skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are far far more dollars available to people that are on the "AI Safety" bandwagon than to those pushing back against it.

> The idea that the Upton Sinclair effect is the source of pushback against AI Safety zealotry, is getting things largely backwards AFAICT.

> Folks that are stressing the importance of studying the impact of concentrated corporate power, or the risk of profit-driven AI deployment, and so forth are receiving very little financial support.

IMO your comment doesn't substantively address michael_nielsen's comment, but I might be wrong. The following is how I understand your exchange with michael_nielsen.

The two of you are talking about three sets of people:

Let A be AI notkilleveryoneism people.
Let B be AI capabilities developers/supporters.
Let C be people concerned with regulatory capture and centralization by AI firms.

A and B are disjoint.
A and C have some overlap.
B and C have considerable overlap.

michael_nielsen is suggesting that the people of B are refusing to take AI risk seriously because they are excited about profiting from AI capabilities and its funding. (eg, a senior research engineer at OpenAI who makes $350k/year might be inclined to ignore AIXR and the same with a VC who has a portfolio full of AI companies)

And then you are pointing out that people of C are getting less money to investigate AI centralization than people of A are getting to investigate/propagandize AI notkilleveryoneism.

So, your claim is probably true, but it doesn't rebut what michael_nielsen suggested.

And I believe it's also critical to keep in mind that the actual funding is like this:

capabilities development >>>>>>>>>> ai notkilleveryoneism > ai centralization investigation
First one to discover Ghoti!
Amazing this 20 year old blog is still up. Verizon doesn't know the difference between cents per kilobyte and dollars per kilobyte:

https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know...
I am sorry about your experience.

I don't think anything else comes close to Bitwarden.

Maybe you need an update? You could also let support know about your problems or open an issue on thier GitHub.
Have you heard of Strigiphilus garylarsoni, a species of chewing louse found only on owls? Named after Gary Larson!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni
The numerical and word versions are equal, but they're both wrong. 15 billion inches is to the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
I’ve been reading a lot of
danluu.com
and
https://acoup.blog/
our universe could be anything since we don't know what it is
My request to my teacher is that he teach pieces that I find interesting. Currently, I am working on pieces by Chopin and Milhaud. I am very satisfied with my classes. I find that they help me to take my mind off of my job, which can be very boring and monotonous at times.
From the Center for Psychedelic Research of course.
>If we crank it all the way up to the maximum of UserUnit 75000, Acrobat now reports the size of our page as 15,000,000,000.00 x 15,000,000,000.00 in – 381 km along both sides, matching the original claim. If you’re curious, you can download the PDF.

15 billion inches are 381,000km.
The original claim is the limit is 15 million inches.
Of course it was. ImageReady was lean, fast and web-focused. When they killed it you had to buy a PS license and deal with the monolith PS was becoming.

If you're making web pages, you don't need CMYK workflows.
Too many to count. Silicon Valley bank was pretty recent.

https://www.investopedia.com/what-happened-to-silicon-valley...

I'm sure you'll respond "that isn't a rug pull", but that is just a play on words. At the end of the day, a failed bank is no different in the outcome. People lost funds due to mismanagement of other people's money.
It is trivially easy to see just how massive the sampling bias is. There are countless tasks where e.g. the gap between a version of Mistral and a version of GPT are incredibly large. Anything that requires less common knowledge, anything creative in a random language, let's say Bulgarian, or Thai. Yet on the leaderboard things are very different, because the arena is only used by developers who verify performance on tech-related prompts in English.
> How could central bank finance such a debt

Central banks can print money. And most countries, even developing ones, can support more money printing than people understand. I am not advocating for crazy money printing, but printing 5-10% of GDP for a single year to clean-up a big financial mess isn't so bad.

Did you know that Indonesia has an explicit monetary policy to monetize a certain portion of their national debt each year? The finance minister (Sri Mulyani) is well respected, so foreign bond buyers were not upset by it. It did not "ignite" inflation. Also, look at quantitative easing by US, UK, EU, and Japan.
As a former tertiary educator (for a brief moment, before I decided academia wasn't my thing), that's how open book exams are set; the assumption is you have knowledge of the subject, and the books are there for you to verify and quote examples of/from.

NOT to browse through looking for a solution from step 0.
> Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require ... a covered platform to implement an age gating or age verification functionality.

Does it even have an age verification requirement? The only part I could find was it requires the NIST to investigate age verification system creation/implementation/effectiveness/impact.

