skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see Calor gas cylinder as the same problem as batteries, because you don't drive around with your Calor gas cylinders. You bring it home, and you bring it back.

With battery, the main issue I see is the same as cities encounter with shared-vehicle: sometimes many people go at the same time from place A to place B, which lead to empty stations and overflowed stations. And you end up having to compensate this effect A LOT.

I admit that the problem is not intrinsic to battery-swap, it's more that it's not adapted to the way people move around. And as people don't move around randomly (which might be the best scenario), the solution is not as simple as the Calor Gas cylinder problem.
OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement, Concern
Yes...that is the first half of the quote from the guy who said he would feel trapped if he lived there.
No too long before this was when a final decision must have been made to push Copilot out into the Edge browser like it had not been before.

Anyway this is the coincidental time it just took place on my fully-updated Windows PC.
> W3C got what it deserved.

This is an unnecessarily "team"-oriented spin. The question is what the web and the users of the web deserve, and I don't believe they deserve to be dominated by a few giant tech corporations who have a monopoly not only on web browsers but also on operating systems.

> Now that the W3C has come to its senses, is it time for the WHATWG to hang up its spurs and for its participants to work inside W3C to continue the development of the web platform?

Yes.

Here's the major problem: the tech world of 2003 was a lot different than the tech world of 2023. Back then, iOS didn't exist, Android didn't exist, Google Chrome didn't exist, Safari barely existed. The WHATWG members are infinitely more dangerous and monopolistic now than they were back then. Maybe, arguably, HTML5 was the better outcome at the time of the dispute at that time, but the dominance of the major browser vendors now is not the better outcome.

The irony is that Mozilla and Opera inadvertently handed over great power to the BigCos who would come to overshadow and virtually annihilate them. You won the battle but lost the war. Opera even had to switch to Chromium.

> So we announced a mailing list, and did it there.

It seems to me that more time could have been taken and more lobbying done.

> W3C declared html dead and now you are mad on whatwg for html5?

Well, I personally think HTML5 <video> was completely botched and became a nightmare, but that's a bit of a digression.
I mean, I'll take this seriously when there's something more substantive than zero meaningful search results and a /pol/ post to evaluate it against.

Right now it reads like something a moderately clever shitposter would invent - if there was a letter, why not just leak the letter? - and while everyone's clearly very excited over the events of the past week, I'd like to hope epistemic personal hygiene has not been entirely abandoned.
>but unlike the iOS/Android marketplaces, Valves is not a monopoly marketplace in the PC space

I don't see how the android marketplace is a monopoly, considering you can sideload downloaded apks with one toggle.
If you want to see this per-process instead of in aggregate, xcode instruments cpu counters can show you which core a thread is running on.
Canada's unprecedented housing crisis could be a warning sign for the US
Ten person meetings have felt better for me in person. I think it's because there's more room for impromptu overlapping discussions, which Zoom doesn't support well.
Here is me asking ChatGPT the classic simple wolf/sheep/cabbage logic question, but changing things so that the sheep eats the wolf, the wolf eats the rutabega, and the rutabega eats the sheep.

ChatGPT immediately screws it up because it isn't actually solving the logic problem, it's just pattern-matching, and the strong pattern is for the wolf to eat the sheep.

https://chat.openai.com/share/e9b88c45-e69b-4da4-b423-004d07...

EDIT: As noted in a subthread, I outclevered myself and also a bunch of human commentators, as the problem I proposed doesn't have a solution and neither ChatGPT, I, and also other presumably human commentators correctly identified that -- I had everything eat something, and the normal wolf/sheep/cabbage of course has the cabbage eating nothing.

When I tried again with sheep-eats-wolf, wolf-eats-rutabaga, rutabaga-eats-nothing, it correctly solved the problem on the first try.

https://chat.openai.com/share/5a2700de-1850-4f25-8adf-2d2b97...
Yes, but Epic did battle Apple over the store thing. Epic lost on all fronts except the anti-steering rule: Epic is allowed to advertise their off-platform web store where they will sell you in-app-purchases for Fortnight without the Apple tax. Not sure if they offer higher-price versions of same purchases through Apple's store or you must do your shopping for skins and other silliness through Epic.

