skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a static single-pass feed-forward network. How could that possibly result in AGI?! (Queue famous last words ...)
You also have things like https://tinypng.com which do (basically) lossy PNG for you. Works pretty well.
Most important point in that story AFAIAC:

> Atlanta’s transportation department budget was cut by 12% last year. ... about $50 million is three times less than peer cities.

sad.
Openai isn't even close to too big to fail. Bank of America fails the entire banking system collapses and the entire real economy grinds to a halt. If GM fails hundreds of thousands lose their jobs and entire supply chains collapse. If power utilities fail then people start actually dying within hours or days.

If OpenAI fails nothing actually important happens.
Very beautiful shoot. Some of those trees were rather huge! Wonder what the biggest looked like in the old growth.
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What if the expiration date doesn't exist? Does the license just never expire? Wouldn't that be funny?
Or, looking at it the other way, he is complaining that a non-profit organization he donated funds to has allocated those funds to engage in for-profit business that directly competes with his own. Viewed that way, he ought to have extra standing.
A donor can sue and win in cases of fraud. Being a 501 (c) isn’t some shield that means any behavior is permitted.

In this case there’s a specific agreement that’s allegedly been breached. Basically they said results of AI research would be shared openly without benefiting any specific party, and then later entered into a private agreement with Microsoft.

I don’t know how binding any of this is, but I doubt this will simply be dismissed by the judge.
Modern building construction is cheaper and doesn't demand old growth timber, but it's also much less resilient during a house fire. We use smaller dimensional lumber, it has less densely packed tree rings causing it to burn faster, and we use I beams made out of 2x3s and OSB instead of solid lumber. A house made in the 30s could survive a long time before collapse in a fire; what we have now collapses much faster.

There are definite benefits to modern techniques that are less resource intensive and protecting our remaining old growth forests is important, but we're sacrificing a lot of valuable properties as well.
Fuselage maker Spirit Aerosystems surges, Boeing could buy it back
I wonder where Minecraft falls in their classification? In my sphere of interaction both young and old females gravitate to Minecraft, as well as Stardew Valley and high fantasy MMOs like EQ3 (but emphatically not WoW).
Some of us like to experiment with new technology but don't physically own the kind of a hardware that is ideal for it. So yes, I've actually gotten passable results running on CPU (on a 2019 laptop at that)
The analogy sounds great and catchy (and sufficiently contrarian to get knee jerk upvotes from the site), but it really oversimplifies things and misses the mark on what types of problems fuzzing catches and why that's incredibly important in a project as popular as curl.
Ah yes - a piece of blu-tac and timing the swap just right.

For anyone else:

The lid of the PS had a small protusion which pressed down a button when the lid closed. The game could not be started with the lid open.
So a piece of blu-tac was used to depress that button.

The first thing the PS did when loading a game was to check somewhere on the game disc for some code. This code confirmed the disc was genuine so the trick was to put any genuine game in the drive, use the blu-tac, start the console and at a certain point, after the code had been read but before the game loaded and at that point pull the genuine disc and insert the pirate disc you had.
> I guess I don't understand what people want out of the fake image generator.

Plausible images.

> It will never produce anything historically accurate as a visual medium, because the images never existed.

Is there any photograph of Louis XIV? No, because photography had not been invented. But Louis the Fourteenth was a human being, and if a camera were sent back in time and placed in such a way that photons from the Sun or candles bounced off of his skin and hit that camera, on a particular day when he was wearing particular clothing, then the camera would record a certain picture. If I ask an image generator for ‘photograph of the French king Louis XIV’ that’s what I want. I probably don’t want a picture of a Chinese noblewoman, or a painting of a grapefruit, or a Mondrian sketch.

Okay, well what about things which never happened at all? I still want them to be otherwise consistent with reality. If I ask for ‘Vikings fighting an UFO’ there’s a lot of latitude for the AI to play with. The UFO could be a flying saucer, or a plane/jet/thing, or a rocket. The Vikings might reflect material culture from any particular time within the Viking era. Heck, given that the Vikings did travel there should be a chance for some of them to reflect descent from some non-Scandinavian parentage (a very very small chance, but not zero). Given that Vikings travelled, it’s not crazy for them to be fighting the UFO in Anatolia, or the south of England, or in Sicily.

