skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that it looks like just a regular "Senior Engineer" type job from the numbers; that looks like the pay band they'd put up for any ol' software-engineering job, regardless of specialization.

(EDIT: Removed a lot of extra verbiage explaining TC vs. base pay, which — thanks to the comment below — I'm realizing everyone probably already knows.)
> This program covers the Steam platform and current games developed and published by Valve. Please review the reward tables and scope descriptions below.
[...]
> Effective 6/14/2023 10 AM PDT, CS:GO is out-of-scope for new reports. Reports for CS2 Limited Test are currently out-of-scope.

Valve suck at security, sure, but with the reading of the wider HOne description, I'd peronally read it as in scope. They haven't updated the "Scope" tab to exclude "csgo.exe", so clearly that isn't reliable.

(That being said: please Valve, update the damn thing.)
It's a dropdown you can choose (Hire, Startup With, Freelance From, Work for etc)
Hi, echelon_musk!

On KI I don't know to answer, but:

The narrator creates a german: Prosodie, the melody.

Extract it, so you have text and prosody as input for a synthetical voice of your own choice, including accents like American or Australian...

In need of a text to speech engine that takes not only text as input...

Christian, Dresden

Please excuse my tonality.
Koreader. There is a good plugin for calibre that can sync data from the lua format to calibres metadata. Very useful for syncing the special formatting options for single books. It also understands a lot of formats natively.
Hi Tim,

>There is no point in publishing the work as open source since it is still in the active research phase.

That sounds very interesting to me at least, I'd appreciate being able to take a peek.
>Northern Europe salary is more than enough to afford local housing.

Not in the UK.
Thanks, but I wasn't asking about base pay, that's pretty much fixed depending on which level you end up hired at. I was asking about Total Comp given this is a very niche space and serious talent with experience usually commands significant TC and I was wondering how far Apple goes to attract such talent (especially given the current state of the industry, with layoffs and all).
People speak of these things in term of identity, but I wonder how true that is. I could easily imagine (pun intended) these are more akin to skills, that can be improved with practice.

Actually now that I think about it, I do know that this is a well-known phenomenon in the chess world. Newcomers are unable to to play blind-chess. But experienced players say that they gradually learned how to do it. How it started as a really blurry picture of just a small part of the board, and how they gradually got better at remembering and visualizing the whole board at the same and were able to play full games with a blindfold.
Some really smart people working on Swift, and the C++ interop is a dark art (although was missing some critical features like virtual message dispatch and support for std::function from blocks last time I looked).

FWIW there’s been plenty of C++ in macOS since the start, eg. Security.framework.
Never heard of these guys before, thanks. Insteresting.
But it looks like they have severe limitations on the kinds of vehicles they support and their parameters.
Would never use this as a daily driver for personal use.
Did Altman actually say 2025? The Tweet claims he said "relatively soon" and then the poster seems to take that to mean 2025 for no reason?
I've never really used a blackboard, but there's definitely something about physically writing on a surface that can be erased and rewritten at will. All electronic versions I've tried are a joke in comparison.

I think the blackboard specifically is just something Hollywood likes and perhaps a few people's preference. But whiteboards are better really.
> You'd think so... but no.

Well, your first counter examples are beginner mistakes (obviously) and a graphics card that the younger half of HN readers have never heard of.

Blender getting it wrong would be inexcusable, though. Maybe I was overly optimistic.
Something like a typed heterogeneous list is often build in a similar way.

A simpler version is probably a simple non empty list where you always have the guaranty of at least one element.
That would be illegal.

This isn’t voluntary, it’s regulation.
the bespoke mechanism is of a peer-to-peer nature, hence not subject to fraud and spam prevention mechanisms and, until now, largely untraceable
Temperature-sensing stirbar with RFID
What an infantile way to express your dislike for younger people.
But I'm not buying anything _new_ even if I have leftover budget, I can just buy more of the stuff I already have and use
Not just annoying but extremely cringeworthy also, like he's some cute elementary school buddy. These are some ice cold very powerful people, let's always remember that.

