skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually one does not need to know all the rules of specificity in a project with sane style sheets. Often it is enough to know what styling applies to a parent element and then make the selector more specific by addressing the child element, or if element at the same level, make the selector more specific by adding more detail to where that element is located in the DOM to the selector. Then one automatically has something more specific.

In other cases one can look up how it values id selector for example, or watch the immediate result in the browser, as one adds such a selector.

I am guessing, that over time people, who deal a lot with CSS, will learn the specificity rules automatically.
I agree with both the commenter above you and you.

Yes, you are right that the board had weak sauce reasoning for the firing (giving two teams the same project!?!).

That said, the other commenter is right that this is the beginning of the end.

One of the interesting things over the past few years watching the development of AI has been that in parallel to the demonstration of the limitations of neural networks has been many demonstrations of the limitations of human thinking and psychology.

Altman just got given a blank check and crowned as king of OpenAI. And whatever opposition he faced internally just lost all its footing.

That's a terrible recipe for long term success.

Whatever the reasons for the firing, this outcome is going to completely screw their long term prospects, as no matter how wonderful a leader someone is, losing the reality check of empowered opposition results in terrible decisions being made unchecked.

He's going to double down on chat interfaces because that's been their unexpected bread and butter up until the point they get lapped by companies with broader product vision, and whatever elements at OpenAI shared that broader vision are going to get steamrolled now that he's been given an unconditional green light until they jump ship over the next 18 months to work elsewhere.
Originally, 65% had signed (505 of 770).
You should tell their boss-for-us.
Based on the spectacular drama we were allowed to observe:

For a company at the forefront of AI it’s actually very, very human.
> you will reach human intelligence by just modeling the brain

I'm not so sure. I mean obviously this is very complicated and we still know very little of the brain.

Just one example (from what I understand) you can't really separate intelligence from emotions. There are researchers in emotions that explain our whole system of affect/feeling/emotion/mood/etc. as a very effective abstraction of all the inputs from our whole body (both direct inputs, cognitive processes and stored data). So without a working system of emotions I don't think you will have a working brain at all.
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What kind of exercise do you get?
I find any government to be more of a boogeyman than any private company because the government has the right to violence and companies come and go at a faster rate.
Penrose disagrees!
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a system with superhuman intelligence could easily manipulate human beings, convincing them of the opportunity to do things. A superior intelligence wouldn't ask for things obviously dangerous for humans in the immediate future, but would work on a longer timescale. It could distribute smaller tasks that taken singularly would look innocent. It could suggest social interventions that would diminish critical thinking ability of the general population in the long term. It could help concentrating power in fewer human hands, so to have an easier time manipulating those who count. This wouldn't happen overnight.
Also, it doesn't make it easier if you're a person well-known for maybe having access to billions of stolen dollars.
I ran a 1999-era machine well into the 2000s (I think 2007?) with Windows 98SE on 1600x1200 and it worked great, and faster than the XP computer I had.
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Anthropic's Claude 2.1 offers 200k token capacity, more than double of GPT-4
Pretty impressive numbers here. Double the capacity of Claude 2.0, and way more than GPT-4. Also cut hallucinations significantly - this'll get enterprise's attention.
I don't get it. I can see the human body as a system that comprises many input/output mechanisms. (And of course it's possible to emulate such a system given enough compute.) But how can you reduce it to a single "input/output mechanism"? Can you give an example input/output pair for this mechanism?
Yeah, bypass paywalls clean both removes google analytics and seems to be updated more regularly (or it was when I switched a while ago, that could be different at this point).
I bought myself some of these

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No advertiser wants to be associated with hateful content.
Attention (for quality work or not) is the coin of the realm, so why would you expect researchers not to optimize for flashy clickbait over time consuming rigorous self-reflecting work? People have been identifying the incentive structure as a problem for a long time, but it’s not so easy to change because it requires a coordinated effort from the top of the social hierarchy - the folks on hiring/tenure/grant review committees all benefit from the eyeballs game themselves, and they’ve spent their whole careers getting good at it (many of them do rigorous work of course).

The journals, which in most fields still coordinate the peer review process, also have perhaps even stronger incentive to optimize for clickbait, to the extent of sometimes letting poor quality work slide.

