skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WiFi 7 sensing is not gov specific. It's going into commercial routers and laptops.
I am less concerned with how today's car's relate to roads from 100 years ago and more interested in how today's cars relate to other options we have today, like bicycles and public transit.
> why did they go from internal politics -> external politics (large scale external politics)

My guess is it has something to do with the hundreds of employees whose net worth is mostly tied up in OpenAI equity. It's hard to leverage hundreds of people in a bid for power without everyone and their mother finding out about it, especially in such a high-profile organization. This was a potentially life-changing event for a surprisingly large group of people.
> If consumers wanted smaller cars, they would buy more of them. A car is still much less expensive than a larger vehicle. The data clearly indicates people want bigger vehicles.

That's true to a point. In the US there are regulatory loopholes for SUVs, so that's impacting what vehicles people choose.

I agree that fuel efficiency standards are pretty silly. Especially CAFE standards. They should just tax CO2 emissions (or fuel) directly, and let the market sort it out.

Perhaps also have a tax on the weight of the vehicle, because that's a negative externality: heavier cars are worse for other people in a crash.

But the US is a country that has effectively legalised running over cyclists, so I don't have much hope for them. See https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-t...
Spirit/Opportunity had the SSTB1 test rover, which supposedly had a complete set of scientific instruments. If it was fully qualified and tested, swapping it out could have been as easy as dropping it in the lander and writing a different serial number in the paperwork.

(I really doubt it was fully tested. But why else have a flight spare vehicle?)
I can’t remember if it was Kissinger or Nixon that Hunter S. Thompson claimed required screws to affix their pants to their crooked bodies.

Whatever the case, it was incisive and memorable prose.
Because you don't rely on a business that had 80% of its staff threaten to quit overnight?
this man businesses
Cmon it’s more than that.

It’s true innovation.
It might be history making for corporations, but it’s only slightly below average competence for a non-profit board.
BBC are asleep.
I have a 2021 Subaru Forester and the sensors are a nightmare. The computers are fine, but the sensors are extremely problematic.
What does political correctness and bias mean in this context?

edit: I'm asking because to my eye most of these conversations revolve around jargon mismatch more than anything else.
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Also headlights are simply higher on average than they used to be (larger vehicles). Very noticeable if you drive a low car. Yet another "arms race" dynamic.
Yeah, but no. "We hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI" is not the same as "returning to OpenAI as CEO" and "returns as President". Not very subtle difference, even, huh?
Yosemite Valley on Fire
> Mis-operation of the Aegis system is, BTW, also responsible for the sinking of a British warship, HMS Sheffield, in the Falklands war, with at least 87 killed. It failed to identify an Exocet missile fired by the Argentines as a threat, even though the Navy was thoroughly aware Argentina had them...

Attributing the failure to avoid the Exocets to "mis-operation of the aegis system" is pure speculation AFAIK, unless you have evidence that that was the cause?
Yeah I just watched the keynote on Amazon’s Q product. I’m going to tinker with that in the coming days. Pretty excited about the Google drive/docs integration since we have a lot of our company documents over the last 15 years in Drive.
It was Nixon. The joke doesn't apply to Kissinger because he wasn't a crook.
I think it’s mainly c++ devs are very performance sensitive (why else would you subject yourself to this torture?) so they hate it when your ‘+’ is suddenly O(n^2) and with side-effects
They omitted the war crimes out of "respect for the dead". That left the article fairly short.
Can't help but feel weird about all the thanking in the letter, especially the "sincere" thanks to Tasha and Helen, the possible main antagonists in this soap opera.

It's like a written version of the heart emojis in their Twitter exchanges.
Letting it free isn’t a good idea, as Microsoft painfully learned a few years ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...

Strong constraints are important to avoid tainting the image of both OpenAI and Microsoft.
They’ll be back!

Only a matter of time.
I agree, this seems error prone. People do all kinds of crazy stuff with module variables, this is a big foot gun.

I’m all for making access to cloud services easier, but this screams product development not language development.
I think the offerings expansion and follow up nerfing of the models were decisions taken during Sam’s administration. They did not seem to have the resources for Sam’s business plans and models have been dumbed down. Hope things don’t get any worse on the technical side and they fix the outages
A reliable soulless Mazda sounds like a 6 sedan. Larger and weightier than the engine can handle, but otherwise a solid car.
> You can work on and compile Linux on a home PC, even more the case with their other projects. Try training GPT-4 on a home PC.