I think that part should be removed but it also made me feel like the stopkosa site might be fearmongering.
I’m sure the Apple Store will have replacements for repairs.
I know languages that have support for "read-only memory," but what about "writ
Interesting, I also manage an IRC bot with multimodal capability for months now. It's not a real LMM - rather, a combination of 3 models. It uses Llava for images and Whisper for audio. The pipeline is simple: if it finds a URL which looks like an image - it feeds it to Llava (same with audio). Llava's response is injected back to the main LLM (a round robin of Solar 10.7B and Llama 13B) to provide the response in the style of the bot's character (persona) and in the context of the conversation. I run it locally on my RTX 3060 using llama.cpp. Additionally, it's also able to search on Wikipedia, in the news (provided by Yahoo RSS) and can open HTML pages (if it sees a URL which is not an image or audio).

Llava is a surprisingly good model for its size. However, what I found is that it often hallucinates "2 people in the background" for many images.

I made the bot just to explore how far I can go with local off-the-shelf LLMs, I never thought it could be useful for blind people, interesting. A practical idea I had on my mind was to hook it to a webcam so that if something interesting happens in front of my house, I can be notified by the bot, for example. I guess it could also be useful for blind people if the camera is mounted on the body.
The perception is very different.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/09/29/german-rome...
If they found the material properties of that tile, they would be doing 'spectroscopy'.
SQL is so flexible. When I put myself as a user, I also prefer those tools that provide nice UI for filter/reporting, but also give me SQL interface to do advanced query, such as PostHog, Resmo, JIRA(?)
"Western diets": How about just say "shitty diets"? Why? A southern European diets isn't a bad as a northern European diet, yet both are "Western" (I don't like that term -- too broad.)
That's true by definition in all systems, since capital consists of all the stuff that can be owned.

It's not very interesting; tautologies tend not to be.
do you feel that about Seaborn even? it can be too "on the rails" for some applications, but if the rails meet your needs, the plotting calls look clean and maintainable to me.
You should just openly let them use chatgpt (assuming they can use it on the job too). When I interview people I try to create the same environment as the one they’ll be working in. They can use chatgpt, google, stack overflow, etc. I don’t care how many tools they have to use, as long as the work output is good and done in a reasonable time. I really don’t understand the obsession with coding on whiteboards or other situations that will literally never come up on the job. There will never be a time my employees can’t use google or chatgpt. In any case, you can tell pretty quickly how much someone knows about a topic just based on the questions they’re asking chatgpt.
A lot of professors on H-1B too
The Xfinity 10G Network™ refers to their latest infrastructure upgrades. It is not a product. This is the confusion the article is about. The product "Gigabit x10" is the plan you are looking for, and is not on their website. It's a residential service but everything is handled by the business side of Comcast and Metro-E. You must get in touch with them directly. See these modmail requests on reddit[1] or dslreports[2]. More on the process here[3].

Otherwise you will need to wait for their DOCSIS 4.0 "X-Class" speed tiers that are slowly rolling out[4][5].

Initial deployments are limited to 2Gbps, but they are symmetrical speeds. DOCSIS 3.1 technically supported 10Gbps down already. So we need to wait and see if the infra upgrades enable higher 10Gbps download tiers[6][7].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/search?q=x10&restri...

[2]: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/comcastdirect

[3]: https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how...

[4]: https://i.imgur.com/qt0Enqj.png

[5]: https://www.xfinity.com/learn/internet-service/xclass

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS

[7]: https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-multi-g...
For every one person hiring with your mentality there are a hundred other managers looking to cut down the stack of a thousand resumes in any trivially easy way they can. That starts with saying sorry we are looking for someone else when you say you don’t know x or lack z on your resume. You are literally incentivized to lie and fake it on the job.
Given that a rewrite in C/C++ was not feasible but a substantial optimization was acceptable, would solutions like AssemblyScript have been a good strategy? In the end the answer will greatly depend on the amount and nature of dynamic allocations though.
You have one 7 too many.
352777777777.78cm are 3,527,777.7777778km.
Ask it to write a recipe given a couple of ingredients in a language like Thai or Persian. There's a single model that does a decent job, GPT-4. Then GPT3.5 is poor and Mistral is completely clueless. The leaderboards tell a very different story.

Definition of "good answer" here is responding in the target language with something that produces something edible in the target language without burning the house down.
> often OOP is applied where it isn't suited, particularly in the application layer between a client and a relational database

What it is about the OOP paradigm that you find does not fit this client->relational database application? The idea behind OOP is that you send a message out into the world, and maybe another actor can make something of it. You don't really know or care about the other actors are out there. If an actor hides a relational database behind closed doors, so be it. Not your problem. That's outside of the concern of OOP.

On the flip side, we have active record, which imagines a way to try and marry relational databases to an object-based (not oriented) model. Here you will regularly find criticism about "impedance mismatch" and where things like constraints should be handled. This still reads like what you are talking about, but has little to do with OOP.

Conceivably you could use that pattern to implement the local retention of an actor. Is that where you find applicability to OOP? OOP doesn't speak to the underlying actor implementation, though. It purposefully doesn't speak to the implementation as not having knowledge of actors is kind of OOP's whole deal. If you need to know things about other actors, you can't just throw a message out there.