Don't create parasocial relationships to them like some desperate pawn.
There’s a relatively mainstream definition of AGI: an AGI could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform. Sometimes agency is included in there to facilitate the learning and accomplishment.

I think it’s as good a definition for a major milestone in AI development as any.
Yeah, I saw that too. Got a brief chuckle out of me.

I couldn't help myself asking why the fuck is it on your website, then?
I seriously doubt we will reach AGI in 2025, or next iteration of GPT after GPT-5.

What this does however suggest they have something that will make substantial improvement in next GPT, and something to further improve on the one after.

What may likely to happen is that GPT-6 ( In 2026 or later rather than 2025 ) will be good enough for lots of thing, as we further refine it and improve on it for another 1 or 2 iteration. This whole process in the next 5 - 6 years will unlock a lot of value in other industry. Enough to fuel another 10 years of investment cycle.

I still dont believe we will reach AGI by 2030 though.
I worked on/with CAS in the 1990s, mostly PARI/GP (as a researcher) and Maple (as an assistant/junior professor).

I remember watching a talk by one of the Axiom developers, maybe T. Daly himself, on the Jussieu University Campus in Paris, probably around 1998 or 1999. I remember being impressed by some of the ideas that were presented (I may even have asked 1 or 2 silly questions during the seminar), but unfortunately the system was not yet open source and so this was of little use for me.
Seriously though, i would be able to spend development time on this. If anyone is considering too, send me a message.
I’m getting strong “full self driving by the end of the year (2017)” vibes from this. His business is very hype-based so he’s working the hype machine. AGI is a fantastic promise in this regard because it’s not falsifiable - there is no broadly agreed upon and well understood definition of AGI. Instead the people listening to his promise imagine whatever they want and then get excited. By the time 2025 comes along there will be a new promise. They’ll claim they have AGI but it only handles text, images, and audio, perhaps. Then they will say “and in three years we will double the modalities and have AGI plus” and it will still be broadly meaningless.

Meanwhile I’m a robotics engineer and I need systems that can understand large amounts of data in real time and I doubt their 2025 “AGI” will be able to intelligently process LIDAR data. Such narrow systems are hardly general in my eyes, even if they are very compelling chat bots.
One part I really don't understand is, so far any GPT sucks at math or makes very basic mistakes with numbers. There were so many examples. But how will design of next LLM will improve that with making math proficient? AGI without math would not make any sense?
Just extrapolating from electric cars. If those can flare up after fire has been put out after significant time. I don't see why even larger battery banks on plane would not do exactly the same thing.

Solutions with cars is either submerge them in water or cover them with fireproof blankets. But scaling those to larger size is quite a challenge.
Japan was never colonized in the usual sense of the word. I guess the first event you're referring to is Perry's gunboat diplomacy that brought an end to the Tokugawa isolationism, and the second is the occupation post WWII. Neither of these involved the economic exploitation and imposition of total hegemony that typify imperialistic colonization. After all, we don't generally say that the US colonized West Germany after the war.
You are repeating common, but inaccurate ideas of history.

For example, the crusades are often presented as an unprovoked war, but started in response to an appeal for help to hold back the expanding Turkish empire, and aimed to conquer (arguably liberate) lands that had been subject to fairly recent invasion by the Arab and Turkish Empires and still had large (maybe majority?) Christian populations.

It took place in the context of Arab occupation of large chunks of Europe (most of Spain, Mediterranean islands including Sicily) and invasion of more (southern France, southern Italy).

I would say that in many ways Christianity has done the opposite of "calm down" in the last few hundred years. The adoption of the (originally Arab Muslim) argument of "the curse of Ham" to justify racism (and slavery) in early modern times (mostly by people with a financial incentive to believe it) was one nasty development, and the(still continuing) rise of Biblical literalism in the last two hundred years or so is another disaster.

