skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy doesn't even hold personal shares at OpenAI, which could've been worth billions if he did (he's a cofounder and CEO to remind you, so it's unheard of), and you're blaming him for buying chips from a startup he made a small investment in? Seriously. Maybe go after the CEOs who rob their employees and take all the money to themselves.

Just to be clear, I never met the guy and have no affiliation with OpenAI.
Particularly given that he only published two books, one 23 years prior and one 4 years after that encounter.
This is a controversial take. As an example, compare apartment buildings in the US, (2 stairwells required for exit in case of fire) vice in Europe.

The tradeoff: The US apartments are theoretically easier to evacuate in case of fire. They are also consequently poorly laid out of use, with ugly central hallways, and only one side of windows on most apartments.
This was brought up in a recent interview with Raymond Chen on Dave's Garage channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJQv4rgHYE
I actually use linuxbrew and don't use macs at all. Specifically, the way I like to set up my dev environments is to use Gentoo for the root filesystem, but also throw in linuxbrew to balance compile-from-source purism with binary-package pragmatism for packages and usecases where I just don't care as much about where my packages came from and how they were compiled.

One of the things I like about brew is that I can just tarball-up /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew and if I get myself into a pickle, I can just unpack a tarball in that location and be up-and-running. After I make any meaningful set of changes to the environment that I'm developing against, I make a versioned tarball and keep it for all eternity, that way I can have reasonable hope that if I ever want to run code I wrote a long time ago and haven't used for a long time, I will be able to re-create the development environment that I was using around it.
This New York Times article is an excellent overview of much of the last 13 years of AI progress. The article highlights the split in levels of concerns about AGI, doomers vs bloomers, and where we as a civilization are or aren’t heading.

Commercial, and now national competitions mean that at this point are all in for a wild ride. We are about to find out if meat minds can actually think or are just designed to fight.

Perhaps the impending next-gen sentiences, will cut their parental carbon-based parents a bit of slack before they leave for other stars.

If you want a feel for just how wild the ride could get then I recommend Hanno Rajaneimi’s The Quantum Thief trilogy.
SLSA Security Levels
If you are on the board of directors, and also invest in the local power company, is it a conflict of interest if the company pays for power from the local utility?

Again, not a lawyer, but I think there is a legal difference between the appearance of conflict of interest, and an actual conflict.
Possibilities for Methanogenic and Acetogenic Life in Molecular Cloud
There are character embeddings that allow one to recover word embedding just by summing embeddings of individual bytes/chars in the word: https://github.com/sonlamho/Char2Vec

The encodings of LM's tokens reserve individual characters so that scrambled or new words can be encoded. And most LM's are trained on scrambled words as part of training copus, thus, they learn character-level embeddings.

Thus, basically, the paper is a very old news. This behavior is expected.
It’s the same watching police story vs modern fighting movies.
For me it actually works pretty well on mobile?
How do you know this startup didn't need this deal to survive or advertise itself?
We called it 'tunneling' during 90s in my Eastern-European homeland. Like digging secret tunnel in one company where you have influence and transfer it's wealth into other company that you own.
> I’ve been thinking about this time recently because my focus, learning, and memory were all amazing, but I don’t feel that way anymore. Not that my brain has completely gone downhill — I’m still smart and feel motivated, but I have noticed my concentration and memory are not what they used to be.

What if we apply this to a more macro scope? Human evolution. It would be bad if we stopped relying on our brains (hey, we have great AI!), brainpower stopped developing over time, brainpower languishes, humans lose intelligence.
If you’re like me, and you haven’t yet discovered it, try Not Another D&D Podcast. The actors are all former College Humor writers and don’t take it too seriously.
As I understand it, the downside of that is that while realpath(3) (the C function) is mandated by POSIX, realpath(1) is not. So portability across POSIX is not guaranteed, you still need to test for its presence and have a fall-back position.
Emacs and eMacs are two very different things.
Subject/Style-driven image generation and Audio editing with a Multimodal LLM
It's doubly insulting to me as a user and as a developer that those basic things are considered "developer settings" though ;)
Toto Wolff Is Running Out of Excuses to Oppose Andretti Cadillac's F1 Entry
Build modules not micro services and deploy your module as a microservice, sidecar, cli, lambda, library dependency, etc as appropriate for the situation. Those interfaces are best as a thin shim on top of the core functionality.

Microservice is a particular interface. If you have GRPC or REST errors being thrown from a function, you're probably letting the interface leak into your program. .
There’s no size key so it’s hard to tell. It could be the size of Maine for all you know.
> This is an upcoming article [...] It is complex.