Because of the similar names, those who don't understand OOP oftentimes confuse it with object-based programming. Perhaps this is what you are trying to speak to, using a 'database layer' as an example of object-based programming as seen in the wild?

Admittedly, I still don't fully understand the link you are making between relational databases and OOP.
An ELI5 for the peasants would be nice.
It's my view that it's this psychological transformation that is the end goal of many spiritual traditions; Jung's "process of individuation," various notions of "enlightenment," the alchemical "Great Work," the Greek notion of "anagoge," "union with the Higher Self/Genius/Logos," the Thelemic notion of "Knowledge & Conversation..."

Unfortunately such flowery and offputtingly religious sounding language sounds quaint to our postmodern, secular ears. I think psychedelic, cogsci, and psychological research as explored in this paper offers fruitful avenues for recasting such religious or spiritual language in the vocabulary of science and empiricism.
I was thinking this as well.

> Due to the sensitive nature of this model and of the biological threat creation use case, the research-only model that responds directly to biologically risky questions (without refusals) is made available to our vetted expert cohort only. We took several steps to ensure security, including in-person monitoring at a secure facility and a custom model access procedure, with access strictly limited to the period of the experiment. Additional considerations regarding information hazards and security protocols are detailed in the Appendix.

This is well past cringe. A lot of what the AI community puts out feels like they're LARPing scientists, similar to the valid question of whether Software Engineering is actually engineering.
> navigating-a-fixed-environment robot

Roomba has been struggling to develop that. A lawnmower with the same navigation challenges as a Roomba vacuum is terrifying.
Woah, what year? How can this be legal?
If you think the concern over China and Taiwan is understated I think you'd do well to look at how both the US and China are putting insane amounts of resources behind this.
No other fields work like that. Computer science hiring managers need to figure it out. You have engineers in other fields who have long careers working multiple companies not even allowed to talk about what even occurred and its just routine.
>There is more: what if someone gets a name and we as a society (i.e., justice, whatever) decides that they should not be in control of it?[...]or we can't, and that's a problem

That's a feature.
I have 2 replies.

A) you just described the Open Source dilemma. One I've been dwelling on for some time with little in the way of suggestions.

B) while your narrative is popular, the idea that "Chinese just copy" is rapidly becoming obsolete. I bought a Chinese inverter last year that is cheaper, and has a lot more features than the "established US brand". Equally Roombas have lagged in some areas, despite the R&D investment. It's this lagging which is hurting the cause.
If they're just putting the question straight into GPT, then what benefit is the candidate bringing? I can use GPT myself, and for a lot cheaper than the cheapest candidate.
Are you suggesting branding is irrelevant?
I mostly agree with this. Certainly the last line!

I've been reflecting on Jeremy's comments, though, and agree on many things with him. It's unfortunately hard to tease apart the hard corporate push for open source AI (most notably from Meta, but also many other companies) from more principled thinking about it, which he is doing. I agree with many of his conclusions, and disagree with some, but appreciate that he's thinking carefully, and that, of course, he may well be right, and I may be wrong.
You can combine Trump with the Empire State Building to get Trump Tower. Also I think Trump + Money was Bankruptcy. And there's Trumpthuluh obviously.
Wow that's actually terrifying! The best part is while watching their cool video showcasing how terrifying it was, the WSJ exemplified why in part by jamming an ad right in there when I tried to skip ahead. Hope a full screen ad never blocks the view of someone skiing, it might end badly.
Yeah this is what I thought of and I fell back on my old Alchemy habits trying to get to Life to create man and all the other stuff. maybe I'm forgetting or it's different with this game but I haven't gotten there yet, but I've gotten several greek gods and a cyborg, so that's sort of life.

Just makes me want to play Alchemy, though. Even Doodle God doesn't scratch the itch Alchemy did in 2011. I found it on StumbleUpon. Oh those were the days. I wonder if I still have the APK on my SkyDrive...
>If I had to guess, I would say the comment was downvoted because it is unnecessary adversarial, and ignores the obvious non-oppositional-defiant-disorder option: elmu saying "you're right, I don't need that additional compensation to motivate me, my existing stock ownership will motivate me", and for him then to perform.

I think there are obviously many options, but I highlighted that aspect because i think it is the most interesting the most interesting. It isnt contradicted by anything you said. Essentially, the question is how do you negotiate splitting the rewards of an continued ongoing venture, when both parties already benefit from success.

You see this often in situations of co-ownership. Sometimes one start-up founder will stop working, knowing the other has incentive to make it work. Sometimes you see it in schools when there are group projects.
Intel is still behind TSMC at this point in terms of raw process efficiency, but that rate of change is moving quickly and I posit that the products released later this year will have a process efficiency advantage over AMD's offerings for the first time since AMD abandoned global foundry.
I'm delighted to see that at least someone else here is cognizant of this.