If you are interested in a real history of Christianity in the West then Dominion by Tom Holland is excellent.
There was a whole lot of stuff FDR did, and that he failed to do, that would be today considered reprehensible acts of commission and omission.

But as FDR died before almost half of US pensioners today were born, and the US Constitution got an extra amendment to stop presidents serving three terms like he did, that's a weak argument.

Also that the omissions were e.g. "didn't push for federal anti lynching laws because he thought southern states would block it" and "only stopped ethnic cleansing of Mexican Americans at federal level not state level", which leaves the commission of being openly racist towards Japanese as an ethnic group… which was a pretty severe issue even though rounding them up into concentration camps was ruled constitutional at the time.
SFO’s involvement is that they own or lease the roads and parking lots where the pickups happen, and so have the right to set conditions on their use.

Parking enforcement isn’t automatic at parking lots without barriers either, but that doesn’t mean paying a parking fee to the operator is a “voluntary payment” just because you might not get a ticket if you do skip payment.

As for how they could enforce it, it’s pretty easy to walk around outside the airport and spot the cars with Uber/Lyft decals, or multiple phones, or use ANPR to identify frequent visitors, or just ask passengers as they get into cars. Multiple options for enforcement.

The enforcement might end up targeting the drivers rather than Uber itself, but it would have the same effect.
Can some explain how it is possible that an official archive would have this document and never look at it? The missing script for a never-made movie should attract attention, but nobody cared until this one writer found it? Why?
Tech leaders are so bad at making predictions. Some recents examples: self driving cars should have happened around 2021, not there yet. Elon's claimed to launch Tesla robot taxi around 22/23, and we don't see anything like that.

That's said, I do believe that GTP-5 will be out in a year, but re:AGI is a such a bold prediction.
Flying circuses led to the first aerial maps of Earth
OP was obviously referring to the copyright holders whose data he feels so entitled to.
The likelyhood of you ever receiving a random SMS without somehow giving away your number is very low.
Don't forget the trackpad that's actually usable.

For my current work project, I use a Mac Mini mostly to ssh into various boxes running Linux, both x86 and arm. The docs and comms are on the Mac though.

Funny enough, the mini stays at 10 W (it's a M2) while the x86 box under my desk idles at 20 W with no monitor connected...
No. I was there – I wouldn't read much into the tweet, it's heavily editorialized for engagement.
I didn't define AGI because I'm also confused about the term. As the term is currently used, it seems to directionally gesture vaguely towards something that's mostly based on gut-based sensing. Maybe it's one of those "when you see it you'll know" kind of things. Or maybe we'll have to experiment with building it first before we can narrow down the exact boundaries of how it's defined.
> I've been on Arch for 2 years now after seeing the cancer that is Windows 11. Ads and "news" on your desktop, garbage free to play games preinstalled or linked to.

Region dependent. Thanks to GDPR, you don't see any of this if you pick an EU region or "World" when installing Windows.

> It used to be that Windows was reasonably solid with good performance for dev and gaming. Now Linux is far superior in both aspects.

Non native games run well in Linux nowaday, but will always run better without Vulkan or any translation layer.
This is common knowledge. I'm one of the comments asking about TC, but I'm aware of all you've outlined, most people on HN have gone through negotiations before.

I was asking about TC in this particular instance given the following:

1. I have never worked for Apple (but I interviewed at big US companies for remote roles, and got to the TC negotiating round with a couple of big techs).

2. THis is a very niche role and requires very niche expertise and lots of experience.

3. The current state of the industry and how it has impacted comp at big tech like Apple.

I was hoping for a better insigh given all the above, not how TC works at big tech.
How can this help me if I don't know anyone and nobody knows me?

I still get a ton of value from LinkedIn because Recruiters contact me based on my skills (or I contact them) but I don't see how this can be replicated in a better way on here (yet).
Makes me wonder what kind of progress they've had internally at OpenAI to be making such claims

This is by design.