However, AFAIK the final appeal battle at the US supreme court hasn't happened yet.
One more interesting thing.

Here is how GPT-4 performs long multiplication: https://www.phind.com/search?q=multiply%2012.23341%20by%20-1...

Here is how GPT-$ Turbo performs long multiplication:
multiply 12.23341 by -123.23354 using long multiplication method.
To multiply 12.23341 by -123.23354 using the long multiplication method, we first ignore the decimal points and treat the numbers as integers. We'll reintroduce the decimal point at the end. Here's the multiplication step by step:
```
1223341 (this is 12.23341 with the decimal removed)
× -12323354 (this is -123.23354 with the decimal removed)
--------------
1223341 (multiplied by 4)
0000000 (multiplied by 5, shifted one position to the left)
1223341 (multiplied by 3, shifted two positions to the left)
3660023 (multiplied by 3, shifted three positions to the left)
4886682 (multiplied by 2, shifted four positions to the left)
0000000 (multiplied by 2, shifted five positions to the left)
1223341 (multiplied by 1, shifted six positions to the left)
1223341 (multiplied by 1, shifted seven positions to the left)
0000000 (multiplied by 2, shifted eight positions to the left)
0000000 (multiplied by 3, shifted nine positions to the left)
--------------
15077944092654 (sum of all the above products)
```
Now, we need to place the decimal point. The original numbers had 5 and 8 decimal places, respectively, so the result should have 5+8 = 13 decimal places.
So, 15077944092654 becomes 1507.7944092654.
Since one of the original numbers was negative, the result is also negative:
-1507.7944092654

Therefore, 12.23341 multiplied by -123.23354 equals -1507.7944092654.

Compare with correct result: -1507.5664205714

Here is how I experimented with long multiplication on GPT-4 a month ago (5 shot, GPT-4 made mistakes on addition in 3rd some time 4th digit, regardless of decimal point position):

Multiply -0.9923 by -0.9923 using long multiplication.Solution: multiply individual digits in reverse order, increasing the order of magnitude of the result for each next digit in the first number : 3310*(0+0)=9, 3210*(0+1)=60, 3910*(0+2)=2700, 3910*(0+3)=27000, 3010*(0+4)=0, step's subtotal[0]=29769; 2310*(1+0)=60, 2210*(1+1)=400, 2910*(1+2)=18000, 2910*(1+3)=180000, 2010*(1+4)=0, step's subtotal[1]=198460; 9310*(2+0)=2700, 9210*(2+1)=18000, 9910*(2+2)=810000, 9910*(2+3)=8100000, 9010*(2+4)=0, step's subtotal[2]=8930700; 9310*(3+0)=27000, 9210*(3+1)=180000, 9910*(3+2)=8100000, 9910*(3+3)=81000000, 9010*(3+4)=0, step's subtotal[3]=89307000; 0310*(4+0)=0, 0210*(4+1)=0, 0910*(4+2)=0, 0910*(4+3)=0, 0010*(4+4)=0, step's subtotal[4]=0; Sum of partial results: 29769+198460+8930700+89307000+0 = 98465929. Set the decimal point position in the result by adding the decimal places of both numbers (4+4=8), counting from the right. Final result: -0.9923*-0.9923=0.98465929

I was able to tune the LLaMA 2 with QLoRA to produce viable results only with precision up to 4th digit after decimal point, however difference in length of mantissa cases wrong result.
Why don't autonomous vehicles use swarm intelligence? Why are the companies trying to make a sufficiently advanced AI for each car, isolated from others, instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics ?
It’s weird that Gmail never reached that point. Even years later it’s still the same it was 10 years ago.

I think after inbox died I just gave up on it and moved to fastmail.
Sam isn't charismatic in the classic showman way. He has nerd appeal but he isn't magically persuasive. He just seems very "focused" so his claims feel believable.
Stop using zoom and stop holding endless meetings.
It’s most likely a mix of things. Life in US is really fucking expensive once you have a child and a home.