But if the AI generated a picture of a merry band of polyracial Viking warriors, led by an African woman, three of whom are Han and one of whom is an aboriginal American wearing a head-dress while the UFO is an F-16 piloted by a white man — yeah, that AI would be biased, and in a weird and disturbing way.
Without learning to fall, you won't learn to stand up
The essential theory of the case is that OpenAI is misusing the funds Musk donated to it.

reads prayer for relief

> For a judicial determination that GPT-4 constitutes Artificial General Intelligence

Okay, WTF? I'm going to have to read the entire complaint now.....
This is an admirable lawsuit, however, Musk is no longer on the board. That means he has as much say in the direction of the company as a random crackhead living on the BART train. The article states he left the board in 2018.
The 30 or so submissions of this story all set off a bunch of software penalties that try to prune the most repetitive and sensational stories off the front page. Otherwise there would be a lot more repetition and sensationalism on the fp, which is the opposite of what HN is for (see explanations via links below if curious).

The downside is that we have to manually override the penalties in the case of a genuinely important story, which this obviously is. Fortunately that doesn't happen too often, plus the system is self-correcting: if a story is really important, people will bring it to our attention (thanks, tkgally!)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Since browser cache is no longer shared, why not self-host fonts for even better privacy?
I think it's pretty obvious from the context that GP is talking about a self-hosted web app on a VPS or cloud provider. It's a lot more "always on" than your smartphone, and the anonymity is the same.
I feel silly asking now. I use bamboo brooms at home and they’re great.

Even if they don’t have quite the same efficacy or durability as plastic bristles, the ability to put them directly into municipal compost facilities (or urban composting bins) is a huge benefit.

But can it be manufactured consistently enough for engineered use cases like this where bristle length and bristle characteristics might need to be dialed in to get the desired performance?

Perhaps obsessing over that is part of the problem. If it works reasonably well and doesn’t pollute, in the long term (arguably the only term that really matters in this context) then a loss of efficiency is acceptable.
I'm definitely no wood nerd but, yeah, I wouldn't intuit that a softer, new-growth wood would just disintegrate in 100 years time, or much more, for that matter.

As you allude to the material around it, we now have engineered, weather resistant sheathing, house wrap, and vinyl or metal siding, or some such very weather-proof stuff.

Most of the issues I have had with "old growth" wood in my 17th century homes were just due to water penetrating where it should not, rotting that wood, and then causing me a headache trying replace it with a similar material.
It’s a 32 hour work week
Probably because HTML specs were quasi frozen for a long time. As another comment said, XSLT supports it. XHTML conformance would have made the web development world stricter, and more flexible. Thank you Microsoft for holding the web back.

There are also [Server Side Includes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes) which were used for that.

Funny enough, I've used SSIs first and last time around 2020. The project I worked on had a heavily cached landing page (for performance reasons), but needed a way to swap out the homepage banners based on product releases, and the easiest way around that was to output a SSI directive for a separate banners endpoint.
Unionizing is not enough. 4/day workweek needs to be universally standardized across the OECD/world for it to stick, because whether we like it or not, countries and economies are in competition with each other. And if one factory can churn out X steel widgets and another one only X -20% because they work only 4 days per week, then all the jobs and industry will move to the former as the latter will not be competitive anymore.

The 4 day workweek seems to currently work without loosing productivity in wealthy service based economies like Amsterdam, the City of London, etc where a lot of "work" is just Blue Chip companies with theatrics and endless meetings while riding the gravy train of other peoples' productivity from across the globe who don't have access to a 4 day week doing all the heavy lifting(basically economic neo-colonialism), but this obviously can't scale across economies that actually depend on actually designing and making the stuff the wealthy economies speculate on.
> I'd hate to bet against elon winning
- @sama

https://twitter.com/sama/status/618265660477452288
I have a feeling it doesn't build on recent versions, but somebody implemented https://p3rl.org/Sub::Call::Tail for perl and I'll presumably resurrect that next time I need it.

I think for some forms of unrolling clojure's loop/recur is a neat version of a limited explicit form.

Of course, I'm difficult so what -I- really want is an explicit tail-call-modulo-cons but that would be a much more involved comment than my current caffeination levels really enable.
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Nvidia's margins are currently 75%. I dont see any way they can possibly keep that up for more than a few years. As soon as a legitimate competitor shows up those margins will be cut in half if not more. Coca cola on the other hand has a very predictable business, with profits extremely unlikely to decline anytime soon.
Great explanation of why certain species of trees are both fast growers and 'fast fallers'. Tulip Poplar trees for example are often first/second growth, and they are also often the trees that will break/fall during storms too. They trade that fast growth for durability it seems.
German (sp/h)ygh society, it's almost like any longterm spywar breeds a mafia, they are loyal first to themselves and their thiefdoms everywhere.
A bottle of wine doesn't require at least 50 sqft of open land
Hey, a suggestion/question:

since you have so many roles open, have you considered just taking general applications and matching the profile of the candidate with the role you find them best suited for?