I think this is why he is the CEO, he is a master of deception, half truths, decoys and promises.

You never know what he knows so bad fucking luck, that’s his attitude. Even if he isn’t lying , he is communicating in a non-friendly, secretive and manipulative way which is toxic.

AGI, something better than humans at pretty much ahy tasks would have some radical implications for society. Him throwing this around loosely is irresponsible and shows a lack of respect or empathy on many fronts. If OpenAI are trying to develop it, fine, but just so some maturity as well.
I know very little about aviation. I thought that jet engines were way better for flight than propellers, but it seems that in order to provide power from batteries this plane is forced to use propellers instead.

Is that a major drawback? Or is that difference not as important as I ignorantly assumed?
Certainly a cool achievement. I struggle to see how you would scale up that pusher thing on the left side to an orbital class rocket. Also how does this technology fit into a world of re-usable and re-lightable rocket engines?
The "ChatGPT for teams" and the underwhelming GPT App store would be unnecessary if the headline was true. It more looks like they are looking to build out a product based on the existing ChatGPT capabilities. I predict any improvements will be slow and iterative.
Majority of agile setups feature lack of autonomy.
> I'm glad 15 minutes has been your experience. For me, who does not use Windows at all for other purposes, it has taken considerably longer than 15 minutes to figure out where all the settings are to disable and uninstall annoyances.

Use something like Shutup10 and Chris Titus' utility.
> have them deliver something which in turn keeps you looking ‘credible’

Yeah, this is the key part, because a lot of the specific claims do fall over once interrogated (self-driving when?), but usually he is delivering something.
RAGatouille
I live in a country where unions are a de-facto standard. They actually negotiate with the government for stuff.

Firing "lazy non-performers" is easy, you just follow the steps.

1) warning about performance, in written form with someone present
2) second warning
3) fired.

The American way where a boss can just come in and say "you're fired, gather your things and security will escort you out" will never fly here.

The process is there to make sure the reason for firing is explicitly stated and understood by both sides. It also gives some safeguards that just a personality conflict between people can't be used to fire someone, there has to be a proper reason beyond "I don't like your face"

Companies can also fire people when they hit a downturn, but there's a catch. If they claim it's for "economic reasons" (there's a specific turn of phrase they need to use here that doesn't translate) they then need to primarily re-hire the people who they fired if they start hiring for the same positions again.
>I believe it is unfair to treat people in HR like that.

If people do a job that is shitty to other people — including doing this zombie dance — they are absolutely part of the problem and should be called out for it.

>It is like being mad at the nurse/doctor at the hospital, that can tell you that she cannot do something for free, just because it is policy of the hospital.

If what the nurse cannot do is normal human decency, then yes, the nurse should be called out on it too and there's every reason to be mad at the person. You are using the “I'm just following orders” defence. It is a poor excuse and not a defence at all.
That's why you ask your designer to give you an elevation value instead of a blur radius and offset. If you really want a shadow with arbitrary color/radius/offset like CSS box-shadow, you have to use paint.setShadowLayer() in a software-rendered canvas (a bitmap or a software layer). Exception is that such shadows for text can be rendered with hardware acceleration.
If Sam genuinely believed that AGI (assumption: capable of achieving some sort of singularity, or at least being capable enough to replace x% of human knowledge workers) would materialize in the near future, why would he then invest any time or money into these YC companies, given that most of them, if not all, would be made completely obsolete by such a technology?

Occam's razor would imply that he is simply encouraging future YC batches to build products on top of OAI products, with "AGI" being some sort of multi modal GPT.
A pun on Altman-sama?
C++ makes people disgusted, from iostreams to meta-templates
that slow-down compilation to a crawl. Its natural they wanted
to replace C++ with something, but turns out the big bad C++
optimizes to better code and Swift isn't that great.
Perhaps instead of inventing C/C++ replacement language,
its better to invest in improving C/C++ standards/libraries and
APIs. Forcing developers to adopt Swift/Dart/.NET and framework
of the month doesn't magically create an ecosystem of new software,
it only appears when developers are maintaining something long-term
that doesn't rely on whims of company or the current trend.
It's because they're off-lease trash that they hobble back together with used HDDs and used RAM. They target low-income; budget conscious/frugal; elderly and those otherwise ignorant of the scam. Backed by a 30-day return policy!

