skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
self dealing regulations are to prevent that.

also OpenAI Inc. for profit doesnt exist, a wholly owned LLC subsidiary does. so they would need to divest of that LLC first (by selling the shares)

the way around the self dealing regulations are to reduce their ownership below 20% - 35% (yes, its that range, for multiple reasons)

good thing here is that most venture backed companies subvert this already by simply share dilution and youre breaking into one the best secrets of Silicon Valley. Non-profits pump the value of startups and launder the reputation of the founders because their ideas get so much “validation” so quickly. (non profits they partially control act as lead investors for startups they control. they both sell shares at higher price, ideally: founders get QSBS tax free treatment, non profit retains tax free capital gains too. nothing wrong with that, you just probably cant do it too)

so open ai for profit llc needs to get rid of the PPU’s and bring in outside investors to dilute ownership enough, but two birds one stone: the outside investors have to get a higher valuation
> I guess very few people benefit from it on a day to day basis. Most value is just there in case of accidents

That's true, but some people have more accidents than others! If you're the sort of person who drops their phone in water every couple of months then a waterproof phone ends up being a huge cost saving.
If a human expert gave wrong answers as often and as confidently as LLMs, most would consider no longer asking them. Yet people keep coming back to the same LLM despite the wrong answers to ask again in a different way (try that with a human).

This insistence on comparing machines to humans to excuse the machine is as tiring as it is fallacious.
Can you link to an explanation of how membership and licensing works for commercial use?
could you check linked in?
A Warrant Showing the U.S. Government Is Monitoring Push Notifications
Tony de Peltrie (short film from 1985)
I expected Candide to be not-really-entertaining, but started it for Voltaire's thoughts, opinions, etc.

Boy, was I wrong!

It was actually funny and entertaining to read, had a great story, too.
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This is what the reply was:

> Oh, it it's squeaking then it's definitely going to float.

> It is a rubber duck.

> It is made of a material that is less dense than water.

Full points for saying if it's squeaking then it's going to float.

Full points for saying it's a rubber duck, with the implication that rubber ducks float.

Even with all that context though, I don't see how "it is made of a material that is less dense than water" scores any points at all.
> >> and comp was reasonable

there's no way you guys would get the same comp though? like not even close. MSFT irrespective of how much it wants you is not going to honor the 10X increase in valuation from the upcoming $90 billion valuation.

Even if they do, you will miss on the upside. MSFT stock is not going to 10X but OpenAI's might.
Proton Drive's new photo backup feature for Android
Related, but I found the blog post more insightful and interesting[0]

>Next on our roadmap is the development of support for albums and automatic categorization based on photo types, such as screenshots. We are also working on integrating on-device machine learning to ensure that you can enjoy all the smart features you’ve come to rely on while maintaining end-to-end encryption.

Once it has matured a little more, and this feature is implemented, I'll happily switch from Google Photos!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555218
Why would that be an issue? Isn't that just the normal cultural expectations surrounding how companies and labor unions handle disputes? What I'm saying is that the license plate issue has to do with a government entity failing to perform its function, something outside the scope of Tesla and the union.
well, the catch is "we make about as much here as we did in the US". Usually, you'd make 40% less of what you did in the US when you move to the UK.
apple only has one focus. ecosystem. that is the reason for the slow movements and the appearance of sleep. different scale. different game.
I need a headphone jack. My car doesn't have an aux input (I have to use a cassette adapter), let alone Bluetooth. It's 20 years old, yes, but it's not that uncommon to have a car that old.

More importantly, even if I didn't need one I would still want one. A headphone jack is a universal connection for audio, Bluetooth is not. And wired headphones are strictly superior to wireless headphones, as they don't need to be charged and can't be lost as easily.
You know, I was just thinking how if I was a google exec I'd poach openai and/or attempt to gain some controlling shares if the org by throwing money at sam/board.
Compared to ICE vehicles, EVs are expensive and heavy

Expensive maybe, IMHO not really, at least in China. Heavy .. this doesn't sound fair. Are you comparing a cherry-picked, heavy, full battery back EV with an empty tank ICE? Noting the EV has far more torque, and that the same tech is used in UAVs and in a ground vehicle you can arguably move the weight around (lower it) easier in an EV, this casual observer (not a car person) would expect superior mass distribution and lower overall weight (certainly vs torque).

500kg solar EV: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/06/sunswift-7--dr... ... compare Toyota Corolla: 1314kg + 50kg fuel / Toyota Camry: 1360kg + 70kg fuel / Tesla Model 3: 1611kg / Toyota RAV4 average: 1634kg + 55kg fuel / Tesla Model S: 2107kg / Tesla Model X: 2458kg / Your cherry-picked example of an F-150 Lightning: 2948kg / Chevrolet Silverado 1500: 3311kg + 105kg fuel / way more heavier ICE cars follow...