I think it’s a long road that starts with a more frank and open review/publishing system
There are even more gems in the paper, like this one:

> Suppose a leader pledges during a campaign to provide humanitarian aid to a stricken nation or the CEO of a company commits publicly to register its algorithms or guarantee its customers' data privacy. In both cases, the leader has issued a public statement before an audience who can hold them accountable if they fail to live up to their commitments. The political leader may be punished at the polls or subjected to a congressional investigation; the CEO may face disciplinary actions from the board of directors or reputational costs to the company's brand that can result in lost market share.

I wonder if she had Sam Altman in mind while writing this.
People love a good cult of personality, don't they
Do I understand correctly that the difficulty of making this useful is writing code to run this idea on GPUs?
> Win98 with file sharing spends almost a minute during boot (even from an SSD) just squeaking netbios frames.

You have a config error in TCP/IP.
> Google never paraded itself around as a non-profit acting in the best interests of humanity.

Just throwing this out there, but maybe … non-profits shouldn't be considered holier-than-thou, just because they are “non-profits”.
I think you missed the point of the Godel quote, though.
The portion running a hypervisor would also be interesting to know. That’s one hell of a processor.
It is hard to see through the unfolding drama. Since I am lacking data (and we all do), I can only fall back to my intuition. When I was listening to Sam being interviewed by Lex, I had to turn the podcast off because I felt I am listening to a deeply flawed and manipulative character. He left a creepy feeling of "Never ever trust this guy".
I don't expect the government to regulate any of this aggressively. AI is much to important to the government and military to allow pesky conflicts of interest to slow down any competitive advantage we may have.
Just a note: Proxyman is now included in Setapp, so you don't need both!
Literally it can only be the one person to have not let go of their board seat. Who might that be?

Smeagol D’Angelo
It's all very abstract, and hard to narrow objectively, considering considering that we don't really know what a "memory" or skill is. The mechanism.
I always thought that this was vaporware, something that was listed in books and white papers but never seen in the wild. Good that it eventually arrived.

I just used cygwin.
> People continued their conversations as if they didn't just witness a Gestapo officer murder a jewish child and drag their corpse into the nearest ditch.

Unless you're literally discussing an agent of a fascist, genocidal regime murdering a child and disposing of their corpse , this kind of language is merely in bad taste and makes it easy to ignore any valid points you might have.
You'd especially expect latency to have gone down. Instead, latency went up.
The SR-71 officially served for about 32 years, although the last few years weren’t very active - there was a retirement followed by a brief comeback IIRC. NASA had one that might have flown a few times after that, I’m not sure.

What led you to believe the U-2 “was expected to be obsolete quickly?” It would be interesting to know who amongst Lockheed and Air Force personnel were right, and wrong, about something like that.
Larry Summers!?
What is socially defined as beneficial-to-humanity is functionally mandated by the MSM and therefore capricious, at the least. With that in mind, a translation:

"OpenAI will be obligated to make decisions according to government preference as communicated through soft pressure exerted by the Media. Don't expect these decisions to make financial sense for us".
There can be no technical counters to the assertion that our world is a simulation. If our world is a simulation, then hardware/software that simulates it is outside of our world and it's technical constitution is inaccessible to us.

It's purely a religious question. When humanity invented the wheel, religion described the world as a giant wheel rotating in cycles. When humanity invented books, religion described the world as a book, and God as a it's writer. When humanity invented complex mechanism, religion described the world as giant mechanism and God as a watchmaker. Then computers where invented, and you can guess what happened next.
I still don't think this is the problem, the drive can just slow down accepting writes until it has reclaimed enough space.

The bigger problem is manufacturers chasing the performance. Generally you get the feeling they just hit their firmware with a hammer so it barely doesn't break NTFS.

See also the drama around btrfs' "unreliability", which is all traced back to drives with broken firmware. I fully expect bcachefs will get exactly the same problems.
Both. Cheaper CPU-based inference, GPUs are not as competitive for sparse linear algebra.
This could lead to much larger models, as you only touch a small portion of the matrix during inference. However, the training here is still dense-LA on a GPU, so you still blow up the compute cost when increasing model size.
For much of history (i.e. millennia) the north and the south of Vietnam have experienced different degrees of voluntary and involuntary separation. For hundreds and hundreds of years they existed as different countries and even tried to conquer each other. The vast majority of south Vietnamese people today have more sympathy for the US than for Hanoi.

Source: half my family is Vietnamese and I lived there for 3 years.
LM Studio can start a local server with the APIs matching OpenAI. You can’t do concurrent requests, but that should get you started.
[cringe/]

Context matters, and you probably should ask a chemist.