I get these types of machines (actually somewhat newer i5/i7 11th gen+) from an Amazon returns auction house for $5-$20/ea and they invariably have mismatched ram in them and HDDs with 50-70K hours on them already. They also typically won't boot because of a faulty ram stick 9r failed HDD.

That being said, I also have 4 kids and those machines have served well as 'starter' systems. They get to upgrade the PSU, HDD-->SSD, GPU and max out the ram on a shoestring budget.

Between a local MicroCtr and /r/homelabsales ... They get to build out performant systems for $300-$600 total. I also consider this to be a much greater investment than just throwing a console at them.

Profits or not for them; we found some profit in their waste stream.
Microsoft beats Apple as most valuable company for first time in two years
I suspect things have changed somewhat since 1928, but it likely boils down to something quite normal, like, boys are interested in different things to women. Which is surely just an evolutionary thing.

Its also likely to be a direct reflection, back then, of the expectations of that era.

The social construct is such an abstract nonexistent idea that many think is the way it should be, but it that just because we have the ability to reason etc...

Look at where we are holistically, are we really better off today if you look at every comparable data point across time?
Man there's always someone in these discussions who will smugly tell us that this is all inevitable and our empathy for the creatives in our economy is misplaced. To you I give a hearty fuck you.
Great idea! You should add this too then:

https://twitter.com/TheTranscript_/status/165269146916406886...
English comprehension fail for OP and seemingly every responder in this thread. Title is blatantly incorrect.

"Sama" did not say that. The quoted part from Sama seems to be

> @sama suggested ppl build w/ the mindset GPT-5 and AGI will be achieved "relatively soon";"

The (not Sama) person who wrote the tweet added their own question

> Expect @OpenAI #GPT5 in 2024 and #AGI in 2025?
All you need to do to make a plan fly is move air backwards. Propellers and jets both do this. They are each more efficient at different weights and airspeeds. They aren’t fundamentally different.
Hmm you're right, it's more likely you would get value from this if someone vouched for u / you vouch for others, haven't thought about how to help people without a network yet. Open to suggestions tho!
In agreement with your "slightly inconvenienced": The world's dozen or so largest publishers have market caps averaging below $10bn range each.

"Even" just OpenAI alone could pocket a few of them if they need easy sources of acquiring content.

This includes the largest educational publishers. And while these publishers do not own all their content, the reality is most authors earn so little, that a "allow AI training on my work for $x extra" would give them vast amounts of content.

As for Getty, Getty has a market cap of "only" $2bn. The big players will easily afford to build or buy libraries like that.

But of course it will be the end of decent open models.
Things have been improving rapidly. Try interpreting AGI conservatively, i.e. not ASI, not alive or full simulation of a human, just something that can do all or almost all human cognitive tasks.

GPT-4 can handle many human tasks with the right configuration.

There might be multiple ways to improve things like reasoning. Larger, more efficient and better curated datasets. Or maybe there is a way to embed some kind of TorchOpt stuff inside the models. Baking in batches of tree of thought. Micro development environments or logic programming tightly integrated with inference. Etc.

Also, the emphasis on more animal-like abilities than LeCun is focusing on could start to pay off within a couple of years.

Given a conservative interpretation of "AGI", I take what Altman said at face value. They need to have ambitious goals because of the rate of progress, level of competition, high stakes, and very high level talent.
Why not just embed directly to 2d? Does it give worse results than UMAP?
> They’ll claim they have AGI but it only handles text, images, and audio, perhaps.

We had to rename AI to AGI now when we have 'AI'.