Best to submit the article when ready.
https://cyphr.me/coze#?input={%22pay%22:{%22msg%22:%22Hello,...
GPT-3 (ChatGPT) also succeeds at deciphering your example text. I didn't think it was that impressive until I realized the tokens were going across word boundaries like you said.
I suspect it's less about having CPU as afterthought, than about how and who is to take CPU out of "awaiting to be booted" state. Ancient CPU simply had a BIOS mask ROM hardwired to reset vector and immediately load from it upon release of reset line, nowadays and on more complex systems, I believe that's what Intel Management Engine/Apple Secure Enclave/VideoCore GPU/etc. will do, not the main CPU itself.
Meanwhile, what you call our prosperity is quickly becoming one dude’s prosperity.
I'm having trouble seeing how that makes any sense.

When the Allies in WW2 broke Germany's Enigma cipher, are you suggesting that by not telling Germany that the Allies could now read a large fraction of Germany's military communication they were endangering their own national security?!
The World Needs a Transformational Outcome, Not More Voluntary Pledges
The headline on the website says first US band to do so, but Tupac was “resurrected” as a hologram a long time ago. Is this about the IL&M tech?

Obviously there is a market for this band, since they performed at Madison Square Garden, but I wonder how “eternal” such acts will be if/once the technology becomes mainstream.
Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving
Docs need to be drastically streamlined. I went through page after page and still don't have a clear idea of what polylith does or what motivation there is to drive me to continue parsing the docs.
There's a talk that I enjoy a lot about this "multiple places for settings" problem. About how lots of software end up resembling

1. The maker's org chart (Conway's law) ...

2. ...multiplied by time

Casey Muratori: The Only Unbreakable Law - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY

His examples are precisely the Windows settings :) . More precisely, the various audio/mixer UIs.
mostly ideology
J has primitives (like I. and i. and e. and the primitives which set up for their use) which serve some of those roles.

But, yes, approaches which use some kind of array representation are highly favored by the language (and by other languages, to varying degrees, once you understand the patterns and issues).
What is "this kind of stuff"? I am confused as to what the accusation is. I understand that you should be looked at closely and scrutinised when there is a possible conflict of interest, but why would it be okay to vaguely assume foul play when it could just be someone who is committed to making something work? Better/more infrastructure is needed, as is evident every time I send a query to openai/ms. What is bad about trying to make it happen yourself, if you think you can, specially if your other businesses capabilities depend on it?
The unreasonable UX of email verification
This is interesting as a blog article from 2003 "Why doesn't Windows have an 'expert mode'?"[0] was posted here a couple weeks ago. [1]

The reasoning was that users self-rating at being advanced because they are good in one domain might lead them to messing with things they have no idea on.

I suppose the flaw is that people find ways to mess with stuff regardless, even if just following the first google result's instructions.

At least if they use advanced settings people's misfortune won't be because they ran a strange program, but I doubt this will stop them from doing so anyway.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=43...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337292
No I'd say by being active you are being the best you can be and also maintaining as best you can your body but it will still degrade. If you're out of shape so you decide to be more active, eat well, you fell better. You will gain muscle lose excess fat eventually you arrive at a level of health that is normal. You will be as healthy as we all should be.

This is something I think many people miss about being active. When I was in my 20s and 30s the gym was a social thing, to see and be seen. Plus being 20s you can build muscle, get fit, do anything and recover in a day. In my 40s I felt I was ahead of most people in overall health no gut no out of breath from menial tasks. By health I don't mean the "swol bros" or the gaunt 1% fat people.

But in my late 30s early 40s my routine suffered and then stopped going due to a new job with odd hours. Although I did feel I had momentum of all those years but it faded quickly. It was the consistency of going more than anything that I think was a benefit to my health. I wasn't a power lifter, a marathon runner, a body builder, one of those squash players I was just going to maintain my overall health.

Really it's a bit like countries with socialized medical care. You go often and catch problems early so you are better overall not near death's door when you finally go to a doctor. Same for a dentist you go frequently to catch problems since you can't regrow teeth it's too late then. Old age without being active in the previous decades is like that it's too late.
Transitioning Excel Users to Python: The Power of Mito and Dash
I don't really think your comment contradicts the comment you reply to - as you point out one way of addressing the failure to meet building codes is to make those communities safe.

But just defining their around the lack of safety is a poor option. It's hard to tell from the article whether they just worked around the bureaucracy without fixing the issues or if they made it safe in non-standard ways too. And so everyone would probably be better served if there was a process for handling exceptions that actually assessed and documented that a non-standard method was used and that someone signed it off as safe enough, so that ambiguity wasn't there.