And the article calling phosphorus a mineral - while mentioning once that it's an element - will also get geologists muttering about "idiots with web sites...".
Ok, and if Raytheon builds an AI and tells a government "trust us, its safe", arn't you just letting them create a scape goat via the government?

Seriously, Businesses simply dont have the history that governments do. They're just as capable of violence.

https://utopia.org/guide/crime-controversy-nestles-5-biggest...

All you're identifying is "government has a longer history of violence than Businesses"
One of the major markets for these would be visual art studios. They aren't generally Linux shops.
The best part about Siri is that what it replaced was insanely better at the specific task of reproducing music. Why does my iPhone in 2023 need to connect to the internet and shamefully fail when I try to play a song or even change the volume.

If anyone still remembers what we had before Siri, you’ll know how well it worked.
The thing that most people overlook about "skunk works" is that they were a manufacturing operation. Their planes were very much designed to be used and maintained.

I've worked in teams that were described as "skunk works," though I'm not sure the ones using that term had actually read the book. But a feature of the teams that were successful, was that the people doing the innovative stuff also had a solid understanding of manufacturing and service. The engineers may have been more conservative than their employers were aware.
I don't think that aligns with history: we recently went through large shutdowns and lockdowns, we had and have people doing their daily work during war and massive destructions - shutting down things will not be too difficult if the need arises.
I wouldn't build a business on that. Microsoft's track record of keeping front end tech alive and attention on it is pretty fucking low.

On a positive note I bought my house with the money earned by their lack of attention.
Glad to see a Unherd article featured here. One of the top five publications in the entire web, in my humble opinion. I wished there were more people like them. May Unherd live long and prosper.
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Claude refuses a lot. GPT4 also refuses a lot and one has to try several prompts to get out what you need.

LLMs are trained on the entire internet and more.

I want a model that just gives me the answer with whatever it knows instead of playing pseudoethics.

Sure it can say this is dangerous “don’t do this at home” but let me be the judge of it.
I get what you’re saying that perhaps the verdict is not yet in. But it feels kind of bizarre that the position is “gotta wait until after enough people die.”
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Well, I watched HD video on my 1999 PC, and it worked fine. I had to resize it to fit 1600x1200; I don't know what all is going on behind the scenes to play a 1080p-encoded video in that situation. But it worked great. You don't need moder hardware for HD monitors at all.

> * Running an IDE like JetBrains

We had Visual Studio, which also worked great, and with WinForms was undoubtedly one of the best GUI app development tools of all time.

> * browsing an extremely hostile internet

I did this well into the 2000s, although I was an early Firefox evangelist and mostly used that when it came out, plus eventually NoScript as JS was continually used to enshittify the web.
Weirdly, there was a very similar story a few days before the OAI debacle. Some kind of Jungian synchronicity going on I think.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-67348861
not really sure what i'm looking at here? the screenshot looks nice but i'm not familiar with any of these acronyms and all the text on the page reads as if it's deliberately trying to obfuscate what it actually is lol.
In the photo on the twitter thread[0] (which isn't very visible) it does say the board spoke counsel and then responded saying they couldn't point to a specific instance.

[0] https://twitter.com/nivi/status/1727152963695808865/photo/2
Capitalism as it exists is, at its core, anticompetitive.
I used to work at a startup whose clients worked on behalf of large corporations. I once tried to automate some things to make the company more money as our clients were rather inefficient at their settings but got a lot of push back. Then I talked to our clients and they said that unless they had knobs to turn to "prove" they provided value they'd be fired by their clients (the large corporations). If they got fired then they'd stop spending money with us and so we'd actually make less revenue due to second order effects. It was an enlightening experience.
How dare you question the savior of humanity.
I really like LM Studio and had it open when I came across this post. LM Studio is an interesting mixture of:

- A local model runtime

- A model catalog

- A UI to chat with the models easily

- An openAI compatible API

And it has several plugins such as for RAG (using ChromaDB) and others.

Personally I think the positioning is very interesting. They're well positioned to take advantage of new capabilities in the OS ecosystem.

It's still unfortunate that it is not itself open-source.
This issue with hot houses would be solved with better insulation. Better insulation would also increase energy efficiency in both hot climates and cold.

I think you need to use a more precise term, maybe something like heat retention.
> No pre-set plan, no parental supervision

Yes, and recently in USA. A handful of times I had a tinge of worry when they were gone much of the day, and they returned better than I could have planned it. One occasion I recall they hiked to a lake and had packed backpacks with lunches water sunscreen. It was my brain that worried, and a joy to watch the children grow and explore!