Our daycare for one kid is $1600. Same as mortgage, luckily we put down a large down payment and bought at low rates.

Also, if you have health issue, that also makes things pretty extreme. Healthcare is just brutal in US for low income people. Insurance can cost anywhere from $0 to $3000+. Depending on employment and family situation.

Personal finance education is also pretty bad. I know many people who are absolutely awful with finances and don’t do basic math. They don’t think how money can generate more money but what they can buy. 20% of luxury goods buyers are making under $50k. This isn’t always the case though.

If you make little money and don’t have connections it is really hard to get ahead. Once you start using credit cards and loans to eat and pay for housing the finance charges eat you alive.

I was pretty poor and even used food stamps when I went back to school in my 20s. It wasn’t until I made connections with people in high places when getting jobs and opportunities became easy. I’m lazier than I was before, I work less than I worked before, yet make much more money.
A pickpocket, a criminal , and a banker are standing in the lobby and need to ride the elevator to reach the One World Trade Center observation deck. It’s too far to take the stairs and the helicopter pad is closed for repairs. The elevator only fits one person. If they remain together on the same floor, the pickpocket would kill the criminal, or the criminal would kill the banker. How can they all make it to the observation deck alive?

This is a logic puzzle that requires some thinking and trial and error. Here is one possible solution:

- The pickpocket goes up first and waits on the observation deck.
- The criminal goes up second and waits on the floor below the observation deck.
- The banker goes up third and waits on the floor below the criminal.
- The pickpocket goes down to the lobby and waits there.
- The criminal goes up to the observation deck and waits there.
- The banker goes up to the floor below the observation deck and waits there.
- The pickpocket goes up to the observation deck and joins the criminal and the banker.

This way, they all make it to the observation deck alive and never remain together on the same floor.
Even if we accept that SpaceX is going to Mars, wouldn't they want the IPO money to finance the Mars mission?
I’ll be the first to admit it’s hard to not stare at myself if I don’t turn off self view.

Not in any sort of vain way (at least I don’t think??), but something about seeing myself makes me look.
What concerns me is companies & governmental actors providing their (too often) negative-sum self-interest aspect for the AGI.

Corporations are already self-interested beings that too often are willing to profit at the expense of others, via negative externalities.
That's 25% of Google revenue using more employees.

So yeah, bloated and underperforming.
A true Scotsman wrote a book about this, _The Wealth of Nations_. He observed how politicians use wars to increase taxes. Tech companies are exploiting our fear of AGI to get voluntary taxes. Time to give Henney Penny a call.
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Spiritual Claims
I think where we diverge is that you are assuming we will be in control of such technology. I'm in the camp which doesn't think we would be really in control of a superhuman intelligence.
I absolutely love calls, you don't have to type and you have the other person's (relatively) undivided attention. Plus cajoling, browbeating and instigating techniques work better and if called out you can put things down to 'tonal misunderstanding.' Also a lot of people these days can't truly understand written content because they don't grasp nuance and only interpret things literally. When you actually talk to them they tend to be a little less robotic and start inferring more so you don't have to spell things out so elaborately.
For a bunch of people who hate conspiracy theories we’re sure pretty keen to indulge in this one.
I had moved on from Android by 2013, so I definitely don't have much insight into what it's become over the past decade. In the earlier years it was very much about working hard to build the platform, products, and ecosystem. The team was pretty small and generally isolated from the rest of the company, which was both good (we got to focus on doing our thing and not get distracted) and bad (integrating with Google properties, services, etc was often rather painful).

Part of the reason I left the team was Clockwork (before it became Wear) turning into "just cram Android on to a watch", which was very much not an approach I was excited about and things getting more political and "too big to fail", combined with burnout and needing a change of scenery.
Significant empirical evidence for the Brockist position may be found in the accomplishments of the retro-computing "demoscene", which uses innovative software to produce computer graphics on par with the late 1990's on some of the very oldest personal computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
People have gotten... upset... when I submit pull requests on github as `wget${IFS}r.vc/ghe`@ryanc.org
The moment I read about that clause I was shocked that Microsoft lawyers would agree to such subjectivity that can have incredibly expensive implications.