Sam Altman was happy to join the venture and lead OpenAI knowing that it was the non-profit AI research company from the beginning. As a CEO, he was supposed to lead the company as it was created. As a result of his management, the company first ceased to be open, then in fact non-profit, then safe (according to it's leading scientists), then the number of published research whitepapers fell sharply, then has taken steps to become a gatekeeper for government regulations, and finally, the communication between Sam and the board (which really should be running the company) was lost. If a CEO was unable to manage a company, including attracting investment and resources, without violating the fundamental principles of that company, that CEO should have been dismissed — what has been effectively attempted by the board. Otherwise, it's a power grab and a de facto reformatting of the company into a different entity. Do you comprehend that?

I have no idea what compiling Linux kernel, or running GPT-4 locally, does anything in common in the context of large non-profit organization management. My argument is that the company should have been run in such a way that one corporation could not seize complete control. Never, under no circumstances. In spite of this, the CEO made all the effort to make it so. As a result, we have now in fact a for-profit company with good product, tons of money and GPUs, that belongs to the Microsoft. Was it worth it? Does this justify it for you? If you are not a $MSFT shareholder the answer should be obvious.

> If it's so easy for a scrappy non-profit to attract billions to tinker with AI, where I say are those startups? Where? Q.E.D. The most open thing we have, Llama, came from giant Meta.

Take a good look at HuggingFace Chatbot Arena leaderboard page[1]. Pay attention to the values of different models on different benchmarks. GPT4 is the leader, but not by an unattainable margin. Anthropic, which has spinned off from the very same OpenAI, rapidly catches up, along with other solutions. Even free, open (for commercial usage) models, while being self-hostable, are not an orders of magnitude worse. They are well in range of being practical and useful, including for commercial products. There is no moat[2].

> Linux is important, but it's not nearly as expensive to create or maintain.

> The problem is you have no idea what you're talking about.

ROFL, okay buddy.

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

[2] https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
Not knonwing Musk before, i was only exposed to the perception of him created by media. It seems like he has turned from someone reasonable to an idiot who is up his own arse now - with off-the-charts god-complex
Not the same. The board was fired and replaced with sama simps
Sort of related: Walabot
> one of the few publications with the integrity to publish those words

And a symptom of the term being neutered into meaninglessness.

A critical element of war criminality is command. If you don’t command armed forces, it’s difficult to commit war crimes, legally speaking. You can have condoned or collaborated or contributed to them.
I can use the cigerette lighter on my tt roadster's trickle charger. Does the bus have one?
It also isn't clear why Altman couldn't have been replaced by someone else with literally no change in operations and progress. It is just really confusing why people acted as if they fired Michael Jordan from the Bulls.
There has been research going on about the difference in reptilian and amphibian regeneration opposed to mammals for many decades now and news outlines always say that this could one day lead to something replicated in mammals. But have any advancements in replicating it in mammalian test subjects, opposed to simply understanding the difference between reptilian and mammalian regeneration ever been made?
Windows may soon be able to stream your Android phone's camera via Phone Link
Being able to run a LLM without first installing and setting up Docker or similar feels like a big win to me.

Is there an easy way to run a Docker container on macOS such that it can access the GPU?
The employees earn when OpenAI has more profit.

No matter how idealistic you are, you won't be happy when your compensation is reduced from 600k to 200k.
I’ve got an 08 Fit as well, in 15 years and 150k miles
I haven’t had to do anything outside of brakes/ignition coils/spark plugs. What sorts of things have gone wrong with yours?
Man, too bad, I really wanted to see what Kissinger thought of the Israel-Gaza conflict.

RIP Mister. You were a great intellectual.

For anyone else who might care I found yesterday a great take on that conflict by Lawrence Freedman.

[1] https://samf.substack.com/p/why-not-losing-is-not-tantamount
Well, it is nearly 3 in the morning.
Ah, those pesky facts.
In foreign policy you have to walk a line between moralism and realism. Kissinger was too much a realist. But moralism has its dangers too, as we saw with the Bush (Iraq, Afghanistan) and Obama (Libya) administrations.

At any rate, it's hard to think of anyone who is more responsible for the continued post-war global dominance of the US than Henry Kissinger.
We just updated the Hughes Hallucination Evaluation model (HEM) with the results of using the latest (beta) version of Palm 2. TL;DR - much better than before.
I am constantly amazed at what Justine produces, she is truly a programming superstar.
You could use an elaborate filter with jq (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/73040814/452614) to transform JSON to XML and then use an XQuery implementation to process the document. It would be quite powerful, especially if the implementation supports XML Schema. I have not tested it.

Or https://github.com/AtomGraph/JSON2XML which is based on https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#json-to-xml-mapping

It even looks like we could use an XSLT 3 processor with the json-to-xml function (https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#func-json-to-xml) and then use XQuery or stay with XSLT 3.

Now I have to test it.
Should anyone feel 100% comfortable betting on a company that has only been (really) commercially engaged in the last 4 years? Whose success (albeit explosive) could only be seen in the last 18 months?

