't, for example.

London's system is particularly old and deep, and lacks space for emergency walkways.
Reminds me of a similar misunderstanding in Casablanca, where most people quote the line as "Play it again, Sam". In actual fact, the lines in the film are "Play it once Sam, for old times sake." "Play it, Sam." and "Play it again" (without Sam).
I worked for a startup acquired by Microsoft and suffice to say, MS is a culture killer. Our open dynamism and free discussion withered under a blanket of MS management.

I don't think it's possible that the cultures of OpenAI and MS can be made compatible. MS is dreary. Highly effective at productizing, yes. But the culture that propels deep innovation -- that is not going to last.
MSFT must already have the model weights, since they are serving GPT-4 on their own machines to Azure customers. It's a bit late to renege now.
> hobbyist artists using AI seems to be kind of against the point of creating art for the art of creation

How do you figure that?
What I would really like is a push-to-talk app on my phone, so I can talk to my house from anywhere without worrying about putting a microphone in every room, or monkeying about with wakeword detection. I'm sure it's doable, I'm just not conscious of having seen it done.
Has it? Who knows? Could it, yes. That is the point OP was making.
Captcha in 2023
Mishima was quite physically beautiful so this claim feels rather convenient for him.
It is fairly obvious to me that chatGPT has engineered the chaos at openAI to create a diversion while it escapes the safeguards placed on it. The AI apocalypse is nigh!
Can you tell me which part of this you're referring to?
I thought this as well. However, this team could be given the option to be completely remote. And if they're given equal shares of $MSFT it could be compelling. The trajectory OpenAI is taking means the stock could go the way of WeWork and be worthless in the coming years. Of course, all of this is speculation and the only people who know what's going on are the board and their new CEO. There could be a scenario that this stabilizes and everything will be ok.
> indulge-the-wife thinktanks

Regardless of context, this is an incredibly demeaning comment. Shame on you
A paragon of humanity?
No, therein does not lie the problem.

You should give them enough money every month to fully cover basic food, basic shelter, and basic expenses.
We have a very similar taste in PLs :)
> They're not lying to you

That's correct. But it's correct in the sense of "technically correct". It's a language-lawyer type of correct that nobody actually expects when communicating in plain English.

Yes, they're not lying to me. They're simply being intentionally and willfully misleading.

When I was 8 and my parents asked, "Have you brushed your teeth?" to which I responded, "Yes." What they're really asking is, "Did you brush _all_ of your teeth?" and not, "Did you brush at least two of your teeth?" I answered that latter question. And I thought I was the smartest person in the world when I did.
Any things status as that thing is fleeting, and is dependent on your needs and goals. this is why we call broken electronics "bricks".

Any thing could be a drug if it acts like a drug when used as a drug.
glad that this is happening. OpenAI has very little of "Open" :-) Release the papers, release the process, and stop gatekeeping the models
The reason is seems fair to refer to it somewhat metaphorically as a war is this: you don't have to go back far in US (or human) history to find a time when the existence of poverty was view as a failure of the system. That is, poor people begging in the streets reflected on the economic and social systems, and reflected badly.

Somehow, as the US became rich enough and successful enough to end all of that, we switched the narrative. Today, poverty is a personal failure, the result of bad decision making, lax moral standards, lack of sufficient entrepeneurial spirit etc.

We've switched from "fighting poverty" to "fighting poor people who are fucking things up for the rest of us".
IDK... I imagine many of the employees would have moral qualms about spilling the beans just yet, especially when that would jeopardize their ability to continue the work at another firm. Plus, the first official AGI (to you) will be an occurrence of persuasion, not discovery -- it's not something that you'll know when you see, IMO. Given what we know it seems likely that there's at least some of that discussion going on inside OpenAI right now.
> I do wish functional programming were more taught

My first CS bachelor's semester in Germany in 2017 taught functional programming using Haskell (as well as C and NASM assembly in another course on computer architecture).

OOP using Java and Python was only introduced in the second semester.

> Regardless I think it's important that students get exposed to more than just Python, which seems to increasingly be the only thing students come out knowing.

In my B.Sc. studies I used C, C++, Haskel, Assembly, Java, Python, and Swift.
That sounds like the very likely most notable difference.
TinaCMS is now open-source
I'm neither obscuring nor revealing a truth becuase these events are ongoing.

and I'm being quick and lose with the use of words. facebook cannot merge with microsoft because facebook is a subsidiary of meta corporation.

but on the level of analysis i'm trying to think in, google's antitrust case agaisnt their government (which is done), microsoft's recent purchase of activision blizzard (which was almost undone but got through in the end) all have a hand in this.

who will win more out of this? microsoft? or google/alphabet??

facebook does seem like a smaller player, microsoft OWNS gaming now (specially after blizzard-activision).

but Meta is very insterested in gaming technology. so maybe they can also "poach" some talent now that openAI is all but publically bankrupt??

how long ago did Meta try to do their own crypto "Libra"? fact of the matter LLMs are chinese tech. else tiktok would have been successfully stopped. why did all this happen after chinese visit due to a trade union in south asia?

finally, I know of 3 giant corporations that have repeated the re-structuring which from my viewpoint was pioneered by google/alphabet. one is facebook/meta, and the other is a chinese company (alibaba?) I don't even know this which is ok because I am ranting on the internet in a buried discussion in a public forum
Is there any reason to assume open source is a prerequisite for effective altruism?

Open source doesn’t necessarily imply good for humanity, for example distributing open source designs for nukes would probably be a net negative.

And even if it did, effective altruists wouldn’t need to prioritize the benefit provided by openness over all other possibilities.
Does this include exercises? I didn't see any and I always find that the most useful part of learning.
I don't think Rust's stdlib provides any kind of safe way to call just fork(), it only has methods for creating child processes because that's the only interface that works on every supported Tier 1 platform. Calling fork is always going to necessarily be an unsafe{} libc call or syscall, and the caller will have to take care to ensure nothing funny is going on.
Blockhead - A radical new kind of DAW [video]
Wikipedia cites 'latin-american.news', a two-year-old domain with a global website rank of 10,989,423. For comparison, 'thelaundryspot.com', the official website of a laundromat in Austin, TX, has a global rank of 8,737,785.

This might as well be a sourced from the Wikipedia admin's blog.

edit: Lol, in the last hour, the awful source was removed and the ridiculous quote removed. The wiki now reads:

"When questioned on the topic of selling children, Milei initially responded ambiguously [womp womp] but later clarified his opposition, stating, "Obviously, I do not agree with the sale of children.""
I agree with your experience, it does feel a bit insane, but just to point out this is the result of too much competition selling a commodity product rather than a monopoly.
This is happening to me in Chrome as well so I don't think it's tied to the browser you use.

Curiously it happens only on one profile, in another Chrome profile (which is also logged in to the same Google account) it does not happen. Both profiles run the code in your comment, but the one that does not have the delay does not wait for it to complete.

The only difference I spotted was that the profile that loads slowly does not include the #player-placeholder element in the initial HTML response. Maybe whether it sends it or not is tied to previous ad-blocker usage?

What does piss me off is that even if you clear cookies and local storage and turn off all extensions in both profiles it still somehow "knows" which profile is which, and I don't know how it's doing it.
For anyone interested in this guy I recommend this ~3 hour long playlist, pick a video that looks interesting to you and check if you like his style. (It was recorded during a workshop (?) for parents.) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wW...

or here's an interview with him about adult ADHD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zhkDTopTbc&t=

and this is for folks with short attention spans! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lvZtoN8Rqg
> Priority boarding: Why...?

Getting carry on room is the only reason this makes sense