The mother next door, apprehensive about rogue police, instructed her children that if they see the police to run home and don't stop. There is no recourse when the cops crack skulls, so it's best to stay out of their grip.
Funny you mention this because a lot of big visual arts studios use Mac for the artwork in the Adobe ecosystem, and heavily invested in Linux for the 3D rendering pipelines as they moved away from SGI/BSD with Windows almost nowhere on the radar.

I'd estimate the number of big-name shops running Windows is a minority with only smaller indie studios like Corridor Digital being all-in on Windows because it's a jack of all trades can-run-anything OS, and managing that one ecosystem without sys-admins and an internal IT department is a lot cheaper easier for small businesses of amateur-professionals.
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I used a VPN and pay $2 a month for it, which is an acceptable trade off for using it on my phone and spending my life worrying about things that impact me more
Disagreeing with employee actions doesn't mean that you are correct and they failed to think well. Weighting their collective probable profiles, including as insiders, and yours, it would be irrational to conclude that they were in the wrong.
I think he see’s the development of machine intelligence as an inevitable outcome of making our tech better and better. Erehwon sorta a situation. Heading for a Peter Watts Fireflies timeline. If we create quadrillions of nigh immortal servants there is no doubt that in time we will become their servants. This happens in the biosphere. Beetles can’t out compete militant Ant superorganisms so they invest in every kind of hacking and co-exist with the hive mind as a macroparasite. The human brain is freakishly good at hacking given the right incentives. That is the power he seeks. I hope, lol
Man, I loved Battle Chess as a child. I would play with the aim of finding new mach ups I hadn't seen, rather than try to learn strategies for winning in chess.

And of course Youtube got us covered today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ccs3dRhW4
Who is JP Koning? I have never seen this blog before and he has a lot of interesting posts.
Mine too. I suspect it's the classic explore/exploit dilemma. We've learned enough that every new hotness just doesn't seem that novel or worth the effort to learn given we already see a path to our goals using what we already know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilem...
I'd go further than even that! You need 3 forms of advocacy in leadership for a successful business, business/market, tech, and time. The balance of those three can make or break any business.

You can see this at the micro level in a scrum team between the scrummaster, the product owner, and the tech lead.
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I'm a non-native speaker and this sentence makes my head hurt. Feels like a double negative.

Is the loss of the myth meaning it is not a myth anymore (so reality) or that a for-profit is not the only right way?
I've been househunting in various locales, and judging from when the neighborhood homes were built, it appears to have started in the early 50's. No public spaces and often no sidewalks.
I think we can be a bit less cynical about this behaviour, at least in some cases.

Perhaps a fresh pair of eyes is always going to notice a bunch of potential changes, which would improve things from their subjective point of view. But humans are notoriously bad at absolute scales (see Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman) so it's hard for us to decide "I can see a bunch of issues but they're all below the threshold for changing". The top of the scale is always what is most important out whatever issues are left. Adding the duck reshapes the scale so all those other things seem (correctly) trivial in comparison.

To put it another way, if the deadline is tight and the program kept crashing, maybe they wouldn't have even asked to remove the duck! The scale would have changed again, and the bit with the duck on it would have been compressed below the threshold.
Again, this is a pick up truck, not an SUV, and they are typically driven by workers in conditions that require durability and utility. I drove a Hilux in Saudi Arabia for 6 months doing major construction. I crossed desert roads and active excavations, so how is this FU to anything? People seem to love censorship these days enough to create multiple ways to enact it like nature's stewardship, etc. I grew up in Brooklyn, and a lot of my more vocal environmentalist acquaintances I knew didn't take the time to look at their own wastefulness, only others - they loved imported goods like pineapple and other groceries that have to be shipped to their local Zabars/Whole Foods etc. without a thought to the impact this has compared to someone living in more rural areas and buying local produce; the inefficiencies of the older apartments they live in.

As far as pick up trucks being more dangerous to pedestrians and other drivers, how many Hilux pick up trucks can you count in your area? Larger objects are more easily seen. Electric bikes and vehicles are silent, and are the cause of many pedestrian and rider injuries. People jump on electric scooters without any skill or physical fitness and twist the throttle up without any preparation on how to stop quickly or dismount in an emergency. Look at all the pedestrian deaths in China when electric scooters and bikes became popular. Or the graveyards of new electric vehicles in China due to failed startups using electric vehicles. Arms race, really? How do you commute, or haul things?
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This is an extraordinarily important point to make, especially in light of the GP comment and the perception that it reflects.