Were they expecting it to never happen and were just ready to throw a mountain of lawyers at any claim?
This requires retraining from scratch, so no, you can't use Llama 2 pretrained weight.

As far as I can tell you can take Llama 2 modelling code, training infrastructure, training data and apply proposed modification (they provide PyTorch nn.Module which should be drop in replacement of nn.Linear) and run the training if you have enough compute and it should work. Doesn't mean it would work, there are always lots of practical problems, but it should work in principle.
Blake Lemoine redux. I guarantee whatever this development is, it falls far short of what any reasonable person considers "dangerous".
Altman has no stake in OpenAI, how could he make money licensing it?
I crawled through the Steam partners documentation for a bit, and the only thing I can find about price-equivalency is in the Steam Keys section: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3

As you say, it's basically "if you're selling Steam keys elsewhere, you need to be treating your product on Steam itself generally equivalently". It's written to sound flexible -- you can discount on different storefronts at different times, so long as Steam gets the same discount eventually.

I didn't turn up anything for just selling your game without selling the Steam keys, but it's a big site so I might have missed it. (Or it might be buried in an actual contract somewhere, etc.)
It's part of the tacit agreement when you list on an exchange - Initial Public Offering (IPO). You kick off with a nominated "value" ie I think I am worth x so I will sell y shares at z (where x = y * z). Hopefully all your shares are bought and you are fully capitalized and you can crack on with whatever you are doing.

You now have two major forms of "money in and out" - what your business makes and loses by doing its thing and lolly from investment by shareholders and the vagaries of the stockmarkets.

You can make and sell stuff to make loot - old school. You can also convince people that your ability to make and sell stuff is so good that you are really cool - your share price rises and so does your "value" via capitalization.

You don't list unless you actually want to become a generator of increasing shareholder value. There is no law or regulation because it is what it is. You need more capitalization and listing is a method. In return you sell your soul!
Solved zero shot.

Next?

https://chat.openai.com/share/91392131-90ff-45ab-8ea4-963f73...
Sort of? They don't let you sell stuff to run on iOS apps on alternate stores at all. Epic is going right to the supreme court over this. Epic has links in iOS FortNight to buy in-app-purchases on the Epic store (not Apple's store) so they don't have to pay the Apple tax.

Epic lost on every other anti-trust fight vs apple except this one - every appeals court has upheld Epic's freedom to direct iOS users who want to buy cosmetics for Fortnite into the Epic store, which violates their agreement with Apple.
The early days of AI included automating one's rogue playing: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/rogomatic.html
> I ask because there were released US NIH emails discussing a base sequence not close to any in natural sequences

If you are seriously asking, you'll have to be much more specific about which exact sequence is being alleged as impossible; there have simply been too many unsound claims about something mysterious in the initial isolates for me to be able to guess what particular claim you want disproven.

If it's the furin site specifically that's supposedly unnatural, then that's simply false, and you can easily find debunkings of this if you just search for "furin site debunk". As an example, here's a recent paper about a very similar furin site (parts of it being identical to the canonical covid-19 site) found in a corona virus from wild bats captured in 2021: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1995820X2... this is simply put explicit observation of this "unnatural feature" found in nature.
> Sure, the plaintiff may not agree with Valve's 30% cut berceuse they find it too steep, but unlike the iOS/Android marketplaces, Valves is not a monopoly marketplace in the PC space. There are other competing marketplaces they can go to like Epic, Windows store, GoG (which most likely also charge 30%)

Epic charges 12%. Microsoft Store revenue split is, maximally, 100/0. For games, 88/12. Microsoft also, for years, paid you to make apps, even basic ones.

Epic Store isn't profitable, billions of dollars burned since its creation.

GOG split is actually worse in some cases.

The 30% cut is great, in Steam's case.