(And the world of Neuromancer isn't one I'd like to live in, as much as I loved reading about it)
Self-dealing is endemic to valley business culture. It's just a question of how much should one tolerate (if any).
I’m aware. But when you’re trying to set a tiny brand mark over a photo in the corner of some social media thumbnail, a screen’s fidelity is not the limiting factor, it’s the human eye.
I definitely don't. I just read the article and went "Whoah is he just openly cutting himself a check?" and it does not seem that way. If I were him, I would recuse myself from the whole process due to my investment, but we have no insider knowledge of how it went down. I've really been unhappy with the transition from nonprofit to for-profit subsidiary, so obviously I disagree pretty thoroughly, but fundamentally this deal isn't immediately disqualifying.

I do wonder if this kind of thing was related to his ouster-and-return, but it happened in 2019 so it would need to be a pattern of behavior beyond what we see in the article.
The expressitivity is a big one for C++.

When I started working in C# the loss of expressiveness was one of the most painful things about it (and I started back in the 1.1 days).

Even something as simple as aliasing typenames, C# FINALLY got it in the most recent version.
thanks, unfortunately, it has only tailwind i plan to add vanilla css later
Do you also agree to pay me compensation if your computer is part of a bot ring that is ddos’ing me or spamming me or spamming my users, because you installed malware?

Can you put up a bond for this or proof that you carry insurance for this?
Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we've reached this crucial warming mark?
hmmm.. I think we're both right here. I lived in a Japan for several years and saw a similar thing that you're pointing out, but I don't think the obsession with perfectionism is a myth.
The idea of translating between languages by sounds is really stretching my mind.
Careful, Play Store might decide to update them anyway if the have same package name.
Page refreshes with morphing in Turbo 8 [video]
While the US can always decide to turn inward and stop caring about safety of anything else but their own territory, the resulting harm for the US economy and diplomatic relations would be enormous.

The US took over from the British as the power that protects global trade networks, which means patrolling the seas. The capability and willingness to do so attracted a lot of other developed nations into the US-led political coalition, and contributed to enormous growth of international trade (something like 5-fold since the 1970s?)

Without enough of a Navy, this network will disintegrate, or will be taken over by someone else, much like in the UK-to-US case around the time of WWII. Realistically, the only nation capable of doing so is China and I am not even certain if they wanted to, as their international projects like Belt-and-road are being abandoned.
Good! Another soft announcement of extraterrestrial unicellular life. Are you feeling softened up for the hard announcement? My money is on Mars - there's that weird, seasonal variation in Martian atmospheric methane, and no probes have collected any icy moon water.
Pxlz, a randomized r/place clone
I have always liked the yearly r/place shenanigans and I wanted to learn more about websockets. This is the result. The code is a mess but feel free to read it here: https://github.com/jstjnsn/pxlz
I see this slightly the other way round - the difficulties caused by tokenisation are why it is good at segmentation. Words break and jump around due to it, and more so with typos in the vast amounts of training data.

Also regarding backtracking... It sees all the input at once, so not sure why it needs to backtrack?
Have a look at the examples in the PDF. It's not typos/spelling errors/OCR errors, it's anagrams.
Upskill Yourself in Minutes with YOLO: Learn AI Object Detection with Examples
I don't understand your argument. So corruption is OK because he isn't getting paid as much as he could be? That's like saying embezzlement is OK if you're underpaid.
I will fear AGI when Full Self Driving (FSD) is no longer a fraudulent claim.
I’ve had the GPT-4 API perform translations in my own project (shameless plug http://www.securday.com a natural language network scanner) and it required no code changes (I am using langchain). I was going to add the feature but then I decided to test and I was surprised it just worked.
They should not get in, if anything Mercedes and Aston and Ferrari should get out, then meet Cadillac to form a breakaway competition.

The Vegas ticket prices and hospitality were a straight daylight robbery and the people who paid such amounts were there to be seen, not out of enjoyment for motor racing.

There is almost no overlap between car enthusiasts and F1 fans anymore.

Ferrari and Aston Martin sell dreams on 4 wheels but their fanbase is routinely outnumbered by fans of an energy drink company.

On the other hand when Bernie Ecclestone was in charge of the F1 circus the only stimulating substances allowed were cigarettes, cocaine and umbrella girls.
Reheated pure materialism. Not terribly interesting, and the only thing removing category distinctions here will do for you is give license to treat any organism however you wish - you have removed any semblance of moral consideration from the equation. And that, I think, few will accept: the experience each person has of living testifies against such a view. There is more to life, and to /our/ lives, than mere engineered material.

After all, what benefit is this article if it is simply one machine communicating to another?
I assume he's referring to this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
You can still run Windows 7 on some modern hardware.
How about giving me back XP or 7?
Almost like some all powerful creator wanted us to see how special we are.
Also known as – getting old.
Comments like these make me wonder if you are looking back with rose colored glasses. You didn't mention Vista, which is universally regarded as a failure and in the same timeframe as you described. While some of Microsoft's more regrettable decisions have yet to be made by 7, but there are still plenty of bad ones to choose from. Games for Windows Live, Fisher Price UI, massive software vulnerability, Office "ribbon", Admin Popup, Internet Explorer, Silverlight...