Another potential consideration is that the EV is far better placed to use recovered power from braking, so a small amount of additional mass will have less efficiency impact than in a comparable ICE.
How did they lose that? Sigh...
Chess has a funny distribution because there are different populations to consider. I'd guess a chess.com 1200 is better than 95% of all people who know the rules and have played a game.

Yet to reach the 95% of any tournament rating pool is far more difficult. It took me nearly three years just to get to 1450 USCF, which is about 83% nationally. In that time I've done more than 50,000 tactics, played more than 15,000 total games (mostly online blitz and rapid) and at least 300 rated tournament games at a slow time control (this includes online games played at 45+45, only half that number are OTB). I've analyzed those tournament games, most of them with a coach. I've played through annotated game collections. I attend lectures at the club from an FM, and watch dozens of Youtube videos every week from streamers and instructors. I drill openings and endgames etc etc.

I have a lifetime goal just to reach 1800, which is about 95% I believe. Its reasonable to expect that to take at least 5 years, and also reasonable to think I will never achieve it. This is what chess improvement looks like when you start in your 40s. Any kid who takes the game seriously can get to 1800, a lot of them will do it in just a couple of years.
> In a conversational human context, saying it's made of rubber implies it's a rubber shell with air inside.

Disagree. It could easily be solid rubber. Also, it's not made of rubber, and the model didn't claim it was made of rubber either, so it's irrelevant.

> It floats because it's rubber [with air] as opposed to being a ceramic figurine or painted metal.

A ceramic figurine or painted metal in the same shape would float too. The claim that it floats because of the density of the material is false. It floats because the shape is hollow.

> It's not false to say a house is made of wood.

It's false to say a house is made of air simply because its shape contains air.
True. When you make art with CSS then you don't start with Illustrator either
Back in Austin, there was a small chain of Mongolian grill restaurants that offered AYCE dumplings with your meal that a friend and I often went to. My friend really liked the dumplings and once had about six refill plates of them.

The next time we went, they no longer offered AYCE dumplings.
That's pretty much agreeing with the article.

> Note that when I say 95%-ile, I mean 95%-ile among people who participate, not all people... I'm also not referring to 95%-ile among people who practice regularly. The "one weird trick" is that, for a lot of activities, being something like 10%-ile among people who practice can make you something like 90%-ile or 99%-ile among people who participate.

Someone who even calls it "training" and has specifically put in effort to be better is probably in the 95th percentile of people who do the activity.
*99.95% of programmers
The "expert" in the article got it wrong. The relationship between the voltage and the losses in the wires is not proportional. They are squared. Going from 12V to 48V is not a saving of 4x rather 16x.

For some applications you could also consider Power over Ethernet in the car, get both shielded comms and power. Or can and power over twisted pair.
A "link to higher chance of depression" does not mean that 100% of the people with 1 hour commute develop depression. Even if it meant that 99% do, your belonging to the remaining 1% does not invalidate the study. Personal experience is anedoctal evidence, i.e. not science, not _true_ in the sense that it generalizes beyond yourself. People are different from one another, and what might be neutral or enjoyable for you might be depressing for other people. All this study is saying is that on average, a long commute is more likely to be depressing.

Also, there is some arrogance in assuming that all those depressed people just _haven't thought about_ cycling to work, or listening to a podcast, and should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps to start feeling better.

Not everyone gets to make lemonade out of lemons. For one thing, you need to be able to afford sugar (_but it's cheap to me!_). For another, you need to like lemonade in the first place.

Besides... Correlation is not causation, and the depression might not be a direct consequence of being bored on transport. Perhaps it's because they get to spend 30 fewer minutes with their family, pets, or hobbies. Perhaps it turns out people with longer commutes tend to have worse paying jobs, or live in areas with less opportunities for recreation (even a local park counts). But I think it's at least plausible that lengthening your already-too-long workday by an hour can't possibly make your life happier.
It's like we don't deserve nice things.

But we do! I'm one of those "the old web was better" people and really believe that if we combine the simplicity of the old web, modern browsers and a splash of modern reason (to ditch things like flash), and we have a sweet spot. Web in which lacking accessibility can be addressed by tooling like screen readers, reading mode, enforcing your own custom css, or full text in RSS.
Despite this being piloted in Germany, there's still a way to access and enable this setting (although it only currently works in private windows). Thanks to Michael Veale[1] for bringing this to my attention:

> Go to the URL about:config

> Set cookiebanners.ui.desktop.enabled ->True

> Go to Settings->Privacy, turn on Cookie Banner Blocker.

[1] https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/111538624638087626
> although for some very high volume or simple, old parts, it's a bit more common

And often the prevalence of the high volume parts actually makes it nearly impossible to find things using the originals.