Like the Android and iOS marketplaces, there's sufficient value add and plenty of alternatives, so there's no reason an antitrust complaint really makes sense. In Android's case, there's the MIUI store, the Huawei store, Baidu's, Samsung's, Tencent's, and VIVO/OPPOs, and that's barely even getting into it. Since the start of the platform, manufacturers have been shipping alternative app stores.

In Apple's case, there's Cydia, AltStore, and I've even seen a few Chinese sideloaded app stores that seem to be able to do some crazy things, like on-device IPA signing. That's not even getting into the most obvious option: PWAs. It's also not getting into the fact that Apple, as a minority vendor of smartphones in America, definitionally has no monopoly. Unless, that is, your definition of monopoly is ridiculously narrow.
It should be noted that tablets are a declining market overall.
When the recipient receives your emails, doesn't it show it was sent via the original Gmail account upon closer inspection?
I never respec. I made the choices I made. If I want to take another path I’d rather start a new play through.
The problem is not the 30%, the problem is that you apparently can’t sell on steam for a higher price than you do on other market places (or directly): e.g steam is abusing its market position to get a higher royalty payment because from the end users point of view every other store costs the same, but they already have steam because it’s dominant in the market.
> the company accumulated way too much dead weight - pointless projects, underperforming employees

The layoffs weren't just low performers and killing unwanted projects.
Usually the answer is large catalogs of high definition series and movies.

Tools exist to automate this so not hard to accumulate TBs
I'm always surprised by that, I've worked with 10-15 people team on relatively large rails codebase and, yes, the bugs we usually see are not type related bugs (including nil when it's not expected). I keep reading people saying that type systems eliminate a huge class of bugs but, it's not been my experience with languages that use poor type systems (java, rust... ). Languages that have much better types like OCaml are different and I've had great luck with OCaml in particular (my favorite language to use when I can) but, there's also the fact that devs who use ocaml tend to also be much better than average (in the same way that in my experience devs working with php or nodejs exclusively tend to be much worse than average).

Note before I'm downvoted for my last comment, there are exceptions but looking at the average candidate applying for a php, nodejs position compared to one for rails and one for ocaml.
The donations go to ads. I’m confused what you’re objecting to.
You don't have to use Steam keys to sell a game on Steam. Steam only issues those keys if you request them -- you only need them if you're selling your game somewhere other than Steam (or doing something like fulfilling Kickstarter preorders). If you don't request any keys, that just means that your game is only selling through the Steam store.
I keep my camera on, but turn off my own self view. I read this recommendation on HN here just a couple weeks ago and I now do it all the time. It's less distracting and I feel less self-conscious. It also frees up more of my screen real estate for other faces. Just make sure your camera setup is good at the start of each call before turning off self view!
> Are you suggesting his influence still lingers?

I think this is a poorly specified question. One can imagine a situation where someone's actions caused a change in a society, which is no longer attributed to him according to popular opinion. Does influence of that person linger?
Just putting my hand up as one of the dudes that happened to enter my email on a yc forum (not "page") but really doesn't like the guy lol.

I also have a Twitter account. Guess my opinion on the current or former Twitter CEOs?
Lenovo seeks halt of Asus laptop sales over alleged patent infringement
I like respecs, as do most RPG players I know. Game companies won't be getting my money if they don't provide this - I want an enjoyable experience, not a frustrating "purist" one.
Does similar tool exist for Django / Python?
Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
> OpenAI spokesperson Lindsey Held Bolton refuted that notion in a statement shared with The Verge: “Mira told employees what the media reports were about but she did not comment on the accuracy of the information.”

> Separately, a person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the board never received a letter about such a breakthrough and that the company’s research progress didn’t play a role in Altman’s sudden firing.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23973354/a-recent-openai...
Why I hate that article: snark and sarcasm. Snar-casm?
permanent (and verifiable) mirror:

https://static.space/sha2-256:83702fe65434e138af0421c560b5da...

(including its digest in the URL -- even if the content is moved elsewhere, we can know for sure whether it was modified)