Also, out of curiosity, how much overlap with EST would be desirable?
This helped me with a 'visual' understanding of what's happening, go to

view-source:https://ooo.lamplightdev.workers.dev/

then watch the bottom of the page as the new `<span slot=...>` elements come in. As they come in, the browser's, well, slotting the contents into the corresponding slot in the template.
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Great stuff. It looks like a ton of upfront work, but will greatly improve the standard, and shouldn't be too hard to maintain once it's complete.
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Well he's murdered now. He was trying to position himself as "reasonable" during "Crimea is ours" euphoria, I'm not sure but I'd expect him to return all the annexed territories if he got in power after the full scale invasion. Russia would need to do it anyway to get sanctions removed.
You're probably right, but either way it will be interesting to see this tested in court. I think it's good to have some extra scrutiny over how OpenAI is operating regardless of the underlying motivations that led to the action!
> My experience with snare and pizauth is that Rust is a viable language for writing daemons in. Rust isn’t a perfect language (e.g. unsafe Rust currently has no meaningful semantics so any code which uses unsafe comes with fewer guarantees than C)

What exactly does the author mean when they say that unsafe Rust has "no meaningful semantics"? Is this a term of art in language analysis or is the author just saying "it's weird"?
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Very much true. Just look at the undergrowth, and the types of trees.
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I agree! But workers can organize today while moving forward improvement with each election result (which will take time; for example, 1.8M voters over the age of 55 die every year, 4M young folks age into voting ability at 18 in the US). Luckily, the entire world is getting old fast [1] [2] [3], which means there is a shrinking population of total workers; makes it more difficult to have workers compete against each other race to the bottom style.

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Our team at Socket (disclosure: I'm the founder) wrote up an excellent overview of JSR and everything we know so far about it here: https://socket.dev/blog/jsr-new-javascript-package-registry
> dev salaries

If this manipulation is true, would you still say he's right?

https://interviewing.io/blog/how-to-negotiate-with-meta
I group up in an area where all the houses were built in the 1930s. All old growth lumber. At one point, the University of Delaware was buying up houses on my street, including one directly across the street from mine. A crew came along an took the house apart and loaded the lumber onto a flatbed truck.

I'm not sure where the lumber went to, but it was pretty cool to watch.

They just left the lot empty with grass and a few trees.
Well, Russian orthodox church was always cheka all the way from the top?
It's a tired argument. Running any program has risks.
> How does the wine industry overcome this with really old bottles of wine? Who are the people that are preserving bottles of wine for 30 years before selling them? And why wouldn't there be a market for a similar thing in the lumber industry?

30 years is less than a human lifetime. Also, that's not the time you need for old growth, it's what you need for regular timber:

https://texasfarmbureau.org/timbers-a-crop-that-takes-years-...:

> The industry is doing better now. Timber farmers plant trees, thin them out every few years to allow the better trees to grow and then harvest when trees are around 25-35 years old. They then harvest, replant and start the process all over.
> Ask a team of any non-aeronautical engineers to build a rocket and it will go poorly. Do those people not qualify as intelligent beings?

I suspect you'd have one person on the team that would say "perhaps you'd be better choosing a team that knows what they're doing"

meanwhile GPT-4 would happily accept and emit BS
A donation is a no strings attached thing, so these donors basically funded a startup without getting any shares?
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Progress is definitely not inremental, it's exponential.

The same performance (training an LLM with a given perplexity) can be achieved 5x cheaper next year while the amount of money deep learning infrastructure gets increases exponentially right now.

If this method is able to get to AGI (which I believe but many people are debating), human intelligence will just be mostly ,,skipped'', and won't be a clear point.
You can file a lawsuit for anything. If the lawsuit has serious fundamental flaws (such as lack of standing), then it will be dismissed pretty quickly.
> Ever since I have tried to think “can I solve this problem in a way that reuses known conventions or do I really, really have to do something different?” The answer, once I can control my ego, is nearly always “I don’t need to do something different”.

This really is the way of wisdom. Not that there’s not room for improvement — there is — but it is normally more effective to attack the problem at hand than try to solve ancillary problems as well.
This brings the memory of BigPipe, facebook has had this years ago (using JS of course).
There was a video advocating for picking up other people's litter (that I can't seem to find) I really liked that said (paraphrased) "in order for a piece of litter to exist, it takes 1 person to litter and 1000 people to not pick it up. And in order for it not to exist, it takes just 1 person to pick it up."
Transformer neural networks are not capable of true recursion, which is an excellent reason to think that the chance truly is 0%.
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