For example, I once wanted a real FT232 breakout board (or at least a clone that can do most of what the original can do) to use some of the bit-banging features of the chip. But the most popular clones of that chip are very much reduced functionality variants that work as a USB-to-UART but don't do most of the other functionality. This was probably not helped by the fact that the original chips, and early more faithful replicas had onboard flash and allowed a degree of programming, but then the manufacturer of the original chip embedded malware in their Windows driver that detected and wrote bad data to the clones flash (which would have broken many products sold to consumers with them - technically fixable by removing the driver and re-flashing, but probably in most cases just becoming e-waste). So the clone manufacturers responded by simplifying: removing the flash, and removing most of the programmable functionality, and focusing on the UART part that was the most common use case.

Now, no matter how hard you try pre-purchase to make sure something is a full FT232 implementation (including asking for assurance about the chip up front) on a marketplace like Aliexpress or eBay, you are far more likely than not to got a limited functionality clone.
People seem to want to use LLMs to mine knowledge, when really it appears to be a next-gen word-processor.
Even most technically-minded people still use QWERTY on full-size computer keyboards despite it being a terrible layout for a number of reasons. I really doubt a new, nonstandard keyboard would get much if any traction on phones.
I wonder what other purposes FB have used those 1.1B+ publicly visible photos to train models for?
Same with myself and Link. I've been devoted to him the entire series, with side characters for fun, and without fail, he falls to characters with more movement options that can escape the zone and outspeed him up close. Ultimate made him much better with the remote bombs for the mindgames, but yeah I feel it. Solidly mid-tier this time around but still next to nobody playing him at the top, so I haven't seen much pushing of his game. Izaw was big in the Smash4 era and I think T, Tea? A Japanese player still plays him in Ultimate.

I keep telling myself if I ever get good at bomb-jumping to recover, my game will explode in potential.

Nice to find another Ness player in the wild; one of my IRL friends is a Ness and Lucas main. He was the first I ever played against that could do more than PK Fire and yo-yo. Those matches get rough with PK Fire's angles and how quickly the stick can come out and return that arrow...
The great thing about PoE standards is there's so many to choose from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#Standards_...

Honestly, ethernet introduces a degree of non-determinism with respect to time in the link layer, plus increased bringup times, a potentially more costly core switching fabric, and the need for critical revision of latency assumptions on any potentially safety-related control concerns. Also, max current is not high. I would wager these are the reasons it won't be rushing to an EV near you... it's basically only suitable for a subset of uses, and heterogeneous infrastructure costs more in design, installation and maintenance cost than it nominally saves in production volume standards alignment and HR familiarity. (Source: Mechatronic systems design for the last ~8 years, IANAEE)
Nah, I don’t think anything has the potential to build critical thinking like LLMs en masse. I only worry that they will get better. It’s when they are 99.9% correct we should worry.
My wife's phone died in a bucket of goat milk. All those calcium ions are great conductors.
We need open source models that are trained on the same data and that can be built from source and run on lightweight machines like mobile devices.
I’ve wanted to use a variety of SVG filters like this at times, but the problem is that their appearance varies significantly from engine to engine and by scaling factor, and so it only ends up working for subtle things where imprecisions don’t matter much, and I end up regretfully but consistently going back to raster stuff. Also the pixel-by-pixel nature of them means that things like feDisplacementMap destroy antialiasing, which spoils half of the situations you might like to use it.
So you're saying we need a Ministry of Truth to protect people from themselves? This is the same argument used to suppress "harmful" speech on any medium.
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Related: https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique.html

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38554943, but we merged most of those comments hither)
PI is so good even if you don’t “understand” it all. In it he pretty much demolishes any notion that language is composed of words that refer to objects. This idea was as old as Plato and an often un-explored assumption of almost every philosopher henceforth.

Plato might ponder the nature of “love”. Wittgenstein asks, “what is love in this particular context?” Loving chocolate, loving your partner? Love between fictional characters? Was the speaker being sarcastic? Could a person born without language “love” without the framework of words and mutual understandings we get through culture, or would it be something different?

Surprisingly relevant to programming.
That's not a valid alternative at all, IMHO.

It solves a problem, yes, but a different problem than what is solved by interpolation.

Black frames resolve ghosting. That's great! I want to see one frame at a time, no more.

Motion interpolation resolves jagged motion. Instead of making my brain do the extra work of filling in gaps of motion, it lets my brain see an image move smoothly through time.

The higher resolution gets, the larger the group of pixels are that need to be moved each frame. This causes two unique and interdependent problems:

1. Low shutter speed creates blurry images, which makes high resolution worthless.

2. Low framerate creates gaps in motion, which makes high detail painful.

The faster the shutter, the more detail is visible. Filmakers are happy to solve this as extremely as they can. New cameras and lenses capture incredibly sharp and bright images with very short frame times.