I don't think it's the scifi AI anchoring bias though - it's the "LLM leaderboard arena user bias".

Reset all to the same Elo, put a group of people actually representative of global society in front of the arena for an hour, and you end up with a very different leaderboard, especially at the top end.
> Anyone can ace and interview

I'm doubting this quite a bit. If it's so easy to ace an interview, why are there so many bad ones?
You can get one chance per applicant now. So if 10 companies apply for you, the chance of being selected is the same as if only 1 company apply for you.
I picture an octogenarian, bored on a park bench, with endless time, inquiring as you pass and you outlasting them.
No--from your article: "In the aftermath of the collapse, federal regulators promised to make all depositors whole, even for those funds that weren’t protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)."
If its an actual remote position then there’s no where to bring you in
If the system could detect when low latency is important they could get away with a single kernel. Or even simply enable low latency by default for the desktop version of ubuntu.
For junior level candidates, I'll admit that ChatGPT might make it harder to interview.

For senior+ candidates I honestly think the correct approach is to just lean into it though.

Encourage them to use ChatGPT at the outset, and select questions that you've already fed to the prompt. When you ask them the question, you can show them ChatGPT's output on a screenshare. The candidate can then talk you through what they like about the answer, as well as where it falls short.

A senior-level developer should almost always be capable of improving on any response given by ChatGPT, even when it gives a good solution.

And if they're not able to give better output than the current AI tooling, it's a pretty good signal that you'd be better off just using LLMs yourself instead of hiring them.
The HN post title should probably not include "non-painful" given that the README never uses that phrase or compares against other plotting libraries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38988189 :

>> "Since amortization took effect [ in 2022 thanks to a time-triggered portion of the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA" 2017) ], the growth rate of R&D spending has slowed dramatically from 6.6 percent on average over the previous five years to less than one-half of 1 percent over the last 12 months," Estes said. "The [R&D] sector is down by more than 14,000 jobs"

Hopefully R&D spending at an average of 6.6% will again translate to real growth.
I wonder what it was about the Eskimo that required bowdlerization. Nothing obvious in the printed source.
This is what they get for assigning homework instead of just having a candid conversation where you verbally probe the depth of knowledge like everyone interviewing anyone ever outside of computer science.
How are certificates valid for IPs!?!
He should be charged with inciting those death threat letters. If I would post something like that on social media to my 5k followers, and one of them was inspired to commit a crime soon afterwards, I’d be facing criminal charges.

San Francisco DA should look into charges and hold Mr. Tan accountable for his behavior.
Ok, please tell us about the corruption in Norway and New Zealand? Please provide specific examples.
> [...] why would they not alias "aes" to something more meaningful?

This criticism doesn't do anything for me.

Is an alias for a 3 letter function name really going to improve readability / usability? It's the same API. Take it up with Hadley Wickham.

I think having one interface that is the same (ok, "mostly the same") for R and Python is a blessing for people who work with both. I don't graph with Python much, but every time I have to plot in Python I sigh and ask myself if it would be easier to just import the data into R.
I agree, very skeptical, but am also hopeful.
The game is dubbed as "Pokemon with guns". Lol. Seven million players on Xbox so far. Will Nintendo sue them and take it down for copyright infringement? Or will Pocketpair get away with it? Time will tell. Nevertheless, the reception by audience is overwhelming and kinda weird.
It's an old rule from before the 20th century which is not really active anymore. While it's still true for old names due to convention (Harry, etc.), new foreign words with h- in it are now often rendered with kh- (letter Х). Originally, h- was rendered as g- because at one point, the educated pronunciation of "g" was influenced by Kiev's accent (as it was the capital of Rus) which always spells g- as h-. So the closest representation of h- was "the educated G". However, people outside of Ukraine were later misreading g- in such names as "hard G" because they weren't aware of the original pronunciation, hence H => G for old words.
Lemme guess, you're in the Netherlands.

You folks have awesome internet because you force the local loop to be unbundled. Every country should do this. However, almost none do (except yours, and a few counties within the US state of Washington). Nobody with bundled local loops will get pricing+performance like this; please don't raise peoples' expectations.

Instead, point them to the root cause (local loop bundling), because nothing else is going to help them. You'll just make them jealous and distract them from the one change that can actually improve their situation.

Calling your provider and saying "€25/mo for 10Gbit symmetric!!!!" is not going to change anything.
If the interview is for a position in which the candidate will be tasked with solving problems that ChatGPT is able to help with significantly, then they have just proven they are capable of doing the job. (If you have time to do this work yourself, why are you interviewing anybody at all?)

Assuming the interview is to determine somebody's programming chops, without the benefit of ChatGPT, you'll have to ask questions where ChatGPT is little to no help. This was the conclusion of the article.