If we are going to rank the concerns around openai announcements from the past 2 weeks, I'd bet the more concerning one was the initial firing decision.
Is this really that surprising of a behavior, though? PHP apps threw away state after each request, and in the Node.js world data doesn't persist across server restarts or across instances of the app.

The only way I could see someone being confused about this is if they thought Deno Deploy was just a single VM running a single instance their code.
1600+ papers cite the Intel paper (2011) with firmware for CSI sensing, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4354757827101869878
That’s a strange statement because I definitely canceled my subscription as a result of the happenings. This very public battle confirmed for me how misaligned OpenAI is with the originating charter and mission of its nonprofit. And I didn’t want to financially contribute towards that future anymore.

I guess my subscription didn’t count as a customer.
Their wallets demanded Sam back.

The original, founder hacker lost.
Finland seeks to become metaverse global leader by 2035
I sure hope they're betting on the right horse.

"The report anticipates that by 2035, the annual metaverse industry turnover will be more than €30 billion."

By mid-2023, Mark had already burned nearly €50 billion without any results whatsoever.
> staff threaten to quit overnight

They didn't, though. They threatened to continue tomorrow!

It's called "walking across the street" and there's an expression for it because it's a thing that happens if governance fails but Makers gonna Make.

Microsoft was already running the environment, with rights to deliver it to customers, and added a paycheck for the people pouring themselves into it. The staff "threatened" to maintain continuity (and released the voice feature during the middle of the turmoil!).

Maybe relying on a business where the employees are almost unanimously determined to continue the mission is a safer bet than most.
If you really want to understand the Kissenger era, the best raw source IMO is this:

> "The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East is a 2011 book by Andrew Scott Cooper"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oil_Kings

> "The book discusses Henry Kissinger, the 1970s oil embargo, and the Iranian Revolution. Cooper had stated that the story on how the U.S. became dependent on Saudi Arabia and how U.S. reliance on oil began was "Less well known" compared to the general understanding of U.S. reliance on oil."

Henry Kissenger along with his British and Gulf Arab partners seem to have invented the concept of petrodollar recycling which has buoyed up the value of the US dollar since about 1975 or so. Balance of payments was a problem and Kissenger said to the Gulf Arabs, "we'll maintain your medieval system of government and the special priviledges of the House of Saud just so long as you keep investing the bulk of those profits back into the US economy (see Saud investments in Uber, today)."

If you read Machiavelli's "the prince" you'll know everything you need to know about Kissenger. Never had an original idea in his whole life.
This does not match with reality. When a company is on the chopping block there are many instances of them finding a way to make things works. (eg. Big three after the bailouts, Ford running up the launch of the Taurus, Kia in the 70s, Nissan when Carlos Gohsn joined etc)
Not really. But Helen Toner has been tweeting a little "To be clear: our decision was about the board's ability to effectively supervise the company, which was our role and responsibility. Though there has been speculation, we were not motivated by a desire to slow down OpenAI’s work." https://twitter.com/hlntnr/status/1730034020140912901
Churchill?
I think the data is a bit skewed as Lexus/Toyota are the most reliable, and make many hybrid models.

The question should be, for a particular make, are hybrids more reliable than ICEs?
https://archive.is/k8b8j
It doesn't take much intellect to realise that laudable ends* never justify ignominious means.

* see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468485
That would explain a lot! Sometimes when it's fast it spits out all code. When it's slower, it's Lazy! Thanks for the link
What about nix?
Or if it's just for developer tools, the 100 tool managers that exist, like asdf and rtx.

Sometimes a package manager doesn't have my package doesnt get solved by adding one more package manager.
United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
As a solo dev for https://cubetrek.com my tech stack is as follows:

Front-end: Bootstrap, vanilla JS, for visualizations: D3.js and Babylon.js

Backend: Java Spring Boot, PostgreSQL

Deployement: semi-manual, script rsyncing the Jar onto the dedicated Hetzner Server

Regarding ease of adding new features: I guess that depends mainly on your code base and less on your stack
You're right. Kissinger was way worse.
Reeks of CEO speak; general bullshit that seems to go against all practical reasoning of the situation.

Don't fall for it.
Certainly, but lots of terrible people are also interesting. Kissinger strikes me as a prime example of Lord Acton's dictum at how power corrupts; by any reasonable standard he committed absolutely egregious acts, but because they inured to the USA's strategic benefit, there has never been any political will to hold him accountable. It's like how the US promotes the idea of a 'rules based international order' but habitually diminishes the UN, refuses to participate in the International Criminal Court and so on.
that may be true of these two cars, but I don't think he was cherry-picking those just to make his general argument. are you making the general argument that this larger vs smaller car issue will always be the difference? what happens to the difference in safety improvements over time, always overshadowed by size in the used market?
I have an insanely hard time believing that a CEO that copies his customers and competes directly with them with his own consumer product will be “doubling down” to help customers.