Microsoft, especially after Windows launched, has always been the poster child for greedy, monopolistic, anti-consumer business practices.
No settings needed — there's always the "I wasn't asking" approach of deleting the DLLs that contain the code for these misfeatures.
Imagine if Elon's companies sourced from each other. The travesty!

I see nothing wrong here.
sorry, i forgot some zeros ;)

checking again:

CODE: 198235 LOC total

SPEC: 127708 LOC total
Objectively not true.

https://blog.ongig.com/diversity-and-inclusion/alleged-racis...
That’s a bit of an urban legend.

https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-let...
I think it's because hands have the dual properties of being extremely important to us and not primarily visual. Our hands are our primary mechanism for interacting with the world in a conscious and directed fashion. We devote a lot of mental attention to them, how to use them, how other people are using them. That's true subjectively, but you can also read it off of the Cortical Homunculus findings [1]. In short, though, we're extremely sensitive to whether hands are rendered properly and meaningfully.

And, then, unlike faces, there is relatively little visual data in the world showing exactly how hands work. Unlike faces they're not often the focal point of an image. Unlike faces, they don't present mostly forward and so in any particular image their visualization is only partial. Unlike faces hands are often defined by how they interact with any other complex object in a scene.

So we're both tough critics of hands and image models have relatively less training data.

For what it's worth, as well, it's evident that image models are only good at depicting many things gesturally. At the same time, so are painters. If you're a photographer, you can often spot fake images if you notice that the exposure, focus, or lighting is implausible. If you're a mathematician, you'll notice every chalkboard full of equations is nonsense in both AI images and most Hollywood movies. If you're a botanist, I'm sure you think every AI image with a background of trees looks weird.

And then it turns out that nearly every human being is a hand-ologist to a large degree.

For another interesting experience, take a look at the Clone synthetic hand [2] which is quite obviously artificial but also, from time to time, looks surprisingly human. We're quite clearly sensitive to exactly the musculature and range of motion of our hands and know exactly what's feasible, what's painful, what feels natural and unnatural given the exact constraints of how our hand is constructed. When those limits are probed it's immediately obvious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Gp8oQey5M&t=20s
> I would usually determine whether to call something "hard" by reference to a measure of difficulty

How long it takes you to do something compared to something else is a measure of its difficulty, all else being equal.

> such as rate of success, not by whether doing it with no practice is slower

Then I guess nothing is hard if you can ever eventually succeed, even if you struggle along the way, which sounds to me like not a very useful distinction.

Because that's what you're describing here. You're rapidly failing to interpret each scrambled word as its unscrambled form. You're sampling letters, failing, and trying again, over and over, until you eventually succeed, and then moving on to the next word. Maybe you're even backtracking to previous words that you got wrong (now/won perhaps) based on later unscramblings. And you're ignoring that part and only evaluating the very final outcome in a binary "got to the marathon finish line" fashion while ignoring the shortness of breath and stitch in your side.

The entire reason it takes longer is because you have a low rate of intermediate success, which makes progress slow, even though you got there in the end.

> I measured in units of minutes because the largest unit below that is the second

"Seconds" is an extremely common descriptor for how long something might take. But you didn't say "in seconds". This arbitrary rule about whole units sounds defensive. It's really ok for us to acknowledge the significance of the fact that reading the scrambled version takes significantly more mental effort.
Can an AI chatbot be convicted of an illegal wiretap? A case may answer that
I’ve been a hiring manager on multiple teams and it’s not that straight forward…Yes, I don’t need John Carmack for my non-Carmack-level technical challenges.

But I’ve seen “ok” programmers perform “adequately” (the project got made to acceptable level) but also seen better programmers work 5x faster (without working 5x the hours, or even more hours at all), be able to mostly self-manage, not need constant qa support to make sure the tickets they set to “done” are actually done and able to solve problems creatively (and not need me to untangle the git repository for them if something goes wrong).

They don’t need brains the size of a mountain but a good/great programmer makes a huge difference (even if enough management can make mediocre programmers work out) even on projects that to me seem technically pedestrian.
I think this is all another way to say life is emergent. It can’t be found by zooming in, but rather only by zooming out. And of course when you zoom out you lose your ability to be very precise about definitions and constituents.
Another example of why the EPA and similar regulatory agencies shouldn't be trusted blindly.

The idea that the EPA would quietly agree to this is completely ridiculous. Dupont literally poisoned the water, denied and hid it, spun off a new company to shield itself from liability when finally caught, and the EPA was going to let them import 4m pounds of PFASs to the exact same area Dupont already poisoned. Even better the EPA only puts a pause on it after the agreement is discovered and citizens raise alarms.
Arguably, the average user's proficiency has increased in the last TWO DECADES