The more detail in motion, the more confusing gaps between frames become. Filmakers (and the industry in general) refuse to increase framerate, so they give us ever increasing gaps instead.
Bit of a tangent, but nearly all foods have an animal death rate per calorie, so there's no such thing as insignificant food.

The exchange rate is usually better for grains than for e.g. chicken or even beef[0], though.

[0] https://animalvisuals.org/projects/1mc/ Note that I'm a little skeptical of the numbers here, particularly those for grass-fed beef. Not that it matters for the purpose of claiming rice has a cost in lives.
The people creating digital clones of themselves
There's obviously a trade-off between able to open the case without having to glue it back together - which is kind of needed for good repairability - and having IP67. It don't think it's even possible tbh. If you have screws, you'll have gaps and since IP67 has to be completely dust proof (not only dust protected as IP5) and water proof for 30 minutes in 1m water it's kind of a silly ask for anything repairable.
Just to play devil’s advocate: we can train neural networks to model some functions exactly, given sufficient parameters. For example simple functions like ax^2 + bx + c.

The issue is that “correctness” isn’t a differentiable concept. So there’s no gradient to descend. In general, there’s no way to say that a sentence is more or less correct. Some things are just wrong. If I say that human blood is orange that’s not more incorrect than saying it’s purple.
> I don't know if I'd go quite that far

Well, it is a touch hyperbolic, yes, but the 6502 could at least be considered a proto-RISC.
That's a very strange move, since per Tesla announcement in June, the production started, by January 2024 Dojo platform was supposed to have a top 5 compute power 'in the entire world' (per their communication), and going exponential from there. Morgan Stanley even released an investor note, valuing the Dojo business at 500B $ (it's not a joke, yes, 500B $).

This is similar to Andrei Karpathy leaving the company, when they were supposedly on the verge of releasing the real Full Self-Driving and Robotaxis.

Elon Musk will end up in prison for defrauding investors.
If you view this through a micro-lens, then it leads you to focus on the 'crudding up' of the thread. But if you take a macro view, then you consider the bigger-picture impact that the submitter's behavior has on HN as a whole.

Could the commenter have just emailed HN? Sure. But by commenting, the commenter shared this information with the community, who were then able to upvote the comment (I did) and flag the post (I did not). This is a valuable service IMO. It provides the HN team with additional feedback and alerts other HNers to a way in which the community is being used, perhaps not for the best.
You could call it clever or you could call it a spurious correlation.
Our colloquial term for the Chinese buffets was "All you can stand Chinese".

I haven't been to one in years. A singular issue with Chinese food today is the seeming race to the bottom. They're all as commoditized and cheap as they possibly be, and it's a real shame. It's also, at least locally, seems to be getting sweeter and sweeter.
Which open source models are u referring to?
Most are based on llama, which isn’t open source, and some on mistral, which is more open, but we don’t have access to the data, so we can’t make it ourselves (in the spirit of open source)
1. Hunans may also never be 100% - but it seems they are more often correct.
2. When AI is wrong it's often not only slighty off, but completely off the rails.
3. Humans often tell you when they are not sure. Even if it's only their tone. AI is always 100% convinced it's correct.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38554322.
I have the Chipsynth MD, which is a Sega Mega Drive (aka Genesis) based synth from Plogue and it's one of my favorite plug-in synths. It's pretty remarkable how much it nails the sounds from those games.

This video shows some insight into the development process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VLxTHYGLKY0
Why GPUs Are Great for AI
That’s great, thanks for the link there. Seems plausible enough to fill in the blanks.
No, the point of verbalizing the chain of thought is that it's all we know how to do right now.

> And frankly I don’t think it matters that humans think non verbally

You're right, that's not the reason non-verbal is better, but it is evidence that non-verbal is probably better. I think the reason it's better is that language is extremely lossy and ambiguous, which makes a poor medium for reasoning and precise thinking. It would clearly be better to think without having to translate to language and back all the time.

Imagine you had to solve a complicated multi-step physics problem, but after every step of the solution process your short term memory was wiped and you had to read your entire notes so far as if they were someone else's before you could attempt the next step, like the guy from Memento. That's what I imagine being an LLM using CoT is like.
For some people it is good?

I play video games to decompress and enjoy my time. If i want to be to 1% then i'd be grinding Leetcode, where it matters. I lost at video games all the time and it still achieves the goal of decompression and enjoyment.
I think you are good with IP55 in that case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_code

> Water projected by a nozzle (6.3 mm (0.25 in)) against enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects.

> Test duration: 1 minute per square meter for at least 3 minutes

> Water volume: 12.5 litres per minute Pressure: 30 kPa (4.4 psi) at distance of 3 meters (9.8 ft)
100% vthallam. The upside for OpenAI is much higher.
Put beautiful/pretty in the negative prompt, should get a similar result without the need for tagging ugly in the training set.