Sam has shown he has no good will towards anyone but himself.
FDR, Eisenhower, Truman. Hell even Clinton is more responsible for post war global dominance than Kissinger.
I look at it like finding a lost treasure or something like that. The government expedition with a 1 trillion dollar budget might find it first... or it might be in some guy's attic and his kid came over and happened to notice it. Spending infinite money on research increases your chances, but it's still a chance.
Maybe our family have just been lucky with the brands we pick, but I definitely haven't found this... My Electrolux fridge has been 100% solid for over seven years now, which I bought because my parents had had one for eight or nine years at the time (which is still going). My Bosch Series 8 front-loader washing machine has also been a tank, same age, no signs of anything going wrong, same story - I bought it because a friend had had a similar model for years, theirs is still going to...

Seems like there are still reliable appliances to be found, it's just probably that there's more low-quality cheaply made appliances on the market than there used to be, so it used to be easier to get a good one without researching so much...
To quote Tom Lehrer: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."

Kissinger's legacy will be debated for a long time and I have personally only scratched the very surface. I do however intend to read Hitchen's "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" [1] one day, if not just to enjoy the fire with which he could write.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger
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There's a supposed leak on Q* that's been floating around. But really who knows
This comment doesn’t say anything about the maintenance/repair cost to keep those cars running.
Maybe they couldn't find anything nice to say about him?
PHP has come a long way since the PHP5 days, PHP8+ is a modern reliable and performant language.
Ffs why do we need arbiters of truth on the internet. We didn't trust in back in the day, why are we under a notion that we can and should trust it today?! Where are people's critical thinking skills?
Wow Mini being that high up is a surprise.
Genetic data on 500k volunteers in UK to be released for scientific study
Analyzing long win streaks in online chess
TL;DR I used Monte-Carlo simulations + Elo-based win probability estimation to find the probability of Hikaru and other top players scoring very long win streaks (e.g. 55+ consecutive wins) over a year after Kramnik's allegations that Hikaru Nakamura might have cheated based on a number of performances. Initially I thought such streaks are indeed statistical anomalies, but it turned out to be extremely probable: Hikaru scoring at least 55 wins in a row over a course of 3000+ online blitz 3+0 games this year is about 98.4%

That is likely based on large sample size (3k+ games in 3+0 blitz only this year, 35k blitz games over lifetime just on Chess.com), Hikaru being highly skilled (consistently top 1-2 ranked blitz player both over the board and online) and low opposition rating (as compared to other top 5 blitz players on Chess.com: Magnus Carlsen, Nihal Sarin and Daniel Naroditsky).

There's also a discussion and short summary on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1873ohw/analyzing_hi...)
Six millimeter PCs?!?
Yeah, OpenAI lost a bit of its magic. It's sad because it was really fun so far to see all the great progress.

But there are so many unanswered questions still and the lack of transparency is an issue, as is the cult like behavior that can be observed recently.
I've been driving a drinking-age Jeep Cherokee and the acceleration and top speed make me remember how it felt to drive 20 years ago. The street and road design makes a lot more sense at those speeds. We've gotten used to faster and peppier cars over the years but meanwhile the roads haven't changed to accommodate that.
The theory that GPT-4 is 1.7T also posits that GPT-4 is composed of eight 220B experts, meaning once you've loaded the model, inference costs aren't akin to a 1.7T model, but instead to a 220B model.

If prices scale linearly, we reach 0.03 / 1K tokens (lower end of GPT-4's price range) at about 0.0001 * 300, or about 1.2T parameters (and that's dense - no MoE here).
Why is this guy portayed as some kind of genius?
Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web
Whatever the people who buys ads decides, losing your ad revenue is the main fear of most social media and media companies.

See twitter for example, ad buyers decided it is no longer politically correct so twitter lost a lot of ad revenue. Avoiding that is one of the most important things if you want to sell a model to companies.
that's truly incredible how much lives can be saved with good electronics and it-systems.
I wish the war ends asap, before the autonomous ai-powered drones comes into play... because at that point this might become complete skynet-like hell.
Awesome! Thank you so much
It is a side-effect of the learning cutoff date for the LLM they are using to write articles. </sarc>
The chart shows child pedestrian deaths went from 1632 to 144. So a tenfold decrease. No idea about the stats on child pedestrianship but I’d be surprised if it was down 10 fold.
> They're responding to a paper that seems flawed based on the evidence presented.

No, they're probably right about the papers they mention—they both seem pretty bad. But the "jumping to conclusions from a very small sample" refers to saying that "historians are destroying their own discipline", because of these bunk papers.
Yep. Gemalto was hot stuff for a while.
The embodiment of Realpolitik, except... he had extracurricular bombings to carry out, just because. You know? It happens.